Back on track

I played a long session on Stars today, about 3.8k hands total and finished up $1.1k. I played pretty well and I'm happy with the result. Before this session, I was down about $2.3k total in cash games and stuck around $700 from MTTs.

I'm only going to post one hand, because it is late and I'm tired. I went for some pretty thin value on this hand, LOL. I"m not sure what the villain was thinking here... (who was running 25/19 AF 3.9 over 271 hands). I got it all in as a favorite (I was 51.11% to win and he was 46.36% to win.... also a 2.5% chance of a split pot), however, my hand did not hold unfortunately.


Here is the hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2880516

I think a major reason I won today was that earlier on in the day I got the opportunity to watch my friend Adam play some poker. I sweated him while he was playing on Absolute poker. He plays higher stakes than me and is a really great player. I learned a lot from the lessons I took from him early on in my 6 Max career. I picked up on a lot of things that I need to work on and noticed many things that are incorporated into his game that are missing from mine.

Also, after I watched Adam play, we reviewed a video of myself playing four tables of $1/2 NL 6 Max on Stars. He helped me a lot by pointing out a few of my leaks and making me realize that I need to pay more attention to the player. It was a great learning experience and I hope we are able to do it again soon.

Here is a picture with Adam in it, from my first trip to Vegas this past March. From left to right: Billy, Myself, Adam, and Adam's friend (I think his name was Don, but I can't remember for sure).




So hopefully this trend continues upward so I can have a good last half of the month.