First day of shoot and winning poker session

So today we shot the first event of the National FITASC Tournament at the Caribou Gun Club. We shot 100 targets of Super Sporting. I ended up in a tie for 4th overall out of 67 entrants. I shot an 89/100. There were a few big name pros who shot the event. Wendell Cherry is one of them; he won the event with an insane 98/100. I felt that I shot pretty well overall, but leaked a few targets that I shouldn't have missed here and there. Hopefully I can shoot well tomorrow, as we shoot the first 75 targets of the main event.

I played a four hour poker session today and finished up around $5.6k. I played really well and only made one significant mistake. It also helps that I ran AVERAGE for once. I still got coolered for stacks two times, but the reason I won was because I had all of my big hands where I got the money in as a 75% favorite or higher hold. Obviously, it's nice to not get sucked out on in big pots when you're ahead.

This is my favorite hand of the session. I lucked out a bit and got a really good flop. I was also fortunate that the guy with AK butchered his hand pre-flop.

This is the hand where I made a mistake... I feel that this particular player would have never raised my overbet on the river without the precise hand that he had... I guess it was difficult for me to believe that he peeled the turn looking for a gutterball. I think I probably spewed off about $400 on this hand by calling the river because the villain was pretty tight and non-bluffy.

This hand is pretty standard, other than the fact that the villain is a MASSIVE fish and I can remember him doing this same thing, precisely, versus me in the past... where I flop a set in a 3-bet pot and he happens to bang out the nuts on the flop.

Again, another standard hand. It's only annoying because this particular reg has coolered me like at least a half dozen times over the past week. He runs so so so so so so so so good vs me. It's digusting.


That's it for now. I hope this session is a sign of good things to come poker-wise. I'm satisfied with my play and my confidence is at a fairly high level right now.