I was really starting to lose my faith in this game. I think that my emotions are under so much more balanced (vis a vis poker) than they were even a few months ago, but you can only get KK AIPF versus AA so many times before you start to wonder why the midget inside the pokerstars magic number generator box hates you so much. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but after yesterday, I'm hoping that my cold, dark breakeven is over.

I literally ran the hottest that I can ever remember running in the last few years that I've played this insanely high variance game. I was flopping sets everywhere, flopping nut flush draws and getting there with most of them and generally just owning souls. All of my hands were holding, and the whole thing sort of took on a dream-state quality where I wasn't exactly sure I was in the same poker universe as I had been for the last two months. I am thankful for yesterday as I've been working hard, making Gbux (if not real bux) and forcing myself to play nl200 while I get back on the horse and rebuild confidence. Pictorially represented, yesterday (All nl200) looked as such:



Also, I thought I'd share a pretty cool hand versus a relative unknown:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5392858

The villain is 17/19/7.0 over 100 hands or so and hadn't really made a real impression on me. This hand played out in such an atypical way that I thought it was worth a post and maybe some discussion. I am particularly interested in whether people think that the river overbet is better than betting 2/3 PSB. I have some thoughts on that matter after discussing it with a friend but I'll save discussion for the end.