I arrived at my local poker room around 10:45pm Monday evening. I bought in for $100 and was immediately seated at a $1/2 NL table, at which I made the sixth player. It was a deep-stacked table. Almost immediately upon sitting down a huge all-in pot took place between two regulars who each had over $400 in front of them. The regular who lost the pot left the game. He was replaced by a player whom the other regulars at the table all seemed more familiar with than myself. Three of my opponents at the table were now familiar to me and two weren't. This was a rammin-n-jammin table. On one subdued hand, however, I was able to limp-in for $2 with Q
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. Four or five of us saw the flop and subsequently one of the blinds led out for $10 on a rainbow J 10 9 board. I was the only caller. Some blank low card came on the turn and I called another $10 bet. The river brought a Q and I called $20 to lose to a flopped low-end straight. Now I was short-stacked and waited for a suitable hand in which to go all-in. After losing lots of blinds, I eventually called a $5 button straddle in the BB along with three other players while holding Q
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. The straddler was a very active regular, and when he raised to about $40 on his option, it didn't mean much to me (strength-wise). I subsequently called or went all-in for roughly the amount of his raise. No one else called. I beat his pocket deuces and now had about $85 in front of me; to which end I again started the process of waiting for a good starting hand, because the flops were generally expensive. Eventually I limped-in on the cut-off along with three other players for $5 apiece vs another button straddle while holding A
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. The straddler, who had proven thus far in the session to be a rather action-minded individual, and who had also mentioned his desire to be leaving the game in the near future, made it roughly $35 to go when the action got back around to him. When the action folded around to me, I deliberated and then went all-in for what I think was $77. He was the only one who called and my hand beat his A
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. That put me up about $50 for the session, so I cashed-out and went home after having played for about 80 minutes. Epilogue/post-script: These poker session entries have been enjoyable for me to recount, and I'd like to thank 2+2 and its community of poker enthusiasts for providing both a suitable platform and a potential audience base for this, what has proven to be a helpful "mental health outlet" for myself (and also thanks for no one so far writing any hurtful or demeaning responses to any of them). I'll plan to keep chronicling my sessions until I have a losing live-action one (which I will also chronicle). I assume everyone will enjoy reading about how I unsuccessfully chased my losses to the sum of some large amount of money on some upcoming session of mine. Until next time...
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