You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire

I need to remind myself that poker is one long session, not a bunch of small ones where you need to 'get even' on any given day. After breaking even for the night, I logged off and turned around to say something to my fiancee, but she was sound asleep. Seeing as how it was only 10, I decided to log back in to Eurobet.

I picked a random $25 nl table since they were mostly full, and posted my big blind 2 spots from the button. Yeah, I should probably watch some hands play out to see what kind of table it is, but c'mon ... aren't most of these filled with 6 or 7 bad players, and 1 or 2 half-decent players? That's what I tell myself, anyway. I just hope I'm not one of those 6 or 7.

So the first hand I get is AK of hearts in my two off the button position. I watch as UTG+2 (if someone could please tell me the right terms for these positions it would be great -- I always see EP, MP and have no idea what they mean) limps, and then 2 people behind him come along, but the next person makes it $1.25 to go. Seeing as how the blinds were posted, I posted a big blind, and we'd had a few limpers, this didn't seem like a premium hand raise, so I re-raised, making it $3. Everyone folded to the original raiser, who called and would be first to act. The flop came K 8 10 with two hearts. He bet half the pot ($3.50) and I mini-raised (good? bad?). The turn was a black J. He checked and I pushed. He had me covered and called, and the river was a heart. He had KJ of spades, so I lucked out.

Good night, variance! There will be no encore.

I had also made $10 on another table when I won a decent pot, so I took my $35 and signed right off again.

Hey, Mourn - I'm going to take your advice and stick to playing $10 sit n go's now. Thanks on your input on my 88 sng hand, too. I didn't think of it that way. After his bet, he only needed to call another 350 and he had a big stack, so it was nothing for him.

What I need to do is actually remember this stuff while I'm playing, not after I write my hand out and think... hm, maybe I shouldn't have taken that approach. Live and learn.