Tonight was a sold night and a relief after it started off like so many bad nights past. Doubled through very early in my night when I picked up AKo and flopped a boat on an AKK flop, stacking KJ. Then I flopped a set with 22 and made a bad river call, paying off a turned flush, and was back down to barely above even. This sort of pattern has haunted me the last 30k hands or so: I'll start a session off hot, then invariably donk off a buy-in, tilt, and end up down for the day.
Tonight it was not to be, as I kept my head straight, and kept playing good poker. After I lost with my set, I wouldn't win another big pot all night (net 60 BBs +). But I won a TON of medium pots against shortstacks. I won half a stack with KK on a JT8 flop against a shorty with AT, another half a stack when I turned the nut flush with AQs, and another 40 BBs when I flopped the nut flush against a shorty with two pair (and held!). Overall, I won about 6-8 pots that netted me 30-50 BBs, and a few more that netted 20 or so BBs, and finished up a bit over two buy-ins (+$117.05 in 834 hands). Would have been nearly 3 buy-ins if I hadn't made that bad call with 22, but what can you do? I'll just have to learn from the hand, move on and hopefully get to NL 100 soon. After today, my BR is slightly over $2800, so that's less than 4 buy-ins at NL $50 that I need to win.
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