great poker week.

Have just finished my 4th and final cash game session of the week and thankfully it was another profitable one. Its been my best poker week by far, as live play goes and i'm delighted with both my play and my luck.
Just a quick update on my third session which was a bit of a funny one. Went to the gutshot after work on friday, arriving at 4.30 am and not to my suprise there were still three games going so i jumped straight into a 1/2 game for 300 total. The game was quite active with 2 aggressive players on my left who seemed quite strong, 7 players in total. Lost 100 early with 3/4 hands that didn't quite go my way before winning a very nice pot with K8 V 77 on a 8 8 6 board, got paid on flop turn and river. Then i palyed a big pot with the player on my immediate left. Folded round to me on the button with a 5 straddle on the game, had raised this spot last time and had folded to a pot size re-raise, look down at AA, not folding this time. So i make it 16 and not to my suprise all 3 call. Flop A Q 3, 2 clubs and i bet 30 when is checked to me. First guy calls, other 2 fold and my man checks when a red 10 hits the turn i bet 60 and once again he thinks for 2 secs and calls. River was a nice fat 2 of diamonds and he checks again. I dwell for 10 secs and then bet 125 and he calls with AK, shipp it! Think he played the hand quite poor and was check guessing, was quite sick when the case ace hits but by the time the river comes he only beats a bluff, think he should try and define his hand earlier but not to sure. Got the first tube back at 6.30 when the game broke and they moved it to 1, 10 handed game, ended +300 so nice short game here and just nice to find a couple of good spots, made 1 shabby bluff but gave up before the river and 2 barrel bluffs tend to be a lot cheaper than all 3.
Was back at the gutshot at 8pm Sunday for the 50 FE, 5000 chips and 15 mins clock. Got a nice double up early with flopped flush and really tried to concentrate and play my best throughout, my tourney ended on a sick beat with 30% of field left, 35,000 chip pot 86 V 10 9 on a board of 10 9 7, very painfull 9 on the river but happy with my game and if i win that pot think i'm chip leader and very very confident at closing so think a top 3 would have been on i hope.
Wasn't to dissapointed and was soon back in cash game action sitting with the standard 300 in the 1/2 game. After about an hour was up 60 and going along very nice indeed until this hand came up. 4 limps into my bb and i pot with KK. 2 calls and a board of 2 5 6 with two clubs; i check (guy on the button is a bit of a donk who likes a bet) next guy checks and donk bets 25 ( leaving 125 back) i make it 80; first limper folds and donk shoves, don't love it but i can't fold. I table KK and he shows 87, with 1 club. Turn is a nice fat 4 and i take an ugly hit. Got my chips back 30 mins later with K2 v his 4 2 on a K 4 2 flop, unlucky for him but another nice flop for me. After this went on a nice rush for the next 2 hours, table was quite weak and had it worked out niceley, 2 total calling stations who were calling very light on the river so when i hit big and bet big they came along for the ride. Thought i had them pegged most of the time and was disgusted when i called a 50 river bet with AA on a board of 3 9 10 10 j and 1 of then flipped Q 10. His game was so obvious this was the worst play i have made in the last week; 0-2 with AA and KK; kind of call that is the difference between good palyers and average ones and was not happy 1 bit. Next hand was very sick, folded to me on CO and i bump it up with the 9 6 sooooooooooooooted. Huge granite like rock calls button and other 2 fold. Flop 2 2 5 and i bet 20, he thinks for 10 secs and raises to 60. Was pretty sure i was folding at this point but the more i thought about it the more adament i was he had 99-JJ and was looking a little un-easy, i decide to hope he hasn't noticed that i raise 15-20% of hands pre, say 'jeus have you got a 2' lol and then i make it 100 more, stacks are quite deep with about 300 back each so was also thinking if he calls i can shove the last 200 in if a ace, king or queen hit the turn; thankfully he folds JJ face up after 2 mins and i'm happy to show the 9 high, the donks look a little confused and sure enough 1 pays me off with middle pair 4 hands later for another 100. The play is a bit fancy and a little stupid but i was pretty confident it would work and i couldn't ignore my fucking instincs.
Next hand was one of the sickest i have ever played; 3 limps and i limp button with 75off. No action in the blinds and we see a flop of K 8 6 with two spades, check round to me and i bet 8. All fold round to the last limper who raises 20 more, he's quite aggressive and likes his chip tricks so i call with the up and down (wasn't sure what he had at this point). Red Q hits the turn and he bets 50 leaving 150 behind. At this point my first thought was to obviously pass, i'm not getting a good price and he's palyed it very hard representing 2 pair or a set. For some reason i call (think the plan was to shove a action card if he checked the river) and a red 7 hits the river, not the card i want and when he bets 80 i'm about to fold. Then i start thinking about a hand an hour ago when the guy checked 2 pair on the river and my stupid brain decides that he either has 66 or a busted flush, i call, he announces 'busted flush and i turn over 4th pair for a nice 250+ pot, very very sick call.
The final hand i will blog was sick for another reason. Folded to me on the CO with 42 SOOOOOOTED so i make it 7, button calls and bb raises to 24, he hasn't re-raised me for 6 hours but he had been playing very very weak post flop and i felt pretty sure it was AA or KK so i call to bust (he has 350 back) button calls as well and when we see a juicy J 4 2 board i'm in heaven and lead out for 75, button folds and not to my suprise donk insta raises to 150, i insta push, he insta calls and i say, 'i know you have aces, i can beat aces, no pain thanks dealer', he looks horrified when he flips AA and can't believe its not still the nuts, bricks on the turn and river and i win a huge pot with 42. More looks of horror from the table when i flip it but i have a good laugh after the hand with the 1 guy on the table that was a very good player who seems to find the whole situation as funny as i did, ' i knew you beat his aces but i thought at least you had a set'. Just a quick note on this guy called Ian, thought he was a standard donk when he asked me what a squeeze play was after being at the table for 20 mins, turns out that was a joke and he was a very good player indeed. He made two world class laydowns imo and think he was one of the best cash players i've ever played against (much better than me).
Ended the session +900 and ended the week +3.6K , VERY SICK FOR 1/2 FULL RING GAME. Long may it continue but i'm a realist and i know this hot streak wont last long. Its now 9.30am on monday morning and i'm gonna go put some cash in the bank and have a nice full english in the local cafe, I LOVE POKER!!