Ssshhhhhh....(I made a little money this weekend)
I don't want the Poker Gods to hear about this. They were clearly off partying this weekend and forgot to come to my tables to curse my cards to give me the second best hand at least once an orbit like they've been doing for the past three months. If they hear me bragging about turning a profit, they may become angry and give me second set twice an orbit for a while.
Friday night I played at Ultimate Bet on the PLO tables. That was a pretty good idea, as there were some "exhuberant" bettors at the table. Not only were they paying off my good hands, but they were making sure I was getting maximum UB points for bonus clearing as well. Thanks guys. I also had a PLO table at SunPoker open. I made the nut straight on the turn and bet the pot, I got re-raised all-in, and got stacked when he hit his flush on the river. Bummer, but I'll win that hand most of the time, so I was glad to get the chance to take that bet. Later I played in a $2 MTT at Absolute. 2+ hours later, I busted out 61st, in the money for $2.20. That was a strange MTT experience. I don't think my stack ever got above 5,000. I was in the bottom 10 or 15 players from the first break on, but they just couldn't kill me. Just when things looked terminal, I would make a hand and stay alive. It was slightly amusing as the big stacks were getting annoyed by my nine lives, but that's still a long time to play for 20 cents.
Saturday I played a bit more at Sunpoker and Absolute. Treading water at both. Then I moved on to the Will Hill, Littlewoods and UKBetting casino monthlies. Finished up almost $300 after all 3 of those, even though I got creamed at Littlewoods. That was the extent of my play for the day. I watched JARHEAD with my sons, and called it a night.
Sunday I hit the $2/4 O/8 tables at Absolute. There was one guy at the table who seemed to think his aggression was going to get him pots. That's what I like at my O/8 limit tables. Especially when I get a lot of playable hands. Pulled down about 12 BB there, and then had to go grill dinner.
In the evening I played a little circus style NL at SunPoker. I actually cheated on the circus style quite a bit, limping with JTs and pockets on a few occassions. I busted someone's KK with my JTs one hand when I pushed all-in with top pair and a str8 draw on the flop, and turned another jack. The very next hand I had AA UTG and pushed first in. Same guy calls me with A4o (tilt much?) and I stacked him in two hands. I doubled up on another table, too, so I quit at that point. I had some Site Admin stuff to do (it NEVER stops) and then The Sopranos.
All-in-all a pretty good weekend.