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That was last night's session. Down, up, down, up. It was a good $3/6 table at VIP. You've gotta love a table where you have pot odds to call a gut shot on the turn. Not implied odds - pot odds.
I wrote about the luckiest player ever in a previous post. He was seated two to my right. Directly to my right the time in the seat was split between two donks, one who was lucky and one who was not. There were also a couple of other goofs at the table. I am reasonably certain I was the best player there. This is not uncommon for me at a VIP table, but I can't ever seem to have a night where everything goes right and I really clean up. I always seem to have to start in the hole and dig my way back out. Ah me, its a pretty small sample size of sessions I am dealing with there, so someday my hands will all hold up and I will peel off a table there up 30 BB.
The luckiest player ever keeps his title. He sat down with $30 (5 BB) and left with $154. He gouged me with such monster starting hands as A2o and Q8o, flopping trips and slow-playing them both times. I won it back by the end of the session, plus another 3 BB, due largely to the two calling stations that sat between us.
I have taken a liking recently to shutting off the chat window. Used to be that I enjoyed the social banter and even some of the heckling that goes on in poker chat windows. I think that I now prefer the 'silence'. While I think that it was useful to see who was about to tilt off their chips by reading their chat, I am concluding that I was more distracted - and thus hindered - by chat than helped by it. There are other signs of tilt besides chat, and I am able to pick up on these, and other signs, better with the chat off. With chat off I am also unaffected by anyone's comments on my play, which may have affected me previously. I never thought that I was, but now when I am involved in a big pot, I find myself VERY curious what other players might be chatting about it, or me, when its done - instead of thinking about the new cards being dealt. I suspect I was getting too absorbed in chat at those times when I had chat on, and I am happy to leave it off now.