Is this sad??

Well it had to happen, I was actually sad enough to be playing poker on Christmas day. Actually I wasnt playing disciplined poker as I wasnt signalled into the game…..but I won anyway. I just felt my way into the game and decided that there was at least one provider although I sensed that two of the players were colluding although I have no proof of this as yet.

I won just over $17k (3 buy-ins) and now I really am on course for my best month ever as a pro. There was one hand where I got very lucky. A player who had been LAG raises from the hijack to $175 and I call on the button with the 9c-8c and to my surprise the big blind also calls which ruins my plans somewhat.

Flop comes Jd-7c-3d giving me a gutshot and a backdoor flush draw. With $550 in pot, the BB checks and the raiser bets half pot of $275. We both had over $6k on the table and the BB had about 4k. I decide to put the pressure on him and float him (I hadnt made a move so far). I was trying to intimidate him by using the presence of the third player (the big blind) to affect his thinking.

The turn card was the 4h and he checks it to me. Now I sense weakness and bet $750 into the $1100 pot and expect to see him fold……he calls. Now i know that I have to make a hand to win and the 10c comes on the river giving me the nut straight. With $2600 in the pot they bet $800 which seems like a milking bet to me so now I am expecting them to have a set which they cannot lay down.

I move all in and they insta call and I win the pot…..$12,000!!!! This is one of the biggest pots that I have won in ages and I got lucky big time. This makes a change given the year that I have had. A couple of people have remarked to me how I was crying too much about my 20 buy-in bad run this year. Twenty buy-ins isnt out of the way but it is when you have played the number of sessions that i played over 6 months. I was a losing poker player forsix months and that aint good.

Feels like I am on the way back, hope you are enjoying your Xmas

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