14th April

After playing another session of 5/10c, I was down $10. I was playing pretty tight but people out drew me on the flop, turn and river. Oh well it happens, I decide to play a 5.50 sit n go. I was chip leader for a good bit then after shoving all in against small blind with A5 I became rather short stacked. It was an idiotic move and I really shouldn't have done it but seeing as I haven't played sit n goes in so long I was quite out of touch. Later I tried to play in some satellites but didn't have the patience and some of them couldn't even fill up.

I took a little break to watch some TV and relax. I then decided that my bankroll was big enough that I could try playing 10/25c NL cash games. I decide to buy in for 10 dollars which is usually my buy in for 5/10c games and I play 4 of them so I felt that if I played one game of 10/25c with only $10 I could get a feel of how tight or loose players were at this limit. I'm sure it depends on the table but the table I was at was quite tight except for the few who stirred things up every so often. Less players play multitables on these limits and you really have to figure out when players are bluffing or not. In 5/10c games I could read players quite easily. I figure this is because I've played them for so long. Starting to read 10/25c players could become quite profitable. I'm going to try and play 10/25c games from now on with $10 buy in and only play one at a time. Average pot sizes are pretty big and you get much more action when it seems like you're shortstacked. I was playing for a while and eventually I got pocket kings in the big blind. Action folded to the button and he limped in. The small blind raised to $1.20 and I re-raised to $3, trying to clear the field. The button calls the $3 and the small blind re-raises all in of about $20, I call and the button follows. I was bricking it at this stage. The small blind had JJ. The button had Q10h. One of my kings were hearts but I was still nervous. Thankfully it held up. And I got up to $25.

Next decent hand was A6h in middle position. I decide to limp in and action folds to the button who raises to $1. Everyone folds to me. The button has about $25, roughly the same as me so implied odds are there if I hit the nut flush and he catches something or is holding a pocket pair. The flop is 554. Only one of those is a heart. I decide not to raise for the steal because he might re-raise me or just fold. He checks too. The next card is a 2h. I now have a possible flush draw. He decides to bet 75c here. I call and the pot is roughly at $3. The river turns a 3d and I miss my flush but I have a straight with 6 high. I actually got nervous and thought i only had ace to 5. I raised 3/4 pot size to get him to try get him to call and also make it seem like a bluff. He decides to re-raise my bet to $10. Now I'm fearing that he might have a 6 which makes me completely idiotic because obviously I have it and I even thought about folding but thankfully I quick called. If I didn't have 25 on the table I would have re-raised but because i didn't want to lose too much. If I realised that I had the 6 I definately would have re-raised all in. Silly me, but I turned $10 to $37 in half an hour which is a personal best.