My Intentions were good....

So I was ready to come home and hit the tourneys running for a good 24 hour period but I ran into a few hitches along the way. First off poker stars was up to no good with their server upgrades so no tourney got started between 11:00 and 8:00! That kind of put a damper on things but I figured I would just get some sleep and in the morning with the $8 rebuy and work from there. Well my buddy then proposed the idea of getting in a round of golf....and I just can't say no to golf on a nice day!

So there I was sitting on the couch watching poker on tv and craving some action. I decided to give a small session of cash games a shot and it wasn't a bad idea. I opened up a table of $1/$2 and a table of .5/$1 and told myself that I was only going to play around 200 hands. This was due to the past few sessions where I had amassed big stacks early and then pissed them all away for one reason or another. Right off the bat I get into the following hand and played it perfectly....i thought.

POKERSTARS GAME #10895436883: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/07/12 - 01:15:45 (ET)
Table 'Carme' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: 2hot4allofu ($154.10 in chips)
Seat 2: tortuga0981 ($97.50 in chips)
Seat 4: pkaji ($107.15 in chips)
Seat 5: Nataraja21 ($115.50 in chips)
Seat 6: limitpam ($57.30 in chips)
pkaji: posts small blind $0.50
Nataraja21: posts big blind $1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tortuga0981 [9h 7d]
limitpam: folds
2hot4allofu: folds
tortuga0981: raises $3 to $4
pkaji: calls $3.50
Nataraja21: folds
*** FLOP *** [9c 4h 2d]
pkaji: checks
tortuga0981: bets $5
pkaji: raises $9 to $14
tortuga0981: calls $9
*** TURN *** [9c 4h 2d] [9s]
Drock8d5 joins the table at seat #3
pkaji: bets $25
tortuga0981: calls $25
*** RIVER *** [9c 4h 2d 9s] [3h]
pkaji: bets $64.15 and is all-in
tortuga0981: calls $54.50 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pkaji: shows [Jh Qs] (a pair of Nines)
tortuga0981: shows [9h 7d] (three of a kind, Nines)
tortuga0981 collected $194 from pot
pkaji leaves the table

So this is about 10 hands in when it is folded to me in middle position and I raise with 97off. The sb calls and we see a flop of 9 high, rainbow. I'm in position and the caller checks so I fire $5 at a pot of $9. I get check raised to $14, and with the quickness of the bet and size of the bet I see no reason why I should be alarmed. I honesty get the feeling that he is simply making a play on the "new guy" at the table. I don't think he would play 10's - AA's this way having 3 bet me pre-flop with a hand like that, a set would have most likely smooth called and over cards like any two broadway is what I put him on. I call the $9 and another 9 peels off on the turn. At this point I'm about 98% I am ahead so I think about how I can milk him for his entire stack. Since I thought about the call of the check raise for a while I got the feeling that he would stick in another bet having shown aggression and dominance on the hand. Sure enough, with the pot sitting at $37 he fired $25 and I again think a sec and just call. The river was a harmless 3 and he instantly moved all in and I called...he flipped over QJoff and I shipped a nice $194 pot!

The session continued to roll as I ended up walking with a little under 2 buy ins. The $1/$2 table had nothing special about it. I three bet with KK's and 10's and won a little from those but other than that I don't think I showed down a hand and walked with like $18 profit.

I am clicking through the tourney tab on poker stars and see that they have numerous turbo tourneys that are starting knowing that they will be over before the server restart. I see that a $5 turbo is about to start so I decide to give it a go. There were 900+ players and first place got a little over 1K. I played it just like a turbo SNG and to my surprise won the majority of my coin flips and got folded to when I pushed. Before I knew it we were ITM and then at the final table. I ended up getting it all in with A9 vs. AQ and finish in 4th for about $300+. So overall not a bad night considering it isn't at all what I wanted to play and wasn't what I was looking for!

For now it's time to get some sleep, I need to rest up for the links tomorrow. Later.