Another week of steady ups and big downs, but overall im still very happy with the month so far. Its not turned into the record breaking month I was hoping for, but at the same time its been a good steady month with a good solid profit at the end of, which lets face it, is the way I wish it always was! Again this week ive played some pretty interesting hands, and then sadly ive played some pretty interesting poor hands. My favourite winning hand of the week was a three way cooler that I had the best of. On the Button dealt As8s, early position raise, two callers and me. Flop Js Qs 2s. Original raiser bets, another player calls and I push. Now to push here with the stone cold nuts may seem a little silly, surely I want to try and milk the players, especially from position? Well of course, getting full value with the nuts is a must, but the all in did have thought behind it! Firstly the original raiser was a rock with a pfr of 8% and a flop c bet of 40%, so all in all a pretty honest player but a player who I know wont fold once hes committed to a pot. The second player was a neewbie whom I had few hands on, but in the short time id played him hes shown a willingness to call of very light: so my thinking, over bet all in with the nuts and most probably catch them both. When they both call im feeling like a poker genius! When there hands are turned over its pretty clear that my take on things had little to do with the calls, first player held JJ and the second player JQ, which for him was as good as the nuts! If I have the JJ I call all day long, the JQ I can pass but at the same time I can “kind” of understand the call………..FFS HES GOT TWO PAIR!!!!!! Still, nice to see my nuts hold up and a nice pot swing my way! My favourite badbeat of the week was at the $1000nl tables on Saturday morning. For me weekend poker is either fill your boots time, or bend over and take it up the bottom time…………this hand will tell you how it went for me!! I get a seat to the left of a player playing with a vpip of 90% !!! $1000nl and we have found ourselves a live one!!! He also had that very special gift of playing every hand till the river. Im dealt 6s7s. Another “special” player (vpip 60%) raises utg, very special player calls and so do I on the button. Flop 6d 5s 2c. UTG bets, very special calls. Both players are sat with half stacks, the pot is a good size already, ive got top pair, a back door straight draw and a back door flush draw, all in all against these two a hand im feeling pretty good about. I push all in. UTG folds, very special one SNAP CALLS, let me repeat, he SNAP CALLS for his last $400 with………………..kd 4d!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say the 3 on the river came as no surprise!  Thankfully this player was no hit and run merchant and he stayed around plenty long enough for me to claim back the money!!! Still it was a good hand!

 Im going to try and get some serious hours in before the end of the year, I said a few weeks back about how other things in badbeat are keeping me busy and away from the tables, well this still holds true, but due to the real life events of the past month or so these projects got sidelined. Wanting to give my all ive decided to put them on hold till the new year so I can start afresh and thus free up sometime for me to feed my poker addiction, and hopefully end this year on the high note im so due!!!!