Hi hi. Haven't played online poker for a while, I needed a break. I'll probably play tonight though. I emailed PP and got them to give me a deposit Bonus, so I have some money on there for cash games. Then I'll probably donk off in some tournaments tonight. Yay poker ...

I played live this past week though. Played in a $100 FO at River Rock on Wednesday and came around 25th out of 165 (bad beat to bust me, obv ... but that's how I roll these days! ) On Friday night I played $200NL cash for five hours and it went HORRIBLY. Every single time I made a hand, I got called by someone chasing a flush draw and he hit it every single time. Every time. I won't go through the boring laundry list, but I lost a lot of huge pots that way. For the most part I slowed down and lost as little as possible once the flush hit (thank god for cheap show downs), but it still hurt. I never did get my stack above $250, and I ended up losing two buyins over the course of the night (which I'm thankful for because if a couple idiots didn't spew chips my way, I'd have been down a lot more than $400).

I'm curious about a hand and whether or not I should have checked the turn. I had sat at the table only around 45 min or so ago, and the villian in this hand had been pretty active. I knew he was a regular in the cardroom because I'm pretty sure I've played with him before, but I couldn't remember any more specific reads. At that point though, I knew that he wasn't afraid to play lots of hands and didn't often fold preflop. I didn't get the idea that he was terrible though, I thought he was pretty okay post flop.

So anyway, in this hand I was in the blinds and he was on the button. There were a couple limps preflop, and then he raised to $7 when the play went to him. I reraised to $20 (in hindsight I probably should have raised more) with 99 and he called.

The flop came K9x with two clubs (9 of clubs on the board). I forget how much I bet, but it was probably around $35. He called.

The turn was a club and I bet again, obviously committing myself to the pot. Should I have checked this turn? In these games, you can't put someone on a flush draw for sure because people play so badly with all sorts of hands. But is there a good way to try to keep this pot small, or should I just be going all the way no matter what and then my bet is okay?

I'm fine with losing my stack with a set at live 1/2 because he could have easily had a K or AA or any other hand really, but was wondering if I had played the hand ideally.

(If you're curious as to what happened, he called my turn bet and then bet after my check on the river, which I called. He had clubs and won the pot.)

Anyway, I'll be playing live again this Saturday hopefully. The Canadian Poker Tour (yes, that actually exists) is visiting River Rock on the 17th with a $300+$30 tournament that will have maximum 250 people. It should be very well structured and I'm really excited to play it. I'll be playing double shootouts this week (for seats to the million) and unregistering them until I win two to pay for this live tourney.

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