HUGE night at Wynn

Bought in for $300.  Cashed out the stack you see to your left, $1550. 

Yeah, it was that kind of night.

Absolute, total domination from the second I sat down.  So many sick hands.  Everything came together perfectly.  I was hitting, and I was getting paid huge.  Just so many hands. 

A few short examples:

I'm in with A-4s.  Flop comes 2-5-J or whatever.  I bet out 10, get 1 caller.  Turn 3.  Bust the guy.

In with 7-7, flop K-7-4.  Against probably the other best guy at the table.  He bets 20, I call.  Turn 2, he bets 40, I call.  River, Q.  He bets 85.  I raise to 225, he calls.  He had K-Q.

Raise under the gun with 4-3 of spades.  Get 1 caller.  Flop 4-4-3.  Check, check.  Turn K.  I bet 5.  He raises to 15.  I reraise to 45 or 55.  He reraises all-in (for maybe 120 or whatever), I call, win.

In with 2-2 (maybe in the blind).  Flop comes K-4-2.  I check, guy bets 10.  I had seen this guy make some freaking BAD plays earlier in the night.  Like really bad.  I just call.  Turn, Q or something else, don't remember.  I check.  He bets 30.  I raise to 75.  He reraises to 200.  The only reason I wasn't SUPER worried about 4-4 is that he INSTANTLY bet out 10 on the flop.  It seems to me that if someone flopped a set they would want to think about it at least for a few seconds before betting, to figure out what to do with such a huge hand.  Plus after he had been playing so bad in some other hands I knew I couldn't think about folding.  So I went all-in.  He had another 200 or maybe a bit more.  He just laughs and calls.  I don't know what he had, he mucked after I showed my 2-2.  So that was another $900 or so pot.

I basically broke the table because we were 6 handed and I busted the last 2 guys (with the 4-3 and 2-2).  After that, we just left.

Had a funny encounter with Iceman (left) at the cage.  We were both cashing out.  I roll up with my huge stack and he is like, "nice hit".  I'm like yeah bro, at $1/$3 too!  We talked about his headphones a bit and I said if I keep running like this, I'll need to get a pair.  He went into some detail about how his company would make my custom headphones : chocolate diamonds all over, red ace on one side, white ace on the other (both in diamonds of course), initials on top.  Nice proposal!  We'll see!  Those are pretty awesome.  Haha.

My wife is pretty concerned with how I'm playing right now, haha.  I don't blame her at all.  I have gone through this EXACT cycle several times.  Play really, really tight.  Get some wins, but they are small.  Maybe even have some bigger hits here and there, but then also get a big loss when I get my money in good once or twice, and I get frustrated.  Then I just stay even over several sessions.  Then I start to think, "I need to play more aggressive, that's what all the good players are doing, etc".  Then I start playing more aggressive, and I get a big win or two up front.  But then I start losing BIG, and I get really frustrated, and I give up.

Of course right now I'm in what would typically be the win big stage, right before the keep playing super loose/aggressive, lose big stage.  So I understand her concerns.  I FEEL like I'm playing better than ever before, and I'm definitely taking my time and thinking about my decisions.  I've made some bad decisions lately, no doubt.  And some bad moves.  But overall I do feel like I'm playing well.  We'll see.  I'm just trying to play as good as I can. 

It makes sense to me that maybe, finally, I have simply tried to play loose/aggressive so many times that I've learned enough lessons and grown enough as a poker player that I'm able to do it with some success now.  Of course, that is what any moron would think after playing really bad and running really good too.  I'm open to the possibility that I'm actually playing bad, and I'm keeping a close eye on it.  But I'm really really trying hard to play well.

I was originally planning on stepping up to 2/5 NL once my bankroll hit $3k.  And it just did go over that.  But now I think I'll hang back at 1/2-1/3 for a while, at least until I hit $5k.  Maybe a bit higher.  I know that I'm playing a higher variance style right now.  I need to learn how to play it a bit better, and when I move up to 2/5 I'll want to be able to keep playing this way.  So I might want to build up to about $7k or something, and then take a shot with a $1000 buyin or whatever.  Not sure yet.  I definitely want to keep playing this new aggressive style if I can.  It's incredibly fun and for now anyway, incredibly profitable.