An interesting start to the year...

Yerrrrrrr.... not the best start to the year. Not horrendous but not great either. Started the year with 30k hands overall down 10 BI's and up 1 BI with rakeback. Obviously its not like I've blown my roll or started playing awfully, just had a horrible stretch of hands running JJ+ into better hands too many times and being on the wrong side of coolers a hell of a lot too. Actually considering the hands I've been dealt I'm very happy with my results and today I truly believe I played the best poker I've ever played. So all is not lost! Pretty sure in the coming days I'll have a nice little upswing that I can blog about! Graph for this month looks like this;

An interesting hand from today:

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2053572
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WavePervik (BTN): $24.13
kelisav (SB): $10.91
baslespattes (BB): $33.25
Hero (UTG): $25.00
ALFN8 (MP): $29.15
batbilegts (CO): $10.00

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG with 8 8
Hero raises to $1, ALFN8 calls $1, 3 folds, baslespattes raises to $2, Hero calls $1, ALFN8 raises to $3, baslespattes calls $1, Hero raises to $10, ALFN8 calls $7, baslespattes calls $7

Flop: ($30.25) J 4 2 (3 players)

Turn: ($30.25) 5 (3 players)

River: ($30.25) 6 (3 players)


UTG+1 shows AK
SB show K7

Probably the weirdest hand I ever expect to play with 20 bb stacks...... Both players huge whales. Looking over the hand AK is way above villain 1's range and as for the other dude I'm sure you can make up your own minds. Standard raise utg and expected flat from 1st guy (running at something around 80/15 with a 13% 3bet stat) then whale small 3bets. I decide to flat knowing Im most probably ahead of agressor and almost certain utg+1 would flat giving me a chance to setmine and also the chance to stack off on a good flop. When utg+1 min 3bets it does confuse me but I dont give him much respect for a hand (apparently he did). Once the original 3better just flats I know I'm good a lot of the time and a shove would be the right move. Overall very happy with the hand even though I was suprised to see AKs be turned up.