Poker marathon.

This is going to be a long rant about some poker I played. Should be pretty boring.

Anyway, I just finished an almost 8 hour poker session, the last 5 hours uninterrupted. I made a modest $760 from 3600 hands. This is my longest session ever. At one table I played 530 hands in a row. Wow me.

I had to earn those monies too. I think party owes me $4000 on river suckouts for tonight. Here is the best one:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

UTG ($604)
MP ($114)
CO ($2064.75)
Button ($1204)
Hero ($560)
BB ($1394.80)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Kh, Kc.
3 folds, Button raises to $21, Hero raises to $75, 1 fold, Button calls $54.

Flop: ($156) 4s, Qd, 9h (2 players)
Hero bets $110, Button calls $110.

Turn: ($376) 5d (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $414, Hero calls $375 (All-In).

River: ($1165) Tc (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $1165

Hero has Kh Kc (one pair, kings).
Button has 8h Jh (straight, queen high).
Outcome: Button wins $1165.

Wow, I was totally outplaying him, and he hit one of his 4 ridiculous outs. He was so ashamed of himself he immediately left the table. He was probably moving up.

Getting constantly sucked out on when I was about to finish with a decent result, I could never seem to get above zero. Since the tables were good and the significant other out nursing, I played some more FTW. Just when I was about to finally call it a night I had another one:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (5 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

MP ($989.15)
Button ($595)
SB ($1548.25)
Hero ($812)
UTG ($893)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9h, Ac.
3 folds, SB raises to $30, Hero calls $24.

Flop: ($60) As, 9c, 2s (2 players)
SB bets $30, Hero raises to $100, SB calls $70.

Turn: ($260) 8d (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $180, SB calls $1418.25 (All-In), Hero calls $502 (All-In).

River: ($2360.25) 4s (2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $2360.25

SB has Js 6s (flush, ace high).
Hero has 9h Ac (two pair, aces and nines).
Outcome: SB wins $2360.25.

Wow. Just wow. J6s. Jack six. Jack. Six. Sooted. By a raving idiot from my own country who said oops whenever someone called a bet then tried to guess their hand, and said 'ty' when he won a pot. That guy should just go somewhere and die quietly.

Anyway, I had AA 24 times tonight, and I won every single time. At a little over $100 pr clip I might add. That's what you get for playing every other hand like a lunatic: They pay you off when you get AA.

One thing I need to get better at is check/raising the river. One might ask, is there anything sweeter than a well timed river check/raise? The answer is clearly 'no' or 'no, there is not'. If you disagree you are wrong, as this hand clearly illustrates:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

Hero ($572)
CO ($534)
Button ($781.95)
SB ($608.10)
BB ($843.58)
UTG ($225.20)

Preflop: Hero is MP with Kh, Ah.
1 fold, Hero raises to $24, 1 fold, Button calls $24, 2 folds.

Flop: ($57) 4c, Td, 5s (2 players)
Hero bets $45, Button calls $45.

Turn: ($147) Qd (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks.

River: ($147) Jd (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $85, Hero raises to $250, Button calls $627.95 (All-In), Hero calls 253 (All-In).

Final Pot: $1362.95

Hero has Kh Ah (straight, ace high).
Button has Ts Js (two pair, jacks and tens).

Outcome: Hero wins $1153.

As a matter of fact, this hand shows how not only is it very hard to fold when you are check/raised on the river, but that the river check/raise is so sweet that some villains will choose to just donate all their monies out of pure awe. They simply realize that when I am able to pull such a totally sweet move, I should simply have all their money right away. When such an epiphany occurs at the table, who am I to disagree?

Now, sleep.