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Sigh .. what does a man have to do to win some money at poker ? I think the real 'bad run' is more or less over, as I'm actually winning hands when I'm supposed to. When I'm a 80 to 90 percent favorite when the chips go in, I expect to win it .. 8 out of 10 times .. This was not the case for a while as people were just outrunning me on the river every time. Now it's a little bit back to normal, but still not enough to win the last few times I played.  I was out drinking with my friends on friday night when some of my friends there decided to start a little tournament at their house. Frankly, I was so drunk there I don't really remember a lot. I was there to have fun and not to win big money .. the stakes were too low for that anyway. So then I get a call from another friend of mine (by now it's about 2 o clock at night) that he's got friends coming over for a cash game and there's a spot for me if I want in. I was a bit sobered up by now and although I had lost that tournament, I did remember that I had won some good pots. So decided I should try my luck at this cash game. The stakes were 20c/40c blinds and the game was no limit holdem (as always at our homegames). I got dealt some nice starting hands and played them well in the beginning. This brought my initial buy in from 10 euros up to about 35. My strong play was obviously invoking fear in my opponents as they started folding to my pre flop 3x blinds raises. Something that had not happened to me in some time .. The players were respecting my raises. I took down some minor pots this way, when I got dealt AK in middle position. I raise it up again to 1 euro 20 and get a caller behind me, IIRC he was on the button. The flop comes all low cards, I think it was 8 high. I put out a continuation bet with my AK even though I completely missed the flop in all possible ways. He calls and the next card is an ace ! I think for a litle while, but obviously not well enough and decide it's a good spot to push and try to double up through this guy, or take down the pot right here. After some deliberation he calls ... with top two pair - aces and eights. I should have known he connected on the flop when he called me and placed a nice bet on the ace to find out where i was. I put in a huge bet on a small pot ... my own fault. I'm not used to cash games yet, still have to get rid of some of those sit and go tendencies. After that I have played 2 small sit and gos online at Full Tilt Poker for $5 each, placing 4th each time. The first one was quite a funny story. In the second hand I flop two pair with K10, and push all in after a raise. I get called by someone with JJ and he rivers a J. I lost all but my last 30 chips there, but managed to play it back all the way up to 5000 chips before going out with aces. Still not winning in the end, but at least not getting rivered every single hand !
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