Finally a live win

Well I finally generated a positive result for the year in a live cash game, winning £610 in the last encounter. One noticeable aspect of the game though, was that people have had a general perception change, in terms of what they are willing to stake in the game. I felt a significant proportion of the players will stake £1k every time they sit down and a couple of guys a lot more than that, thus making it very big for a £1/£2 game. For a person who is only willing to risk £500 at any given game it potentially puts me at a disadvantage unless I either run strongly early on, or am willing to risk being on the train home one hour after we start.

Fortunately I started well this time out - Nemo was winning A LOT early on, being up 3 figures very quickly, but I was able to pick him off a couple times when he was whacking the big stack around and made a few good calls with top pair, under pressure, to get up £400 or so.

I then consolidated for several hours, before eventually finding my stack down at £250, after I had to abort after leading £75 on the river in a multi-way £175 pot with K9 on a TT9xx board whereupon Deven shoved on me for £325. I had to pass, although in the event Dev had floated the turn and bluffed the river after reading me for weakness. I kind of suspected Dev either had the nuts or a missed draw, but I partially passed on the basis that I didn’t have too many rebuys in the pocket. Maybe I should just nut peddle if this is going to effect my thinking, not sure.

I built my stack back up in the final few hours, after hitting a lucky trio of nut draw gutshots. Each time I didn’t have the odds to call the turn, but was paid off on the river, so perhaps the calls were justified on implied odds grounds.

Anyhow, a fun night, and great to finally come away with profit. Still down over a thousand for the year though.