Rakeback Planet

Doing well in Cash Games in 09′

Hey, been having a pretty good run at the cash game tables so far this year. Went to play again last night at the $25/$25 NL Hold’em table. There was only one regular sitting down at the table and the rest foreigners that I never seen before and one of them has had too many drinks already so was fishing for everything. I bought in for $2000 and in the first 30 minutes or so lost about half my stack on some bad beat hands. I added one more thousand so I was back up to two and started playing a bit tighter after getting a feel of the players at the table. The cards weren’t really going my way last night but I stuck it out. Made big folds even when I was holding decent hands as well as making the right calls. I wasnt really in much of the action for about an hour during which the familiar face at the table built his stack up from $5000 to a little over $20,000. He is a good player and happened to be hitting everything last night. Then once the button came around to me and I looked at my cards I was holding AQ of diamonds. I made a raise to $250 and was called by the big stack. flop came out A,9,Q with two hearts on board. He checked it over to me, I bet $250 and he called instantly. Turn was a J and he checked it over as did I being a little scarred of a possible straight considering he has been hitting big hands all night long. The turn was another A giving me the Nut’s so after he checked I bet out $300 which he called and then mucked his cards. That brought me up to having a little over $3000 but again I had to wait for quite sometime to hit it big. My turn came about 45 minutes after that last hand where I picked up A8 of diamonds being in the big blind. The big stack called and the drunk guy sitting in small blind raised to $150…Since it wasn’t that big of a raise I called as did the 3rd player. Flop came out A,8,7 rainbow so I knew I was sitting pretty good. I checked, the big stack bet $300 and me along with the original raiser called. Turn was a 2, the small blind checked, I bet out $300 with the player after me calling and the drunk dude before me going all in $1700…After debating for a few minutes I decided to take my chances and called as did the big stack after me which got me pretty nervous I must say. River was a 9 and we both checked it through. When cards were flipped the big stack had just a pair of 8’s, small blind was holding A,J so I gladly turned over my two pairs, Aces and 8’s… Now maybe it wasn’t a smart call on my part but it turned out well and brought me up to nearly $7000 right away. After that I played a couple of more hands and since it was 3am already I got up to go home being up a little over $3000. So I am very happy at my showings so far this year, nothing big but for me its pretty good and hopefully it continues that way…Feel free to comment if that last call was a right thing to do or just a stupid move with me getting lucky that the other players didn’t have the hands that they were showing with their bets.