January 16th - A welcomed Royal.

Monthly goal: $7.000
I'm at $1.802

Yesterday was a journey and a battle. Seldom before have I had a session with so much drama. Afterwards I felt like I had played through a weeks worth of poker in one day. And it all happened during only 778 hands at $2/$4.

The session started like any other. I was in the mood to play some poker and I found a couple of good tables at the $400 level. I started to earn some money and even won a buy-in with a full house against a regular player who was unlucky enough to catch a flush.

I also realized that I wasn't playing my best game and although I was sitting deep stacked at a couple of tables, I was loosing some money to uncontrolled aggression. I wasn't focused enough on all the tables to play a Loose Aggressive style, but it is hard to gear down on some tables, when on others I am successfully dominating the table.

After about an hour of play I had lost some of my profit back. Mostly through being too aggressive and not catching the hands and hitting the flops to back it up. I am up about $200 or so for the session when this hands comes up:

JJ in the Cut Off: My read is really off in this hand. Calling and folding on the turn are both options to consider, but I think that leading out again is by far the best play.
The river is a clear fold, my opponent was a tight meek player and I think a bluff here is highly unlikely.

A couple of hands later I run into a dreadful suckout and am looking at a big loosing day. I am just about ready to call it quits, already verbalizing my bad beat rant for this post in my head, when I hit the hand that every poker player dreams off.

The odds of flopping a Royal Flush, if you start with two of the cards are 1 in 19.599

When the day was finally over I was down about $300, but after cashing $500 out from my rakeback site I inch a bit closer towards my monthly goal.