No. of Days Since I Felted Myself with a 1-Pair Hand = 1!

This morning finds me in a much happier frame of mind, facing the much more agreeable task of posting two +65BB hands and no minuses at all.

Prima Poker skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
5 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: $82.50
CO: $47.00
Button: $49.75
SB: $53.01
BB: $51.80

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is UTG with :10s :as
Hero raises to $2, CO calls, 2 folds, BB calls.
Villain plays 33/11. Somewhat marginal open UTG with ATs. (At the very bottom of my range from this seat)

Flop: :8s :kd :qs ($6.25, 3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $3.5, CO folds, BB calls.
I flop the nut flush draw, plus a gutshot broadway draw. I get one caller, but was hoping for two!

Turn: :5s ($13.25, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $6, BB calls.
Typical of this session, my flush comes in on the turn (the poker gods weren't even making me wait until the river last night!). My 1/2 pot bet is called.

River: :ac ($25.25, 2 players)
BB bets $13, Hero raises to $35, BB calls all-in $27.8, Hero calls $40.8 (pot was $88.05).
The board doesn't pair, so I have the nuts. Happily the villain wakes up betting, so I went a bit tricky on him by invoking my time bank (the online equivalent of a slow-roll!), before making a raise of just under pot. I get the desired outcome, as he pushes.

Results:
Final pot: $106.85
BB shows 3s Ks
Hero shows 10s As
Tough cooler for the villain, with the 2nd nuts. This game is very easy at times, isn't it?


Blinds: $0.25/$0.50

Stack sizes:
UTG: $54.12
UTG+1: $52.25
CO: $100.90
Button: $19.63
SB: $49.25
Hero: $98.00

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is BB with :9d :9c
2 folds, CO calls, 2 folds, 2 folds, Hero raises to $2.5, CO calls.
Villain plays 54/26. Std raise in BB w 99.

Flop: :2s :ad :9s ($5.75, 2 players)
Hero bets $2, CO calls.
Flop the set, make a weak lead and get called.

Turn: :6c ($9.75, 2 players)
Hero bets $6, CO raises to $12, Hero raises to $31, CO calls.
Perfectly harmless turn card, so I bet 2/3 pot and get min-raised! I decide that against this aggro villain, I need to be aiming to get it allin, so I reraise enough to be confident that we are going to be playing for stacks on the river.

River: :3d ($71.75, 2 players)
Hero bets $35, CO calls.
Impossible to put the villain on 45 which was the only hand helped by this river, so I set him in and he insta-calls.

Results:
Final pot: $141.75
Hero shows 9d 9c

No proper showdown again (thanks Prima!), so we can only guess about what Mr aggro had here. Probably a decent Ace, or maybe 2 pair?