1st cash in a while...

i started my cash games up at the 25$ NL tables... i watched a CardRunners video or two on low stakes NL 6-handed games and got to it. they're good videos and i think i get more from the thought processes of the player than anything else. so i played about two hundred hands and picked up $50 over two tables... one hand was an absolute cooler for the other player:

Full Tilt Poker Game #4621391093: Table Drexel (6 max) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:04:11 ET - 2007/12/25
Seat 1: Crazy-Foxx ($26.60)
Seat 2: Kutusoff ($36.90)
Seat 3: The-Evil-Death ($12.75)
Seat 4: Paradise1 ($35.60)
Seat 5: elzino ($29.15)
Seat 6: emperor tsai ($14.90)
The-Evil-Death posts the small blind of $0.10
Paradise1 posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to elzino [9s 9d]
elzino calls $0.25
emperor tsai calls $0.25
Crazy-Foxx calls $0.25
Kutusoff folds
The-Evil-Death calls $0.15
Paradise1 checks
*** FLOP ***
[Tc 9c 9h]
The-Evil-Death checks
Paradise1 checks
elzino checks
emperor tsai checks
Crazy-Foxx checks
*** TURN ***
[Tc 9c 9h] [7d]
The-Evil-Death checks
Paradise1 bets $1
elzino calls $1
emperor tsai folds
Crazy-Foxx calls $1
The-Evil-Death has 15 seconds left to act
The-Evil-Death calls $1
*** RIVER ***
[Tc 9c 9h 7d] [7s]
The-Evil-Death checks
Paradise1 bets $3.75
elzino has 15 seconds left to act
elzino raises to $13
Crazy-Foxx folds
The-Evil-Death folds
Paradise1 raises to $34.35, and is all in
elzino calls $14.90, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $6.45 returned to Paradise1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Paradise1 shows [Td Th] a full house, Tens full of Nines
elzino shows [9s 9d] four of a kind, Nines
elzino wins the pot ($58.05) with four of a kind, Nines
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $61.05 Rake $3
Board: [Tc 9c 9h 7d 7s]
Seat 1: Crazy-Foxx folded on the River
Seat 2: Kutusoff (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: The-Evil-Death (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 4: Paradise1 (big blind) showed [Td Th] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Nines
Seat 5: elzino showed [9s 9d] and won ($58.05) with four of a kind, Nines
Seat 6: emperor tsai folded on the Turn

If you know anyone who can get away with top Full House let me know...
Any line i take that doesn't get all my chips in the middle against his hand (which I never gave him by the way) is terrible...

the other hand that i won most of my money on was a pot which i limped with 4s, raise to $1 behind me, a flat call and then i called. 3 way flop 4h 3s 2h
i check, original raiser bets 2.50... min raise to 5... then i bet the pot feeling that someone has an overpair or an ace high flush draw... original raiser folds, minraiser pushes and shows 99. can't say i understand a call with that weak of an overpair after a third bet but i'll take it.

i played two MTT's:
a freeroll to poker after dark round 2.... 1/360 gets a seat to next round i finished 2/360 gg me :)
and the 8:30 6k guarantee $3 rebuy... i was in for two buyins plus the addon. i was about 11/120 in chip position at one point and finished 40th. i made a terrible play with about 68 left when i had 40k in chips at the 1k/2k blind level. word to the wise... don't lose 1/2 of a big stack in a hand where you don't even see the flop.
elzino = jackass
now down to 20k i have to play my usual short stack game which i do believe i play exceptionally well. i manage to get my stack back to 32k but the blinds are now 2k/4k. i am in the small blind with 28k in chips to start the hand... the big blind has about 42k. fold to me... i open shove with kj... and drum roll please....
snap call... i'm thinking "oh great, i ran into ak or better... gg me"
he turns over......





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i went from dejected to elated... what else can i hope for... that he magically mucked his hand and we don't see a flop. best possible scenario... flop K84....(feeling good).... turn 2 (boo but i still have any J, 8, 4)..... river 6. and i'm out. moral of the story... play a bigger stack better