Last night's results

Up 30 bucks in 45 minutes. Very nice. I need to play more hours, but Thursdays are busy for me.

I did get an AA, but it lost for me. Raise to $1.00, get only one caller, a short-stack. Flop comes all one suit, of which I have zero. I bet about another $1.00 and he goes all-in for $2.00 more. He had A6o but had the A of the suit in question and caught the 4th flush card on the turn to beat me. No biggie, just a few bucks, and he was very lucky to have any chance at all with A6o against AA. He was still an underdog when we were all-in too, I wonder if he knew that.

I played much tighter and better overall. Had a nice time getting fishies hooked & reeling them in.

But again the last hand of the night I threw some money back. Just a couple of bucks but it was dumb and unnecessary. I played 76s from ep (first mistake) and then I called a bet on the flop with it when I had only hit a 7 for 2nd pair (2nd mistake).

There really is a difference in feeling, inside of me, when I'm playing a hand I should not be playing. It's not an unpleasant feeling, exactly, more of a "gambling" feeling, a feeling of "I might get lucky, I should stick around and see what happens next." When I get that feeling, I should definitely resist it! Just play the good hands and you'll make a bunch and cut your variance way down!! Yes you can catch lucky, but even when you do you may not make enough back to make it worthwhile.

I folded 98o from ep yesterday then watched the flop comes T7x and the turn with a 6 after it was checked around. I would have had the straight! Ohh, I need to play 98o! Wait, no, stop, stop stop. Would I have made much money on the hand? Nope, nobody else had hit much of anything and they weren't betting at it. And if somebody HAD hit something good, they might have bet strong on the flop. So in order to catch my straight AND make serious money with it, I probably would have had to make another call for which I wasn't getting the odds. Just keep folding 98o unless you're in position on a passive table with calling stations.