Great weekend!

Summary:
Friday at Colin's...up $874
Saturday at Dave's...up $303

Hit some hands and played pretty solid both nights. Spanked Eddie J on a couple decent hands, and stacked him once after smooth-calling his pre-flop raise with KK, then check-raising all-in on the J-high flop. He started to tank, and after about 30 seconds, I told him that since he hadn't called me by now, I surely had him beat. He didn't believe me. He had QQ. Got him later with AK vs (I think) KQ.

Got Prowest on a few pots as well. I used to think he was a solid player. I was wrong. WAY wrong.

I don't recall bluffing at all on Friday. Maybe once or twice at a small pot that nobody seemed to want. Didn't need to.

Took MEATS for a bunch after flopping broadway (which was the nuts). He check-raised me $75 on top of my $25, and I shoved. He had almost $200. There were a couple clubs on the board, and I put him on either the flush draw, a set, or 2-pr, so I told him he was beat. He asked me to show, so I did. He had top-top, and would have hit top-2 on the turn. If I'd known he was that weak, I'd have let him keep betting, but was happy with the size of the pot with so many big draws out there. I cashed $1074 on a single buy-in.

Colin's place is great...in a safe location, and he has plenty of room and a nice house. It was a big game, with a lot of money on the table. Glad to see he'll be hosting regularly. Gibran, Uncle Bob, Kris Rao, and Eddie J were all there...hadn't seen many of them in a long time. I met Kris and JC for some grub at Fathead's in N. Olmsted. Salad and chicken fingers for me. I clocked in at 176 lbs over the weekend, my lowest yet, and I'm now down 27 lbs.

The usual in Dave's tourney. Enough said. Had $14k at the break, then couldn't hit after that. All luck.

Was up well over $400 for quite a while in the cash game, but gave some back. Took Rob M for $300 when I turned the nuts against his flopped 2-pr. I had the double-gutter with 8-9 and he had 10-6 on a Q-10-6 flop. Turn...7! Rob is one of the luckiest players I have ever seen. He was playing crap like J5 to decent raises, out of position, and flopping trips, or hitting his kicker against top-top...stuff like that. But the luck always runs out. I was just waiting to hit a hand on him. Most of the time I don't.

Oh...and I actually bluffed Dave off a decent pot! I had nothing, but he had better nothing. Don't remember exactly...I think it was my A7 vs his AK. For once, Dave didn't hit his hand on me.

Cashed out after MEATS shoved with the nut flush draw/pr against my wheel and caught. (I think that was the hand) My little man was telling me to hit it much earlier, but I refused to listen and hung around a couple more hours. Oh well, still booked a nice win.

So, over the last month and a half or so, I have generally been playing fairly well AND my hands are holding up more often that not, so I guess you can say that I'm running good.

I picked up a decent table that I found on Craigslist over the weekend. Big wide full-size table with removable padded rail. 1 small hole in the speed cloth. I might add some padding and new speed cloth later on if I feel the need, but this table will do nicely when I start hosting. Now I have to check out Danny C's chips. He's offering a pretty sweet deal on them.