Easy 10k

Easy 10k at 7:20 pace yesterday, I am sort of easing myself into the heat. I think my plan is to gradually build up to more aggressive paces but only after I've given myself a few weeks to adjust. Also I'm drinking a lot more water, I bring a large frozen 2 liter to work with me and finish it by the end of the day. I'm not a "water drinker" so this is a lot for me.

Another 2 hours at the Venetian last night after work.

The first signifcant hand I had A10 on the button with 4 callers to a small preflop raise and flopped top two pair with two clubs out there. After a small bet, I had one caller, a tight asian lady, very difficult to read. The flush got there on the turn, I made a small bet and she thought about it for a second as if thinking of raising and then just called. I was just hoping for the board to pair on the river, it felt like she had made her flush and was trapping - she checked the river card which did not pair the board and I just showed my two pair. She flipped over a 6 high flush to take it down - perhaps she was afraid I had a higher one, but her soft playing there helped me out. Still, my stack was down significantly after that.

The next hand went better for me. I had JJ and called the preflop raise of the Loose Aggressive Player just to my right. Tight Aggressive Player - a lady from Israel who would only play the stone cold nuts - on the button also calls. Flop is 5 10 J two hearts, the first set I've hit in a long time. LAP bets $25, I think for about 10 seconds and raise to $60. TAP goes out. LAP looks at me and says "Are you betting your flush draw?". I just stare at the pot, annoyed that this big hand is happening with the guy right next to me, too close for comfort. After about 10 seconds LAP raises to $150 and I go all in and he calls. He flips AJ for the case jack, I guess he really did think I was getting a bit desperate and overplaying my hand but he is dominated and I take it down.

Leading up to this I had to throw away a lot of hands hitting no flops and so LAP probably thought he could bully me around by betting big, he had a stack of about $1000 at the time. He was no fool and I can see with top pair top kicker and two hearts on board that he just wanted me out of there.

That said, I don't ever play AJ that hard. That's a hand that can get you into lots of trouble. You hit the ace and someone plays back at you strongly, they can easily have a better kicker and then you're just digging yourself a hole.

After that big hand, about 2 hours of play, I left, up about 200.