Redemption

Last Friday night, my stack underwent a smooth and steady descent at the first table I joined; if the table hadn't up and quit on me, I'm sure I would have hit the felt. As it was, I only had $5,526 left of my starting stack of $40K when everybody left. The thing is, despite the descent, I felt I wasn't actually playing all that badly. Good play is not always rewarded.

At the next table I joined, I was able to redeem myself via a truly monster hand about 25 hands in. It recovered what I'd lost at the first table, plus a nice (albeit small) bonus. Here's how it went down:

Table 'Crimea VI' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Seat 1 (65935 in chips)
Seat 3: Seat 3 (72600 in chips)
Seat 4: Seat 4 (2468 in chips)
Seat 8: neostreet (46100 in chips)
neostreet: posts small blind 100
Seat 1: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [2h 2s]
Seat 3: calls 200
Seat 4: folds
neostreet: calls 100
Seat 4 leaves the table
Seat 1: checks
*** FLOP *** [As 4h Td]
neostreet: checks
Seat 1: bets 200
Seat 3: folds
neostreet: calls 200
*** TURN *** [As 4h Td] [2c]
neostreet: checks
Seat 1: checks
*** RIVER *** [As 4h Td 2c] [8d]
neostreet: bets 1000
Seat 1: raises 1000 to 2000
neostreet: raises 5000 to 7000
Seat 1: raises 5000 to 12000
neostreet: raises 25000 to 37000
Seat 1: calls 25000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
neostreet: shows [2h 2s] (three of a kind, Deuces)
Seat 1: mucks hand
neostreet collected 75000 from pot

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 70 hands and saw flop:
- 11 out of 15 times while in big blind (73%)
- 12 out of 17 times while in small blind (70%)
- 31 out of 38 times in other positions (81%)
- a total of 54 out of 70 (77%)
Pots won at showdown - 9 of 16 (56%)
Pots won without showdown - 5

delta: $9,026
balance: $880,864