This hand helped pull me out of a 3 buyin hole. It's my biggest hand won to date and I hope to keep winning bigger ones as I move up!

PokerStars Game #16997563087: Hold'em No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2025/04/26 - 00:20:26 (ET)
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SB ($88 in chips)
BB ($91.50 in chips)
UTG ($105.75 in chips)
UTG+1 ($36.60 in chips)
MP ($215.95 in chips)
Hero (MP+1)($98.50 in chips)
CO ($100 in chips)
BTN ($203.55 in chips)
SB: posts small blind $0.50, BB: posts big blind $1

PRE-FLOP:
Dealt to Hero 4 4
UTG: folds
UTG leaves the table
UTG+1: folds, MP: folds, Hero: raises $3 to $4, CO: raises $8 to $12, BTN: folds, SB: folds, BB: calls $11, Hero: calls $8

FLOP: 4 Q J
BB: checks, Hero: checks, CO: bets $20, BB: calls $20, Hero: raises $66.50 to $86.50 and is all-in, CO: raises $1.50 to $88 and is all-in, BB: calls $59.50 and is all-in

TURN: 4 Q J J

RIVER: 4 Q J J 3

SHOWDOWN:
Hero: shows 4 4 (a full house, Fours full of Jacks), CO: mucks hand, Hero collected $14 from side pot, BB: mucks hand, Hero collected $272 from main pot

RESULTS:
Total pot $289 Main pot $272. Side pot $14. | Rake $3
Board 4 Q J J 3
BB (big blind) mucked K T
Hero showed 4 4 and won ($286) with a full house, Fours full of Jacks
CO mucked K K

I finally made Goldstar today so I am gonna play on UB til the end of the month to try to cover some of that bonus. Next month I'm gonna shoot for platinum star on PS so that I can buy the $650 bonus. It should take about 25k hands at 100NL to make it.

I've had a really good month so far and am looking forward to posting a mostly sexy graph.

Before we look at the two hands that actually made me think tonight, I've got a question:
Why does organic milk have an expiration date that's 2 months out and regular milk expires in about 2 to 3 weeks? Is all the crap that they put into regular milk gonna do us any good if it shortens the shelf life of the milk we drink?

I'm not a health nut, but I've noticed this in the last few weeks. I was a big milk drinker as a kid and I still drink it on occasion as an adult. I don't think that I'll ever buy "normal" milk again!

Villain is 14/10/4.5, it's a limped pot, so the SB could have anything here.
I know that I should raise this flop, but for some reason I didn't.

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saw flopsaw showdown

Landlord79 ($49.20)
UTG ($31.50)
UTG+1 ($10.75)
MP1 ($131.80)
MP2 ($29.20)
MP3 ($58.45)
CO ($78.50)
Button ($36)
SB ($49.50)

Preflop: Landlord79 is BB with 3, Q.
6 folds, Button calls $0.50, SB completes, Landlord79 checks.

Flop: ($1.50) Q, K, 8 (3 players)
SB bets $1, Landlord79 calls $1, Button calls $1.

Turn: ($4.50) 3 (3 players)
SB bets $3.5, Landlord79 raises to $10.50, Button folds, SB raises to $48, Landlord79 calls $37.20 (All-In).

River: ($100.20) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $100.20

Villain is 10/3/4, if his AF were <2.5 this seems like an easy fold on the river.

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saw flop|saw showdown

UTG ($49.50)
UTG+1 ($122.10)
Landlord79 ($49.50)
MP2 ($48.50)
CO ($49.75)
Button ($49.75)
SB ($52.45)
BB ($50)

Preflop: Landlord79 is MP1 with K, A.
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.50, Landlord79 raises to $2.5, 1 fold, CO calls $2.50, 3 folds, UTG+1 folds.

Flop: ($6.25) 6, K, J (2 players)
Landlord79 bets $4.5, CO calls $4.50.

Turn: ($15.25) Q (2 players)
Landlord79 checks, CO bets $9, Landlord79 calls $9.

River: ($33.25) 7 (2 players)
Landlord79 checks, CO bets $12, Landlord79 calls $12.

Final Pot: $57.25

March was absolutely blah!!! I made 2 trips to the Horseshoe - Bossier City, losing $600 and $150 for the trips. Mostly I think that I was card dead but on the first trip I was trying to push around calling stations which is always a bad idea. I learned some things in March about Cbetting and getting value out of weaker hands but I think that I referenced that last time. Maybe I'm just playing bad but it seems like variance is flowing against me right now.

I did make $381 on the internetz, so that helped slow the bleeding some. I was really disappointed as I hoped to make >$1k again in March. Maybe I just need to reapply myself and start to focus more, but for now I think that I'm gonna try to focus on what's important which is my wife, kid and relationship w/ God. Therefore my goal for April will be to enjoy poker again and only play when I want to and not to play just because I need to earn so many FPPs to qualify for whatever.

Oh, I played at a new home game again for the first time in a long time. I don't go to most due to the levels of cussing, but there was very little at this game on the first trip, so I came back a 2nd time. I netted about $40 between the trips. I do enjoy home games, I am able to come out of my guarded game which I play at Pokerstars and play some poker. I love talking smack and pushing around players who think they know what they are doing. Most don't know what to do w/ 3bets and squeezes since most of the time those moves are only made w/ Aces or Kings.

March results:
Lost ($712.00) in live play
Won $380.97 online, $252.00 of which was at 100NL (1400 hands)
Rakeback ~$6
Net: ($325.03)



March Goals:
Earn bonus + rakeback on my new UB account - Nope
Maintain Goldstar on Pokerstars - Yep
Make $1k online - Nope
Make a trip to the casino to take some easy money from the live donks - Yes and No

April Goals:
Have fun
Earn the last 4k FPPs for the GS bonus on PS
Play on UB to earn my dep bonus + some rakeback

Here are a few hands for some of you eggspurts to look at and tell me what you think:

A hand that I feel a lot of people over estimate their equity.

2 Hands vs an Overbetting Villain that really confused me