Heaterville

I have had yet another big day of winnings. It's rediculous, I've never come close to seeing the money rolling in that's rolling in every other night right now. I'm talking about more than my entire bankroll in October, a few separate times in the last week.

So last night didn't start ordinary. I had a lot of time to play, but I'm not really feeling comfortable playing the 500 hands of 6 max I'm setting myself. Still very early on I got a double up when I flopped a set. I then flopped a set or had an overpair in one or two other spots, and apart from the short stack flipping well against me or a couple of missed bluffs or laydowns, I was running over tables. In fact the best spot was when I had an image of an aggro donk, after missing with a couple of bluffs, so the following hand was perfect. I raised KJo and villain, very tired of me barrelling him, called once more PF (haven't you heard of a 3 bet?). He was tight except for my opens, and had folded a lot to me postflop, so I knew he was ready to play back. I flopped the OESD on QTx and see no reason not to bet and get called. I had barrelled before, and probably was going to again, when the ace brought me the nutz. Perfect situation, I definitely barrell now, as it looks like a typical turn scare card raise. He minraises and it's all I can do to stop laughing, as he either has a set, is splitting with KJ himself, or has a big problem on his hands. I contemplate calling, but his minraise actually looks very strong (I'd be folding a lot of hands), and shove the remaining. he snap calls with 2 pair and misses his 4 outs, for another stack in my direction.

Not much else happened, but after 370 hands, I found another 3 BI's in my account. I quit for a while, very pleased, then came back to donk at Pokerstars HU. I couldn't get a table, either players sitting out when I arrived, or playing 2 hands and then sitting out. I must be on some database as running hot right now. Eventually 1 player sat down with $30 and I got some action. It didn't take long to ruffle his feathers with some 4 bets and check raises, and of course, when he goes with it, I have close to the nutz and stack him. He reloads for $30 more, and I take another couple of small pots. He then reloads for $50, and that hand I stack him again, right after he reloaded to $50, rather than losing $20 less. A beautiful thing as my J9 flops two pair, turns a house and the river gives him a straight. He left. I couldn't get another game, so decided to 1 table NL100 6 max on Pokerstars. 1 fish, 4 nits and me. 1 nit tries a 3 bet or 2, but doesn't like my 4 bet. The rest get out of my way every single raise, and the fish comes along most of the time. I split one pot where we stacked off with the same weakish hand, then stack him good for $60. I basically steal flops and blinds from that point on, and finish up $70.

Huge heater like activity happening here, and it's a beautiful thing. It's hard to imagine this won't help fuel my interest in poker for some time to come, even if things do "normalise" in a horrible way.

On to my targets, I finally spoke to Joseph (coach) for the first time in a long while, and he suggested 5ptbb/100 is a little high to aim for. He said that's a very big winrate over a long period, and warned me not to get my hopes up. That's really unfortunate to hear, but we agreed that 3.5 would be solid and more reasonable, so I'm still aiming at 5 including my bonus/rakeback amounts. I will start the trek for leaks by having a lesson with him Friday, and will otherwise start to plan more coaching sessions after our initial 4 have finished. It's a little expensive to do too many, but when I think about how much 1ptbb/100 means in long term dollar terms, every little bit helps. I won't play tonight, but will look through pokertracker looking for leaks.