I recently started to aggresivley play poker online (Absolute Poker).  I’m up $150 right now and will start using my blog to post hand histories and a nice place to vent my bad beats.  I’ll throw a nice hand history I won last night.  Hopefully my blog will help you see some good play and some bad plays I made to learn from my mistakes.

Stage #1459679789: Holdem No Limit $0.50 – 2009-06-03 23:09:53 (ET)
Table: AURELIA PL (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dead dealer
Seat 6 – GEORGRUETING ($17.63 in chips)
Seat 7 – COKEMAN57 ($33.28 in chips)
Seat 8 – RAMELSKY ($52.25 in chips)
Seat 9 – ROOKARENDS ($69.35 in chips)
Seat 1 – AE22DRU ($32.75 in chips)
Seat 2 – GLENNSF ($50 in chips)
Seat 3 – RIZINSTAR624 ($66.76 in chips)
GEORGRUETING – Posts small blind $0.25
COKEMAN57 – Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to ROOKARENDS [6d 6s]
RAMELSKY – Folds
ROOKARENDS – Raises $2 to $2
AE22DRU – Folds
GLENNSF – Folds
RIZINSTAR624 – Calls $2
GEORGRUETING – Folds
COKEMAN57 – Folds
*** FLOP *** [7c 5d 4s]
ROOKARENDS – Bets $4
RIZINSTAR624 – Calls $4
*** TURN *** [7c 5d 4s] [3s]
ROOKARENDS – Bets $12
RIZINSTAR624 – Raises $48.75 to $48.75
ROOKARENDS – All-In(Raise) $51.35 to $63.35
RIZINSTAR624 – All-In $12.01
ROOKARENDS – returned ($2.59) : not called
*** RIVER *** [7c 5d 4s 3s] [8c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RIZINSTAR624 – Shows [5c 3c] (Two Pair, fives and threes)
ROOKARENDS – Shows [6d 6s] (Straight, four to eight)
ROOKARENDS Collects $130.77 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($134.27) | Rake ($3) | Jackpot Rake ($0.50)
Board [7c 5d 4s 3s 8c]
Seat 1: AE22DRU Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 2: GLENNSF Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: RIZINSTAR624 HI:lost with Two Pair, fives and threes [5c 3c - B,P,B,P,B]
Seat 6: GEORGRUETING (small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 7: COKEMAN57 (big blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 8: RAMELSKY Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 9: ROOKARENDS won Total ($130.77) All-In HI: ($130.77) with Straight, four to eight [6d 6s - B,B,P,B,B]

I started this cash game with $40.  Then this morning I made another $60 in less than an hour.  Just getting some good hands with donkeys  calling.   Now I have a good pad to my BR to play more SnG’s.