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Well today was a strange day of poker for me.  I got off to good start and spent most of the day up +$50-$100. I grinded it out like that for a long time but on one hand I got cold decked or made a bad play (you be the judge), which sent me back to even money.  But shortly after the hand that put me back to even I ended up hitting a 2 outer on the river and took down a monster pot! I started play at around 2:30PM bought in for $200 and eventually cashed out $441 at 9:30PM.

One of my first hands was AKos in early position I make it $12 to go and only the BB calls.  The flop comes J 7 J and the old man in the BB glared at me and bet out $15.  I figured he had a hand like 88/99 and was making a feeler bet.  I decided I did not want any part of this and folded.

A few hands later I had A7os in the BB. A bunch of players limp and I check.  The flop is A 7 8 (2 hearts).  I bet out $10, one guy calls and another raises...

Well today was a total grind and I am now exausted.  For the most part I played OK but I had a little bad luck with people constantly hitting flushes againtst me.  I did however make one bad call which cost me $50 but I will get to that later.  I started play at around 2:15PM bought in for $320 and ended up cashing out $257 at around 9:30PM. 

AA/AA/KK - I picked up some big hands early but got little action on them.  I either took down the pot with a pre flop raise or ended up heads up bet out on the flop and took it down.  I won a lot of small pots that way.

AK/AK - I played big slick twice the same way with the same result.  Pre flop raise of about $12 it gets to heads up the flop comes J high both times and both times I bet out and my opponent folds. 

The hand of the day for me was definatly 22 I was dealt this hand about 6 times.  I lost a big pot flopping a set of 222.  Heres how it happened:  I was in mid position and limped in...

Well here goes... the first ever post on my blog.  Nobody knows this blog exists so hopefully some time in the near future someone will read this.  I am 23 years old and aspire to be a pro poker player, even though I do play cards for a living I don't consider myself a "pro", I am however a grinder.  I play 1/2 NL Texas Holdem (blinds $1/$2 $200 max buy in) at my local card room.   I have decided to start this blog to post my results for each sesssion and get feedback on my play from all the other grinders out there.  Today I ended my session cashing out $550 for a profit of $350 which is a very good day for me.  I started play somewhere around 1PM and cashed out at around 7:45 PM. 

I would say the hand of the day for me was AQs because I won 2 nice pots with it.  I looked down at AQ of spades from early position after one limper. I decided to raise to $13, two players called.  The flop came J high w/ 2 diamonds (from what a recall) I decided to try and take the pot down and bet...