I had an incredible session at Commerce yesterday.

Hand 1:  This hand was toward the beginning of the session.  Villain, a LAGish player straddled, I limped w/ JJ, villain raised to 240, I quickly raised to 640 and Villain instantly raised to 1440.  I was about to muck before I realized the action that Villain had taken.  The 4bet was made almost instantaneously and eventually I just didn’t believe Villain’s range contained that many AA/KK/QQ .  I decided that he wouldn’t raise this quickly w/ AA or QQ.  He may w/ KK.  If so, he’d also would with AK and I thought there was a good chance that he could have air.  I shipped the last 2,600 in after a few minutes of deliberation.  He sighed, called w/ TT and I held.

Hand 2:  This hand occurred at the main game.  The other was at the must move table.  I limped w/ 33 and a hyper-aggro Asian player raised to 110.  I called.  The flop came T43 w/ mixed suits.  I checked, he bet 260, I quickly raised to 600 and he immediately raised to 1,800.  I wasn’t going anywhere, but we were really deep and I needed to consider the options.  I thought for a minute or so and called.  I had a little shy of 10k remaining and Villain had me covered.  The turn was a J.  We had a little history from a few hands before in which I raised w/ AA, he instantly raised an additional 400 on the flop (743), I check/called 1,000 on the turn (9) and he checked behind on the river (J).  I really sensed that he hand nothing after the way that he checked on the river and was disappointed that he didn’t follow through with another barrel.  Anyways, I pondered for about a minute  w/ the 33 on the T43J and eventually checked.  He bet 5,000 and I thought for a few moments before raising ai for another 4,500ish.  I wasn’t going to fold, but I wanted to wait a little bit before going ai.  He asked, “How much?” and I was relieved.  I thought I could have been beat but after he overbet the turn I wasn’t going anywhere.  It’s still a little nerving though that I could have lost a 25kish pot.

These hands were each respectively the biggest pots that I have won in my career playing live and this was the best session I’ve also ever had.  It demolished my previous high of 6,500ish at 5/10 NL at the Wynn over the summer by about 12k.  This was a very pleasant surprise.  I ran very well, but I also played extremely well.  I didn’t lose more than 500 in a single hand that I played and made a handful of good laydowns throught the 7hour session that I could have easily just reluctantly called in.  My reads were pretty spot on and I’m thrilled that I had the courage to go with my read at the beginning of the session with JJ.  I’m excited, but I know that the swings that I’m soon to experience could be volatile.  We’ll see how I’m able to handle them.