Day 2

Once again playing 3 tables for around 3 hours of .5/1 limit holdem at Paradise, and it went very well!
At the end of the session I was up $37, on top of that I cleared $30 in bonus. That makes my playing profit $25, and total profit $85, I'm happy with that.

I must say the cards did slap me in the face today. It's great when you get lots of rasing hands, because people give you less and less credit for them, that's what it seems anyway. I was a lot more happy today with how I played the majority of my big hands, even the ones I lost.
Still room for improvement though. I folded aces when I was convinced 2 people had me beat on the turn. Preflop and flop was capped 4 way and the flop was KT9, I was sandwiched on the turn and folded to another lead bet from early position, which I was sure was going to be raised behind me, turns out the early position raiser was throwing a party with QT and the solid player behind me also had aces. I actually thought I was up against 2pr and top set. Looking back the pot was very large and probably too big to fold, but I felt that the turn could be capped and I could be drawing extremely slim. I normally pay off hands, even when im pretty sure im beat, Ive learnt that I must pay more attention to pot size. It's hardly my Maxim, but to paraphrase a poker pro: ''calling $1 in a $1,000,000 pot is pointless if you know you're beat''. The bets I need to save are the ones in heads up pot where I get raised or checkraised on the river, if I cant play back them Im probably beat, depending on the player and situation of course. For example, I got checkraised by the same player on the flop and turn when I had AQ (top pair top kicker), I was sure I was beat but made a crying call and took down a very nice size pot from a guy who decided to jam the pot with bottom pair ace kicker and a follower who had a bad queen. So, I guess you never know, especially at these levels.