One and done

Perhaps I'm being silly about it, but I'm taking my HUGE step moving from nickels and dimes to dimes and quarters seriously. I started at .05/.10 with the specific goal of building a roll to comfortably move to .10/.25 and then keep building on that. I don't want to dump any more money into my account, I want to do it the old fashioned way.

So after 3 weeks, and due to the horrid play at .05/.10 and an insanely sick run this evening while 3-tabling, I won more than what I set for myself to take a shot at .10/.25.

I just got done taking that shot. Here's the highlight (yes, singular):


*** HOLE CARDS ***
gsw61515 calls $0.25 with [2h 2d] <--- time for some set-mining
MP1 calls $0.25
Cutoff folds
button folds
SB calls $0.15
BB checks

*** FLOP *** [4h 7s 2c] <--- MONEY!!!
SB checks
Villain bets $1
gsw61515 calls $1
MP1 folds
SB folds

*** TURN *** [4h 7s 2c] [4d] <--- BOAT!!!
Villain bets $1.50
gsw61515 calls $1.50 <-- no raise; he's doing my betting thankyouverymuch

*** RIVER *** [4h 7s 2c 4d] [8d]
Villain bets $3
gsw61515 raises to $8 <--- value-raise
Villain has 15 seconds left to act
Villain raises to $47.10, and is all in <--- sweeeeeeeeeet!!!
gsw61515 calls $14, and is all in

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Villain shows [7c 7h] a full house, Sevens full of Fours <--- NOOOO!!!!!
gsw61515 shows [2h 2d], twos full of fours
Villain wins the pot ($47.50) with a full house, Sevens full of Fours
gsw61515 is sitting out, and is steaming

I think FTP hates me.

I did what I said I'd do: build up a couple more .05/.10 buy-ins and take a stab at .10/.25. And yes, I saw some HORRENDOUS play - incredibly bad. I want to play there again, looked juicy. I don't think there's any way to not go broke on my hand, except to not play deuces; I'd do it again in a heartbeat, though - no one is going to expect a set of deuces.

But since I busted on that one, I'm going to head back down to .05/.10, and when I'm back up another $25 I'll try again.

Oh, and yes - that was the one and only hand I played.