Hey guys,

I'm back again with more news on my venture into the cash game world.  Ok, so for one reason and another, I decided not to play solely cash but more mix in some cash games with my regular SNGs.  (Of which, again I've done really well in!)

As for the cash... well I've done exceedingly well.  I went back from the 6 max games to HU cash.  Now, I've played HU cash a lot before, and done well at .25/.50 HU over 30kish hands. At 1/2 HU, I have done well over a small sample size aswell, but, for some reason, I've never done well at .50/1 and I decided to try and put things right.

My Holdem manager has been playing up quite a bit recently, and thus over the past month, all my recorded stats on there have been reset due to me having to re-install.  But all of the stats collected for the .50/1 level are from the past 3 days, when to say the least I have been crushing it.

Firstly the stats...

1614 Hands, $1125 Profit with 68.91bb/100.  LOL.

Small sample size, I know. But still. LOL.

The Majority of this coming from one guy on Friday, who I shall not name just in case he see's this, but he was pretty awful.  I've played him before and think I've done ok against him. But on friday I crushed him.  We played 1 table for about 4 hours.  After 2 hours, I was up 400-100 before a pretty meh hand where I had QhJh and called his 3 bet pre.  His 3b % was around 28 so as you can imagine, there was a lot of meta-game strategy going on.

The flop came Th9x4x.  I managed to get it all in and he called with AQo, and held out.  He managed to get up to around 250 again, leaving us both around the same and I decided to take a break for 30 mins or so.  When I came back, I crushed him.  Just completely crushed him.  So much so that 2 hours later, I left the room with $1,006 from him.  Personally, the most I have ever won from one player at .50/1.

So good stuff!!  Anyway, that is all, but I thought I would post some of the big hands for you!

***** Hand History for Game 53672772819 ***** (Poker Stars)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 03, 02:20:38 ET 2010
Table Espinette V (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: mattutaylor ( $775.40 USD )
Seat 2: W2lkm2n ( $179.10 USD )
mattutaylor posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
W2lkm2n posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to mattutaylor [  2h 3h ]
mattutaylor calls [$0.50 USD]
W2lkm2n raises [$3.00 USD]
mattutaylor calls [$3.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, 3d, 9h ]
W2lkm2n checks
mattutaylor checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]
W2lkm2n bets [$5.00 USD]
mattutaylor raises [$15.00 USD]
W2lkm2n raises [$20.00 USD]
mattutaylor raises [$40.00 USD]
W2lkm2n raises [$60.00 USD]
mattutaylor calls [$30.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
W2lkm2n bets [$90.10 USD]
mattutaylor calls [$90.10 USD]
W2lkm2n shows [Jh, Jc ]
mattutaylor shows [2h, 3h ]
mattutaylor wins $357.70 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 53671240756 ***** (Poker Stars)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 03, 01:49:52 ET 2010
Table Espinette V (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: mattutaylor ( $602.25 USD )
Seat 2: W2lkm2n ( $167.55 USD )
mattutaylor posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
W2lkm2n posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to mattutaylor [  Kd Kc ]
mattutaylor raises [$2.50 USD]
W2lkm2n raises [$9.00 USD]
mattutaylor raises [$28.00 USD]
W2lkm2n calls [$21.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 3s, Jh ]
W2lkm2n checks
mattutaylor checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
W2lkm2n bets [$38.00 USD]
mattutaylor calls [$38.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ks ]
W2lkm2n checks
mattutaylor bets [$533.25 USD]
W2lkm2n calls [$98.55 USD]
mattutaylor wins $434.70 USD
mattutaylor shows [Kd, Kc ]
W2lkm2n shows [Td, Kh ]
mattutaylor wins $334.60 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 53668648653 ***** (Poker Stars)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 03, 12:56:00 ET 2010
Table Espinette V (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: mattutaylor ( $475.45 USD )
Seat 2: W2lkm2n ( $142.85 USD )
mattutaylor posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
W2lkm2n posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to mattutaylor [  Kc As ]
mattutaylor raises [$2.50 USD]
W2lkm2n raises [$9.00 USD]
mattutaylor raises [$26.00 USD]
W2lkm2n raises [$132.85 USD]
mattutaylor calls [$113.85 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 5c, Ad ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
W2lkm2n shows [8d, 8s ]
mattutaylor shows [Kc, As ]
mattutaylor wins $285.20 USD from main pot