3 more sessions at $25 NL

My 2nd session went much like my first. 4 hours this time and I went down $75 pretty quickly. Was down around $100 at one point and came back in the last hour to finish an $11 loser.

3rd session I won $23. It was nice to finally build some big stacks without getting in the hole too badly first. I also won our weekly online $11 tourney for $85 so my little bankroll got a nice boost.

4th session I won a little over $30 after losing 2 $3.30 turbo 6 max sngs and one $6.60 turbo. I bubbled in two of the three. Sigh. So I'm now up to $530 with 38 days until Vegas.

Here's a hand from that cash session. Resident maniac going crazy so I reraised him all-in. I really thought he had crapola from how he had been playing. Very surprised to see him with AK there but I got lucky to win a race. It's nice when mistakes work. That helps. I think a fold would've been a much better play even though it was 50/50 in my mind (at worst) if he had a real hand or not.

*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to Whatever [8h 8d]
1 fold
Whatever: raises $0.50 to $0.75
2 folds
billybroyles: raises $7.75 to $8.50
Whatever: raises $40.75 to $49.25 and is all-in
billybroyles: calls $20.30 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7d 5d 9s]
*** TURN *** [7d 5d 9s] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [7d 5d 9s 7c] [4s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
billybroyles: shows [Ad Kh] (a pair of Sevens)
Whatever: shows [8h 8d] (two pair, Eights and Sevens)
Whatever collected $55.70 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $57.70 Rake $2 Board [7d 5d 9s 7c 4s]
Seat 1: Whatever showed [8h 8d] and won ($55.70) with two pair, Eights and Sevens
Seat 5: billybroyles (big blind) showed [Ad Kh] and lost with a pair of Sevens