Why not playing on a looser site and forego the tighter site?

That’s an interesting question I am asking myself sometimes. I figure as I move up I’m going to have to play against tighter players anyway and I might as well learn playing at the lower levels, instead of having to learn at the higher levels and lose a bunch of money learning how to play against them.

I have learned quite a bit playing at the tighter site, which I feel has helped my overall play. I play at one site until I qualify for the next level, and then move to the other site to move up to the same level. I have to play differently at the two sites, and it takes me a while to adjust. But I am winning at both sites. And I think that it takes me approximately the same amount of days to move up a level at both sites. Also an additional advantage is that if one site is down, I can always play at the other site.

I fluctuated from between +$50 and -$50 all day today. At the beginning, I started out slightly positive and then at the end went into the negative when in two different hands, I ran into a set and lost. Then at the very end I got pocket AA and one of my opponents had K 9. The board ended up being 6 9 3 K 3. I was ahead on the flop with my aces against his pair of nines. Then I was behind on the turn to his two pair. Then the three on the river covered his two pair giving me a higher two pair. I was lucky on that hand.

I also had a previous hand when I had K Q and my opponent had K 7. The board ended up being 9 4 K 7 9. Like the hand above, I was ahead on the flop, behind on the turn, and ahead on the river when the river card covered my opponent’s two pair and my queen kicker beat my opponent’s seven kicker. I can’t remember winning two hands in one day in the same manner when the river covered my opponent’s two pair allowing me to win the hand. Other than those two hands above and losing to my opponent’s sets, the day was uneventful.

My high pocket pairs won. I had AA, KK, JJ, and QQ and won with all of them. With the KK and JJ, I flopped sets. Flush draws made were 1 for 2 1/2, above average. For the most part I stayed out of trouble. I only had 2 problem hands. I made two pair with A 7, and lost to two pair A 9. The second hand, I raised with AQ, and was beat by AK. Other than that I didn’t really have any problem hands. I was only beat twice on the river and zero on the turn. I had 5 favorable river cards, and 4 favorable turn cards.

I had two dream hands. In the first hand, I was in the small blind and called with The King of Spades The Nine of Spades. The flop was The Nine of Hearts The Nine of Diamonds The Nine of Clubs. I flopped quads. That was a fun hand to play. I won a $47 pot.

The second hand I had pocket The Jack of Spades The Jack of Diamonds. My opponent had The Ace of Clubs The Six of Clubs. The final board was The Jack of Clubs The Five of Spades The Three of Clubs The Three of Hearts The Nine of Clubs. I flopped a set, and turned a full house. The river gave my opponent his flush to the ace, but he was doomed to my full house. The raises on the river were capped and I won a $66 pot.

I lost a hand when I had flopped two pair and my two pair got covered on the river when the board paired up. Kind of makes up for the times that this happened to my opponent and I won.