WHAT GRANDMA SAID

two hands made my day. first one was a pair of 7's under the gun with which i just cold called. turned out to be 6 callers. flop was Ks, Js, 7c. i bet ten dollars and player to my left calls but the player to his left raises to 50 dollars and everyone folds around to me and i make it 100 and the guy in between us folds so back to the fifty dollar guy.....he thinks about it and does the "staring" at me that he has seen on tv and then he goes all in and i call. he had aces. didn't raise with 'em and he paid the price....so to speak. (my dear old grandmother told me to always raise big with aces and grandma was a helluva poker player)

later in game, i am on button with 8d, Td. the flop comes 7-9-J with two clubs and one diamond. sb bets 15 dollars and bb calls and everyone else folds to me and i make 50 to go and small blind raises me back to 100. (i should have gone all in right then but didn't) i just call. the turn is a scary ten and sb bets another hundred and i call...now i am a little concerned about bigger straight but am not worried about flush draw. the river is a red ace and we both check. i win. (he had jacks and 7's)once again i should have bet the turn and the river harder but what the hell......

between those two hands i ended up better than 500 dollars and so i left.

fyi: i have been playing back at mandalay bay because i had two losing sessions in a row at mgm and so i went back to my buddies at mb. will stay there until i have a couple of bad sessions and then off to somewhere else. the tables are tighter at mb than mgm but you really only need a couple of fools at the table to make your day.