Some good friends (in an EV sense)

I finished off a good session today, up $491. I think I played pretty well overall; I can't think of any hands that I really slaughtered...

I did run well below expectation in several big pots that cut into my wins for the evening. If I had won those hands in which I was always a big or a huge monster favorite, I would have been up well over $1K.

The first attempted donator was sitting at one of my tables. I stacked him when I turned a full house with 22 on a 55J2 board with three diamonds. I led right out on the turn, he check raised me, I flatted and he shoved a blank river. I snapped him off and he had 98o for a monstrous 9 high, no pair no draw at any point during the hand. O....K....

I guess he didn't like that hand, so he moved to another table. I followed him and almost immediately played another big pot with him:

He raises to 3x the BB UTG (effective stacks 100BB). I have him pegged as a crazy stupid bluffy tilt box, so I flat from the BB with 9s8s. Flop comes great: Kd9h8d. I check it to him, he bets 4.5BB and I checkraise him to ~20BB. He calls. Turn is a diamond. I bet 35BB or so and he shoves for the rest of his stack. I think a little bit, since this was not a happy turn, but call him anyway. He turns over: 8d7h for bottom pair and a 8 high flush draw. River is a diamond and he scoops a $400 pot. Bleh... I was a 10-1 favorite on the flop. Boo.

The tables are uneventful for a while, and then another attempted friend sits at one of my tables. On almost the first hand he plays, he limps UTG (we are 4 handed). I raise with QQ, the BB makes a 3bet and my attempted friend flats the 3bet. I 4bet, looking to get it in, original 3bettor folds, and the friend calls off the rest of his stack with: Js5s. And then immediately flops top two pair. I don't improve and he scoops a $180 pot.

This fellow then proceeds to dump my money to the rest of the people at the table with impressive speed. He gets stacked and then I pick of AKo in the SB. He min-raises to $4 and gets called. I make it $40 straight. He moves in, caller folds, I of course snap-call. He tables AQo. And then makes a straight. Away floats another $200 pot.

Oh well, them's the hits. I got my money in good, that's all I can really do...