Quiet Lion

I hopped on Full Tilt yesterday and loaded up two 10/20 games and also two 15/30 games on pacific. I then proceeded to get murdered for about $1,500 in the first 10 minutes I was playing. I don't really know how long this cold streak will last but it is getting pretty unbelievable. It was like if there was a way to lose the pot, it would happen. I kept fighting but eventually gave up on it and quit the games about a $900 loser after 2 hours or so. I was going to just quit playing and go do something else, but then I saw that Quiet Lion was playing 50/100 three handed and so I decided to watch and see if the game was any good. After watching for about 15 minutes I decided that it looked pretty profitable, the two other players were very weak and Quiet Lion was playing a TON of hands from out of position. Quiet Lion is a Full Tilt sponsored pro who's real name is Richard Brodie. He used to be one of Bill Gates top assistants at Microsoft, but is retired now and is a limit hold'em specialist, specifically short handed. So I sat down directly to Lions left, so I would have position on him for the entire game, and bought in for 2k. Things started off pretty well, I made a bad play and got lucky to catch a flush when I was drawing real short, but won a nice pot and was up about 1k after the first 20 minutes or so. There were not a ton of notable hands, but I went on a mini rush, got EXTREEMLY lucky to outdraw a guy twice when he flopped two sets and I was up $5,000 after about 2 hours. Then I went dead again. Not as dead as the times before because I still was making some big hands, but they were losing. The real notable pot was when I had 22 on the button and Lion raised right in from of me. I three-bet him to isolate and unfortunatly the BB called also. The flop comes 832 rainbow... beautiful. Both players check, I bet, the BB calls, Brodie raises, and I just flat call along with the BB. The turn comes the K of clubs putting a club draw out there. They both check, I bet, BB folds, Lion raises, I three bet, he caps. At this point I should probably slow down, but I think there is a real possibilty that he could do this with K8 or AA, and he probably would have played those hands this way. The river comes a blank and he leads, I raise, he three bets and I cap it. Looking back I should have just called the 3 bet and maybe even just the lead bet on the river, but it's very hard to think that I am behind here. Anyways, he flips over pocket 8's and takes down a pot that was almost $3,000. Ouch.... I play for a little while longer but am still a bit cold and leave the table a 2.5k winner.

I played some more 15/30 today but didn't run very well and ended up down a few hundred. Oh well. I have to do some finance homework and then study for my final exam, which i am taking this week. This is my on-line class from Berkley and it is just killing me. I've never had to study this much for any class and still am not sure if I will pass. I have to pass the final exam in order to pass the class so wish me luck.