Treading water

I find myself firing up FTP when I sit down for a meal. Breakfast consists of juice, cereal, watching something on the DVR, and a couple tables of Omaha which meets USRDA of nutrition and degenerate gambling. Works out real well. I also had a dedicated session but they were mostly mini-sessions today. Overall I was down a penny in raw bankroll but was in the black after factoring rakeback. I'm still not happy about the whole rake thing. Getting rakeback feels like getting money back from the IRS at the end of the year. Yeah it feels like a bonus of sorts until you realize that it was your money to begin with.

Pivotal hand of the day was when I limp in with AcKdQh2s and catch a flop of Ah8s3c. Looks good. Guy OOP bets .06 and I min-raise to .12. Why? Because I have top/top. He flats. Turn is Ad giving me top trips now with top kicker. I bet .16 and now villain min-raises me to .32 which I call. River is a 7h and villain shoves which I call. He shows threes full of aces and my hand is notched by bottom boat. Top/top is crap in this game. I should know that. I did know that. I dumped .86 on that hand and that single mistake turned a reasonably up day into a break even one. If it were a cooler I'd be OK with it but I knew better and that's the disappointing part. Still, after 1119 hands I'm up almost 5% even with that snafu.