Pretty card-dead in the home game last night. Not too many interesting hands. I actually felt like I was playing very well early as I won a great many pots without ever having to show down a hand. I did play one good hand with K6s from the big blind. It was min raised by a player on my left and cold-called by a weak-tight player from the cutoff. I decided to play, and when the flop came down 678 rainbow I had a strong read that I was ahead. But how to announce it? My table image is very aggressive and opportunistic, and I was worried that an out of position bet on the coordinated board would initiate a raise from the player on my left, who is pretty good and pretty aggressive, no matter what he was holding. But I knew that he has enormous respect for check-raises, and almost never missed an opportunity to throw a continuation bet. I checked and he did so, about 1/3 the pot (not uncommon for continuation bets at our table, which generally underbets). The weak-tight player on the right thought about it long enough for me to be sure that he had overcards, but he called anyway. This gave me what I needed to know; the player on my left looked visibly annoyed at the call. I pumped it up to 50, enough of a raise to scare anyone without anything off the pot, and it worked.

A bit later I made a bluff that I felt good about despite being called down, and I was able to build myself back up mostly with timely bluffs and one or two good hands. Then I made one mistake by failing to raise with 44 from the small blind against a loose-aggressive limper from early position, and let the big blind catch a flop of 3TT with 6-T offsuit. I check-raised the l-agg limper and the big blind called and I knew I was hosed. Stupid mistake. That knocked me low but not critical and went out on the subsequent hand with JJ against AQ in seventh place out of 16.

Dropped about $18 online so far tonight but my EV has been positive; had 55 on a flop of 345 and got a guy with 56 all-in on a big overbet (can't blame the call as he must have assumed his two-pair and trips outs were live). 2 hit on the turn, river was a K.