Hey, I know there are lots of poker players here at TA, thought I might share this. Man I feel so good after winning an almost $1000 pot I just felt like gloating. Check out this hand history. The game is 15/30 played at Empire/PartyPoker tonight. Here is the transcript of the hand, for those of you who doesn't understand what's happening I will explain it at the bottom of the post. Obviously, I'm ezmax.

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Hello ezmax,
You have recently requested your transcript of the game number 685640492.


***** Hand History for Game 685640492 *****
15/30 TexasHTGameTable (Limit) - Sat Jun 19 00:02:23 EDT 2004
Table Table 12768 (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: olivia707 ( $250)
Seat 2: JBBimcall ( $569)
Seat 3: HanzKloss ( $750)
Seat 4: ezmax ( $727)
Seat 5: getaway ( $1474.50)
Seat 6: balis2668 ( $558.50)
Seat 7: Audenzio ( $1294)
Seat 8: skyline1025 ( $358.50)
Seat 9: STRIKE ( $1041)
Seat 10: trevor25 ( $456)
getaway posts small blind (10)
balis2668 posts big blind (15)
HanzKloss posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ezmax [ 7d, 7h ]
Audenzio folds.
STRIKE folds.
trevor25 folds.
olivia707 raises (30) to 30
JBBimcall folds.
HanzKloss calls (15)
ezmax raises (45) to 45
getaway raises (50) to 60
balis2668 calls (45)
olivia707 calls (30)
HanzKloss calls (30)
ezmax calls (15)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 6h, 4c, 7s ]
getaway bets (15)
balis2668 folds.
olivia707 calls (15)
HanzKloss folds.
ezmax raises (30) to 30
getaway raises (30) to 45
olivia707 calls (30)
ezmax raises (30) to 60
getaway calls (15)
olivia707 calls (15)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 6c ]
getaway bets (30)
olivia707 folds.
ezmax raises (60) to 60
getaway raises (60) to 90
ezmax raises (60) to 120
getaway calls (30)
** Dealing River ** : [ Ts ]
getaway bets (30)
ezmax raises (60) to 60
getaway raises (60) to 90
ezmax raises (60) to 120
getaway calls (30)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $957 | Rake: $3
Board: [ 6h 4c 7s 6c Ts ]
olivia707 balance $130, lost $120 (folded)
JBBimcall balance $569, didn't bet (folded)
HanzKloss balance $690, lost $60 (folded)
ezmax balance $1324, bet $360, collected $957, net +$597 [ 7d 7h ] [ a full house, Sevens full of sixes -- 7d,7h,7s,6h,6c ]
getaway balance $1114.50, lost $360 [ Ah As ] [ two pairs, aces and sixes -- Ah,As,Ts,6h,6c ]
balis2668 balance $498.50, lost $60 (folded)
Audenzio balance $1294, didn't bet (folded)
skyline1025 balance $358.50, sits out
STRIKE balance $1041, didn't bet (folded)
trevor25 balance $456, didn't bet (folded)

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Ok, here's the analysis. Remember this is a limit 15/30 game which is somewhat of a medium limit poker table, so the game is VERY VERY aggressive. This suits me just fine as I'm a very aggressive player.
I was dealt 77 at the button.

Seat one raised it first before the flop. Because of my read on him, and the way the game is going, I put him on something like AQ or something similar. I had pocket 7s and 3 bet it to isolate him by knocking out other players leaving me and him. However seat 5 is the small blind and little did I know that he had aces.

Things didn't go so good when he reraised me and capped it. I knew I was in trouble but because of the size of the pot i had to call one more to see the flop, no chance I'm folding that now even though I know that I'm way behind.

The flop comes and what do you know I hit my top set (3 sevens), he bets out. Now here I really did thought about slowplaying and just smooth call his betout. I thought about it and because of his agression I really did think he had a huge pocket pair and when I reraised him and he raised again I knew he had aces. If an ace doesn't fall on the turn or river I knew I would scoop up a large pot.

It turned out to be the right decision for me to raise as he didn't suspect I had a 7 and put me on pocket kings or something like that. As you can see we pounded the living daylights out of each other at the turn and river.

I felt good that I won because I got real lucky, but can't help but feel bad for the dude because he lost a lot in just one hand. I collected a $957 pot which is pretty sweet. Not the biggest pot I've won but still pretty good.

Just made $3700 tonight overall, playing 2 tables of 15/30 so a very sweeeet night playing poker.

I'll take it easy for tonight and just play some tournaments so if there's any of you out there playing at the sites you can visit me now I'll be playing the tournys for a little bit.