What the heck is a Green Fish anyway? AND A Rollercoaster of a Night

Wow, my actual first poker post to my poker blog in almost 8 years. Never thought I'd be updating this thing again, and yet, here we are.

Before we get too far into the up and down session we had, I just wanted to take a few sentences to answer "Why is this called the Green Fish blog?".
Back before Black Friday (4/15/11) Online Poker was doing pretty ok for the most part, however, a necessity then and probably even more so now, were Online Poker Tools. Essentially a HUD, but for Full Tilt, Pokerstars, etc. If you watch online poker streamers today, you will undoubtedly see really fancy HUDs that they use.
The main reasons for these HUDs are pretty straightforward
They used data-mined Hand Histories from bunches and bunches of players across poker sites to come up with stats. These stats could tell you amazing things like "How many times does this player 3-bet preflop?" or "Whats the VPIP$ (Voluntarily Put Into Pot)for this player?"
You can see how useful this would be if you are in a NL cash game or a NL tournament against a player you don't know.

Poker Edge specifically (as Im sure other software does, but PR is the one I'm familiar with) would make things even easier. They came up with a group of icons to label each player with using common poker nomenclature. I'll let the PE website explain:
One very cute and useful feature of poker-edge is that it attaches an icon next to each player at your table. This tells you instantly what type of player you are playing with.
A tight-aggressive-aggressive (TAA) player is depicted as a shark (AA means aggressive preflop & aggressive postflop); a tight-passive-passive (TPP) player as a mouse; a loose-aggressive-aggressive (LAA), i.e. a maniac, as a Tasmanian devil, etc. 
Red fish, green fish and blue fish are various fish with different degrees of fishiness. Other player avatars are a telephone, a shark or an eagle.

Now, there are more colored "fishes"| today then there used to be, but when I used the software essentially a "Green Fish" was just a terrible player who spewed money. Pretty much me, especially when I started out playing and blogging. So, that's how Green Fish! was born.

Now that that's out of the way, I am super duper excited to show you this neat App I downloaded and used at tonight's game!
It's called "Poker Bankroll Tracker" and you are never going to believe what it does! But one of the neat features I discovered and will be definitely using going forward is the "Live Session" tab. Literally starts an open session as you are playing. You just provide some simple data (stakes, buy-in) and then throughout the session it charts it. At the end when you click "finish session" it gives you some pretty neat output. So without further ado, here's tonight's session and I will get into the nitty gritty of each peak and valley. Noting here that I tried to maintain an update of the session each time I either won or lost a hand at showdown. Hands were i limp/folded the flop I did not update each time. I still think this is an accurate representation of the night overall however.

So we got seated at a 3/6 LHE game at 5:16pm and I bought in for $100. As you can also see on this graph, I went on a heater almost immediately. Everything was drawing great and hands like AKo (i even raised by accident with this hand) flopped a K and held on to win.
So within the first hour, I'm up about 180.
Then you see the mountain starting to turn into a slow and downward slope... This is where I'm going to pick up the detail on tonight.

So as you can see, for a few hours we ended hanging around between $50 - $85 up. This period of time was basically playing a bunch of draws that didn't work out and then winning a few smallish pots here and there to keep me afloat.
About halfway into the session tonight, Seat 2 (we are Seat 8 for this part, until I move) left and was replaced by a guy I'll call "Tatted Texan". He bought in for more than $150 which at a 3/6 LHE table is a little excessive. I also caught him saying to his neighbors that he doesn't normally play limit, and that he is a NLHE cash guy.
This catches my ear because as someone who played a lot of NLHE cash previously, I know this means hes going to be in way too many hands because its just so easy to see a flop for $3.

TT doesn't disappoint and probably played at his first 10 hands in a row (probably more), but the difference here is he was winning them all mostly. He would either show down the best hand or bet everyone else off of the hand. He seemed like a cocky ahole, which the table up to that point had been pretty friendly and predictable. This makes my competitive juices kick in and try to outflop, outplay, and out last this dude. You can see that pretty clearly in that nice long red line from $50 up to $14 down.

I'm getting shellacked. None of my hands are hitting, and I'm calling with draws that are pretty low in terms of hitting.
This is when seat 7 decides to leave. I feel like I have to change up my juju so I take his seat as soon as he departs.
The new seat is a loud, annoying, probably drunk dude who wont SHUT UP and complaining about everything from the NBA playoff game on, to how slow the people providing chips are, to how slow the waitstaff is.
TT gets offended because he thinks this guy is talking under his breath about how TT is playing (I didnt hear anything, but no way was I getting involved in that mess) so he starts loudly saying his thoughts out loud...but Seat 8 seemed pretty oblivious of everything.
Anyway, not long after I switch seats, I wake up with JJ on the button. TT raises, a few people call, and I just smooth call.
Flop: J-9-x
Perfect flop, no real draws except weird straight draws, so im feeling ok here. TT bets out, 2 people call, and I call.
Turn: X
Another blank so I'm still feeling fine. TT leads out again, a few people call, and i decide to raise. Seat 9 calls and TT calls.
River: J
So yeah. Poker is real easy. No idea what TT puts me on, but he LEADS OUT the betting again. I again raise, and all other callers drop off except TT.
Flip up my quad Jacks for a monster pot PLUS the $50 bonus for making quads with a pocket pair.
See that reallllly big green line from $-14 to $+100? Yeah, that was the Quad Jacks.
TT says nice hand and we chat a little about the hand. He had KK.

Ended up taking a smaller pot not to much long after with 2 pair A9. And lose a flopped two pair (A5) to a K on the turn and Seat 1 holding AK.

The next biggish jump on the graph is a hand I absolutely played horribly from the turn on, and I really should be up another 150 or so.

The Diamondbacks game just ended so they announced over the speakers that their "Aces Cracked promo is back on". (Almost 24/7 if you have AA in either red or black and it gets beat by someone, you win $100). I look down to see AA but not the same color, so im kinda bummed.
Anyway, im in late position again and TT raises preflop. Since non-same color Aces are very vulnerable, I re-raise. When it gets back to him, TT re-raises again, and I cap the betting (3rd raise). We bring 2 callers along so its about $48 in the pot already.
Flop: A-K-x with the A and K being diamonds.
I like this flop, but knowing how unlucky I can be I do worry about gutshot straight draws plus the diamond draw.
TT is first to act and he bets, call, I raise, call, TT re-raises, fold, I cap, fold. TT calls and says "do you want to go all in cause I will"
I respond "maybe lets see what happens on the turn".
(Side note, in limit at VQ, if you are heads up on the river, you can keep re-raising each other as much as you would like, so technically we could do this).
Turn: x of diamonds 
TT bets, and this is where I fuck up. If this were a NL game, I would have shoved on the flop after he re-raises me. Thats a super easy decision. But here, with this guy who has been on fire and playing every hand for the most part, I totally could see him having jank cards but a flush.
So I just call.
TT then says "ok guess we aren't going all in then"
River: X (blank)
 The river card wasn't going to factor into the decision that was for sure. I was either beat with a flush, or I was crushing TT. There was no in-between on this hand.
TT leads out again. I, the immensely big ass chicken who has been hurt many times before, just call.
He flips over pocket Kings for a set of Kings, and I say "Trip Aces" and flip mine up.
He can't believe I got him again. Then the whole table groans, because if the turn or river had been the 4th King I would have 5k, TT would have won 2.5k and the table would have gotten a share of the bad beat jackpot.
Alas, I settle for being up over $200 again. The drunk annoying guy next to me was cheering me on for winning which pissed TT off so they had words until the drunk guy finally left and we all (including dealer) said thank you to TT for getting him to leave.

Nothing too much happened after that, I won another pot where I had AQ and people didnt believe on an AAx flop I had it.
TT turned out to be a pretty cool dude and told me he was from Fort Worth and he played $5/$10 NL usually at his local casino.
Me, knowing the area and that Texas doesn't have any casinos I know of asked if he played at the Winstar (Oklahoma). He looked shocked and said "yeah, but not many people out here know what that is. Its huge" I told him when I drove across country we made a pitstop there and it was huge and beautiful but I didnt get a chance to see the poker room. He said it was huge, and when I asked approx how many tables he said probably 100 (smaller than Foxwoods, but whatever).

Anyway, TT continued doing his thing and winning, by the time I left he was still up a good amount even after the 2 chunks I took out of him. And that was it. That's how this session was a profit of $210.
Again this proves if you are going to grind it out, you really do have to grind it out even if you get up a lot early and piss it away. Don't let it affect your play. I just need to freaking keep raising with the nuts so I can make a little more money.

Thanks for reading, until next time!