Hee-Hah...Hands from my session

I am only going to pick 3 hands of the several hands that I was in during the session on Friday.  I wanted to move up in limits this week after crushing the game for a $1200+ win last week.  I had every intention of playing the $300-$2000 table.   I had my name on the list, but when they called me I took a look at the table I was playing at and the players and said NO THANK YOU!!!  One of the keys to being a consistent winner at poker is table selection.  Table selection I think is a key difference between a winner in poker and a HUGE winner in poker.  A winning player can win in almost any environment over time, but a HUGE winner picks tables that he has a major advantage at rather than picking the table he has a small advantage at.  I didn't know how the table was at the $300-$2000 table, but I wasn't going to take a chance leaving an amazing table to find out...I can find out next week if as long as the same thing doesn't happen.  Anywho...here are the hands:

The guy UTG decided to straddle for $10...which meant it was $10 to play the hand.  Several guys called his $10 straddle and it came to me in late position and I had T8 so I called to see a flop. There were 7 players to the flop for $70 in the pot...the flop came:

834

Everyone checked to me and I bet $35 and got 3 callers.  When I got 3 callers I was a bit surprised but had a plan to bet the turn if a scare card came...which it did.  The turn came:

Q

and they checked to me again and I bet $100 into a $205 pot and everyone folded.  The key to this hand is knowing that the Q is a scare card for any hand my opponents may hold.  In this spot I can see the 3 callers with hands like A2 or 67 with a gut shot straight draw, 56 with an open ended straight draw, and A8, 98, 87, 86, with top pair with some draw maybe.  So when the Q came I decided to bet because anyone with a better 8 than I had would have to fold as they would be scared of the Q.  I was going to follow this bet up with another bet on the river if anyone called.  But I thought may chances of taking the pot were very high.

The second hand I played was a very interesting hand.  I caught KK in early position and raised it up to $25.  I got two callers and the flop came:

Q65

I c-bet $55 and the guy to my immediate left raised my bet and made it $200 to go.  I thought for a few, I knew that he was a solid player.  I knew he didn't put me on a flush draw so that was not a reason for the raise.  I thought he would raise here if he had a flush draw or had a set.  I didn't put him on QQ so he has either 66, 55 or something like AJ,KJ, or something like like 87,T9, 98, JT...with that information I decided to shove all in for another $235 to him.  With   just over $700 in the pot he was getting about 3 to 1 to call. He did exactly that.  The turn and river were blanks...they didn't complete a flush or straight.  I turned over my KK and he shook his head and turned over T9.  He missed his draw and my hand stayed the best throughout the hand...at that point I was up like $800+ and decided to have ONE beer and then go home.  After having that beer I left after a few more hands with $930 in profit...here is the picture of the chips I left with...not bad for only buying in once for $200:)

Each stack has $150...7 stacks total + about $80 on top.