Day 37

Today I was doing extremely well until about the 6th hour of play... I was up $250~ and then I just started dazing off and playing horribly. I was shoving in on bluffs/semibluffs more often than I should, calling with less than premium hands, playing draws against shortstacks... just stupid play... I took a slide down and finally said enough... walked away with about $50

I noticed towards the end of my sessions, sometimes i become more lackadaisical which affects my play and also notice that playing at these lower levels I get the attitude that makes me think that everyone I go up against at these low limits is playing with subprime hands, didn't hit, are bluffing etc... and I start to loosen up and drop chips... Next time I start feeling these attitudes come on I'm just going to walk away otherwise it is going to take me forever to get to $1/2..

Below are some hilight hands.... I'm not going to bother showing the other stupid shit that lost me cash cause they make me look like more of a idiot than I really am:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2224745 <--- forgot a decimal here and it got put all in... didn't matter though cause it was a bad beat anyway and I would have probably gotten them all in there at some point.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2224758 <--- Stupid play #1 of #23842098 ... I count 2 errors but also had the attitude that he was playing with crap.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2226336 <--- WTF hand of the night... (i actually considered folding cause I have been getting AA vs KK preflop allins like 6x in the past 2 nights... which I shouldn't let get to me cause it will make me change my game and start getting bad habits which sonatine makes a great point in a previous comment response)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?222667 <--- LOL hand of the night.. this guy had been trash talking everyone on the table all night... when i flopped this I thought i would mess with his ego to entice a shove incase he only had like K8 or some sub-prime hand or incase he actually had a hand and thought I hit something big... and it worked =]

anyway here are the totals for today:

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Total for today: +$51.95
Total Bankroll: $743.40
Total remaining: $9356.60

Day 36

I'm starting to notice a trend... either i'm doing well in cash games or I'm doing well in SNG... but not both at the same time... I end up spending hours breaking even and sometimes down because my winnings on one isn't enough to cover the other. I was wondering wtf was going on and it came down to two things... I was either catching unbelievable swings (which isn't likely) or that I was subconsciously concentrating on one while not the other (which is most likely since I'm doing both at the same time). I would be up huge right now if I didn't piss all my winnings away on covering my losses from the other so I decided to just stick to one at a time. I only got felted once in the 10 hours of play and it was from this hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2215861 <-- (I'm sure anyone would have called that bet and if not please tell me why so I can take note)


SNGs had me down something huge tonight and I decided to play just cash games... I headed to 6 table NL50 with a current roll of about $460 which is stretching it bankroll management wise but it worked out great. I was also running hot and hitting some great hands and getting action on them. Here are some of the big ones:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2221668 <--- LOL hand of the night... I went in to raise on the turn and forgot the decimal and it put me all in. He called and flipped crap I got lucky and won.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2221870 <--- played it sloppy but it worked out

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2221880

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2221910 <--- not a great play, but marginal. Loosing in the long run but I felt like gambling... if he would have 3bet me on the turn or shoved, I would have folded.


Overall things went well I think I was up a total of $376 in showdown winnings and $260 overall in cash... SNGs gave me a beating and heres where I ended up:

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Total for today: +$171.60
Total Bankroll: $691.45
Total remaining: $9408.55

Day 35

Today I put in the longest I've done in quite some time.... about 12 hours of SNG and 9 tabling NL25. Today was actually the reverse of yesterday. I ran horrible at the cash games and towards the end was able to pull up from such a huge deficit. At one point I was down about $250 in cash from hands like these:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2211969

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2211971 <-- i'm pretty sure if i had bet the flop he would have called and when the K popped the same results would apply

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2212133 <--- I actually forgot to put the decimal when I raised and it put me all in... but I was going to loose this hand anyway (just not that much)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2212401 <--- I played this terribly... I don't know what the fuck I was doing... I shoved have repopped preflop to limit the field.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2215074 <--- Once again... after he shoved I should have known AA but he was also shoving with hands like AJ and some smaller PP earlier so I called.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2215861 <--- his reraise preflop made me think he had something like AK/AQ maybe even AJ... his over the top shove on the flop was just ridiculous and I figured maybe AK nut flush draw... so i called.

So as you can see... ring games had it out for me early.... I ended up grinding it out and by around 2AM i made most of my $250 back... ended up short only like $50 or so. I was also playing some $16 turbo SNGs I ended up about $90. I lost a few $12 MTT turbos, a $3+R Tourney, $11 MTT, and a $27.50 MTT.

I almost locked in a final table on a $12 MTT turbo... I was sitting at around 7th place in standings with chips and about 23 ppl left. Then I get this hand which would have put me damn near first position in chips:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2214887

sucks but what can you do.... Anyway here are the totals:

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Total for today: +$15.34
Total Bankroll: $519.90
Total remaining: $9580.10

Day 17 - 34

These past two weeks have been crazy... both in poker and in RL... I haven't posted in a while partly cause I was pissed and partly cause I was busy with other shit...

so... where do i begin... on Day 17 I decide to take my small roll and go play 3/6.... stupid by all means especially when I said I wouldn't play against my roll but luckily I ended up tearing shit up... I ran so hot and ended up getting my bankroll to just over $1000. I couldn't be happier because now I was about $1500 away from being able to play $1/2 and the sooner i get there the sooner this prop bet is over.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2153496
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2153503
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2153510
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2153515


Then came day 18-21... I only got to play a couple hours each day and thank god for that otherwise I would have gone bust... I ended up literally throwing chips away to charity with shitty played hands... when all was said and done I was down over $700 playing $.50/$1! I mean WTF... below are examples of how stupid I played some of these...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2154280
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2154284

There were hundreds more hands that were similar but for less chips so I don't bother posting but needless to say loosing $700 because of my idioticly poor play really pissed me off so I decided to take a week or two off before coming back...

This past weekend was my birthday and parents flew up to visit... was cool cause I haven't seen them in over a year and we got to go check out my greatgrandparent's pad over in wilmington... I had never been there but god damn was it baller... I put up some pix on myspace/facebook... the gardens were built to be a duplicate of the palace at versaille, bowling alleys, 77 rooms, paintings worth over $4 million each, 3 green houses, I could go on and on.... there is even a hospital on the grounds... they are currently doing phase 1 of a $90 million dollar renovation and it was kinda cool to see where my grandma and mom grew up... saw portraits all over of her as a kid which was cool... anyway I digress...

So after all this I go back to playing last night with a fresh head after a break and I tear shit up on the NL25 tables.... I ended up about $500 in cash but lost about $200 playing those damn $16 SNG turbos..... oh well.. Below is my current roll and where I stand as of today...

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Total for today: +$243.93
Total Bankroll: $504.56
Total remaining: $9595.44