Well today I sat down to play my usual cash game grind, 6 tables of 400NL. It started off well as I stacked someone early when I flopped a set and beat their overpair, but it was all down hill after that. I after about 6 hours of play I found myself down 4 buyins, $1600. Now I hate finishing a session down and after being down two buyins the day before I was determined to not to finish Thursday down.
So I contintued to play, doing my best not to tilt and also not to take extra gambles just because I was down and wanted to recover my losses. It took me another 5.5 hours but I got back up $400 on the session, leaving me down $400 over two days. 11.5 hours is definitly the longest session I've put in to date. Even toward the end though I felt really good and didn't think there had been much of a drop off in my play since the start.
I missed played some hands early to get down but I also lost two pots of about $700 each to 2 outers on the river. It was nice to recover though and it definitly helped get my confidence back up since I was feeling pretty down after losing 6 buyins. Now, it's time to get some sleep though since I'm pretty drained mentally after that session.
Halloween this weekend, which should be a ton of fun. I'm still not sure of my schedule but I'll definitly be out dressed as Maverick.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Not My Day
Well I played 2 tournaments today, the Party and Stars Million. In both tournaments I started out with a pretty good first hour and ran my stack up some. Then it all fell apart in the second hour.
In the Party tourney I lost a bunch of chips to a shorter stack when my JJ lost to his AA. Then a few hands later I get KK and get involved in a 3-way pot with AA and QQ. The AA holds and I'm out.
I was still doing well in the Stars tourney though so I just moved my concentration there. I ended up getting it all in with 99 agaisnt 44 on a J9424 board. So my full house lost on the river to his quads.
Today was just not my day and I will be back to playing cash games this week as once again tournaments are just not being good to me.
In the Party tourney I lost a bunch of chips to a shorter stack when my JJ lost to his AA. Then a few hands later I get KK and get involved in a 3-way pot with AA and QQ. The AA holds and I'm out.
I was still doing well in the Stars tourney though so I just moved my concentration there. I ended up getting it all in with 99 agaisnt 44 on a J9424 board. So my full house lost on the river to his quads.
Today was just not my day and I will be back to playing cash games this week as once again tournaments are just not being good to me.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Royal With Cheese
It's been over two years since I hit my last Royal Flush. This is the third one of my life. The final pot was $169. Here's the hand history: HH. If you click on the picture you can get a bigger view of it.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I'll start with the good and work my way down. Good news is that I've continued to kill 400NL. So far I'm actually doing better at 400NL than I was at 200NL. The players don't seem to be any better than at 200NL and I also feel like this level fits my game pretty well. I seem to be losing the least amount possible when I'm beat while still getting maximum value out of my good hands. Considering cash games are where I make most of my money and I make it the most consistently this is probably more of a great thing than just a good thing.
Ok, now we start with the bad. I played in the WCOOP Main Event, the $2600 NL Holdem event, and didn't cash. By far my biggest tournament that I've played in so far. I played pretty well but didn't get paid off on any of my big hands. I got aces, kings, and queens during the tournament and only the kings held up, which means that it just wasn't my day. My last hand I was starting to get short stacked and got it all in with 77 and was called by KTo. The flop and turn came great and my oponent needed a king or ten on the river to take the hand, which he got in the king. I lasted about 3.5 hours and finished somewhere around 1000th out of 2500 people. The prizepool was over $6 million and paid out over $1 million to first place.
Now we get to the ugly. The far right side of the republican party was able to attach an anti-gaming bill to the port security act which easily was passed through congress and should be signed by Bush within the week. This bill isn't going to make online poker illegal but it's going to put into effect measures that prevent banks from being able to make transfers to gambling websites. Nobody really knows what the effect of this bill will be and only time will tell what real effect it has on online poker. So as of right now I will continue to play as normal and am just adpating a wait and see attitude.
Ok, now we start with the bad. I played in the WCOOP Main Event, the $2600 NL Holdem event, and didn't cash. By far my biggest tournament that I've played in so far. I played pretty well but didn't get paid off on any of my big hands. I got aces, kings, and queens during the tournament and only the kings held up, which means that it just wasn't my day. My last hand I was starting to get short stacked and got it all in with 77 and was called by KTo. The flop and turn came great and my oponent needed a king or ten on the river to take the hand, which he got in the king. I lasted about 3.5 hours and finished somewhere around 1000th out of 2500 people. The prizepool was over $6 million and paid out over $1 million to first place.
Now we get to the ugly. The far right side of the republican party was able to attach an anti-gaming bill to the port security act which easily was passed through congress and should be signed by Bush within the week. This bill isn't going to make online poker illegal but it's going to put into effect measures that prevent banks from being able to make transfers to gambling websites. Nobody really knows what the effect of this bill will be and only time will tell what real effect it has on online poker. So as of right now I will continue to play as normal and am just adpating a wait and see attitude.
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