Hot August Start

I'm waiting for some laundry to finish before I go get my daily workout in so I thought I'd toss a quick blog up. My only goal for August is to try and get on a good playing schedule. I figure if I can do this and put a good number of hours in the success will follow. I'm going to try and get up before 11 most days and put a 2-4 hour cash session in, I'll then go get my workout in and/or run any errands I need to get done, which will give me a nice break, and after that I'll put another evening session in, hopefully 2-4 hours if I'm playing cash and if I'm playing tourneys it will depend on how I do in the tourneys. I figure if I am able to do this every day that would be 10 2-4 hour sessions but will probably end up being more like 7-8 sessions for an average week. I'll also be playing most Sundays and probably a few Saturdays so that will add in some more hours.

So today I was up around 9 and did some cleaning up and laundry and then put a nice little 2 hour session in while waiting for the laundry to get done. I felt like I ran bad but my stats showed otherwise at the end of my session. I finished up 4 buyins at 2/4nl, which is really good and felt like I played really well. The reason I felt that I ran bad is because I lost quite a few pots where I was a 3:1 favorite when all (most) of the money went into the pot and at the same time I didn't win any big pots where I was even a slight underdog or got all my money in on a straight or flush draw.

I played on Poker Stars today for the first time in awhile as I've been playing on Full Tilt as the games seem to be better there lately. When I first started my session I could already tell the difference in play between the two as the players on Stars were being much more aggressive than on Tilt and many of my raises were immediately 3bet back into me. I've really started to play a much more aggressive game and when I first start a session I start out very loose and then tighten up some after I have established a nice loose image. This seemed to work out really well as many of the players continued to 3bet my raises even when I had tightened up quite a bit.