Yeah, back in the saddle. and not the good, soft, enjoyable to sit in saddle. more of a hard, unbroken, chafing saddle that is painful to sit in yet you are forced to ride using it every day. yeah, that kind of saddle we all know too well from downswings.
Back to my losing ways on Tuesday. dropped nearly $50 with nothing to show for it. Mostly I played well but was unlucky or unfortunate at the wrong times. Boohooing doesn’t help the bottom line any, however.
I helped my sister set up my Dad’s Christmas tree today but still plan 4-6 tourneys for tonight. As i type the tea water is heating and I am firing up Ultimate Bet to play some private games and their twitter freeroll. Have a happy Thanksgiving and may all your football bets be right!
Eight days of negative results. Eight days of bad poker. I finally managed a positive day. Monday was +221 with two second place finishes. One was in the Holdem Poker Chat League game at Doyles Room that runs every Monday night. The other was the 12:30 pm $1k guaranteed game at Bodog.
I did not play much else since my losing ways had my schedule seriously curtailed. I am back in the 12:30 game as I type. I have final tabled that game twice in a row before, so it seems to be a good matchup for me.
Apparently I am a terrible poker player. I played all my big Sunday games really dumb. Looking back, really stupid plays repeated over and over. Something has to give. Either I go bankrupt, quit playing, or learn to play poker again.
I don’t know. I guess I will hope to make a profit in this weekend’s 24 Hour Poker Marathon. Until then, i think I will limit my play severely and just think about what I am doing wrong.
So, last we left I was wallowing in self-pity. I came out blazing with a nice $212 day. Won it all back, all happy etc. And then it happened. I forgot how to play poker apparently. I have had five straight days of losing. All that $200 is gone and I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
I am playing badly. real badly. I know enough to know that my game has all of a sudden become horribly flawed. I am playing just like the people I usually exploit.
Well I managed to win my way into this Sunday’s Bodog $100K guaranteed tournament again. I hope I can straighten my game out by then. As a bailout, PokerStars has a $100k freeroll to congratulate Joe Cada for winning the WSOP Main Event. I am in that also, so hoping for a good payday to straighten my ass out.
After that big buyin, stuff just fell apart. All my wagers sucked. I had no clue how to play poker. A real miserable week. Finally last night I turned to playing cash games. Analyzing what the players were doing and how they played seemed to help.
I still made mistakes in that cash game, but knew they were mistakes and hopefully learned from them. Today, i have won two tournaments and gotten a 2nd in another. Everything I am playing is working. Its not just cards either, but a lot of good choices not to play and when to play.
After making about $200 before 6 pm today, I took a break and did a lot of the drudge work on setting up the November 24 Hour Poker Marathon. Most of the hard stuff like data entry is done. Some passwords still need checking and a couple of corrections need to be done, but otherwise we are ready to go for November 28-29th.
I did poorly in my big $162 buyin. I finished 12th with 9 being paid. Most of the rest of my poker was mediocre too. I was bailed out by the Breeders Cup a little to post a $14 profit, but thats just a tease.
I haven’t done well in an OFC in a while. I think I need to post a good result in this weekend’s Full Tilt OFC. Other than that, no earth shattering games are on my slate this weekend. Just the usual suspects. maybe the Double Deuce at Full Tilt. The Sunday 1/4 Million at PokerStars is also a possibility.
Lost a total of $50 over the last 2 days. No one but myself to blame. Most of the losing came last night where I just lost my vaunted patience and started spewing in every game. Yes people make bad calls, but reshoving versus the donk makes you the double donk.
Full Tilt OFC coming up this weekend. Holdem Poker Chat needs another win. We really want to be the place that the good players hang out and new players come to learn. Hopefully I, personally, can last longer than 20 minutes in these games as well.
As you will recall, I thought that I played real well on Monday but managed a pittance for my efforts. It is nice to know that i was not deluding myself. The first tournament I played Tuesday ($11, $1k guar) I managed to get 3rd for $160. And i did play pretty well.
Of course, I thought I played pretty well after that too with nothing to show for those efforts. These days I am taking the 1,000 FPP’s I won from PokerStars on twitter and using them in satellites to the turbo takedown that runs at the end of the month. The turbo takedown is 3k points, so need to sat in.
I was really into playing poker yesterday. I wanted to play. I felt my play was good and I was not doing anything dumb. Yet, I had to cash in the Bodog Poker Open at the end of the day to get back above negative. Some days are like that. Your Jacks run into Aces, your Nines come up against Queens. Analyze your play and if it was still the right play, do not get down on yourself.
Thirteen tournaments, played almost non-stop, +$20 for the day. And I am grateful for my $48 cash at the end for giving me a positive result
The good news probably should come first. In Event #1 of the Bodog Poker Open, I managed 40th place for a $241 payday. I also swept the NFL. So a nice $300+ day should make me happy? Normally yes.
Doyles Room held a twitter user freeroll. There was only one prize. $1,000 in spending money and a weekend with Doyle Brunson and his Doyles Room pros. they call it the Doyle Brunson Vegas Experience. So doing well in this and getting heads-up for the prize is pretty good, no? How about shoving against your opponent’s raise with Ace ten and having him call with all his chips with Ace eight? Wee I am going to Vegas Baby….unless there is an 8 on the…OMG there it is!
Fairly soul crushing. maybe I will get my $300 in ones and rifle through it to make me feel better.
