Well it couldn’t last i guess. I managed to drop a little over $30 yesterday. Most of that was $25 in a cash game when my 22 went against a Q9 with Q92 on the flop. We got it all in on the flop and the turn just had to be a Q. oh well. a four-outer is not going to change my outlook, but maybe it did change my play.
I played MiniUBOC #2 at Ultimate Bet. It was an 8-game mixed event and I did very poorly. I played too many hands, saw too many flops and was not patient like i usually am. That tourney cost $16.50, so I did cash a couple other tournaments to keep the loss for the day small. Back at it today. i may try to get back to my roots and hit some freerolls. Its good discipline practice, playing those.
Third profitable day in a row. I am beside myself with feelings of competency. It took me till my last 2 games to get there, but the result matters. Yesterday was “Trap the fool and watch the improbable suckout” day. i was firing on all cylinders, maximizing each hand, and somehow 10-20% hands kept taking me out.
Thankfully, I kept playing good poker and shockingly was rewarded for doing so. As an aside, i will be playing in PokerStars WBCOOP that I mentioned a few days ago. The fun starts January 25th. Thats Monday for you calendar challenged types. More on what that means coming on Monday.
Another day, another final table. Don’t get too excited, it was in a $3 at DoylesRoom, and I only got 8th for around $20. But add that to a modest $15 from cash games and a couple cashes in private games and I turned a profit for the second day in a row. Heady stuff for someone who was slowly committing online poker suicide two days ago.
My game still needs work. And I intend to read some more on the subject, but right now it feels good to not suck, at least for a couple days. I am off to set up my poker schedule for the day. Positive attitude=positive results.
Maybe I am not as terrible at this game as I was starting to think. I ran into a couple of inconceivable bad beats Sunday. You know , the “how could you even think to play that” type of beat. Rather than get down on myself, I kept playing with a positive attitude.
I came to realize that “the fear” had its claws in me. Raise with KK, ace flops, you go into a shell and do not continue betting. thats “the fear”. Well goodbye to that. My wins Sunday were modest, but very encouraging. I made the final table of the Bodog Poker $5k guaranteed, then 2 hours later I bubbled the final table of the Bodog $3k guaranteed. I also managed to cash in Full Tilt’s Big Little Tournament, though barely.
The double deep runs were good for the soul. I feel good about my play. I am confident. lets see if the cash can continue to flow in.
I may be playing some of my poorest poker ever right now. People talk about leaks in their game, mine is a deluge. I don’t even have any bad beat horror stories to pass on (everyone loves those). I am just playing uninspired, horrific poker right now.
I guess I need to hit the books and change my game or something. I have not decided what I should do yet. Today its hit the showers, make some salads and do some other food prep. At least i don’t suck at that.
Ok so, I see this World Blogger Championship of Online Poker tweet from PokerStars. I decide to check it out. Apparently it would be worth my while, although I am not certain how much of a legitimate blogger i am.
Apparently you have to post a link/graphic to the WBCOOP to be eligible. I am attempting to figure out how to do that now since all i usually do is type text and maybe add a link here and there, I may not be up to the HTML task, but I will give it a shot. The failure probability is high
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.
Yes, I actually had fun playing poker yesterday. I made sure to compliment every poor play and encourage the player that they just hit some bad luck. I also did not make much money, but it was still fun.
I had to finish second in my last game, a private HORSE game on Absolute Poker, to get myself to +$9 for the day. But the outcome not withstanding, I played fairly well. I must have played 11 small tournaments, or so. Oh well, back at it today.
My new positive outlook is not natural for me. It can be quite a chore staying positive in the face of poker purgatory. I endeavor to persevere as we all must.
This year I am up a little over $100. Anything is better than the 7 week drought I was mired in. I am having a bit of trouble adjusting my game to the latter stages of tournaments. Something to work on, but at least i am getting to those stages now.
I discuss my New Year’s resolution over at Holdem Poker Chat. you will have to sojourn over there to partake of this tasty morsel of down-home wisdom.
The new year opened decently. I won some money and am now less of a donkey I hope. I still cannot make headway at cash games, so I guess I will stick to tournaments for now.
Not playing much the last couple days. I even missed the Holdem Poker Chat game at Ultimate Bet last night. I will probably not play today until the Holdem Poker Chat game at 9 pm et on Cake Poker. I have some food prep to get into and have to bring my father to an eye doctor appointment at 4 pm.
I hope your new year is going well. Mine is mediocre I guess, but at least not a suck-fest yet.
I stopped posting and stopped tracking my progress because I was on a seven week downswing in poker and felt I should change stuff up to try breaking out. Well, it did not work. I ended December -$250. My play is really poor. I guess I should really start reading and re-reading books or something.
I have yet to reformulate a plan, but clearly I have to stop sucking.
Oh well, new year. Hopefully new results. Anyway Happy New Year everyone.
