Saturday and Sunday were profitable in poker and wagering. I went 6-1 on football, but the sweet part is Fonzi only followed one of my plays…the losing one. So I got a nice LOL out of that.
Winning is great, but winning and tilting someone else at the same time is even better. Following up on my Fonzi tilt, I managed to win a private tournament with $150 added at Bodog Poker. So I got to sneak into another forum’s game and take their money.
For bonus points, I also got all in heads up with 44 only to find my opponent had KK. The biggest tilt/win of all weekend was the 4 on the river to cripple him! Good times, good times. +260 for the weekend, cya.
Well i managed to pocket a bit more yesterday. I got 7th in the $3,000 guarnteed bounty on Players Only Poker. It was nice to final table an open event. Sort of a little confidence builder heading into all the weekend activity. I have yet to play anything today.
Had to go have my eyes checked out. it seems I am becoming nearsighted. I figured as much since things far away were blurry and hard to make out. No worries, I am not so vain as to object to wearing glasses. If you could see me, you would know that vanity would be misplaced on me anyway.
I have kind of left off taking shots at big money and have focused on grinding out some private money added tourneys and some low buyin open games. It has been a ho-hum existence. I win a little under $20 a couple days, I lose under $20 a couple more days.
The bottom line is October has been better than losing, but just that. At the moment I am +$400 or so. My game is pretty poor and needs some work. I am dissatisfied with my play right now
Thanks to Bodog Poker for having their daily twitter trivia contest. If you are the first person to direct tweet them the answer, you win T$162 to play in the Sunday $100K. I just won another entry to the $100k. Last time I won this I manged to get ninth. Hoping to at least duplicate this feat.
The upside to that final table appearance is that it gave me points for the Cardplayer Online Player of the Year rankings. Thats right! I am big time. Well at 14374th, maybe not exactly big time, but its nice to be up even that high.
Poker has been bad, blew half my cash that I was up for the month.
Sorry i haven’t posted for a couple days. October is starting out pretty well. Sunday i lost like $4 but the rest of the month were positive days. Not great days, but at least I am not digging myself a hole like September.
I have been putting some time into double stack tournaments on PokerStars. I feel this stack and blind size is complimentary to my game. The payout structures could be better in these, but you have to take the sweet with the sour when ordering takeout.
A very rocky month is now over. August and September both started with poor play and a hole I had to dig out of. August, I dug in spectacular fashion, September I clawed and dragged myself to +$300. I am happy to have regained some ability but the negative slides need to stop. Poor play is unacceptable.
I know what was wrong early in September. It seems I was searching out coin flip situations instead of waiting until I was the big favorite. Anyway, a new month. I have been playing some more than usual on PokerStars, and it is there that I hit a big enough score to go positive for the month. I will see how that goes in October.
I seem to be cashing in tournaments quite nicely. sadly, I am barely cashing. Oh well, its a start. Not a lot to report except that I seem to be staying up till 6 am lately so when I say “yesterday”, its really some of today.
Nine tournaments, one ring game. I cashed 5 of 9 tournaments and doubled my stack in the cash game. Total for the day +$54. Not a big score for cashing so many, especially since $25 of that was in the cash game. Having experienced it most of September, I can tell you it still beats the pants off losing.
So, last night/morning about 1:30 am I decided that I wanted to play some stud games. I found a 7stud hi/lo and a razz to play on Full Tilt. those games can be kind of slow on the action, so as not to be bored I added a bounty on Cake and a little doublestack $3 NLHE on PokerStars.
I ran fairly well in both stud games. i think i was just outside the money in both. The usual for lately, play hard, play long, get nothing. The bounty I managed to get $2 of $6 back and then i was toast. By this time I am already in the “money” on PokerStars. I figure, “well if I can stick around some, maybe I can pay for the other three.
Seven grueling, tired hours later I busted out in 5th place for $371. This pays off all the terrible September play and puts me up $250 for the month. A far cry from August but at least I am out of the hole and feeling good about poker again.
Saturday did not go very well. I played a very limited buyin schedule because I had four miniftops challenge freerolls to play as well. Sadly, no buyin panned out and I think I got $2 from one of the freerolls. Saturday’s total was -$34.
Not wanting to spiral downward after Friday’s limited success, I mostly watched football on Sunday. I did play the three miniftops challenge freerolls and the Reefer Poker community freeroll. This is a $3k freeroll that they hold monthly if you are a member of their forums. Last month I banked $200 from it, so I was anticipating this game again.
The Reefer game did not go well, nor did the first two miniftops games. I was stuck playing the last freeroll without much prospect of a payday it seemed. But fate smiled on my freeroll skills. When the final table went heads up, we made a deal where I gave my opponent $12 of the first place money to not have to play it out. I had a pretty big chip lead. So a no buyin day with few prospects turned into a +$104 day.
Making a final table in a 900 player tournament was good for the confidence too.
My mood had gotten so bad, a.k.a being a horrible poker player, that I had to stop posting for a few days. That does not mean the losing stopped, but the hope was that changing up the routine might change my results.
Thankfully, there is a glimmer of hope. Friday I managed to play 8 tournaments. I won 2 of the private Holdem Poker Chat tournaments and got 4th in a Bodog 15 Days anniversary game. Total for the day +$121.87.
This is , hopefully, a harbinger of things to come and not just a lucky result amid a storm of failure. Time will have to be the judge of that, but at least the doom and gloom has lifted, albeit briefly.
