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.
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.
Well, November was a poor month with a $390 profit. Some would say “well you made money”, and while this is true one has to consider that I was +$314 for November 1st!
You read that right, +$80 for 29 days following. Pretty sad. At least this month’s Holdem Poker Chat marathon was profitable (+$40). but the month itself is a major disappointment. I am starting December slowly and seeing if I can fix my play to become more profitable.
Sadly, I think I need to move away from the Cake Network. the structure pays too many people, its too top heavy and the blinds are too fast. I never liked PokerStars structure and it seems Lee Jones is destroying the good part of Cake and turning it into PokerStars Lite. Gotta tell ya Lee, there is already a PokerStars. the people who want 25% payouts and only doubling your money at the final table are already playing there. At least the original has decent blinds structure. You haven’t even got that.
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.
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.
