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| PCA Day 1 |
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Just a quick update:
Started with 20k in chips for the tourney and I've survived day 1 but am really short with 10k. The average right now is probably 55k or so. Didn't get many hands and didn't have many spots to make moves at the tables I was at. The blinds will be at 500/1000 with a 100 ante for 30 minutes (levels are 75min) for Day two on Monday and will then go to 600/1200 with a 150 ante so if I can double once I'll have a pretty workable stack again.
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| Happy New Years! |
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Big Happy New Years to everybody!!!!!!
I'm glad to be out of 2007 as it was not as good to me as 2006 was. I felt like my game improved from what it was in 2006 but unlike 2006 every shot I took at bigger tourneys ended in disaster. Especially live where I got my first chance at some of the big buy-in tournaments. It all started when I busted the PCA about 30 minutes into the second level when AA < KK all-in preflop. So, remembering that I will base all of my 2008 on what happens at the PCA. If I take a sick beat like that again I'm just walking away from the game. (OK, that's a complete lie.)
I only have one "New Year's Resolution" for 2008 and that is to try and keep my blog updated a little more. I've been pretty lazy on the blogging side of things the past few weeks and will try and keep it updated more in '08.
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| The Upside of Down |
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I don't want to make it official yet but I think the downswing and the running bad is finally coming to an end. I'm not running good yet but I'm definitely not running bad anymore. Last night I finished in 13th in the Full Tilt Fifty Fifty and tonight I finished in 12th. So definitely getting closer.
Cash games were even starting to turn on me toward the end of this week as I was losing pretty much every all in pot I played. I lost to a one outer yesterday when I turned the king high flush and he rivered a gutshot straight flush to beat me. I was starting to think that I couldn't win anymore but then I finally got lucky when I beat AQ with 86 of hearts on a QQ97 two heart board. We got it all in on the turn and I hit the 5 on the river for the straight.
I heard a quote watching TV yesterday that inspired me, "Good is the enemy of great." Which got me motivated to really get back to studying and working to improve my poker game.
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| More Of The Same |
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I stayed away from tournaments for the most part this week and stuck mostly to the cash games. I didn't put as many hours in actually playing this week either. I spent more time reading the forums and thinking about game strategy and theory as well as disguising some hands with other players to try and figure out any leaks I have right now.
I really don't think there is too much wrong with my game right now. When I get frustrated and go on tilt is only time I don't think I'm playing profitably. With this tournament downswing and the slow to break even progress in cash games it's been pretty tough lately to stay off of tilt. Many times I'll start out playing my 'A' game just to take some bad beats or coolers early. Sometimes I'm able to laugh it off but other times I can tell it affects my game.
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| Back In The Saddle |
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Sorry it's been forever since I've had a blog up. I usually try and wait for some good news like a decent tourney score or a sick day in cash games when I'm lookoing to start up again but it just hasn't happened for me lately. I'll try to get back into the habit of putting up a blog bi-daily or close to it again.
Gun hunting was a great time as usual. I ended up shooting two does and tagging another buddy's buck so I have plenty of venison to get me through another year. I was up north for the entire week except Wednesday and Thursday when I was home for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was great but I did get some bad news while at home. My family dog, Lucky, was put to sleep on the Friday after Thanksgiving so while I was home I made sure to spend some time with her. She was 13 years old when she passed which was well above the average life span for her breed.
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| No Luck Hunting |
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Didn't get any deer this weekend bow hunting. Had two smaller bucks come by but I passed on them and then the one big buck I did see didn't come close enough. Was a great time as always though. Hunt all day and then drink all night and then repeat. I hunt with a great group of guys so it's rarely ever a bad time when we're up there even if we don't see any deer. Next week is gun hunting so hopefully I'll have a little more success then.
My internet doesn't work when I'm up north either so there won't be any updates unless they are some voice updates. I'll be playing mostly cash this week with the exception of the FTOPS event on Wednesday that I mentioned in the last blog. I'll have another update or two up before heading out hunting all next week.
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| Damned FTOPS |
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Because the FTOPs was a 6max event tonight I figured I'd spend one more day playing tournaments and look to hit a nice score. Once again it was a big mistake. I've been crushing my cash games lately and I don't know why I keep going back to the tournament scene.
Played most of the big nightly tournaments on both Stars and Tilt. Busted the FTOPs with set under set, the $320 on Stars with KK < AA, and the only tournament I got deep in, a $109 on Stars, I lost AA < 33. I'll give tournaments one more try next week Wednesday when they have the NL 6max $320 with rebuys FTOPs event.
I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to head up north bow hunting and probably won't be back until Wednesday. Then next weekend is gun hunting so I won't be playing much from the 16th - 24th. I may get some cash game play in but it will depend on whether or not I can get service on my at&t wireless card while I'm up north.
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| They Keep Pulling Me Back In |
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Toward the end of October after I had a few really nice runs in tournaments I was considering playing them full time again and leaving cash behind for a month. However after another really disappointing Sunday I'm already fed up with tournaments again. I know... I lasted real long into November.
I blame it all on my roommate who continues to crush tournaments and that keeps me coming back to them. He finished 2nd in the Bodog 100k last Sunday for a nice score and then FTed the Full Tilt 750k yesterday for another sick cash. He definitely deserves it though as he studies the game and puts a lot of thought into it both at and away from the tables. Every time I decided to get away from tourneys I see him hit a big score and then I get the itch to play them again. I get deep in something, whiff at the end, and then get fed up with tournaments again. It's becoming a vicious cycle.
So for the rest of November I'm going to play mostly cash again.
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| A little Ketchup |
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Been two weeks since I've put a blog up. My computer took a crash on me... again. Just before last weekend my internet browsers stopped working and so did my AIM. When I started to mess around with it and try to fix it I just ended up making things worse. So about the middle of last week I just wiped the whole computer and reinstalled windows and now everything seems to be back in good working order.
Last weekend was also my little sister's wedding so I wasn't doing much playing as I had commitments for that from Thursday - Sunday. It was a great time though and she married a really good guy. They grows up so fast now... *tear*.
So I missed the big majors last Sunday due to the wedding but got back in time to jump in the Stars 2nd Chance tourney. I ended up going deep in that and then busting when I got it all in preflop with AA against QTs for a top 2 stack with 50 left only to lose to his rivered two pair.
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| Feeling Better... Much Better |
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This is the first day where I've actually started to feel good. Still have a pretty wicked headache but it's much better than where I was at before.
This Sunday started out great as the Packers pulled out a close win and the Bears lost a heartbreaker... awwwww. :) But then I started to play poker and it started to go down hill. I started out by losing $500 in cash games as I lost all 3 of my the flips I was in (and I had the 55% end too). I could tell I was frustrated though and that I wasn't playing my best anymore so I called it quits for the day and went back to football.
I then sweated my roommate to a win in the early $109r on Stars and was motivated to play a few tournaments as he's been having some great success lately. (He also won a seat in the $650 satellite to the PCA on Saturday.) So being all motivated to play doesn't help much when it's too late to get in most of the decent tournaments.
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