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Recent Poker History
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By Doylestown
on 10/22/2007
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read Doylestown's complete blog
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First of all, thanks to everyone for the warm welcome to TwoRags.com
I’m not yet certain how I’ll be using this blog. For now I want to just briefly recap the last few months of my poker life. As I indicated in my hello post I’m regularly a MTT player, it being my game of choice. Around the 2nd week of August I had a change in my life schedule which impacted my ability to devote time to poker. This happens to me on occasion throughout the year and normally I’ll just take a break from the game until things clear up and I have time to play MTT’s again. In August I decided to do something different. I decided to find some time each day to play but for me this meant having to play cash as time wouldn’t allow for multis.
After dabbling in online full ring cash on rare occasions over the past year or two without meaningful success I decided to switch to 6-max and give it a try. In case anybody cares I’m playing $1/$2 NL. Nobody will be surprised to hear that I began on a total heater. In fact from the outset I had 17 consecutive winning days and was beginning to plan my retirement :-)
My winning streak ended at the very end of August when I had a big losing day followed by a break even day. September started out well with 2 big winning days before the wheels fell off the bus. I began running bad and playing sub optimally at the same time. When Sept was over I had logged more winning days than losing days but was loser for the month. Overall I was still ahead thanks to my insane month of August.
October began rather unspectacularly. I was craving MTT action but would have to settle for cash for a while longer. I fell into an early hole and by the end of the first week I was pretty dejected about cash in general as my total profits were about wiped out. Finally on Sunday October 7th after exactly 2 months away from MTT’s I found some time at 6AM to play a $30 NL event on Stars. I made the final 2 tables and eventually busted 13th when my AA ran into the chip leaders 55 All In Pre Flop.
It was back to cash after that and I honestly felt a little pep in my step again. Amazing what playing in a MTT will do for my psyche. I rattled off 4 winning days before having a losing Friday and Saturday that more than wiped out the prior 4 days profits. It was back to the grind on Sunday morning the 14th where I won a buy in. Monday saw me lose 3 buy in’s while on Tuesday I won one back.
On Wednesday the 17th I bought into an 18 player SNG to satisfy my craving for MTT action and I took 2nd place. Later that day I had a winning cash session for more than half a buy in. I won a buy in on Thursday the 18th and another on Friday the 19th before losing 2 buy in’s on the morning of Saturday the 20th. 2 steps forward followed by 2 steps back, ugh.
I found some rare free time on Saturday night the 20th and decided to give the cash a rest and play the $50 6-max MTT on Stars while catching up on some computer work. It was a good decision. Nearly 4 hours later I received the congratulatory email from Stars for my 2nd place finish. No matter how often I get there, making a deep run still feels great. For me there’s still nothing like it in all of poker, I just crave that fix.
Yesterday I was back to cash and won ~ ¾ of a buy in. I also found time to play the $10 Rebuy at 8AM but busted when my set of Q’s ran into a set of K’s. This summarizes my recent poker history. As the mood strikes I’ll definitely discuss more of my past which includes plenty of live game action both in cash and tournaments.
-Doyle-
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