Feedback Wanted

I know there are many more blogs on Two Rags now than when I started blogging 9 months ago. So I’ll just toss this out there for those who still take the time to read about my life in poker. If there is anything more specific about my poker journey that I’m currently undertaking that you guys would enjoy hearing about by all means please chime in.

Ok onto the usual stuff. Well its official, The Borgata is offering another 2K Deep Stacked event in August. This time there will be two Day 1’s to avoid the shutouts (Shaun) that occurred last time. Really looking forward to this, reservations are already in place. This should serve as a perfect tune up for the WPT which rolls into town in September.

Online MTT’s

BLAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK I suppose I could go into a little more detail than that. Highlights of the last few sessions:

July 3: I took 14th in the $20 Rebuy and made another solid run in the Nightly $150 but busted well short of the meaningful dough.

July 5: After another epic run of bad beats early in the session I managed a couple of deep runs. Late night I took 15th in the $50 Rebuy and also Final Tabled the $120 Deep Stack finishing 9th after losing a massive pot just before the Final Table with 1010 vs AQ when on an all rag board my opponent called my turn bet with just Ace high and caught his Ace on the river. At the Final Table I went down with AQ to 88 leaving me talking to myself as I headed up to bed.

July 9: I took 12th in Tilt’s $120 Knock Out as I fell into a card dead coma as we hit the final 3 tables. In the Stars Nightly $300 I held a top 3 chip stack as we neared the $, then the wheels came off the bus when all of my steals went bad which coincided with another epic card dead streak. I of course managed to cash albeit for another unspectacular amount.

2008 1st Half Summary

So in summary, the frustration continues as the top 3’s that are necessary to make this venture profitable continue to elude me. I’ve actually taken the last few days off to give my mind a bit of a break.

With the first half of the year behind us I did a quick review of my online MTT results and was quite pleased at what I found. I was stuck in the vicinity of 5K thru the end of June. So why the optimistic slant you wonder? Well there are two major reasons. For one I am wholly confident that my game is better than it’s ever been as my brain continues to absorb Shaun’s wisdom. Secondly, and you’d have to live in my skin to really understand this…… I have run so bad this year it’s literally indescribable. Here let me try…. I have only a single cash of a thousand or more ($1200) in the last 5 months, which based on the schedule I play, is almost impossible to accomplish were one to try. Yet despite this staggering stat I am one top 3 finish from being in the black for the year. So when thinking logically about it, if I can keep my game at the same level and get a stretch where the cards just break even for me there is obviously lots of $ there for the taking. Let’s just hope that the psychological damage isn’t too deep before I get through this wretched stretch.

Oh and Lets Go Mets .

-Doyle-

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