Poor MATH Skills

played in the MATH last night with a very poor showing. i donked off about 1/6 of my stack early on just trying to bluff a pot and was called with mid pair flush draw. then about 30-40 minutes into the tourney, on my first good hand of the night, i decided to gamble and try to get an early big stack. in mid position i found pocket jacks and shot out a normal 4x raise of T240. action folded to AlCantHang on the button and he re-raised to ~T960. immediately put him on AK because i've seen him do this before and had a decision to make; i could fold and wait for a better hand but that seems rather weak, i could call and hope that there are all low cards, or lastly push and hope that my pair holds up. normally i'm very conservative and i would call and go from there but not playing much poker recently in the past month i decided i wanted to see some action, so i pushed. he calls and just as predicted he turns over big slick and immediately picks up an ace on the flop. i don't improve and i'm down to ~T250. about 8 hands later i push with A8o and Al finishes me off with pocket sevens. i know the safe route would have been to call his re-raise and go from there seeing that i had a very good read as to what he was holding, but this time i wanted to take a gamble. unfortunately it didn't pan out. oh well, there's always next time. cya all at the BBT freeroll tomorrow.

I haven't been playing very much poker recently. I've played in the Mookie for the past two weeks with poor results, like last night were I ran my queens into RecessRampage's kings and was out in around 30th place I think. Had two horrible suck outs last Sunday both trying to get a tier one token. The first one happened in the token frenzy where some push monkey went all-in with JTs and hit a flush on the river to beat my big slick dropping me to the bottom of the pack. Then after fighting my way back I miss the payout two places short by the same idiot when I went all-in with KJs and his J7o caught a 7 on the flop. Un-fucking-believable. I lost a tier one SNG when my tens were beat by sevens, just minutes after my frenzy loss. Damn this game is great. So nothing much else to talk about this time. Hopefully I'll start to play cash games again and turn a profit, but I doubt it with my luck.

Hiatus

For the past week I have been in remission, not having a real care in the world and slacking off when and where possible. I started the week by playing hooky from work Monday and Tuesday because I just didn't have the motivation to go. Waking up and having a feeling of utter disappointment that the job you have is a retched demon slowly sucking the life out of you day by day can cause such actions. I keep asking myself if this is what I really want to do with my life and the responses so far aren't pleasant. My job isn't necessarily hard, it just lacks the challenge and structure that I need. I know I need a new job, that's undeniable, but my problem is if I should continue in the same field or should I try to find something else with which I have more of a passion. This is going to take some time to figure out.

I didn't play in the weekly blogger tourneys this week because I was just trying to make the most of my free time this week. I took time to hang out with friends I haven't seen in awhile and even took my dirt bike out of storage to clean it up and make it ridable again. I was glad to see it was able to start up with relative ease and it still ran well. It's also fun to piss off Mormons walking down the street as you ride a bike right next to them, haha. Sorry about that fellas.

I do plan on playing in the blogger tourneys here again. Maybe I'll make it out to Katitude's donkament tonight and have a little fun. Depends on when my parents plane gets in from London tonight tho. They're coming back from a nice vacation and I have to go pick them up. Well that's about it for right now. I know there wasn't a ton of poker today but hopefully that will change soon.