Back in the Saddle Again

well after a couple weeks away from the virtual felt i've started up again. saturday was my first day back playing and so far since then it has been good. my sessions this weekend weren't anything to write home about. i'm still only playin $.25/.50 NLHE and trying to get back into the cash game focus. for the most part i was card dead and ended $30 up for the weekend, but a small gain is better than any loss, so i'll take it. i'm going to stay away from the blogger tourneys for a little while while i focus on cash games right now, try to get my chops back. hopefully in a couple weeks i'll start them up again. i really would like to improve both my MATH and Mookie stats and try to show these bloggers that i can hang with them. ok, i'm not as good as several of the bloggers out there, but i can dream can't i?

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.

Interesting Night

Well I just just got finished playing the $26K Guarantee and what a crazy show that was. Early on in the tourney I lost half my chips and was just waiting for a good hand and then came along a gem to keep me in the game.

Yes thats a Royal Flush ladies and gents. Not only is it a Royal Flush but it beat out a flopped boat to help me get back into the game. Then about 15 minutes later I got another crazy hand.

Yup flopped quads and got me another nice pot. Shove a horseshoe up my ass and call me lucky. I've never seen that kinda luck before. I just wish it would come around a bit more. But I'll take what I can get, unfortunately I didn't get anything else to help me out later in the tourney and I went out in 121st place, earning $40. I really want to get better at these MTT and by the looks of it, I might have the chops for it, maybe.

I also had a great run in the $75 token frenzy basically staying in the top 10 for most of the time and even hitting number one for a few minutes. When the token bubble came around I was sitting in second and easily cruised my way to a token. Now I can play in the blogger big game this weekend. I hope some of this luck from tonight makes it over to that tourney. See you all there.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Good...

Last night I played in the weekly blonkament hosted by Katitude. It's just a laid back $1 rebuy tourney where the bloggers just mess around. For the first hour I got some good hands and build a sizable stack without having to rebuy. The rest of the time I just tried to play good poker and I think I did pretty well, I believe I only had one suckout so not too bad. When all was said and done I won the tourney. Yup, another blogger tourney under the belt. Geez I'm such a lucky donk. Well that was about the only good so far.

The Bad...

I think I'm down over $100 for the past 48 hours at the cash tables. My aces and kings just seem to love getting cracked. Fun! I did play in a four Tier One SNGs and wound up winning 2 tokens, the bad part is I should have had three but suffered a huge suckout when my aces got cracked on the river.

And now The Ugly...

I decided to play in the Tier Two Frenzy tonight so I could have a $75 token ready for the Blogger Big Game next Sunday. I was doing great, I was 4/88 and then ran into this gem of a suckout:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mtnrider81 [Ad Kh]
mtnrider81 raises to 210
krs477 calls 210

*** FLOP *** [Qd Kd 5s]
mtnrider81 bets 510
krs477 has 15 seconds left to act
krs477 raises to 1,905, and is all in
mtnrider81 calls 1,395
krs477 shows [Jc Qh]
mtnrider81 shows [Ad Kh]

*** TURN *** [Qd Kd 5s] [6h]

*** RIVER *** [Qd Kd 5s 6h] [Jh] (OF COURSE!!)

So douche bag gets his out on the river. Instead of being in first and easily making it to the token payout, IGH a few hands later because I'm on huge-mega-wanna-stab-him-in-the-eye-with-an-ice-pick tilt. Gotta love this game sometimes. Ok, I'm done now.

I haven't updated this blog for two weeks now and for a very good reason. I was lazy. I took the entire week off last week and didn't do much except drink, hence the lack of posts. Between beers I did manage to go to the beach, play in a small tourney and make it to Vegas for a night. Vegas was a blast up until I got in a fight with a dresser and lost. I was so drunk that while getting into my hotel room I took a digger and smacked my face against the dresser in my room cutting my cheek and nose a bit. Thankfully I was so trashed that it didn't hurt and I just passed out right after that. Made it down to the Rio the next day to check out the WSOP and that was pretty cool.

I played a small $30 tourney at a semi-local casino last week. I didn't make the money and I probably only played three hands the entire time but it was still just fun to do. Whats funny is today I found out that one of the guys I played with last week just took third place in the WSOP Event #27 yesterday, so congrats to Seth Weinger. While playing in our tourney he was telling us how he gets to play in those tourneys for free because of his business, he sells card protectors, how nice is that?

Played in the MATH last night and what a horrible showing for me. In the first 15 minutes I got pocket queens twice but had over cards on both flops and had to throw them away. After that I was card dead for the rest of the time. Not one damn playable hand. I finally found two face cards and went all-in with those but ran into ATo and was sent packing. I know I need to try to just pick up blinds when I can but I didn't even have anything to steal with. Well I just need to keep practicing.