CARDRUNNERS

I played for like an hour this morning. I got bored towards the end and wasn't paying attention, so I quit. I ran well.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?444762
Interesting hand. I was worried about a set on that board. After he called the flop I thought a hand like 1010, JJ or QQ seemed very likely. Obv the J turn isn't very good for those holdings. It may slow down 1010 and it puts me way behind JJ. There's also the chance that the guy has 88 or 99. Since QQ and maybe 1010 were what I needed him to have, I slwoed down a bit. Once he checks the river I'm pretty sure he has one of those hadns so I put out a nice value bet. He had 1010.


http://www.pokerhand.org/?444789
Can I fold the turn here? I've played enough poker to know what a set looks like and that sure as hell looks like a set w/ how he played it. Oh well, I took the standard line and paid him off.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?444793
Always fun when top pair gets action, even on a scary board like that. Ty for holding.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?444803
I made a great call here. I don't want to analyze this hand though since I play w/ him a lot.

This session: +4645.68
Overall: +15127.08

4122.92 behind pace

I've barely played any golf this summer, but I've played really well when I have. I can't say I know why. Basically, when I was in high school I was a really good player. I averaged in the high 70s and my golf team even took 10th in the state senior year. We were a small catholic school, that was a pretty big feat in my opinion. As soon as I went to college, my game dropped off. When I say it dropped off, I mean it completely went to hell. The summer after sophmore year I had trouble breaking 100. It was pathetic. I became a complete hack. I remember that summer I played the junior club championship at my country club for fun. The first round i shot 101 and the second round I withdrew when I got to my house on the 6th hole because I was on pace to shoot high 50s on the front nine. Golf was supposed to be fun and it wasn't when I shot that poorly. That led to me playing even less and I wasn't sure if my game would come around.

Last summer I played a bit more and shot more reasonably. I was averaging about 90. At that point, I was more than pleased if I could break 90.

This summer has been completely different. I've barely played, but I've played quite well when I have. I've played 5 rounds. 4/5 of the rounds have been in the 80s and when I've been in the 80s I've shot low 80's. I think I've shot 82,82,83 and 81. I had one lone bad round of about 93. It was very windy out that day and my game was just off.

Today I shot 81. I started off with a birdie and a par but struggled after that on the front nine. I wasn't hitting the ball well at all. Luckily, my misses weren't in the woods, they were just mostly thinned balls that skidded down the fairway. I couldn't get the ball rolling well on the green. I just wasn't putting a good stroke on the ball and missed every putt. The back nine started the same as I was 40 yards out in 2 on a par 5 and made a 6. After that I started hitting and putting very well. Everything just finally clicked. The only boogey I made after that was when I misclubbed my approach and then lipped out the up and down putt.

I wish I had more time to play as I love golf. It's nice to get in a good round when I do play though.

Football started up last night. This year is the first year I've played Fantasy football seriously. I played it a few years ago but didn't watch much football and didn't care at all. I've really gotten into fantasy sports in the last year. I played NBA and was terrible. It was probably because I didn't watch enough NBA games and I really didn't know what I was doing. I then played MLB. I started off just as bad as basketball and was in last place after the first few weeks. I've watched a lot of baseball these year and I've really read up on Fantasy strategy. I've learned a ton and I manged to take 5th in my league and make the playoffs. That's not great, but I'm pretty happy with it. Most of the other people in the league know a lot more about baseball than me and they have played fantasy baseball before. I've been reading up on Fantasy Football and I think my two drafts went pretty well. We also got NFL sunday ticket, so I know I'm going to watch a ton of Football this season. The great thing about Fantasy is that it makes every game actually mean something.

I decided to start playing more poker. I basically didn't play for 2 weeks and I've been getting the itch to play again. I've also been developing quite the spending habit lately and it would be nice to pay for these expenses with poker money and not money made from CR or elsewhere. So far I'm up about 5k on the month in pretty limited playing time. I've been running well and playing good but not great. My play has been between 2/4 and 5/10. I've been hoping around looking for good games. My goal is to average 20k/month for the remainder of the year. My biggest obstacle these days is actually putting in the hours at the tables. I keep pretty busy with Cardrunners and my personal life these days. I'm going to do what I can to play as much as possible.