CARDRUNNERS

My plan to move down on PP was a disaster. I think the session I just finished was the worst I've ran of all my sessions. I lost 6-7 2k+ pots at a 70%+ favorite. That sounds absurd, but I'm not exaggerating. My morale w/ poker hasn't been this low in a long time. The only thing I can do now is take an extended break. Normally after running this bad I would be playing bad and getting in as a dog. That is what's unique this time. I am playing well. I still need to clear my head though and let the cards come around for me, because this feels like a big joke that is on me. It's just time to take my own advice and take a break.

I feel like writing this blog is going to help my game. If I write I am going to do something here I will have some accountability to stick to it. There have been times where I will finish a bad session and say that I am going to take a few days off and then I end up playing the next day. I need to stay away for a few days this time...

My day at work today was much better. I mostly was doing research during the day, so it wasn't so tedious and I got to learn some stuff. I had to read up on SOX which is pretty dry, but I find it somewhat interesting at the same time. I think tomorrow they will have some reasonable stuff for me to do too, so that's good.

One thing I've noticed w/ poker lately is that I tend to be whinning a lot more than I used to. I'm not sure why. I feel like I need to vent my bad beats. I got away from that for a long time, because I think it's stupid. Although, I won't argue that it does help make me feel a bit better. The bottom line is that no one cares and there is no reason to bitch about beats to other people. I am going to get my act together and get back to a 0 whine policy. I think it's best for everyone involved. I need to realize that this is just variance and it's bound to happen. I will get out of it soon enough. I am seriously considreing playing poker out of college. If I am going to do that, I really need to repair my approach to poker. I need to treat it as a business. That means no making runs at 25/50, no tilting, no bitching...just solid play. The next year is going to be a test for me. I need to look at it as that and start treating it like that starting now.

I've had a very negative tone in my first few blogs. Don't get me wrong, I am a very happy kid. The last week has just had me really pissed off. It's just a mix of a ton of things...work, poker, sucking at golf, not being 21 (sat at buffalo wild wings and drank a sprite while watching the game while all 6 of my friends drank nice cold beers from the tap...ugh). I need to get this negativity out of my life though. It's not good for me. On a brighter note, I started working out today and that felt good. I think that will be a good way to get rid of any frustrations. I am also thinking about starting to meditate. It sounds weird, but I think it would be good. I tried it awhile back and didn't get too far, but I think I can do it now. I want to become more spiritual.

Better luck at the tables than me....

Cheers,

Andrew

So I had an interesting morning. I was driving to work and while itching my nose thought I felt some nose hair coming out of my nose. I pulled down my mirror and decided to take a look. Well, this was pretty dumb considering I was in stop and go traffic. I ended up running into a guy. I was going about 2mph and figured there wouldn't be much damage. There wasn't. THe guy threw a bunch of bscenities at me and I figured we'd be on our way. We didn't make it through the light that time and now he decided he wanted my info. Fine, I gave it to him. He started to walk away and then came back and said he wanted to report this to the police. I told him to pull over so we could talk about it. I KNEW he wasn't hurt because i was going 2 mph!!! I tried to convince him to not waste an hour of our time, but he wouldnt budge and called the police. He also had the paramedics called when the policeman arrived. Both the paramedics and the police officer agreed there was no damage to either car. THe officer later told me he thought the guy was blowing this way out of proportion. The guy ended up being taken away on a stretcher. You gotta be fucking kidding me. I've been hit in fender benders before. Last year at school I got hit at a stop sign by a guy going probably 5mph. I'll admit that it did make my head whip a bit, but it wasn't a big deal. I saw that the damage to my car was minimal and was on my way that time. Well, this time it really was 2mph. My head didn't whip at all. I would equate what happend in this accident to your friend slightly nudging you from behind. I really hate how so many people in the world we live in today are always looking for a cheap way to make money or get ahead. I'm sure this guy went to the hospital so he could get insurance money. I will do whatever I can to make sure that doesn't happen. Some people just suck at life.

I took yesterday off. At first I was going to just count it as a day, but after thinking about it I decided not to. My goal was 85k in 31 days, not 85k in august (although that was kind of implied). I want to be able to take a few days off and still pull this off. Let me know if you have objections to this. I think I can make the goal either way.

Today I started off in my typical fashion as of late. I lost 6 buyins in about 20 minutes. UGH. I just got into bad situations adn I was playing really fast and just not hitting. I didn't save any HHs from that session because everything was going really fast and I was focusing on getting unstuck. I ended up 2k after about 1.5 hours of total play. Talk about some crazy swings in a short period of time.

I came back later and decided to play for about 2 more hours. This time I got off to a good start and won about 9k. I played pretty loose for the first hour and pretty tight for the second hour. I wasn't getting any action towards the end andI'm pretty tired so I quit.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?461584
You guys may remember this villian from some 5/10 hands I posted where he played really bad. I didn't know what he'd limp with in LP and reraise so huge. I def didn't think he had AA or KK so I just pushed. Luckily I won the flip.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?461583
Same villian about 5-10 minutes later. As I've said in the past, I'll play big hands really fast against bad players or players on tilt. I made a pretty big raise on the flop. He didn't seem to care and went all the way w/ A9. It's always nice to have the opponent drawing dead allin on a 7k pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?461593
Pretty standard. Ty for holding.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?461605
This is what happens when you 3 bet a lot. I don't blame him for 4 betting AQ there and he's not gong to get away from it after 4 betting (although maybe he should, my range for allin here has AQ in pretty bad shape).

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Check this thread out and let me know what you think.

I'm starting to put some good distance between myself and the pace. That's great news. I'll either have a nice cushion for a really bad day or I can make a run at 100k.

Today: +10800.99
Overall: +63552.17

16802.17 AHEAD of pace

So this is how people play omaha?

Hand #35084755-2673 at Syracuse (Pot Limit Omaha)
Started at 20/Sep/06 01:05:52

P__Dubb is at seat 3 with $2573.
muddywater is at seat 4 with $4909.
The button is at seat 4.

muddywater posts the small blind of $10.
P__Dubb posts the big blind of $25.

P__Dubb: -- -- -- --
muddywater: 3d 9c 5d 5c

Pre-flop:

muddywater raises to $75. P__Dubb re-raises to $225.
muddywater calls.

Flop (board: Tc 5s 2h):

P__Dubb bets $450. muddywater raises to $1800.
P__Dubb goes all-in for $2348. muddywater calls.

Turn (board: Tc 5s 2h 6h):

(no action in this round)


River (board: Tc 5s 2h 6h 7d):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:

P__Dubb shows 7c 9s Kc Td.
P__Dubb has 7c Td Tc 6h 7d: two pair, tens and sevens.
muddywater shows 3d 9c 5d 5c.
muddywater has 5d 5c Tc 5s 7d: three fives.


Hand #35084755-2673 Summary:

$.50 is raked from a pot of $5146.
muddywater wins $5145.50 with three fives.
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I played for like 10 min today and stacked this guy twice on UB. PLO is treating me very well. I made a somewhat questionable call preflop here, but I knew if the flop hit me I could probably win his stack. Luckily, thats what happened.

Right now I'm trying to study for my Meteorology test tomorrow. It's very hard to concentrate on school this year. I want to do at least decent, but I don't have much reason to care about how my grades turn out. At least I'm taking two classes pass/fail and the others shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm really getting pumped for Aruba. It's coming up fast and I'm very excited. I plan on having a great time again this year.