Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Blegh

I hate poker as much as ever.
After my quick start, nothing's been going right for about two weeks. I get the sinking feeling that it has less to do with bad luck and more to do with me playing like shit.
Part of the problem might be the hours I play and my mindset. Instead of playing in the evening or afternoon I'm playing at 4-5-6 a.m when I'm tired and pissed off that I can't sleep.
I have an 8 a.m. class. It's 6:20, and nevermind. I just busted.
So frustrating. I push for 560 on the turn with an 800-chip pot. My opponent calls with A-hi and a Q-hi flush draw. He turned the flush draw and, of course, he rivered the flush.
Maybe I should have pushed on the flop when he bet out. But really, I got all my chips in the middle in a pretty good spot and it didn't pan out.
So frustrating.
And now I'm just ranting.

On the bright side, I did win 4 4-man HU SnGs in a row. That's 8 straight HU matches if you're keeping score at home. It helped my BR some, but not enough.
It spirals downward, and I hate poker.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Chuggin' Along

Well I hit $601, and I knew I should take a break to enjoy that mark. Instead I jumped into a pair of tourneys and lost both. Now I've been up and down between $500 and $545, unable to make headway but not losing too much either.
Today has been more of the same. I won a $13 6-handed SnG. Then moments later I lost a race that would have ensured me a $55 tourney seat. By the way, be careful with those rebuy sats. I put $26 into that losing effort. That's fine if you win, and if luck wasn't involved, I'd certainly win every one. Unfortunately, luck is involved, so I lost.
My motivation right now is those little emails from PS letting me know that I placed in an event. So for that reason I've been playing a fair amount of micros. Right now I'm in a 50 FPP and $5.50 6-handed MTT. I'm looking alright in both, and hoping for two PS emails informing me that I've made some money.
The problem with this is that I'm not necessarily making a lot of money. The upside is that I'm feeling unlucky, and playing small keeps the losses small.
Right before I hit the post button, I've gotten to the bubble of the FPP tourney with 6,990 chips and 100/200 25 blinds. Hooray.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Onward and Upward

Well I'm off to a good start. I won about $150 in a 180-man SnG. by finishing fourth. I've won each of my last two 6-handed SnGs and two of three micro sats.
Stars is running $2.20 sats to a $11 event constantly, and it's just almost free money. I've played a few MTT-style and one 45-man SnG-style. I finished in the top 6 to win SnG sat, and I've won one of the MTT-style ones. Another I took the cash and bubbled. I'm still more angry about missing out on that T$11 then I am happy about winning $150. I had it made but called a raise with AK, and lost on a K-high flop to KK. All I had to do was post and fold, and I would have won but I didn't realize how deep into the event I was. It was sad, and I'm still bitter.

I'm absolutely broke in real life, but I can't cash out because Netteller is done for and I don't have any other system set up. I plan on using ePassporte eventually, but first I'll have to use it to deposit $25, and I don't even have that much.

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