Hmmmm

Well I was right not to mention the good start, as shortly after posting the last blog entry it all started going Pete Tongue. I managed to donk off most of the weekends $300 winnings over the rest of the week. A good Saturday put me back on course, but then sunday went tits up again, at one stage being $200 down on the day, luckily a large pot right on the death of the night saw me finish only $90 down. Currently $450 up for the month, but this is not through my expert play, as $300 of it is bonuses and rakeback. The only consolation is that I am in small profit in Cash, MTT and STT. Had another FT in one of the Sun Head Hunter tourneys, but really annoyingly came 3rd after dominating most of the FT, especially as my exit was sick. I raised from the SB with 66, got rr from the BB (I had been raising a lot, a real lot) so I flat called, flop came down T high no draws, he checked, so I pushed. We were the two big stacks of the 3 and he insta called with KQ ffs. Of course donk hits his Q on the turn immediately and an unhappy little Goth leaves the table. As I type, NH good game, I almost hit the backspace key to say what I really wanted to say, but a couple of omg from the rails said it all really.

The cash play over the week could and should of been a lot bigger profit. But I made a lot of "hero" calls that turned out "zero" calls as my chips whisked away to the other side of the table. Also lost a massive pot when I flopped a set with 77 on a x7A board. I bet it he called, turn bought the 2nd Ace to boat me up at which point the chips all went in vs his AK and the K dropped out on the river for me to sob. At least I could understand his call.

Can't complain to much as I did win one $100+ pot when it was folded around to me on the sb and I raised it up with 88, bb called. A great flop of 478 dropped. I bet it, got raised, I rr then he pushed. I actually put him on an overpair or a flush draw, but he flipped over 56sooted, to give him the nut str8 and an open ended str8 flush draw. Turn bought a blank and the lovely river bought me the fourth 8 to quad me up and stand up and scream "get the fck in" I cooly then sat down, typed in ul, then went to find the dog who had almost shat herself and ran out the room in shear terror.

I might struggle to get to 3400 points for the extra $300 sun bonus, but I am still gonna plod on and try and make it. The 25c/50c tables on sun are few and far between and are full of nitty regs, so its no wonder I am struggling to get the points and extract money out of them. There are also some very good players who I try to avoid if possible, but sometimes they are on all of the tables that are open so you have no choice, just have to make sure that you have position on them as at least you know they can make laydowns.

Laddies, however is much softer and there are more tables, also the added bonus of being able to data mine on there does help. I have the exact same profit on lads as I have on sun, yet I have played 10k hands less, but I have been running good on lads and only 2k hands doesn't really give a real feel. But I do try and play an hour or so on one table a day especially around 11pm.

Downloaded some graph software for pokertracker, so may publish the graphs at the end of the month, so you will be able to see what a topsy turvey month it is with all the ups and downs.

Dream Team III tonight and our team "The crushed nutz" are doing well, however its $100 buyin tonight, so we prob only have a couple of entries in it. I will only be playing the minimum 8 to qualify for the live final as its a bit too rich for a lo stakes muff like me. Maybe next year I will be able to afford to play them all.

So its back to the grind tonight, need to try and get at least 200mpp to keep me on track for the bonus. Sigh, if only I could do this for a living, maybe one day.

Gonna revamp the layout of my blog soon as well as I have found a few good links that might be of interest to you all. Hope you like it, feel free to comment if you want anything added.

Goth.