Everything falls apart

I've been having a rough few days. Life has just been kicking me in the ass everytime I get down. Poker has sucked miserably. Sunday I lost over 2k combined in pots. IE I won a lot of hands then would lose a monster pot. I'd work my chips back up and lose another big one. I lost my biggest pot to date of just over a thousand dollars. I had middle set and the most loose aggressive guy at the table turned the nut flush after I check raised him on the flop. He gave me a great price ~3:1 on the turn so there was no folding even if he showed me he held the nuts at that point. And by the river my last 220 was going in because I'd seen him stack off with A10 on a ten high flop a few hands ago for a thousand dollar pot as well. I'm only down 800 for the session but that was a huge hit to my roll considering I've been on a downswing and I've lost over half my live roll.

Then my brakes go on my car, I need a passport (which I applied for today), I have to pay money for my trip to Europe in 7 weeks (bye bye more of my bankroll), school sucks (got an 80 on an exam that I thought I got a 100 on, doesn't seem bad but the low grade was a 72) and I'm sick of work/being at home/everything.

At least I still have beer, guess since it's Halloween I'll go get drunk somewhere. If not, I'll go get some tea and grind a few tables online.

Still running bad

Not much new to update hence no update in a while. I've been running pretty bad at poker still. I've been playing online and I'm down about 4 buyins over a few thousand hands. I'm playing well for the most part (I ran some dumb bluffs tonight but I felt the timing was appropriate). But I'm losing alot of big pots.

I've been real busy with school/work and I honestly haven't been thinking much about the game. Hopefully this bad drought will end soon and I can actually pull in some money. I NEED MORE TIME IN THE DAY DAMNIT

Breakeven

With my 400$ loss last night im break even over 12 sessions of poker at Foxwoods now. I ran a 98 into AK on a QJ10 flop for a 450$ pot, and got flushed against my top 2 and against one TPTK. Not a fun night but 2 buyins, meh. I was up 100 to start too so that was a 500$ swing in about two hours. Eh, so is poker sometimes. I felt I played well however so I'm not too upset. The only thing that upsets me is the lack of bankroll progress I've had recently. It's been an up and down seesaw, and I really want to start taking shots at 2-5NL but I don't want to do that until I have 3500+ so it looks like it'll be a while until I reach the next level, unless I go on a heater that is.

That quiz I wrote about that I thought I got a 90 on but figured it would be a 60, I did get a 90 on. My econ exam I had the highest grade in the class and one finance exam grade was second highest. My finance exam I get back tomorrow however, I failed miserably. I didn't know anything on the exam and had to guess at so many questions. Ohh well, as long as I can pull a B in that class I'll be satisfied.

I'm not going to Foxwoods again until Friday, so that will give me some tiem to put in some hands online and do some real thinking about the game. I've had alot of ideas recently about poker and hopefully soon I'll make a couple of theoretical entires here and on 2+2 about my thoughts.

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It's usually the big pots,

that I lose. I was playing awesome yesterday. I was kind of card dead but played aggressive and was willing to fire multiple barrels with bottom pair, or weak draws, because I knew the players were decent enough that they wouldn't call three streets with second pair on a 3 flush flop. Then I opened up with 108cc from MP after a few limpers. I was isolating limpers alot. I get 2 callers behind me and one limper calls. Flop As 10h 8h. (65$) 2 checks to me and I sit for a few seconds then bet 50 because it's a fairly draw heavy flop. One caller folds and the donkey in the hand instashoves for 220$. The other player folds and I have seen him play one hand before and he was really a horrible player. He slowplayed monster hands against me before and given the possible draws out there I obviously called. He showed AQ. Turn 10 and I fill up leaving him with 2 outs on the river and the ellusive Ad peels on the river giving him a higher full house.

He ohhhhhhhh'd in amazement and I said nice hand sir. He kept appologizing to me but in no way was I sorry that he stacked off 110BB's into a 50BB pot with one pair while I was ahead. At this point he rolled his short sleeve shirt up to his shoulders, adjusted his sunglasses, took off his arm band that held his MP3 player, changed songs, and wrapped it back around his exposed bicep.

Tool.

I worked back up to even and flopping 2 nut hands helped in that sense. Right before leaving I picked up a JJ from early position that I raised and we went 3 handed to the flop. I checked it to both other players on a Qh 10h 6s flop. I guess it was being even that made me check here. I don't hate a check but I had c-bet about 80% of my hands. But this flop is so draw heavy I decided to not build a pot out of position because of the overcard, and my silly AQ friend was in there too. Turn was a 4c and I led for 30. One call. River and 8 and I check called a 30$ bet and he took me to value town with his set of 4s. Nice free turn sir.

So I played very well and ended up only dwn 90 over 4 and a half hours. I went Friday night as well and made 259 in 4 hours.

I ended up not going anywhere this weekend but I didn't really mind because I wasn't feeling to hot and drinking wouldn't have helped.

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Feel like crap

I'm sick so I'm skipping my classes today. Yesterday sucked and I totally bombed my exam, but The day before I think I did very well on my exam. Unfortunately, I'm not going to class so I wont know how I did until next week.

I went to Foxwoods last night (I know it's 4 days earlier then I said I would go), and I ran sick hot. Flopped quads, 2 sets, QQ broken twice for small pots though, flopped trips against trips where i outkicked him. Net 295 in a little over 4 hours. Not too shabby.

I'm not sure what I'm going to end up doing this weekend. I might end up in Atlantic City which I'd rather do then go anywhere else. Well see what happens.

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Monday Night Sports

I'm a Yankees fan and unfortunatley they are out of the playoffs. However I'm actually glad that they lost because they did not deserve to win. They left so many runners on base the last game it was sickening. And at least we lost to Cleveland and not Boston.

The Monday night Dallas and Buffalo game was insane. Tony Romo threw 5 interceptions and fumbled the ball once and with 2 seconds to go they kicked a 52 yard field goal to beat Buffalo. If you haven't seen the game I suggest finding a broadcast of it somewhere and watching at least the 4th quarter. The last 5 minutes of the game were amazing.

I still haven't ventured to the casino. One of my friends went Sunday and Monday night and I refrained from going because I told myself I would wait two weeks before going back. I have an exam today and one tomorrow but I have a feeling I'll end up down there tomorrow evening as a reward for the amount of studying I have done over the past few days.

This weekend I was supposed to go to Providence for Oktoberfest, but it was last weekend apparently, so now I have a weekend with no work and nothing to do. A friend of mine is going to Baltimore so I may go there, or just spend the weekend at Foxwoods and on Full Tilt when I'm not at the casino. Next weekend I will be up in Boston with my girlfriend for Saturday night but I'm supposed to be at work Sunday morning so I have to try and get something switched around.

Wish me luck on my exams!

Welcome Back

Well I decided I'd play a little session online today. I played 2 short sessions. The first one I was up 137 over 160 hands. Then I played again and played a little longer on one table because an 82/3 fish was at teh table but he always had a hand when I bluffed and when I was real strong he gave me no action So i ended up down 70 on that table but up 60 on the other table. So I'm up about 125 for today. Not too bad for my first session back.

I think I played well and was very aggressive during my first session. My second one I played tighter due to the loose guy, but didn't get too many good hands either. For the whole day I played 19/13/3 over 373 hands, which is fine for these stakes in my opinion. If not for playing so tight at the last table I'd probably be around 21/16/4. BB/100 today 17.06, sustainable???

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Back to running bad

The last two sessions have been miserable. On top of being card dead I've been getting coolered in some pretty big pots. Last night I turned the nuts only to be rivered by a gutshot in a pretty big pot. I'm down about 620$ in the last two sessions.

So I've decided I'm going to take a break from live poker for a few weeks. I'm going to hop back on and focus on my online game. I think this will be good for me because I won't be making 2 hours of driving time while going to play for 4 or 5 hours. That drive kills me making it 3 or 4 times a week.

I also am going to sign up for the gym this week and I don't want to have any distractions or desire to want to go to the casino or I will never make it to the gym.