I read quite a lot of poker blogs.. some of them are pretty boring and i hear many people comment on how it's no fun to see the same old bullshit about how someone wins a few buyins, or has a few badbeats. There are some exceptions - (I love Assasinato, Sauce123 & Nanonoko's blogs for example - and Sune & Peter write very good blogs!), but this has made me think about my blog and reflect a bit on if its really worth reading (i wonder if anyone reads it!).

I haven't blogged anything in a while so seeing as we're nearing the end of a poker filled month, i've decided to get my thoughts out here. I must have played about 15 tournaments today without 1 cash.

This comes at the end of a pretty swingy month which has gone something like this:

  • Lose online very early in the month (-£500)
  • Grind cash games over a week to win it back (+500)
  • Win an extra £500 and have biggest winning day in online cash (+~£500)
  • Have my biggest winning live cash game day - very fishy table (+£300)
  • The very next day have by biggest losing live cash game day (mainly losing flips) (-£550)
  • Win a bit back online (+£200)
  • Lose a lot back online - Tilt - move up - Tilt - Worst ever day online (-£1000)
  • Feel very sick for a few days
  • Have a good grinding session with some friends playing online, i swap 10% of a tourney with Tony who ends up busting $26 torney 14th/~1200 w/KK<AQ for chiplead pot - pretty sick finish, he gets $150 and 1st place is about $8.5k... I get $15!
  • I finally work out how to configure pokertracker HUD after using it for a year! lol
  • Decide to move down so play some small tourneys, - Chop a $5 donkament 2 ways for $300ish
  • Lose most of it back on rush 50NL within an hour
  • Last night I played the $26 rush 6max turbo - 3 way chop for ~$3600. (my biggest cash)
  • We play for the remaining $150 and I end up winning it!
  • Start thinking about trying to win a triple crown and bomb out of a $108 tourney on Ongame w/ATo on T9x flop vs T9 (obv)

This week i've managed to get some experience of deal making which has been pretty interesting and another aspect of playing online for me to work on..

It's easy to say after the event "i should have played it out for the win.." Of course i was always "going" to win and i had an "edge", but the thought of getting sucked out on for $1k or $2k, or flipping for it seemed too sickening so decided to go for the safe option and take the deal.

I lost a chiplead pot with 6 players on the final table w/ AJ<QT Allin Pre, and was short-stached after that, then i sucked out A6s>AJ.. We discussed deal 4 handed but couldnt agree so played down to 3.
When 3 handed me and 1 other guy were about even on 900k chips and chipleader had about 1.4mil - I got all in w AKs vs A3o and the river makes it a split pot.

After that we did a deal which gave $4300 to chipleader and $3600 to me and the other shorter stack.
We discussed it for a long time. I think in future i'll play for the win or push harder for a better deal, but i'm still pretty happy today!

I've not added it all up but due to the last minute tournament score November will be a winning month for me! I've been reflecting on a year of learning cash NLHE and trying to decide whether to continue playing cash in 2011 ?..? hmmm or just stick to tournements.

The work i've done has improved my tournament play a lot, and my cash game has definitley improved, but i just dont know if i will overcome the tilt problem, which doesnt seem to affect me so much in tournaments.

I'll make up my mind over the next month whether to give it a last shot in 2011 or go back to donkaments.


Am about to play the $100k guarunteed on Bodog & some Fullt TIlt tournaments!! GL ME!
This has probably been another boring fucking poker blog with the same old shit, but writing this stuff down helps me to clear out my head & who knows, maybe someone will read and get something out of it!

 

GL coinflipers!!!