Mum poker

Decided to give the cash game a go today.  Found a juicy table.  There were a few players that were seeing over 50% of flops.  I avoided the good/tight players and only engaged with the fishies.  One of them got the best of me twice with an inferior hand that hit a miracle, but I [...]

Saturday!

Good run during the day.  Very good in fact.
Went to Target for some shopping and felt a little woozy and realized I hadn’t eaten since 11am (it was around 8pm) – so I hit the new Chevy’s that opened up by my house.  Had a few margaritas with dinner and thought it’d be best if [...]

Update by request

I’ve experienced a few pretty rough days to be quite frank.  I was really really getting my ass handed to me.  It was getting so bad that I re-enabled chat and got a bit mouthy with the administrators of my bad beats.  I kept playing “angry” and wanting to get even.  It’s a downward spiral [...]

WOW!

Wow – just played one of the hardest games ever.  The buy-in was steep.   There was a shark playing that I’d played with before.  In my notes it said that we really respected each other, so I was sure to greet him when I sat down (I turned on chat just to do that).  It [...]

Saturday Afternoon

Spent the morning configuring Hold Em Manager and getting the HUD the way I wanted it while lounging at the locale cafe.  Set it up to not just import my hand histories, but observed table hand histories as well.  Good for data mining, etc.  While I watch tables and saw who the “sharks” were, I [...]

Software Discovery

I’ve been a bit peeved at PokerOffice of late.  Seems that every time there’s a FullTilt software update, PokerOffice is broken…and not fixed very quickly.
I started searching for other tools to use with HUD stats.  PokerTracker seemed natural.  But I wanted to find other options.   Alas, I stumbled on HoldEmManager – which can be found [...]

45-Player Tourney – Afterthoughts

Played a 45-player tourney yesterday and was running well.  Lasted till the final table with an average chipstack and was in good shape to slide into the money – it paid thru 6th place.
I wake up w/ AQ and raise.  The large-stack, aggressive player shoved all in.  I’d seen him do it in the past [...]

Week to date

Sort of stagnant to be honest.  No real ups, no real downs.  Pretty much even.  On Monday I didn’t play at all – just cracked the books in order to reset and recharge the batteries.
Played a few tourneys that didn’t end as favorably as I’d like.  I was literally the chip leader several times as [...]

Donkey Test

Today I had an appraisal to take care of in the morning.  After knocking that out, I was pretty tired and didn’t feel I’d be at my best if I played poker – so I chose not to.  I watched some of the 2008 WSOP coverage on the DVR instead.  One of the guys at [...]

Partial recovery

Wow – morning mocha, hitting the reset button, and remaining unemotional about yesterday was good stuff.  On top of that admitting that the guy from yesterday, though a maniac, was able to play that style successfully turned out to be a recipe for good things so far today. 
I’ve played 4 tourneys in the last [...]