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It goes on. The usual daily sessions. I'm silver for the month and will probably end up gold. I truly don't know why I bother - I'm not terribly impressed by the iron man rewards program. Perhaps it's just that I'm enjoying playing. Thank you Rush Poker for making it time efficient.
Tuesday's session recaptured Monday's losses in the first playable hand I saw. That was sweet.
Yesterday's session saw it given right back. Not so sweet. It took 800 hands before I saw AA or KK and I promptly got a walk with the first pair of aces. It ended up being the night of a hundred whiffs with AK - every time it was either a paired rag board, a monotone flop with none of my suit or my bets would be called all the way down by an underpair. Sigh.
Much of the damage was undone by one dubious play. Again with the 87 sooted 8d 7d. I was definitely on tilt at this point. A raise, a call, I call, button squeeze, two calls I feel like I have to call. Flop T96 two spades. Two checks, I open jam for more than the pot, the button calls with a set of tens (squeezing with tens? really?) and - miraculously - doesn't get there. Wat. Flopped straights aren't supposed to win.
I ended up down, but I'm basically exactly where I was on Sunday except I have more points.
Also in the 'one of these days' category I need to give some thoughts as to what I should do to try and fluff up my "roll" (LOL) at Stars. It would be nice to be able to play at a real level instead of being, you know, under-rolled for NL5. Since I've been playing so much NLHE 'cash' lately I'll probably stick with that and just deal with the inevitable LOLtastic moments.
Last entry to be filed under 'one of these days': I need to review my play to figure out why I'm dumping a lot more chips than I feel I should be. I mean, I was down nearly two buyins yesterday without anything close to a stacking - it was a lot of check/folding flops after I missed horribly. I suspect it boils down to multiple factors - (1) whiffing more than usual, (2) folding too readily to action on the flop and (3) calling/defending preflop with too many hands.
Find the leak, plug the leak.
And I'm out of time.
Tuesday's session recaptured Monday's losses in the first playable hand I saw. That was sweet.
Yesterday's session saw it given right back. Not so sweet. It took 800 hands before I saw AA or KK and I promptly got a walk with the first pair of aces. It ended up being the night of a hundred whiffs with AK - every time it was either a paired rag board, a monotone flop with none of my suit or my bets would be called all the way down by an underpair. Sigh.
Much of the damage was undone by one dubious play. Again with the 87 sooted 8d 7d. I was definitely on tilt at this point. A raise, a call, I call, button squeeze, two calls I feel like I have to call. Flop T96 two spades. Two checks, I open jam for more than the pot, the button calls with a set of tens (squeezing with tens? really?) and - miraculously - doesn't get there. Wat. Flopped straights aren't supposed to win.
I ended up down, but I'm basically exactly where I was on Sunday except I have more points.
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One of these days I'm going to get an iPod for lack of better ideas. I haven't been able to decide whether to get a Nano or a Touch. I'm leaning toward the 32GB Touch but I'm really not sure. Something else to waste time thinking about.
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Also in the 'one of these days' category I need to give some thoughts as to what I should do to try and fluff up my "roll" (LOL) at Stars. It would be nice to be able to play at a real level instead of being, you know, under-rolled for NL5. Since I've been playing so much NLHE 'cash' lately I'll probably stick with that and just deal with the inevitable LOLtastic moments.
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Last entry to be filed under 'one of these days': I need to review my play to figure out why I'm dumping a lot more chips than I feel I should be. I mean, I was down nearly two buyins yesterday without anything close to a stacking - it was a lot of check/folding flops after I missed horribly. I suspect it boils down to multiple factors - (1) whiffing more than usual, (2) folding too readily to action on the flop and (3) calling/defending preflop with too many hands.
Find the leak, plug the leak.
And I'm out of time.
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