bye bye September, I’m glad you’re gone

I took 3 days off which was great for me. I felt a lot better about everything before I played today.

I actually had a plus day, although it was in the two figures again 😛 Whatever, I’m not complaining. Anything to start moving in the right direction. Dave and I actually both went deep in the $55 500 cap but I busted in 18th and our dream of making a final table together was destroyed. He took 5th and capped off a beastly month.

I pretty much played more online poker than I ever have this past month. According to OPR I played 281 MTTs between PokerStars and Full Tilt which is not bad considering I have a part time job. Hopefully I get better at multitabling in the next couple months and I can increase the total.

I really feel like I’ve improved a lot since the start of September. It’s strange that I can say this after losing over $4.5k in one month of tournaments, but at least I don’t have doubts. There’s nothing worse than losing a ton and not knowing whether it’s because of horrible play or horrible luck. In my case I know I’ve run really bad, especially deep.

Obviously there’s a lot I can improve on. I’m still missing a couple shoves preflop when my stack is <15bb. I also sometimes don’t know what to do when my stack is between 15bb and 25bb. I need to have a bit more discipline and fold rivers to min raises when I know I’m never ahead. Another thing that I might want to improve is value betting thin on the river. Today I found that I was checking behind sometimes when I probably should have been bet/folding.

So yeah, all in all September was terrible but I know I improved as a player. So in October I hope to improve more and hopefully run better.

I really can’t wait until the new PokerStars tournament schedule comes out. A lot of the time I want to start playing between 1 and 3 (PST) in the afternoon but the schedule between these times is HORRIBLE. There’s just nothing to play. I really hope they fix this. I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with.

One last thing I’ll say is that I discovered that $82 Steps are an amazing way to satellite into the Sunday Million. They’re Step 3 on the ladder, I think? Very soft. I think I’ll start playing the Sunday Million every week this way.

Here’s to an amazing October!