Poker

I played just over 8 hours today, and volume was quite bad. I started off the day hunting the same low stakes reg I’ve been hunting, and he sat/declined one of my $200s yet again. I called him out on it and told him that it would cause me to sit his lobbies even longer, and he trash talked quite a lot. He told me I was running hot and that he didn’t care if he played me anyway.

After that he promptly went offline so that’s that, I suppose.

Overall I feel like I had a really good day. I had one 45 min period where I was god moding and couldn’t lose. I felt like I won all my flips and hit every flop I was seeing. That was really nice and something I haven’t felt much this month, so it was pretty fun.

The rest of the day was just normal grinding and I think I did okay overall, which I’m obviously happy with. I’m just glad that I had a good day today after my blah day yesterday.

Today I did not enjoy poker at all. I felt extremely tilted all day over the smallest things, and I just felt uncomfortable and not in my element at all.

It wasn’t even that I was losing, although I am not sure I won either. It overall just felt like I ran average but everything was just way more tilting than usual.

I got most annoyed during times when I would go from no tables at all to five at once because my PokerStars lobbies filled at the same time and then I got sat on my Full Tilt tables at the same time, too. It seemed like this kept happening and I kept irrationally tilting over it.

I’m not sure if I just have leftover tilt from yesterday or if I was more sensitive to losing after yesterday or what. It’s stupid whatever it is. I’m glad the day is over.

I’m looking forward to March being over too.

I tried to play a session today, but it only lasted two hours because Full Tilt and PokerStars kept disconnecting. It’s probably good that it ended because I ran about the worst I’ve ever run in a 50 game span! I started the session off losing 16 straight, then I lost 13 buy-ins to a fish that said “great game, ty for 1k” and quit shortly after (obv after getting a few more).

I unfortunately had another week of runbad. I broke even after 1k games which I suppose is good for running bad but not really ideal for making money. This month so far I am pretty much a RB pro which is really frustrating because I am trying to make money to leave for Malta.

I could go to Malta without making another dollar if I wanted, but I really would prefer to have more of a cushion before I leave. The timing of the negative variance is pretty unfortunate.

Edit: my most loyal reader/grind partner/poker mentor/sushi-paying-friend wanted me to add the fact that I didn’t tilt during my bad stretch today. We were on call using Skype at the time and he said he didn’t know I was running bad. Yay! I did tilt, but it was in my mind 😛 Gotta tilt silently first, and then I can work on not tilting at all when I lose 😉

… for a special person! I got in trouble for not writing an update on Wednesday or yesterday, so here’s an update. For my most loyal reader <3

Today was pretty tilting. I had to play a reg for a couple hours, then the fish games were just frustrating for the next few hours. As usual I complained more than I should and I definitely went on slight monkey tilt when I had software problems and misclick min raise/folded vs a 5bb stack 🙂

I had an upswing at the end of the night when I won a bunch of $200s and also came 3rd/4th in one of the $100 hyper HU MTTs, though. That was nice, so at least I can leave on a good note.

My grind partner (and coincidentally the special person for which I’m solely writing this post for!) told me that he knows I ran good at the start of the week because I didn’t complain those days, so that’s a bad sign I guess. I have to work harder on not complaining.

Overall I’m just glad today is over because I’ve been in a bad mood all day. Back at it tomorrow.

Poker was fun today, so I think that means I must have run good =P

I spent the first half of the day hunting some low stakes reg that decided to sit/decline one of my $200 lobbies after running hot when I sat him at $100s. I actually added $60s to my lobby so that I could sit as many of his $60s as possible when I had table space. I probably can’t sit all his $60s cuz that’s just too many tables, but I’ll make sure he doesn’t get any $100s.

(moral of the story: don’t sit/decline someone that is going to make you pay for it)

The second half of the day I sat some 3/6 and 5/10 HU CAP along with my SnGs and that was pretty fun. I lost a couple hundred but my EV was good, so I’m happy with it.

Back at it tomorrow.

I was SO looking forward to today, and this time it wasn’t just because I’m a huge fish that wants to know their results for the week 😛 It’s because I’d played 6 days of poker in a row and it was my first (and only) day off this week. It’s been so nice to just relax and not play today.

Today was also results day, though, which I did not forget about 😉 This past week was the best ever for volume where HU is concerned, which isn’t a surprise because I played 40 hours of online poker and hadn’t done that since I played MTTs.

Since I had run pretty bad the week before, I decided to drop down and just play $100s for a week to pad the bankroll a bit. In the end I ran at 3.3%, which is maybe a bit higher than what I would expect for a $100 ABI. I took a look at my EV, though, and wow apparently I ran super hot. Apparently EV says I should have run at a -1.3% ROI? Hmm.

Now I feel sad. I wasted all my run good at $100s!!! 😛

I’m enjoying my day off while I can, but I’ll be back at it tomorrow. I’m looking forward to another solid week of poker where hours are concerned. I have more going on so it’ll be a lot tougher to get 40 hours in again, but I’m gonna try really hard.

Played another 9 hours of bad volume today. The entire day was pretty tilting and I’m extremely glad it’s over.

This past week I’ve realized how terrible many of the $100 regs are. It makes me laugh how quickly some of them mash the “accept” button in the rematch window. They’re losing at a solid 3% clip but they don’t care because of their giant egos.

Ego in poker is fantastic. It makes decent players a lot of money.

…of playing HU SnGs. I played a total of 9.5 hours which is the most online poker I’ve played in one day since I grinded MTTs. Volume was awful but I really wanted to play at least 200 games, so I stuck with it and I’m glad I did.

I’m pretty annoyed at the moment because I timed out of my last game of the night (no idea what happened, didn’t even know the table was there) and I got my chips stolen by a lower stakes reg. So he sat my lobby and stole my chips when I timed out, both of which are insanely annoying to me.

I have no patience for regs that deliberately steal chips from people. I was barely timed out for that long, yet I saw him sit there and steal my chips as fast as humanly possible. It’s just so scummy and such a bitch thing to do, especially when we played a few games vs each other earlier in the day.

It’s pretty sad if you are a reg and you feel like you have to steal chips from sitters/disconnectors in order to win a couple extra buy-ins. Maybe become a winning player so that you don’t have to steal your way to that $30 hourly or whatever awful profit you make.

/rant

Getting off the computer finally.

Worst week ever at HU at least, I don’t really remember my worst weeks playing other games! I lost around 40 average buy-ins and ran almost 50 below EV.

It sounds really stupid, but I am almost relieved to see that I lost that much money because this past week was very mentally taxing and hard to endure. If I’d felt that bad while losing less than that, then that’s a pretty bad sign.

Of course I need to get to the point where losing the money doesn’t bother me. I’m obviously nowhere close to there yet. My mental game needs a lot of work.

I’m now down for the month in HU SnGs which is obviously disappointing, but I feel mostly okay about it. I plan on playing a lot of hours this coming week and I’m excited to get back to winning.

A lot of people (including myself) have wondered why more woman don’t play poker. I definitely know that being a woman is -EV when it comes to poker if you just want to look at it from an emotional stability standpoint. Women have hormone issues once a month. It’s the truth!

What I’m trying to say is that I hate hormones and hope they die in a grease fire. And also that all things being equal, I’d make more money if I were a man.

/rant

Had one of my worst days ever playing poker. No clue how much I lost, but I know it was bad. I wish it were one of those days where maybe it just felt bad but maybe I broke even or made money, but today was not one of those days. Today was a blood bath.

Try again tomorrow.