I still can’t win money playing HU, but at least today was way less tilting than yesterday 🙂 I was okay for most of the day today.

The most tilting moment was when I rematched a pretty poor reg around 15 times and lost 6 buy-ins at $300s. It was pretty discouraging because I felt like he could do no wrong and that I ran bad, but the other side is that I wasn’t positive it WAS run bad and I was worried I was playing terribly. Luckily my good friend took the time to look over all of my hand histories, and while he pointed out a few minor mistakes, he confirmed that I did run badly.

Even though I had the rematch tilt, today was still infinitely better than yesterday was. Yesterday I was way more tilted than I should have been, and I really can’t explain why. It was just one of those days, I suppose.

I get “one of those days” probably every couple of months where I tilt an unreasonable amount over simple things, and I just feel really down about poker. These kind of days I usually just need to go to bed and end the day, and then I feel perfectly fine in the morning. It sounds sad that poker would do this to me, but I think it’s pretty common among poker players. Apparently these days get less frequent as time goes on (or so I am told).

Full Tilt Poker re-opened for business today, so I put a bit of money on there and sat some $200 lobbies. I only ended up playing a handful of games there and lost a few buy-ins.

Games were awful as usual on PokerStars. If it’s like this from now til the end of the year, I’m not sure how much poker I’ll be playing for the rest of 2012. It’s just ridiculous how little volume I was able to get.

I really don’t want to play lower than $100s, but I also don’t want to play regs all day or sit around waiting for lobbies all day. Not sure what I’m going to do.

Obviously losing a bunch makes a slow day of poker extra tilting. I feel like I lost and lost all day and in ridiculous ways. I haven’t felt this tilted at poker after a session in a very long time. I only lost 6 ABIs but it was just a horrible and tilting day.

Part of the reason I’m so tilted is probably because I feel like I haven’t won at poker for a really long time. October was a break even month and November has started off the same way. I suppose I should just be glad that I am running bad and I’m break even rather than running bad and down a ton.

I busted the WSOPC right before dinner break, so sadly no liveament success story for me this time around. While I had a good time sitting with people and interacting, it was still quite boring since 10-handed live poker means sooo much folding compared to hyper HU.

I was back to the online poker tonight, but the games were quite bad today. I played half my volume at 200s and then most of the rest at 100s. The handful of 300s I played were all against regs and mostly the result of regs sitting me.

I hovered mostly around break even today until losing a bunch in a row near the end of the night. I felt fairly tilted after the consecutive losses, but feel okay about losing just 6 buy-ins overall.

I would be surprised if games didn’t get worse from now til the end of the year since people will be trying to get SNE, so I expect poker to be fairly tough for the rest of 2012.

I played a late session tonight, and games were INCREDIBLE for around 2 hours. I didn’t have to play a single reg the entire time until the very end of the night, and I got to play over 2/3 of my volume at $200s and $300s.

I also ran great, which is obviously nice. Ended up +10 ABIs, so it’s a decent start to the month.

Tomorrow I’ll be playing earlier than usual because of the Quarterly Million on PokerStars. I suspect that the HU will be insanely reggy, and I hope that there are lots of fish online so that I don’t have to play $100s all day.

Well October is over and I suppose that I am fairly happy about it. The month was great in terms of getting better at poker and moving up in stakes. It wasn’t good where profit is concerned though, since I was only around +3 buy-ins over 1330 HU games before rakeback. AND HEM says I ran like 12 buy-ins over EV. Hmm. At least I ran good, I suppose.

I’m looking forward to November. I’ll be playing two liveaments: the $1.6k WSOPC event in Vancouver on November 4th, and the $2.5k LAPT Peru event on November 16th. I haven’t played live poker for a pretty long time, so hopefully I’m not too rusty. Aside from the two live MTTs, I’ll just be playing as many HU games as possible. I hope November goes a lot better than October.

Attempted to play a short session during the day just now and I can’t say it went well. There were a million regs online for most of it and I felt like I lost some ridiculous games. I also played 6 total $300s and lost all of them, which didn’t do much to help my bottom line.

Ended up losing 10 ABIs and ran 5 of them below EV, which feels moderately tilting. It hasn’t been a very profitable month where HU is concerned. One more chance to make October decent tomorrow.

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Today’s session was extremely annoying. I only lost 5 avg buy-ins but it was really tilting because I lost nearly all of it at $100s (and therefore lost a lot of times). There were a lot more regs online than usual on Saturday night, and the fish died down quite a lot. At the start I got a lot of $200s and $300s vs randoms, then I played a lot of regs at the end.

I ran awful and lost a bunch of buy-ins near the end of my session, so I am tilted at poker as usual when this happens 🙂 Gonna get out of the office and do something fun the rest of the night and get back to poker after the weekend.

I added $300s today mainly because games were slow and I didn’t want to add $60s. I ended up playing half my volume at $200s, and the rest was a mixture of $100s and $300s. I ran slightly above EV and ended up a few buy-ins overall. Where $300s are concerned, I lost a couple buy-ins over 14 games.

Games were partly so slow tonight because there weren’t a ton of regs online. I’ve been playing a lot of regs in $200s the last few days, so it was nice to get a break from that today. I didn’t really play many regs at $300s, either.

I’m not sure whether I’m going to try to play mainly $200s and $300s, or whether I’m going to try to play a bunch of $100s still. In general, $100s incredibly soft, so it’s an easy option. We’ll see how it goes, I guess.

The bad news is that today I ran almost 20 buy-ins below EV, but the great news is that I didn’t get tilted at all. Usually I’d at least feel very tilted at some point, especially considering all the 3-outers I experienced today. But for some reason I was okay with all the beats.

Maybe I was just in a good state of mind. I slept well last night, had a good work out in the morning, reviewed with a friend before my session, and ate properly today. Maybe it’s just everything combined and I just didn’t tilt as easily as usual.

As I talked about in my last entry, I usually feel pretty annoyed after a losing session, especially if I lost a lot of buy-ins near the end. Right now I feel great, though, despite losing 12 of my last 15 games. Pretty happy with this, and I wish it could be like this every time I have a losing day.

I do feel that I played pretty well today, though, so maybe that’s part of it. Sometimes when I’m losing, I’m not always sure if it’s because I’m just getting unlucky or because I’m playing badly. It’s a lot easier to control how tilted I feel if I know that I’m playing well and can’t help the fact I’m losing.