I played a good session today. The games were plentiful and I got a great ratio of $200s over $100s. I also played mostly randoms in my 200s, which was awesome.

I felt like I played well most of the time. I ran pretty badly today, and I mostly kept my tilt under control. I felt most tilted when I lost a bunch of SnGs in a row, especially when they were $200s. I could just imagine the way my graph looked in HEM and it was tilting 😛

At one point I wanted to look at my graph and just confirm to myself that I really was running bad, which is obviously a terrible idea. I managed to overcome this particular tilting moment and the rest of the session was mostly okay.

I haven’t updated for a while; I got a little lazy after a couple of my sessions and then I didn’t play for a couple days this past week.

I finally cashed an LAPT satellite today. It was a $22 3x rebuy that had a package for 1st and $3.8k for 2nd, and I ended up losing HU. I would have obviously liked to win, but I can’t really complain. It means that I’ve made a slight profit playing satellites since starting, which is much better than the amount I was down to start the day.

I played a late session today and didn’t play much HU during the satty, so I only played 30 SnGs. They were extremely tilting and I finished off by losing something like 8 straight to be down around 10 buy-ins. I stopped after that little stretch partly because games were bad but mostly because I was more tilted than I should have been. It put me in a pretty bad mood in the end, which is stupid considering I am actually up for the day.

That happens to me pretty often, though. The way my last hour goes often dictates whether I’m happy or annoyed at my session, not even taking into account profits or losses for the day. It seems pretty ridiculous, now that I think about it.

Gonna enjoy the rest of my Friday night. Tomorrow I’ll finally play a real day of poker.

Today’s session was really tilting for the first 3.5 hours and then really awesome for the last 1.5 hours.

I tilted a lot at the start and I’m surprised I didn’t stop playing. I’m also surprised that I got so tilted, but it was mostly because a lot of annoying things were happening at the same time.

I was having a bit more trouble multi-tabling than usual today, and I felt like I was playing a lot of regs at the start. I also feel like I had a lot of “OMG HOW” moments: when you get it all-in preflop and they somehow have the nuts again (or something similar). I knew I was really tilted when I had a lobby problem in the middle of my session and basically freaked out more than a normal person should about it.

Things turned around when it got later and I started to play mostly fish. I went on a really sick heater stretch where I basically only played randoms in $200s and lost almost none of them. I ended up finishing positive for the day, which is obviously awesome. I feel like I don’t deserve it, though, since I tilted so hard at the start.

Today my friend made me put “stop tilting when ppl play badly but still win” in my list of things to work on because he heard me tilting my face off while I played a reg. This is one of my biggest leaks at the moment (not sure if I should be sad or happy about this).

Aside from my reg tilt, things went alright today. I ran hot again, and again I played mostly $100s. I played only 8 $200s, and all of them were vs regs.

Today went well today since I ran really hot. I pretty much didn’t lose any all-ins.

My friend suggested I raise my max table count to 3 today, so I tried it and it went great. It makes sense that my volume was increased significantly by raising the max table count, but I hadn’t tried it before because I didn’t think I’d be able to do it. It was definitely frantic at times, but as long as I was focusing, it wasn’t too bad.

I guess we’ll see what it’s like to play 3 tables when I’m running badly 😛 Hopefully not anytime soon though…

I played a late session so the volume at $200s wasn’t very good. I ended up playing mostly $100s, a few $60s, and a few $200s. I finally got a couple non-reg $200s since it was so late in the day, which was really nice.

Back at it tomorrow.

Pretty tilted from today’s “poker”. I barely got any lobbies playing HU and wasted my time playing LAPT satellites. I played 3 satellites in total and they were all extremely tilting. I was in for over $400 playing the 22r 3x, which isn’t even that far from standard but still ridiculously tilting.

I’ve only played about 7 LAPT satellites so far but I think I am done with them except for the $215 every Sunday. The non-turbo buy-ins are just too small to make them worth my time, and the 22r variance is way too much for me. Probably make better hourly playing HU and definitely with less variance.

I reviewed hands today and discovered that I made quite a few mistakes in $200s yesterday. I’m not used to the increased aggression, I suppose, and overadjusted in some spots.

I was planning on trying hard to correct my mistakes today, but I sadly couldn’t get very many games above $100. Every time I did play a $200, though, of course I got snap sat by a reg. I don’t think I played as badly, but the sample size was much smaller.

$100s were good, though! Ran well in those.

Back at it on Sunday.

I only played 37 games total, 27 of them $200s. When I first started playing, I lost my first 5 out of 6 and it was pretty tilting. I’m sure I would have been tilted no matter what stakes I played since it was mainly versus one person, but I’m also sure the increased buy-in made me more tilted than usual.

Since I played only a few games, I don’t really have many thoughts on $200s vs $100s. I know that I played mainly (or only) regs because regs always sit new people in lobbies. The players that I played were certainly more aggro than I’m used to so I might have been a little slow to adjust to that. Mostly I feel like it went okay.

Lobbies were incredibly tough to get today. I’m not sure whether it was my computer or my Internet or a problem with PokerStars. I’ll find out next time I try, I suppose, which will be tomorrow.

I thought it would be good to document the fact that I’m about to load my first $200s HU hyper SnGs and I’m kind of nervous for some reason. I am not sure why I’m nervous cuz it’s not like I haven’t played $200 SnGs before, so it’s a little confusing.

I’m gonna have to play regs all day today, I think. GL me

Satellites to LAPT Peru started today. I made the final table of both package satellites but got 3 outered on one and 2 outered on the other. Pretty disappointing.

I’m planning on purchasing my flight to Peru this week, so if I don’t manage to win a package, I’ll just be buying one with FPPs. It will be pretty sad to not win one, though, since I’m planning to play as many of the satellites as possible.