Up and down and up and down....getting sea sick.

So as of late as I have added SLIGHTLY more hands into my game I have experience more fluctuations into my bankroll, confidence, etc. Nothing dramatic but the swings each day have been closer to the 100 or more mark, and not the 20-40 dollars as before. Not a bad thing but I did think that it deserved a comment.

In my quest for winning a ticket to a 100 dollar tickets (And WOO HOO for Felter for winning me one :). I have come up OH SO SHORT a couple of times. I make the "money", but always a place or 2 away from the ticket. But it will come......I HOPE.

And I just found a website called http://www.officialpokerranking.com that gives me hope. Says that in MTT's I am in the money 26% of the time. I am sure that is not great but 1/4 is a great place to start. I would love to get that up to 1/3.

...and I am back in the saddle. Took me 24 hours.

So I got it all back and more in almost exactly 24 hours. Through some patience and a couple of tough, and one lucky call. Actually got it back and a little more. While tying this though I did learn that KKK beats JJJ, even if the K only comes on the river. Bah.

Pretty happy with the recovery. I just really tried to make it back no hour by hour, or even hand by hand, but decision by decision. Really not trying to get caught up in any flow but looking at each decision and deciding if what I was doing was the best thing. It really worked. Did not get distracted and although a couple of times there were some coin-flip type situations I was never really at risk for any serious amount of money where I was an underdog when the cards were turned over.

Really have to work on avoiding any of the situations of where I would call something just becuase I was up huge and could "afford" it. Quite simply that is retarded as you can NEVER afford to make stupid decisions. That is when you need to stop playing.

Tilt Sucks. About $200 worth of suckage.

Ok, so I am pissed at myself. Sitting here beside Felter as I write this all calm, but internally just MAD AS HELL at myself. And here is why.

There was a player at one table just being hyper aggresive. And that I am fine with as I have patience for that. Wait and strike. So I did. Finally had AK on the button. Called the dollar. He is on Big Blind. He makes it 11, so I make it 20. He calls.

Now here is where I made my mistakes...

Flop is QQ something. I am sure he missed. He makes it 10...I push. (Now no need to tell me why this is wrong, I know why). I needed to hit before that. Anyhow. So I did...and he waited till the very end and called. Pocket nines and with only 2 more cards to come I did not hit. So I lost my 100. But I am sure I proved that you can not just push me around :)

Now that was bad, but this is worse.

Very next hand, but at another table. I get pocket QQ's. Someone makes it 4 dollars, and I call. (I was too tilty to even be thinking straight and re-raise to get some more info). Flop is undercards, and without that info I end up all in after a couple of raises. Of course he had the aces, and on any other hand i would have been smart enough to find that out before all my money was in. I mean I made that fold last night.

So I just essentially gave back 200 or 10 percent of my bank roll just because I am not that good and can get tilty. Now I am not saying I should not have not lost any, but I should have


ok...as as I am typing this, the stupid laptop had locked up when I had Kings to the river and lost another 25-35 there. My new challenge is just to make up for this bone headed play today.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Slowly but surely....

I am really starting to believe that it is the small wins that get your to where you want to be. Have not posted much in the last week because I did not think there was anything exciting to post.....till I realize this morning that is a GOOD thing. Of course you are going to have your occasional races but I believe that a solid cash game player should MOSTLY be in charge of his game and his growth. Sitting at just over $2200 now and 1/5th of my way to my goal of 3k by my birthday (Looking at going from 2-3k).

Finished 2nd in a live 10 person tourny on new years eve! Props out to Mike's sister to push all in with an open ended straight. Never expected that from a newer player, and she hit on the river.

Finished up close to 100 today with a combination of solid play and a lucky suck-out where my Jacks caught their set against a smaller stacks all in with AA. Proof that it does go both ways.

Outside of a couple of bubbles for small cash and no tickets, nothing yet from my attempt to enter small multi-table tournies for larger tourny tickets. But i have come close so I do believe I will eventually have some success.

And finally I hear rumors that Felter's announcement of his retirement was premature and that he may be back in the saddle. There is always HOPE!!

And the 2007 starts off with a ......ahh fuck I suck.

Well not that bad. Just had one of those sessions where I only played a few hands. Had KK to AA. AK to AA with a K flop (That one only cost me 45 dollars) and a Set flopped to a gut shot straight on the river. All in all about 100 down when I could not seem to dodge the bombs for the life of me. Not horrified as the hands played themselves. I just take this as the lesson where this is why you play within your bank roll limits as you can run bad and you need to just try and minimize the losses. I tried....
....could have done better....but tried!!