Schneids
06-28-2004, 05:36 AM
Day Forty Four (June 25), Day Forty Five (June 26), and Day Forty Six (June 27) -- 06.28.04, 03:36
Do you see that white flag? I think I'm psychologically heading towards resignation andn acceptance that my goal was too ambitious for its own good. This weekend, I was simply unable to get myself to log any substantial hours for the quest. This makes no sense, because weekend games are some of the best games of the week. On Friday I played an hour before dinner and won $1610, then 3-hours after seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 and lost $730.67, putting me at $879.33 with 4-hours of play. On Saturday, I didn't do any playing outside of Party's $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament. That whole experience was frustrating thanks to the extensive pause that occurred. My plan on Saturday was to play the tourney until I busted, then meet up with friends for a going away party. I lost my stack uneventfully in a desperation blind steal all in with QTo, and finished the tourney low-300's. It was a good experience and I think I took a lot out of playing in it. I made a couple mistakes, but think I played well and did a good job gradually building a stack with low risk opportunities. So, I ended up with friends around 8:30 and proceeded to have a very fun night. Yay for fun, but having another zero-day in this quest is a killer.
This Sunday morning, I woke up at 11:30 and tried getting myself out of bed, but this effort proved to be stupid as I felt like a hung over piece of crap. I went back to bed intending to sleep it off, and woke up again at 3:30. I played some poker from 4:30 to 5:30, and lost $620 while making some nice second bests in both 10/20 and 15/30. For what it's worth, I think the 15/30 full tables actually provide me with more variance than 10/20 6-max (not on a hand to hand basis, but rather using time itself to measure the extent of variance). At least with the 6-max, I'm seeing 25% of flops and actively playing in dozens of hands every hour at each table, where as in 15/30 full I have a VPIP of 17 and feel like I'm rarely playing in hands... All of which means having bad luck in the couple of hands I do play in results in it taking an awful long time to reach that long run. Plus, I've found it annoying how slow some people are in their preflop actions at 15/30 full. I'm really surprised how many people take forever doing something. I feel like I'm keeping up better than most of the table even with the fact I'm playing five other tables.
In my night session for Sunday, I played ring games for a quick half an hour, and won $84.50. So the total for Sunday was 1.5 hours of ring game play and -$535.50 to show for it.
Thanks in part to playing in Saturday's tournament, I'm starting to get bit by the tourney bug. So, this past night I played in two $50+5 NL multis... In the first one out of more than 650 entrants, I finished in the money – though barely (top 70 paid and I finished in the second or third pay bracket). In my second tourney, I busted out around 70th out of a little over 200 entrants. The most interesting hand from this tourney happened when I limped with KK UTG. Two others limped, and a flop brought KT5 with two diamonds. The SB bet and BB raised, and I called. The turn was a T and they checked to me. I figured at least one was on a draw and would pay off a medium sized bet, so I bet around 250 into a 700ish pot. Both called. River was a blank and they checked to me, I bet 800, BB check raised me all in (about another 800) and I had an easy call to beat his T5 boat.
Is 15/30 extremely loose or am I finding some bad tables? Two limpers, and I limp with QhJh in the CO. All others fold and it's BB and two others to a flop of Kh6s2h; BB checks, first limper bets, second one calls, I raise, and everyone folds. What? Winning the pot uncontested right then and there was just about the last thing I expected to happen.
Maybe I was just on a bad table, because this hand falls more in line with what I expect to see from Party clowns: UTG raises, I cold call in MP1 with AdAh, MP2 cold calls, BB calls, and we see a flop of 7c6h2h; BB checks, UTG bets, I call, MP2 calls, BB folds. Turn 3d; UTG bets, I raise, MP2 folds, UTG 3-bets, I cap, UTG calls. River 5d; UTG bets, I call. What does UTG hold? Easy. 4h4s. If I knew my 3rd pair plus gutshot was going to be made a winner on the river too, I suppose I wouldn't stop betting, would I?
My consolation is I had a plan, I executed it, and got as much action as I desired thanks to my PF and flop calls. Maybe these games are safe for awhile.
Occasionally, I miss value bets that I'm not sure whether I need to be making or not in 10/20 6-max: I'm UTG and raise 8s8c, all fold to the BB who calls. Ad7s6s flop, check, I bet, call. Turn As; check, I bet, call. River 6c, final board Ad7s6sAs6c; check, and I check, and win against BB's Kh2c. I can only assume if he called my turn bet, he'd have happily called a river bet with aces and sixes with a king kicker.
I'm going to try very hard to renew my dedication to finishing this quest tomorrow. I think making this journal tonight after three days of not creating one is helping to clear my head and mend my ego that hates the thought of failing at goals. There's still two weeks, and even if I have to average something like $2,000/day, you never know. After all, the Pistons did win the NBA championship.
Total for Day 44: $879.33
Total for Day 45: $0
Total for Day 46: -$535.50
Goal to date after 46 days: $31,484.58/$60,000
Do you see that white flag? I think I'm psychologically heading towards resignation andn acceptance that my goal was too ambitious for its own good. This weekend, I was simply unable to get myself to log any substantial hours for the quest. This makes no sense, because weekend games are some of the best games of the week. On Friday I played an hour before dinner and won $1610, then 3-hours after seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 and lost $730.67, putting me at $879.33 with 4-hours of play. On Saturday, I didn't do any playing outside of Party's $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament. That whole experience was frustrating thanks to the extensive pause that occurred. My plan on Saturday was to play the tourney until I busted, then meet up with friends for a going away party. I lost my stack uneventfully in a desperation blind steal all in with QTo, and finished the tourney low-300's. It was a good experience and I think I took a lot out of playing in it. I made a couple mistakes, but think I played well and did a good job gradually building a stack with low risk opportunities. So, I ended up with friends around 8:30 and proceeded to have a very fun night. Yay for fun, but having another zero-day in this quest is a killer.
This Sunday morning, I woke up at 11:30 and tried getting myself out of bed, but this effort proved to be stupid as I felt like a hung over piece of crap. I went back to bed intending to sleep it off, and woke up again at 3:30. I played some poker from 4:30 to 5:30, and lost $620 while making some nice second bests in both 10/20 and 15/30. For what it's worth, I think the 15/30 full tables actually provide me with more variance than 10/20 6-max (not on a hand to hand basis, but rather using time itself to measure the extent of variance). At least with the 6-max, I'm seeing 25% of flops and actively playing in dozens of hands every hour at each table, where as in 15/30 full I have a VPIP of 17 and feel like I'm rarely playing in hands... All of which means having bad luck in the couple of hands I do play in results in it taking an awful long time to reach that long run. Plus, I've found it annoying how slow some people are in their preflop actions at 15/30 full. I'm really surprised how many people take forever doing something. I feel like I'm keeping up better than most of the table even with the fact I'm playing five other tables.
In my night session for Sunday, I played ring games for a quick half an hour, and won $84.50. So the total for Sunday was 1.5 hours of ring game play and -$535.50 to show for it.
Thanks in part to playing in Saturday's tournament, I'm starting to get bit by the tourney bug. So, this past night I played in two $50+5 NL multis... In the first one out of more than 650 entrants, I finished in the money – though barely (top 70 paid and I finished in the second or third pay bracket). In my second tourney, I busted out around 70th out of a little over 200 entrants. The most interesting hand from this tourney happened when I limped with KK UTG. Two others limped, and a flop brought KT5 with two diamonds. The SB bet and BB raised, and I called. The turn was a T and they checked to me. I figured at least one was on a draw and would pay off a medium sized bet, so I bet around 250 into a 700ish pot. Both called. River was a blank and they checked to me, I bet 800, BB check raised me all in (about another 800) and I had an easy call to beat his T5 boat.
Is 15/30 extremely loose or am I finding some bad tables? Two limpers, and I limp with QhJh in the CO. All others fold and it's BB and two others to a flop of Kh6s2h; BB checks, first limper bets, second one calls, I raise, and everyone folds. What? Winning the pot uncontested right then and there was just about the last thing I expected to happen.
Maybe I was just on a bad table, because this hand falls more in line with what I expect to see from Party clowns: UTG raises, I cold call in MP1 with AdAh, MP2 cold calls, BB calls, and we see a flop of 7c6h2h; BB checks, UTG bets, I call, MP2 calls, BB folds. Turn 3d; UTG bets, I raise, MP2 folds, UTG 3-bets, I cap, UTG calls. River 5d; UTG bets, I call. What does UTG hold? Easy. 4h4s. If I knew my 3rd pair plus gutshot was going to be made a winner on the river too, I suppose I wouldn't stop betting, would I?
My consolation is I had a plan, I executed it, and got as much action as I desired thanks to my PF and flop calls. Maybe these games are safe for awhile.
Occasionally, I miss value bets that I'm not sure whether I need to be making or not in 10/20 6-max: I'm UTG and raise 8s8c, all fold to the BB who calls. Ad7s6s flop, check, I bet, call. Turn As; check, I bet, call. River 6c, final board Ad7s6sAs6c; check, and I check, and win against BB's Kh2c. I can only assume if he called my turn bet, he'd have happily called a river bet with aces and sixes with a king kicker.
I'm going to try very hard to renew my dedication to finishing this quest tomorrow. I think making this journal tonight after three days of not creating one is helping to clear my head and mend my ego that hates the thought of failing at goals. There's still two weeks, and even if I have to average something like $2,000/day, you never know. After all, the Pistons did win the NBA championship.
Total for Day 44: $879.33
Total for Day 45: $0
Total for Day 46: -$535.50
Goal to date after 46 days: $31,484.58/$60,000