August 5, 2006

Took a few days off, time to get down to business. Just getting started, might play a few MTTs today too...i know i can play them, but i feel i can be disciplined today!

doing ok...hands not holding up too well today, but managed a 2nd and i bubbled...real shitty. i might take breaks from blogging...it just becomes too much.

Ah, i was venting earlier...i know keeping a blog keeps me focused and documents my progress...i understand its value as a tool, but it just becomes part of the grind. I have been going through a slow spell here...good hands, getting in with the best, and losing. i am playing a MTT right now..made a move and got to even..then won a little one before the break and went up to about 3900 chips. i have just over 8000 right now..trying to be good. next break is 40 mins away...lets see what happens. i might start up a few $44 MTTs.

Just entered the $44 MTTs and fired up a $55 sng. i busted out of the 20k MTT when my AJ lost to KJ. I smoked this guy a few hands ago, and he spite called me and found out he had 3 outs. only to hit his king on the river...i woulda had over 10k in chips, but i was left with 3000, then lost AQ vs 99.

Played 2 sngs, took 2nd in both...busted out of one of my MTTs, but doing ok in the other...just lost a few chips before break, but still sitting ok.

This is priceless....so i get pretty deep in the MTT im in...28 people left, i have a decent stack, i get AA...i raise, get reraised and we are all in, we both have AA and split...8 hands later or so, i get AA on the button...i call the preflop raise and both blinds come along...3 fuckin hearts on the flop, and i get all in with the nut flush draw and 2 people called with flushes...i miss my flush, but damn, the fuckin flush on the flop cracked my aces pretty quick...damn, its hard to take sometimes...so AA twice and nothing to show for it.

Unreal...i need to quit poker lol these beats are too much...i have 10s preflop, raise 2 callers, KQ 10 flop...i raise, one caller...we get all in on the turn, he has KQ for 2 pair and gets a king on the river...all night lost JJ to 44 when he got the wheel on the turn...AJs to A2 to bubble...AA to J8..fuckin unreal.

I was in a huge pot multiway and i flop the nut flush...only to lose to the str8 flush...just crazy.

I was pretty undisciplined this weekend...i need to refocus and start playing sngs with a new sense of urgency...play smart!

Bubbled in the $10k guaranteed...so made it pretty deep. I could have blinded it out into the money, but i was looking to make a move. the play on MTTs is just so terrible its amazing. people call and bet with anything. that will be the last MTT for me for some time...i need to concentrate on grinding. poker truly is a grind, i am not having too much fun with it right now.