Wednesday, February 13, 2008

New rules working

Poker went well tonight.
3rd in $10 limit SNG (10 players) gets a $9 profit. Happy and not happy with that - happy as had less than 2 blinds when it was full table and blinds 75-150 then not pleased as leader 3 handed (me and another guy were over 6000 and the other guy had 2500) and screwed it up - should have definitely played tighter to at least get heads up and another $10.
Got shortstacked by playing a pot with As7s - stupidly held onto it with an ace on the board and about 5 other players in pot. danger of limit I guess - was obviously outkicked but paid off anyway.
Then I'm the small blind with 3c6c at blinds 75-150 - someone makes it 300 to go - i've only 225 left so call and somehow that wins. Another good hand shortly after with KQ and I'm right back in it.
Screwed up 3 handed against the other big stack when he raises preflop and I call from BB with Kc9c - comes all low cards with 2 clubs so I bet the flop 300 turn (a blank) 600 river (i miss) another 600 and he calls with Ahi. Nice call - difficult to bluff in limit. went out 3rd shortly after!
Then bought into PLOH8 (25c blind) for $14 - played very tight - only hands with good hi and lo potential. A player told me I must like paying rake when I reraised him all in on the river when he had the nut low and I had the hi. I disagree - it makes minimal difference to the rake and if he has anything other than the nut hi or lo he probably folds and I don't have to share the pot. Maybe he'll call with a worse hi. OH8 players always make this point but for 50c extra rake I'd rather play normal.
I got quartered and was down to $7 when I had the nut low and also the nut flush draw but the guy has a straight and the nut low also. Grind back about to about $15 then win a nice 3 way pot with the nut flush and two people chasing low or weaker flush - that got me over $40 - then a few other hands went well and left with $57.
decided this profit means I can do a multi so finishing off evening with a $5 multi 150 players. Out of that in 30th - no money - never really got going in it.
So went well with my new rule of only one game at a time - paid much more attention to the game and to the players.
life apart from poker....
diet is going well 199 lbs now - i'm really not eating much - today was powerbar for breakfast - salad lunch - soup dinner. Been running or played squash every day for a while - the last 2 days i've been very tired from playing poker so late so only managed 20 min slow jog. I can't wait until June and it is over.
Been thinking a lot about Vegas and WSOP. Have decided would rather go in June and do 3 small events instead of Main Event in July. See schedule
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=3151500
the ones I fancy are 8 June OH8 10 June Limit (figure I might at least play one where I won't go bust 1st hand) 16 June shorthanded. So will need at least $10k - $6,500 for these and the rest for hotel living and flight.
Will see - for some reason the main event doesn't look so much fun so will probably do this instead of July.
Oh well that's about it - Happy Valentines Day:)
Closing roll $321.

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