Sorry for the delay...

Wow...

A lot has been going on poker wise for me in the last week or so. I apologize for the lack of updates, but work has kept me very busy. Pokerwise I decided I wanted to see how I stacked up against the rest of RTR in the $4.40 180 man games on Stars so I came up with an idea for a challenge were you received a certain amount of points for whatever position you placed in the 180 man games.

So far it has been a big success with 10 participants right now. Unfortunately a couple bad beats and more then a few stupid moves. I am way behind the curve with only 3 games left. I pretty much have to take down at least one and have final table in the next three games to have any chance whatsoever to win this thing.

On a better note I managed to take down a Sat to the Sunday million. I took the tourny dollars and donked around for the weekend. I played a couple higher buy in sats but nothing came of it. I then started donking around the heads up tournies. I played at levels from $2.20 to $35.00 and won a total of 18 out 22 games this weekend. I am not sure if it is dumb luck or if I actually have an edge in these games. I played one 32 man heads up tourny and took it down. The tourny consisted of 5 rounds of heads up play. I also played two 4 man games as well and won those.

I have decided to test out whether or not I have an edge in heads up games. So introducing HEADS UP HYSTERIA.

I will chronicle my adventures in the world of Micro/Low limit heads up NL tournies here...

The first few days...

Of my 180 man game experiment have not went horribly, but at the same time have not went great either. I have played 6 games and placed ITM twice. Which honestly by itself is not horrible. The thing that make me very angry is including those two games i had a mid to late game meltdown where I just forgot what the hell I was doing for a matter of minutes. I really need to work on my control in the middle stages of the game. I dont mind looking stupid as long as I am learning someting constructive. Its whenI do dumb things like try to repop someone with 73o when I know they prob wont fold.

On a brighter note I have been made a moderator on Raise the River I hope to live up to the crazy brits expectations.

Once again I know that my blog has been dry as of late, but I swear once my promotion test is over I will have more time to devote to my poker. I only hope to have a few 180 wins under my belt by then.

For the near future...

With everything going on I have found it hard to find the time to play very much poker. After playing several games and bubbling them all. I decided that I wanted to think long and hard about what kind of games I wanted to start playing. I have determined that I will play the 180 man SnG's on Stars. This will limit my play by default. As I will not be able to start a game without at least 3 hours of free time.

I also feel if the cards fall right that playing these until after I take my promotion test in Feb/Mar time frame. I will have hopefully built a decent enough bankroll to take over the world...

My current bankroll is enough for me to play 30 of these 180 man SnG's. My goal will be ot final table 1 out of 10 that I play.

Mistakes...

Well I took a nice break, and really came off of it feeling refreshed. I also learned I do not have to play poker every second of every day. I actually have only played a few 2 table SnG's and a couple of Sats since I came back. Unfortunately I have bubbled everything. Normally I would be upset but I know I made some mistakes and I am working on correcting those mistakes.

Talking about mistakes I was thinking about them earlier. Being in the military I see ppl make mistakes and them try to cover them up or not admit they fucked up so they will keep continuing down the wrong path eventhough they know the majority of the time it is not going to turn out in their favor.

This is human nature I guess because myself and just about every poker player I know falls into this trap. They play a hand they know they should not be playing and when the flop comes they are faced with a difficult decision. At this point instead of admitting to themselves they fucked up they will "outplay" the individual and end up against a huge hand. The hands normally end the same

"I never put him on KK"

"who plays big PP like that"

Very seldom is it I should binned the KJs preflop.

Unfortunately I don’t have the answer to this, but I thought it was an interesting observation