Vacations are the nuts!
Well, I hadn't posted in a little while for a couple reasons, the big one was a great family vacation to the Caribbean. Let me tell you, there no vacation like one that has all day babysitting included in the price! While there I was able to get to a casino on the island, but it had only opened up two months prior and although they advratised Hold'Em on thier brochure, they said the table that got shipped to them was the wrong thing and they were still waiting for the replacement. I ended up playing about two hours of blackjack and finished down about the amount I drank in free Captain and Cokes.
Live Game
I've only played one live session since posting last, right before going on vacation, and I got hammered again. I was up, then down, then battled back up before losing my stack in two hands. My KK against a flopped set of 3s and on the next hand losing to the same person when my flopped set ran into a flopped straight. I posted about that hand on the Ring Game forum. Not much chance of keeping my stack on that one, I just couldn't put this opponent on 56 with the preflop raise and the size of the bets. Ah well.
Vegas Baby!
With the way I've been running a little bad lately, going to book my first losing month ever, I decided to take a break from the live game until a trip to Vegas I have coming this next weekend. Me and a group of long time friends go out every year for our fantasy football draft. We do it right, fly in from all over the country, rent a conference room and have it catered. You'd think we were making million dollar deals there with all the laptops and spreadsheets projected on the walls. It's a great time. We even rent tables and dealers at the Luxor to have our own private poker tournament. Good times.
Starting Some Online Play
My break from live play left me jonesing for some action so I installed FTP again and found I still had $47 in there from like a year ago. I decided to give the online game a real shot and really focus when I'm playing instead of treating it like a video game. I have to say, after about 1,100 hands of play I'm really enjoying it. I wouldn't do online totally in place of the live game, there's too much it's missing, but I have to admit there are some nice advantages. I've been four tabling and have run my account up to about $90 now playing $0.05 - $0.10 NL and I love that you can still play a tight game but be in the action so much more often since more hands are dealt per hour and I'm playing four times as many tables. I'm definitely going to continue this for a while.
Variance, Bankroll Swings and Poker Life
I've been reading a lot more on the 2+2 forums and poker blogs and such, just trying to get a better feel for the highs and lows of playing poker for a living. It has really helped me mentally be better adjusted for the swings and tough decisions that have to be made on a regular basis in this game. As is often the case in life, once you really start learning about something, in my case by playing a lot more and doing even more research, you not only learn things you didn't know, you learn how much more there is that you still don't know. As long as I continue to improve my game, keep an even keel mentally, and make good +EV decisions I'm going to be fine from the economic side of the game, and I'll continue to have fun playing it too.Statistics: Posted by dennerman — Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:41 am
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