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Ongame comes through. I must say I am surprised. They gave me a $11 and a $22 tourney ticket too.

Now on to a quick update. Last night I played <1000 hands of NL400 and a bit of NL600 and lost $2800. KK<AA, Nut flush < set, you name it. Ugh.

This morning I played 1000 hands and won $1500. Notable hand:


Stack sizes:
UTG: $294.00
Hero: $726.00
Button: $477.00
SB: $1.382.95
BB: $400.00

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with
UTG folds, Hero raises to $15, Button folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: ($34, 2 players)
SB bets $50, Hero calls.

Turn: ($134, 2 players)
SB bets $100, Hero calls.

River: ($334, 2 players)
SB is all-in $1220, Hero snap calls all-in because SB is a huge blufftard $561.
Uncalled bets: $559.78 returned to Hero.

Results:
Final pot: $336.44
SB shows JD 6D
Hero shows 10C QC

Ahh...gotta love the swings. Here is my SH play this month @ 5.78 PTBB/100. Check out the downswing there...that might be my swiftest downswing of all time in terms of buyins (lost more at NL1000 before but I don't lose 8-9 buyins in 1000 hands that often)

Your table image must have been stellar at the bottom of that goddam precipice.

Quick update for today. I've decided I can't clear all of my bonii as I had hoped. I just can't play 4K+ hands/day like H2T. Also, due to a quirk in Hollywood's bonii system I was able to claim the 1st of my 2 $500 bonii for October already so by not clearing everything I only lose out on the second bonus of $500...which is really only $350 when it is deducted from MGR. I just have to finish clearing the $2200 of remaining bonii by next month so I can collect my November bonii. I love saying bonii as you can tell.

So...today I didn't feel like playing much and didn't want to play the 400's when I wasn't motivated so I played the 200's at iPoker. Won $400 in 1000 hands. That puts me at +$2000 in 3200 hands since I deposited there again 3 weeks ago. 15 ptbb/100 I'll be taking a shot at the 400s soon...

Clearly 3200 hands is a huge sample size so I must be the best NL200 player on iPoker, maybe the world.

Since my last update I had a great Monday ($2200), a terrible Tuesday (-$1500) and an OK Wednesday ($450). Of course most of my losses came running bad at NL600. Happens every time.

I played some of the $400s at iPoker. The games seem beatable but there are seems to be a higher percentage of decent players (more "cardrunners' types). The average player is 25/14 over a small sample.

Here is one hand I think I really donked up...any thoughts? I always feel I need to play back in these spots some of the time. Villain was aggro and I figured he would be putting me on missed overs so I floated the flop and then when I picked up so many outs on the turn I went with it...meh.

Stack sizes:
UTG: $658.65
Hero: $420.00
Button: $149.90
SB: $676.90
BB: $410.00

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with
UTG folds, Hero raises to $15, Button folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: ($34, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $25, SB raises to $85, Hero calls.

Turn: ($204, 2 players)
SB bets $125, Hero raises all-in $320, SB calls.

River: ($844, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $844)


Results:
Final pot: $844
Hero shows 5H AH
SB shows 2D 2H


Another hand I found funny was I misclicked and called a raise in the BB with 74s. So of course I flop a flush draw so I decide I might as well play it aggro. I C/R the flop. Villain just calls so I decide to bet the turn. He calls again. I check river and he checks behind with middle set. In his defence the board was KJT78, but dude, you gotta get that allin somewhere.

Bottom line: I think I'm bluffing too much against the wrong players at the wrong time and getting burned.

Quick tidbit...I just noticed I have won 41 straight hands with AA. Knock on wood. 9PTBB/hand too.

Back on monkey tilt

I played a 3rd very short (like 20 mins) session and won back another 300.

Then I play tonight an lose another $2200.

Huge donk (he was running like 85/40) consistently outdrew me. It was sick. He called almost every flop bet, even with no pair no draw. He runner runnered me, etc all day.

Another guy limps and calls my reraise (I have KK) and flops quads. He called like 20% of his stack and of course hits.

Total for today -$3300ish. I hate poker.

Monkey tilt is a horrible affliction, but a hilarious phrase. I think that monkey tilt is the only aspect of poker that my non-playing friends like to hear about.