Friday, April 14, 2006

Time to Start Writing

I keep telling myself that I'm going to start writing about how poker and life is going. Well now it is time. Today has been extremely relaxing. No school today since it is Good Friday. I woke up at about 11 and have left my room only twice today. I have just been watching some movies and i played some poker. Poker didn't go so great today. I played some 10/20 HU this afternoon and made about 1K then I saw a guy sitting all lonely at the 50/100 table and I decided to take his money. The exact opposite happened. I lost 1K on the first 3 hands and another guy sat so I decided to leave. booo. Later in the afternoon, I sat with this total donk at 30/60, but I was just running real cold. Then when I hit huge hands, he had bigger. It was just one of those sessions. I ended down about 1.5K and I then decided to call it quits with limit for the day. I always feel devastated whenever I lose 500 or more in a session, but then I remembered last weeks profit of over 10K and I decide to not let it bother me too much. I decided to play in the Friday Special, so I played 3 sngs qualifiers. I won with first, took 4th in the second, and took 2nd in the third and lost on a horrible beat but oh well. So I qualified for the Friday Special.

As for the Friday Special (200 +15 buy in), I was playing really well early on. I had 4500 in chips and AQd utg (blinds 30/60). I raised to 180, 4 callers. Flop As 9d 3d. Beautiful. I bet 3/4 the pot. Everyone folds to the button who calls. Turn Jd. NUTS! Pot is about 2000 and i decide to check. Button bets the pot and I push on him. He immediately calls with 99 and the river is a cute little 5c. My stack then is a little over 10K and I'm sitting well early on. About a half hour later, I have KK utg. I raise 3x and get 3 callers this time. Flop 5J8 rainbow, I bet the flop and get called by a station on my left. Turn 9. Ok good card right. Wrong. I bet, he pot and he pushes for not much more. He flips over 10 7. I guess he knew his gutterball was coming. I take a hit that hand and am down to about 4500 chips with the blinds at 50/100. Still sitting fine. I pick up a few small pots during the next hour and don't really build up a big stack until I see AQo in the sb (about 6000 chips, blinds 150/300). Folds around to the cutoff who flat pushes with 4500 chips. I call instantly and he flips over the very dangerous 34c. I am a little nervous until I see the Q door card. yeet yeet. But hold on. Flop Q35, turn 6, oh crap. River 7. I am crippled. A few hands later I am pretty much forced to push all in (1500 chips) with A10s and the bb calls with K9, K flops and that is the end of me. So a dissappointing Friday Special, but thats poker and that pretty much sums up how tourneys have been going for me the last 2 months or so.

Well this is kinda long so I'll end it here. I probably should get as much homework done during this 4 day weekend as possible so I wont be stressed out the remaining 2 weeks of school. I'll try to update this blog as frequently as possible. Time to get a good 12 hours of sleep then probably play in the absolute poker 100K guaranteed tomorrow. Until next time...

P.S. Jesus died for all. 3 more days...