The week starts on Tuesday

It was great not having school today since Monday is my toughest day of the week. However, poker was pretty frustrating today. I woke up at noon after coming back from my friend's house last night and played in a couple of 10$ mtt qualifiers. I busted out of those without making any noise. I then decided to play some super qualifier sngs. Even though I had a freeroll for tonight's Super Monday, I wanted to build some more up. So I played in those 2 this afternoon and took 2nd in both! This is extremely frustrating, especially after having a 5 to 1 chip stack on one of the guys heads up. I guess 2nd is better than 3rd though because you get your money back.
After the qualifiers, I sat down with 1,000$ at 10/20 on titan. After a little while a guy sat down with 100$. So I decided that I wanted would take it. I take down the first 2 pots and he is soon down to 30$. I put him all in the next 2 hands. I had the best hand both times when we put all our money in, but he eventually caught up and started building a stack. So we started to play real poker with his chip stack at a decent level. This player is toughest player I have ever played against. His plays were soooo unorthodox and I had such a hard time putting him on hands. I think he preferred playing out of position in the bb because he loved betting into me. So for the first 45 minutes, I was running extremely cold and he had built his stack all the way up to close to 600 and I was down to under 500. There were multiple times that I would raise in the sb, which I do every hand, then he would call. Flop would come and he would bet, I would raise, and he would call. Turn. He bets, i raise, he calls. River. He bets, I raise, he calls. This would happen so often, but usually I would have to fold on the turn or river because I had nothing and could not really do anything with my nothing because he was sure to call down. I decided I was just going to play fairly tight after the flop and wait to have a decent hand. I just cannot emphasize enough how odd this person's play was. He would alternate every other sb by limping and raising. I think he just decides before he gets his cards if he is going to raise or limp, I don't know. Anyways, I was extremely cold the first 45 min. I could not flop a pair to save my life and he hardly ever let me get away with taking down a pot that I had nothing. Of course the only times he folded out of the bb were the times I had AA. After 45 minutes, I was tilting really bad and had to force myself to take deep breaths and concentrate. After doing this, I started hitting some hands and of course was getting paid off. Another 45 minutes later and I had finally busted him. I had 1,017$ when I left the table. The rake took 83$ from us in an hour and a half. That's sad.
After that stressful session, I went and shot baskets and had a good workout for about an hour and a half before I played in the Super Monday. I got back to my room in time to play some more Super Qualifier sngs. I played 4 and was knocked out while having a dominate hand in 3 of them. Oh well.
8:00 came along and it was time to start win the Super Monday. 8:12 came along and I was out. haha. What a waste. I suck at poker. I lost more than a quarter of my stack with a semibluff. The guy was not folding though and I missed my flush draw. A few minutes later, I pick up QQ and push on a guy who raised in late position. He called with AK and a K flopped and I'm out.
Though poker was bad today, it was still nice to not have school. After poker, I watched a couple episodes of South Park (I have them all downloaded on my laptop) and Fun with Dick and Jane. So not a bad day overall. Time to quit blabbing. Maybe tomorrow will be my day.

P.S. This is a bs email I received today from Pacific Poker. I'm pretty disappointed because I make a lot of money from bonus points.

Dear Alex, This is Russell M. from the Operations Department at Cassava (Gibraltar) Ltd. Cassava (Gibraltar) Ltd operates "Pacific Poker". I am contacting you in regards to your Pacific Poker account with username "CUbball". Our bonus point's scheme in Pacific Poker is a great benefit that we are happy to present to our members. This scheme is not targeted towards expert poker players but rather to help the average player overcome losing streaks. Please notice that our Bonus Policy states that we reserve the right at our sole discretion, to deny any bonus or promotion, or rescind any policy in respect of that user, either temporarily or permanently. Since you are a very successful poker player (as can be seen from your total winnings), we have decided to stop bonus points from being added to your account. The current bonus points that you have in your account, can be converted to money and placed into your bankroll until the 25th of April 2006. From this date onwards, although your points will keep accumulating, you will not be able to convert them. Please note that this by no means will hurt any of your other privileges as a successful player on our site - we congratulate you on all your winnings and we hope to see you continue to prosper in our poker community. Regards, Russell M.

Screw this Russell guy.