| Although it is hard to swallow a bad run, it does
make me chuckle when I think how similar poker can be to life. When you`re
flying high, you sometimes don`t see the bumps when they come your way. I
have realized that I am a "momentum" player. I am not sure whether this is
good or bad, but I do feel like when I am on a roll, my judgment and
decision making seems better. I find a bit of desperation creeping into my
game when things are not going my way. This was a pretty crap week on the
whole, with the only shining light being a fairly solid finish in a multi
table tournament. Here`s an overview of how the week went:
1. Played my first $50 buy-in game and found it heavy going. I didn`t get
much in the way of starting hands and started limping in with rubbish and
got into trouble with marginal hands. In general found the action to be a
lot tougher, and often got re raised. Finished 5th, but really just hung
around.
2. $20 Sit & Go - continued playing crap, weak poker. Went down to $200
in chips and pulled off a couple of spectacular all-ins. Gave myself a good
talking to, tightened things up and steamrolled it. Felt a lot better.
3. Marc decided that we should play a $20 multi table tournament and he
would monitor and provide input. Started really well and made some very good
calls, a couple of good steals and one or two good traps. The cards were
coming which helped. Reached the break with around 10000 chips. After the
break though things took a turn for the worse. Got a run of really bad cards
and for some reason ended up at the table with all the chip leaders and some
serious trash talkers (I see the biggest trash talker went on to win the
thing). I just couldn`t make a move and eventually went all in with AQ, got
called by AT and he sucked out a straight. Finished 17.
4. $30 Sit & Go. Sat and went.
5. $30 Sit & Go. Went a bit better. Sat for longer (5th). Again tried to
keep with a tight strategy but you need some cards. Speculated once by
calling a raise with 22 and flopped a set. Laid a nice trap, but that was
all that was worth remembering
6. Regular cash game. The regular crowd weren`t all there. A new player
joined us and took ALL the money. He was SUPER aggressive. Raised in late
position on just about every hand, even after a raise. Could not get a read
on him, and whenever one of us decided to call him, he seemed to hit his
hand. $40 gone. |
