Down Swing
Well the last two nights did not go too well. Playing on Cake at $100 NL I dropped 9 buy-ins total between two different sessions. First session I was tilting pretty bad and that cost me at least two buy-ins. I should not have even played because I was pretty tired and it was already late, but I forced myself to play. 3rd hand in I’m down a buy-in when I get all-in on the flop with Kh, Kx vs Ah, Kx on an all heart flop. Being the idiot that I am I decided to get a little tricky preflop when I decided not to 4-bet from position as villain 3-bet me out of the small blind. Villain check-raises the flop all-in after I bet almost the pot. The night was pretty much down hill from there. Tilting and what seemed like everyone in the free loving world hitting sets against me turned into a pretty bad night. I even had two people hit quads against me. I think at this point I can probably tell within the first 15 minutes or so of playing whether I am going to have a good or bad session. Not winning/losing because anyone can still play the best poker and come out a loser if the cards aren’t cooperating. Since last week was a slow week I kind of feel I forced myself to play those two losing sessions. Hopefully I can get back on track after a couple days off after I have cleared my head.Â
One goal for the month is to hit $1K in rakeback on Cake. I’m sitting just under $500 right now so I should make it with a couple long sessions during the next two weekends. The $1K should help with the down swing, but another goal is to play tilt free as much as possible for the rest of the month and win back the 9 buy-ins by the end of the month. I also need to start playing a bit more on PokerStars because I have a bonus that expires the first week of July. At the start of the year I had planned on making it to SuperNova on PokerStars, but that fell by the wayside after the first couple months of the year as I was playing the majority of the time on Cake and Full Tilt. Well I think I have changed my mind and will play tonight. I will post on the progress later tonight.