Love Tuesdays
Had a pretty good day yesterday winning roughly 7 and a half buy-ins at $100 NL on Cake. I eliminated all my losses from the weekend so that was very relieving. I decided to not take some time off, but to try and see if there was anything wrong with my game. Looking back over the weekend it just seemed like a rough stretch where I was cold decked and none of my big hands were getting a lot of action. Also ramped up the aggression a little bit pre-flop and on the turn. I have been playing on Cake and other sites which don’t have tracking so paying attention to how I am playing becomes that more important. I have increased my three-betting pre-flop and I am second barreling on the turn a lot more because Cake seems flush with players looking to float with air on the flop and then try and steal the turn.
I played two different sessions, one right when I got home from work for a little over an hour which netted me around 3 buy-ins. The other started around 10:30 pm a lasted around two hours. I almost didn’t play the second as I was already up from the first and was a little on the tired side. Was running pretty hot for both sessions, but the second one was a lot more up and down. Started off really good getting up over 3 buy-ins before three bad beats in the span of about 15 minutes brought me back to being up about half a buy-in. After the third bad beat I yelled and slammed my desk pretty hard with my hands which scared my cats quite a bit. For a moment it looked like I might go on tilt and lose my winnings from the earlier session, but I took a few deep breaths and just tightened up and tried to refocus. A couple orbits later I had calmed back down for the most part and just looked to start exploiting the weak players. It didn’t take long for me to get back up and I ended the session up almost 4 and a half buy-ins. For the most part I was pretty proud of the fact that I didn’t go on tilt and my anger was limited to a brief outburst. Looking back I think the brief outburst actually kind of helped as it allowed me to release some of my frustrations. Normally I will bottle it up and it I tend to stew over it which causes me to tilt and makes it a lot harder to refocus.
Plans are to remain on Cake for the week and will probably start playing on Bodog this weekend. Will probably split my time between the two for the rest of the month. Mirage’s post in the May Graphs/June Goals thread pretty much showed me that I need to get off my ass and focus a lot more on my game. Thanks Mirage.