I cashed!!

I made the money in the latest $1500 event, finished 169th For nearly $4K. It was obviously a bit annoying not to make any real money but nice to have the first cash of the series. I ran really well in the first 8 levels to get up to a very healthy 65K in chips but the lost a 60K pot with AK v JJ. If i had won that pot i would have been i the top 10 going into Day 2. Unfortunately i suck at winning important flips and lost another one in the third level of day 2 to bust.

I'm playing the $1.5K on Monday and obviously hoping to keep my amazing streak alive. It also looks like i'll be playing the main event but only keeping a small % of myself.

0 and 4

I played the $1.5K shootout today and came 4th. I never really got anything going but i think i played fine. Ended up losing QJ v AK in another boring, standard hand. Next is another $1.5K on Wednesday. I hope England are safely through to the last 16 of the world cup by the time i take my seat.

More Fail

Busted the $1K in level 5 today. The hand was a total cooler. I had top set, he had an open ended straight flush draw and got there. It was a 13K pot playing 100/200 so obviously that would have been a nice one to win.

Can't stop losing

I thought it might be a good idea to play some online poker, it wasn't. Lost $3.5K playing 2/4 running like shit and tilting a bit. I can't stop losing at the moment and it's getting hard to take. For the first time in my life i'm hating the game and how unfair the variance can be. I'm 100% not playing online again whilst i'm out here.

0 and 2

Busted the $1.5K on day 1. I got off to a fast start chipping up to 11K from 4.5 start then this happened:

75/150 UTG+1 limps (playing to many hands and not playing them very well). I iso from CO with KQ to 500 playing a 11K stack to his 9Kish, everyone else folds and he calls. Flop AJ10 all spades, i have Queen of spades. He checks, i bet 675, he calls. Turn is off suit 9, he checks, i bet 1250, he calls. River ace, he leads for 3.3K, i call, he wins with A9 no spade. It was quite disgusting for me to lose that one and i never got anything going afterwards. I probably could have folded but it certainly wasn't an easy fold or a big mistake to call in that spot. I'm going to chill for a few days then play the $1K on Saturday.

$2.5K 6-max

I busted playing 300/600/75 when i re-shoved 1010 with 20 bb's and got called by AJ, fairly standard.

I think the overall standard in the tourney was quite high. Of the 15 opponents i came up against only 2 were bad players and 6 or 7 seemed to play very well. I think i played well. I certainly didn't make any big mistakes but i think i made one small one. I basically made a bluff that was fine but I'd just lost a fairly big pot and might have had a tilted image. This is obviously a good time to go for thinner value and not make a big bluff, oh well.

Next up is the $1.5K tomorrow.

Downswing

The last week has been one of the hardest that i've ever had to endure. I've lost $7K and gone through a very wide range of negative emotions. Most of the time i've just been really angry. I'm running so horribly it's sick. I can't remember a run of cards this bad and it's been hard to take.

The worst thing is that i've had to cash a lot out my roll to pay for Vegas. If Vegas goes badly i might have to move back down to $1/2 and i would hate that. I want to be moving the other way and moving back down would be a major blow to my pride. All this just makes the trip even more important. I really think it will define my year and i could very much do with catching a break.

I'm flying out next week and here is a list of the tournaments i plan on playing:


Mon 14th June - $2.5K 6 max
Wed 16th June - $1.5K
Sat 19th June - $1K
Mon 21st June - $1.5K shootout
wed 23rd June - $1.5K
Fri 25th June - $1.5K
Sat 26th June - $1K
Mon 28th June - $1.5K

I really would like to play the main event but I'm going to see how i do in the side events first. I'm not going to play online again in June, think i could do with a month off and just focus on winning a bracelet.