Big swings

Obviously it was gonna be tough to continue my fine run of form for ever and last week i had my first losing live game session for a while. I lost 750 with a pretty bad run of cards and a few bad beats but also made a few bad plays that i wasn't happy with at all. Played again the day after and lost again (300) but ironically for the 6 or so hours i was playing felt like i was on top form and couldn't play any better. Des;pite being up 300 in the first couple of hours the poker gods then decided to have some fun with me. First with 55 V 67 on a very pretty board of 3 4 5. Then with 44 V 86 sooooooted on a board of 4 5 7. On the first hand the other guy only had 150 so that was ok and i managed to lose the minimum on the second hand by check calling two bricks on the turn and river. After these two ugly ones i managed to get away from an ace on a board of A 10 10 10 6 when he raised my river bet, he had limped in utg then called my pot size raise pre flop with 10 5 sooooted! Also had to muck 10 10 and QQ on 8 high and 9 high boards both times V rocks with KK. So i lost over 1000 in two days whick sucked but thankfully poker is a great game and i didn'thave to wait long for the glory days to return.

Glory day number 1:

To be honest this was a pretty standard cash game session. Played well and got lots of action from some massive donks sitting with more money than sense. One guy turned up pissed and i won an 800 pot of him with AA v Q9 on a board of AKQ!!! Ended the session up 500 and was very happy to be back to winning ways.

Glory day number two:

This day started as all the best ones seem to, getting up at 5pm following a phone call from Ant telling me to meet him at the gutshot at 5.30pm. When i stroll in at 7.30pm he doesn't look to annoyed and instead is sitting on a nice 300 profit in the 1/2 game. I manage to convince him to play the 75 tourney upstairs so we both sit down with 52 other warriors and battle it out on the felt. As usual i felt like playing 80% of hands in the first two levels and manage to get it all in early with KQ v AJ on a board of J 10 3. Thankfully i hit the 9 on the river and was up to 10K from my starting stack of 3.5 in no time at all. By the first break i'm chipleader with 15K when i make the nut flush on the river against some total chump who played AK about as bad as you can imo. The stucture wasn't great but i managed to pick myspots well to steal and built up an ever increasing chip stack over the nxt few hours. Also managed to bust Ant durig the 300/600 blind level when i raised Co and he shoved button. I was getting a nice price with my K6 and had the stack to make the call but wasn't loving it when he flipped K10. 6 on the turn thankyou very much! The clock was 20 mins and with levels of 300/600, 400/800, 500/1000and then 600/1200 really enjoyed the middle stages with plenty of play and some pretty weak players to steal from. At the second break we were down to 13 players and i was still chipleader with 38K but blinds were up to 800/1600 with average stack around 15K. Third hand after the breakcame the best momentof my night when 2nd chipleader (worst player left) shoves all in UTG for 30K!! i look down at AA in the big blind, shippppppp it!! He had AK and hit the panic button but good news for me as i started the final with 71K and was massive chipleader. Played very tight early on the final in a desperate attempt to get a nice image back and busted a couple of shortstacks when i had to call there all ins from the bb. By the time we got heads up was even on chips with anothe player who seemed quite strong so with only 15 bb's each decided to chop it for just over 1000 each. Was really happy with the outcome and my play throughout but mostly was a massive confidence boost as far as live tournies go cause i havn't made a final for a while or dominated at tournement at gutshot like that ever.
The night however was to get much better as i ended up winning another 1300 in the cash game. Most of this was at 10am when i limped in early playing 7 handed with KJ . The rest of the table limps and we see a KK5 flop, rainbow. The whole table checks and we see a nice J on the turn to make me the nuts (was also a second diamond. I bet 10 and the button (aggressive internet type player raises to 35. To be honest a this point i thought he had total air and he thought i just had a jack. When the rest of the table folds i smooth call and hope he has a draw that hits the river. 6 of diamonds on the river, i bet 25 and he insta raises me to 125. I hope he has the nut flush or at worst a King and after 15secs raise 325 more. He dwells and dwells and eventually calls with K5. Very sick hand for him even if the only hands i'm gonna 4bet the river with are KJ or K6. So after that pot was up 2300 total on the night. Lots of other pots to talk about but its now 9am and i am fucking shagged. Got in from the cash game at 2pm slept for 4 hours then had to work till 6.30 am this morning, really need some fucking sleep. Probs play again on saturday night and hope to keep the rush going.
Not been playing much online apart from some $2/$4 six max stars and party. Up about $1000 on the month. Came 84th in the sunday warm up on starts for another $1K but was very fucked off cause when youmake the top 100 of a big tourney you need to get the job done, least i beat 3000 players though so not all bad.