On VacationBack around the 20th of September

I am on vacation.

I expect to post a new entry somewhere around the 20th of September with some vacation pictures.

If I happen to stumble upon an internet connection while on holiday I might make an update, but I am not sure if I can find the time or the means.

Since I won't be able to moderate comments while I am gone, I will disable them until I get back. Old comments are not deleted and will reappear when I get back.

Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables!

End of August results:14,664 hands $10.269

These are my Poker Tracker stats for my NL Cash game play.


Add to that $2.229 from tournaments, rakeback and bonuses and I just made my Monthly Goal with a profit of $10.269.

Just like last month, the only level I seem to have a hard time at is $400 NL. Perhaps the games are tougher there, or they just don't fit my style of play.

There are a some aspects of my game I have been trying to improve this last month. Pushing a big stack into a small pot to maximize value has proven itself a profitable skill, when used at the right time. Lately I have also been experimenting with limping some hands on the button and cut-off, instead of raising. I don't have enough info to be sure of the results yet, but it is looking very promising.

Hand reading and tilt control are issues that always get better with practice. This month has certainly helped in that regard.

I think my monthly goal was a good idea and I plan to set myself one for next month. But since my vacation starts tomorrow and will last well into September, I have plenty of time to think up a new goal.

391 hands $221

I took a short nice session on Party Poker. I have a bonus waiting there, hopefully I can get it cleared before I leave for vacation. At this time tomorrow I will be on my way out the door.

I will be posting an end of the month entry later tonight, I am looking forward myself to seeing the figures and compare them to last months.

Day 29 - 197 hands $478Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $10.119!

$539 from rakeback and a nice day at $200 NL on Party Poker and here I am $10.119 richer than I was 29 days ago!

The Monthly Goal has been broken. I feel that I am secure making a comfortable living, for as long as enough bad players want to gamble.
Again I want to say that setting a goal like this works out better for me than setting a goal to play a certain amount of hands. Discipline is needed when you are your own boss and my monthly goal has been a good motivation, where playing a fixed amount of hands each day wasn't.

There was an nice hand in yesterdays session:

88 on the Button: Notice the large raise from Under the Gun. This is a classic tell that he either has JJ, TT, 99 or AK. He makes the large raise to get bad hands to fold, because he isn't too comfortable playing the hand after the flop. AK, because it often misses the flop and he doesn't want to throw it away and the pairs because an overcard often flops and he doesn't want to throw them away.
In a case where I see a raise like this and I have some reads on the opponent I will call with a large amount of hands, because I already know alot about his hand.

I will post a coupe of entries more before I leave for vacation, I might even play a couple of hands. The monthly goal is over though, incase I loose or win some money I will take that as a seperate thing.

Day 28 - 591 hands $1296Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $9.102

Ba - da - bing

What can I say, the lucky day came and I am back in the saddle. I have a big chunk of cash waiting in rakeback that I was planning to cash out at the end of the month, that alone will push me beyond $9.600. So suddenly I have a real shot at the goal again.

I played well today and the $600 game was real good. There was money to be won and I sure got my share. I think if I hadn't pulled in moderate wins these last two days, I would have stuck to the $400 games, but I slowly got my confidence back and today it paid off.

Most of my winnings came from grinding it out, taking advantage of my opponents passive play. Only one pot I dragged in was over $200.

55 in the Cut Off: This was my only big winner for the night. I had a good read on the limper in middle position and the re-raise from the Big Blind was just small enough to price me in, especially since the limper calls infront of me.
On the flop I know I am gonna be called by the middle position player with a wide range of hands and I hope the Big Blind will call me with an overpair aswell.
One funny thing, if you check the chat, the Big Blind says he folds Aces. If that is true he would have drawn out on me and won the pot.

I am not gonna let this one lucky day get to my head. I still have some work to do and I have a maximum of 3 days to make it. I hope I can grind a couple of hundred dollars in these next two days and have some time for packing and getting ready for vacationing on Thursday.

Day 27 - 976 hands $227Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $7.806

Last nights session isn't too clear in my mind. I got too tired to write my blog so I postponed it to today. I remember individual hands very clearly, but the overall play of the session doesn't stay with me through a nights sleep.

88 in the Cut Off: I sucked out in this hand. I remember I had tagged this opponent as a tilty LAG. But I still should have given the flop raise more credit than I do. It was a poor spot to get my money in the middle.

Since I leave for vacation Friday and am probably gonna be packing and stuff Thursday I am not gonna take Today (Monday) and Tuesday off, as I usually do.
I don't know how much I will be playing. I have completed the Iron Man Challenge this month and my Monthly Goal seems too far away to reach.

Day 26 - 976 hands $233Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $7.578

I really worked hard today, giving it my all and my best. So many times I got my money in with the best hand and all to often it didn't hold up. The small profit I managed to end the day with, disguises the horror of a rollercoaster I went through to get it.
People do not want to hear about bad beats and there isn't much point in writing about them. Suffice it to say, if there was any justice in poker I would have reached my montly goal already with plenty to spare.

I have to be realistic. Unless I get a lucky day in the near future, I am not gonna make my monthly goal. As for the bad run, it isn't affecting my game and my emotional state heavily yet. If it continues and my game starts getting affected, I will have to move down in limits until I get back on track.

Day 25 - 736 hands -$1.980Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $7.345

I started the day playing $400 NL on Full Tilt Poker. Three hands within seconds of eachother I was all-in with my opponents drawing to two or three outs, and they all sucked out. I didn’t tilt away much afterwards, but it did put a damper in my mood and I decided to take a little break before heading back onto the tables. At that point I was down about $900.

After some Dota gaming with my friends I decided to try out my luck one more time, see if I could remedy the days loss. I think I played great, but I just got either colddecked or sucked out on more fiercly than I have been sofar this month.

This month has been up until now a good run, but that doesn't mean that I get my money in with the worse hand and suck out on someone. I do my job, get my money in with the best hand and it holds up. If that happends three or four times in a row it is a good run. Because every so often, the best hand doesn't win.

KK in Middle Position: This was my last hand of this session. I really felt like I deserved the pot, because this wasn't an easy push. I decided this was the last beating I could take today and closed down the tables. If I had won this hand the day would have been at - $700 instead.

This offcourse means that my monthly goal has suffered a major set-back. At $7.345 I still need $2.700 to reach my target. If I feel ok tomorrow I'll try to play a bunch of hands, to see if I can make it. But sometimes these bad beats linger for a day or two in my mind, if that is the case I am not gonna play much tomorrow.

Day 24 - 644 hands $42Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $9.329

I started the day winning alot, at some point I was up a couple of hundred dollars. Later I opened 6 $200 NL tables where I didn't play my best game, just rushing in a few hundred hands. I barely managed to keep some of my profit to end the day on a positive.

Well it is Friday today and if I want to reach my goal of $10.000, this weekend is my best shot at doing it. My mother is gonna celebrate her birthday today, so I don't know if I will be able to get alot of hands in, but hopefully I can play some tonight.
I heard of another live tourney today. There are a couple of them in my city, but I am not a very social person so I never hear of them till to late. I guess I need to add my cellphone number to some lists, so I can get a message when another tourney is scheduled. It'll have to wait till I get back from vacation though.

Day 23 - 394 hands $735Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $9.287

Again yesterday I couldn't reach the blogger homepage. It must be something wrong on my end. Oddly enough the problem clears if I restart my router and get a new ip.
I started todays session with loosing a buy-in at the $400 tables.

AQ in Middle Position: I should have folded pre-flop and I was pretty sure he was gonna show me exactly KK when I called on the flop. I have seen a couple of people three-bet me pre-flop with horrid hands. I think that is the reason I played this hand so badly.

Well I shaped up after that one bad hand and did my best to end the day on a positive note.

KK in the Big Blind: I don't slowplay often. In this hand I felt my opponent didn't have anything and wanted to bluff me off my hand. I quickly pressed the raise button on the river, I didn't think I would have any money left behind. Luckily it was only $30, but I should still have won that much more from him.

All in all I think it was a good day. My play isn't the best at the moment, so I hang at the $400 level instead of the $600. I still seem to be ahead of my competition though even when I am not playing my best.

Day 22 - 306 hands $221Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $8.551

I spent most of yesterday at a friends house playing board games. When I did get home I took a quick 300 hands to keep my Iron Man Status up at Full Tilt. The Iron Man thing is a bonus freeroll thingy, that requires a certain amount to be played most days of a month. The hands I played were uneventfull, but gave me a nice profit.

My plan is to take it a bit easy these next days and then go for the prize this upcomming weekend. I hope I can reach my monthly goal with a couple of days left to pack and get ready for my September vacation.

I am again amazed at my inability to capture a decent photo. This is of the gaming table at my friend Steven's house, littered after a Babylon 5 game.

Day 21 - 297 hands $517Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $8.310

I played at the $200 tables yesterday. I didn't feel like playing big, just wanted to get some hands in so I could stay in the Iron Man Challenge. Nothing much happened, my biggest loosing hand cost me $22. I played very confidently because of the lack of money on the line and it paid off.
I am going to Stephens today for some board gaming, hopefully my shoulders will benefit from the break from my computer.

Day 20 - 398 hands -$156Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $7.783

I played three live tourneys yesterday with my friends. I didn't finish in the money in any of them. The entry was about $17 for each.

Me (right) and Jan stacking up chips for the next SnG. Darn lamp was in the middle of every picture I took, in this one Tróndur is holding the camera.

I knew I wasn't gonna do well, my shoulder was in pain and I wasn't focused. Later on the pain cleared somewhat and I logged on Full Tilt Poker. I played much better online and would have been up a decent chunck if I hadn't lost to a suckout.

QQ on the Button: I usually don't post Bad Beats, there isn't much to learn from them. But this was the only interesting hand I played last night. When I flop a full house like this I am not gonna waste my chance at a big score by slowplaying and hoping to extract some value out of a pocket pair. I had seen this player make a bad call beforehand, so I am sure he will call a push with any Ace.

I feel I am playing well lately. Usually there are a couple of regulars at the $400 and $600 tables that give me some headache. But this last month it seems as if I am the one giving them headaches. It could be a sign that I am ready to move up to $1000.

Day 19 - 709 hands $929Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $7.919

I am very happy about how this month has gone sofar. Setting a goal in dollars earnt has been a much better idea than setting a goal on how many hands to play each day. Hopefully I can win my last $2.000 before the month is over, so I will bring a good mood with me on vacation.

Todays session didn't stand out in any way. Infact this whole weekend hasn't felt like a weekend at all. Players still play badly and I make my money, but there hasn't been an increase in bluffing maniacs as there usually is. At least not on the tables I have played.

JTs in the Cut Off: I am not too happy about this push. The opponent wasn't the type to that makes loose calls. The board really looks drawy, so I am sure he will fire big on the turn if it isn't a scarecard. After that I can push and I can't see him folding. He said in the chat: "KK no good?" after he folded.

Day 18 - 832 hands $319Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $6.950

I took it easy yesterday. My back has been troubling me lately, especially my shoulders. I am sitting to much infront of my computer and the wear is starting to show. The vacation in September is hopefully gonna do me some good, otherwise I would have to look into a better chair and a new desk.

The session wasn't too eventfull, but there was one interesting hand.

J7s in the Small Blind: The aggressive player with the big stack is an unknown to me. His huge raise really took me by surprise and in the heat of the moment I decided to call the turn and hope he didn't bet the river. Unless offcourse a Ten or a Club fell in which case I would shove myself.
In hindsight I think the correct play is to push the turn. I might well be ahead of a set or two pair type hand, not to mention a bluff or semi-bluff. And if he indeed limped on the button with exactly T7 and makes this strong a move when he turns the nuts, I have alot of outs.
Looking at the hand again, I think he very likely has a set here and if that is the case I guess I am lucky I didn't push with the board pairing on the river. That doesn't mean I played it correctly though.

Day 17 - 1002 hands $1.939Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $6.571

I had two good sessions today and I am very happy about being back on track with my monthly goal. The numbers in the titles of my entries don't always add up. That is because I get paid bonuses from various sites. The monthly goal total reflects this, where my daily total doesn't.

All it took was a bad day for me to shape up and concentrate. It scares me to imagine how much I would earn each month if I really put my heart and soul into it.
I had alot of interesting hands today. Prolly just as interesting as other days, but today I really paid attention. I am not sure which hands I should feature, so I will just take the biggest winner and the biggest loser.

KK in the Small Blind: This hand hurt a bit. I am not sure if my push at the end is a mistake or not, it might well be.

A5 in the Small Blind: This hand is player dependant. I had made a couple of laydowns against this opponent and he was monster aggressive. I knew at this point that he was making huge purebluffs. Note that there is no way I am getting much money from him if I bet this hand at any point. I need to make him believe that I am strongly doubting the strength of my hand by pausing at every street.

Day 16 - 965 hands -$876Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.522

One bad day and suddenly I am behind my monthly schedule. I made one really bad play today that cost me about $350. Other than that I am not too unhappy with my play for today. I am sure tilt cost me $100 or so, but that is always an issue I have to work on and live with.
I do need to stop doing other stuff while I am playing, atleast at the $600 NL level.

K9 in the Big Blind: Here is the hand I misplayed. I had no reads on the opponent and the game had just gotten to heads-up. I have been meaning to up my aggression heads-up but this is just going over the line. Overbet pushing a hand that completely missed against an unknown player is just poor play. I don't know what I was thinking.

After that play I made some hands and got to being up for the day. Then just before I called it a night a couple of really bad beats took a big chunk out of my monthly goal.

Day 15 - 344 hands $263Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $5.428

I took a break from poker yesterday. It wasn't scheduled I just felt like playing Eve Online all day. Today I felt a bit guilty if I didn't atleast squeeze in the 200 Full Tilt Points worth of hands that are required for the Iron Man Challenge. For those who don't know what that is; if you earn 200 points at Full Tilt for 25 days out of a month, you get entered into a freeroll tourney.

99 in Middle Position: This is a bad push here. I knew that it was quite likely he had 77, 88 or 78 on the flop. I shouldn't have called his raise, but instead mucked my hand on the flop. When the board paired on the turn I took it as a added bonus because now I beat 78. But the bet he makes on the turn should really have turned some warning bells on, I just misread it for a weak bet instead of a value bet in the heat of the moment.

Only two weeks now until my friends and I leave on our vacation. The blog will get a long rest and so will my poker playing.

Day 13 - 473 hands $329Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $5.165

I reached the halfway point of the monthly goal before schedule. That means I am gonna cash out the planned $5.000 and use the rest of my monthly earnings to increase my bankroll.
I do hope I reach my goal of $10.000, but my past experience tells me that the beginning of the month is where the easy pickings are. People have just gotten money and are more than willing to gamble a chunk of it in hopes of cashing in on a big score. Later on in the month, most people tighten up a bit on their spendings and so do the tables.

The last two days have been mostly spent playing Eve Online. I do log an hour or so at the tables, but far from any time I am happy with. Eve is fun though, so I imagine my poker playing will suffer atleast a week more.

Here is a hand I was quite happy about.

KJ on the Button: I am playing $200 NL because I am not really focused, so I didn't want to open up some $600 tables. The opponent in this hand doubled through me with QQ when I had JJ and the flop came with undercards, but the interesting thing was I overbet pushed that hand aswell. So I knew that he would call my push again if the situation arose where he had a top pair or better hand and I had a lock.

Day 12 - 515 hands $40Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.836

Still not quite at $5.000. I was at one point today but lost some of it again at PL Omaha. Hopefully I'll get there tomorrow, but for now I am gonna head to bed.

Day 11 - 284 hands $699Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.796

I made a nice profit today both in NL Hold'em and in PL Omaha. Only problem I am facing is getting time enough to play poker, when Eve Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online are so fun. I hope to reach the halfway mark of $5.000 before the 15th, so I can order the check, and with todays haul it doesn't seem all to difficult.

It is back to Eve for me and probably playing some PL Omaha meanwhile. I don't dare play NL Hold'em at the same time, because I would be too unfocused for the higher limits.

Day 10 - 299 hands $476Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.097

A third of the way through the month and I am ahead of schedule in respect to the monthly goal. I am happy about it, but I am not happy about my play as of late. I hope to shape up before I start dropping behind schedule.
If I do reach $5.000 before the 15th I think I will order a check for the amount. Checks take quite some time to reach Faroe Islands. If I want to cash it before I go on vacation I need to sell the fur before the bear is shot. I don't need the money, but I do feel kind of nervous about having an extra $5.000 sitting on some poker site for a month unattended. There are always horror stories going around about sites being hacked. The only way I see of preventing that is to not keep a big enough amount on any one site, so that it will severly hamper your bankroll if you indeed do fall victim to thiefs.

On a sidenote, I have started up a 14 day free trial of Eve Online with my brother. Sofar the game seems very well structured, but hopefully it won't steal too much time away from poker.

Day 9 - 1329 hands -$211Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $3.621

I am definitely not happy with my results these last two days.

The reason for my losses might very well be a poor run of cards, but I am also certain that I am not playing my best game. I need to sharpen up if I want to have any hope of reaching my monthly goal.

I have purchased Poker Tracker for Omaha. It is a fun game and I enjoy playing it. The field in Omaha is also very much worse than the field you find at equal stakes in Hold'em.
Sofar I am down $25 over 450 hands in Pot Limit Omaha. Those values are included in the total written in the title of this entry. But I am sure that I am beating the field and it will start to show a profit before long.

Day 8 - 184 hands -$332Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $3.832

I rushed a couple of hands today, just to qualify for the Iron Man Challenge on Full Tilt before I go to bed. I shouldn't have done that on the $600 tables, where I need to play focused to make a profit.
My daily rythm is somewhat back in order, I feel rested and ready to earn some money. Looking forward to trying my luck at the tables tomorrow and the comming weekend.

Day 7 - 0 hands $97Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.164

I havn't played any poker today, the profit comes from Rakeback.

I can't remember the last time I have had a scheduled break from poker like this. It will be interesting to see if I notice anything different when I am going to play again after midnight.

Day 6 - 368 hands -$76Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.066

I played a couple of tourneys today and I did well in them. But when the big guarenteed tourney came up I didn't feel like playing in it. Instead I played some NL cash.

Sessions didn't have much happening. There were plenty of fish, but I didn't get any hands and didn't connect with enough flops. I got Aces cracked once for a big loss which left me a bit down for the day.

My plan is now to not play any hands of online poker until after midnight on Tuesday. That is 36 hours from the time of writing and should be enough time to relax a bit and get focused for another run.
My daily rythm is as always messed up. I have to drive my brother to the airport today, in the time I usually sleep, so with my scheduled break I think this is a good time to try to get a somewhat normal rythm again.

Day 5 - 461 hands $177Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $4.143

I started up three tourneys today. Two were qualifiers for a big tourney tomorrow, I didn't make the seat in either. The last tourney was a $22 Sit and Go, my reason for starting that one was to pay for the other two if I came in 1st or 2nd. I did win it and the whole experience netted me $42.

The last hour or so I played today, I had trouble keeping focus. I am sure that a couple of "moves" were made against me. But I just wasn't paying enough attention to capitalized on it. I see that I need the break I have been writing about, perhaps I'll make it two days off, instead of one. Sunday is usually a good day, so I might postpone the break until Monday. I am not sure yet, I'm gonna wait and see how I feel tomorrow.
I do feel like trying out one of those big tourneys that usually are held on Sundays.

Day 4 - 927 hands $1.529Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $3.965

Fortune is smiling my way it seems. Three big days in a row don't come by too often, so I am sure to enjoy it while it lasts.
Yet I do feel that I am playing well. It is rare that I am sure that I am making the correct laydowns, or that I am getting the proper value out of my big hands. But when your opponents show their cards, you get comfirmation.

AJo in the Cut Off: One thing I am always afraid of is being too nitty for higher stakes. It is seldome I dare lay down top pair like this, because I am afraid that I would get run over by bluffs if I did. But when my gut says fold I usually go with it. It is a nice feeling when they show their cards, it feels almost as good as winning the hand.

Although I am doing pretty well with the monthly goal, I am not gonna take a couple of good days for a granted win. There still is a long way to go before I am at $10.000, so I'll do my best to grind out my hours at the tables.
I musn't either forget my scheduled day off. I think I have played each day for a long stretch now, so I'll take a rest from poker one of these upcomming days.

Day 3 - 775 hands $1.700Monthly goal $10.000 sofar $2.436

This post is delayed, because I couldn't access the site yesterday.

I don't think setting one thousand hands a day as a goal is very productive. I don't multitable as much as I used to, due to playing higher limits. One thousand hands wasn't that big of an issue when playing eight tables, but with three tables open it becomes a chore. Therefore I am gonna set myself a diffrent and hopefully better goal this month. My goal will be to earn $10.000 in one month. Beating my old record of $8.500, I'll keep $5.000 of it online to build my bankroll for higher limits and cash out the other $5.000. That is if I indeed make it.

I had a couple of interesting hands in yesterdays session.

55 in the Big Blind: This opponent has been a thorn in my side for some time now. I really don't know how skilled he is, he might be better than me he might be worse. One thing is for sure, he is decent enough and he has outflopped me time after time lately, so he probably has me pegged as a money bag.
My actions in this hand only makes the matter worse I guess. Needless to say, I am offcourse not very happy about how I played the hand.

AK in the Small Blind: This hand features the overbet push again, but not in the standard sense. I could have easily played myself out of this pot. If I had bet a normal amount of say $80 on the flop, both my opponents would likely have called. And then on the turn I would have played myself into a tough decision when the third heart would have fallen.
Instead I just push of the bat, because I know that the opponents in this hands will call me with plenty of worse hands.

652 hands $736

Getting back into shape is hard. I took the planned walk today, but in the poker department I just couldn't get in the thousand hands. The hands I did manage to play though were good, I flopped some sets and got paid off.

The work I put into studying when to overbet push to get maximum value out of a good hand is starting to pay interest. In pots that would never swell to all-in size with normal betting, I reap alot of otherwise missed profit by pushing with some hands.
The trick is to know what kind of hand your opponent will risk all his chips with, if he thinks there is a chance you are bluffing, and then push whenever you put him on exactly such a hand and you have him dominated. There is no easy way in learning how to put your opponent on a range of hands, you just have to play alot.
The hard part with the overbet-push is that you can't just push with your nut hands, you have to bluff at times or your opponents will know never to call. There is no need to show your cards when your bluff works.

My quest to get a decent picture of myself continues, this time the likeness is a bit better than the previous picture.

My brother took this one of me today using my new camera, I'll link it up to the profil. Hopefully it is a bit easier on the eyes than my previous choice.

I have been very pleased with my results in tournaments recently, so I am thinking about taking a shot at some big guarenteed prize pool tourneys in the future. The change of venue would probably help with my lazyness.

A day of live poker

I played in a live tourney and as a result havn't played any online hands today. Only eight players showed up and we each put up 500 DKR, about $85. I walked away with the win and $425 profit.
Afterwards some of us started a live cash game, with blinds of about $1 and $2. I lost about $50, but it was great fun and I hope to play it again.

End of July results:16,554 hands $4.489

These are my results at the tables for the month of July:

My total profit for the month after rakeback, bonuses, promotions and the odd tourney or two that I profited from is: $4.489. (In my currency: ca. 26.000 DKR)
My results are noticable worse this month than last month, where I made $8.500. I have been lazy and unfocused, and I am sure I have played worse as a result.
My plan offcourse is to shape up in August. I think I will try to get 1000 hands in a day. I will try to stay focused and fit by taking a exercising walk most days and eating right. Atleast once a week I will take a day off from poker to rest my emotions and my mind.

My friends and I are going on a holiday in September, so my poker playing and blog writing will go on halt for about 20 days next month.

753 hands -$2044

I had just a dreadfull session today. Bad hands, concentration lapse and tilt sums up a 2 hour session at Party and Full Tilt.

Party Poker is running a promotion this comming month, where you have to accumulate 100 partypoints for as many days as possible in August. I am thinking about giving it a shoot, so I played 500 hands today at Party to get into things again.
I got horribly outdrawn and stood to loose a fortune until atlast an overbet push lessened my losses somewhat.

99 in the Small Blind: I really feel the work I have put into studying when to make this move has paid off. I know better players than me employ it, but throughout the month I have had difficulties making profit on overbetting. Now I feel comfortable adding this valuable weapon to my arsenal.

Anyways ...

I stop at 500 hands played on Party Poker, thinking to myself that I will take a little break and turn to Full Tilt for another 500 hands. My clever plan is to turn a loosing day into a winning one while starting my trend of 1000 hands a day again.
The second session was only more brutal than the first. It seemed like every time I called my opponents had just outdrewn me and each time I folded I got shown a bluff.
I felt that my losses were starting to get the better of me, so I quit the session before the planned 500 hands were played.

All day I have been in a good mood, looking forward to writing about my great month and how much I have won. Losses really get you down, regardless of whether they stem from bad play or bad beats.
This day ended so badly that I will postpone my planned End of the Month... diary entry to tomorrow. Sadly the day will still be reflected in the results that I write about tomorrow.

On a lighter note, I held my planned live Sit and Go with my friends today. I baked cakes that I hope they enjoyed. I planned on posting a picture, but I am still very inept with my new camera and I couldn't find a picture that would do the tourney, my friends or my cakes justice.
I came in second in the Sit and Go, loosing to Kenneth heads-up.

Poker is not an easy profession. It is a true joyride when you are winning, but loosing is where the trial starts. There is no break and you can't call in sick. All you can do is try to learn from each mistake, while still not being affected by the results emotionally. And to turn it around you have to go head back to work with the added baggage on your mind.