Valentine's day and poker update
Well as the image to the left indicates this month is quite different from last. It's already the beginning of the 3rd week of february and I'm at a not-so-solid -5,000 or so. From my original downswing that dipped to about -15k, I made it back to even after about a week of marathon sessions. On the day following my triumphant return to the land of profitability, I went on a -14k run in a ridiculously small number of hands (something like less than 2k hands or so?). How is such a run possible? Good question I asked myself the same, so I went to poker tracker for help.3 times I bluffed off my stack, one of those times was real bad, one was marginal, and one was perfectly fine the clown made a ridiculous call.
3 times I lost with sets, twice were to gutshots, once i think was a big draw (flush+straight draw or something).
I lost a 3-4 buyins playing some 3/6nl HU
There were a bunch of other setups and beats (top boat losing to quads, etc) but I won't list them all, the real surprising thing was through the 4 hours I played that day, I only won exactly ONE pot where I profited more than $500 (all those hands above were losses of 1k or more)... so after noticing that fact, it wasn't hard to see how a -14k day would materialize.
But despite that, I've made a little recovery to where I currently stand at -5k for the month. I think if I can turn this month into a +10,000 month by February 28th, it will be a nice accomplishment. Unfortunately not all months can be like January. I will say that I think having and recovering from two -14-15k downswings in one month is something to be proud of, however, I'd be up a nice amount if even one of those downswings didn't occur.
Ok onto more interesting and fun stuff. Valentine's day. Missy and I enjoyed a nice meal of some fancy chicken and rice dish she made, along with a bottle of wine given to us as a housewarming gift by her parents' neighbors. The meal and wine were both excellent. She also got me the best Valentine's day gift ever, this shirt:
Pretty awesome huh? I got her some red roses and that was that, another Valentine's day in the books.
Also another thing, listen to how awesome my future wife is... If I can qualify for the Main Event at the WSOP this year, she agreed that we can postpone our honeymoon (which previously was scheduled during the start of the Main Event) until a couple weeks after, so I can hopefully do what I've wanted to do for the past 3 years and experience the WSOP for myself. Also since our wedding is slated for June 30th, she agreed that I could spend a few weeks before the wedding out in Vegas to play some of the smaller events and the cash games. Pretty cool huh? I don't know many wives/fiancees who would be so cool. Here is a PDF with the WSOP 07 schedule
Lucky in love, unlucky in cards ;-)
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 10:23 AM
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