Been about a week since I spoke last..  I went to Bloomington Indiana for homecoming for once again… another shit-show.  I had about a 36 hour period of drinking with some breaks here and there so thats always a good time.  Although i traveled half way across the country to for homecoming.. I didnt even attend the game.. tail gate was fun though.. Anyways I paid for it tues and wed when I was yacking for 7 hours straight and felt like absolute shit..

Anyways I put in one of my longest cash sessions every today.. along with some stgs and tourneys to supplement them.. I continued my rush and felt really good.  What really made me happy about my session today was that i was not distracted at all.  I didnt turn on the tv once in 13 hours and really didn’t want to stop until all my cash games broke and had no choice.

Well now its Halloween and im off to san diego with mike tonight for a party.  So that should be a good time.  Ill prob be back to work Sunday.. which I actually look forward to every week now.. Hopefully ill have a big score to write about.. laters.

Well.. once again my new technology theory comes through for me.  Although, I did have a losing day in my cash games I was able to final table a poker stars $100 buy in…  which I got 4th for 4.5k and 6th in a full tilt 30 rebuys for 1800.  I felt my play was pretty solid today… but I’m not gonna lie I won 99-aa and aq-ak for two huge crucial pots in the Stars tourney… which was very nice of pokerstars.

Usually I have a lot of regrets after tournaments days.. but I felt pretty good about my final table play.. I had one very marginal play in which my opponent shoved 80k under the gun i had 260k and I just called right behind him.  The BB ended up shoving all in and he had me covered and I decided to fold and save my last 170k..  Both players ended up having ak here… but next time I have to shove or fold this.  Although I made this call in case someone shoved over me… this can’t have been the right play and I am a little dissapointed with that..  Anyways thats about it for the day.

So after a few of my best weeks in cash every… I decided it was time to reward myself for hard work.  Ive always noticed improvement in my game when I do a technology upgrade.  It makes me much more comfortable with my play knowing I have good tech behind me.. as opposed to my old laptop that costed me  1000’s of dollars in disconnects and crashes.

So anyways.  I went to frys to buy the gateway 30″ and ended up walking out with apple 30″… which I just knew would keep me hooked to my computer.. and thats where I need to be spending most of my down time now to make some money..  Anyways, I get home hooked it up.. and what do you know… theres a hair in the middle of my monitor.  Nothing can ever just go right.  First… your janky ass iphone now this… im starting to question apples greatness….  Lets see if this thing can make me some money.

I felt really good today.  It helped flopping, turning or rivering the nuts every 5 hands I was playing.  Anyways I booked another solid cash win to continue my hot streak in cash games.  I also decided to mix in a few tournaments,  because there were not many cash games available to play.

I played a few tournaments, including my favorate the nightly $100 six max tournament.  I think this is one of the best tournaments on full tilt.  it is six handed and has a very weak field.. so it is very easy to build a stack early in my opinion.  Anyways when we got into the top 20 I decided to close all my cash games and book that at a solid 1800 profit.  I really was focused in this and I felt confident I would enter the top 10 with my stack at like 60k avg 45k.  Anyways, I got caught up in the action and made this play…

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active donkey raise to 3200

i reraise to 9.1k

he shoves his 42k

i call 33k

he has 88 and holds..

I told myself I was going to call him becuase he recently reshoved 50k with 55 and made a 3  barrel bluff on a guy with j high.  He just seemed really spewy and I thought he may shove me because I had been pretty active too .  All though I had odds to 33 to win 58… He prob had a pair so I made the call.   I still had 1ok left after.. but I think I could have grinded pretty deep if i just made the fold.. atleast i think  buw whatever.

Anyways,  it was bothering me soI had to talk about it.. Now I feel better.

I really don’t have much to talk about today. I planned on going golfing but the golf course i was going to go to is probably engulfed in flames right now.  These fires in cali are just getting out of control.. so props to these fireman working night and day to put them out.

Anyways I wanted to blog to feel like my day was more productive then it was.  I also thinks it keeps my mind straight about poker and helps me in my future sessions.  After a good tournament day yesterday.. I just stuck to cash today and pulled out a pretty good win.  So 5 more days of this and then Ill take another shot at tournaments on Sunday.

So I woke up this morning to a good friend of mine inviting me to the dodgers playoff game.  I have been having a really good week and have been very confident with my play.. so I decided to stay in and play the majors and some cash games.  If I had a bad day I knew I would regret my decision.  And considering my last few sunday results… I should have went to the game..

Anyways, I had my first win in the $75 22.5k guarentee.  So that 11k makes up for my losses in tournaments over the past few months, and my Full Tilt ROI is positive again!  I also made my biggest run in the Full Tilt major that Ive ever had.  I made a marginal play at the end that im pretty dissapointed in… I had 88 and a guy that was opening alot of pots and folding to 3 bets consistantly opened up for 13k 2nd to act,  and I pushed in my 70k and his qq’s held. 

In other news I picked 2 winners in my football pool today with the chargers and miami, so I finally caught up a game on my brother.  Monday night game is big tomorrow if the Giants can cover the 8 point spread.  The other three guys in my pool have the browns so this offers a chance for me to catch up on these guys..

Well, I made a few stupid calls today cause I decided I don’t like money.  Thats all.

After a couple weeks of brutal swings, Ive finally gained some traction in my past couple sessions.  Ive had a couple huge wins the last two days, so that gives me a lot of confidence going into sunday.  Also im considering going to vegas this weekend to play some bellagio tourneys, so hopefully I can continue playing well ove rthe next week to use the cash as satelites for that. 

Anyways not to much to talk about tonite.. gota get up early to hit the links..

If something ends my poker career, its going to be my brain.  Although I have played probably near a million hands and understand the swings of poker I still cannot handle it.  Every session I have been playing lately, I play until I lose a bunch of hands and just quit out of frustration.  Its really bad when i end all of my sessions at my lowest point of the day.

 Anyways, for those who thinks playing poker is the life.  Which I used to feel like.. Its not.  My thoughts are really bi polar when it comes to poker and I will never have tremendous success until I learn to control my head and my emotions.

Today was one of the most productive days I have had in a while.  I finally canceled my debit card which I lost in vegas in june and renewed my credit card.  Doesnt seem like a very hard task but it was… and i finally did it… and i feel alot better.  Which makes me wonder why I put these things off for so long.. Anyways after that I went and bought  a longboard.  I missed my old one which died a couple years ago so that was kind of cool.  I went for a cruise and immediately when I turned onto a main street I hit a crack and fell on my face..  Probably made a few peoples day though, it always makes my day to see someone fall unexpectedly. 

 Anyways did some other stuff not really worth mentioning and pretty much just put off playing poker all day.  Finally, at 10pm I decided to put in a quick hour session.  I played 4 tables and grinded about about 900 bucks, so it doesnt exactly make up for my bigg losses I had earlier this weak, but it was quick and easy.  I may think about doing this over the next couple weeks.  The previous 4 sessions I had, I started off winnign really big and think about quitting… but I just kept playing until I made a huge mistake due to what I think is mind fatigue.. I really usually never make bad decisions early in my sessions. Usually it starts to happen when I get bigger stacks and pick up my play alot. 

Anyways, going to a club in Long Beach tomorrow so hopefully thats cool.. IM ouut.