I’ve been on fire this week. Monday was the day that it began. I ran a few errands with Hailey and went to Cheesecake Factory for lunch before I got home to play poker. For some reason, I felt GREAT. I decided it was time to break the “I’m not going to play above 1/2 NL online” streak. Usually, that would lead to many disasters, but it was not this time around. After finally being able to input all my hands from August into Holdem Manager, I realized that I’m terrible at HU up through 5-handed. I decided it was time to go back to my roots and play ONLY (we’ll see how longt this lasts) 9/10-handed. I played 100 up to 600 NL for a few hours and won 2,300ish. Before I had even really started, I decided to play the 1K on Tilt. This is very, very unlike me. I’ve only played a couple 1Ks online and those were WCOOPS and FTOPS, but I was just feeling really confident. I’ll keep it short since it wasn’t anything too spectacular although it was a decent sweat. I finished 27th and in the money for I’m pretty sure my first cash in a 1,000+ buyin online.
Tuesday I decided it was time that I went back to Commerce. I played 2.5 hours and won a couple thousand. There weren’t any spectaculare hands. I won a decent size pot against Jack Haley after I was able to induce him to bluff the river and had the courage to call with a flush on a double-paired board. I also ran a nice bluff on a 99x flop. I overcalled on the flop 3ways with 87 for a flush draw. I called quickly with an evident hesitation mixed in to buy the opportunity to bluff at the pot potentially later in the hand. I made a smallish $300 bet on the turn (K) after it was checked to me and bet a measely $500 on the river (X) which was less than 1/3 the size of the pot. Villain check/folded and I shipped.
Yesterday I scooped about $800 between Poker.com and Lock Poker (a skin on Cake) and today I played only on Lock and shipped another 1,700ish playing only 100 and 200 NL. I’m on a stone cold heater and feeling great. I’m probably going to grind mostly on Lock tomorrow. This site just may be the site that I was looking for. We’ll see how things continue to go.