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In the money

Lately, I've been hitting the SNG's. It's been good. I played SNG's all day on Thursday. 8 SNG's . 5 2nd places and 2 1st's and 1 out-the-money. $140 profit tonight. That's a good night for me. I have yet to be able to break the $200 barrier. I've reached about $170 or so profit in one day but have never been able to go into the $200 range yet. I will eventually, I'm sure. I'm taking Friday off because I feel terrible. I must be manic or something. I tend to win a whole bunch then crash. I stay up for 36 hours at a time then crash. I think this going to age me quickly but people still think I'm 18 years old when they look at me so I guess I'll be OK. I really wanted to keep at the ring cash game but nothing has been happening in my ring games lately. SNG's are so much more exciting anyway. Later...

Back to winning

Tonight I won in cash games and SNG's . It felt great. Had one of my best nights ever . Made $170 tonight. Made about $85 in SNG's and $85 in cash games. I lost one buy-in with KK. THat was a crazy hand. I reraised preflop to $5.50 on a .25/.50 NL game (11x the blind) and some guy called me with Ac 8c and flop was 5c 6h 7c . He flopped a monster draw. He had about 18 outs. He was actually 60 % to win right there and had me betting. Unbelievable. I really didn't have enough money in my stack for him to justify calling 5.50 preflop with that hand. He needs about $100 in my stack to have the implied odds in my opinion. What can you do. I ended up getting about $10 back from him later but that was about it. He got scared and left.
Had a good night and I have a feeling I'm gonna be winning again. sweet.

SNG's

man, seems I can't lose lately on SNG's. I'm 3 for my last 3 . Not just in the money but 3 1st places wins. I feel like I've improved my game after playing so much poker last month. I think I put in over 200 hours last month. This month not as much but I'm still playing nearly every day. I've just been battling some stagnation lately.

No more cussing, though. I get rivered and don't say word these days maybe because I feel more confident in my game. Give me a month of bad beats and no money, and we'll see where I am emotionally, though.

playing good

I really feel like I've been playing some good poker lately. I've decided to play some SNG's to add to the bankroll. I had $50 left over in an account on a site where I dislike their cash games so I decided to play the SNG's. Two nights, two tourneys, two 1st places . Nice. $100 extra. I don't normally play SNG's but I figured what the heck. I feel like I'm playing nearly perfectly these days in the SNG's. I also have been getting really good cards but I'm no longer wasting my time on K8 suited and Q J o , hands that aren't that good.

Besides the tourney win, I made about $70 or so. I really didn't much time to put into poker today. Doctor's appointment etc etc. Things are going much better though lately and I feel like I'm able to handle things much better. I think the first few days of the month is tough for me. BTW, my month is from 19th to the 19th. hahaha.....

banned from poker chat

haha...I like you guys and your comments. Funny stuff. Yeah, I've had my chat banned at 3 different poker sites. That has been about 2 months ago, though. I feel that I'm a different person now. That was the old tournament playing me. I realized that wasn't for me and switched to cash games. I've been happier ever since and I don't really cuss anyone out anymore. I did tell someone to F off yesterday because I had been unable to win a pot for like 2 days. It was nuts and I hadn't seen anything like it. I had QQ . I was in the BB. LP raises to $1 (.25/.50 NL) , I reraise to 3.50 folds around to LP who folds and guy in SB who calls. So its just me and SB. Remember, I hadn't won a pot the whole damn day and my bankroll on the site had been stuck at $1000 for a freaking weak. I was getting sick of seeing the money just standing there. SB checks and I bet $5. He calls. Oh, Flop was Qh 9h 5h or something like that. It was all hearts. I had a set of queens. Turn is a Ad . Pot is $16 . I say no way this guy is going to hit his flush on me. I bet $22 . He reraises all-in for $38 and I call and he shows A 7 suited of hearts. River is no help I'm out $45 or so. I said in chat: A 7 .... Fuk you. He says , "sorry" . I didn't get banned from this one, though. But I used to play tourneys. Tourneys are different in that one hand and you are out of the tourney. No one wants to get knocked out. I remember one banning. I had K K . I raised the usual 4x blind or so. One caller. Flop puts 2 spades on the board. I overbet the pot by a little. Player calls. I'm like ????? I think the flop was Ten high or something so it was wierd. Turn put another spade on the board. Pot is huge at this point because the blinds were big. For some odd reason, I push all my chips in and the person calls with the flush. It was dumb play but I sure did give it to the person. I got banned about 1 hour after. I was on the play money tables and all of a sudden this red writing came up saying that I couldn't use chat anymore. Where ever I went for one week following that day I had people saying, "hey red what's up" and etc etc. They would ask me about my city's football team and I would have no way of responding. I would just have to listen to them and be mute. A lot of players knew me so it was kind of awkward that I couldn't respond. I learned my lesson, though and things are much better. I very rarely say anything to any players anymore about the way they play.

I'm back

I had a bad 4 day stretch where it seemed like I couldn't win a pot on one particular site. Today, I got A K like 10 times. Unbelievable. I won a bunch of pots today. It was great. I'm taking the rest of the day off , though I think. Too much poker isn't good. Anyway. My first month down and I'm feeling good about it. It was easier to make money than I thought it was going to be. I think the harder you try the less you make. I'm about to make my first big deposit into my bank account. Not real big but big enough for me.

WHat did I say ?

I guess I posted last time that I'm done with the blog. Well, I'm still unsure. I guess I just lack discipline. I have to report some good news. My first month as a pro was a good one in my opinion and I think I was right. I can do this. I made about $1300 or so. I have counted it exactly but it is over $1000 and that is more than I made at my old job. Plus, I can do anything I want now. I'm my own boss. I think that was a good first month. I had a bad wednesday and thursday but today is off to a great start. I'm up $150 in the first two hours so far and I got like 12 hours left in the day. Wednesday and Thursday weren't terrible but I just didn't make any real money. I didn't lose any money, though. I just sort of stayed the same. To me, after making about $100 /day for the last 9 days in a row, that is a disappointment. I just got frustrated but I did the right thing. I logged out and came back the next day. I'm learning. I think in the months to come I will just get better and better. I don't necessarily want to move up, however, since I'm loving the limit that I'm at now. I'm making enough money and its fun. I really don't want to play with players that are as good as me. That just makes sense, though. Ok, well, I was thinking things were bad but I actually am going to mark down the first month as a success. Ok, later.