March Wrap

Ho hum.



This Month: $4572



Year to Date: $17,420



Not a good month, but not really a bad month either.



Final tables since I last wrote: 4th in the Stars $33 2r1a, 3rd in Cake 30r, 6th in AP 30r, 4th in AP 15r (I was bored, also some guy kept going on and on about what a donkey I was, which I thought was hilarious), and 3rd in Cake $109 to close out the month.



The Stars table was particularly interesting, very aggressive table where I didn't find much in the way of cards and really struggled to find my footing.

Of particular concern over the past week was the times when I just played awful/totally collapsed. I made one bad play in a tournament on Sunday, and then all of a sudden there was about a full hour where I just played terrible and struggled to do anything right, to the extent that I just stopped adding tournaments. The only tournament I was left in was the Sunday Million. Then I actually picked up some hands and momentum, this was for a top five stack overall (warning, personal bad beat forum ahead):

PokerStars Game #26515394499: Tournament #149767941, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (750/1500) - 2009/03/29 19:32:45 CT [2009/03/29 20:32:45 ET]
Table '149767941 244' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: ZingoBKO (53967 in chips)
Seat 2: ToadSuck (29065 in chips)
Seat 3: boul_quake (5667 in chips)
Seat 4: bzimzim (79898 in chips)
Seat 5: gomgomez64 (38848 in chips)
Seat 6: SpotSB (39565 in chips)
Seat 7: lophted (10740 in chips)
Seat 8: The_Nutifier (16995 in chips)
Seat 9: Sawc111 (126426 in chips)
ZingoBKO: posts the ante 150
ToadSuck: posts the ante 150
boul_quake: posts the ante 150
bzimzim: posts the ante 150
gomgomez64: posts the ante 150
SpotSB: posts the ante 150
lophted: posts the ante 150
The_Nutifier: posts the ante 150
Sawc111: posts the ante 150
gomgomez64: posts small blind 750
SpotSB: posts big blind 1500
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bzimzim [Qc Qd]
lophted: folds
The_Nutifier: folds
Sawc111: raises 3000 to 4500
ZingoBKO: folds
ToadSuck: folds
boul_quake: folds
bzimzim: raises 8100 to 12600
gomgomez64: folds
SpotSB: folds
Sawc111: calls 8100
*** FLOP *** [9h 8h Qh]
Sawc111: bets 113676 and is all-in
bzimzim: calls 67148 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (46528) returned to Sawc111
*** TURN *** [9h 8h Qh] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [9h 8h Qh 5d] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sawc111: shows [9c 9d] (four of a kind, Nines)
bzimzim: shows [Qc Qd] (a full house, Queens full of Nines)
Sawc111 collected 163096 from pot

OK, that one hurt. Also on my preposterous list, my total meltdown to finish 13th in the 30k sniper when I 3 bet with air and refused to give up, thus gifting away all my chips for no reason.

Goal for this month: don't suck.