I'm back! Of course technically I didn't go anywhere, but that's neither here nor there. Technically I was in Lansing for awhile, and then I was in Lansing for awhile longer when my car stopped working. Again. Seriously, if one more thing happens to that car, I'm taking it to the middle of a field and Office Spacing the thing, Blue Book value be damned.
So I was looking at my spreadsheet just now, and I haven't played a tournament since the 11th. Today is the 23rd. Hmmm. That's not great. I realize that I'd taken some time off but even I didn't quite realize that it had been that much. Frankly I need to get to work, in order to a) post a good number for March b) just generally get my volume up c) stop being such a damn slacker d) earn some money so that I can give the IRS my entire life savings on April 15th. I might be exaggarating on d, but it sort of doesn't feel that way.
So I should be playing a lot this week. And then I won't be taking 12 days off again any time soon.
Tom Dwan is on HSP this season. Obviously he's a great player. No shock there. But wow, watching that guy play is like poetry. When you start four betting K9o and cause you think your opponents are weak, and you're right, that's pretty good. But this hand pretty much says it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlWhS96jiI.
Wow. Just wow, that is so fearless I can't even describe it. I want to be Tom Dwan, I don't care how funny-looking he is.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tortoising Along
Ignoring for the moment that who knows if "tortoising" if a word, I feel like it's an accurate description of the month so far. Not much going on, but making incremental progress. Three final tables, one 8th in the Cake 30R, and two 4th places in the AP 20k. Up about 1900 for the month, which I suppose isn't that bad for this point in the month.
The AP 20k tournaments were both sort of disappointing, because in both cases I thought I played really well. And I'm not easily impressed with my play. Made the final table last night and lost two big flips. When we got to four handed only one of the other players was really playing with the requisite aggression, though unfortunately that was the big stack behind me. But I thought I picked my spots pretty well. I was also 3 betting very aggressively when there was an aggressive player behind me earlier in the final table. Clearly I'm awesome, as I reread this ego stroke of a paragraph.
Am I still in a downswing? I dunno, last month still sucked, don't feel like I've quite had the breakthrough because of the lack of a big cash since the beginning of last month. Honestly sometimes my play has just felt a little bit off. Part of it is just a lack of focus that I've seen to have lately. Don't think there's an answer to that other than force myself into better mental habits while I'm playing.
Watching Liverpool beat Real Madrid today, then I'll be playing tonight.
The AP 20k tournaments were both sort of disappointing, because in both cases I thought I played really well. And I'm not easily impressed with my play. Made the final table last night and lost two big flips. When we got to four handed only one of the other players was really playing with the requisite aggression, though unfortunately that was the big stack behind me. But I thought I picked my spots pretty well. I was also 3 betting very aggressively when there was an aggressive player behind me earlier in the final table. Clearly I'm awesome, as I reread this ego stroke of a paragraph.
Am I still in a downswing? I dunno, last month still sucked, don't feel like I've quite had the breakthrough because of the lack of a big cash since the beginning of last month. Honestly sometimes my play has just felt a little bit off. Part of it is just a lack of focus that I've seen to have lately. Don't think there's an answer to that other than force myself into better mental habits while I'm playing.
Watching Liverpool beat Real Madrid today, then I'll be playing tonight.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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