Resuming 100nl Full Ring

Posted by icemonkey9 on Apr 14, 2009 in 100nl | 1 comment

Today I returned back to the $0.50-$1 full ring tables on PokerStars after what had to be a week away. I haven't been doing too much poker-wise outside of my usual slew of poker stories and editorials which has been a real blessing while my job and poker playing has been extremely slow. I put in two long sessions during the hours of 9:30pm PST to around 12:30am and hopped around 8-9 tables constantly and amassed about 1,300 hands. It was a big of good news and bad news so let me sum things up.

Good News
- I played a wonderfully patient game
- I made fantastic reads. Really happy about that. Made some gorgeous bluffs against TAGs.
- I played some hands perfectly, such as a flopped set that lost to a turned flush and I really was able to masterfully minimize the loss.
- Cleared the very modest goal of SilverStar already

Bad News
- Card dead. Double checked what I suspected with my HEM stats, and saw the premiums didn't come as they should have during the small sample size.
- Didn't get paid when I hit. I didn't slow play anything, which was fine.
- Ended up -$23 or so over the 1,300 hands but that's really not a big deal

So, that sums up my day. I did the smart thing and quit at the time time when the tables were just unplayably nitty. Instead of doing my work and freelance writing from 8am - 5pm like I usually do tomorrow I spent the rest of the night doing half of tomorrow's work so that it frees me up from (hopefully) noon for the rest of the night to play cash game poker during peak hours instead of against the nightly nitty SNE regs. Hopefully tomorrow goes well and I can take the very positive momentum and upbeat feeling I have about my game into my next sessions!