You Got to Have These Nights Eventually

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jul 28, 2009 in 100nl | 1 comment

First of all I'm on web browser tilt.  For whatever reason after upgrading to Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 (or whatever it is) everything inside the browser took a giant e-dump and now lots of sites are showing up as not existing and it's SUPER annoying to have to hit the refresh button two or three times in order to get it to load (if it does at all).  I recently upgraded IE to its new 8.0 (or whatever) version and it looks solid enough and plenty fast.  Looks like I will just use this one for the time being until Mozilla gets their act together ... but the whole thing is just upsetting even though nothing has really changed (I'm just browsing web pages!).

I had a real interesting day at the tables.  The first two sessions I had were "lost a big hand early then made an epic comeback" type of sessions which were fun and had me feeling great.  The last session was just plain weird.  I played about 600 hands in a little over an hour and had to review things to make sure what I thought was happening really happened.  What "happened" was that in 6 hands out of those 600 I got to the river making a value bet only to see it face a sickening raise.  It's just one of the worst feelings in poker to see your river value bet raised.  You're just almost never good and it takes some sick hand reading ability to sniff out the rare bluffs.  Fortunately my radar was on and I'm pretty sure I made some good laydowns and I did make 1 good call but in the end it was only a -1.5 buyin session so nothing huge and I think I was actually up like $20 or whatever on the day, so definitely not complaining after such a weird session like that.

Another really "smart" thing I did was play the Midnight Madness $11 tournament tonight ... wow that was dumb too because nothing is less productive for me than playing in a multi-table tournaments.  I don't run particularly well in them, at least, I don't play enough of them to justify dabbling in them so I can make my expected ROI.  Anyways in this one I actually came out with a great lead and a top 100 stack out of the starting 2,300-ish players.  Then with a 7k stack and blinds at 80-160 it all fell apart.  Someone with 2,500-ish shoved into me and I got AA.  He shows 22.  You guessed it, AA<22 AIPF, so I see my stack roughly cut in half.  Literally next hand UTG I have AQ and I made a raise, 2 callers and the flop is QT6 rainbow so I go ahead and shove and get called by 66.  And that was that ... lol, gotta love tournaments!

Anyways so I have my mental razor working to delete those entries from the memory banks and actually am happy I'm not upset in the least bit, just kind of smirking at hands like the KK<K9s in the 3bet pot at 100nl.  Just weird stuff went on today, so I can just forget about it.  These kind of days/sessions will occur and make the rest of the winning ones just that much sweeter.

Poker-wise that's about it.  I'm hoping to put in a good amount of hands in at 100nl Full Ring before the end of the month and look at my nit-ville approach and see some decent indicators of success.  At the 2p2 forums it seems like 4 or 5 regulars from 200nl are dropping down but I don't think I've spotted them just yet, but I don't know their screennames so who knows.  I hear so many conflicted reports that 200nl is  reg-infested and tough ... while others say the regs are bad and 200nl is actually easier than 100nl.  Who knows, right!?  All I can do is just keep my head in the game I am playing and take 100nl literally one hand at a time.