Weekend Update

Posted by icemonkey9 on Oct 27, 2008 in General | 0 comments

Saturday was my friend Mike's wedding and that was a lot of fun. I joked with Mike before the ceremony, "So what are you doing after this, because I want to go to Barona and play some NL," and everyone laughed. Fortunately my friend Marc was down and sure enough after the wedding we ran off and played in a ridiculous $1/2 NL game with a max buyin of $60. I call it the "Push n Pray Special" but we just wanted to catch up on things, hang out, and have fun - mission accomplished! I left +$4 than I came in with which is fine too!

I got in a session on Sunday that off the top of my head was +38 that went well. The weekend crowd is just so horrible. Then last night I was chatting with C9 and BW and they got my juices going so I put in 1 more session and MAN did that go bad. One of the first hands I flop trips and stack off against a dude that limped in with KK and hit a boat on the 9K9 board. Then there was this absolute donkey/superuser that kept showing me the nuts against my big hands. I'd have a straight, he'd have the nut straight ... I'd have a flush, he'd have a boat. It was maddening that a 52/0/1 was kicking my ass. I stayed hoping my luck would change but when someone's on a heater, there's nothing you can do and I got too tired and frustrated to continue ... fortunately I only ended down something like -$75 for the session so the damage was minimal considering the string of coolers.

So it looks like the 20k milestone is a lock and I have 3k FPPs to blow so I think I'll playin 5 or 6 more of em by the end of the month and hopefully cash in half. I've been mentally bouncing around my month recap because I've really grown more this month poker-wise than in all the months before combined ... I really truly feel that way, but with some perspective maybe that will change.

Also, a really nice guy "michael" left a comment before that I wanted to answer:

"Do you find the weekends more swings on the weekends than during the week? During the week, I do pretty well but the weekends have such high variance. Weekends are by far when I tilt the most off."

I don't get to play much on the weekends but I can definitely say the Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon crowd is nothing short of terrible. I'd almost advocating playing up a level in stakes! But - don't, because what happened to me last night could happen to you and you just hit that rough patch of coolers and it sucks and you could tilt to an extreme degree. With the higher rate of reward there is some risk, and with that risk comes a greater chance of tilt.

The best advice I can give is to play each hand individually, and only to retain tendancies in play from hand-to-hand and erase results like a whiteboard. You will win against the fish in the long run and never forget that so just keep plugging away and don't let wins/losses affect your normal gameplan when in a hand (betsizing, raising, folding, etc).