Well that didn't last long

Someone on CT decided to run a BR building challenge for Feb. I decided to sign up even though I don't think I have any chance of winning since at most I'll be able to play 2hrs a day 4 days a week. There's no buyin so no foul. The bet is to see who can run $20 up to the highest number in the month of Feb. I might just play 3 5.50's and 3 1.10's to start and hope to take a good start out of the gates. So that break went from 1-2 weeks to 4 days lol.

A week filled with "Sigh"

So I didn't play a lot but when I did it was filled with beats, non - completing draws yada yada which leads to lots of "sigh". Only played 18xx hands of 25nl and 50nl. Ended up -$36.xx. If it was for the sigh factor it would have been hugely positive. Went deep in some Mtt's. Finished 30/2121 in a little $2 tourney on Stars. That yielded a whopping $10's. Bubbled a FTP tourney 19/184. That yielded a nice $0. Bubbled the 20K gntd last night on P*'s. Finished 6 spots from the money on a set over set hand. Another big sigh. Thinking I'm going to be in the top 100 starting the ITM stages to out really sucked. I feel like I'm playing well just not getting the results. This has been going on for awhile and it's really starting to hurt the confidence. I've also found myself tilting after bad runs lately, which I thought I had control of, but as I watch the 2,3,4 outers hit over and over I've been expeirencing some severe monkey tilt. I think I'm going to take the next couple of weeks off from playing at all and do some other things I enjoy. I feel like I've been neglecting my other hobbies and it could be time for a break (I say that but if the chance to play live comes I will most likely play). I've really been working hard on my course work and I'm seeing that pay off. I'm really hoping to get an invite to an honors society sometime in the spring as that's when they check and see who is eligible. So till next time...

Played a live tourney

First time playing with this group of players. I got the invite from a buddy at work. 8 people $10 buyin first $50 second $20 Third $10. To my suprise they had a pretty decent blind schedule to. From the start I was on. I read every one almost perfectly. I can't believe how bad some people are live and how many tells they have. My normal group don't seem to give off tells like this group. Hand shaking, and facial movements were pretty common. There were two pretty decent players in the group. I got HU with a 3-1 chip lead. We traded blinds and a couple of small pots before the first all in and call. I doubled them up and they offered to chop. Now I knew I was the better player but this is a group I wouldn't mind playing with again especially since they were talking about making the start time earlier to play more than 1 game a night. I also didn't want to leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth about the new guy not accepting to split or whatever, and I'm not sure on if they ever play cash games, but if they do I would really love to get in on that. I had fun and got to play live so I accomplished what I wanted. I'll have to start hosting a regular game again now that the game room is finished.

Finally played some more

I didn't play hardly at all through the holidays. Started back up 12 days ago. No real cashes in MTT's. Been playing a lot of 25nl and 50nl on Cake the last week. I really like that site. Anyway I'm up 4 buyins at 25nl and 6 and change at 50nl. I also just finished a little $5.50 Mtt there. Only 53 runners. I ended up taking it down for +79.50. Not an big win by any stretch but it did feel good to take down an mtt no matter the size seeing as how I've been running like complete ass for the last 3 months. It's nice to post up a win for a change. I was beginning to think I needed to change the name of the blog for awhile. That or I completely forgot how to play and needed to realize I really suck and was just on a heater before that. So even though it's small it's nice to get some confidence back.