Monday, March 23, 2009

Downswing #1 + non poker stuff

I love this beat. This is pretty much what's been happening non stop today and yesterday
Full Tilt Poker Game #11287778028: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (84838987), Table 1 - 50/100 - No Limit Hold'em - 6:36:37 ET - 2009/03/23
Seat 1: noatje (2,070)
Seat 2: KingBenn (3,295)
Seat 4: Sil07 (800)
Seat 6: peterobinson (2,735)
noatje posts the small blind of 50
KingBenn posts the big blind of 100
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to peterobinson [As Ad]
Sil07 calls 100
peterobinson raises to 400
noatje folds
KingBenn folds
Sil07 calls 300
*** FLOP *** [Ks Qd Kd]
Sil07 has 15 seconds left to act
Sil07 bets 400, and is all in
peterobinson calls 400
Sil07 shows [Jc 9c]
peterobinson shows [As Ad]
*** TURN *** [Ks Qd Kd] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Ks Qd Kd 4h] [Th]
Sil07 shows a straight, King high


Anyway, on with the blog. The last blog was all about how happy I was with the progress me and Pete have been having but in the last two days we have experienced the other side of playing lots and lots of SNGs, we are going through a pretty bad downswing right now. We are getting bit in the ass by variance big time, for example, the last two days I have only won 5 out of 23 coinflips, but there was a couple that I didn't take note of that I won and lost but the % would still be around the same, so sick. Had AK vs A-x a bunch of times with them hitting the X, pretty standard stuff when you play lots and lots of SNGs so hopefully everything evens out soon and we can get the graph going back in the right direction. Also, been playing some 5c/10c PL Holdem/Omaha lately, won a nice $17 pot earlier today when my 6435 double suited held vs JJ4A on a 644 flop so that helped out the BR a bit. Well heres the graph, didn't really realize how bad this downswing was until I just checked it. Downswing of around 15 buy ins which is pretty terrible but I have the utmost confidence in myself and Pete to pull through it. We both seem pretty calm about it, we are still rolled for 80 buy ins for the $5 SNGs and that is plenty in my opinion, some people would probably consider us bankroll management nits for sticking with a 80 buy in rule but I've been there before and if we were at the $10's with this roll and this bad run happened, it would be a lot worse.
All hope is gone for me on making the APL State Finals and I really couldn't be bothered to be honest, I would have preferred to make it but I'd prefer to put all my poker energy into working mine and Petes bankroll up but next season, I am going to come out all guns blazing, I am going to try and play as much as I possibly can, I will be hoping to play 3-4 events a week, I think I would go insane if I played more than that as APL is pretty bad, but hey, I don't go there expecting perfect play unlike some people *cough* Ryan Hulbert *cough* and I don't blow up when I get trapped by some "APL noooooob", it's free poker, people are there to have fun and socialize, get the fuck over it.
But the worst beat I had today was finding out I have to wait until the end of the year for Dexter Season 4 to start airing in the USA....so pissed, I just finished season 3 and was hoping the wait for season 4 wouldn't be too long but I guess beggars can't be choosers. Also, one of my other fav shows at the moment "True Blood" is having a break before airing the next season, so double bad beat at the moment for me. But hey, at least Smallville and Supernatural are going alright. Supernatural is kicking ass at the moment and I can't wait until next weeks episode while Smallville is started to go south like mine and Pete's Sharkscope graph haha, they've been building the Doomsday character up for the whole season and every episode just seems to end the same now...with him almost turning into Doomsday, sure, this great piece of television worked for the first 2 weeks and it made me anxious to see the next episode but now I know I will be dissapointed when I watch the episode next week.
Alright, just loaded up 4 more SNGs on Fulltilt. Wish me luck.
Quote Of The Day
"Yeah nice play" - Ryan Hulbert after getting his money in with A4 with AK. Then steams off in a fit of rage, only to come back to see him flop three fours, then sits back down and acts like nothing happened.

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