lots of decisions

played a litte friday night and never really got into it and played poorly in most everything.

decided to just shut it down rather then waste buy-ins only to dust off chips.

played close to 30 sng's in the $22 and $33 turbos on Saturday and broke pretty much even. went down to Casino Niagara sat nite with some friends and played a little 1/2 nl. the games as usual were extremely soft and i ran up the max buy-in of a $100 (lol 50bb's) to around $260 at one point playing pretty well. then i got a couple beers in me, got bored and a bit cocky and ended up walking out down $35 after a 4 hour session. one interesting hand came up during the session. it was about 2.5 hours into the session, couple loose passives limp in late position and i decide to just complete with AJo in the sb (about $220 behind) and the bb checks. flop comes J54 with two diamonds (i have no diamonds). i lead out for pot ($10), bb folds and two loose passive players call. the turn is an offsuit Ace, i lead out for $30 (pot is $40, villain 1 has about $80 behind and villain 2 has about $200). villain 1 hums and haws and looks like he is most concerned with villain 2 than me and eventually folds, villain 2 calls. the river was the 3 of diamonds (worst card in the deck) and i check (mistake, should probably make a blocking bet here) since i thought for sure he had a flush draw at that point and even if he did have 76 it got there as well. i checked and he instantly went for chips and bet out $50. i was sick, villain 2 had shown some moxy before raising a bunch of limpers on the button with Q8s so it wasn't like he was uncapable of making moves but the only other time i saw him value bet a river he had two pair. i took as long as i have ever taken in a live game and eventually mucked. i told him i mucked top two and he told me i was behind the whole way and that he flopped a set but when another player at the table accused him of bluffing he started laughing so who knows. i think long term the fold is +ev but in a live game who knows.

so i also have hardly played any plo cash games of late. i had a planned lesson for thurs night but my coach no showed and i dropped 3 buy-ins while waiting for him mostly on a couple beats and losing two big flips. i've determined one thing in my poker life. i cannot grind anything. i have a short attention span and when i go on these little quests to conquer new games or cash levels i just don't have the focus to play one discipline all the time.

the only exception to this is mtt's. i think i can handle playing tournaments since they are constantly changing dynamics and building to a climax. also, i think i would have made a lot more money this year if i had just dedicated myself to tournaments. so im going to be playing tournaments tuesday and thursday nites from now on. now of course when i bust early or need to fill the screen with other games i will still fill it occasionally with cash games or sngs. i think as long as i mix things up i can do well in almost anything i play. i'd also like to mix in all different kinds of games and formats so i could be playing anything from nl full ring cash to shorthanded plo to 8 handed horse games. i think the variety of poker is the most appealing to me and i have no idea why i restrict myself.

also, im off to vegas the beginning of march for 6 days 5 nights of poker and can't wait. it will be during the wynn poker classic so if all goes well the next 3 months online i might take a shot at one of the 1k events but i'll cross that bridge when i get there.

bankroll is just over 12k right now with about $400 in my rakeback account.

tg