last week

in my last entry i made a goal to play 6k hands over the weekend. i ended up getting in close to 6.5k because i played on sunday as well. i'd definitly say i didn't play all too well and spewed quite a bit over the earlier sessions before reeling it in and playing a bit better near the last couple sessions. im not too worried about the poor play because it really stemmed from getting used to the newer limit. 1/2 plays a lot differently than .50/1.00 imo and i usually end up getting very spewy when dealing with a higher level of aggression than i am used to. i think my play in 3-bet pots was pretty poor and i didn't handle getting 3-bet the best at times.



so over that sample i was up a buy-in but that feels like a bit of a loss. im chalking it up to learning though and already feel pretty comfortable again. one thing i've come across at 1/2 are a couple of huge whales that buy-in full and stay and play long sessions even when they are up. unfortunately some of these guys are the ones that tilt me the most and i seem to get owned by them a lot. i did however win a couple massive pots off them when they're bluffing or overplaying there weak made hands.



last night i played about 1300 hands and ended up 2.5 buy-ins which was good. i got stacked on the first hand i played to said whale when he shoved the river for 2x pot on a 899cc 2x 8x board. i had raised pre, c-bet flop which he check/called, checked the turn behind because he folds nothing and i figure him for a small pair, flush draw or straight draw. i doubted he had a 9 just from the way he plays. so on the river he bets out my stack which is effectively 2x the pot and i am used to seeing this in mtt's and think it's a sign of strength in general. the problem is here i played with this guy the day before and made a couple calls on rivers where he did the same thing (2x pot) and caught him bluffing air, busted draws... he's also to donkish to know to stop doing it so i went ahead and made a hero call w/ AQo and he showed me 86o for the under full. doh!

edit: i wrote this a week ago so i'll just skip to now.

since my 6.5k stretch i've prob played another 2k hands or so and im up a little over 2 buy-ins during that stretch. on saturday i played a short timed session but 6-tabled and felt good about my play. i actually felt like i was on the loose side of tag but i guess i was auto-folding a lot of speculative hands while in other pots and ended up playing a 16.5/13.5 game for the 1300 or so hands i put in. yuck!

anywho, i feel pretty comfortable at the limit now and i start with a new coach tomorrow and im excited about that.

i've been reading dave "raptor" benefields blog a lot lately and it's pretty inspiring. guy is buying houses in vegas along with 100k cars and playing in bobby's room while out there. pretty fucking cool and although i don't really think i have the gambool in me to ever play at those stakes, if i shoot for bobby's room maybe i'll end up in a juicy 50/100 game some day.

tg.