Getting through the rough nights

I've played enough to know there will be down nights. No matter what you do, you're not going to the flops you want, bad beats a plenty, and it all seems to happen at the same time.

I feel one of my strengths is being able to keep a level head when I know I am in the midst of a down night. I don't loosen up my starting hand requirements. I don't call people down when I know I'm beat. I try to take it to the next level and still get taken back to the woodshed once in a while. Like last night(down 33BB, 3 hours, a nice negative 11BB/hour)

With that being said, how long will you play knowing you are in one of these bad runs? How much of your bankroll are you comfortable losing knowing you are playing a good game? I gave up after 3 hours because it was 0200a est and I was getting tired and knew it would affect my play. I would be interested to hear any opinions out there because if I can put this in the right perspective, I know my game can get to the next level.

On a completely different subject, I picked up Hot Fuss by The Killers last night.
Very good cover to cover. They are out Las Vegas and have a good retro/alt-rock sound. Got it at Best Buy for $9.99 - how could I go wrong?

I hope everyone playing in this weekend's Semi-finals at Party Poker for the cruise package has good fortune. I am going to try to get in on the next set of semi's in November. Finally, I want to wish everyone a good and safe holiday weekend! Until next post...

Blu

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Thoughts on WSOP Main Event Ep's 5&6 (*Spoilers)

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I thought last night's episodes (5&6) of the main event were very entertaining. Memorable moments:

Raymer's first bluff of the night with Q2o and then seeing the rabbit cam confirming that he would have won the hand anyway.

"The Mouth" calling Raymer's all in with 97 spades holding only second pair, no kicker, no flush draw - Raymer's all-in bet was for an addt'l 241K with him holding AJ diamonds (2 overcards and nut flush draw on a board of 10h 9d 3d? I think)

**Matusow getting bounced losing AKo to AQo to a Q on the river. WOW! Is there crying in poker?**

Best Bluff of the night: Dan Harrington re-raising all-in preflop with just 108s. Just masterfully done the way he played his "image" against his opponents better starting hand -

M. Anderson's celebrations - was this his audition to be inducted into "The Crew" or did he really not know that they were in bad taste?

The fact that ESPN downplayed the situation leading into Doyle's last hand of the tourney. They made no mention to the fact that Berman did not hear Doyle call all-in and so he announced raise. The ruling then stated that he had to call Doyle's all-in bet with just A7o - he then caught an A on the flop to beat Doyle's pockets 10's. ESPN just showed it as a non-controversial hand. Unreal!

Any thoughts?

Blu

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Missing the .50/1 Jackpot Tables

Only got to play last night for about 1.5 hours on Party Poker. I've been experimenting with playing a .50/1 Limit Holdem table and a .50/1 Omaha table at the same time. Ended up 11BB total for a 7BB/hr clip. I'll take it, because I was down early. The Omaha tables are big time juicy. If you hit your hand, several peeps will call u down all the way even if you check raise! Its great but you have to get the cards - no bluffing here.

I miss the old jackpot setup because the .50/1 tables were so active. Now the jackpot never hits and you have to be playing at least 2/4 to even qualify. Oh well, its a beta test, maybe it will change again. *crosses fingers* Other than that, I'm looking forward to tonight's ep's of the WSOP Main Event.

Blu

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Alot to catch up on

Be forewarned, this post might be long. I haven't read any other blogs this morning so I am hoping that last night's tourney went off w/o a hitch. I only got to play one 3 hour session on Party Poker splitting time between .50/1 Limit Holdem and .50/1 Omaha and finished up 27BB for a nice 9BB/hour rate. The most interesting hand I had was one I actually lost. I had AQs in MP and raised it preflop - 2 callers - flop came down A 2 4 rainbow and ended up losing to a guy who called my preflop raise with 35o for the flopped wheel straight. My only comment to him was "Please play like that for the rest of the day."

How much do I want to say about the PSI tourney that runs Sunday night on Fox Sports Net? When I first saw the ads, I was very excited, because I wanted to see what kind of moves the professionals would use on each other with the knowledge that there weren't any amateurs at the table. In reality, I find it very hard to watch. I feel like I'm being rushed through the show because FSN needs to have a commercial every 5 minutes. I can't hear what the players are saying to each other because the announcers are constantly talking and their voices supersede the tabletalk. The announcer that is taking Howard Lederer's place in the trio is GOD FREAKIN AWFUL! To top it all off, they split each session over two weeks when they should have just one 2-hour show. Rant over - show blows. So disappointing, so disappointing.

On Saturday I went and saw the movie Hero. For those who don't know, it is a subtitled feature if that bothers you. I found it very easy to follow so don't let it scare you. It was very intense - great action sequences, unreal scenery - colors you have to see to believe. I give it an 8/10 for those of you who like stats. Definitely worth the $$.

On a side note, I heard the worst drunk driving story on the radio coming into work today. Two guys coming home together wasted from the bar - their truck hits a telephone poll and the guy in the passenger seat gets decapitated by the telephone wire as he goes through the windshield. Now the guy driving is so wasted that he doesn't realize what has happened and drives home, parks, and goes inside, leaving the headless body in his car. A man pushing his baby around the following morning sees the car/body in the driveway and calls the police. The driver is being charged with vehicular homicide. Unbelievable!

Blu

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