Monotony and a Milestone

Another 5 days and no posts. I spent time catching up on the 100+ posts of the 46 blogs I subscribe to that I hadn't had a chance to really keep kept up on since the middle of last week.

Things had been kinda tumultuous for the past couple weeks, but I'm hoping now I can keep up on blogs, and get back to posting regularly.

I won't go too into depth about poker for the past few days, because most of my stories end up about the same.

Friday - I was home for the afternoon with a good opportunity to play, so what happened? I played like crap and ran badly. Of course, playing bad tends to lend to running badly, because I wasn't making good decisions. In the end I nabbed a 1st and a 2nd and ended up down about $3. Poker Night on Friday was a write-off. The first tourney wasn't much of anything and then my Ax couldn't outrun QQ. In the 2nd tournament my brother in law disrespected my big bet again when I pushed about 5xBB w/A9 suited and he made a tough call with...10Jo?? Of course he hit and I was busted. The third tourney was equally as nothing and I got my money back. But, I made all 3 final tables and cashed once, so overall I was pretty happy.

Saturday - More of the same, maybe worse. While watching ISU tank yet again on the FB field, I lost my way down to as low as $50, I won the last tourney I played (my only cash), and ended up at $75, and $13 from Friday's starting point. But I really was just happy to survive the onslaught of a terrible day semi-intact.

Sunday - After a double puker party on Saturday night, I recovered from my hangover with some afternoon poker. Yeah...I couldn't really sit up straight w/o wanting to die until about 1:00. It figures they show the two most uninteresting football games they could've when I actually have a chance to watch. Anyway, in poker I started out with a couple more terrible decisions, bad play, and some terrible luck. I lost my way down to $53 on Sunday, and just on the verge of killing myself, things turned around. The two tourneys I was in were going pretty well. I got heads up in the first one and should've won that one, but took some gnarly beats and 2nd place. I then proceeded to get heads up in the 2nd one and sucked out on my opponent 4...count 'em...FOUR times to win that one. So all was about right in the world, and I ended up <$1 down from where I started on Friday. I'll take it, because I probably deserved worse.

Yesterday was where things kind of caught me by surprise. After killing some time after work and then working out, I decided I had time to squeek a SNG in. And the SNG probably took the cake as far as the biggest "trained monkey could play these cards" experience of my life. I was picking up good down cards, and they couldn't help but turn into good hands about every flop. I hit trips on my first 2 pocket pairs, had all 6 top pocket pairs, was hitting straights, flushes, 2 pair...just hitting flops about as hard as you could. It would've gone even better if my QQ would have held up against JJ and 77 to take them out, but 7s took that pot. I was waiting for it to end, but it went all the way *to the* end, and I locked the thing up. And there stood my bankroll at $107.51. The promised land.

So now I'm figuring out what to do next. If you've been reading me, you knew that my plan was to cash out this $100 and promptly redeposit it at Poker.com and work on a bonus, but upon reading up about the bonus, I see its going to take a while to clear, and I forfeit it if I withdraw. So I have an inkling to win my way up to $150, cash out, deposit $100 at Poker.com to work on that bonus, and deposit $50 at Full Tilt to keep working on that bonus, and be able to play some of the blogger events if I feel like it. Besides, I think the best time to deposit at Poker.com is when the MLB World Series is on so that TV isn't new. Poker.com has a $500 freeroll for new depositors for 7 days at 7 PM that I REALLY want to play in, and if I miss out on nightly TV I'll lose a few wife points. So we'll see what I decide. I like my new plan because it incorporates the ability to speed up my old plan a little bit, so I'll probably go that way.

Right now I'm in 10th out of 66 (99 starters) in a Poker.com $5.50 MTT, so if I can hold it together, maybe I can just win the $150 first prize and pick whatever damn plan I want.

PS - Everyone should try out Poker.com in these times of sites shutting down. They've got super fast, GREAT software, loaded with features (rabbit hunt, show one card, play blind, player accolades, chat icons), and they have a 100% deposit bonus up to $100 with entry into an Aussie Millions if you use coupon code AUSSIEFREEROLL. They pride themselves on a great player experience, the cards are true, and the play is soft. Just give it a shot and see if you like it.

*post-proofread update* - I'm now 17th out of 39. Haven't seen a lot since early, so I'm just trying to hang on.