Long time, but somewhat productive $284.50

I have been a little bit busy lately with a business venture that I have wanted to be involved with for a very long time. On september 1st I will be a partner in Deuces Poker Room, which is a local bar that has a total poker atmosphere. I am very excited with this and will continue to post updates and hopefully some pics.

Since last time, I have only played in 10 sng's:

Buy-Ins: $82.50
Winnings: $131.50
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Profit: $49.00

Lots of down time

My niece turned one so I flew into illinois to see her, and then when I got back I found out my ex had gotten into my house and took a bunch of stuff. On top of that, my job is downsizing and I am on a list of potential lay-offs. Joy!

So needless to say, poker has not been on my list of things to do, so I will start to try and make more of an effort to play again as soon as I feel up to it.

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Days 11-13 --$235.50

So I only played a little bit because of some things at work and just wasn't that into playing again.

$ 33 Buyins
$ 27 Winnings
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($6)

Days 8-10 --$241.50--

I ended up taking friday off as I just wasn't really into much of anything at all, especially poker. So when I woke up on saturday, I felt great and I played 5 sngs and won 3/5, so not too bad. Although one of the wins was hu :). On sunday, I just did one and I bubbled when I hit top 2 pair and the donk hit runner runner straight. Oh well, thats poker (God, I hate it when peopole say that).

$34 buy-ins
$56 winnings
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$22 profit

Day 7 --$219.50-- Random mtt thoughts

So I played some ring games and did a bunch of $5 sng's and one 6-handed sng. I won a few and lost the rest, I either win or I lose and it seems I almost never finish 3rd or 2nd. Anyway, it was very uninteresting poker last night and i won't bore you with the details. I really can't wait until I can move up stakes a bit because this is really dragging me down. I was going to wait until I hit $300 to move up to the $10 sngs and some of the mtt's, but I think I might move up here pretty soon.

I don't know what it is about mtt's, but I always seem to do very well in them. I don't FT a lot of the time, but it seems that I cash quite a bit when I have been trying to. I will jump into 3 or 4 of the $1 tourneys and make it an all-inament. Whatever, I don't care I only take the $3 rebuy and higher seriously anyways. I feel like I have a lot of potential in the higher buy-in mtt's but I am hopelessley lost at ring games. If i get pwned 2/5 times in micro limit, what would happen when I shoot up to 1/2 or higher?

I have done a few of the sunday millions and have lasted a long time. Never cashed yet, but the last one that I did, i should have. I was playing great and had AA and got it all in preflop with a chip leader. He also had AA, but he hit a 4 card flush and gg me.

While it seems that I am moving up pretty damn slow, well...I am. I am playing the part of the part-time, only a hobby-poker player and trying to stick within my br. I know I have made a few slips, but who doesn't? So I figure that I have more than doubled my initial stack of $100, so I am hoping for this week to get to $350 or higher.

$34 buy-ins
$54.50 winnings
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$20.50 profit

Day 6 --$199 -- Trying to get my head back in poker

So I got my personal life crap all back in order and I am pretty well set to start making a go at this thing. I woke up yesterday and felt great so I immediatel sat down at a $5 sng and won that pretty darn quick (the blinds were only at 50/100 when we got to hu).

Once I got to work, I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was a very slow day so I of course jumped onto PS and played the very first mtt I could afford with my br. So, since I have been running fairly hot at these rebuy deals, I decided (stupidly) to jump into the $5 rebuy. I ran well again, and ended up cashing, but could have done a lot better. I was just above average chips, but close to the short stack at my table (which was very loose btw) and I got KQs in the BB. Cut-off raises 4x and I call...flor was AJ10 os. He pushes hard, I think for a bit and reraise, of course he calls quickly and flips over JJ....river A and it was gg me in 318th pl. Oh well. Again I only had the inital buy-in, one rebuy and the add-on.


So wednesday rundown:

$21 buyins
$56.50 winnings
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$35.50 profit

Day 4, 5 --$163.50-- not into poker right now

Well, I had a bunch of personal issues that I had to deal with so i was a little bit off my game and overall just wasn't into sitting in front of a cpu for hours playing poker. Monday I did a sng and got toasted pretty early and decided to do the $3 rebuy event. I know, I know I really shouldn't be doing this with a $150 BR, but I have been running hot on this tourney so I gave it a shot. Early on I had 75o and went all in preflop (obv) and flopped 2 pair, gh me. I never had to rebuy so I was in for a total of $9 (buy-in, initial re-buy and add-on) and I cashed in 244th place for $25.94.

So mondaywound up with

$14.50 buy-ins
$25.94 winnings
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$11.44 profit


Tuesday, I was still dealing with all my personal crap and it kinda hit a peak so I only played a few sng's late and got kille don them, but it honestly wasn't my fault. KK was a very horrible hand for me apparantly as I busted out in 7th in the first sng with KK losing to QQ all-in preflop. Jumped into another immediately and the second hand I held KK utg. I raised 4xBB and was reraised and a call ahead of me, so I reraised all in and was insta-called by both of them. So what do you think? AA, AK, QQ....nope it was JJ and Q8c with a flop of QQ8...gg me. I ended up with 3rd in the last sng of the night, and I was so tired and tilted, it was bedtime.

Tuesday totals:

$16.50 buyin
$13.50 winnings
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($3.00) first daily loss