What goes up, must go down

I'm bored at work so I'd just thought I'd update my blog.. At least I've something to do.. Such is the life of a civil servant!

Since my last post, I have practically lost almost all my profits from playing 100nl 8-max. Of all the leaks I have, tilt is the biggest I think. My biggest and last losing session was when I lost $350 in like the space of 45 minutes. I was playing three tables and I had AA cracked twice in the space of 5 minutes after getting it all in pre-flop, AK no good against Queens and the worse of all, even with steam coming out of my ears, I carried on at one table where I was down to $50 but got it up to $175 with a hyper-aggression mode (cos I was on tilt)... I had everyone covered except for one passive player who kept making these unbelievable suck-outs on everyone with shit like A-9, KJ... Anyway it's folded around to me in the SB and I've got 33. I raise to $3.50, wanting to steal his big blind.. He re-raises to $20, which is a really huge raise. I either was going to re-raise or fold cos I don't want to call. I thought about his re-raise, he seen me play aggro and thought he'd play back at me. The size of his raise looked like he wanted me to go away so I put him on A-J or some stupid hand cos of the way he had been playing at the table and his stats (54/16) so I quickly took the orthodoxy (I dunno if thats actually a word!) decision to go all-in in my tilted wisdom... He dwells so I'm starting to think my read is right. He leaves it till the very very very last possible second and then calls. With fucking Aces. Slow-rolling prick. The board doesn't help and I'm just reeling from the worse losing night I've had playing online. He taunts me in the chatbox and I rise to the bait and proceed to bombard the chatbox with abuse to vent my frustration before slamming my laptop shut and it takes all my willpower to stop myself from hurling it against the wall.

And I haven't played 100nl since. Lol! That night badly affected my bankroll. Of course as I write about the hand, I look back on it and I think what an idiot I was, but at the time the table dynamics and emotions clouded my judgement.

But anyway I've dropped to playing 50nl. I've decided to try and adjust to 6-max which was something I have wanted to do anyway. I haven't gotten that many hands in yet though but so far the sessions have been okay. I definitely don't feel out of my depth there so I hope to be back playing 100nl when my bankroll has been recovered.

I cant put up a graph cos I'm blogging from work which is just as well cos I'd be too embarrassed! =)

Anyway I played live the other weekend for the 1st time since CHL closed down. It was a €55 DC in Silks Casino where Luke is now managing the poker floor. With 1k guaranteed, there was an overlay of €300 as there were 14 players. I had a bit of difficulty re-adjusting to live play after having played almost exclusively online since CHL closed. I wasn't as conscious of stack and pot sizes as I once used to be as I had gotten into the bad habit of just glancing at my opponents balance and pot size online. I didn't play very well and busted out in 8th place or so. I'm not so sure about Silks, I have to go there again before I settle on my initial judgement. I'll say this though, I don't like the tables. Actually I don't like any tables where they have accumulated layer of layer of cloth on top of each other over the years to the point where the table is too soft and you can't stack your chips cos then they will just wobble.

Anyway I'm playing in the IPO tomorrow. Paid the buy in of €150 to play. I wasn't going to play in it after getting so close to winning a satellite ticket into it but changed my mind cos it'll be a shame to miss out on playing in the biggest tournament in Europe with 1,300 people playing! I'm slightly concerned about re-adjusting to live play but hopefully I'll run good cos luck will play a big part if anyone is going to cash from a field that big.

The following weekend is the IDP weekend. The main event is the deepstack tournament on Saturday so I really am looking forward to it. 10K stack for €70 game. Food and drink inclusive of €7 reg. 30 min blinds. I really think this has the best structure and value of all the deaf tournaments in Europe. The only thing is that the standard of play will be quite crap cos there are so many players that have just learnt how to play. But then again, I should be happy about that cos I reckon I have an edge over them.

I'll be back after the deepstack weekend to write about it, so until then good luck!