The FIRE inside

Today I cashed in 5 out of 30 MTTs and 2 out of 9 satellites. I was able to make four final tables and win two MTTs, the $3 rebuy and the $5 deep-stack turbo. I was also able to secure another $109 ticket so now I have the 125k and the Evening 109 covered for Sunday. I think these are the two best value 109s and I try to use my first two 109 tickets on them every week. I truly felt good all day and felt very confident at the tables. I have been reviewing more and more hands and full hand histories and I truly believe all the hard work is paying off. I feel as if the reasons behind my actions are getting better everyday.

I wish it wasn't so, but I will admit I woke up with a little extra fire after having such a good day yesterday. I wish I could tell you that I wake up with the same drive everyday, prepared to crush the tables. But, honestly some days I grind because its what I do, and somedays I have an added fire. I suppose I shouldn't be worried about being more excited some days than others as long as any bad days are very rare, and they are.  I will tell you that I am a bit like a good quarterback, I pile all the bad beats and bust-out hands in the short-term memory files that our prone to early deletion. Dwelling on anything negative will never help. I try to forget about any beats the second they happen, and I never give and bad beat or bust-out hand the satisfaction of having me type it up to share with someone.

For me, each new day to grind is a chance to make some money to improve my BR and keep moving forward to reach my goals. No matter what happens the day before, nothing changes the fact that as I start all my MTTs, anything can happen. If we are prepared to play good and give it our all, there is no reason to think a profitable day isn't possible. I will say that I really enjoy the fact that one of my favorite MTTs is right at the start of my session. I am always eager to get started on time and play in it.

Tonight after my session I still had some drive left even though I played for 11 hours. I got with an up and coming student of mine and reviewed one of his HHs. This student, Cody, has quite a bit of live experience and is a capable player but he has never really worked on his game. As most players that fit this mold he has a decent base, but makes a lot of unforced errors. Choosing to flat OOP instead of open wider in pos. Paying bad prices for set-mining and not having a plan. It is all simple to fix things that are just hard to know until your told. Cody and I have been working on his game for a couple weeks and he has most of these things under control now. Today we took it a step further and talked more about planning, we talked about good spots to 3b and re-steal, and we worked with pokerstove ranging players. It was actually a very productive session and I expect many good things to come from him. Keep up the good work Cody.

For the rest of the week and through the weekend I plan on continuing to put in high volume by sticking with this extended session. So far it s showing to be profitable and I am enjoying the grind. I may try and work a day off into my schedule if I continue the long hours, but as I stated above, I really do wake up ready to grind everyday. The last few days has provided a small boost to my BR but my average buy-in will stay the same. July was a little rough and I have been grinding a risky 50-100 buy-in BR some and will be glad to be back to a 100+ buy-in BR. Hopefully I can just continue to get in volume and the rest should work itself out.

LONG LIVE ONLINE POKER!

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