Lets get caught up. Thursday the 20th I cashed in 2 out of 13 MTTs and 0 out of 1 satellites and broke about even on the day. I took Friday off and played Saturday cashing in 2 out of 14 MTTs and 1 out of 2 satellites. I also had been trying to get some money off Carbon although the reason wasn't from having to much online, I simply had some things i needed to take care of. I was able to sell some Carbon funds to another player for a fee and got what I needed off in two transactions.
Saturday I ended my session a little early and decided to go play live for the first time in several months. I played a lot of live poker 2005 to 2010 and then focused online 2010 until Black Friday. After BF I went back to live until May 2012, and since coming back to online in May I have played all online. After playing nothing but inline for the last few months I decided I would go play some 1/2 nl at the casino.
I ended up being stuck most of the night and then finally got winner as our table was breaking down after a seven hour session. It's amazing to me how many players live play a limp, flat style of play. They hardly raise but never fold. Its pretty awesome watching it for hours. I also get amusement out of the table talk and the one or two professors at every table, so funny. For the night I played about seven hours and won half a buy-in and was happy with my play.
Sunday I cashed in 2 out of 16 MTTs for another disappointing day full of the best MTTs of the week. I had a few deep runs but couldn't get through the big hands and both my cashes were of the minimum variety. Overall I feel I am playing well and enjoying talking poker and working on my game but there is some small frustrations that come with downswings. Truly though I have no worries as I am as relentless as they come and will power through and get mine.
Monday I had to run some errands but decided to play a short session after. I cashed in 0 out of 7 MTTs and 0 out of 1 satellites but again felt I was playing well just wasn't able to manage a cash out of this short sample. Tuesday I played around the same schedule as I had something to do early and was able to cash in 1 out of 9 MTTs and 0 out of 2 satellites. Still a disappointing day but again I felt I was playing okay and losing a lot of flips.
After a mildly disappointing few days i decided to take a few days off and relaxed away from the game until Thursday night when I went to play 1/2 nl at the Casino again. I played for several hours staying about $50 winner the whole time but played no big hands. Friday I went to play 1/2 again and was small winner the first half of the session before a couple small coolers and then grinded a short stack a while before losing JJ to K8 on a 9 hi flop to a rivered straight. It was a decent night as I felt I played well but you can't win every session and I decided to call a night.
Saturday I was fully engaged in the Ryder Cup but did manage to play the 2 Freerolls I was in on Carbon. One was a 10k guaranteed nl MTT and the other was a satellite giving away 125 $109 tickets. I cashed in the MTT but not the satellite and decided to watch golf and football instead of register more MTTs.
Feels a little meh posting a bunch of days with no good scores but truly this is juts part of grinding and all we can do is keep soldiering on. Poker is wild as every player hits the upside of variance at different times and all we can do is work on our game constantly, keep emotion out of our decisions, and not give up.
Good luck to all the grinders out there, keep fighting hard until you reach your goals!
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