September Update

Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged. As you may have guessed, September didn't start off nearly as well as I ran in August. This is just my second month primarily playing NL cash games. Well, after two and a half weeks of running bad, I decided to move up to $1/$2 NL. The reason that I made this decision was not because of some flawed thinking that I need to move up to win back the couple of hundred that I had lost playing $.5/$1. I truly believed that I was playing well, but the cards were just not falling for me and I wanted to take a shot. If it didn't work out, I had no problem playing in my usual $.5/$1 limits. My bankroll can handle the move, so off I went. Well, to make a long story short, I've been playing $1/$2 since 9/17 and have promptly had the most profitable month of my poker playing life. (knock, knock on wood. one day left to go)

It sounds odd, but I think the players at $1/$2 are actually just as bad if not worse than the $.5/$1 players. I've made so many sick overbets for value that seem to get paid off over and over again. My decision grind out the cash games has been very profitable for me these past couple of months. Being that I have a full time job, the variance of playing MTTs is too much for me to consistantly grow a bankroll without playing cash games. I still love MTTs and still play SNGs, but in order for me to achieve my goal of playing in 2009's WSOP, grinding cash games will be the only way to set me up for a sick run of playing Satties into the Main Event. This year, I was extremely disappointed that I only played one Satellite to get into the ME. I have had some very good success playing in the smaller Satellites, but whenever I won a seat into the bigger ME Satellites, I was too disciplined to play because the Satellite buy-in was a very big portion of my bankroll. Hopefully, I will be able to play in many of the Thursday $1k Satellites that they usually run. With a little luck, I will win one if not more seats into the big show.

Here is an interesting hand that I recently played. I hadn't been playing at this table that long to get any type of reads. I now know that sunfish2 is a regular and irishprince10 is a donk. If I was able to replay this hand, I would probably just call the turn bet and hope for a free showdown.

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Seat 1: Chainicheck ($452.70) -
Seat 3: sunfish2 ($200) -
Seat 4: NSS ($131.50)
Seat 6: TheJunkie ($317.40)
Seat 7: ValiantOne ($281.85)
Seat 8: irishprince10 ($377.70)
Seat 9: I Aw Rin ($211.40) -


PRE-FLOP:

Chainicheck posts small blind $1
sunfish2 posts BIG blind $2
Dealt To: TheJunkie


FOLD NSS
RAISE TheJunkie ($9)
FOLD ValiantOne
CALL irishprince10 ($7)
CALL I Aw Rin ($9)
FOLD Chainicheck
CALL sunfish2 ($7)


FLOP:

Pot: $35


CHECK sunfish2
BET TheJunkie ($25)
CALL irishprince10 ($25)
FOLD I Aw Rin
CALL sunfish2 ($25)


TURN:

Pot: $110


CHECK sunfish2
CHECK TheJunkie
BET irishprince10 ($44)
CALL sunfish2 ($44)
FOLD TheJunkie


RIVER:

Pot: $198


CHECK sunfish2
CHECK irishprince10


SHOWDOWN:
irishprince10:

MUCK sunfish2

irishprince10 collected $198 from main pot with Ace Jack high

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $201 Rake: $3

Final Board:


Seat 1: Chainicheck small blind folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-1)
Seat 3: sunfish2 big blind mucked [6s 7h] - Ace Nine high - Net Gain/Loss: ($-78)
Seat 4: NSS didnt bet folded - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 6: TheJunkie folded on the Turn - Net Gain/Loss: ($-34)
Seat 7: ValiantOne didnt bet folded - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 8: irishprince10 showed [8s Js] and won 198 with Ace Jack high - Net Gain/Loss: ($122)

Seat 9: I Aw Rin button folded on the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-9)


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