Lauren is better than me at Poker

Every Sunday, I play the Sunday Majors, watch football, and Lauren usually comes over and cooks me a fantastic meal. That's why Sunday is usually my favorite day of the week for now. Last week, Lauren decided to play a $2 bounty tournament on UB while I played my tournaments. I helped her along, and she ended up getting down to 2 or 3 tables and cashing for something like $3.5, and she got $1 as a bounty for taking a player out. This time she decided to play a $10 tournament, and she did amazingly well, taking the whole thing down! I did help a lot because she is still new to tournaments, but she did a lot on her own and was always asking me to explain why I wanted her to do this or that. She took down $321 for her effort and now probably has a better pokerdb record than me. I couldn't be more proud of her, and I know she was excited to win. Just watch out for some of the WSOP events in the upcoming years, as she will be a major force when I'm done training her.

As for my Sunday, I played really well and managed to get a 100k stack in the $1k WCOOP event with about 400 people left until the money. Things just went downhill from there as I kept bleeding chips with tough hands like JJ, and then I 3 bet in position preflop with AQhh and the original raiser called. The flop came 445 rainbow and he led into me for about 2/3 pot. I knew his hand was something like 99/TT so I decided to shove for about 50k more because it would be really hard for him to call that type of hand, and if he does call, I am only 3:1 to suckout. He time banked for a long time and then called and I bricked about 150 from the money. I like my play but I wish I had done it differently. I should've taken more time to make the play because I think I shoved just a little bit too quickly. I also would go back and just 3x his bet, even though it would leave me with only 10k left. Doing it this way seems much stronger to me, because he knows I can't fold if he puts me in, and it looks like I really want a call but don't want any scare cards to come for his/my hand (e.g. an Ace or King on turn). So you live and you learn.

I played some $100 max today and made $205 over 500 hands, so I was very pleased. Here's a graph:

This brings my monthly total to just under $800, so I should be able to hit 4 digits for the month but $1500 is unlikely. I might not reach the hands goal because I haven't played a lot lately, but if I really try and grind, I can most likely do it...