November Update

I have three tests this week, one of which I just took an hour ago, so I'm a little short on free time. Combine that with MMA and Thai Boxing three times a week, and you have nothing left over. I didn't like the way that was going, so I am removing some study time from the schedule to play poker.

My results have been pretty good so far, but I'm not really running that well except for one hand (luckily that hand was accidentally at 2/4 on Stars for full buy-in suckout). I have been running into a lot of coolers and just plain bad luck, but I have been hanging in there and not tilting, which has typically led me to recovering it all back. If I get some coolers to go in my favor, this could be a really good month. I have been playing pretty well on Stars (barring that one hand) and am taking advantage of people really well. I haven't been able to get any rake back on my new tilt name because I transfered $1k there to play 1/2 and ended up losing $500 in 80 hands. Since I didn't have enough money in the account to even 3 table (didn't feel like going through the hassle of transferring), I moved to Stars where I made $550 in about 300 hands and salvaged the session. Here have been the major hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668826
I felt my opponent was on a check raise bluff, so I made the very illogical play of shoving so that only a better hand will call and all worse hand will fold (sense the sarcasm). It was nice to get lucky though

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668837
Set over set here. I actually wasn't thrilled about calling because the board was so dry, but I'm not going to fold a set a 1/2 just yet. He could have had 79s or T8hh or some pair flush draw, so there is still plenty of equity in my call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668845
I think I can fold this to a tighter player, but he was pretty LAG and already had 1/3 of my stack in so I made the crying call and didn't suck out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668851
This guy and I had battled some earlier and I stacked him then. It felt like he was tilted and trying to get back at me after that hand, so that's why I called this light. I put him on a medium pair or complete air on this flop, which is why I just called because so few turn cards can hurt me. I wasn't happy about the 9 but there were still so many other pairs in his range that I felt I was still ahead. I unfortunately got 2 outered and stacked off.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668863
This hand is kind of sick. My opponent must have narrowed my range completely down to a King here, which I think is a mistake as I will have a medium to high pair quite often that might get blown off by his aggression.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668885
I couldn't believe I lost this hand. This guy was a huge station, as evidenced by him never raising me here.

I'm going to keep trying to squeeze in hands during this testing time and hopefully put up more results...