Keep it coming..

Day 2

Well I assumed eventually I will stop running bad and getting these rigged flops, but apparently it was just the beginning. Today's beats were almost worse than yesturdays because I often got my money in with the best of it and ended up getting sucked out to 2 outers. I played ~3400 hands today which is a solid number, I feel I could play a little more but I'm going to be downloading high stakes poker episode 11 so my connection will be used up. Started off my session good, won the first two all in pots, and then the string of bullshit happens again, amazingly enough I finished +$1200 today. If my hands held I could have easily been +3-4k but
I don't mind, I'll take what I can get I'm not a greedy guy.

I've also adjusted my style a little, this new change really helps me out a lot, I think it's something I should have stuck with (I used to do this but then I stopped). I am now raising less preflop, especially in position, so I get more action and I can control the size of the pot accordingly. Because pots grow exponentially lowering you'r opening bet by 1-2bb's really allows for better post-flop play. And this is where I feel I have my largest edge over most people. By playing big-bet poker the playing feild is neutralized and my edge becomes smaller. Because of this my varience today was extremley small, even though I took a ton of bad beats all in one long string I was never stuck more than 1 buy in from my original starting point.


Hand history's from today:


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61139 *Funny I do a 4x pot bet and he honestly thinks his ace high flush is good :) Looking back at this, I susepct he would have probably called an all in bet. There are some people who will just never fold even when it's so obvious.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61181 *This is just 100% rigged
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61238 *Yay I have AA :) AA is only a preflop favorate when you'r not running bad ;)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61240 *Weird I felt he had the overset when he min check raised me, but I suspect he would play AA/KK the same way as well.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61248 *Standard
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61265 *I suppose this is my mistake, I should not have reraised the river... but this player is a complete donkey he would play AK, A9 etc.. the same way
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61266 *I was initially just trying to pickup the hand preflop, but I hit a dream flop and went with it. Kudos to pooruser on the good read, if he ended up winning with jack high this woulda been a sick hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61272 *Icing on the cake =)



Goal:

93 200 left - 3400 today = 89800 hands left to play

The goal is moving along smoothly. At this rate I will finish ahead of time, and more importantly I will have developed the discpline to play long sessions, completing this will really help me grow as a player this is something I have been lacking for a long time.


Also on another note, I'm extrmley proud of my play today, I find it amazing I finished in the (+) even with the number of suckouts I remember at one point I was thinking to myself, "geez here we go again" but I grinded it out and pulled together a preety solid session. I'm wondering maybe I can start maiking 3-5k a day once I get a break-even run of cards and maybe... just maybe even a good run of cards? We will see.