(Relative) Success

5th in the MATH
15th in the Skill Series
3rd in the Dookie

2 cashes, 1 BBT3 cash, 2 BBT3 points so far this week

It's been a pretty good week so far. I wasn't back from work Wednesday night to get in the Mookie but made it for the Dookie and played pretty well. I've been feeling pretty good lately, staying a good mood as much as possible. I'm coming down the stretch with two weeks left in school before I go home and other places unknown this summer. There will be a lot of changes soon between moving my stuff home, getting comfortable at a new casino this summer, working 40 hours a week, and deciding what my future holds.

I've played tight for the most part especially in the MATH despite some of the beats I've laid on people. I've been fully willing to lay down pocket pairs if I didn't think it was a good time to get involved in a hand. It was interesting playing deep into the MATH Monday night, getting down to push-or-fold time. It's been a long time since I've been involved in that style of play and it took some getting used to.

The HA was fun Tuesday and I hit just enough big hands to keep my stack healthy. In the end, I just didn't get enough cards to get all the way to the money.

I feel really good about my Omaha game lately. I usually have issues going from Hi to H/L and vice versa, but neither game is struggling much now. When I go from playing a lot of H/L to Hi, I have a tendency to overvalue flops that look good, but are susceptible to bigger hands. Many times I've like played a hand like 5678ds and flopped two pair, and then gone on to play it too aggressive and get beat out by flush draws that make it there or other hands. When I go from Hi to H/L, I feel like I undervalue some of the low draws, hands like A25Kds or even folding suited A3xx instead of at least limping and trying to see a flop.

I made a couple of those mistakes playing the H/L blogger cash game and the Hi Only Dookie at the same time. A couple little mistakes was ok but I gave up half my stack in the Dookie so I had to give up the cash game and focus on the Dookie. Once I got my focus back, I played well enough to get to third where I ran into a flopped boat by pvanharibo.

I'm just doin what I can with the tools I got. I should be around tonight for the Riverchasers event tonight Double Stack NL Holdem tonight. We'll see yall out there.

Corn-Vegas

Who wants to go to Corn-Vegas? This is just a preliminary way of counting up how many people would actually want to come to Iowa and hang out and play poker and drink boxes o' wine. So there ya go.

So it appears I'll be playing the blogger donkament tonight thanks to a backing from a friend. I might be back in the swing of things as early as next week's Mookie depending on my financial status at the end of the weekend. I had a very nice weekend at the real tables getting third in a tournament Tuesday and then winning a blackjack tournament Wednesday. Those two cashes makes my bankroll much healthier than it has been in in months.

Hopefully I can continue that into tonight but with a bunch of bloggers, you never know. See ya at the tables.