Mid Week Update + The 20k Hand Weekend

Every time I tried to update the blog the blogger site seemed to be down, but everything seems to be in order now. Tuesday started off just about as bad as it gets. Jared was playing next to me and won a giant pot when he set over set someone. I mentioned “You know, it’s been a while since I’ve been in a set vs. set situation either way.” Within the next half hour I twice had the bad end of SvS on the flop, and lost two other big pots when we got the money in with my set vs. their over pair. There were a few other funny cooler hands in the first 1.5 hours of the session. I was happy with my play, getting a cold deck like that can often send people into a raging tilt, but I kept my play level all the way. For the rest of the session the hands were pretty dry, and I stayed about even the rest of the way. Overall I lost a little less than 6 buy ins in that session.

The next session went much better. After such a tough session it’s easy for the after shock to affect your next few sessions, but if you were able to hang tough and ride out the first one you shouldn’t have that problem too often. I made back about 3.5 buy ins giving me these totals for Tuesday: -$227, 3216 hands, and $58 in bonus money.

I was wavering between playing on Wednesday or taking both that and Thursday off. I didn’t really feel like playing but I decided to get in a session. Nothing too interesting happened, and I decided to break until Friday after about 1.5 hours. I played 725 hands, made $39, and cleared $12 in bonus. On Thursday I also received $170 from the weekly UB bonus. It’s a great bonus and I plan on taking better advantage of it in the next few weeks than I have in the past.

Jared proposed we do a 20k hands weekend challenge, and I decided to take him up on it. Doing small challenges with others is a great way to motivate yourself. If anyone wants to join in this weekend we will have a thread going about it in the forum. 20k hands are definitely a lot, but are certainly doable. The weekend’s games are always great, so hopefully I will be able to win a good chunk of change during the challenge.

Bankroll: $3636
Hands played this week: 8053 (I think I acc carried over the total from last week in the last post)
Bonus cleared this week: $311
Hands played this month: 34285
Bonus/rakeback this month: $895 (with the rakeback I currently have I have passed the $1300 goal!)