.05/.10

So hey, whattup G? SSDD here, but let me tell ya bout it. Yesterday was another dragger at work. I've got a couple guys down for NY changing a bunch of logic in my plant, so I can't really check out CR during the day and I just sit there and watch them hack on the puter all day. They're some really cool guys though so we crack jokes all day. I got busted hard by a co-worker telling a story bout how this girl one time told me to come look, she had something she wanted to show me. Well co-worker numbah one says, " What his 12" Cack?!?! " really loud and we all just busted a gut laughing, he definitely got me good. Ok POKAH!!!

So poker went good yesterday. I recieved my book from Tommy Angelo, he left a really cool, fittting inscription for me, " T0mmy2T0ne, Remember -- To win at poker, you have to be really good at losing :) -Tommy " Guess he has read some O' the ol blog after all lol. But I tell ya, he's certainly got me pegged. Something I've been strugglin with ever since I've been playin any competetive anything. I hate losing and never really learned how to be a good loser, well internally, I do think I'm a great loser in everyone elses eyes LOL. I just struggle with it in my own eyes. I do think I'm coming around though, I question myself from time to time as you'll obviosly read about in these posts, but I think I am able to regain my confidence each day before I hit the tables.

Yesterday went well at the tables, though, so that was good. I sweated a guy I met through the poker groups thread found here. He is a 25nl/30/nl guy so he's playin a bit higher and hasn't been at it for as long as me, but he seems to have his head on straight, He won a 45 person SNG while I was watching with some solid play and had 3 tables of cash goin. Hopefully we'll get better at the whole rail/sweat thing and improve each others game.

But for me, I played round 500 hands and was positive again scorin bout 1.5 bi's perhaps a bit more. As for hands, I made this really good read on a busted flush draw by a shortstack that I was really proud of myself for making the call. I am not truly sure I played this hand optimally as I was either winning barely or destroyed. I just felt on the flop that he was lying so I popped him, I led again on the turn smallish and he just flatted. The river I probably shoulda fired 3, but figured I was probably beat so I checked he pushes all in and I start thinking about it, I just felt I had the best hand or lost to a queen or possibly quad fives but he was a shortstack so why not see if he ain't just doing what I think he's doing. And he was.

www.pokerhand.org/?2262054.

I felt good bout that hand. So my worst losing hand of the day demonstrates why I hate KJ for one, but it also demonstrates how I would have benefitted from popping him up on the flop. I chose to simply call him down with KJ as I could be good most of the time, but gd it if I wasn't beat all three streets while getting taken to value town by a 77/0 short stacker. Dammit! Suppose I'd of popped him up on the flop I could have then shut down before riding the value train courtesy the donk. Hand is here:

www.pokerhand.org/?2262064.

Haha, oh well. I lost a few I shouldn't have lost, but I think my play and decisions won my money last night rather then losing me money. Ahh well, guess thats enough for the day =P.

Will leave ya with the PT stats and EV graph from 3/12/2008...

--T2T

One thing I keep failing to call myself on is my pathetic aggression. God I need to fix that shit. So timid, like a tight passive almost. Ahh well, will work to improve upon that aspect.