classes start tomorrow, which is good and bad. and newspaper will be in full swing, which i write for and work on about 25 hours a week. what all this means is less poker playing and more of doing actual work which i make little or no money doing (in the short term at least).

my poker endurance is really low for some reason. after like 150 hands i my play starts getting gradually worse. not that im playing bad, i just dont have my A game anymore.

got it about 150 hands last night and about 150 this afternoon at 1/2 hu plo and played well (i feel i could have played slightly better in spots), but cards fell my way and i won 530$ which is nice. almost all my hands came against 'the blunt', who is a decent player and in the top 90% of people i play. i have picked up a few spots in his game that i can take advantage of though. that said, i have ran well against him, winning at 43BB over 260 hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3093893 biggest pot by far. the match had been very aggro, and i really like my hand here obv. however, if i raise the turn- why am i raising? for value? as a semibluff? for protection? i couldnt think of a great reason to raise big, and i didnt want to just call either because every single card that doesnt pair the board completes some kind of straight and i didnt have A high diamonds. so i finally decided to min raise, giving him room to push over the top with draws. its always nice playing 800bb pots as an 80% fav.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3093933 not much to say here. cold decked hand that i end up winning. as a side note, i should have 4bet the flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3093933 me getting outplayed. for one, i believe he stacks off with any flush here, so my play isnt bad in that aspect... and my bet also protects against sets. however, at this point in the match i thought he would raise the flop with A high clubs, making only and K or Q high flush beat me. oops.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3093962 the 'omaha bluff'. i run this bluff rarely, because i feel as though i need the right situation and opponent for it to work- which i thought i had both here. this guy is good enough to lay down a low flush and i can effectively rep an A high flush with the way i have played the hand. chances are, he didnt have a flush anyway.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3093993 heres a situation where it would NOT be a good idea to bluff the A high flush, because if i had AA and two spades i am bet/calling the flop. i do have a flush sometimes though, because i could have somethign like 9TJQ with spades that i just checked behind on the turn. my thinking on my river call was that he would not vbet a straight, so it came down to if he had a flush, and i was getting decent odds to call.