Thursday, January 29, 2009

Day 100

saBeen a long time since I posted. Been up and down on the site. I made the new account so I could get rakeback and strictly played cash games for a long time. From the last post on Dec. 16 till about Jan. 10 I only played 7 stud h/l cash games. Made alot of rake and was winning a moderate amount ( about 250 since last post), but also made nearly that much in rakeback so it seemed worth it. Then I went on a terrible stretch starting at the beginning of Jan. I lost about 500 in a week stretch. I that point I just wanted to give up all together. I only had about 350 left in my account at that point and decided to cash it out. However, when I gave them my information to cash out they found out that I had another account and closed my new account...... It took a bit but i got them to transfer the balance over to my old account where I can no longer get rake which is very gay. After some consideration I decided to play a few tournaments in my old account before i cashed out. I did pretty good in some 90 man sngs and got a decent amount in my account and cashed out 400. Over the next two weeks I went back to basics and played games I did a while ago. I want to keep my account low though now because I havent found a job yet and need the money. So my plan was to cash out small amounts and keep just enough to play in my account. I didnt even play any 9 man games just mtts and large 90 man sngs mostly for $10 buyins. I started doing well playing just a couple hours a day. I cashed out 200 and another 100 over the last week after winning a 90 man and taking a 2nd and a couple 3rds leaving myself with about 200 in my account. Then I went through a bad four or five day strech recently and today my account my all the way down to $40. Basically if I lost this I couldnt really afford to play for a while, and I was ok with that. I bought in for 3 mtts for about $30 total. I ended up taking 1st in the $6 buy in for $144 and 2nd in the $11 buy in for $160 while winning another $25 or so for knockouts. I didnt even really play that well in either, I was short stacked on both before the money and won alot of allins and sucked out numerous times to get heads up in both. Both of them I was short stacked when heads up. The $6 one we had pretty similar styles and just folded back and forth to each other for about 30 min. Then I bluffed a big pot from him to get even and then a couple hands later he called my reraise allin with a7 to my aq after A hit flop to win. The other one the guy was very aggressive he had me low and dominated twice but I sucked out twice to get back to even, one time it was A2 against qq, he was pissed. Then the blinds got ridiculous and he raised me like 4 times in a row to take the lead. I had 33 after he raised again and I pushed, he showed aj and hit A so I took second. But I am still very pleased with today and cashed out $180 more leaving myself with $160. Now I can play for a bit longer and maybe ship a big one.