I grinded my ass off today and logged 7.8k hands. Things were pretty slow all day.  I felt like I played well, but it just wasn't my day.  Luckily I played a night session and it went well enough to salvage a profit for the day.  I ended up making $200, wish isn't great for that many hands but I'll take it.  I'm glad that I put in so much volume though.  I was 16 tabling and it really didn't seem to bad playing that many hands, I hope to be doing it more often.  Rakeback really adds up when you play that much.  I plan to grind again tomorrow.

COUGFAN13

I posted yesterday about how I was going out for an anniversary dinner last night but I didn't realize that was going to lead to a pitcher of beer and 3 bottles of wine afterwards. I then topped things off by watching concerts on DVD until 4am when I promptly passed out and slept for a whopping 4 hours.

I played 5.3k hands today and won $270.  I felt like I played really well.  I didn't look at how I was doing at all during the day.  I was very surprised that I won as much as I did.  I got stacked 3 times by running KK into AA today, all were spots that I'm never folding KK too.  I really didn't even blink when it happend either.  But I did get a couple of stacks gift wrapped too.  One from a reg who i've played a decent amount with.  I have no idea what he was thinking this hand, but i'll take it.  I'd say he was drunk, but it was 11 am on a tuesday. 

bob iliopoulos posts (S $0.25

cougfan13 posts (B $0.50

Dealt to cougfan13 Ad As

fold, fold,

-Virge raises to $1.75

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,

cougfan13 raises to $5.50

-Virge raises to $13

cougfan13 raises to $39.25

-Virge raises to $50 (AI)

cougfan13 calls $10.75

FLOP ($100) Tc 9s 7h

TURN ($100) Tc 9s 7h 3d

RIVER ($100) Tc 9s 7h 3d 3h

V-irge shows Qd 6d

(Pre 17%, Flop 19.7%, Turn 9.1%)

cougfan13 shows Ad As

(Pre 83%, Flop 80.3%, Turn 90.9%)

cougfan13 wins $97.25

I am not sure why but today the poker games were just dogshit.  There were so many "reg" type players that I have never even seen infesting the games like mad today.  It was weird because usually there is about 3 regs on at any given time that I think are even remotely decent, but today every table had 6-7 guys playing 17/13 and aggro.  I cant tell you how many times I took a note saying "Called 3B and insta pot raise to 45bbs and fold to bet/shove."  

I really can't remember a time in the past 2 years that I have been this motivated to play poker.  I am not sure what it really is, but even having a damn near break even February, I still am really enjoying poker on some weird level.  Maybe it is because I had a break even February, lol.

I fell short on a my goals last week.  I didn't make $1000 and I was 1k hands or so short of my 25k goal.  I made around $800, and went to the gym 5 times.  I had a personal issue that distracted me, so considering that I'm fine with the result.  Last month I took a 9 day trip, so my month was cut really short.  I ended playing 70k hands and making ~$3400.  I'll take those results with a Hawaii vacation any day. 

I just bought "Treat your poker like a business" by Dusty Schmidt.  I've only read about 1/3 of it, but I like parts of it so far.  One interesting thing I found is that he doesn't look at his resukts or even his cashier window at all until the end of every month.  It's hard to be results oriented when you don't know the results.  I think I am too results oriented, so I'm going to stop looking at my results until the end of a given day.  I may eventually try it for a week and see how it goes.

I played today without looking at all, and I liked it.  I had to do fucking jury duty today, luckily I got dismissed from doing it.  But it still tied me up from 7 am to 1 pm.  Thankfully it wasn't the next 2 days as well.  I jumped right on the tables when I got done and had a nice start to march.  I logged 5k hands and made $340.  People were playing way too aggro today and trying to bluff me non stop.  Most hands turned up were laughable.  That was where the majority of my winnings came from.

Below will be my march goals.  I'm not going to make any goals for winnings.  It's just another way of being results oriented, and thinking too much about results is a big problem I have.  I know I'll be better off just trying to get in hours and staying focused.  If I do that things should work out well for me.

Goals:
-Log 20 hours of studying.  I really need to work on my game more and try to take it to the next level.  I plan to watch videos, do sweats, and analyze my play.  This is something I quit doing a while ago.

-Play 100k hands.  I have no excuse not to play this type of volume.  If I play the hands the results should take care of themself.

-Continue to go to the gym 5 days a week.

Hopefully I make all of these goals,

COUGFAN13

So I am a bit annoyed right now, I "upgraded" to Windows 7 Release Candidate(pretty much a trial version) last summer and its been telling me for about 14 days that I need to upgrade to a real version now that it is released.  This is totally fine as I have a free copy through a school website.  The only thing is until I went to do it today, I didn't realize theres a few problems.  First, you can't just enter the serial code to activate Windows like I thought you could, so what I thought would be a 5 minute process, isn't gonna be all that easy.  Then to complicate things even more, Microsoft doesn't want people upgrading from the trial version, they want you to do a clean installation.  This is a pain for obvious reasons, and I did a clean install in the summer, so I really don't want to do it again right now as you have to reinstall everything, Itunes, favorites, HEM, FTP etc.  Furthermore, the trial version is Windows Ultimate, and I have a copy of Windows Professional, and thats not allowed either as its a downgrade in their product line.

I swear in all the hundreds of thousands of hands of poker I have played online, I must be down money on weekend nights.  I don't know if its me trying to force too much shit vs them or what but its annoying.

I just watched another video and I am not sure how many of my opponents read this, if any, but I dont think writing about what I am doing wrong is gonna give anybody at 50NL any sort of advantage so here goes.

I played 4.1k hands yesterday and it just sucked pretty much all day.  I was back to stacking off in a couple stupid, stupid spots right at the beginning of my session and it just set the tone for the rest of the day.  On the month over 33k hands I am just a few buyins over break even and I know it isn't just running bad.