Overdue Update

Well it's almost been a month since my last post. Mostly because I haven't been playing any tournaments at all. I went on that bad run that I talked about in my last post. After a while I just started getting bored with tournaments. Once in a while this happens to me, and I usually switch over to cash games. I think the last thing you want to do is play a form of poker when you are not fully into it. I was not playing my best, and I wasn't having fun. So I switched over to cash.

It's funny because about 4 months ago, I was in the cash game grind. I was in such a rut, and I decided to take a break from cash and play tourney's. That's when I started to have such a good run. I think a big part of it was because I was enjoying playing so much, and putting my best effort in. Now I am starting to go back to cash again, because I'm not playing or feeling the same with tournaments.

I have been playing heads up cash for the last month. I had about 1700 in my linx account, and started playing 1/2 heads up. I started off really hot, and within about 6 days had it up to 6400. For the next 2 and a half weeks I was on a steady decline eventually going back to about 1800. I really couldn't understand it. I have always been able to kill this game. The heads up on linx is so soft it's not even funny. I really think it boiled down to running really bad. I was continuously getting cold decked, or getting fluked. I probably wasn't playing my best either, which tends to happen when I'm running bad.

Then 2 days ago, I started going on a monster rush. I mean MONSTER rush. On one of my 1/2 tables I went from 200 to 2600 in about 2 hours. Long story short, I'm back up to 7300, and praying that the rush continues. I dream about always running like this. How easy would life be if I could get cards like that all the time. It would be incredible. I believe I also have been playing really well, and matching up with complete donks. Here is an example of a hand I played last night at 1.50/3 heads up. I will just take a hand from stars and edit it with the eurolinx hand, since I can't figure out the hh for linx to save my life:

Handnr: 178642 Submitted by : fishbones11 PokerStars Game #9341787130: Hold'em No Limit ($1.50/$3) - 2007/04/09 - 21:20:13 (ET) Table 'Demodokus IV' 6-max Seat #3 is the button Seat 1 Donkoftheyear ($575 in chips) Seat 2: fishbones11 l ($850) fishbones11 : posts small blind $1.50 Donkoftheyear posts big blind $3 ***HOLE CARDS*** Dealt to fishbones11 fishbones11 : raises $9 to $12 Donkoftheyear : raises $35 to $47 fishbones11 : calls $35 ***FLOP*** ] Donkoftheyear: bets $60 fishbones11 : calls $60 ***TURN*** ][] Donkoftheyear: bets $60 fishbones11 : calls $60 ***RIVER*** ][] ] Donkoftheyear: checks Fishbones11: bets 361 Donkoftheyear: calls 361 ***SHOW DOWN*** Fishbones11: shows (a flush, nine high) Thedonkoftheyear: shows (a pair of nines)

Another reason that I haven't been playing any tournaments is because Krissy and I got a new puppy:

So for now it's a little hard to play tourney's again, because the puppy needs a lot of attention. I'm going to stick to the heads up for a while, and pray I keep running like this. I guess it will be a while for an update, but I'll be back.......