April 6 - Live Poker LOL

This weekend sucked so much.  I am super stressed (I really can't tell you why, but my body is reacting the same way it does when I have like 2 papers due and a 2 finals on the same day)...and I'm hurting because of it.  It probably doesn't help that I was running on about 12hours of sleep from Thursday to Saturday...but it is what it is.

On Friday I decided I would go play a lil live poker, as I hadn't played live in quite sometime.  Went with ForGlory from 2p2 to a little 1/2NL game in the Allston area which was pretty nice.  The poker room was actually pretty decent (had a dealer, security cam, felted tables, etc)...so no complaints there.  But the rest of the house reminded me of my college place.  I swear I may have caught AIDS from just entering the bathroom.  O well...

The game wasn't bad.  Got there at about 10p.  Played Rummy for about a half hour waiting for a seat to open up (playing Rummy against kids who don't know basic strategy is funny)...and finally got in.  Game was soft, my image got wet so quickly (not surprising), and then some fun hands came up.  Sitting $300 effective I knock 44 in the BB with a few limpers.  Flop 9d 4d 3x.  I fire $10, 2 callers.  Turn 5x, I fire $27, one caller.  River 9x and I open shove...he snap calls with 97o, I LOL quite a bit while re-assuring him that “he could never fold trips” to me  =)

Lost 98hh on a 8x Jh 7h ai on flop.  Lost A6hh on 6x 4h 3h ai on flop.  Lost AJhh on a Qh 5h 3x ai on flop.  Lost K9 on a K935r (got slowrolled by bottom set, cuz wtf, why not?).  Lost K7 on a K287A board.  And a bunch of kicker issue type hands in smaller pots.  Won a pot with another set of 4's, and that was mostly it.  I think I ran about 40/30 and minR'd like a fiend.  Just sucks that I never hit double draws to save my life.  I swear, 12+ outs is the nuts for everyone else...now I just need to figure out how the hell to improve in that spot myself.  Ended up leaving the game and was surprised to see the sun out.  Grabbed a quick bite to eat with ForGlory, and got home to grab a quick nap before some coaching.  (And obviously I didn't have a winning session, but minizing loss felt just as good I suppose)

Business direction changed a little bit, but not too much.  Pretty much decided to take the general idea and split the business (to ensure a wider niche coverage, and again, to learn a lot).  So I took over the more “artsy” side project and I hope to have the site fully laid out by next week.  I just got started on the template a bit tonight, so there is lots to do...like always.  

That's it for now.  I need some sleep before I do some coaching and then get my Stox video finished up.

(Don't ask me why, but I love this song.  Been jamming on it all weekend)

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