Dec, week 1, 08

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"I am my own worst enemy"

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35,000ish hands/ $89 profit/ 1,189 FPP's

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Well took a couple shots, played a couple tournaments, and even played a couple hundred hands of PLO micro stakes. Since I only had one week during the last month my status was reverted back to bronze level. Meaning the fpp's will be minimal until I make it back to silver status. This won't be very hard considering that I am already %82 there in the first week. With the help of some shot taking at different stakes. I did play in some small stakes live "friendly" .25-.50 cash games and was up $400+. This kind of helped give me a break from some bad luck I could not shake free from.

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The first part of this week I was actually for the first time doing so or being really aware of the fact that I was playing fairly bad. It didn't help that I was running with the doom switch on as well. "The cost of poker" as I would like to call it was outrunning the "Winning of poker". I couldn't seem to dodge some pretty horrific play as well as a lot of bad luck. Twice this week my aces lost all in pre flop to another pair of aces? I guess I have not been getting set over set at my usual rate of once every 3,500 hands to this along with a horrendous amount of retarded beats took there place. Through my tilting I began shoving with the nuts rather than betting for value. This only seemed to obviously lessen my winning and also when I got called only ended in me getting drawn out on for some bigger stacks losses. Regardless of what stupid garbage they had. I had to end a few sessions almost immediately as I was starting to become tilted to the point that it was effecting my play. I ended up taking a shot way above my bankroll. Another big no no and was rewarded with my bad decision making with a few good hands that put me in the positive for the week. Hence the vertical line in this weeks graph. I lost about $120 taking shots between nl 10 (.05-.10) and nl 25 .10-.25. Looking back about $50ish was due to bad decision making but the rest was bad luck and the "Cost of poker". The rest of the profit was made through grinding it out and a little from PLO, Pot Limit Omaha. Which was a nice change of pace after a rough week.

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"Cost of poker"= Seems to me to be the ongoing amount of money you lose in between wins.

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If you play correct poker without a winning hand. You will continue to lose money. Whether it is being lost to blinds, set mining, raising to build a bigger pot while winning, or making correct folds, big or small. All these things as well as many more cost money. These situations far outnumber the other end of the spectrum which is winning a hand. As your money continues to fall through correct play I call this the "Cost of poker".

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So onto next week I will try and be a little more care full to notice my tilting or bad decision making. And trying to extract a little more value out of my good hands. Being a little more patient and being content with grinding it out at .02-.05.