Looks Like I Picked The Wrong Week To Quit Sniffing Glue

Sunday:
Since my usual Saturday night game went on hiatus for the summer, the Home games have kinda dried up. One of our regular hosts, Julie, decided to have a Sunday afternoon $40 tournament. She has two tables in her basement, and we ended up with 16 players. Things went badly for me early on, and never really got better. I finished in 12th place.

I ended up hanging around because Host Julie was also out of the tournament, and she wanted to play some Heads-Up. After the Final Table was set, we sat down at the other table and threw together a simple $10 Sit-N-Go. I got off to a great start by getting all the cards, and it looked like I was cruising to a victory. But somebody flipped the Doomswitch, and the all the cards started going Julie's way. I eventually lost the first match.

We ended up playing two more $10 matches before the main tournament finished up. I lost all three games. I must admit that it's not easy to lose three straight Heads-Up matches. I could easily blame it on the Cards, but I'm not sure that's the reason. Heads-Up is all about making adjustments, and maybe I just wasn't making the proper adjustments.

Or maybe it was just one of those days.

Monday:
After work, I headed down to Mountaineer for my usual overnight trip. As it turned out, they had a $2/$5 game going on a Monday night, which was quite a surprise. Unfortunately, I didn't bring enough money to play in that game.

So I got a seat at a $1/$2 table around 7:30pm. The table was rather soft with a lot of limpy play. There were no Action Guys, nor were there any "Players" at this table. I was really cards dead for the first couple of hours, but it didn't matter. I was able to steal various pots, and my stack was floating between +$75 and +$140.

For the last hour or so, I started to get a few hands. Some went very well, and some were very annoying. At 11:30pm, I cashed out +$121.

Tuesday:
I played in the 12:15 $65 tournament which had 40 players. Mountaineer is having a "Double Stack" promotion for their tournament this month, so we started with 14k chips which included the Dealer AddOn.

I was really card dead in the beginning, and only won one pot that was Blind vs Blind. After a few levels, I got moved to another table right after somebody knocked out three players. This player was playing a lot of hands, and trying to bully the table. He was also very willing to give out some "Courtesy Double Ups". I shoved All-In from UTG+1 with ATh, and he called me from the SB with QTo. By the first break, I had 13k chips, just 1000 below my starting stack.

After the break, things went better for me. I picked up a few hands, and got some chips. Action Guy dusted off his big stack, and I got some of it. I had around an average stack of 31k when we got to the Final Table at the 2nd break.

In the 2k/4k/500 level, I went All-In for 35k with JJ in Mid position. An Old Guy on the Button called with AK. The King on the Flop knocked me out in 8th place four hours after the tournament started, and three spots away from the Money.

I headed over to the main casino to check out the new Buffet, but it was closed. So I decided to try my luck at some 3-Card Poker. I haven't been playing the game lately because I've been running ice cold in that game. Since I've been running so bad, I decided to try a minor change to my "system". It's too complicated to explain here, but was successful. In hands that this change affected, I was up $70. Unfortunately, this only meant that I got to play a couple of extra hand before going busto. The Dealer was having a very good day, which has been normal for me over the last few months.

Wednesday:
Even though my regular Saturday night game is off for the summer, Host Dave does have an occasional weekday Cash game, starting at 7pm and ending around Midnight. I was only planning on staying until 10-10:30, so I just brought $150 and put all of it on the table.

I was really tired, and I shouldn't have even gone. I played horrible. I was very weak and passive. I really brought my C- game to the table. I made a horrible call with AQ on a Q76 5 8 board even though I couldn't beat anything. He end up with Two Pair.

As the night went on, I was just going through the motions, and slowly bleeding chips. Finally at 9:30, my stack was down to $60. I cashed out, and went home to crash in my bed.