So it's been awhile since I've written here. You may hazard a guess, and you would be right, that my online results have taken a turn for the worse.
I dropped 10 buy-ins on Rush poker in the space of less than a week. It was surprisingly un-traumatic, to suddenly lose half of my online bank roll in a few days. I don't think I played too terribly, though undoubtedly the last few lost buy-ins were me on a bit of monkey tilt and trying to get unstuck.
So, I'm kind of back to square one now; with my BR under $100 for the first time in two years, I've decided to drop the Rush since I clearly can't beat it - even though when I play it it is super fun and I FEEL like I should be crushing.
I'm back to MTT's and the occasional single table SNG, a much slower and more time consuming process. I would love to repeat my success of a year and a half ago when I satellited into the Double Deuce (Full Tilt's weekly 20+2 MTT) and shipped $340 - until I do, Rush will have to wait.
My live game has been pretty good this year - I've bubbled a lot in my home game (at one point 3 months in a row) but I cashed the month before last in H.O.R.S.E. Even though I have a tiny money profit, I'm near the top of the leader board in points.
I also played in Vegas recently, see the PSP Blog, and managed to finish one of three tournaments that I played in as the chip-leader when we chopped three ways for $540 each. Good times, as I felt throughout the tournament as the best or second best player at the table during every stage.
This was the first tournament. I went back to the same place the next night, but I was late and didn't have sufficient chips to get anything going. Lesson learned, live turbo tournaments are beatable, but you have to be there at the beginning and start playing right away.
When I played at the Orleans on my last night in town, I was decidedly not the best at my table - probably somewhere in the middle of the pack. I was fairly card dead, but also misplayed the hand of my demise, when I flopped trips and min-bet, giving the flush chaser the odds to catch it on the turn. By then I was pot committed, and would have been crippled had I folded to his shove. Even though I knew I was beat, I called and prayed for the board to pair. Exit me. Next time - stick it in and be happy with the medium sized profit.
Overall, I feel I'm better than I've ever been - and constantly getting better; my results with Rush have been dispiriting, but
I feel I'm with the majority of players who partake in this crack-cocaine version of the game. It's a tough nut to crack when variance is so high.
I'm very much looking forward to some live poker this weekend at Hollywood Park, the wife and kid are going to a pool party. I know if I play tight and get lucky I can bring home some cash. The play from locals in Southern California I've found is much tougher than the tourists in Vegas. It's definitely good for me to mix it up in Inglewood, even though I'm fairly close to dead money.
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