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Got in a few hands today but I'm completely exhausted so I just got back off. Thought I was up a bit but ended up being down which frustrated me and not really sure where the profit went. Just checked my monthly graph and the thing is pretty sick. After my first 27k hands I was -4.5 buyins in non showdown winnings, and my last 10k hands I'm -9 buyins in non showdown winnings. This statistic alone is absolutely killing me and I have no idea what I am specifically doing that is murdering my non sd win rate. Going to try to figure this out today and tomorrow and attack poker again from a different angle, but until I do I'll probably take it easy.

Managed to turn a profit today, but only because I ran above EV on my allins. Other than that I felt like I played like crap and ran into a lot more terrible situations. Haven't managed to get much sleep over the last few days which is probably the main issue at hand. I'll see what I can do tonight about getting some sleep so I might be able to make some money tomorrow.

Down almost 11 buyins since the fun started. Absolutely can not win. I did actually observe some higher stakes play for a while today to see what I could pick up, however it didn't help what so ever. Really just getting destroyed every hand and I don't feel like I'm hitting much. Need to put in a decent amount of hours before the month is over so hopefully I can somewhat salvage this garbage month.

Today did not go very well for me. I started off playing pretty bad, but also had a lot of bad spots. I think I quickly dropped 4 buyins and took a short break. Re-evaluated my play a bit and got back on after eating. I tightened up a lot to around 15/11 and started to mount a bit of a comeback. Still ran into a ton of coolers and not running great at 100nl ever really. Did manage to chop back some of the losses after a long session but it's getting late and I'm calling it quits for now.

I started trying a few plays out in my second session and most of them worked very well in my opinion. I think my hand reading was fairly on point and I was acting on my reads. Really trying to expand my game and bridge the gap between top players and myself so hopefully this was a step in the right direction.

Trip went pretty well. Didn't play a whole lot of poker, maybe 3 hours online and 9 live. Lost a buyin in both.. just couldn't really make anything work for me. Actually was stuck playing 1/3nl for a while at Ceasers until a 2/5 could open up. Just such a tough game to play for me as you basically just have to wait for the nuts and it's completely boring.

Did end up meeting a bunch of guys and as of now I'm considering flying back out for another week around July 5th. The weather there is too great and I'll be playing a ton of poker this time when I go down as my first trip was more of a vacation than poker splurge.

Put in a few hours today and just ended up getting pissed on by the end of my session. Was doing well up a few buyins and ended up down half a buyin at the end. I think I feel apart a bit at the end but ran into some really tough spots as well. Need to do a better job of tracking my energy and concentration levels while playing, because I could have prob bounced earlier and avoided some mishaps. Posted a few hands from the session at least.

Not sure how much poker I'll play but I'm going to try to get a decent amount of hands in. Probably going to check out the WSOP room again and meet up with some people. I get back next Sunday so I'll probably put in some big hours starting on the following Monday.

Played a little bit today but didn't get a ton of hands in. Had a fairly decent session but it ended up being a bit frustrating. Started off down a bit, worked my way back up, and then just kinda slowly bled chips off for the rest of the time. I ended up playing 19/14 at all 100nl, and was hitting 22/17 at one point. I think I might have gotten myself into more trouble than good when I hit that point, although I was also 3b a ridiculously large amount of times during that period. After that I eased off a bit and made a few bucks back by the end.

I had a few interesting hands where I really manipulated my bet in relation to pot size and won some pretty decent pots on otherwise non action spots. Haven't done a whole lot of this in the past but it's something I'm going to start playing around with more.

I ended up posting a few non exciting hands that mainly just deal with 3b situations. Starting to work a few different ideas into my play but really just need to understand the whole dynamic of 3b's more preflop.

Didn't get in a whole lot of hours since last Tuesday. I did actually go to an underground live game in Albany on Wednesday, and that went fairly well. I made about $240 while making a few mistakes so that wasn't bad. It was refreshing to play in a live game again as playing online all the time can get fairly monotonous.

Got about an hour in today but was just really exhausted from the weekend and had to get off. Sleep schedule is still all over the place and that's something I need to get on top of soon. I'm actually getting ready to go to Vegas this Wednesday for a few days so I don't know how much more online hands I'll get in before then. I do plan on playing a lot more this month though since I'd like to get that instant $2400 July bonus for 150k FPP and I'm not that far off.

Other than that, no real hands to post for discussion since last time. Should get some good ones up by this Wednesday hopefully.

Actually played near 10 hours today, which is huge since I don't think I've done much more than 5 in a single day in months. Played pretty well for the most part with a few hiccups. Added in a lot more 100nl today and did fairly well. Still 16 tabled 50nl a bit too as I got more tired since it's a bit less mentally intensive. Ended up getting a bunch of hands posted, although still struggling a bit with 3b/4b pots.

Managed to get about two hours of playing time in today, but had a pretty low quality session in terms of focus and concentration. I had to work another weekend with the Guard last week so my sleep schedule is a bit off again. Also have just been a waste case the last two weeks and need to start running again to keep my energy levels higher.

As for the session, I was quickly up two buyins, and then just slowly dropped to being down about one. I think I just kept putting myself into really terrible spots and was probably too aggressive overall. I've posted a few hands below which I don't feel I played 100%.

I've been managing to get in more hours lately and have been maintaining decent results. I also updated my blog a bit and now have a section for all the hands I post. I'll mostly just be adding hands as I go and posting less links to hands on the main page.

Today in particular was very sporadic in terms of the play I was seeing. It seemed like people were gunning for me all day. I also wasn't super focused so I tightened up a lot by the end of the session, but still turned a reasonable profit. The variance was pretty crazy as I was having two buyin swings every 20 minutes or so. I think I played alright overall but definitely could have made a lot fewer mistakes.