Suckout Saturdays and Shitty Sundays

Well after a really good week the weekend just sucked! I made within $50 of my former weekly salary last week so I really can't complain but yesterday and today I just took one ass whooping after another. Boats sunk by quads, flush over flush but you know it's time to quit when it's straight flush over the nut flush. Weekends are so rough with all the lucky weekend warriors out there getting lucky at every hands turn and sucking out with trash hands that any half decent player would snap fold. But hey it's poker and that kind of crap happens all the time.

As you may have noticed in the second sentence I said former job. That's right lost the day job about a week and a half ago. Not unhappy to be rid of that crappy job and through with the nutty bitch I worked for but it was unplanned and it's an adjustment. Last week I was relieved and in a great mood but this weekend I think some of the reality has set in and I'm trying to adjust to that.

I've come to the realization that my mood so directly affects my game. Last week when I was in a great mood I played wonderfully and won and cashed plenty but this weekend my mood has sucked and so has my game. I'm going to have to watch that and be careful not to play when I'm not in a good mood. Luckily I'm not a moody person so as soon and I get through all this adjustment to my new situation I think I'll be fine and my game will be fine.

Right after the job status change I was asked to be the official moderator for the PokerVT forum and that carried a free membership and few other nice perks so I was really happy about that.

Well life goes on donkeys suck out and we continue to improve our game and most importantly WIN MORE!

Good luck at tables!

Donkeys, can't live 'em can't win without 'em...

As anyone reading this knows, I've been playing in the women's league games on Pokerstars and despite the number of women playing who are the biggest, luckiest, donkeys I've ever seen I've been doing pretty well in these games. The first month I played I finished number 8 on the women's tournament leader board and I finished last month in 8th place as well.

I had really hoped for the top five but I seemed to run badly and play badly in these game the first half of the month. Around mid-month I realized the reason I wasn't doing so well wasn't run bad it was play bad. As I said above these games are so donkey filled it's not funny. I was letting the awful play of the luckbox donkeys put me on perpetual tilt and thus found it impossible to get anywhere in the games.

It wasn't obvious tilt, like cussing, screaming, mouse throwing tilt it was underlaying attitude tilt. With obvious tilt you tilt, scream, holler and get over it. With attitude tilt you often don't even realize you are tilted but it effects your game negatively. I was underestimating my opponents and I was overestimating them as well. Both over and under estimation is bad but by overestimating them I was screwing up my thinking about their ranges and such and this was causing me to make incorrect decisions. The same problem is true with underestimation in that I don't put them on correct ranges then either.

I have now faced the fact that 75% of the women playing in this league are inexperienced novice players, i.e. fish or donkeys. I was an inexperienced novice player at one time myself and I was as big of a fish/donkey as any of these women. So I decided to try to remember how I played and thought when I was at the same point they are with my play and honestly this has helped my game against them tremendously. I pulled up some old hand histories and looked through them and after being appalled at my horrendous play I realized what I was learning from these old hand histories is how these ladies are thinking. Now when involved in a hand against one of these fish, er I mean women I try to think how I would have played certain hands when I was where they are now and it really helps me make better decisions.

All in all donkeys get lucky and donkey suck out on us with their trash hands that they had no better sense (or experience) than to play but the more we get our heads around their thinking the better we can effectively play against them and have positive results.

So hoping for much better results this month - top five here I come (I hope).