Big swings

In some ways I have done well so far this month, mainly because I have managed to play a few more hands than I have recently. However, the poker has not been straightforward. I started out by playing 2 short sessions and was running amazingly well, up over $150 in an hours play. I felt I was playing well. I was calling a few bluffs but also getting fairly lucky as I stacked someone with AQ v A5 on a AQ5 flop. Good times.

Then came bank-holiday Monday. I had nothing really planned and intended to get a few thousand hands played. This I managed, but at the same time I lost over $260. This was my biggest ever losing day by over $100. I didn't feel as though I was playing that badly, but it was one of those sessions when ever C-bet seems to get raised when you miss the flop and everyone folds when you hit it. The only hand that I feel I played badly was stacking off with QQ pre-flop when I was pretty sure I was beat, but that's not the worst play in the world. Anyway, considering it was a lot of money for me, I didn't actually feel too bad about it but decided to take a few days off poker anyway just to purge it from my brain.

So Friday comes around and it seems a good day to get back to winning ways. I haven't actually played that much on Friday nights before, but I've heard that the play is awful, and from my short 1-hour session I can definitely vouch for that. In just over an hour I won $210, which felt pretty good. People were just crazily aggressive, and so I sat back and called bluffs. My stats for the session are 19/7/1, not good, but when most other players are going crazy it seems to work!

From now on there's going to be more play on Friday night and less on bank-holidays!

Hands: 3,209
Profit: $100
VPPs: 835