The joy of my first SnG win has been mellowed somewhat by a bit of a bad run of late. Quickly for the week I am up a massive $4.87, which I guess I should be happy about. I am however quite annoyed with myself as I have recently dropped back into bad old playing habits. Playing that K8o just to 'have a go' and getting annoyed when losing to a flop of 8Ax..duh. So when I lose $500 on a SnG playing this hand I'm not exactly setting myself up for success.
I also went away from playing mainly SnGs late in the last week playing 4 low limit Tournaments, the result of which is down -$10.18 the main source of my frustration. While I did enjoy these going deep in two, collecting in one and busting out just before 2nd break ($10K Guaranteed) where my AA all-in low stack was busted by JJ (flopped QJT), I need to limit these games to no more then two in any given week and concentrate on the SnG's building the bank and climbing the levels in this format. For the week I played 7 SnGs for a net profit of $15.50 or 40% return, and in the money 57% of the time. My 7 SnG results:
1 = 1
2 = 1
3 = 2
4 = 2
5 = 0
6 = 0
7 = 1
8 = 0
9 = 0
So we can see where I should be concentrating my efforts.
I will also fall very short of the my $500 profit goal for December, unless I final table a tournament this week, not dejected, I will press ahead still shooting for the $10K 2006 goal.
I am currently on this weird Wednesday - Tuesday week, so this week will be a short week, Wed-Sun so that I can get onto a Monday - Sunday week just to keep things neat. There probably won't be a lot of play this week, will spend some time reading and getting my mind back into playing correctly, plus I am also away this weekend for New Years which I am looking forward to. Dinner down at King St Warf in Sydney which will be great to be in town and on the water, then up to my girlfriend parents place for a late Christmas.
Just briefly a shout out to Will Wonka and Rob at Sherwood Poker for their support. Going to keep at this game as while I find it often frustrating it is very enjoyable and entirely intriguing
