Hello - hope everyone is cool - well where do I start, it has been a roller coaster to say the least, I played the Ecoop 750$ which I satellited for, and it all went horribly wrong, when the guy in late position made a min raise, everyone called round to my big blind, so I decided to peel with Q 3 dd, the flop came 10 high - all diamonds, I thought Pingggg, so decided to lead out, for 600, the button called,,, turn was a 4 hearts, I bet about 1250, he set me all in, and I called he had A4 diamonds, marvelous! - lesson learnt = never call a raise with Q3 diamonds, however big or small :-(

I didn't play much after that, I went to a local cub near me, called Sovereign, it was a £35 deep stack tourney with 10k chips and 20 minute clock, It was about £800 to the winner, and I played really well throughout, and then got it to heads up, and unfortunately,after being in front 4 times and getting outdrawn, decided to re raise all in with 73 off suit, the 1st time I had re raised the whole heads up and he decided to call with K9 off, and it held, wp gg, after that I was short and just stuck it in with any 2 cards, which happened to be 82 off, wp me ....not..... £380 for my efforts, was not too shabby....

The next day, I was all over the place, I went to sovereign got knocked out real early, not taking it too seriously, was pretty peeeed off, so decided to drive to Big slick, where I played there £50 f/o with £3k gtd pp, they had 100+ runners for this event, and I managed to just scrape in.
I did not play a hand for a while, and each time I did, I either missed flops or got back raised, the high jack raised , cut off calls, and me being me on the button, re raised 3500 more with 42 off, and the high jack dwelled for century's and decided to shove grrrrrr....
I then had about 6k, I see J10 clubs, so I limp for 600, about 5 other limper's, the flop comes KcJd6c, I Check the next guy bets 1k, 4 others make the call, so I decide to shove for about 5k more, they all fold round to the big blind who instantly calls with 75clubs, (happy days), until the turn comes a red four and the the turn a nice 3 spades, gg wp thank you for dealer ....

I was highly irritated at that point, so I went on the fruit machine and put £7 in it, by the half way point of this spin up, I had won the jackpot of £250 mbn..... So I sat on the cash with 150, which I lost playing like a twat, but he ho, I decided to call it a day and go home, I returned to my room about 12:30, so decided to register for the 100$ 6 max on poker stars, and low and behold I ended up winning it, happy days, I played real good throughout the whole tourney, I felt I was in the zone, and everything seemed to fall right for me, aggression certainly seems to work in those type of tourneys, I actually love the way that you don't tend to see many flops, and hardly any rivers, that is the way I love to play poker, rather than all in all in, all the time, its more pre flop action, and take downs on flops etc....

Had a horrible day on Sunday, played most decent Sunday comps, could not cash a bean, my deepest run was in the warm up, that was no good when I moved all in with AK and got called by AJ, with a Jack high flop it was gg me "sigh".....

I played the 6max ecoop last night, which the owner from big slick kindly put me in to.... It did not start off well from the off, I re raised from the sb with 10 9, the cut off calls, flop 567, I lead out for half the pot, he shoves for 1700, I decide to gamble and call, he has 66, and I miss, later on I am short, the sb raises, I shove all in with A9 he calls with KQ, flop 10 9 x, turn A, river JACK! zzzz, I was really disappointed in my performance and the result in itself, I no longer hold the title to this event, and very gutted about it, there were only 680 runners, and with 80 getting paid, I didn't play my best!:-( I am a div most times!!!!!!!

Life itself is tough enough, and to try and be success full in poker is twice as hard in my opinion, I will however keep fighting to the death, because to be honest, this is all I really want to do, I love it so much, and its the one thing that keeps me at peace with myself when I'm in the zone and playing well etc, but it is very very tough, but I find inspiration from many sources, and one in particular music, and one song resembles a lot of the poker world, - That's Life - by Michael Buble, the chorus is particularly significant "I find myself flat on my face, and I pick myself up and get back in the race, That's Life"

Anyway, time to go to sleep for hopefully a few days!, I have bad sleeping problems, I'm not sure what the future holds, but like I said, I will continue to fight as hard as I can to make a success of poker and try to improve other aspects of my life, as this can only help me get better as a player.

Hope you enjoyed the read

gl


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