I'm happy to say that my well needed break is now over... |
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Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:28 am GMT by JewishPete
As some of you may have noticed, I haven't been very active in the past 4-5 weeks. Basically, I took a long overdue semi break from poker and regrouped myself.
A month or so ago, It seemed like nothing could go right. I was in probably the biggest downswing I have ever been in. I'm just glad this was at the point where I had dropped down to low limits, and not 2-3 months prior when I was grinding mid limit NL ring.
Essentially, I had a horrendous run of MTT 'finishes' Including:
Bubbling out of the money by 4 in Bodog's $40k gtd, and by 12 in another bodog $40k gtd, Literally bubbling 3 times in a row 1 place out of the money on 3 consecutive DR Freerolls, Bubbling anywhere between 1-30 away from the money on PP $2500 Freerolls, and doing the same on a few $20's on Stars. I basically had it. With the exception of an occasional SnG here and there on Bodog, I haven't really played any poker in the past few weeks. I was actually hapy starting up again, and thus far I'm just sticking to my usual STT game for a while, which I have been doing for a few days and with good success thankfully.
I'm also moving in about a month if all goes well with the house sale, which means no more job starting soon, which means no more steady stream of income for atleast a short while, which means I'm gonna need to get my shit together and grind Middle limit NL STT's.
Sorry for not posting much at all lately, I just needed a break more than anything! 
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Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:45 am GMT by MrDarling
Good to have you back.
Good luck .
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:52 am GMT by LeafsFan1122
Welcome back JP, glad to hear that you've regrouped yourself.
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:29 pm GMT by shorn7
Welcome back JP. From your posts, I know you are a strong enough player to turn it around. It shows a lot of maturity for you to take a break, so you are ahead of the game already.
Good luck to you.
Shorn
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:35 pm GMT by UrAteUp
Good to have you back. Good luck and hopefully the cards will fall to your advantage...just not if your playing me in DR.... 
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:40 pm GMT by JewishPete
Thanks for all the encouragement guys.
I played in Bodogs 3.5k Gtd today, and went out about 40-45th (27 paid). I was satisfied with my play overall, there were a few areas where I took some ill timed hits.
After 1st break, I get back to back aces. 2nd hand someone pushes for 3k into my 8k stack, average is about 4k. He has 7-4 and flops trips, turns a boat.
I managed to crawl up to 10k, which was close to the leader at that point, and lost my AK vs AJ on a AKJ flop , when he rivered the boat. At this point I was at around 4k, hit 55 in the BB, flopped the set on a board with 2 hearts villain moves all in for 2k, I call as a 96% favorite since he has 1 heart in his hand (ace), turns and rivers the nut flush on me...After that I pushed A9 with like 4 BB's left and ran into 88 who flopped quads 
I played tremendous though. After level 8 it became too much of a crap shoot for my liking and what can I say, the cards didn't fall well at certain times.
But, again, I feel I played very well and look forward to scoring better on tonight.
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