What a Rollercoaster Ride

Today was up down and all over the place. I played more hands today than any other to date, logging a total of 1,797 hands. Sadly, I sucked today. I made too many bad plays for big pots that ended up costing me. Especially with KQo, I really let that get out of control. I didn't let my opponent tell me what he was trying to and I shoved without thinking on a flop of 6K4, it was instant. And in that instant as soon as I clicked to shove all in I knew exactly what my opponent had from the better, a set. He called and at the showdown there were his pocket 6's. Such a dumb thing to do, I just didn't take the time to analyze the play as it unfolded, and shoved for no real reason other than I didn't think he had a king with a better kicker.

This was another big hit with KQo, and maybe I should stop with these plays at this level. The hand my opponnent had was exactly the kind of hand I'm making this play against to shut them out, yet they call anyway. I just started a 2+2 thread about this topic here.

Another thing that happend, was as the session wore on, I became far less aggressive. At around 800 hands, my total agression was over 7, but after the last 900, TA was down to 4.00. I'm pretty sure I started going on autopilot. In fact I plummeted all the way from +$12.50 to -$6.00, and only made it back to the black for the day by getting all in with KK against AA preflop and slamming quads to scoop one of my biggest pots of the day. Here's that hand, another example of me being behind, but this time getting lucky.

That was a good feeling, just because I was already tired, just wanted to finish up, was shutting tables, and when I got all in with KK, I knew Garrymdp as a tight player and that AA was a definite possibility. Catching 2 kings was sweeet and when he flipped up aces, made it even sweeter. Nothing like getting money in bad but pulling it out anyway. Plus, for some reason, I really don't like garrymdp, no particular reason other than his picture. Regardless of why, that made beating his aces even sweeter.

Here's garrymdp, I want to punch his picture in the face.

After that hand I decided to get on here, blog it up, and hit the sheets. I'm going back at it tomorrow, hopefully with results more satisfactory to the standards I hold myself to. Today was truly an utter disappointment, and getting ahead for the day by being a 4.5:1 dog really just summed up my play for the day.

I just downloaded a program to graph my poker tracker data, so I'm going to give that a try now. Actually fell asleep for a bit there while waiting for things to install. I know I was making a graph, but I've completely lost my train of thought from earlier. Here's a graph of the day's play.

Just not a pretty overall graph, did well for about the first 250 hands, and then it was a steady downward trend, with a multitude of losses and only a handfull of sharp wins.

Here's the graph of all my hands caught on poker tracker so far. Now keep in mind I currently only have 4 days of data, even though it says 6. 2 of those days total 15 hands. On this chart, everything to the right of about the 1,806th hand is today's graph. So while it looks like I've been trending downwards steadily, it was in fact only the latter part of today's session.

It still hurts to see how far I dropped over those last 1,600 hands. I'm sure I will do better tommorrow.