Screw this

Running the shits since my last update a couple days ago. Tiny bit down on Betfair, about $800. $200 more in tourneys. $5k on Hollywood last night after being up $3k early on. And another $600 today in heads-up SNGs. Here is a random sampling of crap from those sessions:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429044 - typical tourney hand for me lately
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429096 - my introduction to Hollywood Poker, i even catch a nice turn, too bad
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429142 - i felt pretty confident about this one from watching this player for just a few rotations
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429159 - this sure was a weird one. not sure what else i can do on this flop but push
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429214 - this "hermaria" player is brutal. Makes really goofy plays pre-flop then follows them with illogical post-flop betting. This hand is a good example. He just played bad. You don't find a fish at these levels often anymore.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429409 - gah, i guess this is what happens when you slowplay pre-flop sometimes. oh well, I was happy to get it in here at the time, so i won't worry about the crappy result.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429411 - get a little aggressive on this one, this is what gives me my image i guess. Would be nice to hit something tonight.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429420 - little all-in pre-flop pickup
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1429473 - hands like this happen everytime I take a shot at $25/$50 heads-up against an opponent I've seen make a number of very weak (or way too overly-aggressive) plays. Nice little river tease too...you think that would have been a good card for me...I even fucking fist pumped that river, geezus, makes it even more of a piss-off.

Garbage, garbage. Thought I played okay. Hollywood is a messed up site, takes some getting used to. I won't say more before I try it out longer. Betfair was confusing for the first little while too and now I like it (sort of).

Anyway, enough of my shitty whiney attitude. It's tiresome and stressful. I've been running pretty bad the majority of the past month, still in an insanely bad tournament rut, and I'm getting tired of stressing about it. I know it's not a big deal. I know that. It's has happened dozens of times before and I always recover no problem. A month rough stretch feels like a year to me everytime. Usually I recover a month's worth of crap within 1 or 2 weeks. So, now I'm going to do it again.

I've decided I'm going to start mega-multitabling $5/$10 NL. I'm going to play as many tables as I can control and play very tight (for me anyway). My thinking is 5-8 tables whenever I can, hopefully on one site, but two sites if necessary. If I'm having trouble finding games I will play $3/$6 and $2/$5 NL to fill-up tables. I might also jump in $200-$350 SNGs to fill-up tables, heads-up if I don't have many tables at the time.

Not much heads-up cash game because it takes too much attention and my heads-up confidence is worthless right now. Just frustrated, so I'm going to only play extremely weak opponents while I study the heads-up game. Going to try and read a bunch on the 2+2 HU forum and watch as many Cardrunner HU and really short-handed videos as I can.

So, that is my plan for tonight and afterwards for at least 2 weeks. No $10/$20 NL or above for a bit. Unless, of course, I find a game way too juicy to pass up, but it'll have to be REALLY good.

I'm reading the book Poker Mindset right now, about half way through. Bunch of stuff about tilt, bankroll management, managing downswings, etc, etc. All mental/emotional/psychological talk. I'll give a total review when I'm done.

So, sitting here with Quentin (who is playing some weird 4-card game called Omaha, crazy Omaha people), and going to win tonight. I don't care what I have to do I'm going to win. Might have to throw some Xbox360 NHL 07 in there too though.

I'll try to do a short update after the session if I'm not tired.