Another Decent Session.

Well I played a pretty long session yesterday deep into the night. I was watching the final table of the WSOP and I think that it affected my performance, taking my concentration away from the games I was playing. I ended up playing 583 hands 3 tabling. It was a complete roller coaster ride. I started out great and was up a little more than 2 buy-ins (somewhere around $105 or so). Then like I said I don't think I was fully concentrating and I made some bad calls/plays, allowing people to catch up or get lucky. I was at a low point of -$80 or so and then finally climbed back to finish the session up $5.55. I need to just get up when I know I am up and find another table to sit and play at. I have tried many times to play long sessions after getting up early and I always seem to manage to loose the money I have earned.

I have read a few things about short stack play in cash games lately so I decided to give it a try today. I normally play $.25/.50 cash games, also known as $50 NL, since this is the max you can buy in for at this game. I always sit down with a full buy-in, usually at 2-3 tables. I decided to play some $1/2, or 200 NL, but only buy-in for $50 or 1/4 or the buy-in and play just really super tight aggressive. I ended up playing 54 hands and was +$131 for the session. I realize this won't happen every time, but it was a good start.

My tourney play of late has been nothing but weak I believe. Mix that in with a little bit of bad time/unlucky timing and you get some really lack luster results. About six months ago I would have said that I was a decent tourney player and a poor cash game player. I think things have changed a bit. I believe that I am right about average in the cash game department and I am heading down hill in the tourneys. One area I haven't explored much lately is SNG's. Andy and I were tearing up the low limit SNGs on Full Tilt about 4-6 months ago. I really haven't played many of them at all since I moved. Maybe I should look at playing 40-50 a week and see how my bankroll can handle it.

Overall I am having an ok month in cash games. I will give a final figure once the month ends.