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Wow... a lot of time has passed and I've been too lazy to make a good effort at my goal of looking up hands. I have done so, but not nearly as regularly as I intend to.
I put in way too little table time so far this year, which is now facing difficulty since I am working again. I'm making blueprints (they're not blueprints; they haven't been blue for decades, but you all know what I mean when I say that)... I'm making engineering drawings (blueprints) for an company called DRS. Best money I've ever made, and I'm really enjoying the work and the people and the fact that their attitude is like, "Work when you want to work, just work hard and work often enough that your shit gets done."
Poker report:
I've looked up hands maybe 4 times this year, but I've only played on 9 separate days. At ~8,000 hands, I'm up 4.8 BI, which is a little under my EV, but I had some terrible run-bad* on 2 of those days that cost me 3 BI each.
Also, I had 2 days that were break-even, which is extremely rare for me. I attribute it to a more disciplined approach to quitting when I'm not really enjoying myself, instead of grinding another couple of hours until I've either won or lost a couple BI.
* on 2013/01/08 I lost a BI w/ AA all-in pre-flop 4 times in 90 minutes, all on the same table. Also ran my KK into AA shortly after. Then ran AA into AA on another table. Then back at the first table, AK into AA. Down 6 BI in about 2 hours, all but 1 of the hands I was ahead and the favorite when the chips went in.
I was getting AA,KK,QQ all freaking day and just couldn't take a pot.
In spite of all that crap, I only lost 3 BI on the day.
On the up-side, I've been getting more and more adept at playing boards and ranges instead of hands. I've been improving at altering my bet sizing to keep building a pot when I want to, as well.
I've also been hero-calling more rivers and seen a lot of swings there. I am not expecting to win every time I call, and it's hard to tell if I'm ahead or behind in those spots.
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