Operation: 'A' game

So I'm heading to Europe tonight, should be a sweet trip. So will be a couple week break from poker.

I played a bit last night. Some 2/4 - 5/10. Was playing pretty well I thought, but stacked off TT<AA and A9 vs 33 on 394A board amongst a couple others. The one hand where I 'stacked' someone, my AAA vs his 888 was RIGHT after I had lost a big pot and my stack went down to 30bbs (and betfair doesn't have autotop up - so I only stacked 30bbs -which was tilting).

I hadn't played 5/10 in a long while, and it was fine. Was most playing 4-6 tabling and trying hard to focus on table selection. I've been doing a much better job at this, though not paying off lately.

I literally can't remember the last time I had a winning session. Like.. actually literally. The combination of practically not playing in the last two weeks, and being on a downswing the last month and a half.. I'm not even sure!

I'm hoping I come back from this trip, and that my desire to play is rejuvenated. Decided I will also invest about $1k or so into coaching when I get back to work on my game a bit.

Catch you guys in a few weeks!

well I'm finally back from my trip!

Over the last couple weeks went to London briefly, then Paris, Marseille and off to Spain and went to Barcelona.

Haven't quite decided what my favorite part was yet. Right now its definitely leaning towards Marseille and Barcelona. They both had awesome beaches, and really good food and scenery. It's hard to compare the two though. Marseille was pretty relaxed and chill, whereas barcelona was more upbeat/lively and also had more tourists.

The food in both locations was pretty good, and primarily seafood. Or at least, I focused on seafood given the locations.

Just got back today, and did the betfair update. Couldn't get my HUD working for my first session. Was down about $1.5k, welcome back! Pretty standard session for me, played well overall and lost all my money for the most part in two hands.

Also, I usually scroll my bet sizing with my mouse scroller, but that doesn't seem to work now either. I got the right HH folder in HEM, but how do I get this betsizing working with my mouse again?

Here were my two big hands.

hand 1:
-villain is S Janoskl i that means anything to anyone. My sizing was getting messed in this session cause of the lack of scrolling ability. Preflop is way too small.

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
4 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO ($606)
BTN ($953.80)
griffey24 (SB) ($997.80)
BB ($724)

Pre-Flop: ($9, 4 players) griffey24 is SB
1 fold, BTN raises to $24, griffey24 raises to $66, 1 fold, BTN calls $42

Flop: ($138, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $70, BTN calls $70

Turn: ($278, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $138, BTN raises to $300, griffey24 ??


Hand 2
-this one is mostly standard, the flop overcall is S Janoskl again

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($1,401.15)
griffey24 (CO) ($671.85)
BTN ($762.30)
SB ($235.35)
BB ($269.05)

Pre-Flop: ($9, 5 players) griffey24 is CO
UTG raises to $18, griffey24 raises to $60, BTN calls $60, 2 folds, UTG calls $42

Flop: ($189, 3 players)
UTG checks, griffey24 bets $140, BTN calls $140, UTG calls $140

Turn: ($609, 3 players)
UTG checks, griffey24 bets $471.85, BTN goes all-in $562.30, UTG folds

River: ($1,643.15, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $1,643.15
griffey24 shows

BTN shows


BTN wins $1,640.15 (net +$877.85)

UTG lost $200
griffey24 lost $671.85


I'm now down a solid $24k in the last three months. Not sure I've won a session in the last month or so. Its kind of a bizarre feeling... but even more bizarre is not really caring too much. I suppose thats good.. as long as I feel it will turn around.

Here are my results by position over this time. Feel free to post any comments, anything to break out of this rut! Clearly the blinds are killing me reallll bad.