I said I was going to baaaack. and I am baaack. :)

WHERE O WHERE do I start? I guess we'll go with when I stopped pokering.

I stopped pokering after losing almost all of my winnings from cash games on full tilt. I don't know how it happened but the last time I remember winning was when I had around 3k on a 400nl table. I guess I got scared, or more likely, wanted to be the best and to go even higher up in limits. I tried to play dumb poker. I probably was no better than a 25nl player. Way too many hands. Way too many questionable, which turned out to be, bad calls.

I took many breaks and would play only sometimes to only lose more and more of my roll. I successfully depleted my BR when I hit 0 and asked a friend to borrow 500 dollars... this was it. If I couldn't grind myself up playing 5 dollar tourneys than the game was evolving way beyond my reach. Slowly but surely I grinded myself up to 1k and gave 500 back. I then decided to be good in something you need to do it ever day so I committed myself to playing every day even IF I was in a bad mood.

They say that practice makes perfect. Anyone you see who excels in anything does this "anything" much more than the average person. My psychology professor says that practice is nothing. If you don't try to practice the right way you wont develop much. He said that perfect practice makes perfect. This really confused me but long story short. Play as much as you can and when you do play keep trying to get better but don't be disappointed if you lose. Trying "harder" doesn't do anything.

Anyway, I got second in a 22 dollar rebuy I played around 3 days ago. I felt great. My perspective on how to win in poker seemed near perfect even though I couldn't' describe it yet. Today I played the 50 50 along with other tournaments. I busted in every one just getting in bad situations and the blinds picking up monsters. I knew I was playing good though. Even though these bad outcomes had happened it really is important to understand when you are playing bad to when you are getting unlucky.

In the 50 50 I was doing good with a lot of playable hands and checks to my big blind. I went back down to 10k after a bad beat AK vs KQ but then bad beated my way back to 60k. After I eventually got KK and tripled up.

The final table was pretty interesting. I had a reasonable amount of chips to sail into the money so that's what I did. No reason to do flips at this point. It came down to 4 total who I eventually got great reads on. I busted the 4th place finisher and then made the play of the game. Blinds rose to 20k 40k and I had about 600k and the sb had about 400k. I immediately min raised when I looked down at QQ. The sb folded and the bb thought for a couple seconds and rrose me all in. I instantly called his Q 3 offsuit and took down a major pot.

When I look back on this hand I felt that because I made the min raise right here with my read that the bb will want to go "all in" on a min raise. To me this seemed like the hand of the game. Orrrr he's an idiot and would have gone in anyway if I raised haha. The world will never know.

IM BACK :D
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