Working Back Up

Had a pretty tough first week of the month -- I finished August on a high note, having hit the 4k mark late on the 31st, having accomplished my goal of doubling through in my first month of hu.

Unfortunately, someone at fulltilt must have seen this and felt the need to flip the switch on me. Went on a huge downswing to start the month, burning through 8 buyins. Everything crazy was happening -- I'd river a straight only to lose to a higher straight, getting underflushed, etc, etc.

Thankfully I've been able to turn it around in the past couple days. I've been mixing in some pot limit omaha, just to get the fulltilt points needed to try and get ironman status this month. Been doing well there, but don't want to get too far ahead of myself. I haven't been tracking my omaha play/results as closely as I should have been so I'll have to get on that.

Here was a funny hand from yesterday that shows the danger of being distracted while playing a session. I was surfing around online while playing a particularly bad opponent. Went to click on a link on the page I was on, when I guess the table must have popped up, unfortunately with my mouse conveniently pointed directly over the "Fold" button.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1
2 players

Stack sizes:
Hero: $116.30
BB: $20.50

Pre-flop: (2 players) Hero is SB with As Ad
Hero folds.
Uncalled bets: $1 returned to BB.

Results:
Final pot: $0.5

Gaaaaah. Oh well, I busted him on the very next hand anyway when I got dealt KK and he shoved in K8o preflop. Easy game.

I'm back above 4k after a pretty tough week -- hopefully it's all uphill from here.