Ending the Summer On a Hot Note!

Those of you who know me can attest that in the past, frustrations at $5/10 online have caused me to believe I was forever cursed at that level. Nothing went my way for the scattered 20k hands or so I put in; without going into detail it is your typical mix-up of runbad. I must be a glutton for punishment, because strangely enough, a week or two into August I found myself itching to go back and revisit this level of hell. Perhaps even stranger was that I won over a decent clip of hands, and while I ran well on the whole, it’s not like I had an invulnerability shield on by any means. I found that the regulars, as expected, are better, more knowledgeable, technically sound, aggressive, and overall tough, winning players. I love the sense of competition and I think it elevates me to play my best at all times lest I get eaten alive. $3/6 has been so loyal and steady for me over the past year and a half, but sometimes it gets to a point where I get tired of the nonsense that goes on there with people refusing me action to start up tables unless a fish sits, the annoying 40bb shortstackers that have seemed to found a new home with their infesting ways, regs constantly bumhunting and breaking up games…all of which have led to it being somewhat stale. Obviously I am not going to stop playing this limit (where I have logged well over 1M hands at this time of writing) by any means, but right now $5/10 has re-sparked a new level of interest in me. Here’s a breakdown of my August 2010 by levels:

And of course, the accompanying graph:

Not including a $3800 and $4000 bonus, turned out to be my best career month so far. I’m grateful for the opportunity to be doing what I do for a living, and I’m always going to be working harder than the guy next to me to stay on top of my game and ahead of the curve. A couple of weeks ago Yen, our friends and I took a weekend trip to Ocean City, which was an amazing time with great people. Special thanks to Joan Kim if you ever read this for masterminding the whole operation as usual, and for driving us. I can’t begin to tell you how much beer and alcohol was consumed, or how much food we ate, but just know that it was pretty ridiculous. Can’t wait to go back next year!

Looking ahead, obviously I’m hoping for another solid month in September while continuing to hopefully do well at $5/10. Pat, Peaches, Yen and I will be heading to Atlantic City this weekend for a much anticipated trip of degeneracy, and in two weeks, Pat and I will be meeting up Doug aka “Tech” Kim in the same place for the Borgata Open. Last year I busted somewhere around the middle of Day 2, so that was pretty disappointing. It’d be nice to do a little better this time around. Until then, thanks to everyone and anyone who reads this boring blog!

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