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So it's been awhile since I updated. I don't really update this blog unless something really pivotal or important happens in my life/poker, so here we are with one of the more pivotal points. As you may know I went on a nice heater in live mix games. Booked a couple of 10k+ sessions in a day including a 36k win a 16k win and a couple of 10k wins. I felt great about my game, I thought I played well and I was loving poker, as most people do when they are winning. I played anywhere from 40/80 to 400/800 but mostly 100/200 stud hi and stud 8. The shots were all mixed games and if I played a mixed game it was 150/300+. I had some very good spots to take shots,and some mediocre spots. The worst idea was to play Ali Eslami heads up again, but this time he took out a stud 8 game and put in triple draw in which I outplayed him in, but caught the wrong side of variance. At one point ali was all in and on a draw on the river and spread his cards and said he needed a card to fit in between two other cards and it came perfect. This happened twice to screw me out of huge pots which would have won me momentum. At one point I had him stuck 10k, but ended up losing 15k total. There was one hand in particular where it went like 5 bets on the second draw in badugi and I won with a Q9 to his QT, so you can tell there was a lot of meta game developing after he realized I played "Above the rim" deuce and badugi, this of course was horrible for me as him realizing this definitely led to him calling me down much lighter. 

 The stud hi game at commerce wasn't nearly as soft as I had heard. It was actually the hardest stud game I've played in so far as far as full ring stud games go. I've heard forever that it was an amazing game and I needed to get to L.A to play in it, but really, I think it's just another game that will take a lot of practice to beat. When the one fish that sits down sits down, it becomes a game of who can isolate and re-isolate the fish between the regulars. Tough game. Before even fully emerging myself in the stud hi game, I ended up losing two 15k sessions back to back not even 3 days after moving to L.A. One playing with Ali Eslami, and the other playing in a juicy 10/20 nlhe game. I regret playing in both, but at the time I thought they were definitely +EV spots. The NLHE definitely was, but not the Ali Eslami more than likely (I still like playing him HU because he's good action and it's easy to trap him) So I lost 30k in two days and it hit me hard. I decided to go hang out on the beach for a couple of days, but was talked back into playing by a couple of friends who told me I need to not be affected by those kind of loses. Knowing myself I probably should have taken off for a week or two after the first 15k loss (Which I wanted to do) but I was persuaded otherwise, which to their credit they were completely right. Unfortunately for me, I still wasn't fully adjusted to the stud hi game and ended up going on a losing streak in the stud hi game as well. It wasn't long before I blew through 50k. This shouldn't have happened to me if I had just played 100/200 stud with my new known knowledge, but at the time I didn't know the players or how aggressive/tough that game really was so I took a beating. Now I had to fly back to Vegas to grab more money from my lock box since I only brought 50k with me to L.A. 

Part II later when I feel like writing more :p