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Tomorrow is saturday...the weather is predicted to be shit...my girlfriend is away for the weekend... hmmmm what to do?

.. I know....go for my first full poker shift!

Plan is to get a good nights sleep tonight, get up bright and early...well 8.30 or something and go straight out for a cycle around the canal to get the body and mind going and stop off at the bakery to get some breakfast! (exciting!)

Come home, shower, start playing at 10am. The morning isnt exactly the greatest time to play so im going to start tight, which is always good for the beginning of a session anyway. Hopefully the fact that its saturday will bring some fishies to the table a bit earlier.

i want to play around 8 hours total spread over the day, never more than 1h 30m at a time without GOOD reason (e.g. theres a maniac who just keeps reloading!) and intend to take a break anytime I win/lose 3BI's.

On a side and unrelated note... will use breaks to bake pizza... love homemade pizza dough! Hooray for tomorrow... will write up some results/thoughts!

Round 1: first 1h 30 min session .... slow, not too many tough decisions.... lots of donking (not from me) ... 800 hands,  +1.5 BI

Round 2: A lot more action, more aggressive tables, lot more fish - didnt get many cards to play them with though. Unfortunately a lot of coolers too e.g. villain calling f+t with 2nd pair and rivering 2pair. Maybe one or two unnecessary bluff, one into shortstacked villain...suicide. Anyway in general went well....no expensive errors and some good hands... another 800 hands, -0.5 BI

Round 3: actually consisted of 2 1h 30min sessions. Second one was prob my worst session in terms of concentration. Again nothing major. Im basically even for the last 1500 hands. so still just 1 BI up for the day. I feel im playing fine though. Going to take a long break now.. make pizza.... then get back in for the sat evening crowd...see if I can boost the winnings a bit!! ... 1500 hands, +-0!!

....tired... 5000 hands and 1 BI down...bit of an anti-climax... pizza was good though.

Although this is my first post im not going to bother with intros or beginning from the beginning... This blog is intended only as a vent for my thoughts/tilt and if anyone reads it, ok.

Played last night against some friends/family/strangers (friends of friends), which we do maybe once or twice a month... small money, just for fun. But the bad poker (dont get me wrong, im no pro) that goes on is iiiiincredible.... couple of examples...

First I was completely card dead so my stack was slowly getting smaller and I had mr. aggro to my left who was 3betting everytime i opened (which was actually working really well...even though im not sure he knew what he was doing), anyway... I was in BB... he open limped UTG...5 callers... Im holding T7 in BB and check. flop T75. He comes straight out with a massive overbet... folds to me... if I just call i'll only have a half pot left for turn so I just shove, no worries. He instacalls with 64 and hits the river....variance...fine... i rebuy. Goes roughly the same... I end up raising CO with A6. Mr aggro raises, SB flats as do I... flop comes AKQr... I check, aggro again overbets, and SB shoves and im left looking at a wet board where im beaten by A7... I fold.... aggro calls (which wasnt much more due to his overbet) and turns over T8 (?????), SB turns over JQ and im trying not to show my tilt/kicking myself for thinking they might actually be strong!

Eventually I get dealt A6 again... 5 players left, im shortstack. UTG (nitty) limps, I just shove really hoping to collect the dead money/get called by random hand from mr aggro. Mr aggro folds but the big stack (who considers himsfelf a bit of a shark) calls and to my surprise UTG calls aswell and turns over KK...fair enough, Sharkie turns over K5o.... says 'just called cause I can afford it' Flop comes AT3...PHEW...ok lucky me I tripled up. Turn 2....River...4. Mr I Can Afford IT runner runnered a straight... to be honest I felt more sorry for the guy with KK... I know how it feels to play nitty, finally get a premium hand and have it cracked by a hand which you just crazy dominate!

Anyway Sharkie laughs makes a 'that steak tasted good' noise and actually stands up reaches across the table and drags my chips from infront of me.

Anyway that was me out. This unfortunately was the time I least enjoyed our games together... not because of the money, not because of the variance... but because of bad poker and as in the last example...pride in bad poker!

Mr aggro will be invited back, crazy poker but good guy. Sharkie will not be... bad poker + bad personality + (and this is one of my most hated characteristics in anyone) bad winner!

I look forward to our next game :)