August recap & September fun

Last month turned out to be a very good month. I ended up with a 167% ROI throughout all my tourneys played. Not too shabby of an ROI. I've never really been a big volume player as I believe I play much better with no more than four tourneys running. That being said, I do need to stop losing focus and keep up with my tourney schedule on the days that I would normally play. When I last posted, I was up around 2k and was poised to have a really good month. Unfortunately, the last half of the month I didn't play as many tourneys due to lack of focus and ended up with just a decent month. Its little bad habits like these I need to break. Another bad habit, I really need to break is giving up in tourneys after I suffer a bad beat that cripples me. Everybody knows the old saying, "all you need is a chip and a chair" (well unless you're not a poker player then you may have never heard this), but it is oh so true. Just last nite, I was in a $5 limit o8 donkament and got down to my last 70 chips. Stakes were at 80/160 which meant blinds were 40/80 and I didn't even have enough chips to cover the bb. I ended up sticking my last 70 in and quintupled up. Next thing I know few double up and triple ups later I am upto 8k and never looked back. Ended up making it to the final table but I bowed out in 6th when this guy horribly 3 outered me on the river chip leader vs 2nd in chips for huuuge stack. Still to comeback from 70 chips to final table felt good. Today however, instead of learning that you're never out until you're out. I got donked in my 6mx plo8 tourney and not only did I decide to donk the rest of my chips off in that tourney, I decided to just donk myself out of all my tourneys I was playing. This time around, my tilting actually got me really fortunate. In the $5 plo rebuy, as I was tilting, I made some crazy play with double suited cards and this guy ends up flopping middle set unfortunately for him I had a gut draw and everyone knows gut draws get there 80% of the time online and wouldnt you know it. I hit it on the turn to double up. Once that happened my brain kicked back in and was ready to work now that I had a huge stack. The guy was not too happy bout my play and let me hear it. I jus typed a smiley face and moved on. Its funny how one move like that can change everything because I eventually went on to ship the tourney. Entering heads up I was down 77k to 500k but played great, got lucky a couple times and BAM. SHIP IT. As I have said before, it feels great to ship a tourney and this was no different.

The month of September has just started and I've already final tabled two tourneys and shipped one. With WCOOP and MiniFTOPS right around the corner, this month promises to be a very good one. Be sure to check back as I will be giving recaps on the 12+ events I'll be playing in MiniFTOPS starting Sept 9th. Shipshape.