Not playing a hell of a lot right now. Kinda feel that blehness when summer turns to fall here in Montreal.

Been making some moniez but not feeling super pumped up or anything. I'm prob up about 9 buyins so far at nl400 and am +6kish since getting back from Peru. Been playing awesome lately but just don't feel that fire.

I may take a few days off or just keep playing short sessions.

For fun, I've been playing PLO25 lately and it s easily the most fun I've had playing poker since I started playing sit n go s on Stars 2 years ago. Ppl don't fold preflop to a single raise... ever. I think I've made about 15 buyins in 3 days just donking before going to bed.

I think my main weakness (not playing enough) could actually help out some people who grind and grind when they're playing/running badly. We all know it's the 1st rule of poker (just give up when you're having a bad day), but I know so many people who have that "get unstuck" mentality and punish themselves by sitting at tough tables with a shitty image.

I always err on the side of paranoia. Today I played a few orbits, was sitting at some reasonably fishy tables but just didn't feel it. I know myself well enough to know that in that mood I'm likely to make very very thin plays just for the sake of entertaning myself. It's basically an impatience that will lead to me spewing if I'm not careful.

So I just took my 200$ profit after 100 hands and now.. who knows, I'll find something else to do. One thing is for sure: I won't stick around and tilt myself by spewing. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get some hungrineses back and play a decent session.

Here's a hand I feel pretty meh about.

Playing draws is fun when you can rep more than the draw you're actually hoping to hit. In this hand, I felt like villain was very strong since it was the first time I'd seen him punish like this preflop.

I didn't think villain was particularly good, so I felt that he might put the rest of his stack in drawing dead, or close to it. Plan was to get lots of money in if my 8-outer hit the turn.

Once the flush completes on the turn, I have a really interesting opportunity since the really connected with the range I expected him to have (AK, AQ, KK, AA, QQ). I was caught between two conflicting principles :

1 - repping another draw that completes when yours misses
and
2- not bluffing a mediocre player off of a big hand

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $4 BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

SB ($390.70)
Hero ($684.79)
UTG ($83.55)
MP ($386)
Button =#A500AF(VILLAIN)/ ($288.10)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9, 8. UTG posts a blind of $4.
UTG (poster) checks, 1 fold, Button =#A500AF(VILLAIN)/ raises to $18, 1 fold, Hero calls $14, UTG calls $14.

Flop: ($58) 6, K, 7 (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, VILLAIN bets $54, Hero calls $54, UTG folds.

Turn: ($166) A (2 players)
Hero checks, VILLAIN checks.

River: ($166) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, VILLAIN checks.

Final Pot: $166

Unfortunately, my read was completely off and I could've probably pushed him off of a hand that was much weaker than I anticipated (he had KxJh).