I've spent the past week with very little internet access and a very large workload but today after getting up early and pulling a very heavy suitcase along with a bag full of textbooks and course notes plus a laptop for a good 40minutes (I was sweating like a pig at the end of it) I have got my reward: A decent room and internet access!
Summer school at the LSE (london school of economics) started horribly, I havent done any academic work for the last 2 months anyway so to start after a long break with "advanced econometrics" isn't a good idea. After the first lecture I felt like I had a brain tumour but I was also very scared that I wouldn't make the grade needed to do the MSc in Finance and Economics and the LSE. But things have gradually improved and I now realise that we go into A LOT more technical detail than I need to pass the exam, which is good because I suck at econometrics anyway. The midterm exam is on wednesday I think and I plan on revising a lot tomorrow since I have absolutely nothing today. On a side note though I actually enjoy being busy during the day and really feeling stretched, its something that I havent done for a while and for some reason it makes me feel tired but happy. :)
I played my first bit of poker for a week today and it was great. When I went on holiday with my parents a couple of weeks ago I didn't miss poker at all but suprisingly I missed it a lot this week - perhaps because I wasn't with people I know. I'm on my sisters laptop at the moment so I cant really access the HH very easily aside from opening them one by one which isnt very appealing when they are hundreds of them so I'm going to just give a little account from memory.
My first opponent was someone whose name I recognised but only vaguely, we started playing a 5/10 game which soon turned into two 5/10 tables (he wanted to play a 10/20 one but since I have some financial uncertainty right now I don't think that I want to have large swings right now although I am certainly bankrolled for it if I want to play). The first key hand was a bit of spew by me which I think was down to the fact that I couldnt wait to play and I had a bit of an itchy trigger finger, I ended up spewing a buyin to him after a few hands where he raised and cbet, I checkraised the flop on a paired board then led the turn and shoved the river, he apparently floated the flop C/R with Q9 and caught TP on the turn. Now my image was really crappy but it enabled me to sit back, tighten up and exploit it. The next key hand was where I raised QJs and caught a SFD on the flop, cbet and hit my flush on the turn, he led, I raised and he 3bet, I called and then shoved the river to be called by middle pair turned 2pair on the river.
Next hand I floped TP in a raised pot and C/R the flop and led the turn, my opponent shoved with A high and obviously I called. We are pretty deep at this point and I 3bet PF with 89o and flop TP on a draw heavy board, I lead out and my opponent shoves, obviously I call and he shows 2 unders but manages to hit his 2pair draw for a 400BB pot. A few hands later my opponent quickly open raises to $235 when his standard raise had been $35, since he did it so fast it was obviously a mislick so I shoved with my 88, he called with k7 and flopped a K. A few hands later we got it in PF with my AK vs his 88 and he won the race and finally a few more hands later my set lost to a FD allin on the flop. /end whine. The good news is that I was only down roughly 2 Buyins which was a real accomplishment given how badly I ran, I really felt in control of the match and aside from the early spew I thought I played well. The funny thing is that I subsequently found out that this guy actually plays the £20000nl game (yes thats twenty thousand pounds) occasionally as well as games as low as 2knl and obviously 1knl. Sweet.
Its a bit late now and I don't really want to go into the next match in detail but basically I owned someone for around 4k which meant that I am up around 1.5k for the day. :D
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