Everyone does it!

Yeah, worst day in my history yet. This all pushypushy draw thing sucks ass, not going to do it again. Did it twice, aka -$120. Also pushing with ace high flush turned out to be a bad idea as river brought boats, straightflushes and quads to my opponents. Omaha didn't go that well either, just shit in my mouth. So I took a hit of roughly $400 I think. This means I'm back roughly at where I was 1st of March. My NL50 after 16k hands is breaking even - well +$30. My NL25 after 3k hands is down like $300, but that I admit into being partially tilt. PLO has been the carrying force keeping me afloat and has compensated for the losses at NL25 and SnGs. Otherwise I'd be down a lot. I will take a break of few days - I'll have a lot of school stuff to do so it shouldn't be too hard either - in fact, it'll be relieving and useful!

I might try the rakefree site when I come back. Having paid $800+ of rake in this breakeven session, I just can't help wondering how it would be if I played there all along. Anyway, I think my play has some glitches - it has to... I've been going down so badly at times and although most of the big pots I lose are due to suckout or some semi-inescapable flush over flush/set over set situations, I think the smaller pots have to add up... Something about my continuation bets might suck, maybe those are a losing play, maybe I don't think enough on how to use those, what to represent etc. I have been paying more attention to position though which should be a good thing.

I hope the refreshing break will do miracles. When I come back, I will probably either grind out NL25, trying to really make a difference there or play PLO which has been very good for me in the past. I should also get Omaha Tracker, but I might get it when I hit $2k (which might actually be never).

It's not all negativeness though, I've sold over $150 of my Stars money to friends in need and also purchased something for $55 or so, so it hasn't been complitely in vain in the past months. Live games also earned me a pretty penny - I hope I can keep it up on those. I assume my next session will be after I finish the web programming coursework, which shouldn't be in a few days, so this might be quiet place reportwise.

Cheers. \o/

[Update] After extensive conversations with more and less successful players, I concluded that my postflop play is too loose. That means the problem is not the draw-pushing, but rather overplaying more marginal hands. I have to work on this when I come back from my "vacation". I will play NL25 as practice until like $1000 again, that should be a few days if it goes nicely and a bit more if it doesn't. But I have to be able to beat NL25, no matter how frustrating it feels to play there again.

Also spent 5 minutes on making a "logo" for the blog. ^^