What's up everyone. This blog is going to serve as a journal/tracker of my progression as a poker player. Feel free to follow me on this journey as I develop my game and have a lot of fun along the way!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
First Royal Flush!
Like the title says, today I had my first royal flush. Hard to believe that this is the first time I've gotten one in almost 5 years of playing. What made it even more awesome was that it was flopped. Hand details below:
***** Hand History for Game 4135439724 ***** (Merge)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, October 01, 08:36:29 ET 2011
Table Rattlesnake Room Turbo Heads Up (41353942) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: AreDubz ( $1525.00 USD )
Seat 2: whhhha ( $1475.00 USD )
AreDubz posts small blind [$15.00 USD].
whhhha posts big blind [$30.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to AreDubz [ JcQc ]
AreDubz raises [$45.00 USD]
whhhha calls [$30.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, Tc, Kc ]
whhhha checks
AreDubz checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
whhhha checks
AreDubz bets [$60.00 USD]
whhhha folds
AreDubz wins $180.00 USD from main pot
I didn't get much action for it, but oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
I had a really swingy night. I played 25 games at turbo 6s and one game at super turbo 2 (just to see the difference on carbon). The session was going well at first, then midway through the night I found myself down about 6 buy ins. I was tilting somewhat because of some beats I took, but I held myself together and shook it off. I ended the night on a 5 game win streak to bring me back to just about even for the night. I think I'm down like $1.50 or so, but I'm happy to dig myself out of that hole.
I think I get frustrated at these lower buy ins sometimes and then get into the "it's only $6" mentality. That mindset will only be a detriment to my game, so I have to correct it immediately.
I noticed that I haven't done a good job so far in these posts about keeping track of my bankroll on Carbon. My total poker bankroll is $2600, but only $300 of it is on Carbon (their max deposit is 300). So from hereon out I will post my Carbon bankroll at the end of each post to track my +/-.
After todays session: $300.48
On a non poker note, I PR'd my snatch today by 5lbs, making it a PR of 135. I was pretty pumped, as I wanted to reach that milestone for almost a year now.
