I've been doing slightly better this week. It was pretty much a break even week but that's a lot better than -15 bi's or whatever i've been doing. I've kind of got back on the Rush Poker train for a few reasons. Basically I've just been losing no matter what i try, so i figure i might as well have more fun and try and smooth out the variance by playing more hands. So far i've only put in a few thousand hands but i think overall my decisions are improving.

I've been posting my hands in the micro forum lately and i think it's helped my game a lot. Even if I already kind of know what ppl will say it's good to get the reassurance. I know I've leaked quite a bit of money the past month or so, and maybe some of these spots i thought were standard are actually quite -ev. So far haven't found any glaring leaks from that but have been working on a lot of little things that have seemed to help.

I've been sweating a good deal this week and going over HH's on my own. One reoccurring theme is that i call way too much on the river with marginal hands when it's very hard for opponents to be bluffing. This is something i've struggled with in the past and seems to be peeking it's ugly head out again. I'd go as far as saying it's the #1 reason i lost so much money the last month. So I've just been forcing myself to go over the entire hand before deciding what to do on the river. I think tilt and running bad would be the other reasons i lose, but i don't think I've really tilted that much and I can't do anything about running bad. Even still a lil tilt goes a long way to killing your winrate so I've been working on that a bit as well.

My roommates are busy again this wknd so I've had grind on the mind. Gonna grab some takeout and probably watch a movie, but i should be able to get another session or two in tonight. Tomorrow is the Bears opener which I'll probably watch at home and order a pizza. Then i have a few other things to do, but i think i'll get 1-2k hands in.

Probably the most exciting thing that happened to me today was realizing that the miniFTOPS was going. I am not an MTT guy and had no idea so why am i so excited? Well b/c 6 mos ago i bought a $26 miniFTOPS tournament ticket, got super drunk the night before the event, and was way too hungover to play and ended up backing out. I figured they come around often enough i would just play in the next one. Well, i've either missed it every single time, or they just haven't had one b/c it's been nearly 6 mos i believe. They only have one $26 event this time which isn't until next Sunday and it's a 300k guareentee NLH KO event. I figure KO's are the best value since i'm freerolling and unlikely to go deep. I can at least try to get a couple KO's under my belt.

So this is a bit long now and i'm starting to get hungry, thinking chinese tonight. I will talk to you all on the forums etc. Wish me luck cause i need it