August Results & Bday

Well even though I am the ripe old age of 24 now I will talk about what went on in terms of my month on pokerstars first. The month pretty much sucked but thats alright I am still happy with it. I had some specific goals set and even though I didn't reach all of them I feel like I landed on a star, no pun intended, even though I shot for the moon. My first goal was to make another 1k this month. Well, that did not go exactly as planned at all. I started off the month pretty bad. I was in a downswing before I went to Las Vegas and when I got back I was still on a downswing. This whole month it felt like I was in a big race to get back to even. I was down as much as like $350 is at one point but managed to maintain volume and ended up making $154. I mean yes the amount is meager but I really learned a lot about myself this month. I was proud of my determination and not quitting and putting in no volume like I normally do. It was so bad I was just absolutely getting pwned the whole month but oh well. I also said that I wanted to reach SilverStar vip status and accomplished that as well. Like I said earlier all in all I am pleased with this month just because it built some character.

On my birthday I was a complete degen and spent the whole day in the casino. I know you guys are going to be like wtf is wrong with this clown but I dunno it just happened. When I first arrived at the Muckleshoot casino I was going to just play the tournament and maybe some $1/$2 spread limit which is the equivalent to no limit. In WA the laws are set so the max bet is $500. Well, I ended up showing up later for the tournament and not getting in so I put my name on the interest list for $1/$2. The table never opened but there was a $3/$5 spread limit game about to start. I was like well I might as well take a shot. Bam I end up buying in for $400 and ended up losing that. Mostly because I didn't learn anything from Vegas and had QQ run into KK again preflop. Oh well now I really know what to do with this hand and adjust accordingly never again. So I went and bought back in for another $200 and proceeded to lose that. I mean I thought I was playing good and the game was good. So I was like alright this is my last $200 I am going to buy in for. Well right when I sit back down I ended up doubling up with J9 and got very lucky because my opponent had QJ and the flop was JJx so I def got lucky on the turn with the 9 ball SHIP IT. From then on I just continued to play and get outplayed. There was a guy there who was a good player and jumped on me EVERY time he smelt weakness. There were a lost of times where I would check on the river for pot control and just call a bet but then he would put a ridiculous bet on the river and made me fold. I mean some of the folds I was making were bad but looking at the situations I dunno how else I could have played him. I mean the guy was good and he just outplayed me straight up. Well to not get too off topic I ended up making it to like $650 and won high hand for the hour for like $250 with AQQQQ so I actually made money even though I was in the casino from 11am to 2am. I mean I broke a lot of rules in terms of stakes and taking the shot but it was def a learning experience and feel like I am a better player for it. Either way it is kind of embarrassing I spent my whole day in the casino but it was a great learning experience and had a good time. Here are some pics from the month results.