Day # 9

Today was kind of a break through day in terms of the goal. I was playing well and running pretty good too. I played my longest session in a long time of 9 hours and saw around 1500 hands today. I am pretty pleased with my results today because i am now ahead of schedule on achieving my goal. I have been trying to play a lot of smaller pots lately and i think it has really improved my game. Instead of getting involved in a lot of all in pots i feel i can outplay people after the flop. I also played my first tournament tonight in a long time and got fairly deep in it. I played the $150 buy in on pokerstars and ended up finishing 59th out of 1145 people for $481 so that was a good confidence booster. I really haven't played any tournaments in the past month and wanted to see how i would do. I have final tabled this tournament 2 times in the past (3rd, 4th) for a couple nice pay outs. I really want to improve my tournament game and i think after this goal that is something i am going to focus on. Anyways it is pretty late and i will be back at it tomorrow so check back. Here are some of my key hands for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?732828
http://www.pokerhand.org/?732830 -No way i can call this reraise but i think he just smooth called the original raiser with a big hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?732833 - absolutely sickening. Just glad he only had 500 i guess.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?732835 - me getting pretty lucky here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?732836
http://www.pokerhand.org/?732838 - pretty good lay down here i think. I dont have him on the hearts but more likely a set. This guy was only showing close to the nuts everytime he was betting big like this. Might have been A with the k of hearts but i think i made the right play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?732841
http://www.pokerhand.org/?732846 - once he bets out the 120 here on the flop i am absolutely positive he has qq here. After that i just try to extract as much from him as possible.

Daily total- 4,395.27

Total needed- 33,296.89

-Nechita-