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well it has been a weekend to remember. i tried to satellite into a few wcoop events and a series of bad beats and miss timed plays cost me. first satellite was 800 people + 120 seats $11 buy in so i felt i was in good shape. i very uncharacteristically played alot of hands early and was up and down just about double my starting stack 3 levels in. i then made a 3 bet from the button with q-10 and the bb who had raised me before when i was stealing went all in and i called as i had him covered. first mistake he tables a9 s and it holds up. then 4 hands later i am in lp and some guy utg+1 limps and since i was having issues with my holdem manger i shoved as i was tilting a bit from all the messd up settings on the screen. guy tables aj and i lose.

i decided to try and play some nlhe hu sng's on stars and i have been running ubber hot 8/10 this weekend. so it has helped towards the buy ins. i decide to play satellite number 2 16.50 buy in for the $320 ticket to any 320 event on the wcoop calender. well i play well till level 4 and my only mistake was not shoving pre flop with qq but in retrospect he would have called anyways but i waited till the flop to get my money in to a j98 board. i have him on an ace as he 3x utg and i 2.5x from the button and he flat called. he checks to me and i shove all in about the pot at this point . he insta calls and tables jj for a set. he holds and i am done. not much i can do in this spot as i needed a double early to get some traction going and to build a stack but i was on the wrong side of this one.

this past week i have been running like total shit on ftp in my limit holdem heads up game. i was down about 6.5 buy ins and no signs of changing. my volume has been light as this past week i worked nights so i couldn't sit down till after midnight and i was tired at this point and only played a few games daily. friday i drove home after work and got home after midnight so i basically shut it down. i played a few games during the day saturday and won 2 buyins back but sunday night after i played my 3rd satellite-more on that in a bit- i went on a huge heater and was soul reading people and just taking them aprat. i basically got back to even and with it approaching 2 am i shut it down with a small win this week. i just cant believe i made it back to even after how bad this week went. but like they always say volume is the key to getting through a downswing.

my last satellite was a direct frequent player point rebuy tourney i played into event 6 the 215 nlhe i believe. an event i want planning on playing but if i qualified for it i would make my schedule work as i am coming back from washington that day.(dave matthews at the gorge) well this thing was insane 38 runners 500 fpp's to buy in unlimited rebuys under 1000 chips and 1 add on of 1500 at the end of 30 mins. well this thing was insane 5 min levels and and ante after 9 levels. this thing started well for me as i was the chip leader in level 3 but my qq ran into 44 and he hit a 4 on the river -sick. i got short stacked and pushed in the right spots and got luck once when i hit an ace on the river when i got it in with a2. so final table i go with 3 spots getting tickets and 4th getting 1000 fpp's back. the blinds were so high guys were shoving any ace any broadway. some guy shoved 63 suited and hit a flush. some other guy shoves 63 hits a 3 and then gets sucked out on the river -too bad for calling with 63. i get it in with a8 suited and run into aq the chip leader to boot and i am done in u guessed it 5th. everyone else gets something and i am bubble boy hahaha.

i will be back to the satellites monday as i will get into one of these events i planned on playing. i set a goal to cash and final table in the wcoop as i cashed in the scoop this summer. one thing is for sure i will keep my head up and play my game and i know i will get there.

on a personal note i have been listening to the original mindset coach in a series of sessions i downloaded of anthony robins. yup i know the infomercial guy. he is awesome at what he does and it really put things into the right frame of line for poker. he says u can change your life by doing 3 things changing how you act-body language,smiling moving around walking and exercising in the am. how you talk- changing the way you talk to change the way your mind associated your feelings with certain words and how that effects your attitude. third is how you think and how you associate new words to positive thoughts and giving yourself a word that you can say over and over to get your mind out of thinking the negative thought causing the negative feelings causing a negative attitude. people will go on about there problems but never focus on the solutions. think about it when someone goes on about the problem it gets worse and worse and they feel worse and worse and its how depression sets in and people look for the prozak. i highly recommend the get the edge series its awesome.

time to rest and get my night session in and will be back at in on monday