Dragging myself out of the hole

Hey, seems weird saying hey when i don't even know if this is being read lol, might just start with dear diary from now on, it's probably not all that interesting to the guys that are playing the higher levels though so i don't really mind, its serving its purpose as a self analysis tool anyways and if anybodys actually reading, well thats just a bonus. Plus when i'm up there playing 100nl it'll be good for someone just starting out to be able to read this and know that everybody starts somewhere, like a lot of the blogs from the other cc guys have done for me.

On to the poker, with the snow leaving me house bound, whilst on leave from the army (i'm not a bum on the dole lol) pokers taken up a lot of my attention, i know, its a hard life! Not as much playing as i could have done but ive mixed in a bit of reading Harrington on Cash Vol1 as well.

Anyways, up until today i was down $18 and already getting a bit disheartened with my cash game venture, now i know it is going to be a long road and variance is a bitch but it wasn't exactly the best of starts to something that i had been excited and focused about doing, i'd even thought up plans in my head of when to drop down to 2nl if my roll carried on nose diving, add in that i had made 1 or 2 big errors and things were not looking rosy at all........

Until today!! Overlooking a session last night were i finished a whole 90c up today has been the first time that i have actually shown a profit at the .02/.05 tables. I couldnt be happier really, sure i got lucky once or twice in particular but i also got unlucky a few times too so cut me some slack! 

I'll post a few of the highlights of the day below

Tried to isolate the short stack that'd pushed here, really didnt want a call from the other guy but was glad when a king hit the flop, caught a bit of luck there

This hand i got very lucky with but the villain had been playing at like 80/6 and making little re-raises all over the place, I never seen pocket kings coming, i figured he might have put me on a button raise with 2 pictures n decided to put the pressure on, i call, oops, ran it through poker stove and i was like 25% here against his kings, he lost another big pot later when he limped with QQ as well, a very loose passive player indeed. 

After those 2 strokes of luck heres a few hands where the poker gods werent on my side, as if to even the score a little, man i hate those gods! Is this the mystical variance in action?? or i have got the complete wrong end of the stick in terms of that concept? 

On that last one with the kings the guy who called my UTG raise with Q3d!!! had seen his monster hand and obviously clicked the "call any" box because he called it faster than a horde of housewives heading for primark on the opening day of the january sales, the chances of him having a queen were slim so i just put him all in and low n behold he had it, grr, that was my last hand that i was going to play as well, i'd clicked the sit out next blind button and was ready to go when i get dealt cowboys, those gods can be a funny bunch sometimes.

There was a few other choice hands but i won't bore you with them, not going to play anymore today so todays stats have ended up at, over 246 hands and 2.10 hours, i'm up $11.88 and i've managed to tighten myself up to 22/10 which is an improvement over my first few sessions, still could be a tad tighter and more aggressive i think but i'm happy that i'm making progress, still down $6.15 since i started out on sunday but i'm slowly climbing out of the hole and hopefully i'll be back in the black in no time, and working my way up to 10nl.

Peace out and gl at the tables