Up and down ride.

So here I am on day #2. Not feeling like playing for higher stakes early in the day, I decided to play a $3+.40 PLO 6-max SNG, which I easily took down for $11.70($8.30 profit). So I played another and also won that pretty easily, so either I'm good at PLO or low stakes PLO is like printing money. Played another where I turned the nut straight on the turn with no flush possibilities, someone shoved all in with 2p and rivered a full house, what a donk. Did a $5+0.50 PLO HU game and lost to probably the worst PLO player I've ever seen, he just got hit with the deck harder than St. Louis did by Hurricane Katrina. So, mildly on tilt I entered the $11+0.50 HU PLO Turbo SNG, and got lucky enough to play someone who had one of the worst ROIs I've ever seen, so I obviously lost because the guy runner runners a flush when I flop top set. There goes all my PLO profit for the day and then some. In the red for the day, I entered an $11+0.50 NLHE HU SNG, and of course my QJ loses to Q2 on the turn when he shoves on a QJ26 board and a 2 comes on the river. On major tilt, I took a break, which was quickly overcome by my tilt, and played another $11+0.50 HU SNG, but it was a 4 player one, so I had to win 2 HU Turbo matches to make any money, and I ended up coming in 2nd after K5 lost to 75 on a 55J72 board. Man I run good.

Decided to go to HU Cash Games, where I played well and ran terrible, here's an example:

PokerStars Game #22801593805: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/12/10 18:00:52 ET
Table 'Oenone II' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: BamesJond87 ($14.45 in chips)
Seat 2: ttlpoker555 ($24.30 in chips)
ttlpoker555: posts small blind $0.25
BamesJond87: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BamesJond87 [Tc Qh]
ttlpoker555: calls $0.25
BamesJond87: raises $1 to $1.50
ttlpoker555: calls $1
*** FLOP *** [Ts Ks 7h]
BamesJond87: bets $1
ttlpoker555: raises $1 to $2
BamesJond87: calls $1
*** TURN *** [Ts Ks 7h] [9c]
BamesJond87: checks
ttlpoker555: bets $2.50
BamesJond87: calls $2.50
*** RIVER *** [Ts Ks 7h 9c] [9h]
BamesJond87: checks
ttlpoker555: bets $5
BamesJond87: calls $5
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ttlpoker555: shows [9d 7s] (a full house, Nines full of Sevens)
BamesJond87: mucks hand
ttlpoker555 collected $21.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $22 | Rake $0.50
Board [Ts Ks 7h 9c 9h]
Seat 1: BamesJond87 (big blind) mucked [Tc Qh]
Seat 2: ttlpoker555 (button) (small blind) showed [9d 7s] and won ($21.50) with a full house, Nines full of Sevens

I guess I can't complain after this great hand, though:

PokerStars Game #22802037063: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/12/10 18:16:18 ET
Table 'Mellena' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: BamesJond87 ($45.40 in chips)
Seat 2: TheFaaim ($49.55 in chips)
BamesJond87: posts small blind $0.25
TheFaaim: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BamesJond87 [3c 3h]
BamesJond87: raises $1 to $1.50
TheFaaim: raises $1.50 to $3
BamesJond87: calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [8s 3d Qh]
TheFaaim: checks
BamesJond87: bets $2
TheFaaim: raises $2 to $4
BamesJond87: raises $4 to $8
TheFaaim: calls $4
*** TURN *** [8s 3d Qh] [Ks]
TheFaaim: checks
BamesJond87: bets $15
TheFaaim: calls $15
*** RIVER *** [8s 3d Qh Ks] [7h]
TheFaaim: checks
BamesJond87: bets $19.40 and is all-in
TheFaaim: calls $19.40
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BamesJond87: shows [3c 3h] (three of a kind, Threes)
TheFaaim: mucks hand
BamesJond87 collected $90.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $90.80 | Rake $0.50
Board [8s 3d Qh Ks 7h]
Seat 1: BamesJond87 (button) (small blind) showed [3c 3h] and won ($90.30) with three of a kind, Threes
Seat 2: TheFaaim (big blind) mucked [Jd Qs]

Did okay in some PLO SNGs, then played the weekly ChipTalk tourney(NLHE $10+1), which started off pretty rocky, dropping to 1080 chips in the first 3-4 hands. I picked up the early chip lead when I made what I think was a really good call:

PokerStars Game #22807376010: Tournament #125971967, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/12/10 21:37:57 ET
Table '125971967 3' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: Whataboutj (1840 in chips)
Seat 3: buddy4bass (1370 in chips)
Seat 4: mipevi (1620 in chips)
Seat 5: BamesJond87 (1480 in chips)
Seat 8: gman1973a (1025 in chips)
Seat 9: eroxors (1665 in chips)
gman1973a: posts small blind 10
eroxors: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BamesJond87 [9h Qc]
Whataboutj: folds
buddy4bass: calls 20
mipevi: folds
BamesJond87: raises 40 to 60
gman1973a: folds
eroxors: calls 40
buddy4bass: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Tc 3c 9d]
eroxors: checks
buddy4bass: checks
BamesJond87: bets 125
eroxors: calls 125
buddy4bass: folds
*** TURN *** [Tc 3c 9d] [Qs]
eroxors: checks
BamesJond87: bets 200
eroxors: calls 200
*** RIVER *** [Tc 3c 9d Qs] [Kd]
eroxors: bets 350
BamesJond87: calls 350
*** SHOW DOWN ***
eroxors: shows [3s 8s] (a pair of Threes)
BamesJond87: shows [9h Qc] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
BamesJond87 collected 1540 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1540 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 3c 9d Qs Kd]
Seat 2: Whataboutj folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: buddy4bass folded on the Flop
Seat 4: mipevi folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: BamesJond87 (button) showed [9h Qc] and won (1540) with two pair, Queens and Nines
Seat 8: gman1973a (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: eroxors (big blind) showed [3s 8s] and lost with a pair of Threes

After that I lost a couple of pots and dropped down to 1580. Then up to 2200, down to 650, up to 1700, and eventually busted pretty early.
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Started 8-tabling 0.05/0.10 cash tables, and made some money there. Here's my graph right now for cash games:



It's interesting looking, that's for sure. Once I stopped doing 0.25/.50 HU and started multitabling 0.05/0.10 it started evening out more though.

I moved on to the $5+0.20 NLHE Double or Nothings, and man what a joke. Here's another great hand turned bad beat:

PokerStars Game #22809903849: Tournament #126254784, $5.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/12/10 23:23:50 ET
Table '126254784 1' 10-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: jimmimac23 (985 in chips)
Seat 2: casinocraps (885 in chips)
Seat 3: potje2803 (1950 in chips)
Seat 4: FOTC1971 (900 in chips)
Seat 5: Thank U Fish (1625 in chips)
Seat 6: elCari (1490 in chips)
Seat 7: couz007 (1805 in chips)
Seat 8: wurzelbrei (1360 in chips)
Seat 9: fcking jacks (1555 in chips)
Seat 10: BamesJond87 (2445 in chips)
jimmimac23: posts the ante 10
casinocraps: posts the ante 10
potje2803: posts the ante 10
FOTC1971: posts the ante 10
Thank U Fish: posts the ante 10
elCari: posts the ante 10
couz007: posts the ante 10
wurzelbrei: posts the ante 10
fcking jacks: posts the ante 10
BamesJond87: posts the ante 10
fcking jacks: posts small blind 50
BamesJond87: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BamesJond87 [Qc Qs]
jimmimac23: folds
casinocraps: folds
potje2803: calls 100
FOTC1971: raises 790 to 890 and is all-in
Thank U Fish: folds
elCari: folds
couz007: folds
wurzelbrei: folds
fcking jacks: folds
BamesJond87: calls 790
potje2803: folds
*** FLOP *** [9c Qh 7h]
*** TURN *** [9c Qh 7h] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [9c Qh 7h 3h] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BamesJond87: shows [Qc Qs] (three of a kind, Queens)
FOTC1971: shows [Kh Qd] (a flush, King high)
FOTC1971 collected 2030 from pot
fcking jacks said, "of course"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2030 | Rake 0
Board [9c Qh 7h 3h 5h]
Seat 1: jimmimac23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: casinocraps folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: potje2803 folded before Flop
Seat 4: FOTC1971 showed [Kh Qd] and won (2030) with a flush, King high
Seat 5: Thank U Fish folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: elCari folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: couz007 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: wurzelbrei (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: fcking jacks (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 10: BamesJond87 (big blind) showed [Qc Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Queens

Oh well, I played 3 and won 2. Didn't do much after that. I'm down :(