7/22 to 7/31

The last 10 days of the month are going to be a little light on poker. I am going to spend a week in Arkansas with my family and want be playing any poker unless I head over to Tunica to play some. That is a very real possibility so hopefully I get to write up a nice trip report. I PM’d razorbacker3 and he gave me the line on some of the daily tournaments there and so I am hoping to get into one of those with a buddy of mine. Anyways, on to the play for the weekend. Other than the heads up action which I absolutely killed the last couple of days I haven’t won anything. I did play the Sunday 1M on Stars and was involved in a last longer with 4 others from PokerAnalysis. I managed to outlast them and take down the $100 side bet but finished 2100th or so out of 5800 or so and so no cash. I played well but was getting a little short, 4k chips with an M of about 7, and picked up AK in the SB. There was an early raise and I reraised. He put me allin and I was hoping for QQ and it was KK. No help and I was done. With the bonus Stars was offering and the Last Longer bet I did come out only down $15 for playing it. It is hard to complain about that. Anyways, I was up and down all weekend at the cash tables and failed in two sats I played for the 1M and busted out without cashing in a couple of other tournaments. Overall I was an even to slightly down weekend but thanks to some very good heads up play wasn’t too bad. What a rough night Monday was. I played a ton of hands and dropped a total of $115 on the night. I took 2 absolutely sick beats in massive posts. One was a $95 pot in a 2/4 game. The other was a $70 pot. Both times I had top set on a board with practically no draws out there but one really absurd draw. Both times they had them and both were capped preflop. One was 76os the other was 85os. I managed to play an astounding, for me anyways, 1100 hands. It was only about 2.5 hours of play but I 6 tabled for the first real lengthy time. I was knocking out over 400 hands per hour. With PokerStars new resizable tables this was not a problem at all. I never timed out and only found myself rushed once. At the exact same time I had KK, KK, AK, AQ and 1010. Luckily in limit it is just ram and jam until reraised so even that was not too hairy. I was sad about the two bad beats but overall happy with my play. I did take a few other ones but nothing compared to those. Playing 1100 hands you’re going to get bad beat quite a few times. I am pretty close to finishing off my bonus on Stars and should achieve GoldStar status there easily this month for the first time. The amazing thing about that is that I missed 5 days playing while in Vegas and recovering from Vegas and will miss the last 5 days of the month. It looks like playing 4-6 tables at a time will easily get me to Gold each month. Hopefully they have some nice VPP freerolls for the WCOOP coming up like they did for the WSOP. It sure would be nice to freeroll the WCOOP Main Event from VPP’s. Hopefully Tuesday the cards will fall even. Cash games are still going pretty bad. I dropped about $60 in about 200 hands. Nothing horrible just a bunch of JJ vs. QQ on a 8 high flop. And ran KK into AA two times. Tournaments were where the bad beats came. I played 3 and busted out of the first two vs. 2 outers. The last of the night was the $11R 55K on Stars. I played very well and was able to cash but went so card dead after the 3rd break it wasn’t even funny. I raised 3 of 4 hands coming out of the break and picked up the blinds to get me slightly above average but don’t believe I won a hand over the next 30 minutes and was gone. I did cash for $64 which was a $13 profit but would have loved to had a rush of cards to take me real deep. One more night of online poker for the month and then off to Arkansas. Tunica awaits me on Saturday and I am going to play a tournament and maybe some 10/20. It would be nice to play well there. Man the rake in Tunica is horrible. I played at the Grand in a $130 buyin. $100 prizepool, $30 fee. That is almost as bad as my play. Seemed like a decent structure but I wouldn’t really know. 15 minutes is until my KK ran into 33. A set of 3's later and I am on my way. The worst part was the biggest Limit game they had was 4/8. I sat in on that while waiting on my buddy to finish. He played very good but ran his AQ allin preflop into A10. 1010x flop and he was out 1 table shy of the money. I did win at the 4/8 game and at blackjack. Overall I left up $241 after the entry and absurd fee and quite a bit in tips. Not a good end of the month but they can’t all be great.