Busy couple of days

After that whole clusterfuck of posted below, I set myself strict, strict guidelines to follow:

1. No playing higher than .5/1
2. No fixed limit poker.
3. No playing drunk
4. No sessions longer than 5 hours
5. No playing poker past 1 am on most days; midnight on days before an 830 or 930 class
6. Stop-loss of 3 buyins

The bolded ones were broken within 24 hours, as I played a very drunken 400NL session that netted -$900. Even then, I STILL managed to run bad. So, I figured that with me ~$3500 bankroll it was a good time to seek out a HU opponent at 5/10. So I met Past. I took him for over $1600, including the hand below, and somehow finished my drunken session significantly up. Whoops.


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Interesting note: After this hand, he tried to get me on another table. I told him half my $5k BR was on the table ("that's plenty enough for another table"[!!]), I was a small-stakes player and I was wasted. He didn't really let up and told me I was hitting and running him. (I left about 5-10 mins after this hand).

Sooo I decided yesterday the time was ripe to enter the $216 FTOPS #1. I thought I played as well as I have in a long, long time, chipped up to ~$7k from the starting #5k, I was sitting well in the top 3rd of the field until I ran my 97s into KQ on a Q97 board, and... you can guess the rest. Self-excluded myself for the night after that hand, it would've vaulted me well into the top 100 (out of about 4k left).

Started watching Sixpeppers' new deepstacked video series in CR, and it inspired me to play some 1/2 deep today, after I swore I wouldn't play higher than .5/1. I decided to only play 2 tables, because I start to get in trouble when I play much more than that... this way I was really able to develop reads very quickly, who to c-bet, who I can abuse with 3-bets, etc. I think my good player really continued and I finished up about 2.5 buyins, so my bankroll sits at $5665 with a $376 rakeback deposit coming probably tomorrow.

Things are looking up.

Edit: I noticed a couple of typos at first, and planned to edit them out, but there were so many in the whole thing that it just made me tired to think about fixing them all.