Most of this past week I've been reading on my books/magazines to refresh any ideas that I may have forgotten and to keep my volume low for this week. When I say low, I'm not joking! I played a total of 6 STT's this week at the $10+$1 level. I felt confident going in to these SNGs and came out with a bigger confidence in my play as I went back through hold em manager and reviewed certain hands.

RESULTS

4 First place finishes

1 Second place finish

1 Seventh place finish

The seventh place finish is just me tilting from a previous hand from the same guy that felted me. I'm to not happy about the place and actually leave the hand history in a window so anytime I feel like doing something stupid, I look at it.

***** Hand History for Game 33253977903 ***** (Poker Stars)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, September 25, 12:21:24 ET 2009
Table 198288000 1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Mr.Shortty1 ( $1110.00 USD )
Seat 3: Digggs ( $1290.00 USD )
Seat 4: jdbunchOSU ( $1805.00 USD )
Seat 5: ELIPS ( $2780.00 USD )
Seat 6: dracotat ( $1925.00 USD )
Seat 8: AKeshish ( $1630.00 USD )
Seat 9: deglingue ( $2960.00 USD )
Digggs posts small blind [$50.00 USD].
jdbunchOSU posts big blind [$100.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to jdbunchOSU [ 4c 5h ]
ELIPS folds
dracotat calls [$100.00 USD]
AKeshish folds
deglingue folds
Mr.Shortty1 calls [$100.00 USD]
Digggs folds
jdbunchOSU checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4s, 3s, 6c ]
jdbunchOSU checks
dracotat bets [$350.00 USD]
Mr.Shortty1 folds
jdbunchOSU raises [$1705.00 USD]
dracotat calls [$1355.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
jdbunchOSU shows [4c, 5h ]
dracotat shows [3d, 6d ]
dracotat wins $3760.00 USD from main pot

I viewed my second place finish as a simple standard spot being really short stacked with 6-7BB HU. We were heads up for about 6 hands at that point and he was playing exactly how he should..ATC

***** Hand History for Game 33254639340 ***** (Poker Stars)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, September 25, 01:01:50 ET 2009
Table 198287996 1 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 2: Dub Infinity ( $10695.00 USD )
Seat 8: jdbunchOSU ( $2805.00 USD )
Dub Infinity posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
jdbunchOSU posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
Dub Infinity posts small blind [$200.00 USD].
jdbunchOSU posts big blind [$400.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to jdbunchOSU [ 6c As ]
Dub Infinity raises [$1000.00 USD]
jdbunchOSU raises [$2380.00 USD]
Dub Infinity calls [$1580.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, Qh, 7c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
jdbunchOSU shows [6c, As ]
Dub Infinity shows [9s, Ad ]
Dub Infinity wins $5610.00 USD from main pot

Any thoughts or advice on these hands or in general just comment or PM me.

I'd have to say my biggest leak in my game is BR management/tilting resulting in bad BR management. I start getting a bad run of cards having KK < Ax blah blah blah, that's poker and I need to man up and get over it. I tilt to higher BI MTT's and cash games (which online cash games is definely -EV for me). I've set up guidelines to for myself from this day on.

My BR is sitting at ~$650. Its not a pro/protected bankroll and i seem to do very well in $10+$1 STT so I plan on playing these until i get up to ~$1000 before moving up. If I can't stay honest to myself and stick to this plan, obviously I'm not disciplined enough to try and make poker a major source of income.

GL to all, and wish me luck! I'll keep this updated as often as possible with my results and mental status.

EDIT: This isn't a "turn $xxx into $XXXXX" challenge. This is me simply trying to fix my game and bad habits of poker. I found that venting/talking about what I'm doing, even if no one really even reads this, helps me stay focused and pin point situations that cause me to tilt to higher BI games.