More swongs and more $5/10 NL

I played a ton of hands today and I'm not really happy about how the day went. The major thing that disgusted me was that I was playing 5 tables for a lot of the time and during the second session of the day I had one of my old, classic, "marathon" sessions. I really need to follow my plan closer. I've been doing a good job about taking breaks until today. It's just tough to leave $5/10 NL tables when there are big fish because the big idiots are harder to come by than at $2/4 NL.

A few of my errors I'm sure stemmed from not taking breaks. I obviously wasn't thinking clearly on two river spots. I totally butchered them and there's really no excuse, because today I had just given one of my students a lesson on river play. If I would have followed my own advice that I gave her earlier today I would have avoided those two huge mistakes. I pretty much chose the worst line possible in both hands and my mistakes were costly. Those two terrible river calls alone probably cost me nearly $1.4k.

I finished up an OK amount but I actually should have finished up about 2xs or 3xs more than I did. I lost two buyins due to pure spew. I spazzed out in a 4-bet pot with 99 vs a monkeyish regular who just flatted my 4-bet. He had AA obviously. Then I tried pulling a bluff on a pretty terrible board which didn't work out because I got hero called by 2nd pair.

A few good things did happen though, to allow me to finish ahead. This hand was my biggest winner of the day.

I need to be more diciplined and really focus on the things that I outlined in my December plan. I'm straying from it a bit and my results are showing that.

I also went to a UND Fighting Sioux DI college hockey game tonight with my brother. It was a pretty good game and the Sioux ended up beating St. Cloud 7-4. I went last night as well and they won then too. Here are some pics from the game.

Center Ice Faceoff

Near the Sioux Bench

Sioux Victory