Not the Greatest day

$1/$2 NL

I woke up today and it was basically blah, right off the bat. Had to get around, and go to my Aunt Sandra's funeral, who passed away a few days back with cancer. Theres pretty much nothing worse then letting a loved one go, and all the grieving that goes along with it. I really felt bad for a lot of my family who were really close to her, more so then I. I never spent much time with her actually, I would see her at pretty much all the family get gatherings, say Hi, have a little short conversation here and there, that was it. I've heard stories from my dad and other family about Aunt Sandra in the past of good times. Anyways, Its no fun losing a loved one, and my heart goes out to all the family and friends who knew her. After the whole funeral thing, the majority of us went out to my grandmas to enjoy a nice prepared meal, which was great !

Time to get back to the house and play some $1/$2 NL. Pretty standard session, although there were a couple hands I played bad, but the results would have turned out the same. I was facing resistance from a few of the players, but I was able to keep my cool and stay on top of my game. I played roughly 1,400 hands, and overall on a scale from 1-10 on how well I played, honest I'd have to say about an 8. I've still got improvements here and there but after reviewing the key pots that were played, I've made some adjustments and hope to never make the same mistake again. It's nice being able to finally play $1/$2 NL and not have to be playing the $0.50/$1 NL game that I was playing. Overall the play is just the same, just richer people, that love to play poker for fun basically, but you have a few regulars in the game, who are fun to play against. I ended up about 2.4 buy ins or so.

It was nice to actually watch Tyler play today as well, he put in about 500 hands or so and made a nice profit, I think he was up over $500 or so, and I was able to pick up a few things by watching him, to incorporate into my game. Its on for next month though bud ! Tyler and I have a challenge next month, were going to see who can beat the $1/$2 NL game for the most during August, and it starts Aug. 1, and I'm going to give it all I got ! After that its an Uphill battle straight to the $2/$4 NL game !

Anyways I'm going to get off here and chill a bit before work tomorrow, I'll probably play again after work.

+$475