On Friday night I managed to climb back from the hole I dug earlier in the week to be ahead for the week. Feeling good about that, I entered into a 400 person re-buy tournament. I made it until the bubble, with good conservative play. The hand that did me in was K9s which I played in late position on the cheap. The flop came 349, with 2 spades. It was checked around to me so I bet. Only the BB called. I was pretty happy when the river was a 9. The BB bet and I raised. He re-raised and I had him on a worse 9. Plus I figured my flush was good (9 outs) plus any 3, 4 or king would give me a FH 2+2+2, so I figured I had 15 outs if I was behind, so I went all in. The BB tabled pocket 3's, so I had 8 outs and none of them came. So I busted out in 100th place, but that wasn't too bad.

I decided to sit down and play a little last night. For some reason I sat at a 2/4 Ohilo game. I went up $16 fairly quickly and then a spiraled downward for the next hour and a half eventually losing $79. That killed my week and lessened my chances of having a positive month in Oct. I need to play winning poker for the next two weeks in order to finish positive for the month.

In Ohilo, I play too many hands. I am now quite patient in hold'em but I have trouble playing as tight as I need to in Omaha. I need to go down to the micro-levels to practice patience with a hand ranking chart to practice.

We leave for San Fran on Wednesday, so I only have 2 days to play.