I took a real real nice day off from poker yesterday.

I hung out with the future Mrs. badbeatbilly. I went to her little brother’s soccer game in the morning and then we went out for lunch. Unfortunately she had to go to work after that, but it was still a nice time. I had plans with a couple guy friends for the night and we went out to my favorite sushi place.

I then came home and read a little of ‘Ace on the River’ and found out about the UB reload going on right now.

I slept nice and late today I watched my pats and sox get clobbered. I then read some more of Ace on the River and read a bit of the reference book ‘The Theory of Poker’. I decided that after having such a good day yesterday my mind would be nice and clear. I deposited $1,750 on UB, giving me about $750 in total bonus, and hopped on a $10/$20 heads up table and $10/$20 Omaha/8 table.

I got no hands at the Omaha table and lost $40 before leaving to focus on the heads up table, where a poor gentleman made the big mistake of sitting down with me. Seriously, why would you play heads up limit with me? You might as well bang your head against the wall, punch yourself in the nuts, and give me 20 big bets. Anyway we played for a good while with some back and forth but eventually I got the best of him. He also did some fairly heavy tilting every once in a while.

He didn’t 3 bet from the big blind enough at the beginning and probably a bit too much at the end. He called too many flop check raises only to fold to my turn bets. I had a pretty good read on him and felt I had him completely outclassed. However after about 2 hours my dad and his wife came home (they were away for the weekend) and I figured I had already booked a nice win so I decided to leave the table and go greet them.

In retrospect it was probably a bad move, that guy was pretty bad and tilting, and kept reloading. I had a good read on him, I think I should have stayed and looked to make a bigger score, but that’s ok, I don’t mind missing out on profitable situations in an effort to balance other parts of my life. Poker is not my life, and I don’t want to let it become that. I want it to be my job, but a job I love, but not my whole life. I ended up taking him for $1149 and cleared $21 in bonus. Things are looking up.