The Slow Grind

Got back from work yesterday and fired up a $5 SNG. Finished second, but I feel like I should have won. I was CL with 4 players left and then made poor choices pushing any 2 vs. the short stacks. At the break, I had 6k, second was 4k, and the SB and BB each had 600 chips left after posting the 150/300 blinds. I then proceeded to push T9 into K9, and then lost another hand with (I think) 98 to 56 or something like that. I was behind going into HU play. I roughed it to about even, and when I had 5k left, I found KQ I raised, and he RR all in. I should have folded easily. My play ALWAYS changes though when the wife gets home and starts chirping about groceries and shit like that (even though I told her to just give me 10 minutes!!!). Anyway, I called and he had AQ. ONNEEE TIMEE PLEEEEEEASE - K high flop - Turn blank - ONE TIIIIIIIIMMMMEEEE - River......Heeeeeeeeeey, Barry! I didn't even see you sitting there!!!! Come take a dip!!!!

Dinner was disappointing. No dim sum after 3pm, and we ordered way too much food. I thought the dishes were subpar and the service was bad. A restaurant reviewer would have had a field day with all the shit that went wrong. Once I heard that there was no dim sum, we should have gone somewhere else.

After dinner played 2 games...poorly. One was a $2 SNG that I really wasn't paying attention to. I had about 8-900 chips and found QQ UTG 7 handed. I think blinds were 50-100, maybe less. This is an all in almost all the time, although I didn't think I'd get much value out of it, so I raised to 350, and two of the big stacks called. Flop comes A high, and I push my last 500 into a pot that's over $1k. I have no fold equity here, I know. I guess I just didn't want to play anymore if I only had 500 chips. I pushed it, and got called by an awesome pre-flop call of A8.

Frustrated, I decided to play a HU PLO game. Total disaster. Played like an idiot and I got what I deserved. I was steaming about the A8 hand. Beast, on the other hand, had just gotten a re-load from his rakeback site, and was crushing the PLO cash tables. I need to find a rakeback site or something. It's probably too late now and may look suspicious if I just swing all my money over to another account and just start playing on that account. But they're just giving away free money!!! I need to figure out how to take advantage of this.

I somehow sprained my fourth toe on my right foot. I have no idea how it happened. I thought it was broken it was in so much pain yesterday. I started to hurt more and more and then all of the sudden yesterday was terrible. It's better today - I taped it up.

Will play some poker tonight. Will play tomorrow - hopefully some micro MTTs. In-laws on Sunday. My DVR keeps fucking up and again didn't record Poker After Dark.