reflection on exams and poker.

Well I finished last thursday. I have to say that exam period was alot less stressful than my last semester exams. I think i have found my formula to study: make notes on my lecture notes using leaflet sheets, then as exams approach write out flashcards and memorise from there. A flahcard takes about 10 minutes to write - so it can take up to 3 hours per lecture per subject - which ofcourse is not very conceivable - but that would be the ideal.

Also - I found that you really do need invest in a text book for the semester. It makes studyig that much easier. And that is all I'm going to say about studying.

So I'm on a bit of a down swing - playing $3.40 My downswings tend to be when i make the right play, I get shafted on. Then when I make the wrong call - I get pulverised. But today I have been making some ninja reads. Check this out - bvb:

PokerStars Game #22132534412: Tournament #121211561, $3.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/11/17 19:28:27 ETTable '121211561 1' 10-max

Seat #3 is the button

Seat3: ToWaSe (885 in chips)
Seat 4: Bluffin2Much (2000 in chips)
Seat 5: thewran (3140 in chips)
Seat 6: oldperson 47 (585 in chips)
Seat 7: VickiVix63 (3990 in chips)
Seat 8: petitdauphin (3060 in chips)
Seat 9: squareonflop (1340 in chips)

Bluffin2Much: posts small blind 100
thewran: posts big blind 200

*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to thewran [8h Th]

oldperson 47: folds
oldperson 47 said, "37
"VickiVix63: folds
petitdauphin: folds
squareonflop: folds
ToWaSe: folds
Bluffin2Much: calls 100
thewran: checks

*** FLOP *** [Ks 7d 8s]
Bluffin2Much: bets 1800 and is all-in

he has air or is on a draw hoping to steal my blind on post flop - that is the only line that makes sense.

thewran: calls 1800
petitdauphin said, "do you go all in at 47"
*** TURN *** [Ks 7d 8s][Js]
*** RIVER *** [Ks 7d 8s Js] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***

Bluffin2Much: shows [7s 9d] (two pair, Eights and Sevens)
thewran: shows [8h Th] (three of a kind, Eights)
thewran collected 4000 from pot

booyah - I think my hand reading is getting slowly better. But it still doesn't make up the fact i'm down $40 for the past two sessions... 13 games downswings stink (and sting). ITs like when I run bad - I seem to play pretty bad too. I think from now on: 2 sets then a break, 2 sets then a break, etc, etc. But I think the 13 game down swing is just variance really. Once we get to 20 - then I'll be thinking maybe something is wrong... Also I got to stop playing when I'm losing.

I'll type up some other stuff that I've been up to since exams. Its actually part of this course I'm doing - but meh - I'm going to get 8 more games in tonight. tata.