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Yikes, I am Falling Behind on This April Quest!

I am just not grinding out enough hands.  The website is taking up a significant amount of my time - time I used to spend playing.  It's also not helping that I am still not winning at the tables.  This makes the game less fun for me, and therefore my sessions tend to get wrapped up earlier.  About the time I drop 20 BB I am normally fairly annoyed, and ready to quit for the night.  I have plenty of good forum posts to read, sports betting, new programming skills to learn (php, html, MySQL - oh my!), my kids have stuf going on, and, of course, Mrs Bull needs to have opportunities to pay attention to me.  Surprised

Basically, I have plenty of "funner" distractions than having another losing session of cards.  That said, I still think I can make it to $1K by the end of the month, but I'll have my work cut out for me now to make it happen.

Here's a hand example from yesterday.  I decided to play .50/$1 NL at Prima.  I was playing short-stacked because I was sitting in with the remainder of my deposit after I was already at a couple of limit tables.

I was in MP3 with KcTc.  I had $18 in my stack.  Two limpers ahead of me, so I limped in.  SB, an aggressive pre-flop player raised it to $6.  EP calls, and I call to close the betting.  Flop comes:

Ks Ts 9c

SB checks.  I don't think he would have checked a really strong hand - he loved to be first in the pot.  EP checks.  I pushed the rest of my $12 into the middle.  SB calls and EP folds.  SB shows JcJd.

Turn:  Qd, River:  blank

Will this stuff happen on occassion?  Absolutely.  Is it happenning to me all too freaking often lately?  Its maddening.

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