Long week

It's been an interesting 8 days since my last post. Since then:
1) My daughter started kindergarten (she loves it)
2) My son started his pre-school (he loves it)
3) There were 6 people layed off from my office at work (several co-workers didn't like that)
4) We hired 6 new engineers at the office in San Mateo (co-workers liked that even less)
5) Work told me on Monday that I had to train the San Mateo engineers, and so I was on a plane on Wednesday (my wife didn't like that) and worked 10-12 hour days on Thursday and Friday.
6) Caught up on my own work on Saturday
7) Flew back home on the Saturday night/Sunday morning.
8) Played baseball tonight.

In all of that chaos, I managed to get quite a bit of poker in. Played 29 games, and placed in 21. That's an awesome ratio if I can keep it up. Most of the games were HU, and if I keep a 2/1 place in those, I'll be very happy.

One thing I did in this stretch was play more $33+1.5. I've come to the realization that tatta has my number, and rather than force myself to get even with him since he's always sitting there waiting for the next comer at $55+2.5, I'm better off playing random $33+1.5 players instead.

So here is the summary for the past 8 days:
$22+1 HU: 2/0 $42.00
$33+1.5 HU: 9/4 $141.50
$55+2.5 HU: 6/3 $142.50
$110+5 HU: 1/0 $105.00
$25+2 FT: 0/1/0/0 $40.50
$35+3 FT: 0/0/0/1 ($38)
$55+5 FT: 0/2/0/0 $177.00

Total: $614.50

I made back two thirds of my hell week. I'm really surprised by that. I never thought I could re-center and perform better, so soon after such a bad stretch. I just need to keep it level, and continue my balanced play.

I don't know if you noticed, but I took a gamble one day and challenged a played at $100+5. That's my second time at that level, but the first time was against vendo and I knew I could beat him. Here, it was simply a shot. I had been playing well, after having 3 profitable sessions in a row, so the first game of the next session I saw him there. There appeared to be few people playing, so my choices were him or nothing. I actually spent some time deciding between not playing and taking my shot. When I was convinced I could close it down if I lost, I played. It was a tough game. I don't remember the details, since it was the day before my trip, but I recall going to late blind rounds, definitely later than usual.

I don't expect to play that level often, though I've been fortunate to win both times. I need to have the right set of circumstances. I felt fresh and composed, which was the real key. I wanted to make sure I could walk away with a loss.

Now I have to go back to work tomorrow, and I'm not looking forward to it.