Stressing Lately

I think everything has been taking a toll on me. I've felt tilt come on after 3 games yesterday, so I quit. Then today after two of my HUL matches, which I lost, I was fairly upset again.

Nothing major, but this is the complete opposite of what I am in these matches.

I tried to attribute it to running bad (I've ran into quads in a stretch of 2 out of 3 games), but I've ran plenty worse (I'm actually even over the last two days I believe) in the last two months and actually been in a good mood after longer sessions.

I don't know what I need to do, I think my gf's father is a big part of this, he is staying with us for an undetermined amount of time. He's one of the most outrageous people I've ever met, and it's like babysitting two people (one is my girlfriend, but she's recovering so it's not a bad thing when i say babysit). I'm also trying to run my business and play some games, but the shit isn't working too well right now.

I don't really have a solution for this that is sane, ignoring him only goes so far, telling him off just builds tension and forces him to make decisions (which he is terrible at) plus my girlfriend doesn't need any of this stress right now.

Anyways, I forgot to make a post on here about it, but I started a NL Heads Up League (SNG) on the 2+2 forums. We have 24 players in it and tonight was the first night of matches. I broke people down into brackets of 6, and everyone has a little over a month to play their 5 other people in a best of 3 match. The buyin is 5 dollars as a default, but if two players agree they can raise it. I played mine for 30 tonight, at the request of a 20-30 dollar player (I believe). The first match I think he ran ridiculously good, the second match was pretty damn long (50-100 level in a regular speed game) and the swings of the match were pretty crazy. I dominated the first 10-15 minutes, but then I raised a draw on the turn with a card that he likely hit for top pair was there, so the fold equity against his range was a lot smaller than it should've been. Plus he didn't seem to want to fold in most spots, which turned out to be good with the kind of stuff I was getting tonight.

I stacked him on a hand after this, it went something like this:

I limped 99, ready to reraise him, he checked. Flop was Q92, no suits. He lead out, I called. Turn was another queen, making two diamonds on the board. He half potted, I raised 3x, he called. River is a non diamond 7. He checks and I shove for about 1.5x the pot. He takes a little time and calls with 8d7d.

I was pretty happy with that hand, but that's about the only good situation I caught him in correctly for a lot of chips. My bluffing % was a lot higher than normal because he is fairly spewy and I was not hitting much at all, so I tried to catch him in bad spots with weaker cards than usual, and I just kept hitting the top part of his range.

My buddy Automatic/TheOpenDoor lost his HU match to a guy I beat once in a 33 from the forum. I didn't really see the match but I remember a fairly rough hand for my buddy.

Back to the league, after the 4-5 weeks of the "regular season," anybody with a winning record will participate in the playoffs. These will be best of 3 for the first round, and best of 5 every round thereafter. I will also be hosting private HU tourneys during this whole thing, so if there is any interest in these post on 2+2 or here, anybody is welcome to play as these are just for the fun of playing (and the little bit of money these buyins will be for).

Anyways, enough ranting, hopefully I'm in a much better mood tomorrow and can grind out some games.

Also, I'm done with the degen challenge, at least for now. I was at like 900 and just decided I would rather grind 110s vs fish and play a worse range of fish in the 220s for now. This may be coinciding with my stress lately, as I would've thought the idea of stopping this challenge was crazy last week. I guess that's the difference on my mental state/happiness.

Bankroll $3,742.88