Thanks to a family vacation (which was a lot of fun), I took a week off from poker, for the most part -- see exceptions below. Things had been going pretty well pokerwise before the break, so it wasn't the right time for one, but what can you do?
Played a short session after a week, and definitely noticed the break, just in terms of anticipating what players would do, and how quickly I was making decisions. I definitely didn't feel sharp. I'll have to review the session later, but I think I ended up playing OK with a couple notable exceptions that were pretty spewy, although only one bad hand for a decent sized pot. I think the big hand I played the worst on, I got lucky to be AI with the nut flush draw against a guy who had a flush draw with a gutter to a straight flush, but he ended up hitting his gutter. He had 8 outs against me on the flop when all the money went in (well, not quite, because I had some re-draws, I guess), so it's not like a horrible beat or anything. There were some other hands where I just ran bad, plus didn't get value from good hands, so all in all a bitch-slap of a welcome back.
The only pokering on vacation was at Harvey's in Lake Tahoe, and as usual, live poker results in some pretty LOL plays. I was completely card-dead, so those plays didn't involve me...I'm just saying. I think that I VPIP'ed maybe 6 hands in 2 hours, it was seriously pathetic (and boring) how cold I was. The table was actually filled with supposed regulars -- everyone but myself and two other guys (the second guy took the first guy's seat) knew the floor and dealer, and were chatting with each other.
I stayed at the table because they didn't seem that good, it was the only 3/5 table -- the others were 2/2/3, and the other non-regular besides me played every hand, usually as the preflop raiser. He was pretty funny. Young guy who I probably caught a contact high from, 3 seats away. Came in on his skateboard, lost 2 of his BI (not sure how much) pretty quick, then just pulverized the table, especially the guy just to his right. For several hands in a row, he agonized every time the guy on his right bet, then ended up either raising or calling, no matter what kind of piece he had of the board, and won every hand.
I won exactly 3 hands, 2 on the flop, 1 on the turn, but actually profited in the 2-hour session, thanks to a ton of preflop callers on 2 of those hands. At least one of the cocktail waitresses was pretty good looking.
