Breaking even in style

Well, another few days of poker are over with, and really, I've perfected how someone should break even, all on Pokderstars:
* Lose some in satellites for the Sunday majors
* Win some back in HU cash
* Donk off 200BB trying to get a nit off top trips in 6 max NL100
* Lose more in satellites for the Sunday million
* Buy into the Sunday million because you can't win a seat
* Mincash in that
* Lose some playing HU cash
* Move up to NL100 HU cash while losing, lose another BI there and win a BI and a bit back against another

And that's it. How to break even at poker, the interesting way. With some of the crazy pots I've lost in the last few days, it's barely believable my Pokerstars account didn't bust. What's even crazier is you pay a shit load of rake and don't really get any FPP's to show for it all, but that's another story.

The Sunday Million was fun, although once you reach the 1.5K blinds, everyone just shuts down and waits for the nutz, as you are all 20-30BB deep and can't do much else. Not really exciting. My 3rd hour was absolutely card dead, and in the end, I had to make a stand against the one aggressive player. He'd noticed both I and my left players were tight, so he was getting raises in before I could try any steals. I finally 3 bet him, and he insta folded, and NEVER raised again. It was like a leaking tap that was suddenly turned off properly, amazing. So this allowed me to steal enough to cruise into the money. At that point I ran QQ into the powerhouse that is A5o all in pre flop, and shortly after died trying to keep alive, when my A8s ran into AK, and was virtually dead when a king flopped. Interesting, but not as fun as I thought, because there really wasn't much poker after the first few levels. as everyone just fought to stay above 20BB's. Possibly the worst player at my table finished the deepest when I look at the results, so lol donkaments.

In the coming week, I'll have a few different things to think about. One is about showdowns. As a very brief, there is one time where your hand is important, and that's when it's shown down. It needs to beat your opponents hand at that point, but if it's not shown down, it doesn't need to be better. I want to think about this some more and flesh it out a bit. The other is to do with reprocity, which Tommy Angelo goes into depth about. His theory is if we flopped top set and stacked our opponent with their mid set, we've made $0 long term, because we also would have stacked off with mid set in the same situation. However, to make you a winning player, you must be doing things your opponents are not. Yet, this is really hard to understand just what these are sometimes for me, so I want to think about it a bit.