Though I am not up to my former play level, I am beginning to make progress on the bankroll front. Sunday I managed to cash in every buyin that I entered. I only entered three and none cost over $6 so my +$80 was ok. Sadly, I will remember the day for coming up 10 places short of a trip to Ireland.
Players Only had a gold card satellite. For an 8H gold card, you could get into a game with 20 seats to their Irish Open Weekly Final. The seats were a $268 ticket, so I was pretty stoked about qualifying. There is no cash conversion of these tickets, so you must play the event. I got whacked 13th out of 91 or so. top 3 got a $7,500 prize pool that included entry to the Irish Open Main Event. My biggest setback was running KK into AA. I think I should have been able to tell it was AA too. Which only makes it worse that I couldn’t let go of KK.
Still, cashing all 3 buyins is not too bad. I guess i will have to take that and move on
An old pizza shop employer used to call people “lazy like you never see”. Thats me and the writing of this blog. Actually, its not so much me avoiding or putting off writing it, it is more forgetfulness and general sloth.
Poker has been going OK. No big scores but mostly profitable days. I signed up for a new site that gives you 2 weeks of freerolls for a deposit. I managed to get $60 off those freerolls at FeltStars Poker. A few other scores and my $50 deposit is now a healthy $164.
FeltStars wants to be big. they have a big championship thing coming in March. I have the cash to play it, so we shall see what happens. So, recap. February so far, not bad, not great.
Lately I have been playing in the under $10 multi-table tournament arena. After forays higher, it seems that this may be my natural area of play. Time will tell on that since I still intend to move up if the results show it as advisable.
Yesterday I ran about eight small tournaments. total buyin was $23 or so. My profit from them all combined was $66 roughly. I can live with that for now I guess. I do need to pursue the big opportunities when they are present, however.
I plan to take a shot at the $109 buyin $50,000 guaranteed that runs on Reefer Poker at the end of the month. I won the ticket, so no pressure of a bankroll variety. I feel that i need a few more wins to compel me to move back up where I was during August and September.
I managed a late surge to finish January up $300 or so. I finally won an open tournament with over 500 players too. Always good for the confidence that was sorely lacking previously.
I did not think i needed yet another merge Network site, but Felt Stars intrigues me. They are a new site, but seem committed to becoming a force in the poker world. already they plan their own online poker championship, World Championship of Internet Poker (WCOIP). It won’t start till March but I am already coveting that Rolex!
Here is to hoping February gets me back on track poker-wise. I cannot take much more of December/November running bad.
