Usually I get lazy with the posts here when I am doing poorly at poker. that is not the case this time, so it must be general sloth. I have been doing Ok at poker, steadily increasing the roll, although I did drop $50 yesterday.
I played well and got the money in good yesterday, just sometimes variance piles up all together. I am unconcerned as I have been succeeding OK except for that one day setback. I am planning another run at Full tilt Poker MiniFTOPS coming up next week. The last one almost destroyed my Full Tilt roll. We shall see if this one can have a better result. And, maybe, just maybe I might post here more often than every 2 weeks or worse.
Maybe I am not as terrible at this game as I was starting to think. I ran into a couple of inconceivable bad beats Sunday. You know , the “how could you even think to play that” type of beat. Rather than get down on myself, I kept playing with a positive attitude.
I came to realize that “the fear” had its claws in me. Raise with KK, ace flops, you go into a shell and do not continue betting. thats “the fear”. Well goodbye to that. My wins Sunday were modest, but very encouraging. I made the final table of the Bodog Poker $5k guaranteed, then 2 hours later I bubbled the final table of the Bodog $3k guaranteed. I also managed to cash in Full Tilt’s Big Little Tournament, though barely.
The double deep runs were good for the soul. I feel good about my play. I am confident. lets see if the cash can continue to flow in.
I had a run of bad luck early in the day Friday. Things were looking down, yet I knew my play was solid. Maybe I have turned that corner where bad beats don’t send me off tilting and chip spewing. Time will tell that tale.
As for Friday, I won a small private tournament and grabbed $5 in a freeroll. That left me with the $22 7-stud MiniFTOPS #5. After a grueling 7 hours, I busted out 38th for $150. I wanted more, but some is better than none. That cash will allow me to play more MiniFTOPS games too.
Friday: 10 tournaments, 2 ring games. +$134.97
Well, I did not play much of a schedule Saturday. I did play quite a bit, but there were no high risk/reward games that I played. My largest tournament cost me $5.50, and I played one ring game (10ct/25ct). My total risk over 9 tournaments and 1 ring game was $35.45. My total reward on these was $72.75 for a net profit of $37.30.
Its nice to make money, but really, I need to start increasing my risk if I want any kind of reward to show for it. My best cash was winning the Holdem Poker Chat league game at Full Tilt Poker for $29. With the added risk in mind I am going to play the Bodog $100K guaranteed at 4 pm today. I won a ticket to it by answering a twitter trivia question. Tomorrow’s update will have my results in that affair. Cya!
On November 22nd at 2:05pm ET, Full Tilt Poker along with HoldemPokerChat will be running a charity tournament for the Bad Beat on Cancer Organization.
Cost for the tournament is $5 for the prize pool, plus an additional $5 for the charity. We have also added $150 to the prizepool. Full TIlt Poker pro Rafe Furst will be playing the tournament, and we hope many more of the Full Tilt pros will also be in attendance.
Details for the tournament are as follows:
November 22nd, 2:01pm ET
Full Tilt Poker
Private tournament tab: Bad Beat on Cancer
Password: charity
$5 plus $5 with $150 added to the prizepool
Tournament #64689765
(Under the Private Tournaments tab)
Even if you can’t make it, please consider registering anyway since all proceeds will go to the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation. I hope to see you all there.
About the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation:
The Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation was started in 1985 when Founder and President Carolyn Aldige first understood the power of prevention to defeat cancer — and recognized that too few of the country’s resources were used to promote cancer prevention research or education. Today, it is one of the nation’s leading health organizations and has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence. Since its inception the Foundation has provided more than $74 million in support of cancer prevention and early detection research and education programs. CRPF peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to more than 250 scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. This research has been pivotal in developing a body of knowledge that is the basis for important cancer prevention and early detection strategies.
About Bad Beat on Cancer:
Bad Beat on Cancer was started a few years ago by Rafe Furst and Phil Gordon to help fund cancer research and prevention – by playing poker. They ask professionals and amateurs alike to donate 1% of whatever they win at the WSOP. They’ve been extraordinarily successful over the last few years, raising over $1 million for a very worthy cause. It’s a very fiscally responsible organization, nearly 86 cents from every dollar goes to the cancer research programs that they’re funding. It’s a great organization and they have most of the world’s greatest players signed up.
