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.
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.
Football! Who cares? There is poker to play. The ship need to be righted after two uninspired days featuring some classic poor play. Situational awareness has to be my focus. Playing like a robot won’t get you too much in the way of profit.
I have a decent slate planned today. nothing too ambitious. The highest risk buyin will be $22 in MiniUBOC 7. Tomorrow starts the WBCOOP on PokerStars. I want to represent myself well in that, so focus and situational awareness need to be fine tuned today.
Oh, and I think the two home teams maul their opposition today. the Colts probably destroy the Jets especially.
Well it couldn’t last i guess. I managed to drop a little over $30 yesterday. Most of that was $25 in a cash game when my 22 went against a Q9 with Q92 on the flop. We got it all in on the flop and the turn just had to be a Q. oh well. a four-outer is not going to change my outlook, but maybe it did change my play.
I played MiniUBOC #2 at Ultimate Bet. It was an 8-game mixed event and I did very poorly. I played too many hands, saw too many flops and was not patient like i usually am. That tourney cost $16.50, so I did cash a couple other tournaments to keep the loss for the day small. Back at it today. i may try to get back to my roots and hit some freerolls. Its good discipline practice, playing those.
Third profitable day in a row. I am beside myself with feelings of competency. It took me till my last 2 games to get there, but the result matters. Yesterday was “Trap the fool and watch the improbable suckout” day. i was firing on all cylinders, maximizing each hand, and somehow 10-20% hands kept taking me out.
Thankfully, I kept playing good poker and shockingly was rewarded for doing so. As an aside, i will be playing in PokerStars WBCOOP that I mentioned a few days ago. The fun starts January 25th. Thats Monday for you calendar challenged types. More on what that means coming on Monday.
Another day, another final table. Don’t get too excited, it was in a $3 at DoylesRoom, and I only got 8th for around $20. But add that to a modest $15 from cash games and a couple cashes in private games and I turned a profit for the second day in a row. Heady stuff for someone who was slowly committing online poker suicide two days ago.
My game still needs work. And I intend to read some more on the subject, but right now it feels good to not suck, at least for a couple days. I am off to set up my poker schedule for the day. Positive attitude=positive results.
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.
