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So, since my “I’m Back” post from May 30th, I really haven’t played that much.  I think I’ve only played 2 or 3 times this month, but that’s more than I was since I played zero hands in March, April, and most of May.  During May, I was reviewing my hands from February and noticed I was being very weak.  Unfortunately, my weakness continued last night.  There were some hands that probably would have turned out differently had I played them like I should have.  I don’t know if it’s rust or bad habits creeping back in.  Probably bad habits. Read the rest of this entry »

Woooooooooo!!!  I played poker today!!  30 minutes!  Not a freeroll!  For real money!!  And I won!!  And as I write this, I’m in a tournament!  OK, the tournament is an FPP tournament, so it’s kinda free.  210 FPPs, 2 tables, top six win an entry into the $250,000 Sunday tounament.  If I ‘win’, I’ll unregister, take the T$11, and play 2 SnGs eventually.  Oh, and I signed up for the WSOP freeroll at noon.  There’s over 3,000 people signed up and there’s another 40 minutes before it starts.  Top ten get an entry into another tournament.  What the heck…I’ll give it a go. Read the rest of this entry »

I played in a freeroll Sunday afternoon.  About 1,600 people and I finished something like 512th.  It’s more or less a turbo tournament and I played maybe three hands (never was above the starting stack) before being forced to shove with 9-4o or I would have been blinded off.  Unfortunately, 9-4 was one of the best hands I got when I reached the point of fold or shove.  I did have JJ once earlier in the tournament.  Faced a sizable raise before me preflop, just called, and it was reraised behind me.  I was all ready to fold even before it got back to the original raiser, who then shoved.  The other guy called and it was KK (original raiser) vs QQ.  Jack on the flop had me temporarily pissed until I realized the flop also had a king.  And I was really happy that I folded when the QQ made a straight on the river. Read the rest of this entry »

(This post is long and rambly.  Longer and ramblier than usual.  I usually ramble and then go back and edit it down, but I decided to just leave this one as is.)

My break continues.  Still no “for cash” poker online since the end of February.  I did play a freeroll in early March and had my Niagara Falls trip in April where I played some live poker.  But other than that, nothing.  And I honestly don’t miss it, which has surprised me.  I thought after two months of no online poker, I’d be dying to get in there and mix it up. Read the rest of this entry »

Off to Niagara Falls for a poker weekend, so I thought I’d write up a Pre-Trip Trip Report.  Now that it’s here, I’m looking forward to it more and more.  Still unsure what I’m going to play.  I lost a lot of money playing live poker over the last year or so, so I’m leaning to just playing some 2/4 Limit and enjoying being away for the weekend playing poker.  I’ll probably end up starting off at the NL tables Friday night and if something bad happens (whether it’s my fault or not), switching to Limit.  Here’s a list of various things… Read the rest of this entry »

My poker break continues.  Sorta.  I played in a freeroll Sunday and it went exactly as I figured it would.  Sit there like a bump on a log, not play a hand because I don’t get a decent hand and/or everybody is raising/shoving and I don’t have good enough cards to join in, become a shortstack and be forced to open shove with any ace, get called by a worse hand (I had two overs, hit my ace, and he still won), and get knocked out.  And it pissed the crap out of me.  Which leads me to believe I’m still not ready to play if I got so mad and frustrated at a freeroll.  I almost felt like playing once last week, but it went away.  Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I’m done with poker. Again. And this time I mean it! OK, I doubt I’m really done with poker. But I haven’t played since the end of February and I really don’t miss it. It looks like I’m on another extended break. But what’s really weird is I haven’t even been on the forum for a few weeks either. It’s like I just totally dropped poker from my life. Read the rest of this entry »

My last post ended with me saying something about my next post being about losing all that I had recently gained.  I’ve decided not to pursue that as I don’t feel like reliving it right now.  Instead, Friday was my birthday and I took off from work.  What better way to spend your birthday than playing online poker.  What follows is a running blog (cleaned up for spelling and continuity) of how my day went.  I should mention that February has been a horrible poker month for me.  Not wasting any time, I jump right in on my birthday morning. Read the rest of this entry »

So, with a fresh $100 in my account (see last post), I finally get to hit the tables on Saturday the 14th for only the second time this month. Yeah, I’m playing on Valentine’s Day…got a problem with it? I also played on Christmas. That’s the kind of GF I have. I also decided to make a video for Ugi to watch and hopefully point out some things. This will be the first video of me 2-tabling, possibly 3-tabling. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, my last post was about me getting close to making my first ever ‘real’ withdraw.  Like, withdraw profits and do something with the money.  But then I started off February doing not so well, and then Poker Stars offered a reload bonus, so I couldn’t withdraw because that voids your opportunity to get the reload bonus.  And now it’s February 15th and before last night, I’ve played poker once so far this month.  So, let’s do a recap of the month.  I was going to say quick recap, but nothing is quick when I write these. Read the rest of this entry »