GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!

Hi hi. Haven't played online poker for a while, I needed a break. I'll probably play tonight though. I emailed PP and got them to give me a deposit Bonus, so I have some money on there for cash games. Then I'll probably donk off in some tournaments tonight. Yay poker ...

I played live this past week though. Played in a $100 FO at River Rock on Wednesday and came around 25th out of 165 (bad beat to bust me, obv ... but that's how I roll these days! ) On Friday night I played $200NL cash for five hours and it went HORRIBLY. Every single time I made a hand, I got called by someone chasing a flush draw and he hit it every single time. Every time. I won't go through the boring laundry list, but I lost a lot of huge pots that way. For the most part I slowed down and lost as little as possible once the flush hit (thank god for cheap show downs), but it still hurt. I never did get my stack above $250, and I ended up losing two buyins over the course of the night (which I'm thankful for because if a couple idiots didn't spew chips my way, I'd have been down a lot more than $400).

I'm curious about a hand and whether or not I should have checked the turn. I had sat at the table only around 45 min or so ago, and the villian in this hand had been pretty active. I knew he was a regular in the cardroom because I'm pretty sure I've played with him before, but I couldn't remember any more specific reads. At that point though, I knew that he wasn't afraid to play lots of hands and didn't often fold preflop. I didn't get the idea that he was terrible though, I thought he was pretty okay post flop.

So anyway, in this hand I was in the blinds and he was on the button. There were a couple limps preflop, and then he raised to $7 when the play went to him. I reraised to $20 (in hindsight I probably should have raised more) with 99 and he called.

The flop came K9x with two clubs (9 of clubs on the board). I forget how much I bet, but it was probably around $35. He called.

The turn was a club and I bet again, obviously committing myself to the pot. Should I have checked this turn? In these games, you can't put someone on a flush draw for sure because people play so badly with all sorts of hands. But is there a good way to try to keep this pot small, or should I just be going all the way no matter what and then my bet is okay?

I'm fine with losing my stack with a set at live 1/2 because he could have easily had a K or AA or any other hand really, but was wondering if I had played the hand ideally.

(If you're curious as to what happened, he called my turn bet and then bet after my check on the river, which I called. He had clubs and won the pot.)

Anyway, I'll be playing live again this Saturday hopefully. The Canadian Poker Tour (yes, that actually exists) is visiting River Rock on the 17th with a $300+$30 tournament that will have maximum 250 people. It should be very well structured and I'm really excited to play it. I'll be playing double shootouts this week (for seats to the million) and unregistering them until I win two to pay for this live tourney.

Thanks for reading. Leave a comment or post in my thread


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"There's an old saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem will look to you like a nail. Maybe the low stakes players are nails and the midstakes players are a mixture of nails and screws. Don't move up without your screwdriver."
-koolmoe in a Beginner's Circle thread


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Right now I am in a very bad state of mind. I've been playing a lot of tournaments (like I said a post or two ago) and large field ones at that. Big problem there is that they're high variance, and I am running BAD right now ...

Ever since I bubbled the 3R final table, I've been running like shit. That's part of the game, and I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with is the way I've been reacting to it lately. The last couple of days have been especially bad, to the point where I can't even stand losing a flip anymore (I justify my freaking out with saying that I'm doing it because I know for a fact that I've lost x amount of flips in a row, but that's really pretty unacceptable still).

Not sure what to do. Tournaments are clearly driving me insane and I shouldn't be playing them right now (if I can't handle losing 10 flips in a row, then I shouldn't play tournaments). I should play cash games then, but for some reason I can't get myself to do so. One reason is that the money isn't significant for me unless I play 100NL, but I definitely cannot be playing that right now. At least not on Stars, it's way too hard for me. So therefore I should be switching sites to play the game somewhere else, but I am still so reluctant to do so because I'm in love with the Stars interface. This is so retarded, I should just ban myself from Stars for a month and force myself to play on another interface. I just hate them all so much ...

Even if I do get myself to finally switch to cash on another site, maybe I should play more 50NL for a while.

Biggest reason I know my head is in the wrong place is that I am afraid to let my bankroll go lower than it is for some reason. My financial situation is okay now (I won't have to withdraw anything from my roll) and I got it to $5k, and now all of a sudden I'm like OKAY! It has to stay $5k or more forever! Can't play games that might possibly cause my roll to decrease ... because for some reason I'm overly attached to it right now ... What the fuck is wrong with me?

Just ranting I guess. Ugh.


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arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I usually keep what I think are accurate numbers on what my bankroll is in a little book, and then every so often I go to the actual online numbers in my bank account, neteller, poker sites, etc. and figure out if they match. Last time I went to see how closely they matched, what I had on paper was a lot higher than what I actually had online (and I was disappointed ). The other day I compared them and I was shocked to discover that I have almost $1k more than I actually thought I had on paper. Haha that's so awesome, it's like I got free money! I honestly have no clue how my numbers got that far off, it's kind of strange. I kept thinking that when I added up all my money again, I'd realize i made a mistake and realize I still only had a $4k bankroll. But somehow I'm at $5k ...

Anyway, this is just a short random update on what I'm doing. I stopped playing cash games and started playing tourneys again because I hoped to play in a $440 FO next Saturday at a casino in Langley. It's a ladies event that they hold every year, and the first prize should be around $36k. Unfortunately, it sold out really quickly apparently a month ago, haha. Oh well, next year hopefully.

So donkaments as practice, mostly deep stacked ones because the $440 would have been pretty deep. No big scores to mention. I did place 10/2358 in a recent $3R on Stars, I was really really disappointed. It was unfortunate I didn't make the final table because I lost two big hands that would have broken the bubble and made me chip leader or close (JJ<A8 and then my final hand, AA<A8s which would have tripled me up). Like I said, really disappointing ... I've never had a big win online before, and getting so close and being bad beat out of the final table twice really sucks. That's the way MTTs are though. Next time!

That's it for now. Just playing poker, tutoring, and trying to book painting work for now. It's really nice not going to school, I love not having a class schedule and homework and all that crap. Hopefully I start missing it as time goes on because I really do need to go back in September. But for now, no school is nice. I might keep playing tourneys, I don't know ... I've been really having fun with them lately. If I play cash, I won't play on Stars ... gotta figure that out. We'll see ...


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Long time no update. Sorry in advance for the long post, lots for me to think about.

I pulled a Triptanes and dropped all my courses, so I'm not going to school right now. I will be managing a small business from now until September though, so at least I'll be doing something. I dunno why I dropped my classes ... I just can't stand school right now. I only need to take 8 courses to graduate, I'm like 90% done my degree. I hate school though. Wish I never went. So I'm on a break ...

I've only played a few thousand hands since last time I posted here, which is kinda disappointing. Granted I've had a lot of stuff going on and probably only a couple weeks to play those hands (despite not going to school), so maybe I should be glad I even got that much playing in. I think I played around 3k hands at 50NL and then I moved up to 100NL and I've played around 4k hands there.

Hmm so now I wanna consider why I moved up to 100NL. I moved up after only about 6.5k hands at 50NL, the only experience I have at 6 max since I moved to cash games. I wanted to give 100NL a shot for a few reasons. For one, I had made around 13 buyins by the time I'd played that many hands, and I figured that was a decent amount to justify dipping my feet at a higher stake. If I only had a $1k bankroll when I was playing 50NL, then I would have had to stay there until I'd gotten my roll up to at least $2k, but that's not the situation for me so I felt I didn't need to wait around any longer.

Hmm well the first point makes me sound like I'm impatient and not wanting to stay at 50NL just for the sake of not wanting to be there. I don't know if that's the case, I like to think it's not. While a point can be made that it's a good idea to play 30k hands at a certain level to "make sure" that you can beat the game and that it's not just good variance, I guess a big part of me thinks that if you can beat the game at a certain level, it's a waste of potential money to stay at lower stakes. Not to say that I thought I could beat 100NL, but what's the point in stayting at 50NL if you have the money to give the higher stakes a shot?

Well that leads into another reason why I moved up: I felt comfortable playing 6 max at that point and I felt comfortable at 50NL. I felt like I had a good understanding of what to do preflop (although now that I think about it, I still made some pretty loose/bad calls) and an okay idea of how to bet and read hands post flop. It was definitely a lot better than it had been when I first started playing 6 max in late November, and I felt I was comfortable enough with my game to give moving up a shot.

Anyway so like I said, I've played 4k hands at 100NL. It's been up and down ever since hand one, and right now I'm finding myself in the exact same spot, bankroll-wise, that I was before I started. In other words, I haven't made any money at all.

Hmm so what happened. When I first started playing 100NL, I didn't do very well at all. IMO, it's a lot harder than 50NL. At 50NL, people are a lot more predictable and won't really fight back unless they have something worth fighting with. Obviously there are exceptions and you'll find the occassional player who can play without cards, but those people are kinda rare at 50NL. At 100NL, I feel like a lot of people are a lot more aggressive and that they don't mind testing you. Also, there are actually "regulars" at 100NL. I saw a few of the same people at 50NL from time to time, but at 100NL, there are multiple people at multiple tables at any given time. It's annoying when you're trying to find a couple good tables to sit at and someone you know is a decent poster on FTR or 2p2 is sitting on like every table you bring up ...

After I'd played several hundred hands, I got a little more comfortable with the play and started to adapt a little better. One thing I had to adapt to was the fact that pots can get big really quickly. I didn't see that much reraising preflop at 50NL, but I see it a lot more at 100NL and it sure inflates the pots a lot PF. If someone squeezes PF and gets a call, the pot's already $40 before a continuation bet. If the reraiser decides to bet, now the pot's at least $70 ... I have a lot of trouble in spots like this. So much money has already gone into the pot, and I have trouble deciding when I can get away from a hand and when I can't once the pot gets really big.

After it went kinda badly at the start, I started making a bit of money. I haven't really gone through my money-making hands in any detail and maybe I should, but if I think about how I started making money at 100NL, it was probably more luck than anything. Not that I sucked out all the time (although I certainly remember doing so a couple times), but that I won a couple coin flips when the money went in on the flop, or I was lucky enough that an overly aggro player liked to push Q9s into say AKs or JJ preflop. If a few things had gone the other way, I'm sure I would have been up less or I would have been down even more at the start.

Anyway, things HAVE gone the other way since then, in a very bad way. I'm running pretty badly right now. I don't flop sets or when I do, they can't make money. I'm getting AA a lot, but it's somehow always folded around to me when I get it. My reraises with PPs are being called by 78s and losing to turned two pairs. My nut flushes are being one outered by straight flushes. The usual shit that everyone goes through.

BUT I'm not losing money just because I'm running badly. I know I'm certainly playing badly at the same time. I'm trying to figure out why and how though. I think that I'm playing differently than I did at 50NL and that I'm trying to over-compensate for the increased aggression at 100NL, if that makes any sense. I want to reraise people more, I want to make ill-advised squeezes, I want to raise people's continuation bets too often. I don't have experience with this and I'm trying to learn it all at the same time, and it's not a very good idea. Part of me thinks that I'm not going to make that much money playing the way I did at 50NL, and I think that this part of me is wrong. I don't really understand why I think that's the case and I should probably get rid of it.

I do think that some of the things I've been trying at 100NL have been good and are a good thing to add to my game. I like being more aggressive preflop and calling less so that I have a chance to control the pot size and the play post flop. I'd like to get my VPIP and PFR% stats a little more similar in number. A few nights ago Lukie ghosted me on a couple 100NL tables and he really encouraged me to stop calling and fold/raise more often. I do find that a lot more people at 100NL have stats that are closer to 25/20 rather than say 25/12, so it's something I'm working on.

I'm tempted to ramble on for longer, but I don't think I will. I'm just gonna end this by saying that I'm probably gonna drop back down to 50NL and work on some of the things I mentioned. It makes more sense to practice playing a certain way at a lower level, figure out what I'm doing, and then bring it back to 100NL. I dunno if this post even made sense, but thanks for reading.



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Hmm okay well i'm done exams finally, so I should update.

I didn't play much during exam period. I think I passed all my exams though!

I'm so busy right now. There's so little time before Christmas and I have soo much to do. I haven't bought any gifts yet. I'm doomed!

Most of all, I wish I had time to play poker.

I went to River Rock the other night and played 1/2 cash. I made $550 in three hours. I was happy.

This update sucks, maybe I won't post it. I just got back from a concert and I'm really really deaf right now. I'm also really tired ...

Hmm. On Saturday I'm playing a live $270 FO. I'm really excited about this because I really like live poker, especially tournaments. Someone called me about it and asked me if I wanted to be staked for it, and at first I wasn't gonna take it and was just gonna buy-in myself. Eventually I decided that a half stake would be okay. So he'll get 25% of anything I win. I'll be praying to Lee (the god of all poker, obviously).

My next job is to try to find a stake for the ladies event that's taking place around here at the end of February. The buyin is $400-ish.

I also won a seat for the Sunday Million, but I doubt I'll play it. I think I'm supposed to be visiting a set of parents on that day (my parents are divorced so I have two families to see at Christmas).

Well that's it. MERRY CHRISTMAS! I love you all.


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I guess people who decide to not get a job and pay for their rent with poker should learn the hand rankings first, right?

Maybe he had quad fours and it was a good fold!

Don't ask me why I folded because there's no reason. I just wasn't paying attention. So sad. And really bad.

PokerStars GAME #7431816074: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/12/13 - 21:23:23 (ET)
Table 'Leonisis' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: courtiebee ($131.35 in chips)
Seat 2: dSlickc ($29.25 in chips)
Seat 3: sippin_criss ($72 in chips)
Seat 4: serpann ($45.25 in chips)
Seat 6: skeeter441 ($29.20 in chips)
serpann: posts small blind $0.25
skeeter441: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [Ah Js]
courtiebee: raises $1.50 to $2
dSlickc: folds
sippin_criss: folds
serpann: folds
skeeter441: calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [4d Ac Kd]
skeeter441: checks
courtiebee: bets $3.50
skeeter441: calls $3.50
*** TURN *** [4d Ac Kd] [Ad]
skeeter441: checks
courtiebee: checks
*** RIVER *** [4d Ac Kd Ad] [4s]
skeeter441: bets $23.70 and is all-in
courtiebee: folds
skeeter441 collected $10.70 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $11.25 | Rake $0.55
Board [4d Ac Kd Ad 4s]
Seat 1: courtiebee folded on the River
Seat 2: dSlickc folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: sippin_criss (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: serpann (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: skeeter441 (big blind) collected ($10.70)


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I like keeping the FTR blogs alive and kicking, so just writing a post to let you know what I'm up to (as if you care, right).

What am I doing? Not much. Shortly after I wrote my last post, I played a few 6 max sessions and lost a lot of money. I figured it was only fair though because I had run really nicely for the first few hundred hands I played and it had to even out sometime Still, who likes losing money ...

Haven't really played since then because of school. We had a big snow storm in Vancouver this past Sunday/Monday (first time it's snowed in November here for like 20 years! ) and I had a final lab exam postponed to this Friday. Since I wasn't ready for that exam at all (I was probably gonna fail it), I figured I should use the extra time I've been given and have since been studying like mad.

I did play some poker on Monday night after a day of studying. I considered playing cash but then I decided not to because I just wanted to play for fun for a bit and relax for a while. I decided to play just one MTT, so I played the $5k on AP; my theory was that I would bust after one to two hours and then I could go back to studying. It didn't work according to plan, I had some really nice hands hold up, I sucked out at the final table, and ended up placing third. Actually really disappointed in third 'cause the money sucks so much more than first and second, but if I don't think of it that way, an extra $600 is kinda nice

Next week I have more final exams, so I won't really be playing anything relevent until the week after. It sucks because all I really wanna do is have some free time to play poker. Ohh well.

Good luck to those with finals.


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Okay I'm kind of playing poker again. I started playing because if I didn't play poker, I would have to be studying for finals, and as much as poker drives me crazy well ...

I opened an account at Hollywood Poker (at the suggestion of TerryToma ). After months and months of playing almost exclusively at Stars, it has not been a fun experience. I don't mind the interface now (took a bit of getting used to), but there are sooo many things to hate. Right now their site is "under maintenance", so I can't use PT with it because I can't import any HHs. I can't import HHs because I can't even GET HHs ... not being able to get HHs means not being able to look back at any hands, not being able to post any hands on the forums, not being able to figure out my stats. SO NASTY. I've already tried emailing support to get this problem solved, but it didn't work. So I've been playing there with no PT, no hud, no nothing. Kinda really sucks when you're used to playing with those two tools.

I tried to play $25NL FR when I first got there. Couldn't resize the tables and wasn't used to the interface, so I only played two tables. Didn't go very well, don't think I logged too many hands there. That's about when I stopped playing because I started to hate poker, and that was that. A day or two ago I went back to Hollywood (I have a Bonus to earn there) and decided to load up just one table and watch every single hand. Reads, what are those??? I figured it would be a good idea to sit here and watch every hand, learn the players, and get some reads. Did it at a shorthanded $50NL table and it went okay. I actually kind of enjoyed myself.

Last night I did the same thing on Stars, one table of $50NL, 6 max. Only played for two hours which gave me 133 hands. I ended up running pretty good in the fact that I flopped a couple sets and got paid off really nicely. 3 of the same people stayed at the table the entire time I was there, and the other two spots were revolving doors. Two of these three were complete morons and I didn't leave until they lost all their money ...

Within five minutes of being at the table, I had this hand occur:

PokerStars Game #7124261459: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/11/22 - 01:18:51 (ET)
Table 'Miranda V' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: courtiebee ($48.50 in chips)
Seat 2: malta67 ($155.65 in chips)
Seat 3: ArfaDaley ($19.10 in chips)
Seat 4: Jarulesmoky ($18.85 in chips)
Seat 5: jvrd ($40.80 in chips)
Seat 6: caddymix024 ($39.50 in chips)
jvrd: posts small blind $0.25
caddymix024: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [Kd Ac]
courtiebee: raises $1.50 to $2
malta67: calls $2
ArfaDaley: folds
Jarulesmoky: folds
jvrd: calls $1.75
caddymix024: folds
*** FLOP *** [Tc Kc 9s]
jvrd: checks
courtiebee: bets $6
malta67: calls $6
jvrd: folds
*** TURN *** [Tc Kc 9s] [6h]
courtiebee: bets $12
malta67: raises $135.65 to $147.65 and is all-in
courtiebee: calls $28.50 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Tc Kc 9s 6h] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
courtiebee: shows [Kd Ac] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
malta67: shows [Ks 9d] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
malta67 collected $96.50 from pot

Yeahhh. I don't need to hear about how bad that was, haha. I love being stacked with TPTK. A few hands later:

PokerStars Game #7124302387: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/11/22 - 01:23:06 (ET)
Table 'Miranda V' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: courtiebee ($49.25 in chips)
Seat 2: malta67 ($204.45 in chips)
Seat 3: ArfaDaley ($19.20 in chips)
Seat 4: Jarulesmoky ($22.40 in chips)
Seat 5: jvrd ($35.30 in chips)
Seat 6: caddymix024 ($38.25 in chips)
jvrd: posts small blind $0.25
caddymix024: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [Ac Qd]
courtiebee: raises $1.50 to $2
malta67: calls $2
ArfaDaley: folds
Jarulesmoky: folds
jvrd: folds
caddymix024: folds
*** FLOP *** [7d Ad Tc]
courtiebee: bets $3.50
malta67: calls $3.50
*** TURN *** [7d Ad Tc] [Jc]
courtiebee: bets $7
malta67: raises $191.95 to $198.95 and is all-in
courtiebee: folds
malta67 collected $24.50 from pot

What a bastard. Anyway, he turned out to be a pretty good player (IMO? ), and we didn't end up in anymore big pots together.

Here's the hand that made my night. Winning a 350bb pot is pretty damn cool, I gotta admit ... hadn't happened yet since I started playing cash, so it was an amazing feeling!

PokerStars Game #7124868902: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/11/22 - 02:31:51 (ET)
Table 'Miranda V' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: courtiebee ($71.40 in chips)
Seat 2: malta67 ($189 in chips)
Seat 3: coolmad ($57.25 in chips)
Seat 4: Jarulesmoky ($34.45 in chips)
Seat 5: jvrd ($97.05 in chips)
Seat 6: Tenven ($50 in chips)
malta67: posts small blind $0.25
coolmad: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [8d 8s]
Jarulesmoky: raises $1.50 to $2
jvrd: calls $2
Tenven: folds
courtiebee: calls $2
malta67: folds
coolmad: folds
*** FLOP *** [3d Kd 8h]
Jarulesmoky: bets $3
jvrd: raises $3 to $6
courtiebee: raises $6 to $12
Jarulesmoky: calls $9
jvrd: calls $6
*** TURN *** [3d Kd 8h] [As]
Jarulesmoky: bets $2
jvrd: raises $2 to $4
courtiebee: raises $16 to $20
Jarulesmoky: raises $0.45 to $20.45 and is all-in
jvrd: calls $16.45
courtiebee: calls $0.45
*** RIVER *** [3d Kd 8h As] [Jc]
jvrd: checks
courtiebee: bets $36.95 and is all-in
jvrd: calls $36.95
*** SHOW DOWN ***
courtiebee: shows [8d 8s] (three of a kind, Eights)
jvrd: mucks hand
courtiebee collected $73.90 from side pot
Jarulesmoky: mucks hand
courtiebee collected $101.10 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $178 Main pot $101.10. Side pot $73.90. | Rake $3
Board [3d Kd 8h As Jc]
Seat 1: courtiebee (button) showed [8d 8s] and won ($175) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 2: malta67 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: coolmad (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Jarulesmoky mucked [Ks 2s]
Seat 5: jvrd mucked [Ad 6d]
Seat 6: Tenven folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I should have looked at the stacks more closely and raised to $21 on the turn, was annoyed at myself for not doing that. If anyone has any other suggestions for this hand, I welcome them.

So anyway, I think I'll keep playing one table at $50NL until I become really comfortable, then I'll add a table. Playing just one table is boring, but I think it's good for me right now because I need to build some discipline and learn how to think like a cash player. Or maybe I'll play a sum of hands at $50NL and then move to $100NL and play one table there? And then add tables at $100NL? Is it better to learn how to play a lot of tables at smaller stakes before moving up, or is it better to move up first? I've never really known the answer to this.

Just an update. Thanks for reading, leave a comment


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I haven't been playing poker. I don't wanna play poker. Poker isn't fun for me right now. My attitude is a piece of shit and i'm reacting badly to everything and I would rather do other stuff.

dthorne04 (remember him? ) yelled at me last night and essentially told me that I'm being an idiot, wasting time, and wasting potential. He's right, I suck I need to stop being a baby and start playing again.

Not sure how I got so emotionally screwed over these past couple of weeks playing this game, but I'm really annoyed that I did. Time for take two, I'll be better this time.


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Well I hate poker.

Time to take a break.

Okay well here’s a better post, the last one was crap.

I’ve played 4.3k hands of $25NL FR at Stars so far. If you’re interested in numbers (that aren’t important after such a small sample size, but people like them anyway), my VPIP is 20.02 and my PFR% is 9.58. My BB/100 is a 5.25 so far, for an hourly rate of $5.87 (over 19.15 hours).

These past 20 hours have taught me an amazing amount. I’ve learned something after every session I’ve played, and each time I play again, I’m a better player. I haven’t made much money, but I didn’t expect to the first week. It’s nice to be able to look back to hands I played even just two days ago and be like, “Wow I played that so badly … this is how I should have played it” when two days ago, I had no idea how it should have been played.

I plan to play another 20 or so hours of $25NL and then take a look at my numbers again. I’m obviously still making a million mistakes whenever I play, and I’d much rather be making the really bad ones at $25NL rather than $50NL. I hope that I can move up to $50NL by next week though. I will do so when my numbers after 10 to 15k hands are okay.

I need to leave PokerStars and go to a site that gives Rakeback. Just reluctant to leave the Stars interface, I’ve become very fond of it

I really miss playing MTTs and still am kinda sad that I don’t go straight to the tourneys tab whenever I load up Stars. I don’t hate cash though, I am actually starting to like it a lot. Learning something new and not making any money isn’t exactly fun, but it’s a good challenge and it’s satisfying when I learn something that I can put to good use.


3 hands I just felt like posting:


A really bad hand I had a couple days ago, never gonna make this mistake ever again with KQ!

PokerStars Game #6946197690: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2006/11/08 - 19:26:30 (ET)
Table 'Eugenia IV' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Armd Poker ($32 in chips)
Seat 2: courtiebee ($25.90 in chips)
Seat 3: mikee57 ($17.60 in chips)
Seat 5: Shyzster ($13.75 in chips)
Seat 8: vispila ($68.80 in chips)
Seat 9: DHebert ($25.05 in chips)
courtiebee: posts small blind $0.10
mikee57: posts big blind $0.25
hanhu: sits out
vermine: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [Qh Ks]
Shyzster: folds
vispila: folds
DHebert: folds
Armd Poker: raises $0.50 to $0.75
courtiebee: calls $0.65
mikee57: folds
*** FLOP *** [6h 7c Kc]
courtiebee: checks
Armd Poker: bets $1
courtiebee: raises $2.50 to $3.50
Armd Poker: calls $2.50
*** TURN *** [6h 7c Kc] [3h]
courtiebee: checks
Armd Poker: checks
*** RIVER *** [6h 7c Kc 3h] [7s]
courtiebee: checks
Armd Poker: bets $5.50
courtiebee: calls $5.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Armd Poker: shows [Kd Ac] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
courtiebee: mucks hand


Here’s a nice hand for me. I opted to min raise the turn because I figured it still made the pot big enough for the river and I was 99% sure he had an ace. Maybe good maybe bad?

PokerStars Game #6949877894: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2006/11/08 - 23:45:23 (ET)
Table 'Kalchas V' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: dtheil ($25.90 in chips)
Seat 3: Lucille48 ($24.65 in chips)
Seat 4: vermine ($23.90 in chips)
Seat 5: coop488 ($6.70 in chips)
Seat 6: chisoxfan51 ($10.90 in chips)
Seat 8: courtiebee ($24.40 in chips)
Seat 9: El León ($25.70 in chips)
BobbyButton will be allowed to play after the button
dtheil: posts small blind $0.10
Lucille48: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [8s 8h]
vermine: calls $0.25
coop488: folds
chisoxfan51: folds
courtiebee: raises $1 to $1.25
El León: calls $1.25
dtheil: folds
Lucille48: folds
vermine: folds
*** FLOP *** [6h 6s 8c]
courtiebee: bets $2
El León: calls $2
*** TURN *** [6h 6s 8c] [Ah]
courtiebee: checks
El León: bets $6
courtiebee: raises $6 to $12
El León: raises $10.45 to $22.45 and is all-in
courtiebee: calls $9.15 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [6h 6s 8c Ah] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
courtiebee: shows [8s 8h] (a full house, Eights full of Sixes)
El León: mucks hand
courtiebee collected $46.95 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $49.40 | Rake $2.45
Board [6h 6s 8c Ah 5s]
Seat 2: dtheil (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Lucille48 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: vermine folded before Flop
Seat 5: coop488 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: chisoxfan51 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: courtiebee showed [8s 8h] and won ($46.95) with a full house, Eights full of Sixes
Seat 9: El León (button) mucked [Qs Ac]


This hand made me VERY unhappy with myself for a good half hour. Played every street after the flop wrong, especially the turn. The turn couldn’t have been any worse. For some reason I didn’t look at the stacks at all before I raised, didn’t even realize that the shorty would have only 30 cents behind. The other day Lukie told me that I should be raising the turn enough so that I can easily push the river … yeah didn’t do that.

I learned a lot from this hand though. And I still made a couple bucks, so it could have been worse

PokerStars Game #6962960726: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2006/11/10 - 00:29:50 (ET)
Table 'Massalia' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: courtiebee ($22.75 in chips)
Seat 2: hymenstealr2 ($8.30 in chips)
Seat 3: brian729 ($14.40 in chips)
Seat 4: skwest5 ($24 in chips)
Seat 5: _island_geo ($37.60 in chips)
Seat 7: skipcun ($33.95 in chips)
Seat 8: abydos ($14.65 in chips)
Seat 9: unknown784 ($4.75 in chips)
unknown784: posts small blind $0.10
courtiebee: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [Ks 8s]
rttyke01 leaves the table
hymenstealr2: calls $0.25
brian729: folds
skwest5: calls $0.25
_island_geo: folds
skipcun: raises $0.25 to $0.50
abydos: calls $0.50
unknown784: calls $0.40
courtiebee: calls $0.25
hymenstealr2: calls $0.25
skwest5: calls $0.25
*** FLOP *** [7s 2s As]
unknown784: bets $0.25
courtiebee: calls $0.25
hymenstealr2: raises $0.75 to $1
skwest5: folds
skipcun: raises $1 to $2
abydos: folds
unknown784: folds
courtiebee: calls $1.75
hymenstealr2: calls $1
*** TURN *** [7s 2s As] [2h]
courtiebee: checks
hymenstealr2: bets $2.25
skipcun: calls $2.25
courtiebee: raises $3.25 to $5.50
hymenstealr2: raises $0.30 to $5.80 and is all-in
skipcun: calls $3.55
courtiebee: calls $0.30
*** RIVER *** [7s 2s As 2h] [Tc]
courtiebee: bets $14.45 and is all-in
skipcun: folds
*** SHOW DOWN ***
courtiebee: shows [Ks 8s] (a flush, Ace high)
hymenstealr2: mucks hand
courtiebee collected $25.35 from pot


Anyway, thanks to the people who have offered comments in the HHs forum and who have given me advice. This would be way harder without such great people to help me out. I’ll be playing a lot this weekend, I hope it goes okay. I’ll update again soon, thanks for reading.


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I'm tired.

Spent the last week or so finishing off midterms and other school crap.

I ditched tourneys and started playing cash ($25NL on Stars until I figure something out) sometime this past weekend. I've played about 15 hours and 3k hands, mostly four tabling. It hasn't gone particularly great. Have had some really good hands and some really terrible hands. Not really gonna look into it much until I have 10k hands, then maybe I'll take a look and ask for some opinions on stats.

I don't want to be playing $25NL a week from now, assuming I can play around 30 hours before then. If I still suck a week from now, the latest I move up had better be two weeks from now.

So many hands to post, too tired to do it now, sleepy time for me.


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A lot of people, when they first start playing poker, wonder what it'd be like to play for a living. They think, damn, if I could get good at this, I could make tons of money ... how sweet would that be? Seeing as most people don't make money playing this game, though, they're usually just fleeting thoughts. Same goes for the people who run hot when they first start too ... they experience the "newbie circle of death" (see beginner's forum and the stickies) where they make money in a short period of time, feel invincible, dream of winning the WSOP and then go on to go busto.

When I first started playing poker around 1.5 years ago, I remember wondering if I'd ever be good. And while I never had dreams of going pro, I definitely thought it'd be cool if poker could one day be supplementary income. Making money playing a game I love? Dunno how I could ask for more. I think it's funny how people think about and wonder these things so early into their poker "careers" though. I mean, why would you even think these things while playing $5.50 SnGs? I guess that's just human nature.

I never wanted to go pro though. I always thought to myself, even if became a really good player and had the ability to play online for a living, I wouldn't do it. I'm definitely a people person, and I know I want to make my living talking to (and manipulating, mwahaha) people, probably in business. Playing poker at home for a living wouldn't make me happy, so it's never been anything I've fantasized about.

So anyway, I'm at a funny point in my life. I'm in my fourth year of university just plugging along, getting my useless Science degree. I have no big plans for my future, just planning on going where things take me for now. Some of you probably know that I ran a student painting business last summer, where I was supposed to make a million dollars or so. It didn't happen (obv), I'm definitely not rolling in the cash. I'll be running my business again this coming summer, but I won't see income from that until around May. I briefly mentioned in my last blog entry that I went through my financial situation and estimate that from now until May, I'm around $4k short for my living expenses. That means I need to get a job and make around $700 per month from now until April or May so that I can pay for my rent. No biggie right? The problem is that I really ... REALLY don't want to get a job. After working for myself the entire past summer and not having to answer to someone, the thought of working for someone and having a fixed schedule makes me want to shoot someone. So ...

It took a week of thinking about it and consulting people, but I've decided to take a shot at playing poker to pay for my living expenses for the next half year. So even though it's on a smaller scale, I'm doing something I never thought I'd do, and that's playing poker for a living. I have money saved up, I'm not trying to make $3k a month. I need $800 though, so there we go.

At first I thought I'd try to do it playing SnGs because tournament poker is what I have become decent at. I have a $4k bankroll, and I figured I could multi $33 SnGs on Stars with hopefully a 12-15% ROI and make $10-$13/hour. Doing that, I would only have to work around 20-25 hours per week. I talked to some people, though, and the consensus was that I needed to do this playing cash games. Multitabling even $25NL would probably give me the same rate of return. So it's bye bye tourney poker, hello cash games for me ...

I've spent limited free time in the last couple of days reading a few NL ring strat guides and learning the main differences between cash and tournaments. I've always had a general idea and I know the concepts, so now it's just about learning some nitty gritty stuff and then playing some hands. I know that the only way to REALLY learn is to play the game, so it's what I am going to do. I'm hoping it doesn't take an overly long time to get out of a purely tournament mindset and into a cash game mindset, but we'll see. I know how to play poker, I should be able to adjust in a decent amount of time.

One thing I am very worried about is the fact that playing 20+ hours of poker a week is new to me. I did it a couple weeks in October, but generally speaking, I haven't had a chance to do so. So that is another thing I will certainly have to adjust to, and I'm hoping I can handle it. My goal is to play 25 hours a week, mostly between 5 and 10 PST. As of now, I plan to play Sunday/Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday.

I have many questions still. The biggest is that I still need to figure out where to play. I'm also curious to know when the most optimal times in the day are to play. I'm going to start out with $25NL until I get my tourney kinks out and kill the fish there. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks to those who have already been amazingly helpful with your advice already.

Another big question is moving up and when I should do so. I'll be posting about that somewhere in the forums in the near future when the problem arises. The thing is that it won't depend on bankroll for a long time seeing as I'll be playing ridiculously overrolled to start off, so I need to think of a different criteria for moving up.

I'll be updating this blog on a regular basis on my progress. It will be interesting, that's for sure, it's something I'd never thought I'd do. I'm not going to lie, I'm extremely nervous about it. I'm confident enough in my ability to play the game and keep a level head, though, so I should be fine ... Also important is the fact that I have the support of many people who will catch me if I should somehow fall.

I will be starting up with this probably this coming Sunday. Before I start playing, I want to read a lot more and maybe talk to a few more people. Like I said, though, I appreciate feedback and comments. And if you're someone who's ever considered doing something like this, my progress might be interesting to you.

Thanks for reading this, sorry it was so long.


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Okay so I have to win big very soon so that I don't have to get a job and so that I can pay for my rent.

Ready, set, go!

Right well this mentality usually causes people to go busto and have to work anyway. I remember having dinner with bmx and him asking me, "Are you going to spend your bankroll? Because if you are, you should just decide now. Some people decide to not get jobs and try to make money with their bankrolls. Then they end up spending their bankroll (losing at poker) and end up having to get a job anyway." Hahaha. The logic is, if I spend my bankroll, I don't have to get a job because the money in my roll can tide me over until when I see income again in April. But then I can't play poker! Oh the decisions.

So yeah, obv the solution is to make $4k at poker now, use that to pay my rent until the spring, and then I can keep playing poker with the $4k I have already!

If that doesn't work, I'll spend my bankroll and try to find a staker. ANYONE?

Ahh yeah I'm obviously just kidding (sort of kind of not really well ...) I really don't want to work. It's better than starving though ... Oh well. I suppose working another couple months as a waitress isn't THAT degrading ...


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People kept telling me to take breaks during my bad run. I didn't listen. I continued to run bad. I still don't particularly think a break would have helped, but that's impossible to say now.

I haven't played in a few days because my personal life is a disaster right now and I just can't. Instead, I've been looking for each and every possible way to not be home at nights. So poker is on hold. I hope to feel okay in a week and get back to it. I didn't want to take a break because I had been playing well and going deep in a lot of the tournaments I played. I dropped down to some lower stakes MTTs near the end. The last two I played were two $22 180s that I played simultaneously. I went out 16th in one of them and 9th in the other. I hate that I haven't won one of those yet because they're sooo ridiculous ... just a matter of time. Gotta keep playing.

I've been really bad at multitabling tournaments in the past, so I figure that playing 180s is a good and cheap way to practice it. I can do two fairly easily now (which I wasn't able to do at all before), so I will stick with that for a while and hopefully add a third when I think I'm good enough to do so. Some advice I found really helpful was from JeffreyGB. He suggested that if you are trying to learn to two table, you should have one tourney that you focus on, and one that you play when nothing is going on at the focus table. So I'll have two tourneys up, and while I'm not playing a hand, I'll get reads and take notes at the focus table. Only when I don't have anything at all going on at the focus table will I do that for the second table. Obviously I play my good cards on the second table, but that's pretty much it. I found that advice really helpful, and I've found that now I can get reads at both tables even though I still consider one of my tables the "focus" table. I guess your brain just learns to adapt when you do something like that more than once.

If anyone who reads this has any multitabling advice, feel free to leave a comment or post in my thread. I definitely really like hearing from people. Thanks to the people who contact me via PM too, everything's appreciated muchly.

Anyway, I've also been highly considering moving over to cash games, at least for a short period of time. I might put some money into FTP. Just a thought for now, will decide what to do once I get back to playing.

Ah well, that's it for now. Just thought I should update. When personal life stops kicking my ass, I'll be playing more and hopefully winning back that huge chunk of bankroll I lost a while ago.


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So for the first time ever since I started playing poker, I'm going through REALLY bad variance. This obviously isn't helped by the fact I've gone from playing SnGs to almost exclusively MTTs these days.

I figured I should take advantage of this last week before Bush signs the bill, so I've been playing a lot of poker (compared to how much I usually play) the past few days. Not good. I am getting fucked over in every direction possible. I am getting runner runnered and 2 or 3 outered to no tomorrow. Every single tournament.

I'm not writing this post to moan about my bad beats but rather to think about how this is affecting my game as well as my mental ... health, for lack of better terms. I can't really deny the fact that busting repeatedly from two outers definitely affects my moods, and it's to be expected I suppose. How much should it affect me though? A good poker player probably shouldn't be affected at all ...

Interested in how I should recognize that poker is negatively affecting me in a general way. People always say to take breaks because they're good for you and will prevent you from tilting. How do you know when you really need to take a break? I'm so reluctant to do so because even though I've been running so horribly, I really do think I've been playing fairly well. I don't think it's changed my game that much, if at all. And so if I were to take a break, it would be because it's negatively affecting my life in another way.

One thing that is kind of bothering me is the fact that my bankroll has dropped almost 15% since it reached its peak of around $4300. I will be fine because I'm generally really good with managing my roll, it's just hard to see it drop so much in such a short period of time. I've been playing mostly $33 and $22 FOs along with 3Rs, 5Rs, and the occasional half staked 10R (thanks, kava) without any significant cashes. I've had quite a few small ITM cashes, but I can't get hands to hold up long enough to get me to a FT. If my roll drops drastically anymore in the near future, I'm gonna have to play some SnGs to increase it, just for the sake of my mental being.

I understand this is just the MTT life. I am trying to adjust (and figure out if I can even stand it, lol ... maybe it's time for some cash games ...).

Okay this is just pointless rambling, I don't even wanna post it. I wrote it though, so I guess I will


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FT of a $55 90 man.

PokerStars Game #6531587973: Tournament #33132141, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2006/10/05 - 19:11:25 (ET)
Table '33132141 3' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: butch_dk (14870 in chips)
Seat 3: wayell (11285 in chips)
Seat 4: Monst@rs (7930 in chips)
Seat 5: helst66 (11544 in chips)
Seat 6: DocDR (5380 in chips)
Seat 7: camron4ever (27241 in chips)
Seat 8: courtiebee (20830 in chips)
Seat 9: BOKPOWER (35920 in chips)
butch_dk: posts the ante 50
wayell: posts the ante 50
Monst@rs: posts the ante 50
helst66: posts the ante 50
DocDR: posts the ante 50
camron4ever: posts the ante 50
courtiebee: posts the ante 50
BOKPOWER: posts the ante 50
courtiebee: posts small blind 400
BOKPOWER: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to courtiebee [7h 8s]
butch_dk: folds
wayell: folds
Monst@rs: folds
helst66: folds
DocDR: folds
camron4ever: folds
courtiebee: calls 400
BOKPOWER: checks
*** FLOP *** [Td 9c 8c]
courtiebee: bets 1100
BOKPOWER: raises 2900 to 4000
courtiebee: calls 2900
*** TURN *** [Td 9c 8c] [7s]
courtiebee: checks
BOKPOWER: bets 31070 and is all-in
courtiebee: calls 15980 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Td 9c 8c 7s] [Ah]
courtiebee said, "nh gg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
courtiebee: shows [7h 8s] (two pair, Eights and Sevens)
BOKPOWER: shows [Jc Th] (a straight, Seven to Jack)

Really mad at myself. There was no way I should have called off my entire stack on that hand. FWIW, the flop call was read-based (I played with the guy for a lot of hands before the FT). But yeah, I should have bet the turn and folded to any resistance. I would have had a good stack still.

The hardest thing to master in poker is discipline. No, it's not knowing what to raise preflop, it's not knowing how to calculate odds or learning how to use your position to win chips. It's being able to take your knowledge of the game and being able to apply it when you're playing. I know how to play poker. I have learned how to play and I know what to theoretically do in a lot of different spots. But I still fuck up in spots like this. I still lose it sometimes. It's what makes me so mediocre.

I just don't get it. ANY other time it's the most clear and obvious fold ever. Why does so much change when I am in the heat of playing? Why can't I control my emotions and disonnect myself and see things clearly?

So much to learn. So much to practice. I know this. Just so frustrating to screw yourself after you're in such a nice position at a FT. It's definitely worse than being kicked out of a tournament any other way. On the bright side, it was the FT of a 90 man and not something else :-P

Okay I'm done, had to write this to avoid drowning myself in the shower. Have a nice day.


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This is directly quoted from another forum:


Alabama Republican congressman Spencer Bachus was on CNN and had this to say about the new law:

"There have been studies by Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, McGill University in Canada, American Psychiatric Association -- all of these say the younger someone starts gambling, the more likelihood that they become a compulsive gambler. Addicted to gambling, just like addicted to drugs. So there is a correlation between drug dealers and gambling sites."


Someone fucking send a dictionary and a book on how to speak English to this retard. Yes, there is a CORRELATION between the two, idiot. That's EXACTLY how you use the word correlation. I'm glad you went on CNN and told the world this truth because lord knows we all needed to know how you fuckers are saving us.

If anyone wants to watch the video (I just did to confirm that this is, indeed, a direct quote), here: http://www.cnn.com/ ... should be a menu on the right hand side that will take you there.

That pissed me off so much.


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Really upset over this shit that's happening. It came out of nowhere. In a matter of 3 days, online poker has changed dramatically ... without warning ...

So disappointed. I really feel like I had started to become decent at the game too. I felt like I had reached a point where if I just went a BIT further, I had a chance to make some decent money. Nothing spectacular, just something more than I thought I'd ever be able to accomplish playing this game.

But now the chance is kinda gone. Yeah I'm Canadian and I'll be able to play. But who is there to play against?

Really fucking pissed off. Wanted to cry and scream all day the past few days. Spent all last night reading articles and forums about the bill instead of the studying for the midterm I barely passed today. I've got my priorities straight

Damn, I sacrificed my grades for online poker last night. Good thing the USA is fucking banning online poker. Maybe I'll get straight As now.

Upset for my friends in the States as well, in particular one who had his entire life turned upside down because of this ridiculous occurance. Really fucking sucks.

Anyway, that's all. Didn't even really mean to write what I wrote, just came out. I DID come here to say that I didn't play those double shootouts, though Stars got rid of them and replaced them with triple shootouts that allowed you to satellite directly into the tournament. So shitty because hell, I can't win two in a row, nevermind three SnGs.


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I'm gonna satellite into the 100 seat guaranteed satellite tomorrow by playing those fishy turbo 6 max double shootouts. Then I'm gonna win a seat to the main event and sell it. Yay $2k. I need money right now.

I'm gonna do it dammit.

The shootouts are annoying as hell. It's really easy to win the first one but it's hard to win twice in a row (usually better players in the second one, makes sense haha). They're both easy because the players are sooo bad, but bad players can mean higher variance ... plus it's just hard to win two tourneys in a row.

I'll keep track of how many it takes to get a seat into the Saturday tournament. So far I've played 3. Top five get $20, so I'm up $7 so far ... hahaha.


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fuckity fuck

this is why i have a blog

Not much to say since last time, just wanted to change the "poker is stupid" highlight in my signature

Mexico was fucking amazing. So much sun. So much lounging, tanning, and drinking. So much drama and chaos, it was great. I was actually still partially sick for all of the trip, but lying around doing nothing for a week was good for me. Yuppp ...

School def suffered. So screwed for the next month probably ...

Played two 1 table $55 SnGs and one 2 table SnG. Got pissed off that I only came second in the first 1 table, proceeded to bust the next one I played, and then was very happy when I won the 2 table. I love 2 table SnGs, first time I'd play one at the $55 buyin. I wish they filled more often ... it's rare to see them ever full I definitely liked the $305 profit though, soooo nice for a 1.75 hour SnG.

In case anyone is wondering what I did with my MTT and Steelers money, I decided to top my bankroll up to $4k and just throw the rest into my bank account to pay rent. So right now my roll is at around $4.3k.

I am waiting to cash big in an online MTT. They frustrated me to no end the week before I went to Mexico, I wanted to shoot someone. I went deep in a $33 FO that week and screwed myself over with a bad push that I'm still really sad about. I was in the process of analyzing that entire HH while I was out of town, I will have to finish up with that.

Wednesday is the North American FTR SnG experiment. It will be very interesting, I am looking forward to it. If you're curious, click the link: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-43101.htm

Ummm what else. I'm hungry. And sleepy. Lots of work tomorrow Bye!


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P.S. Thank you to those who commented in my last entry