I remember when I played poker...

Just have not had a lot of time to play as of late, especially online. Which is really pissing me off as because of the time I have to think about playing, I feel my game is really coming along. I think patience is the biggest part of it.

I did play live last weekend and was happy with my place. 2 WPL tournies and did not money in either one, but did play well. 2 killer hands took me out.

First hand AK sooted, I make is 50 early. Blinds are VERY small. Anyhow, Ethan makes it 200 to go, and Joey calls. I feel they are not on monsters, so I MIGHT be able to steal, or might hit. So I make it 1000 more. Ethan goes into the tank...then calls. Joey insta calls with a much shorter stack.

Flop comes down A J 5. Soots do not matter. As I see the A turn over I instantly say ALL IN before I even see the other 2 cards, trying to get them a litte off their game. Ethan insta calls, and so does Joey!! LOL. Oh no.

Of course Ethan has JJ, and Joey has 55. So they each flop sets to my AA. To rub it in, the turn is another A. Their boats to my set, and I can not even hope the board pairs. (Gives one of them quads). River is a blank, and I am out. Replay the hand every which way (Just flat call the 200 preflop instead of raising) and Joey goes all in on the flop no matter what (shorter stack) and Ethan and I end up all in too anyhow. So it played itself.

Second tourny of the night, and we are half way through it. I have slightly more than starting stack. Get a free walk with Q 6 off. Flop comes down 2 3 5. Min bets and I call with my gut shot and overs. Before the turn comes down for kicks I call "Four!!" and it comes. lol. So I hit my gutshut on a mixed board. I push all in crazy like trying to look a little weak, and it was getting late. Up against 2 guys. The first guy...nice fold, looks at his set of fours..and folds. Wow. Nice. But the chip leader is looking at me, so I put on a show. I put out every weak tell I could. Even go so far as to knock over my chips. Then he finally calls and I instantly show him my 6 knowing I am HUGE. He flips over A 7. Small straight....and a gutshot to...thats right. 6 on the river, gives him a straight to the 7 to mine to the 6.

A 2 outter!! But i have never been happier as I GOT the call that I was no way thinking I was getting. Oh well. Thats poker.

Not a lot to update...

Played a little this week online, but I think I am like + or - 10 dollars total, and I can not really remember a memorable hand, so nothing there. Certainly not playing as much as I would like but there has just been too much going on with both my recovery and Nancy having her surgery yesterday.

Playing 3 tables right now and was down 40 in 10 minutes, and flat 5 minutes later. Lol. Thats poker.

And going to Ethans tonight for some more live action. Hope to do well there.

And I will update that chart at the bottom of the blog as soon as I get all my money back into the account. Damn Click2Pay will only allow you 410 a week.

Bah

Tale of 2 worlds right now...

Wow. Seems like I am living in Bizzaro world. The reason I say that is that right now my Live game has been VERY good, and my online game has been very bad (unlucky?). I dont know. All I know is that I can not win a cent online right now, but in person I can not lose.

Followed my tourny 4th at Barca with a nice cash session at Barca. Ok, after 4 hours there I left like 60 down. 1 - That is a huge improvement (lol) and 2, I was able to trust my reads, and get away from some VERY dangerous hands against what turned out to be monster hands like 3 times. So very happy.

And then today I went to my first WPL game in a while. Was card dead early, but did not donk off too many chips. Then caught a few cards, ramped up the aggression, got heads up against Jeff (whose game I respect every time I see him, and who also went card dead at the wrong time) and won. So still feeling pretty good about my life game. Not looking at cards till my play, and really watching for any semblance of tells, and trusting my reads.

So just gotta fix the live game. I am bearing the downward swing OK, but I do feel I am much better than I am getting right now. Damn Skalansky dollars do not pay the bills.

Win some and lose some...

Well overall I have to say that not looking at results I am REALLY happy with my poker right now. I say that because I can honestly say I am not sure when the last time that I got my money in bad was. A slight favorite at worst and like a ton of 82-18s. Online cash though... I am losing too many of them.

Oh well, we all run bad. I just have to have the discipline to RIDE it out and step down in limits. And I have. I hope that things improve.

Live things are going ok as well. Went down to the Barca Club for the first time since they brought the tournies back, and finished 4th out of 49. Cash was top 6 (7 after some weird deal) and so not bad. Actually very happy with the play considering I did not really get a lot of live hands. A lot of very directed post flop aggression on my part gave me the chips to get me to the final table.

So all in all I am happy, and just gotta be willing (and financed) to ride out the bad runs. But that is poker. (I hope!!)

Oh yeah....that's poker

So I am playing a little short handed tonight with Felter. Not a game that I am comfortable with, and only because I always seem to take it up the hoop, and so probably never really comfortable with the up and down swings. I don't feel the beats are any worse there, it is just that short handed you are going to be involved more, so they are going to come more often. And I just don't think that I am comfortable with that at the limits I want to play at. (No wonder Felter goes bust...but that is another story for another time).

So yeah. Hand is there is me and a guy who has been trying to bully the table.

One flop I have top pair good kicker, and he bets a little to big so I call.

Turn in a blank, and so he moves all in. I replay the hand over and over, and feel that I am winning. I call.

The river did complete his straight, and so whatever he wins. But oddly I FINALLY felt better about the call, then about losing the hand. I was right. So he got my money this time...good for him. I am going to trust my reads, I did, and I won some nice skalansky dollars there. Even if the real ones were gone.

I'm back

Wow. I am back from a semi-unplanned retirement. Here is what happened. Went to Cuba, came back...Neteller kicked out Canada Players. Took out my money. Put some back in...had an account issue with Ongame where-as I was unable to re-deposit much money at once. Created a new account. (Grinding Up). Got sick. Hosptial. Surgery. 2 weeks of long recovery. And here. I am back. Today. Starting my career again.

So what do I have. Well in that time I won $22 tourny online with the Peg City hustling guys. Fun tourny with a TON OF CHOPS on my part. Should I have won?? Prob not. Did I?? Yep??

And of course I got to take Fetler Out. Always feels good there.

My bank roll will be a little lower. About $1600 or so I would think as I had to spend some of the money while off sick.

But anyways. Lets got back to the game so I can find all my soul baring flaws and point them out here.

Thank and it is hard to type with the body racked from coming off of all the damn pain killers.. (lol)


See ya at the felt!!