So I got the money moved

So there we go. As of tonight I have all my active money at Full Tilt. (Well, almost). I have $797.50 there, and $280 in Big Felter. But lets just say that honestly I am not too sure of when I might get that back...so I am leaving it out of the bank roll right now (I mean I could not play with it, so I guess I should not count it).

So there we go. I am all ready to start. I played around last night and was able to double up one table quite quickly. But I did figure out another hole in my game. When I am ready to shut things down for the night I have to be quicker in closing the tables. I say that because I suddenly turn into an action/bluff junkie as I try to squeeze out the last of the money from the tables. I must have given back almost 60 percent of my winnings last night in the last 5 minutes, and I know I have done that before. It is one thing to take a bad beat as things are winding down, it is another to just give it away.

Actually making the change right now

I was thinking. What is the point to having my bank roll (a good chunk of it) sitting at a sight like Hollywood Poker that had so few things going for it. Mainly the lack of player and the inability to have player to player transfers were the 2 biggest ones. So I just went and sucked the last of my money out of there and I am going to move it to Full Tilt where the other part of my bank roll is.

This will be much better when it comes to wanting to move money back and forth to Poker stars and I can just use other players to move the money.

I also feel this is my last "push" to try and prove to myself that I can actually play this game. I am not even sure anymore if I can or not, but I figure it is time to find out. I know the fundamentals but I think there are soo many other players out there that do as well that I must admit I have little or no edge to them. Especially when I look at other players who are doing well and the plays they make that I am just no where near there yet. But I am going to try.

So later I will update and restart the bank roll tracker at the bottom of the page so that I can really make a run. I guess I should also go after Felter at some point to get the 250 that is midding from there that I leant him. Does not look like that is ever going to come back from poker anyhow.

So here comes the fresh start. I hope to be able to grind out a profit at the full ring .25 cent games for a while and gradually work my way back up to the .50-$1 games that were profitable for me. And I figure the best place to do that is where there are a lot of player. When I can not even find 3 full tables at Hollywood I gotta start asking myself really who am I playing against. And how many of them might be fish.

So here goes.......

Well that sucked

Wow. Just finishing up here but did I ever play some impotent poker, especially in the cash games. In the sit-goes did not do well either, but that at least had some bad luck (Lost a couple of kicker races).

What pisses me off though is that way I was playing in the cash games, especially when I wanted to go in patient. What i was doing was playing the second tier of hands (ok) but playing them BAD. I am talking about suited connectors and the K-10s of the world. I was limping late a couple of times, and that let junk hit paired boards and take hands away from me.

In addition I think all my continuation bets were called when I did not have position, so I think there is something there.

Anyhow, so finished this down something close to a full buyin over the 2 tables, but 11 dollars in sitngos. So not a great night. Also am thinking that there we soo few players on that it may be time to move on to another site with more fish. If I get anywhere near $400 I am going to do the big move.

Later

Ok. Here we go

Played a little bit this afternoon, and not much happened (Down a couple of dollars) Lets try a couple of cash tables (.25) with a $5 sitngo going for an hour or so.

I believe this was a good fold....

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, P4-56105748-627
played at "Boston" for USD RM from 2007-12-16 15:49 until 2007-12-16 15:50
Seat 1: x gigi1952 ($10.80 in chips)
Seat 2: ilovetft ($8.30 in chips)
Seat 3: stonemann1 ($18.80 in chips)
Seat 4: soundb0y ($5 in chips)
Seat 5: fiskehans ($23.10 in chips)
Seat 6: J_a_c_e_k ($24.75 in chips)
Seat 7: sascha.s ($25 in chips)
Seat 8: zarbel ($21.75 in chips)
Seat 9: Grinding Up ($24.60 in chips)
Seat 10: roma93 ($21.45 in chips)

ANTES/BLINDS
roma93 posts blind ($0.15), x gigi1952 posts blind ($0.25), soundb0y posts blind ($0.25).

PRE-FLOP
ilovetft folds, stonemann1 folds, soundb0y checks, fiskehans bets $1, J_a_c_e_k folds, sascha.s folds, zarbel folds, Grinding Up bets $1.75, roma93 folds, x gigi1952 folds, soundb0y folds, fiskehans calls $0.75.
FLOP [board cards: 3H,5D,QH ]fiskehans bets $4, Grinding Up bets $8, fiskehans calls $4.
TURN [board cards: 3H,5D,QH,JS ]fiskehans bets $4, Grinding Up folds.
RIVER [board cards: 3H,5D,QH,JS ]fiskehans wins $23.15.

Finished some staking challenges

So I have been concentrating a lot on Groovy-T's staking challenges, and used them to work on my game. What Trav was doing was giving us first 10, and then 20 dollars and asking us to do what we could over the next month.

I was happy as I was able to more than double my stake the last time with some good disciplined play. I am hoping that the patience I had to exhibit will come to fruition as I go back to Full Tilt and Hollywood. Although I do have to say that the idea of moving my money over to Stars does not hurt as they were SOOO many games there. But I do want to see if at least ONCE at could get the free money from Rake the Rake. We shall see.

Anyhow, hope to have some more things to post here