Sorry for the last post

Honestly forgot about it. (Although I am sure if I had won I would have remembered). It was a bounty tourny, and I did take out a celeb, so I now have $25 at HP again. LOL. But I went out when I ended up flopping open ended and four flushed and missed. Just could not get away from that juicy of a draw.

Time for a Tourny attempt

Logged into Hollywood poker because I knew I had a few poker points left there. So exchanged most of them to try Canada Hollywood Poker Night tonight. 114 people entered and it just started.....

I am ok...but just not that good.

As I sit here I think I have reached one of my goals...I think that long term I am a profitable poker player!! Wish that means that I would be rich someday, but baring some unlikely score in a tourny that will never happen.

I make this outlandish statement as I think I have proven to myself that I am capable of managing my bank roll (a definite strength of mine) but I am just not that good at opening up my game.
I mean I can play the 10 best hands with the best of them.
I am understanding position
I have standardized my bets and can hide some hand strength
And I have developed some aggression.

And I know...all great things....so where is the problem??


I HAVE NO BALLS WHEN IT COMES TO STARTING HANDS.

And I know this is what is the biggest road block in my ever having a huge night or my bank roll taking off. But until I am able to open up with 78 suited, and bet that flop then I am just not going to get there. I know it sounds like I want to play like a donkey, but I don't. Just don't want to have the image all the time of a straightforward ABC player. But unless I am playing at joker small stakes I just cant. Maybe with growing my bank roll I will be able too.

Anyhow, on that note grew things a bit more tonight. Getting close to $1400 so that is nice. At this rate I will be soon playing $1 NL again.....I did used to do well at that game back at Hollywood.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2167401 Pretty sure this was a good fold.....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2167407 And this was nice but I should have slowed down on the turn and bet like 1/3 of pot or something to get someone else to come a bit farther.

So have found some more time

And got a nice session in today. A couple interesting hands where patience really pays and over time some people just want to give you their money. Felter was watching for a bit and saw at least one of the donations.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2144601 I really like this hand. Not because I won, but because I was able to put him on a hand, and went with it. I did not feel he had a J, and thought maybe AK or KQ. Turns out it was the later. Tuff river for him I guess.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2144612 Free money!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2144623 And on this one I am glad I went back and looked at the hand. I thought I had dirtied him, and he lied about it...Nasty river card for him. Nice to see it goes both ways sometimes.

So that was the session in a nutshell. Took me north of 1350 and within distance of my stated "Step up" limit of $1500. That is where I will at least temporarily try my luck at $1.

G'night!

What goes away comes back....

Just a quick post. Lost $50 last week, and won it back last night. LOL

Back from Texas

Not a lot of poker played because stupid me I left my laptop while I was in Dallas for a week for work. But got back Friday night and was able to just put my first session in now. Had an hour to kill and it amazes me that I was able to even keep that profitable. Not going to post the good hands, here are the ones that are crap. If I just stopped trying to make fancy "moves" and push people off pots, I would be a god!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2085725 In this hand I just did not really have any reason not to believe him. More importantly, he did not believe me, and I was holding air.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2085729 Jesus. Just now I went over this hand and re-reading it I STILL dont know what i was thinking. I guess I thought he could be weak and it was a BB steak attempt, but I mean...really?? I sux.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2085761 Screw you Kesh.


So yeah. After all that I did manage to pull together a small profit, and am damn near 1300. But honestly I could be there if I could find a hoover damn to blug the leaks in my game.