As I said in my last post, my new favorite game is HORSE. It's a mixed game, so switches between a different form of poker every ten hands. I'm earning over 5/BB hour (that's five big bets an hour) pretty consistently. I'm sure a lot of that is due to getting lucky; I haven't had a losing session all month. But most of it is surely from the extremely poor play of the competition. I'm currently hanging out at FullTilt, on the $1/$2 tables, and it really is a gold mine if you've got a good gras...

It's been a long time since I posted, sorry for the break. With the new baby, I haven't had time for pretty much anything that doesn't involve milk or poop. I did get to play some poker here & there and learned a couple of valuable lessons the hard way. 1. I can't play poker when my baby cries. Seriously, it puts me on insta-tilt. I could probably ignore any other baby, but when it's my baby, it puts me into fight or flight mode. Which usually translates into fight mode, which means p...

I've seen some pretty hefty swings in the last few weeks (by my standards, at least). But I suppose that's to be expected, now that I'm playing no-limit almost exclusively. I had worked my $650 at Ultimate Bet up to over $1k, making about $100 a day for a few days a week. Then I lost nearly all that profit in less than 15 minutes! I had the second best set twice in a row... for example, the flop came K3J. I had 33, but my opponent had KK and stacked me when all the money went in. The very ...

Work hooked me up with a new cell phone. It's pretty swanky, it's the Treo 650. Huge beautiful screen, nice keyboard, camera, email, web browser, etc. I've been using it as a kind of portable computer. When looking for some poker software to put on there, I found out that Ultimate Bet has a version of their software that let's you play online, from your phone, for real money! Bonus Whores showed that UB had a 100% deposit bonus, up to $650, so I transfered some cash from Full Contact int...

Thanks for the concern, but I'm not dead yet. Just lazy about updating the blog. I haven't really had much to write about, but, as was pointed out, that has never stopped me before I've pretty much just settled into a routine of doing $50 SnG's most nights. I've been winning enough to show a profit there, but not really getting any big scores. And because of the new human expanding my wife's belly, I haven't had a chance to make it out to San Pablo much. I was able to go a couple of week...

So I've pretty much settled into a daily routine. I play the $50 buy-in no limit game on Party Poker and earn between $25 & $50. Then I play the $22 tournament and lose it. I keep getting close, but it's so freakin' hard. Even if I manage to only get all-in when I have an 80% advantage, I'm still going to go out once every five times. I've been getting better at taking some early chances to grow a big stack, though. But the pattern usually is that I'll be the table chip leader, someone with a...

Well, the buzz from my WSOP adventures is starting to wear off. Work can do that. I played some cash games for the rest of my stay, winning a decent amount in each game. Man, Vegas is great for low-stakes poker. Sooo many tourists sitting down to try the game out. My wife got pretty sick for the last half of the week, so we didn't do much besides hang out in the time share. She had to be hospitalized the day before we left, and then again when we got here. But she's all better now and the ...

Wow, what a roller coaster yesterday. The WSOP was pretty amazing, the Rio was packed with people. Pros were everywhere, I saw a different big name every few feet. Chris Moneymaker was outside having a smoke, Freddy Deeb was standing around with some friends, Amir Vahedi was sitting on the floor smoking a cigar, Phil Gordon was standing for pictures, etc. I was loving it. Dutch was with me, getting me psyched and prepped. I also ran into Tim from San Pablo, who's at the event for Card Play...

Well, not really. I've been doing pretty well the last few weeks, so I've pretty much got the buy-in covered with just cash on hand. I'm doing event #2, the first $1,500 no-limit hold'em tournament. There are a few of us from San Pablo doing events, Dutch & Chris are doing event #4 (limit hold'em) and JD is doing event #6 (no-limit hold'em). Tim, another guy I play with, will be covering the event for a publication Card Player magazine is doing. Hopefully, he'll get to play in one of the pres...

It's been a good week so far, these SNG's have been treating me pretty well. I haven't really had enough time to play $3/$6 lately, so I've just been playing a single $50 SNG before bed. It's about the same risk/reward ratio that I'm used to. I either lose $54, or I win $196, $96, or $46 depending on if I get 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. I've gotten 2nd place two nights in a row, then got 1st last night. Nearly $400 for the week feels pretty good. The $50 SNG's are a bit different than the $20 SNG's ...

I had to setup a booth for my company at a conference last week, so haven't had much chance to play or blog about poker lately. I've been jonesing for it. I managed to play online a bit, but I haven't been doing too well. Feels like I lost my mojo. It's easier to blame the cards than myself, but I have felt pretty damn unlucky lately. Feels like I can't hit any cards and no one believes my bluffs. I think I'll stick to sit & goes for a while, I've just been taking a beating at $3/$6. I did ma...

Man, losing that tournament sucked. I wasn't expecting to go out that quickly there at the end. Over five hours as one of the chip leaders, but not good enough to make it into the money. But I do want to thank JamesACG for looking over my shoulder. I think I played better than normal knowing that someone was watching. And at least I had a witness for my crippling bad beat The advice definitely helped, too. I think I had my speed tuned pretty well for that game. I noticed a lot of the ...

I made over $100 last night, so I can easily lose this tournament and still be comfortable at $3/$6. It's about to start and there are nearly 700 people signed up already. It's going to be really tough, but I won't be too hard on myself if I don't make it. I just have to take my shot. Wish me luck!

More progress. I made $100 last night, brining me even closer to my goal. I don't think earning the entire $1,000 is going to be likely. But getting at least $500 for the week should definitely be possible. I already went ahead and transferred my online cash around, putting $1k in Full Contact Poker. Then I officially signed up for the tournament. There were already over 200 people signed up. I'm hoping that they're mostly people who came in via qualifiers. Since the qualifiers were mostly...

Well, Tuesday night didn't really go as planned. I started off winning $120 in about 15 minutes, which was awesome. I figured I'd reach my goal in no time. It was less awesome when I gave all of that back over the next hour. It was totally devoid of awesomeness when I ended up $100 behind by the hour after that. I fought my way back up to even before I went to bed, but it was still pretty disappointing to spend all that time with nothing to show for it. My goal was still a long way off. La...