Well, since my last post I have had a roller coaster ride. I had initially put $500 on PokerStars with intentions of transferring my whole bankroll there. I went on a bit of a heater right away and ran it up to about $2500 playing 1-2. Then, the doomswitch flipped and I crashed back to zero. 2 outers and 3 outers galore. It was painful. I ran about 800 under where I should have for my all ins too which certainly didn’t help.
After I busted at Stars, the bad luck continued at CarbonPoker with me dropping about 700 there. I was giving poker second thoughts when I reevaluated my game and decided I was gambling a bit too much and decided to tighten up just a bit. Just little things like only calling raises preflop in position with QJs instead of QJo etc. I am not sure if it was just running better a combination of playing better and running better, but I proceeded to go on a tear at CarbonPoker. I have recovered all of the losses and more and my bankroll on carbon is now almost a healthy $4K which is nice (including a massive $1300 increase today in about 2 hours on 2 tables). I always keep most of my gambling bankroll offline and redeposit as needed when I run badly. Better to have it earning 5% than filling some sites coffers.
I am also planning my trip the the APPT tournament in Australia in December. As it sits right now, I think we will be going into Melbourne for 2 nights, then to Cairns for 2 nights (where I will hopefully be scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef) and then 5 nights in Sydney for the tourney. I am getting pretty excited about the trip. I have Tivoed a couple of shows on the travel channel about Australia and it looks like it will be a blast.
I am not sure if I will keep on at CarbonPoker (which doesn’t support Pokertracker) or move back over to Stars (where there is both better competition and more table selection).
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 8342801
Thats is for now and thanks for reading.