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A good day.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

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.

All In Luck

Roller Coaster….

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).

Online PokerI 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.

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Poker, Poker and more Poker

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Well, even though I haven’t updated this blog in more than a month, I have been playing a ton of poker. I have decided to really focus on cash NL games and see how I fare. Of course, I am still playing tournaments as well to satellite into different land based events.

I have been playing a lot on CarbonPoker and just recently started playing on PokerStars more since PokerTracker works there to track my results. A couple of noteworthy things that have happened in the past month (other than just making a few thousand playing 1-2 NL):

I played in both of the $530 50 seat guaranteed Aruba qualifiers on UltimateBet. In the first one, they were giving away a $1000 bounty for the person who knocked out Phil Hellmuth, who was playing in the event as well. Well 5 hands into the tournament, I get dealt pocket nines and Phil, who is at my table directly to my right raises preflop. I call in position and see a beautiful flop of 9 6 5 with two hearts. He bets about the pot, and I smooth call, planning to pop it on the turn if a heart doesn’t come. An offsuit Ace comes on the turn and Phil leads into me again. I raise about 3 times his bet and he pushes! I instacall and he is still drawing live with A9 of hearts for top 2 pair with the nut flush draw. An offsuit 6 on the river makes me a cool grand and makes Phil the second person out of the tourney!

I can dodge bullets baby!

Unfortunately, I was knocked out a bit later in the tourney, but taking out Phil was almost as satisfying as winning the tourney. I made it pretty deep in the second qualifier, going out about 200th when the top 50 got seats. I got all my money in good on a 60 / 40 and would have been in the top 100 in chips if I had won that pot.

I have also had a great week in the tournaments on CarbonPoker. First I qualified in their Super Seat Freeroll tournament. To do this, you have to make it into the top 10 of a daily freeroll tourney. I accomplished this which gets me into a freeroll tournament on September 29th which is giving away an Aussie Millions package as well as 4 APPT packages. CarbonPoker also has a nice series of freerolls that you gain entry to by earning a certain number of comp points, which you get for playing in ring games or tourneys. They have daily $1000 freerolls during the week as well as $2000 on Saturdays, $10,000 on Sundays and a $50,000 once a month. That same day I was playing in the $1000 and actually ended up winning it along with the $200 first prize. This was on a Tuesday and on Saturday, they were having their $275 Grand Final tournament which gives away a $8750 package into the APPT Sydney Event. They were giving away 2 packages since there were 75 entries or so and I ended up winning one!

APPT Sydney here I come!

Clearly this was a good week for me. I will give more details on this once I receive them, but the tourney is in Sydney, Australia December 13-16, 2007.

That’s it for now, but I will try to update again soon.

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