Everytime I look at my son I realize that there are more important things than running good at poker. Make someones day and tell them you care about them and you appreciate the things they do for you.

I have primarily been playing uNL cash games on the internet for the last year or so and I have faired pretty well. I usually don’t have the 5-6 hours on average that it takes to play a tourney. I only have a couple of hours a night that I am able to dedicate to poker. Between being a full time accountant and a full time dad to a newborn, I just don’t have the time. I decided last week that if I ever wanted to get out of the 5x5 cubicle that I spend 40hrs a week in, I was going to have to play in some bigger cash games or make a few nice scores in a couple tourneys. Since I have been running pretty bad at uNL cash games this month I decided that taking a couple of shots at some bigger NL games was probably a bad idea, so this weekend I made a conceded effort to play a couple of tourneys on Stars.

On Friday night I played 2 tourneys. I played the $10r and a $15 freeze out on ‘Stars and I ended up making the final table of the freeze out. Beginners luck???? I had 17K in chips after the add-on at the first break in the rebuy and I actually ran that up to ~$30K until I ran QQ into KK in a $60K pot in the second hour and just like that I was gone. So much for that. I am now focused 100% on the freeze out where I have an above average stack. I pretty much play ABC poker until we bust the money bubble and then I start catching cards left and right. I made it to the final table and I can’t catch a card that is higher than a 5. I am bleeding chips left and right. I end up making a bad preflop decision and try and steal some blinds with Q-7 and when the SB shoves over the top of me I have to make a decision. I know I am beat, but I look at the #s and I am getting close to 4-1, so I make the “right” play and ship some more chips into the pot, but unfortunately I can’t sweat A3c. BAH. I end up having to shove 9-10o on the CO and when someone else re-shoved I knew I was toast. The guys KK dominated my 9-10, but the flop revealed both a 9 and a 10 I got a little giddy. Man it feels good to suck out once in awhile!!!! To bad a K spiked on the turn. GG Mr_Taterhead. Regardless of the variance that tourneys entail I think I am in love again.

Wish me luck.

Pretty meh month.

Lost $530 at the Horseshoe-Bossier City on Landlord79's Birthday :(
Won $315 on Stars MTabling uNL
Won $165 on Bodog playing HU SNG's and uNL
Cleared $50 bonus on Stars.

My Jan 08 Goals were:

Play 10K hands online and achieve SilverStar/GoldStar VIP.
"Check-SilverStar VIP"
Blog here more.
"Bout the same"
And of course come back from Tunica a winner.
"Didn't end up going, but lost at the 'Shoe


Feb 08 Goals are:

1.Become GoldStar VIP at PokerStars.
2.Play 17.5K hands.
3.Win >4ptbb/100 @ $50NL
4.Take some shots at MTabling $.50/$1 on Stars.
5.Make a trip to the 'Shoe

OK, time for a quick little update. I have moved up to regularly 9-12 tabling $50NL on PokerStars after a couple of good runs at the $25NL tables. I am <100 VPP’s from becoming a SilverStar VIP, which I should be able to clear by the time the weekend rolls around. I am up close to 15 BI’s at $25NL this month online, but my live results are much less impressive.

I was able to go over to Horseshoe-Bossier City last Friday for some live $1/$3NL action and what a disaster it turned out to be. I could never get anything going and I ended up dumping close to 2BIs at the casino for the 2 days that I was there. I swear I have never seen so many J4's in my life. Sometimes live poker can be so painful. On Saturday morning I sat at my table for almost 4 hours, before I voluntarily put money into a pot and won. It was a bad weekend trip to the ‘Shoe for me, but Landlord79 had a nice little profit. Take a look at his blog for a nice trip report. This was the first time in over a year that I came back from the casino with less money than I went there with.

Here is a pic of Harper enjoying part of his supper!!!!



Good Luck, guys!!!!

Billy

Ok just a quick little weekly update for the 2 people that read this little thing they call a blog. I am still currently 12 tabling $25NL and it is going okay. I am about half way to becoming SilverStar VIP. I think I need less than 700VPPs to achieve this and then I can work on getting my $50 bonus, which costs 5,000 FPPs. I have played close to 6K hands already this month. The most hands I ever put in at Bodog was 5K and I am going to destroy that this month. I hope to have 3x that amount, but we will see.

The month started off bad when I jumped into $50NL, because Landlord79 was playing, and promptly dropped 3BIs. That is what I get for trying to keep up with the Joneses. I have recovered all of that spewfest and I am back in the black for the month. I also have already cleared my initial $50 bonus that ‘Stars offered me. I am still messing around with HU SNGs and dabbling in $25NL on Bodog when I don’t feel like grinding 12 tables of cash on Stars. I have been running pretty well at the HU SNGs.

So for the month I am up about 5BIs between cash games on Stars and Bodog and with the $50 bonus that I earned that makes me at +7BIs of $25NL.

Oh, LL79 and I decided that we will not be going to Tunica. We decided to make a long weekend trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City instead. I have heard that the cash games in Tunica were really not that good, so that made me feel good about our decision.

It’s all about putting yourself in profitable situations, fellas.

Good Luck!!!


BJJIII