Well I am moved in and all in Waterford and making my rounds at the poker establishments. I am having trouble with my patience lately it seems, and I rush myself in pots. I am having trouble pulling the "all-in trigger" when I know I am ahead/the opponent will fold. I will keep updating on my progress, online and live. Online I am doing poorly, ( Read more... )

Well, my full tilt bankroll is crippled. For some reason, I am just running terribly in all the big pots I get into. It is a little frightening thinking that after a year of making close to 33k off of full tilt, that I may be finally broke. I guess it was a good run. I can't believe it, but whatever. I hate it though, really.

Wow... I am not sure how much more abuse I can take on Full Tilt. It seems like I cannot have a hand hold up there anymore. I keep getting drawn out on, whether it be a three outer or a two outer, or a flush draw. And when I get my flop favourite draws all in, I can't connect. Sigh, the continued bad variance is killing me. I hate Full Tilt.

Well it looks like I spoke too soon. I have never seen so much bad variance in like 2k hands. This is ridiculous. This is why I hate online poker. This shit doesn't happen repeatedly when you get your money in as a huge favorite live.

Finally ran well yesterday for a couple hours. I won about 8.2 buy-ins in just under 2 hours. I am still quite far down from the massive downswing I took, but I am on the road to recovery. I actually won a couple multi-table sitngos. My strategy online is changing a bit now. My style stays the same, as is the number of tables I am playing. However ( Read more... )

Well, since gas prices have been skyrocketing I rarely go and play live anymore. It is primarily online play. However, for the past month I have been getting hammered online. Any draw my opponent has hits. Then I go on tilt and spew out a buy-in or two. I am questioning my psychological hold on the game. It is getting difficult for me to play ( Read more... )

Everyone busts out at the table now and again, but busting out at the table and in life, well, that's a little rough. But that is what happened last night. I lost 100 dollars, and I began to not feel well so I decided I was going to head home. I went to my car only to find out that the window was smashed in. Instantly I knew. I kept 400 dollars in ( Read more... )

So I worked so hard to make 900 dollars since 3 days ago. 2 days I spent constant at the casino, sleep over at Tony's house in Rochester Hills, and return for one more visit before I head home. I get on the poker table, build 100 dollars up to 230 dollars, then take a coinflip chance to make the 230 dollars turn into 500. I lose that coinflip, then ( Read more... )

There are a few times when it is necessary to push very hard to take down a pot when you are sure that it is the only way to win the pot. Many of these occur when I am on the button or acting after an opponent. Sometimes it is not necessarily a bluff because I will have so many outs that I am simply betting someone out because I do not want to miss ( Read more... )

At the poker table, I have had critical moments where I could have won a pot outright, yet decided to take an alternative route that allowed an undesirable outcome to arise, and let the situation eliminate me from the table. Take for instance, this example ( Read more... )