Yay 5-card

Decided to mix things up and play a game of 5-card (the first poker game I learned; taught by my parents at 8 years old). 200 entries + 3.5 hours determined me as the winner. $4 buy-in became $211 - a modest victory, but knowing that my 5card game is still decent is still reassuring.

Back to the SNGs.

I think my downswing might be flattening out. I decided to pursue SNGs on the pokerstars. I originally started with the $20 SNG, but realized that my profit/hour was a bit too low and decided to give the $16 turbos a try. I remember doing moderately well on them back when I played on Ongame (Pokerroom), so this might end up well. SO far it has, with a positive ROI% that I had not seen from MTTs. Though the cash are not as nice; I will give these another week and see if its the game I should specialize in and start setting up a goal/program to move up in.

Went to the underground game last night, played 8 hours had lots of ups and downs and ended up with an extra $95 which is roughly half a buy in. Given my past luck there, I am okay with a modest win now. Highlight loss: my KK loses to KJ all in preflop. JJ hits the flop.

Get Cancer?

I usually am pretty good about holding back my yelling at people for poor plays...and this was a very cheap tournament, but in a downswing I was not too happy with the outcome of this hand that knocked me next to the bubble.

HOw is he even in this hand.

Downslide with one bump

I have been hit pretty hard both in cash games and big tournaments, barely cashing if I get lucky and mostly busting out. I am trying to recover with a bit more focus and taking only one or two tournaments at a time, but we shall see how that goes.

One good highlight, my live game finish was reported online at the first event of Heartland Poker Tour up here at Turning Stone: http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result18601.htm


It was a barely-cash, but it was my best finish in a live tournament that had a buy-in over $200. I have only played two such tournaments - so I am somewhat satisfied...just need to be doing better at low buy-in games.