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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Quick Hits

Just a few quick notes so you know that I am not dead.

* I will be updating this blog about once a week. I know that if I tried to update everyday that I would eventually burn out.

* I am in the process of rebuilding my bankroll after having cashed about half of it and then using poor BR management with the other half. The rebuilding process started with $50 around the middle of January and it is now at $445. I am committed to playing well within my bankroll this time, next time I cash out some of it I will drop down in stakes if needed.

* Just to give you an idea of what I was playing online before the rebuilding, 3/6 and 5/10 limit, 1/2 no limit, $20,$30 and $50 single table SnG's, and the lots of tournaments with varying sizes of buyins($10 to $100).

* What am I playing now? .10/.25 NL, $5 single table SnG's and $4 180person SnG's. BTW, I love $4 180 SnG's. Horrible play as you would expect.

* Hit a bad streak last week where I was knocked out of four consecutive 180's as follows: Aces cracked by queens when he hits a straigt at the river, flopped nut straight beat by flush on river, coolered when my set of queens ran into a set of aces and finally get it all in on Ace high flop when I hold AK, he holds kings, one outer king hits on river. That sucked! The good news is good BR kept me from losing much money on these. In the past I would have been playing way above my BR and lost a big percenatage of my BR.

* My band sucked this past Saturday. Our drummer coudlnt hear us very well so the timing was off, our singers forgot to sign a verse in a song, the guitarist and myself jumped ahead of everyone by measure in another song. The crowd didnt seem to notice but none of us were very happy.

* I am off to New Orleans next week! I love taking vacations down there, the food and music along with atomosphere are awesome. The bonus is getting away from winter for a little while.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Back In The Saddle

After a short break of 1 and 1/2 years I'm back.

I have thought about bringing this blog back for sometime now but inevitably decided against it for one reason or another. So the question looms why now and why did I stop in the first place? Lets start with why I stopped.

To begin with, after reading through the old blog entries I really wish that I hadnt stopped. When I first started this blog I knew that I sucked and when I stopped blogging I still felt that I sucked. That really was the main reason, I knew that people were starting to read it and I thought that I was a horibble blogger and the time wasnt worth the result. Now that I reread the blog with a fresh perspective I realize I was finally starting to find my voice just before I stopped posting. I hope that I will be able to find that voice again fairly quickly but only time will tell. One thing that will be very obvious is that I have not been writing at all over the past year and the rust will show for sometime.

So why start it up again?

Short answer, my poker game. My game has become stagnant, I dont analyze what I do much, I am basically on auto pilot and my game shows it. After reading through this blog I realize that I thought about the game alot more when I wrote about it. My game has grown in some areas and really regressed in others. My goal for this here blog revival is to help my analytical skills in every phase of my life. On top of that I get to rant about whatever the hell I want. Major bonus.

Wecome back to the basement.

Monday, February 18, 2008

From The Ashes

The basement blogger could be rising.