So funny...

by BSN

I thought I'd try out some of the smaller poker sites so I did a quick search for some free money and found something about Pitbull Poker giving away $5 free for signing up. So I did, got my $5, went to the tables and there were something like 30 people playing. So, it's no surprise I'm hearing they may be in trouble (a rumor about servers being spirited out of Costa Rican offices, or something?). Anyway, if you know what's going on there, drop me a note in comments. The website is up, but I didn't try to go into the lobby yet.

I've been too busy to play since that night. Slammed at work, taking on bigger responsibilities and I won't be able to transition my current full-time responsibilities for another 2 months. I hafta make time soon, though. I got an itch, and it needs scratching. :-)

Do y'all pity this fool?

by BSN

So, now I play online over at Pacific, mostly because I'm a fish and figure I'm safest schooling with the other fishes. I've been playing SNGs and learned to hate 'em. I'm working on my Limit game now, banging away at the Micro tables with decent results. I've committed to not moving up unless I can win a bankroll large enough to make the move. No adding deposits to my account, and definitely no premature acceleration (up the limits - haha, so funny I forgot to laugh).

That was from my very first post, nearly 5 (!) years ago. Pacific Poker, the first place I played online poker for real money. At least I knew the most valuable rule in poker: it's all about table selection. Since then, I've grown to appreciate SNG; hate Limit Poker; despise Micro tables; take shots at higher limits beyond the reach of my bankroll; and I added a few deposits early in my journey.

So young. So innocent. Yes, newbies, go back to the first post of most poker bloggers and you'll find similar thoughts. Sigh.

These days, I feel like Rocky Balboa with regard to my relationship with online texas holdem. Not the half-retarded Rocky from Rocky 5 or the eponymously-named Rocky Balboa, but the Rocky 3 Rocky: A once-decent competitor, maybe overrated thanks to fortuitous game selection, who needs to break it all down and get his fingernails dirty re-learning the game. I'm thinking it may be time to go back to basics and check out the 888 poker tournaments.

I wrecked everything by not thinking for myself. I mean, why couldn't Mickey tell me where I really at right from the start? He didn't have to carry me and lie to me and make me think I was better than I really was when I wasn't.

Yeah, I can hear 'em already over at Pacific...

Hey fool! You ready for another beating? You shoulda never came back!

Dammit, No Gigli!

by BSN


I tried to be the Gigli. I went with the first playable hand, AK, up against QQ. I had a chance to fold but didn't. Told my wife I wasn't playing another 3 hours of this stupid game to come up with nothing to show for it except my dick in my hand.

Gambooooool!!!

Hope everyone has/had a great time!

Bleah!

by BSN

No Shit. My AK, with an A on the flop, got pwned by 7-4 off with all the money going in on the flop. Runner-Runner straight and IGHN.

I hate this effin game.

It's entirely possible I'm the worst poker player on the planet

by BSN

What else could one conclude when I do things like say to myself, "I bet this bastard called my pre-flop raise with 7-4 sooted, and just snapped off my Aces with that river four...", and then make the call for all my chips. Just to prove I'm right. And I am.

Beware. I'm fixin' to go all Wafflicious now...

!@#$%^&*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

George Effin' Will

by BSN

If you haven't read George Will's Sunday column, you should. Warms the cockles of my heart. The sub-cockles, too.

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After reading about the saga of Boku87 on the Pokerstars blog, I had to try the micro SNGs. The results were predictable. In my first two attempts, I was bounced with KK vs. QTo and a runner-runner flush, then my JJ got crushed by the mighty A5o. Yes, I raised pre-flop. Yes, the blinds were high enough that one would think an opponent might think twice.

Sigh.

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Later, I played a token satellite with Full Tilt points and swept through to my token in remarkably quick time, just in time for the 28K Guarantee. I played well and made great decisions, but was card dead all night, with the exception of a QQ hand that doubled me up at the right time. I went out somewhere around 230 or so, well short of the money, but I felt good about my play and had no regrets.

What's this? Posting 3 days in a row? Who do I think I am, a blogger?

by BSN

Ok, the cash games have been middling for me. I so hate the penny-poker ATC crap. Popped over to the Double-Deuce satellite with my FT points, as I've done to close out each night this week. Got my entry in about an hour or so. Prepared the wife for a Sunday afternoon of my cussing and folding.

Can I just say...

by BSN

I'm liking the new lobby at Fill Tilt.

I don't know what the prevailing opinion is amongst the poker bloggeratti since I'm a little behind on reading the blogs.

But, I like it. Clean. Easy to understand filters. My only criticism is move the video tour off the lobby. I accidentally clicked it while playing and lost my internet connection.

Yeah, my connection sucks like that.

God help me...

by BSN

I've started playing poker again, after a many-months layoff. Starting all the way at the bottom: .05/.10 of FTP with my massive $5 bankroll. Yeah, didn't get around to doing that SNG challenge. A bad infection in my leg left me out of sorts for many weeks.

Anyway, I don't use a 'waffles-roll' (when your monthly reload comes from FTP) so this is going off the remnants of my last disaster.

What the hell. Over three years ago I started with $1 won in a freeroll and wound up playing $200 Turbo SNGs in 6 months before I lost my nerve and cashed-out. I'll grind away for a couple days, see what happens...

Do I need a challenge?

by BSN

Contemplating another SNG challenge. I haven't been playing very much lately, not even the Mookie, and need something to motivate me to sit and play for an hour or two each night. My last challenge was in 2005-06, when I won a $1 in a freeroll on AP and ran it up into thousands of dollars over the next 6 months, playing nothing except SNGs. I cashed that out long ago to pay bills.

I think I have $6 or so, so I can start playing the $1 games and see if I get a little lucky in the beginning. We'll see.