Limit

I played some limit hold'em on Full Tilt last night. Another winning limit session. Up a little over $60 after 3 hours at the 1/2 level. I have been doing well whenever I play limit and I may start concetrating on playing limit for the most part. Its an easier and more consistent way of making money. I enjoy tournament poker much more but I can spend a few hours playing and either be up a little or down. Maybe I'll move up a level and see how 2/4 or 3/6 goes. I want a longer track record thought in limit before I move up. Also playing at the 1/2 level is pretty straight forward ABC poker so as I move up I will have to mix it up a little more. I think that how I play limit affects how I play tournaments though. I'm going to need to keep these two styles seperate if I hope to be succesful at either.

I understand that the Minnesota Vikings are playing a football game on Sunday. Apparently they do have time for some football even with all the boat tours and police interviews they are doing..... btw, the Bears suck

Live Events

I played two more live events this past weekend bringing my total to a whopping three! I played Sunday's $300 +30 NLHE tourney. I busted out before the first break. I had one hand that hurt my stack when my ppA got cracked by a flopped set of Queens. A worse player probably goes broke on this hand and a better player perhaps loses less. I made a crying call on the end when my foe bet about 1/2 pot. I thought I was beat and the good thing is that my read was correct. I got what I would consider an action flop of KQx. I couldn't put my foe on KQ due to his raise and my reraise preflop. Something told me I was beat though. More live events will develop and hone these types of skills though. Its good to know that I had some sort of read, now I just have to decipher the good reads from the bad reads.

Then I played the Canterbury $200+25 on Monday. I was up all night Sunday fixing servers so I was able to play this event. I was however pretty tired since I got about 3 hours of random sleep Sunday night. My first table was a good table and I was pretty comfortable with it and was playing good. Except for the hand that I paid off fellow PSOer, Debonair, when he hit his flush on the turn. Luckily for me the board had paired so he backed off and it didn't cost me as much as it should have. In my tiredness, I honestly didn't see the flush on the board until we turned over the cards! Shortly after they busted our table and I got moved to another decent table. I doubled up there and got to about 20x BB. Then the break came and my fairly comfortable/getting shortstack all of a sudden turned into a shortstack when they doubled the blinds and I was stuck at 10x bb. I doubled up again and got a table move. In a matter of 20 minutes I busted out when both my pp9 and ppJ ran into ppA. On the first hand the kid on my right was talking the whole time on how he was bored and wanted to leave. He announced that he was going all-in on the next hand no matter what. I of course think he's got a hand well it gets folded to him in the sb and of course he moves in. I've got him outchipped about 2:1 and look down at pp9s so I call, he turns over the Aces, yay. A short while later I'm in the sb with ppJs and an early position raises min and someone else makes it 1k to go. I have 1175 total so I go all-in for the rest and get called by the late position guy who also has Aces. After playing a good tournament, I'm done at about 270 out of 600. I felt good about my play in this one and I think it bodes well for future events.

It was a fun weekend meeting a lot of fellow PSOers and look forward to other events where I can put some faces to sceen names.

Friday Blog Dump

Well after getting a comment that I never post, I decided I should. Jason over at http://theosu.blogspot.com was kind enough to point out that I post about as often as he does. Thanks for the heads up! The sad part is I have a reminder every day to do it but am too lazy to write something. There is plenty to write between the NFL starting back up, my Vikings playing terrible, a new Viking stadium proposal and my ongoing poker quest!

Vikings Stadium - build the dang thing! There been enough said everywhere else so I'm not going into some long post but just build the dang thing. hard not to start ranting about politics and the mindset in Minnesota but build the dang thing!!

Minnesota Vikings 1-3 Thank God its a bye week and we can't lose. We brought in two "consultants" which I think will be pointless. Its another sign that Tice can't stick to his plan. His ability to waver on his decisions sends the message to the team that he doesn't believe in what he is doing so niether do they. Injuries abound but this is the NFL and the Vikes have to deal with it. Udeze is gone for the season but I think Erasmus James will step up fine. He'll suffer some rookie problems but will do fine. Culpepper will come back to form eventually but how long it will take I do not know. I'm also one of the few people that would rather see Michael Bennet in there instead of Moore. Well, there's my quick summation of my thoughts so far. Check back when we win the division with a 8-8 record....

Poker - Well, my online game has been just ok. Making some better reads and good plays but not getting the results I want. That will turn around so I'm not concerned from that angle. What concerns me with my online play is that I seem to not care. I play a little more recklessly and I have to force myself to concentrate and play better. I see this mostly when I am playing at PSO so its no monetary loss but I don't want it to bleed over to my real money accounts. I think part of it is all the lessons and play I have done in the last year and I may be a little burned out on PSO. I have taken some mini-breaks but that seems to only help for a short while. I guess I should set some short term goals for PSO like winning a monthly league or something. That would give me something to shoot for. It will also help put my ego in check. Goals are a good thing. Goals not written down are just dreams though. Nice cliche huh?

My live game is working pretty good right now. I'm playin in the mnpokerleague (http://www.mnpokerleague.com) at Jimmy's Bar and am in the top 20% for our location right now. The scores for our location are screwed up as it is only showing 238 points for week 2 and I should have 268 or more from what I understand. Its also not showing points for week 4 for me. I shoudl have 71 there. Oh well, I bubbled the first week, won week 2, busted early week 3 and got into the money(points) on week four. I was playing good week four but my AK ran into a flopped set of fours on an A4x board when the chip leader bet out min and my stack couldn't allow a call there so my all-in was quickly called. I'm hoping Jim, the chipleader, went on to win last week after taking me out. He was playing a good game and is a nice guy. In our last two home events I have won and taken second respectivly so that is going well. Tonight is Idoru99's Fall Classic which is a home warm-up event for PSO'ers before the Canterbury Classic. This will be a tough game with some good players from out of town playing in addition to our already challenging home game regulars. I will probably play the $300 NLHE on Sunday at Canterbury as well as the $200 NLHE on Monday. I'll try and post my results.

Well, thats it for now! enjoy the update and once again I will try to post more often!

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