Some Online Poker

I played a few days last week and made a little bit of money but could of been alot more. I had 3 final tables, 2 of them in the turbo fiddy on Full Tilt. I got 2nd one night for 3k, that was my biggest score of the 2 days I played. In my last blog, I stated how I wanted to start playing alot more and I had alot of motivation. Well I've had some personal problems within the last week and I need to take some time off. I don't know how much yet, but I don't think I'll be able to put all my mind into it. If I'm not there mentally it isn't a good idea to play. I'll make sure and give ya some updates in my next online session, but not quite sure when that will be. Take care, later

Been Awhile....

I'm still alive and kicking. I've been playing alot online here within the last few weeks with no good results, but not bad either. I didn't play much at all after the Mid American Poker Classic in early December. Took some time off, hung out with friends and family. I plan on putting in alot of volume over the next 4-6 weeks online. I'm hoping me and mattster can get together 2-3 days a week and play. It's so much better playing with someone instead of being in your room by yourself for up 15 hours a day grinding, especially when running bad. The next live stop for me is the Midwestern Poker Regional Championship at the Horseshoe in New Albany, IN. I believe the dates are Feb 26th through March 8th. I think I'll be playing everyday so hopefully can get a live win.

On a side note, we got our house paid for the month of June for WSOP. Here is the link, I don't know how to make it where you can just click on it but here it is: http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p128510. So you'll have to copy and paste it. There will be 6 of us staying there for the whole month. It should be alot of fun. Well thats about it, I'll try getting this updated as much as I can. Later

Update from Mid American

I skipped out on playing both the 500+50 and the 2k main event because of the prizepools being so bad. The 550 on Thursday only ended up with 91 players I believe so I decided to play online and it paid off. I took 2nd in the 50 freezout on Stars at 5:30 for $6800 and took 3rd in the 50 cubed on stars at 5:15 for 3k. I let the 50 freezeout slip away from me after having a dominating chiplead heads up versus a super weak opponent. He hit alot of flops and I didn't. In the 50 cubed on stars I got QJ all in vs A2 on AK2T board for around 70 percent of the chips in play 3 handed but a 2 hit the river. I also got 11th in the 20k on Tilt that was 6k to win and I was sitting 2/11 at one point. I had bubbles in the Stars 7pm 109 and Tilt 7pm 75. Oh well, still a pretty solid day and I can't complain. I'm thinking of grinding this Sunday which is rare for me but who knows. I want to give a shout out to Joby for getting 5th in the 300+40 on Wednesday for 2k, Mattster got 9th in the event for around 900 or so. I got rocked by Kurt(Te amo luna) in omaha flips in the hotel room in which I lost 10 out of 10 hands versus him. It was pretty disgusting as I was drawing dead 3 times to the turn out of the 10 hands. The next time I play online, I'll give ya update. Take it easy, Later

Mid American Poker Classic Events #3 and #4

Event #3 was yesterday as it was a 200+30 buyin. I ended up making a deep run and finishing 18th which paid $377. I lost a big flip on the bubble to get me short. Today was the 300+40 buyin and I built up a decent stack before losing AK to 44 and 22 to A8 to end my day. Tommorow is the 500+50 and I'm thinking of skipping it and playing online as the prizepools here have been very week. I will definately be playing the 2k buyin on Friday. I hate to make it short like this, but I've got to get some other stuff done.

Mid American Poker Classic Events #1 and #2

I've been pretty busy the last couple of days and haven't had time to update on these events. Event #1 was a 300+40 buyin and started with 7k chips and 40 minute levels. I was complete card dead in the first 2 hours and only managed to drag 1 pot but it was a big one. I picked up 33 utg and opened to 300 at 50-100 with around a 5500 starting stack. UTG+2 3 bets to 700 and another player calls so I decide to peel. The flop rolls out T93, I get it in verse both players and they have JJ and AK to get me up over 15k. I ended up with around 14.5k going into first break with the blinds going to 100-200 with 25 ante. A few hands after break I get JJ in vs AK for 14k and I couldn't hold and that dropped me down around 7k. Not alot happened until the 200-400 level with me have around 7k still and me calling a 4500 shove with AJ, the shover had KJ. K hit the river and I was down to around 3k soon busting after with me shoving J3 running into AA. Congrats to Steve Crawford in this event, for finishing 5th for 3k.

Event #2 was 500+50 buyin with a 10k starting stack and 50 minute levels. I lost a big pot early when I turned a flush with J9hh only to have my opponent to fill up with T6o on the river. I fought a shortstack entire first 2 hours and had 3k going into first break. I doubled up right after first break with a suckout of AJ vs AQ all in preflop to get me back to 6k or so. Than I flatted a raise out of the BB at 75-150 with 53hh after a raise and 2 calls. The flop rolls out 643 with 2 spades. I end up getting in vs KTss and got there on the turn to bust me out.

I'm not sure If I'm going to play the 200+25 down there or not since the fields are so small. If I don't I still have 3 more tournies down there with another 300+40, 500+50 and the 2k main. The next event I'm for sure playing is Wednesday which is the 300+40 and I'll try to have an update after that event. On the online front I played one day last week and had 2 final tables but very disappointing. I got 4th Tilt 50 single rebuy and the Tilt 50 rebuy for around $2200 each. That sums it up, I'll talk at ya later.

A break from Poker

I haven't played in over a week and have just been hanging out with family and friends. I watched IU in the Maui go 1-2 with a tough game vs Chaminade. I played ps3 a couple of nights with friends and played a classic game on NBA2k9 that went into 4 overtimes. I watched alot of football this past weekend also and Florida looks amazing. I'm actually glad Notre Dame's season is over, not sure if they will get to a bowl game or not at 6-6. They really don't deserve one. There is some serious talks Charlie won't be back next year and I think they should bring him back for at least one more year. When your starters on offense are mostly freshman/sophmores you can't expect them to be great. They have made a tremendous improvement from last year to this year. At 6-6, they blew 3 games they had in there in grasp, I think its a mix of youth and coaching to blame. They did the same thing with Ty Willingham fired him after Quinn's sophmore year, come on now give someone a chance before you up and quit on them. I don't know if Weiss is the coach of the future but let's give him a fair opportunity before letting him go.

Onto the poker front, I plan on playing tonight and taking off tommorow night due to the IU/Wake Forest game and the Duke/Purdue game. I hope I can get a session in tonight. I'll keep ya updated, I'll hopefully have an update after every tourney at Mid-American which begins on Friday. Talk at ya later.

Quick Update

I have played a couple of sessions since my last update but nothing good has come out of either. I have been spending time with Angie and some friends for the most part and trying to enjoy life. I probably won't play again until the beginning of next week at the earliest, since Thanksgiving is next week I doubt I play awhole lot. The Mid-American Poker Classic is right around the corner and I am looking forward to get on live front again. That about sums it up, talk to you later.

Oh yeah quick note, Congrats to Mattster24 for winning the 320 Stars last Wednesaday night, he chopped it heads up for 47k but went on to win after chopping. Much deserved as he has been playing really good as of late.