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Friday, January 20, 2006

I’m Smarterer!

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted. No particular reason, really, just laziness. Poker’s been way up and way down since the last time. My Stars account is marginally ahead of where it was before Christmas, after jumping up 9x and then back down. Actually, it’s at about double where it was, thanks to my first final table at a 180 SNG last night, and a 7th place finish after getting crippled getting all in with AKo vs A8s preflop. Snakes on a plane.

My FTP account was doing well until I got AA and two people pushed all in preflop ahead of me in the $200NL game. They had 56 and KK and the flop was 34K, giving them both a better chance to win the pot than I had. Oh well.

Live poker has started off well for the year. Played the $200 NL at Bicycle when a friend of mine was in LA from New York. Cracked aces with 83s for an $830 pot, and I only made one mistake in the hand which was calling the $10 straddle preflop in the first place. I was in the cutoff, the people behind me hadn’t been raising much, and there was already $60 in the pot. The button then raised to $30, and everyone called, so I looked back at my cards and disgustedly called, saying “I’m just giving my money away.” I was getting $220:$20 on the call. Flopped T83, and the button pushed all in after I bet. Ended that game up $570.

Made $105 playing 2/5 $300-$500 NL the next night at Chumash, too.

Congrats to Ryan, who is in the final 18 of the $330 event at the LA Poker Classic. Good luck doubling up early a few times tonight!

Congrats (belatedly) to Factgirl for her win of the $16K guarantee at FullTilt!

Congrats to BadBlood on his WWdN tourney win, and Poker Nerd on his second place finish in the WWdN west coast warmup/whatever it’s called.

Congrats to Chris on his win of the $2k Triple Draw event in Tunica!

I know I’m forgetting someone here. Dammit. Sorry.

WPBT HORSE Tournament tonight, 7 PST. April rules. Password: princess

I’ll try to start posting more often again. Honest.