A Sunday of Poker

Quick one as I get ready for a rare Sunday of poker. A couple of tourneys on the go today starting with the Blogger tourney at Stars. Some good prizes on the line although winning the first prize might be a bit inconvenient with the family and all but hey you never know. They have a lots of prizes that include tickets into the Sunday millions - would be fun to win one of those and take a shot at that tourney as the buy-in is certainly out of my bankroll range!

Second tourney which starts at the same time is a CFL freeroll thing that has been offered at Stars, i played in the qualifier the other night and finished 41 out of 4100 + people. Won a few bucks for that and a ticket into today's final.

Played in my first SNG in over week last night, finished 2nd in one and 7th in the other after getting drawn out on twice to leave me with next to nothing.

I'll post later with details and results.

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 2512692

Quick one tonight, about as quick as I lost my money last night playing some 6 max .50/1! I had a few mins to kill before bed last night and felt pretty good so I decided to try my hand at 2 tabling some .50/1 ... guess I'm not ready for that just yet, after 40 mins I was down 40 BB. Now, I'm not that bad ( I don't think!), some crazy hands that got drawn out on and then I'm sure I was in a bit of tail spin after that. I will keep working on it and hopefully right the ship this weekend.

I talked in my brief update the other day that I played in the PSO summer league and will devote a post to talking about that experience and the league in general - having said that it was fun to play and now have started to play the last quarter of the Negreanu Open at Stars. First one was tonight and was playing good, tight yet aggressive and sitting with an avg stack after almost 90 mins when I picked up AKo on the button, folded to me and I raised 4x the BB and get raised by the SB who is the chip leader - not much of a read as I was just moved to the table but my instinct tells me he is think I'm trying to steal the blinds so I go all in and get called by KQo - perfect, great chance to double up and be near the chip lead. The flops comes xxQ and I'm out. Not sure there is a way to lay that down in that situation so we'll have to wait until next week. I take away from the night that i played well and was right in the mix with about 30 people left.

That's it for now...

Wow, its been a loooong time. Well I'm back at it although I really not sure I ever left the poker scene, just had a crazy year and didn't have a ton of time to post. Here is quick recap of the last year ....

Lost my job to a corp takeover, took 4 months off to spend with the family, got a new job, moved to Toronto, and had a baby ... all that in one year!

Throughout the year I still dabbled in some poker mainly limit between 1/2 and 3/6. Lately I've started to spread my wings and play a little tourney poker. It started with the recent summer league offered by PSO where I finished a respectable (I think) 9th overall. Along the way I had three final tables including a win.

In addition to the PSO league I've started playing some SNG, mostly $10+1 with the odd $20 and a couple of $50 as well. I've settled in nicely at $10+1 and thus far played 72 tourneys. My status thus far include 17 wins and 30 ITM and a profit of $270. I've been having fun with that lately and will likely continue to hang around those tables for a while, ideally trying to work my way up to $50 SNGs. I've decided to not move up until I have 25 buyins to the new level - so i may be a while before i get to $50 level - but hey it will keep me busy.

And finally, I've also decided to try my hand at 6-max, for starters I decided to start my learning's at .50/1. So far so good, I've played 1500 hands with a winrate of 1.68 / BB / 100 hands. I'll keep plodding my way through this for the coming months and see how it goes.

That's it for now, great to be back and it won't be so long before my next post (promise).