Back at it

Well there is good news all around.

I have had a chair i could get in town for some time now, but have just forgot about it. So Saturday i decided i was going to get that nice chair, and stop sitting on a solid wood chair from the 20's. Its crazy how much a nice chair can improve your time at the computer, and at poker. Where i usually only play one set, i played two. Just makes things very easier when you are comfortable. I am really looking forward to when i get everything set up and i am laying in bed. I am the most comfortable in bed, and love playing poker while in this position. It makes me relaxed, and also gets me to play more.

Secondly i am getting a Dell 20 inch monitor very soon. It is my birthday in April, and my dad has been hounding me about what i wanted. I tryed the wide screen dell he has, but i makes the tables short and wide. So i just found the largest Dell what wasn't wide screen. It has a max resolution of 1600X12oo so 4 tabling on FTP without re sizable tables will be possible. Granted my desktop does not have that much resolution, but i am going to have my laptop fixed by then. It is kind of a pain to run the laptop and a monitor, but it will work for now. I want to grind out some money to send off my desktop and get it fixed up. Then i will not have to hook the lap top up to it. AAAND i can step up later on down the road and have two 20 inch monitors. ummm 8 tabling.

Third...I couldn't really get into playing lately. It seemed like after i got to playing the 6.50s i lost interest. I think it is because of the level of play at the 16s. I know they are beatable, but i need to be playing on FTP by the time i get to that level. As stated before, there is no reason to play against a bunch of people who know what they are doing. So have not been wanting to play, or when i played i wasn't focused. Saturday after i got the chair back home i started playing .25bb full ring nl on pokerstars and was playing very well. I have tons of faith in my ability to beat NL cash games, but i do not have the bankroll to play them all the time. So i was just goofing around, but playing well. Then a hand came up....

i had AKs in the hijack, 3xbb raised, button called and so did the bb. i have 30 behind, button has ~25 and bb has some small amount. Flop comes A J 6 with two diamonds. So i have have a huge hand with top pair, and nut flush draw. BB bets 2 dollars and has 3 dollars behind, i raise to 8, button moves all in, bb calls, and it gets back to me. Worst case is i am up against a set, and that is very possible beings the he called on the button and 66 is a hand that fits nicely into his range. I thought for a bit, and decided that this is low limit no limit, and he could very well have Aq, and that i am going in good shape against all one pair, two pair hands. Even against a set i am in decent shape, and the pot odds make up for it. I call, BB has J6 for two pair, and hits a jack on the turn to scoop the pot. I think i played this good, and was not upset at all. I got into a coin flip with extra money in the middle. I will do it all day long.

What this did show is that i am bored, and needed to do something before i lost my bankroll goofing around. I need to be grinding sngs, and not playing satellites, cash games, or mtts. I just need to make some money and get in some hours. I think i am a good player, but i need more experience. Playing sngs gives me some time to learn more, and make a nice profit in the process. In time i want to be well rounded, and i think i am decent in many games, but now i just need to stick to sngs.

So after realising the above, i decided if i couldn't get motivated to play the 6.50s i would with draw some money and get back to where i had to play the 3.40s. If i don't have 400 dollars online, i really can't goof around much. So i withdrew all but 150 dollars from Pokerstars and have a nice little check coming in the mail. That gave me 44 buyins, so i am well rolled for the sngs i am going to play.

After i took a bit of a break i came back and loaded four 3.40s and cashed in every one. No first :-( but 2 seconds, and 2 thirds i think. I enjoyed playing them and felt like playing more. I was once again motivated to grind. I loaded up 4 more, and OTM in all. that sucked, but i was still up a little bit. I took a break, loaded up 4 more, and won 2 of them. All in all i ended up ~20 dollars in sngs, and almost even for the day.

The decision to withdraw money couldn't of been better. Now i am wanting to play, and have a goal to grind up the money once again. I think i am going to start getting into a withdraw schedule. For now i am going to withdraw once i hit 300-400. Drop the bankroll back down to 150 and start it all over again. Once the whole online poker laws get figured out i will want to start building up and keeping more money online. Now it would really hurt if i some how lost 300+ dollars because online poker went south. I think sticking to the 3.40s, and withdrawing when i get to 300+ will let me make a decent amount of money while learning the game, and not leave myself open to losing a lot of money in case online poker goes away.

So that is the good news. Things are really coming together nicely. I think i have a good plan for now. Just enjoy whipping up on the micro players, and cashing checks. Then when the coast is clear, and online poker is all legit, i will be ready skill wise to wreck shop at the 6.50s and 11 turbos once i build up from my 150 dollars.

Once again, i just want to thank God for moving me in the right direction with my decisions. It seems as if i can't do much wrong as long as i keep Him in the center of my life. i am so thankful for everything i have been blessed with. All the glory to God.

God bless,
Takeover_inc