well it's beena while since i posted. i've been sick and busy and having had time for a lot of poker or much of anything else. Just as an update: i'm taking a break from tourney's for a while. Not because i don't enjoy them, but because i found a much more time efficient way of making money lol. I've started playing shorthanded limit tables and i love it. Not nearly as much sucking out and the pots are bigger on average too. In the past week i've made like $600 or so. Just today i'm up over $200. That's with only 3-4 hours of play today too. It's awesome. This isn't an exceptional thing either. I've been winning consistently like this everytime i've sat down lately. It's been a blast. It just seems so easy for some reason.

Oh, just as a fun thing, here is my new favorite hand ever:

fstgrndr55 Posted Small Blind $1.00
blondie1559 Posted Big Blind $2.00
secman Posted Return Blind $3.00
Dealing CardsYou Were Dealt (Js, Qs)
thepurdle Raised to $4.00
petepatel Calls $4.00
secman Folds
kaptainkrunch Folds
fstgrndr55 Folds
blondie1559 Calls $2.00
Dealing Flop (Tc,8h,5d)
blondie1559 Checks
thepurdle Bets $2.00
petepatel Calls $2.00
blondie1559 Folds
Dealing Turn (Td)
thepurdle Checks
petepatel Bets $4.00
thepurdle Calls $4.00
Dealing River (Kc)
thepurdle Checks
petepatel Bets $4.00
thepurdle Calls $4.00
petepatel has (7d, 9d)
thepurdle has (Js, Qs)
thepurdle Wins $34.20 from pot 1 with : Pair of Tens

lmao. yes i called him down with queen high and was succesful. had to be one of my finest moments ever.

Ok, so i know i just posted not long ago, but i thought i would do a follow up. I said i was going to play the next $10 Nl if it got over 50 ppl in it. It did. 66 ppl registered to be exact. Well, i got hot early on. Picked up aces early on and more than doubled up. Then flopped 2 pair from the big blind with 9-4o and busted fellow forumer thechach. From there it was mainly smooth sailing other than my kings getting sucked out on by j-7s going all in on a flush draw on the flop. Other than that all was good. Made the final table and all was good. Ended up having a rough FT. Got sucked out on twice by the same guy, on the river no less, which really hurt my chances. The second time i had to make a miracle comeback from less the 1k in chips and in about 3 hands got back up to 10k. Alas, it was all for nothing. Ended up getting blinded off for a couple rounds and then the same guy who rivered me the last 2 times went ahead and rivered me for a flush on what would have been a split pot. I really just couldn't get lucky once the FT started other than my comeback. Not that any of the beats were all that bad, well, the one was pretty bad since he was drawing to 3 outs, but other than that the others weren't that bad other than the fact that they came on the river which always makes it seem worse. I'll take the positive out of this though. I played in 2 tourneys of over 50 ppl each today. I ended up taking 3rd and 5th in them and making almost $100. Pretty good showing, it's just a shame because it could have been so much better. I really feel like i had a great chance of winning both of those tournaments and that kind of hurts, but i guess i'll take what i can get. @.@

Ok, so lets start this out by saying that my streak of up and down hasn't changed. I started yesterday out really well by finishing in the money in my first 2 tourneys of the day. That was good. The bad started when i sat down at a NL table and first got QQ sucked out on for like a $20 all in by a donk on a straight draw and then like 5 minutes later the same thing happened to my AA, only it was a flush draw this time. There wasn't anything i could do about it, but it still sucked to lose over $50 in 2 hands. Seemed all to reminscent of me calling a all in with JJ against A-5 and the guy making a flush. So that was all fun. Then i went and lost some more at a limit right game which was fun.

The good news is that today i haven't played much, but i just finished a $10 NL tourney. Ended up finishing 3rd which was like $60 so that was a good thing. Now i'm deciding on my next move. I think i'm going to play the next $10 NL coming up in like 40 minutes (if it gets over 50 ppl). Hopefully i'll be able to do well there too.

You know, as much as my cash game experiences have sucked lately i can't help but think that it's going to get better. Every big pot that i've lost in the past week or so i've been about 70-30 to win it when the money went in. It's just that the cards haven't fallen right for me. If i have a couple of hands hold up i'm looking at a completely different situation right now. I guess the only thing i can do is take consolation in the fact that i'm getting my money in good consistently. ^_^