CARDRUNNERS

Following up from last month's success I have started off this month well also- primarily playing 400NL Full Ring. In fact, I'm almost as much as I was all last month combined. I haven't even really ran “great” either as I'm up less than a buyin according to PokerEV on all in luck before the river. With FTOPs coming around, yet again, this bankroll booster couldn't really come at a better time as I can now play in more events without feeling really negative about losing. But I will think more about that when the time comes. Hopefully I didn't jinx myself already.

While I am writing this at around 10:30 P.M., I'm waiting for my friend Justin to call on whether or not he's going out tonight. If he don't it looks like I'll be staying in unfortunately. One of the weekend nights I want to go out and it is looking like a no go. I have a couple ideas on things I could say wherever we go, if the opportunity is right, whether or not I'd actually use it is another question entirely.

UPDATE: It's 10:53PM and appears we are not going. It's not worth it at this time now anyway. Time to get unchanged. One rare night I was in the mood to go out too. I really really don't feel like going to this one place tomorrow night as apparently a crap band is playing there which means you'll need the usual sign language and lipreading to communicate. So I have no idea on what to do now.

Big game this weekend. It's going to be really tough- much more so than last week. One thing that concerned me last week is after moving the ball, we couldn't get it in the endzone. If that happens against the Giants, chances are we won't win. I was hoping to win tickets somehow but that did not come to fruition. As for the other games, I'm thinking Panthers will crush the Cards by at least 20. Titans and Ravens could go either way as I really wouldn't trust Flacco or Collins against either of these defenses. For the sake of not picking all favorites, I'll go with the Ravens. For the Steelers game, I'm always concerned about their line giving up sacks but I don't think that will be much of an issue in this one. I also can't imagine Turner outcoaching someone two weeks in a row.

My database crashed last year sometime towards June I think and as a result I lost alot of hands, and had only gotten the ones from the beginning of 2009 in my database.  The other day I thought it would be fun to see my entire history, and now I have hands from all of 2008 (except for about 50-60k hands from FTP).  I guess I should try to get 2007 as well as that was the beginning of my transition to cash it the graph could be fun to look at.  Anyway, as a result, I was feeling all nostalgic about my poker career and I am debating trying to write up a poker story or something, altho it isn't all that interesting as I have never gone broke or come even close to it like many other players have done, so there is no I had my roll on the table story.  However, it might be interesting to read, and at the very least it will allow me to put some things in perspective. I'm still waiting on some hands from FTP, and maybe I'll try to get all my hands since college as before freshman year I was playing alot of SNGs and donkaments, even into sophomore year i was playing alot of SNGs, so the hand histories will be leaving out alot but will be good for me to see.  But that could be a good project to work on.

Poker has been quite uneventful this month.  I am having a solid year given how little I have actually played, but I really want to be able to focus on playing a bit and see how I can do.  This month I've played a grand total of 967 hands, fortunately I have made the most of those and I am up a few buy ins although I had a very frustrating match at 3/6 and managed to lose 2.5 buy ins or so yesterday.  Also, I managed to get a huge fish on 1 table at 2/4 and took him for 4-5 buy ins in 15 minutes which was awesome. I don't think I have ever played some one who spewed so much which was pretty freaking awesome.  Fun convos evolved as well as he called me a huge calling station donkey over and over.  Too bad I didn't save those because the conversations were actually pretty funny involving me saying that I had a pair and just click alot of buttons and hope.  I have also been running sick hot at HUSNGs and have a 75% win rate at the moment which is pretty sick.  The only reason that I actually play the HUSNGs is to kill time while waiting for action in cash, but apparently I do pretty well in these games.  Its a small sample, but over the past two or three months I have a pretty strong ROI in these games which is definitely nice considering how hard it is to get action at HU cash.

Now I have to go study for a test tomorrow...but hopefully we get a snow storm and classes get canceled.  I am due for a day off!!  Best of luck at the tables.

-Steve