March Review

March started off how February ended….horrendous. But I was able to let the “tilt factor” go and ended up having a positive month.

Hollywood Poker – I was down about $300 early in the month clearing a bonus (tilt factor). I finished 2/104 players in a $5.50 Canadian poker night tournament. ($104+$25 bounty on Yancy Arias). +13 for the month.

Carbon Poker – finished the PSO promo and had success playing at the site. Finished 28/2250 in yesterday’s $50K freeroll for a $300 cash. I went out on AKs vs. pocket
10’s, couldn’t catch an A or K. Had I won that race I would have been about 12th with 27 players to go. +660

William Hill – started rakeback and their sweet 5hr bonus. +168

Summery +$841

I played in a few more MTT’s than I usually do, mainly on Carbon and Hollywood. I also played in a few SNG’s; which I never do. I played way less cash game hands this month.

April – still have some bonus to clear on Carbon and then I’ll probably start rakeback on a Boss site. I will also do the monthly William Hill bonus.

Weekend of Tourney’s

I decided to take a break from ring games this past weekend and instead play in a few free tournaments.

Saturday
Hollywood Poker (James Woods Celebrity Invitational) – free ticket from points
“I want to congratulate you on winning a Celebrity Bounty by knocking Kato Kaelin out of the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational on Saturday afternoon! If you check your account, you will notice that I have already credited $25 cash.” Woot this was kind of sweet!

Cake $500 New player freeroll – finished about 19th +$4.00
Carbon $2k Freeroll – finished about 40th +$5.00

Sunday
Carbon 10K Freeroll – finished 31/1109, +$50. Played really well in this one, just went card dead near the end.
Party – I cashed in my points because they now deducted your points after only 2 wks of inactivity (stupid). I cashed them in for $10 cash, $6 SNG ticket, $3-300K qualifier ticket. I played the SNG and finished 5th no cash. I’ll play the 300K qualifier at the end of the month.

Summary +$84 which isn’t that much, but at least I didn’t lose a bunch of my own $ and I gained some more tournament experience.

Time to Regroup

I continued my horrendous play over the first weekend in March. My confidence is shaken and I think I’m pushing too much; generally taking too many chances. I think I’m Gambling too much, trying to get my losses back quickly. Any gamblor knows this is a bad sign and doesn’t usually work.

I decided to start the Carbon Poker promo this week. I plan to grind away at this promo at the 100NL level. So far I’ve been way more patient, and I’ve folded a few marginal hands that I’ve been playing lately…things like mid pair when there has been a raise, re-raise situation or A 10o in early position. I’ve played hands like that recently trying to get lucky (hit a set,etc)…and I’ve been bleeding away $ doing it.

I really enjoy Carbon so far. They offer a great tracking system for your Comp points as well as showing you how many points you need to qualify for their large freerolls. The one drawback is that their traffic is kind of light. Only a couple of 100NL tables going and it looks like the same players playing on a regular basis, who also seem to know one another. I even had one guy ask me if I was new.

Back to the Grind!

February Review

I really wanted to have another solid month like January, but instead I got my A$$ kicked and gave back everything that I won in January. It was a combination of VERY bad luck, bad beats, and TILT. I played mainly $100NL, $200NL, & 400NL.

Here’s the recap:

Cake poker – Completed the promo through PSO – took 3 bad beats when I was holding AA vs. small pair and losing 3 buyin’s when they hit quads on the flop (2 allins pre-flop). -$625.

Interpoker – no luck, and after being down about $300 I went on TILT on a $500NL table losing an allin on a very bad beat. -$700

Party ($175 opt in bonus) – Wow what a great offer! I wasn’t sure how to play this but I wasn’t going to try to clear the bonus playing poker so I went to the Casino with it and got lucky. +$450

Hollywood Poker – Completed the PSO promo over a weekend. There are a lot of maniac Europeans on this site and it was a rollercoaster ride. One tough beat put me at a loss instead of a nice profit. (see previous post). -$125

I didn’t play in many MTT’s because of time constraints but I did win a PSO league event on Stars. Too bad I couldn’t play in many other league events.

Summary -$1000.00.

I’m not sure what I’ll do in March as far as sites go. I’m thinking of doing the Carbon Poker promo through PSO and then take it from there…maybe start a new rakeback site. (I only have Interpoker as rakeback right now). Hopefully I can play in a few (larger) freerolls (1K+) to get some more MTT experience without risking my own $’s.