Poker Blog

Ive been back home to see some of the sharks games the last two weeks. Last night was game seven (in a best of seven series, so loser goes home). I dont think Ive ever enjoyed going to a hockey game as much as I did this one. The 17,496 sold-out crowd was awesome the whole game. The game was really close for the first 2 periods, with calgary leading 2-1 in the early 2nd period, but the sharks scored 4 unanswered goals to take a 5-2 lead and held them off the rest of the way to win 5-3. Here are a few pictures I took on my iphone:

Sorry I havent been making a lot of blog updates lately, Ive been really busy with poker and videos and life in general. Ill try and stay more on top of things.

February was an awesome month for me. I got pretty consistent action throughout and I was really happy with how I played. Ive also started to dabble in Pot Limit Omaha with mixed results. So far Ive been a small winner when playing HU PLO (I think a lot of NLHE HU strategy carries over) and a moderate loser at shorthanded games. My initial impressions of the game are as follows:

Sorry I was so slow with the updates, the internet down there was really, really bad. Ill start from the top.

PCA Day 2

Played the first day of the ept pokerstars carribean adventure today. Also got to meet ansky (yesterday) and jurollo (today) for the first time in real life which was nice.

Some interesting hands:

Happy New Year everyone. Im in the bahamas for pokerstars carribean adventure for the next week. Ive been here since the 1st and have been having a great time. I came down with a bunch of friends and weve spent our days hanging out on the beach, playing poker, and eating well. Ill make more detailed blog posts once the tournament starts (tomorrow), but if anyone else from pokersavvy came down please come say hello. Im staying in the reef tower but Ill be in the pokerstars lobby a decent amount too.

Ive been running pretty poorly so far this week. Its not so much that Ive been getting outdrawn in big allins or getting coolered all the time (Id be much happier if this were the case), but moreso that every one of my semibluffs or bluffs has run into the nuts and I havent been getting my fair share of favorable setups. I find that this is the most frustrating way to run bad, as you cant pick hands and say 'well if I hadnt gotten sucked out on there Id be even.' I think its also the most devastating way to run bad in terms of what it does to your game.

It seems like everyone I know is running bad the last few weeks. Among my closest poker friends, I know at least 5 who are going through pretty large (20 buyin+) downswings. I know ansky has a pretty rough day yesterday too. I, for the most part, have steered clear of this whole running bad business. Until today, that is. I promise I wont use this blog as a forum for me to post bad beat hands and complain, but I just cant resist doing so today.