Just some updates....

Hey.

Well, my stack is pretty healthy now after a nice cash game session. Can't complain.

I think I'm going to stick to cash games and play freeroll tournaments as appropriate. A couple of things to know about freerolls.

1. Avoid Limit Hold'em freerolls on Pokerstars unless you have a TON of time to play in one. I got bored and stopped playing in one after I made it to the first break. Any of the other ones are fine...just keep in mind that the Pokerstars freerolls are just feeder tournaments to a $1000 freeroll tournament held every Sunday. When you get 8000 people playing for 27 seats into a $1000 freeroll, it isn't a great choice of time...unless you are just looking for tourney practice or something.

2. The freerolls on Tigergaming.com are really good as the player base is a little weak. I played in one and missed the money by 2 SPOTS!! Argh, what can you do? I got my money in with the best hand and lost...have to live with it.

3. I play in the $1000 freeroll (8:30 PM EST) on Royal Vegas Poker (which has recently changed its skin) fairly frequently. If you register, please tell them that "kk_rush" referred you..much appreciated.

I played in a $1 tourney on RVP last night and actually did pretty well...90th out of 270 (it paid 27). This was despite the fact that I had no cards...the best hands I had that were worth playing were A-Q, a pair of pocket 10's, and A-4 suited when I lost against K-J. Again, I got the chips in with the best hand (about a 3-2) favourite....so no complaints.

Later.

Tried some Hold'em NL cash games...

Hey folks.

Anyone (if anyone) who reads this blog knows that I generally stick to tournaments, SNG's or limit cash games (Hold'em or Omaha8). However, there wasn't much on the go last night in my usual games so I thought I would give some NL cash games a try.

Normally, I don't bother with this due to the variance so I really just played small...0.02/0.04 blinds (LOL...I told you it was small). I put $1.00 on the table and just basically played tight. I was in the BB with 5-2 and flopped trip 5's. Unfortunately, someone else had the case 5 with a better kicker....so you know how that went.

Anyway, I loaded up again and, at the end of the session, I got my money back and made a small profit. I'll admit that NL cash games are not exactly the way I like to spend my time but they can definitely be fun once in awhile.

When you run bad, you run bad....

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More success with another approach.

Hello Poker Fans.

I've been hearing of a site called PocketFives.com that seems to be a site used by a lot of the top online players. You always hear stories about people making a lot of money online and I was always wondering how they went about doing it with, if it can be believed, with such consistency.

In addition, I have always felt (at least recently anyway) that something was missing from my game. I've been a break-even player more or less over the last while...so I wanted to try some new ideas.

In addition to listening to PocketFive podcasts plus reading their strategy articles and such, I believe that my main problem is my playing style is not aggressive enough and that I was making some fundamental flaws in my play (such as not protecting made hands against draws and such). I also read a very interesting article with regards to bankroll management and the level of game you should be playing. Using this "floor/ceiling" analogy, I have made the conclusion that I'm playing at too high of a level and that I should step back one.

This has had some decent results. In addition, the more aggressive stance that I have been taking has been paying dividends in my SNG play. I played in 4 and got a 1st, a 2nd and one bad beat in another (the fourth one was me going in with a decent hand...but got called by a better one).

I think I have found something here....more later.