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10pm Top Ten

pokerref…………71.3379
rw11687…………60.9956
basspro 2000….50.4432
the zombills…….45.5385
bryan24………….44.5316
az viking…………38.1809
fonzerelli79…….37.1935
stripesref………..31.2298
bsquad2001……31.2214
xtra money2……30.5446

4pm Leaders

sonnychiba06….51.9272
river d rat………..38.0582
kaartkeizer………37.32
cowboy40x………12.909
scottishben……..11.18

Well with the Senate passing the internet gambling bill, I decided not to take any chances and I cleared all accounts. I know many have said don’t panic, but I for one am not taking any chances. I am in the process of waiting for 2 withdraws to hit my poker checking account totaling over $800. I deposited $100 on Stars and am in the process of clearing the $70 bonus there playing $2/$4. Until I know for certain what is going to happen as a result of all this I am not taking the chance of having a site decide no American players and holding up or outright stealing the money therin. If they did, lets face it, with me being in the US I have no real recourse so better safe thaqn sorry. While I can I will make deposits of $100 and no more than that and deposit $100 again if necessary. I will not be able to go after the maximum amount of bonus offered by sites, but this is something I will deal with until such a time as the new law is challenged or stopped if that in fact is even going to happen.

Assuming that it does go through with no complications or reprieves my days of online poker are over as I have no desire to try to jump through hoops to get around things of this nature. My journey to pro is by no means over however, as I have a casino less than 70 miles from my house and will go there twice a week for 8-10 hours/day playing $2/$4 to start out with. Of course that will be when my regular job hires a part timer anjd I start getting 2 days off a week again.

In the meantime however it will be a bit before the President signs this into law and therefor I have at least that much time to continue playing online and I hope to make the best of it.

I cleared the bonus at PokerRoom and cashed out. As I said I am clearing the bonus at Poker Stars and once done, which should be tonite I will withdraw and send $100 to UB and try to clear what I have there. I was going to deposit at Party but a $100 deposit will get me only $20 in bonus money which hardly seems worth it. better to go to UB where I have over $200 awaiting me.

Have the bankroll for $2/$4 and really enjoy these stakes. Hopefully I will continue to show profit and stay put.

Bankroll $1246

And that’s the way it has been going for me over the last few days. Since I deposited the $500 on PokerRoom I am down $225. Bonus chasing has never worked for me. I just don’t understand why. It doesn’t matter what site I am playing, when I go after bonuses it is always a disaster. However, when my benefactor gave me the gift of $1000 one of the conditions he requested was that I bonus chase and I am a man of my word so I will continue onward. PokerRoom seems to have more outdraws and bad beats than Stars and that’s saying something. I have lost tract of how many times my opponents are hitting their 2nd pair on the turn or river. I raise preflop , they call andon the flop they are calling with a single overcard to the board or worse. There was one guy who called my preflop raise then he called the flop bet with a gutshot draw. He had A7o. Bad enuf he called a preflop raise with that garbage. Flop was 234 or something of this nature. turn was a 7 river was a 7. I had KK or QQ I believe. Mouse nearly got smashed on that one. I do have a spare in a bedside table drawer should my temper overcome me.

Total bankroll is $955.23. I don’t care about the $83 I had. As far as I’m concerned that was lost in my forray to NL cash games, but being down from the $1k hurts. I was not given this money to lose and I want to show that I was worthy of it. Right now I am feeling less than worthy. I have loaded some of the hands to PT, the ones PokerRoom actually loads for me and everything looks good. I am not too tight, not too loose, PFR are good and postflop AF is reasonable, but I am minus $60+ with AKo. Excuse me?????? That’s impossible, but it is a fact. I have never been down money with that hand and that is not based on a few times having big slick, mind you. That is based on having it over 40 times!!!

Could it be the multitabling aspect of it all? It is a question I need to really ask myself. As I play I realize that most times I have no clue about my opponents. I am playing ABC poker, but maybe at $1/$2 you need more than that. Over the last 3 days I have gotten notes on only 2 or 3 players at most. It is obvious I am missing out on a lot of info, info that could be utilized to maximizing the profits. Only one way to find out for sure. For the next few days I need to single table. If I come up with a profit I am going to know once and for all that multitabling is a serious detriment to my game as a whole, and is something I am not meant to be doing. I certainly am not going to be stubborn about this and have the attitude I can do it because others can do it. We all have our strengths and weak points and it is quite possible I am destined to be one of those people who need to focus on one thing at a time. I certainly am not going to wait til I am down another $225 and then say “oh geez, maybe this isn’t for me afterall.” Time to find answers and nip this in the bud real quick.

486 points to clear the $250 bonus at PokerRoom. Assuming I signgle table it it may take as long as 9 days more to clear it. I have a feeling in my gut that single tabling is going to show a profit and thus tell me this is what I need to be doing for the duration. Certainly will take longer to achieve my goal, but then again I won’t do it multitabling if multitabling keeps bringing out losses.

Going to try to play 200 hands/day single tabling, but I have come down with a head cold and may be sleeping a bit more than usual. This will be my last blog entry for about a week I think. Going to try to shake this cold and single table the next 8 days. I will report back with my results on 9/30/06. Until then play well all and I’ll do my best to do the same.

Bankroll $955.23

I took a hit a couple of days ago at PokerRoom and ended up dropping $100 for the day. Seemed like everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Since my deposit of $500 there and the clearance of $60 in bonus I am down $90. At Poker Stars where I made a $350 deposit I am up $42 so I was able to make a bit of a recoup.

Apparently there is some issues between PokerRoom and Poker Tracker. The henads load and whatnot, but I found out early on they are not accurate. I have seen reference made to this in some of the forums, so as far as sheer numbers any I would report for PokerRoom would not be accurate. Of the numbers I have been able to grab I find I am getting killed with AKo. To the tune of -$43 with that hand. Yet AQo is a decent winner. Sometimes this game makes no sense. I have only played a couple hundred hands at Poker Stars so far. Damn the bonus clears fast there. I wish they offered them more.

The week has basically come to an end although I may get some more hands played before today ends as I am going into work a couple hours later than usual. Been chasing down the PokerRoom bonus. Cleared $60 and am working on a $250 bonus there. Still have 1256 points to go before I clear the $250. I earn a bare mininum of 100 points a day and as much as 200. It will be cleared within 2 weeks and possibly as soon as a week. Poker Stars is offering a 20% reload and I will be depositing $250 or $300 there either later today or tomorrow. After clearing all of this I will then be heading over to UB to clear what I have there unless Absolute offers something in the meantime.

Earned about $85 playing the limit games of $1/$2. I am still kicking myself about trying to make the move to NL and losing $65 in the process. What was I thinking. Limit is my game, my zone. I know by now you do not mess around with what is your obvious strength. I shall not repeat this mistake again.

Bankroll $1163.16