Mid February Update by

Mid February Update

by Doylestown on 02/17/08

Sorry it’s been a couple of weeks since I last updated. Where to begin?

Sports

Well the first part of 2008 made it a good decade for us Giants fans. Hey it has all been talked about to death so I won’t attempt to wax poetic on it but man what a run! You guys saw the weekly struggles us real fans went thru with this team during the regular season which makes the playoff run so gratifying.

I’ve been a Giants fan since before Simms joined the team. A couple of months ago I was talking with a friend who I only get to speak with a couple of times a year and he asked me if I wanted to buy his old Giants games on VHS which he taped himself. After some negotiation I struck a deal for the 1986 and 1990 seasons, almost in their entirety, sans a few regular season games. I’m pretty excited about it and now I want to find a way to transfer them all to DVD. What a blast it’ll be to re-watch those great old teams.

If February wasn’t off to a good enough start my other favorite team, the New York Mets signed the best pitcher in baseball. Welcome Johan Santana, can’t wait to watch you every 5th day!

Online Poker

I’ve been playing an awful lot this month in an attempt to find out what I really want to do in the online poker world. Back in the Fall when I started writing this blog I had been playing 6-max cash for a short time and hadn’t played tournaments in a good many months. So where am I now…… I’ve been playing 6-max cash consistently since the summer and the bottom line is I never did and still don’t enjoy it. It really feels like work to me. Furthermore it doesn’t stimulate my mind so I never think about it when I’m away from the tables. I feel like I’ve been going thru the motions; which is easy to understand based on my whole attitude revolving around cash games.

Probably the biggest deterrent to cash games for me right now is I’ve been really trying to focus on

Tournaments

Something has to give and with my family and work responsibilities I really don’t have the time and physical energy to devote to cash games and tournaments. So while I’m not quitting the cash games, I am going to make a conscious effort to cut back to focus on MTT’s.

I’ve been playing tons of MTT’s lately, kind of pushing myself to see what I can handle both hours wise and table wise. OK, playing a whack of 180 turbos while playing the bigger online events at the same time probably isn’t really smart but it has helped me broaden my old limits. While it hasn’t been stellar for the bottom line I am getting a good sense of what direction to head in. I am now pretty comfortable 8-tabling, unheard of for me not too long ago. I also decided that I needed to jump back in the deep end and give Full Tilt another shot after taking a month off from the site.

Quick February Online Recap

Cash Games: I’m stuck a bit. This may be my 1st losing month since I began playing 6-max in August as I’m not sure how much more I’ll play this month (will have to see how close to platinum I am late in the month).

MTT Highlights: I have a tidy but unspectacular profit banked mid way thru February. I played my first Sunday event since before football season, the Stars Warm Up and cashed albeit in the bottom payout rung last week.

I took 5th (1256 runners) in the Stars 50K earlier this month for @ 3K and wanted to cry as I misplayed my bust out hand really badly, I’ll blame it on fatigue being it was 4AM and I’d been up since 6AM.

Last week I final tabled the $50 Rebuy finishing a heartbreaking 6th place for $2500 when I called a shove with A2 and lost to K2 when a Cowboy fell on the river.

The following day I had the chip lead in the $20 1Rebuy at the final 2 tables and somehow found a way to blow up and finished 12th??? I think fatigue had really set in so I took some time away.

After a couple of days off I came back yesterday and added Full Tilt back into the mix. I cashed in 2 of the 3 events I played over there taking 15th in the $75 6-max despite suffering some horrible setbacks along the way two of which would’ve made me chip leader at the time and instead got me jolted back to mid pack.

For the month I’ve cashed an insanely ridiculous 23 of 88 (26%) in non 180’s and feel I’ve squandered some great opportunities. In 180’s I’m a pedestrian 8 for 61 (13%) IT$. These have been a great waste of time and energy.

The plan going forward is to have Full Tilt take over the bulk of the 180’s in my rotation. I’ll update again when there’s more to report.

-Doyle-

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EdmondDantes says

As a Patriots and Sox fan, I had just the opposite start to my sports year. The opportunity to put Mercury Morris and the 72 Dolphins in the dustbin where they belong and leave the Yankees stressing over the Beckett/Santana 1-2 punch. And whiffed on both counts. Nauseating. The 85 and 90 tapes sound like a nice score, tho!

So I can feel a little better, how about the hand you mangled from the Stars 50k? :)

02/17/08