I was asked if I would be interested in creating a blog. After thinking about it for a couple of weeks I decided "Why Not".
MY GOAL----
To win enough money playing on-line through pokerstrategy to go to the 2013 WSOP and play in a couple of events.
I do not have a lot of free time to play during the week as I work from 5:30am-to-5:30pm Monday to Friday give or take an hour. Working for a living is highly overrated but it is a necessary evil as a way to a means. We all have obligations and bills and a certain lifestyle to maintain. This is my cross to bear. Reality sucks--get used to it.
I will copy and paste what I wrote as my introduction and then post anything and everything that comes to mind in this blog. Brutal honesty is my motto. Ask me anything and I will give you a straight answer. Whenever I get time to play I will post my results here. After all isn't that what we all want? Positve results. They say never be results orientated but I say that is a crock as it is the positive results we are looking for or else we wouldn't play.
I play all games and all variations depending on my mood. Lately though POT-LIMIT OMAHA is where you will find me 80% of the time. I do dab in touraments but have been playing mostly the free-rolls until I build up my bank roll.
OK lets get started
I'm a 58 year old grandfather who has been playing poker off and on (depending on my lifestyle at the time) my whole life.
I stated playing on-line in 2002 at aaa site that has just recently re-started up. I was given a $10 comp by the site and by 2005 I had earned in excess of $150,000 on-line. I also had just come back from a trip to Sweden which was All expenses paid. I was given this trip by the site I was playing on as a promotion. I had moved up in stakes to bring in $2,000 which as everyone knows is above my brankroll. I took a very bad beat (don't we all), which cost me a pot of $10,000.
**sniffle here** I lost to a 1 outer and was so disgusted I cashed out everything and quit playing for 2 years.
If anyone is interested here is the hand. Playing 3 handed the game has been playing for about 3 hours
Playing blinds 10-20
Hereo $5,600
villan $8,000
3td $2,000 (just joined)
Hero B 10-10
villan SB 8-8
3td BB
I raise to $100
villan calls
3td folds
Flop 10-5-5
it goes check-check
Turn 8
villan checks, hero bets $200, villan check raises to $600 I re-raise to $1,200 villan pushes all-in. Hero calls.
River 8.
I was so disgusted I quit playing on-line after that for 3 years.
After cooling off for 2 years I ended up playing live in Brantford On. in the 2007 spring championships where I won a little over $30,000 for the week. I final tabled all 3 tournament that week with 3td,7th and 4th place finishes. There is a blurb about me in the summer edition of the old Canadian Poker Player Magazine. MY CLAIM TO FAME. HAHA. I quit for awhile and then went to play in the WPT $10,000 buy-in at the Fallsview Casino in Niagra Falls Ontario.
Day one went well but I made a mistake on day 2 and ended up knocking myself out by getting it all in preflop with pocket QQ vrs pocket AA.. Oops.
Because I am my own worst critic I once again quit for awhile.
I also had a 10th place finish on stars in 2005 in the $1,000 buy in limit tournament for $6,600. I won my seat in a $50 mega seat qualifier.
I joined this site in 2008 but have only been kicking around here. I plan on reserrecting my playing whenever i can but I do have a full-time job and a family to attend to.
This is me. I stated this not to brag but just to let you know where my head is at these days.
Reading between the lines you will get the impression my bankroll management is not very good and has done me in. Either I'm running hot and spending it as fast as I make it, or I run cool and because I haven't kept anything back for a downturn I end up with no POKER BANKROLL.
Let that be a lesson to you all.
At any rate I'm grinding small stakes on Everest thanks to pokerstrategy.
P.S. I much prefer live but do not have the time to invest.
Later
Site-------------------Everest
Starting Bankroll----$100-------$50 from pokerstrategy, $50 my money(deposited June 18,2012)
Any and all bonuses will be considered earned money for this excersize.
I started out playing Bring in $10 pot limit omaha and have played some free-rolls and a couple of small buy-in MTTs. I had a 2nd place finish in a $3 buy-in MTT. I have also tilted off some money. Sucks to be me sometimes.
Bankroll as of now--$203.
All results and games played will be posted and anything else anyone wants to talk about that affects our day to day lives.
. I told you I needed someone to point it out to me the first time. How long have I been playing on Everest 2,3,4 weeks now and not once have I noticed anything in the top right of a table :(. The options button in the bottom right yes but the top right no. Thanks for showing me the thread. I think I missed it because I've never had to re-load at a table yet, YEA THAT'S IT !!!!! it's definately not because I'm thick and blind.