Happy March and a New Promise

I apologize for not writing in over a month. Its very bad of me. The past two months have been a seemingly never ending roller coaster of emotion. Doubting my abilities, bubbling every freaking tournament I enter, getting two and three outted like its my job. Makes playing full time very stressful. In order to deal with this reality, I took a step back and lowered my buy ins to 10$ , $20 and $35 mtts just to get through it. I have experienced more success recently. I have cashed in four or five online tournaments, with three final tables. No big scores, all a few hundred here and there, but enough to rebuild the account. Additionally, I am running so horribly sick in cash- two out of my last ten cash sessions have been profittable. I am playing well, just getting sick coolers. The silver lining (because I always like to see the silver lining) is that I have actually saved a lot of money. I have made some sick, sick folds, knowing I was behind by the river, folds that, if I had not, wouldve cost me thousands of dollars over the long run..pretty big silver lining I think.

My ability to read hands is so on the ball. Especially live. Online, its a bit more difficult but live, I can pretty much call out hands on a regular basis- it feels great. I really have to step up my online game. It has been lacking lately. I have reverted back to more tight, and less aggressive style play and there is no reason for that. However, I think the reason for this is because I notice more and more, that players never fold. Do not fold. Fold, not ever. Sick isn't it. Top pair is the nuts almost all of the time for these players. Sickening. It is extremely difficult to play against these players. I also though, think its my responsibility, as a professional, to deal with this reality and find a profitable solution to this inevitable obstacle. Revise my strategy, rethink hands that I play, play more post- flop, reshove more preflop, whatever it takes.

In any case, for the next month, Jon and I have decided to focus on online and play live starting at the end of March for FW Poker Classic. I will be playing shoot out on March 24 and I might play ladies event at Caesars at the end of March, we will see. I am focused on a few projects now for attorneys (I love working for myself) and getting through my little rough poker patch.

In closing, my promise to you, (all five of my readers =) )is to write more, be honest about poker and what I think we as poker players need to do to be successful, and to continue contributing as often as possible. Thank you for reading!

Good luck and peace,

Lucky C and her sidekick Ace.