Good Run Central!

I am on what is, by far, the best run ever for me in poker. I have made 7 final tables live and 8 final tables online, plus had a few tournament cashes other than final tables, since January 17th. A good friend of mine pointed out that if this was June/July WSOP events, i would be rolling in several hundreds of thousands....but I'll take what I can get, lol.

A few of my friends questioned what is different this month that last five months. Remember I played 90 hours of tourney poker (which was only 6 live tourneys), without one cash. I was going deep, bubbling, playing over 12 hours a day, and could not get there. I think that the following have contributed:

1. I stopped runnning AK into AA on the bubble- happened 3x last two months (not intentionally of course, short stack play);

2. I am trusting my reads a lot more. Check raise on a move, raise all in on bluff, bet to commit my opponent when I do not believe they have a hand, etc. This is much easier to execute online than it is live;

3. My races are winning/holding and suckouts have fallen by a large percentage;

4. I am playing larger buy ins so players are more aware once you get deeper into tourneys.

That being said, I am super happy with my results and very excited to continue playing a lot this year. Additionally, I played two tourneys at Borgata this past weekend, where I was out in less than 4 hours in both, however....it was a shit show. And my hands did not hold up. And the play I saw was absolutely horrendous. It was hilarious. For ex, 4 way pot....I had K9 hh, I limped bc I had 13 bbs and was playin bad, flop is j 3 4 with two hearts, bb bets 3k, opp folds, I ship 7500, sb folds and bb calls of course. I anticipate he has qj something. He has K3 off suit. Get that, overbets pot with bottom pair into three opponents. Its very difficult to play against illogical plays....hurts my brain I tell you.

In Jon and I's personal life, Jon will be flying to Vegas and driving cross country with his best friend Pete. During that time, I am going to Cancun with some friends....I am excited and looking forward to the break. I am even considering leaving my laptop home. The week I return, I will play the $500 and $1500 tourneys at Cesars. I might play the deepstack at the end of March at Borgata as well.

I have created a new system for keeping track of upcoming tournaments- between online, the East coast and Vegas, I need one place to look at the schedule. So I created a calendar on Word which I update with upcoming tournaments each month. If anyone is interested, I can forward it to you, just drop me a note.

I know that I promised hand histories and I will post shortly. I still have hands saved from Tunica and i will post. There were some interesting ones.