O-Poker

I planned on catching up with things by writing a long post this morning. My back had other ideas. I am getting old (34th birthday next weekend) and I guess it is starting to show. I somehow managed to pull a muscle in my back this weekend from picking up and putting down my 8th month old son. The pain is kind of ridiculous. I have a new appreciation for people with nagging back pain. Let's hope I don't become one of those people.

I went to the doctor today and she pretty much told me that I'm screwed. She wrote me a prescription for a muscle relaxer, a few stretching excerses to do, and told me to get a massage once a week. She also told me that it may take as long as 6-8 weeks until I am back up to speed. I hope to prove her wrong.

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$50K Challenge

Since I managed to have an unimaginable week of poker at the end of May, I have completed the $50K Challenge (if you include the $10K WSOP seat).

I plan on thinking up a new challenge after the WSOP. For now, I am going to just set a number of hands played goal for June.

I plan on trying to play 10,000 hands of 5/10NL during the month of June and let the profits take care of themselves.

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Hard Rock Tampa

Loopy and I headed over to the Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa to play the $240 MTT. Neither of us had any luck. Loopy and I were seated at the same table to start the tourney and I asked to be moved since we know each other. They moved me to another table - which was nice. At my first table, I pretty much treaded water. I didn't get any cards and wasn't going to take any chances because people were calling bets all the way with 2nd pair and making ridiculously stupid bluffs. (One guy went all-in to a $600 pot with his remaining $1,900 and didn't show his cards after the other guy called with the nuts.)

I was moved after about an hour to the same table as Loopy. I managed to double my stack until the table broke (after about 30-45 minutes). Loopy and I were again moved to the same table. A lot of the players at the new table had a ton of chips - somehow 6 people had busted from that table in the last 10 minutes.

I put an X on one of the guys with chips at my new table. He had been raising a lot of pots and placing contiuation bets on every flop. I get dealt AQ in the BB and call his early position raise. The flop is XQ5. I check and he makes his standard continuation bet and I re-raise his all-in. He insta-calls with 55. GG me.

Loopy busted out shortly after me.

I played a $200 SNG and busted out shortly after I was dealt THE HAMMER in the BB. There were a couple of limps to me and I checked. The flop came perfect K27. I checked and it checked around. The turn brought a 9. I made a 1/2 pot size bet and was re-raised. I went all-in. I was insta-called by a guy that was slow playing his KK. GG me. HAMMER IS NO GOOD - WTF?!?

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Paradise $30 Saturday Night Rebuy

I felt like I played well but the blinds just ate me up late. It felt good to make the final table in a field of over 1,000. I am trying to put my finger on what I have been doing different lately in MTTs and have a few ideas. I am working on putting together a post about what I think I am doing differently.

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I need to update the Bloglines links on the right and was going to do that today. I promise I will get to it soon.

I've got to go take a muscle relaxer, so I'll write more later.

cmitch