Overdue Update

Been a while since I last updated, there's a lot to go over.

I took a good solid week off of poker, went south with the family for some sunshine. I spent the last week of January getting crushed (poker-wise), so the break was much needed.

Upon my return I actually dropped back down a level. My game wasn't sharp enough at $50, and bankroll concerns were affecting the decisions I was making while playing, which is a recipe for disaster. I dropped back to the $25 level and have been absolutely killing it since I started back. I haven't played that much, but for the first 3,000 hands I'm up just over 12 buyins, at a rate of ~20 ptbb/100.

My stats are much better too. I try not to rely too much on them, but I have gotten a lot more aggressive all around, and (I think) harder to play against. I'm getting some hands paid off by raising a wider range and not being as readable to my opponents.

Since I'd been doing well, I decided to enter the FTOPS event yesterday, which was half pot limit omaha and half pot limit holdem. I played well and got fairly deep, but didn't cash. I got some chips in the omaha rounds but never could get anything going in holdem. Never had any big hands there, got KK once and 3-bet preflop and everyone folded, that was the end of that. No aces, no queens...Oh well, I was happy with a 77th place finish out of 777 entrants. Kind of disappointing though to beat 90% of the field and still not get a cheque...lol

Back to the grind I guess.