Mission WSOP

Poker at such low limits is such a grind, I had not been having a lot of fun playing.  Hence, my lack of blogging about poker.  But on Sunday, on a whim, I entered a $75 satellite to a $1500 WSOP event on Full Tilt and came as close as you can to winning the seat without winning it.  I finished 3rd and top 2 got the seat.  I knocked out Full Tilt pro and Card Player writer, Roy "The Oracle" Winston and earned $208.  Definitely not the $1500+$500 spending money but I DID have fun because I felt like I had something to lose.  The constant playing for $1 or $2 here and there really made me lose my passion to play.  And I think that kept my bankroll stagnant since January.

So, I have bumped it up a little.  I have been playing bigger Sit & Gos (instead of $2 on average I’ve been bouncing between $5 & $10 buy-ins), I have been playing bigger cash games ($0.50/$1 NL and $0.50/$1 PL instead of $0.25/$0.50 NL and $2/$4 or $3/$6 Limit) and bigger tournaments.  Plus, I’ve tried to jump into tournaments and cash games with Full Tilt pros to keep me interested.

So far, I’ve landed a bunch of Full Tilt pro bust-outs in my poker playing:

Andy Bloch
Richard "Quiet Lion" Brodie
Michael Craig
John D’Agostino
Kristy Gazes
Jennifer Harman
Chip Jett
Lee Watkinson
Roy Winston

I missed out on my chance to get Scott Fischman yesterday after donking out of a $10 PL Omaha MTT.  In addition, I played a $0.50/$1 PL Omaha cash game with Jim McManus and won $20 in about 30-40 minutes of play and then ran over a $2/$4 HORSE game with Roy Winston and picked up $85 in about 50 minutes.  So, yesterday was prettay, prettay good.  I’m almost over $2200 and I think I was down to about $1800 about a week ago.  I’m still not outside of my bankroll management rules (with the exception of the satellite) but I am making poker more entertaining to play which is definitely helping me.

So, for the 5 people that read this, there will probably be a little more poker talk coming.

In addition, check out Seamheads and see some of the articles I’ve posted there.  I actually think they’re pretty good.