Talk about lack of updates…
Hey everyone still willing to look here and see a complete and utter lack of updates on a day to day basis. Thought I would drop in and provide some updates and throw out an idea that I’m working on for the site.
First, let’s hit the updates. Online, I’ve gone to playing mostly PL Omaha for the past month or so. This has been a positive bankroll move and I am currently sitting at $3900 on Full Tilt, $270 on Poker Stars and $110 on Bodog bringing the Online Poker bankroll to a highwater mark of $4280. So, in roughly a year, I have turned $50 into $4,280… that’s a 8460% ROI if my calculations are correct. I would say that is money well spent.
Some minor issues with my online game have been my inability to devote much time to poker. I went to Niagara Falls last week and have been focused on my writing for Baseball Digest Daily and Seamheads and loving this baseball season which totally provides me with little time to play. I qualified for the WSOP qualifier on Poker Stars and then forgot about it and missed the final qualifier on Saturday… DOH!!!!!!! I haven’t been following the WSOP as religiously as I normally would since I am still a bit disappointed that I wasn’t there this year but it is amazing to see how many pros have won bracelets this year… I think it will be a good thing for the game.
Live poker has been nearly non-existent for me. I played in the $200 Buy-In Stud event at the Borgata Poker Open, lasted about 6 hours and busted out somewhere in the middle of the pack. In our home games, I notched a 2nd place finish and won last night. Last night’s game was pretty amazing from the standpoint that I was never really in trouble until I got heads up and then had to double up by hitting an 8-outer to get to even in chips. Then, I slowly but surely took out Drew who is one of the tougher players there. I haven’t calculated the points for the site after last night’s results but I am pretty sure that win will catapult me to a place I don’t think I’ve ever been in in a season — first on the points list. I am always near the top but this is my first stop there. I also notched my fifth win and 18th cash in 46 tournaments.
As far as my thoughts on this site. As soon as this season’s WSOP ends, I will be focused on accomplishing building a poker bankroll big enough to tackle at least one event at the WSOP in ‘09. If anyone out there reads the site and has a desire to do the same in ‘09 and also has an interest in blogging about it, I will be looking to add a few writers to the site in the next two months. My e-mail address is bjoseph22=at=comcast.net (sub @ for =at=). One thing I’m looking for is people willing to practice similar strict bankroll management practices to prove that a smart player can work their bankroll successfully. This would all be discussed prior to giving access to the blogging piece. If no one responds, then it will just continue to be me. 
