Film and Felt

An interesting few weeks in my poker career.  I took a trip to Atlantic City a few weeks ago for my first live LHE action in several months, and man, had I missed it.  I ran well and played even better, and crushed the 40-80 for a 6K score.  Obviously, that’s way above expectation even in a game as soft as the Borg 40…but jeez, the players are just not good at all.  I’d say the 5-10 6-max games on Poker Stars are substantially tougher.  Everytime I play live LHE, I get tempted to move out to California and play professionally.  But for now, at least, I love my RE career, and prefer poker to be a supplement…

Online, I still can’t get into the same sort of rhythm as live…I don’t think my fast-twitch personality is as well suited to playing on the computer, where I can get easily distracted and am constantly multi-tabling.  I really need to start using PokerTracker, because the players are certainly weak (at least at the levels I’d play), and get focused.  By far, my tournament game is the best aspect of my online repertoire; I tend to focus much better in them and rarely tilt, for whatever reason (I also almost never tilt live, which is obviously a huge advantage).  On that note, I just missed my first monster score last night for the third time in the past few months, finishing 21st out of 2,258 in the $215 WCOOP Limit Event.  I played very well, but made a few mistakes I regret, and lost a tough hand late with JJ vs AT on a JKQ board.  Couldn’t recover from that, unfortunately.  Ah well…the big payday is coming…