I had to pay a Life long Fee to a Poker Player

                                                         "Click it for Charity"

So Last night I was doing a little skyping with one of the Top 25NL & 50NL winners. I actually met him well I was playing online . I seen that he was a very good player and winner so I started chatting with him at the online tables . Yes, he responded when I asked if he would coach , he gave me his Skype name So we have talked a few times but last night he was going over some hands I had played and told me how he would have played them. I think like out of about ten hands only one he said well done lol . And gave me some other pointers , then later on he said he has coached friends and sweated them and they do so well when he is there telling them how he would play the hands then after he leaves they start playing horrible again .He says he feels like hes not helping anyone. Well I feel like when you teach a dog to catch a frisbee he doesn't catch it on the first time, it takes a while for him to catch on . Yes I will catch on :) .
So after we get all done like at 3:45am,  I told him I would pay him for sweats or coaching , he says nah man something else. What something else? He said  It will be " Your Lifelong fee to me" so he told me to go to
"Click to give" I look at it and say to him ? You want me to give them $35.00 ? he says nah man it's free . You register, then register for the Reminder so you can click on them once a day. He says they send an email so every morning he gets up checks email clicks on them  and that's it. I said what about all the ads below they send me crap? He said nah man only one email that's it. So If you guys are reading this it only takes a few minutes to sign up for it , it's free , and gives us poker players a good feeling for doing our tiny part in helping people out. Takes like 30 seconds of your life every day when you open your email to click on them. What I am really impressed with is, he's a 26 year old guy with a girlfriend that cares about things like this. I might be more impressed about this than how good of a poker player he is lol . Ok so sorry I hate writing long Blogs because most people wont read the whole thing but Thanks for reading if you did .
                                                                                                                       Chris
                                                                                           Ps: Click to Give

Got A Ticket Dammm

So I won a ticket today finally , well I think I have played about 6-7 of them so far but this is the first time I came in 150 or better to win a $109.00 ticket to enter the $150,000.00 Sunday Guarantee . I think 1st place is like $60.000.00 that would be sweet but I will prob be lucky to just sqooze into the money. I have some things to do tomorrow so prob enter in it next week .

And other than that, it has been fair at the  cash tables , I did have a two day span where I had 3 losing sessions in a row total of -$219.82 loss between 25nl and 50nl . Which kinda hurt but when playing 50nl you could lose $200.00 pretty dam fast . That is why having a somewhat good bankroll is important or at least the sense to stop and move down limits until you grind some of it back is so important. I  got it all back  and then some in the last 10 sessions so I feel good about that. That's about it , $109.00 ticket wee it will be my biggest by-in Tourney yet online . Should be fun  . Also here is a  Free video by Al Sousa   http://www.texasholdempoker-stats.com/html/vid_discipline.html   " Fuzzypup " Which is a little different because he talks more about eating good to help the body and mind feel more focused while playing at the tables , saying to eat lots of whole grain products and beans for nutrition . Boy I don't know about the part on not eating Pizza cuz I love pizza yummmmmm . alright I hope you enjoy it and may you " Play your Best and your cards hold up" thanks again for reading.
                                                                                                Chris 

Taking a shot at 50nl

So I have been tiptoeing and taking little shots at the 50nl tables this month. Just to get my feet wet and see what type of players are sitting at the tables . I think at certain times of the day you get lots of recreational players they really don't know the difference it's only a Quarter or Fifty cents why not sit down and play there . So you will find a lot of half stacks, guys that come in with $25.00 and sit down . The game seems to play out like 25nl so far. I have only put in 999 hands and have run really well so I expect the worse to come shortly lol as typical for me. And i am happy to say they have the Quadrabunga promo this month . I have flopped quads three times so far but all small ones , no face cards yet . 8888 for $10.00  , 3333 for $5.00 and 3333 again lol for $5.00 I'm not going to complain I love this promo .. Here are my sessions so far at 50nl lucky like I said so far.

Some day I will grow up and be like "Rosh" I hope , anyhow all is well and we are starting to get nice weather here so happy,happy,happy take care and thanks for reading . Chris

Spinning My wheels

Man this month has just felt like I'm spinning my wheels . I played not a huge amount of hands it was

1. 28,982 Hands only made          $136.63 (depressing)
2. I flopped 6 flopped quads for    $260.00 (Happy)
3. And made Rakeback of            $164.90 
4.                         Total for           $561.53

Don't get me wrong I am happy with this but my win rate was horrible .Ev said I was $261.60 below which really sucks . And now the weather is starting to get nice so I am not sure how many hands I will put in the Month of May but I hope I play solid and might take a stab at 50nl . Other than that , it has been a pretty boring month but one thing after I posted my last Blog about Full Tilt there is news that the Tapie Group backed out and that Pokerstars is the next Co that might purchase it. Which would be a Win Win for everyone I truly think . Here is a link to some info on the Rumor. I hope we will soon find out . Can't really think of any tips to give you guys except just hang in there during the crappy times in poker and in the long run it will workout. below is graph of April it just started out downward then I really started pulling out of it and hit another Pothole that i had to climb out of .

            Just wish I would have kept Climbing, but wish in one hand and whatever in the other lol. There has been a couple a Regs I need to do more homework on to learn how to counteract against there plays, so I can get more out of them and they get less out of me . I have also been playing a couple of the Sunday MTT's one is 150 seats to the $109.00 150,000 gurantee which I win a free entry if i get 200vip points each week and i always do , and the other is the Sunday 20,000 gurantee Deepstack which i use 1100 Vip points to enter it every week . But ugh Tourneys Can just Drain you sometimes , Because I usually get pretty deep just not in the money so far on these . But I will just watch sooner or later I will run halfway good and get there . Ok done talking "May we all Make money in May". 

                                                                           Bye , Chris

It's Been A year since Black Friday now ?

                                       
So yep it's been a year since Full Tilt was shut down . We have all heard rumors on the poker Forums that is has been bought by The Tapie Group and there is activity lately on the site . And they are hiring people , so who really knows and if they do get back up and running are they going to pay us back ? Will the Us players be able to play ? Hopefully soon we will find out but don't hold your Breath. Here is my last screen shot I took before it was closed down of my account .

                  Started out with $50.00 worked my azzz off to get it up to this , and there's tons of players with way more than this that used it for a living I feel Horrible for them . Most of you have heard me talk about it before so sorry. But figured since it was our one year anniversary we would bring it up ugh. So we will keep reading all the rumors and waiting with baited breath for something to happen . In the mean time Merge has been good to me so I am happy about that. Wasn't sure at first because of the lack of players there , seems to be getting more but still peaks about 14,000 during the playing hours which seems to have loads of Regs during then . I really like to wait later at night when the feesh come out to play lol . The other night there was a fish stacking another fish after only 95 hands the fish had over $215.00 I think that's the most I have seen a player have at the .25nl tables so far . I did win a buyin from him with KK lol he had like j4o allin pre lol . And lost a buy-in when all three of us got it in pre I had 1010 the guy that won had AQo pre hit the Queen and the other fish had like 27o or something stupid lol . Alrighty well just wanted to post a mid month report of something , so good luck at the tables and thanks for reading . Chris  :) 

QuadraBunga

 So first day of the Month and I looked at the Promos and
They have this one Going . If you Have Pocket pairs
and flop Quads 22+ you get money into your account
Nice ,I had this hand hit within hours of this new promo.So I win a nice sized pot plus $50.00 Bonus money into my account . A nice profit of $73.31 with the bonus on this hand weeeeeeee.

Wee just hit the Big on e AAAA pays $100.00

And yet another Quad flop worth $30.00 this month

                   And #4 quads of the month worth $50.00

Hit #5 for the month flopped quad 2222 worth $5.00

          Hit #6 that's flopped Quads twice today crazy worth $5.00 check out the hand LOl

         

Tip of the Month

                        So I was talking on Skype to a top winner in .25NL I play with and he says here listen to this and it will bring you luck LOL.

                                             So i'm not much of a Tony G fan lol my Favorite player Is Daniel Negreanu but when talking with him he did talk some strat . One thing is how to play against Short Stackers . We are talking guys that have less than 3/8 stack so I play .25nl we are talking $10.00 or less guys. Higher like $12.50 we can still Flat pocket pairs and play against them with strong hands. But Regs that are Shortys we should not give them any action . When we do give them any action it should be raise them and get them all-in as fast as we can .But with super strong hands.

Another thing we talked about was getting in tough spots like you have AA and it gets multi-way 4 players in the hand ugh not good . So if theres like $6.00 in the pot now and we bet $4.00 a set miner reraises us well we are pretty committed to stacking off or folding , but say you bet like $2.00 just to see where we are at and the set miner reraises well it might be small enough still we can call and see what he does next on the turn. We have to remember it's just a Pocket pair a strong one but now with 4 players ugh it's just a pair. So sometimes betting not bloating the pot we can see where we stand , yes we are making it cheaper for people to call and catch but the risk to reward might be well worth it. You can try this out but by no means live by my tips I would hate to give wrong advice but it has seemed to work well lately .

He also had a few Quotes like these.

"Remember winning poker is how much you Don't lose."

        "Good Folds Are Wins"            

                  And Daniels Tips   "Don't do Anything Stupid"

Ok so that's it short sweet and hope it might help you out in tough spots. See ya at the tables, Chris


Oh one other thing I have talked to two of the top winners at my level and one of them does'nt even have a hud the other plays with his off . So I think hmm why ? And the first thing they think is .Ask yourself what do you think the opponent has pre , flop, turn, River . They do give lots of credit even to fish and I think sometimes when we are just looking at the stats we are not thinking what hands they could have . They take lots of notes on players and they also are very smart on knowing how the regs play. I also played a few of my sessions with the hud turned off ,the sessions went well but I did have my KK run into a super 0% 3bet nit that without stats I didn't know and of course he had AA lol. I checked after the session was curious about his play. So give it a shot once in awhile turn the Hud off and play a super focused folding in tough spots session :)