Tip of the Month T.V.P.

                               That's right T.V.P.  over the weekend i played Tunnel Vision Poker that's what i would called it, meaning all i see is what i have, not what the opponent could have. It's a major disaster playing that way all your trying to do is extract all the value out of your top pair and don't even second guess why they just reraised you or they check called you. You need to stop for a second and realize that most of the time they are trying to either catch up or they already have you beat. It's going to prob be a sad ending for me this month after i had just made a great comebck with 10 days to end the month up. Now im in deep Shttt lol and deff wont be a break even month ugh .I had just got done reading Blackrains article about it's ok to take a break but it went right out the window . Sorry Nathan for letting you down this month ugh , now i shall find that old Quiet Riot cassette and Play  "BangYour Head" lol.

Up the ladder one more step $600.00

                                          Quick update i just like to post when i hit another $100.00 mark. I did get a nice suckout today also lol.. Oh and you might even see my new name since i joined Merge instead of Full Tilt.i'm the player that won the pot :)    ***** Hand History for Game 42330777241 ***** (Merge)
$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, October 22, 03:32:21 ET 2011
Table Yellowstone (42330777) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: unome2 ( $25.00 USD )
Seat 2: queensover22 ( $35.47 USD )
Seat 3: thefallen888 ( $25.00 USD )
Seat 4: StarDFMFTC ( $5.02 USD )
Seat 5: tennesseetea81 ( $27.20 USD )
Seat 6: lobbybobby1 ( $26.05 USD )
Seat 7: faint9th ( $6.12 USD )
Seat 8: dtallia13 ( $23.55 USD )
Seat 9: HadronCollider ( $25.40 USD )
StarDFMFTC posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
tennesseetea81 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to unome2 [  8h Jh ]
lobbybobby1 raises [$0.70 USD]
faint9th folds
dtallia13 folds
HadronCollider folds
unome2 calls [$0.70 USD]
queensover22 folds
thefallen888 folds
StarDFMFTC folds
tennesseetea81 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 5s, 8s ]
lobbybobby1 bets [$1.31 USD]
unome2 calls [$1.31 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
lobbybobby1 bets [$3.27 USD]
unome2 raises [$10.54 USD]
lobbybobby1 raises [$20.77 USD]
unome2 calls [$12.45 USD]
unome2 shows [8h, Jh ]
lobbybobby1 shows [Ts, Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
lobbybobby1 wins $1.05 USD
unome2 wins $47.84 USD from main pot

Losing Focus

                                    Well i started off the first 3 days of Oct up $120.00 for the month then it happened. Losing focus playing too long of sessions calling too much so i ended up losing that and down about $20.00, not really a big deal in that i started mixing .05-.10games up with .10-.25 games so a learning curve to say the least. As of today im up $38.63 not counting Rakeback for the month with 34,861 hands played so far .We still have 10 days left for the month and i hope to play very solid poker. The picture is a 1964 Vw Bus we just bought for my 14yr old son so him and i can fix it up the next couple years for him to have. Yea it's a rust bucket but it's a split window bus
                       

$500.00 mark

                      Just hit the $500.00 mark and hope to keep my game solid to start playing .10-.25 games. I have been desciplined lately laying down QQ and even KK in certain situtations , very tuff to do very, very tuff as you all know. As i have said in the past it is very hard to win the money but alot easier to give it away on bad calls or bad bets that put you in a horrible spot. I hope i can continue this type of success as i move up, i have been getting alot of respect from some regs at the Tables. One of them actually laid down KK pre when he raised mid pos i reraised from BB  i don't even remember what hand i had but i think QQ so he thinks, folds and shows it . I say WOW . This is from a player that has a stat of VPIP 21% PFR 13% AGG 2.3 HANDS 13,000 but he respects my game. He knows im pretty solid. He has lost a bunch of hands to me because he will pick bad spots play bad cards and then he wonders why i own him most of the time. Not because i'm lucky but because i try to play solid well most of the time. Then when i get all wild you know like flat his raise pre in pos on btn with 78s or k10o and hit he just can't believe i played that hand . So the power of image at the table is huge. I also have to give a big thanks to a well known player i mentioned earlier in a few posts back. I have always been a winning player since i started a few years back, but getting some coaching advice has cleaned up most of my game. I admit i still donk call , still donk shove , still make horrible decisions but i know what is right and wrong when i do it, If that makes any since to you guys and gals. Gotta go so good luck at the tables everyone. Bye Chris