Well, it seems I play well when I don't get good cards and poorly when I do get the good cards. Sort of a mixed blessing, but the good news is I managed to eek out another winning session. I think its a mixed blessing but I'd rather not max out my wins if it means I can minimize my losses. As I said earlier the game seems to be about minimizing losses as much as possible.

I think because of the cold streak I've been greedy. I tried to check AA which is stupid given the board it was on, for my 20 dollar mistake. Luckily I only like to play messaround with the short stacks, usually leaving my trickier plays on the shelf when I'm against a full stack.

Checked AA cuz I'm so great, gave opponent needed free card. 20

Here's the stats:

2 hours
15.68
2275.12

Only played 1 hour last night, so I'll just give a little update. Basically a really solid night. I enjoy it when I don't make any major hands but still come up for the night. Much better than losing just because nothing big came through.

One hand in particular I felt like a stud for, opponent was aggressive and raised something like 1.98, I was in BB with A2. I call, junk flop, he bets another weird small amount, I call... and so on to the river where he turns over J high. Despite the good read by me, I should have used that info to become aggressive. Does me little good to be ahead and call through, just to let him catch a pair.

Stats:

1 hour
14.18
2356.26

Well, I'm back in style. One hour of play, my warm up sort of session, and I'm happy to report that the partypoker people are still complete morons. Short session so not much to say. Unfortunately I can't play today, as I got drunk to watch the Steelers game but I'll hopefully be back tomorrow. Stats:

1 hour
56.08
2409.22

No, I'm not dead, and no, I haven't quit poker. Job has been more than a handful. The bad news is that this will be it for me at Bet the Pot for a long time. You guys have all been great, but a series of unfortunate events has occured that will curtail my poker playing in the near term future.

1. I recently commissioned as an Army Infantry Officer and will be in full time training for the next 2-6 months, and following that I will have my hands full acclimating to my unit.

2. Due to the recent passing of the anti-online gambling initiative thing that was signed playing online poker is pretty much illegal (if it wasn't already before). In any case, it would be not smart of me in my line of work to play poker on a military post network. I'm not sure if there would be any repurcussions but I can't take the risk as it would be a career ender.

So pretty much I'll be sticking to the Native American Casino's and social gaming from now on. I'll still probably check in and post every now and again, but gone will be the days of daily updates. You guys have been great and have helped me a great deal in poker. Oddly enough, my enhanced knowledge of statistics and strategy have affected me positively in other decision making aspects of my life.

As a final note, I'll be going on a little casino tour of America next week as I move to Fort Sill for my initial training. Anyone who wants to hook up with me and have a drink and donk up the tables please shoot me a message or a post.

22OCT Sunday Grande Ronde Oregon
24OCT Tuesday Sacramento California
25OCT Wednesday Las Vegas Nevada
26OCT Thursday Albaqurque New Mexico
27OCT Friday Oklahoma City Oklahoma