The Rug...

I've waited over a week now to write about the happenings of Black Friday (the day the online poker world stood still) because I didn't want to write yet another blog expressing anger or whining. So until I had time to take everything in and process it and get over being so angry I decided not to write anything. Am I still angry, yes of course. The rug has been pulled out from under me and I'm still trying the figure out how to proceed. Did I shed tears over this, yes I did and I may continue to. Neither of these emotional response will actually accomplish anything though so I'm doing my best to put them to rest.

What now? One of my earliest responses was one of my best responses and that was oh well now I'll have plenty of time to catch up on all those PokerVT videos I haven't had time to watch because I've been spending so much time playing. I've seen several people quickly react and cancel their training site memberships and decide to quit playing online for now. For me I plan on doing the opposite. I'm taking this time to work on my game as much as I can. There are still online poker rooms where I can play and as long as they're available I will continue to play online. I won't be playing too much, nor will I ever keep much money online but I will keep playing enough to get the practice and continue to improve my game.

I think improving my live game at this point is important as well. I've always wanted to start playing in a nearby bar league but with trying to keep my star status and increase my online game volume I never seemed to have time, now I have plenty of time. Bar league play is very much like freeroll play from what I've heard but I've always enjoyed freerolls :-). The league near me has some decent prizes and live packages to play for so hopefully the play won't just be terrible. I also figure I might meet some people who play home game tournaments and maybe I'll get invited.

I think, or at least hope, that poker legislation and regulation will happen and hopefully it will happen soon and when it does I hope to have taken my game to the next level because it will create some more fishfest for those of us who've taken this opportunity to improve to really make some money.

Today I read Dusty Schmidt's blog "Keep Going" and this is basically what he is saying as well. We can do as Dusty says and ride the escalator going down or we can ride the one going up. I choose the one going up!

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
Harriet Tubman

Best Month Ever and the appendix...

Well March turned out to my best poker month ever. My profit for March was more than all of last year. I made Gold Star status on PokerStars and had a great month overall.

I still haven't binked a "big one" yet but at least I'm getting closer. I've had a 4th place finish, a 7th place finish and 14th and 17th place finishes in MTTs with over 1000 runners in the last 45 days. So hopefully a first will happen very soon.

I even managed to finally take down a $6.50 90 knockout on Full Tilt in March. Sounds weird that this is a big deal but I don't play on Full Tilt very much and even though I've played quite a few 90 KOs I've never actually won one until last month. I did win the non turbo non KO $5.50 90 man once but just never managed to win a 90 KO. So one more accomplishment in a great month.

Had a little set back on Monday. I had to go to the emergency room with bad abdominal pain and it turned out as the E.R. Doctor said "my appendix had gone south". I had it removed on Monday afternoon and had to spend the night in the hospital. I must say hospitals are the noisiest places on earth. I was so happy to come home yesterday and get some rest. Luckily my appendix hadn't ruptured so the surgery was laproscopic and I only have 4 small incisions. Most normal people get 3 incisions but as anyone who knows me is well aware of I'm not normal so I got 4 instead of 3.

Well here's to hoping for an even better April....