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7/20/11

So the action seems to be outrageously slow before 6pm nowadays. Thinking until US signups start up again, only winning players will continue on the site. Clearly outside of the US pokerstars has a stronghold on the market, so it doesn't seem like there's any new population joining the merge network at the moment. Also, my recent vacation to Maine has disrupted my month. Even though I'm winning I've sort of been put off by my recent downswing in 6-handed double ups. Making it a lot more difficult to get in volume. While I'm clearly a winning player in them. I'm just not really interested in playing them long term as I greatly prefer HU. I am however planning on heading down to the Hard Rock tonight to play the daily $75 tournament for fun. Just want to see what it's like and get a feel for the card room.

JET

I declare that hero calls must now be referred to as Jason Terry Irrational Confidence calls. Mandatory.

Looking good!

So, I've been moving around stakes on merge. Was 6-tabling low stakes 6-max double ups for a while to develop my game a bit. Feeling pretty comfortable and have a pretty solid sample size to show I'm a winner so I've been playing more 50-118's. Also been mixing in 50-100 HU's and running great all of a sudden. Not sure if it's due to an increase in the player pool and getting softer games (definitely) or that I'm playing really well (maybe true....we'll say it's both). Anyways, I'm pretty happy and will start putting in more serious volume now that I've been able to run my initial deposit up over 5500ish. Jealous of Beeschnuts though who's run his up to 13k+. Damn you!

Relaxation

Been moving at a pretty slow pace poker wise, mostly focusing on moving in a couple of weeks. I'll post some pictures of my new place once we get moved in, should be around May 25-June 1st when we're finally set up. Pretty excited, moving into downtown Delray Beach. As of right now I have about 2500 on Merge, hopefully we can get into a comfort zone soon.

Back to reality

And here I thought that I would be able to pump out $450+ days every day at $50's on merge...think again! Went 25-22 today for $0 (+40 rake back). Joking aside, I know the realities so this wasn't anything new. Nice to grind from down a couple hundred and get back to even, I missed the feeling of accomplishment when doing so. As you can see, I was running way above EV (and still am running a decent amount above). So we'll see if we can get some more profitable days going over the next week. GL everyone.




Bankroll: $1840
May total: +685
(pre-rakeback and bonuses)







Side note: Dirk Nowitzki is playing exponentially better then any body in the NBA right now...this guy is putting on a show.

Pokerstars New Lobby Structure

My initial response is that I obviously like the lower rake, and greatly dislike the addition of multiple lobbies. I feel like multiple lobbies are a main contributor to what's killing Heads Up Cash tables. Retract my statement about there being less action, looks like it's picked up greatly. Maybe I'm wrong? Would rather be wrong in this situation of course.