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With a couple new folks linking to this husk of a blog (hey Jamie and CK), I figure I should post something. Not wanting to relinquish my title as worst blogger ever, however, I will go with lazy poker bullet points once again:

• Played in my first Wall Street tourney of the year last week. The best thing about this game is the constant change in the mix of players at the tournmaents -- there is a wide variety of styles employed by the various players and one has to be prepared to adjust one's strategy accordingly. Other than the crazy first hand decribed by Jamie, this tourney was fairly subdued (and quiet). I ended up playing pretty tight (I think I had a pocket pair each time I won a pot except for the final pot), got lucky heads-up against Cheryl when my pocket 3's outflopped her pocket 8's and went on to win after a few more minutes of heads-up play.


• While Dawn 2 was out of state for trial training, I had a great run at the triple draw tables on Stars and was up close to $1500 over the ten days. It seemed everything was clicking for the first time in months. Of course, I promptly blew a grand after she returned through some terrible, terrible play on my part (exacerbated by poor game selection). Alas, my super-high variance ways continue in 2008.


• Perturbed about my TD losses, I decided to numb my brain with an $11+1 razz tourney. Almost went bust several times but didn't get desperate and ultimately managed to survive to the final table by stealing antes and getting some premium starting hands at a few key moments. Not sure what I should expect at an $11 tourney; but even at the final table, it seems like people played too many hands and went too far with the hands they were playing. I built my stack up to 2nd place. The chipleader did an excellent of accumulating chips at the final table though, and he went into heads-up play with a 134,000 to 22,000 chip advantage. Five hands in, I lost a big pot on a steal attempt gone awry and was down to 6,500 chips. Without much to lose, I finally got myself into aggro heads-up mode; and after chipping back up to 20,000 or so, I was fortunate to get hit hard with the deck. There were probably ten hands in a row where I either had the low card (and was able to win on third street) or was bringing-in with a 3-card 8 or better. As a result, I was only down 10,000 chips by the time we hit the fourth break, and my opponent proposed a 50-50 chop. After four and a half hours of play, I was pretty quick to accept. It certainly wasn't the biggest score and I got pretty lucky, but the chop certainly made me feel a bit better about what had been a pretty lousy day poker-wise.