The Jersey Worm (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bobby_the_worm) wrote,@ 2009-01-08 02:00:00 |
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2008 wrapup; 2009 beginning with a whimper
Hello, and a belated Happy New Year to y'all. I've been off the radar for a little while, largely due to not playing much, but also slightly due to just plain laziness. For those keeping score, when last we left off I'd been laid off from the day job and so had decided to take a break from poker for a while as well as my bankroll could suddenly be put to more important and immediate use. Since that last writing (about two months ago), I've been re-hired at the same job but at a somewhat lower capacity than previously. Things at work started off slow and have lately gradually been picking up, so in my time in limbo I managed to blow through a lot of bankroll for living expenses. I'm basically starting off 2009 from scratch, or at least resolved to act like it. I'm unsure as of this moment just how much poker I'll be able to play in the near future. The hope is, of course, that the answer will be "plenty," but only time will tell. Time to build up the old bankroll again.
Since the layoff, what time I have spent at the tables has basically been in the low-stakes limit arena. It's been an interesting time, going back to limit. I think it did take me a little while to get adjusted, but...once I got back into the groove it was...well, it was just like old times. Comforting, in a way. Of course, I get run down like crazy, but, hey...it's limit. Whaddaya gonna do.
I managed to squeeze in enough hours in November and December that I played in the freeroll tourney offered by the Trop. Yeah, I lasted about a whole hour in that debacle. Nothing really exciting went down. I basically just made a really ill-timed steal, and that was all she wrote. Everything else has been low-stakes limit, basically hanging around the 2/4 and 4/8 levels. The only exception in recent memory was when a few pals came to town and I joined them in a cheapo NLHE tournament. Did so-so in that one; made it to about the top third before busting out. And at least the bustout was strategically sound: got my money in good and all that. (All-in pre-flop with pocket nines against KQ suited. I flop a set, he flops a straight. Doh!)
Going back to limit's not so bad. Also I guess I'm sticking with the Trop as my primary place. When they first got a bad beat jackpot going over there I was thinking about setting up shop somewhere else, but pretty much forgot about it when I switched over to no-limit. Now that I'm back to limit, though...in the meantime, every place else in A.C. has set up a BBJ, so...might as well stay at the Trop.
One big side effect of going back to limit, at least as far as this blog is concerned, is that I feel like nothing really exciting happens any more. :) I have good days, I have bad days...but I feel like the hands are all ho-hum. I mean, that's only natural; I never have to make decisions for my whole stack any more. So I've gone back to being a grinder, basically, which probably means I see nothing really exciting coming up for the blog in the near future. :) Still...looking forward to working the bankroll back up to a decent level and trying my hand at no-limit once again.
Oh, and a couple asides. One, I didn't sign up for the WBCOOP this year, a little since my free time has become so unpredictable lately (as part of the re-hire at work is a wacky, varying schedule), but mostly because my Internet connection completely sucks and I don't do any online poker any more. Two, I am, amazingly, still in the WRGPT this year, though it's still slow and difficult going, as always. I've already pretty much given up hope on this one, but it's okay -- no matter what else happens, I did manage to double up with Presto, so...the rest is gravy. :)
And...I think that's about it. If anything big changes in my situation, I'll be sure and post about it, but for now just consider me a low-stakes limit grinder who doesn't even play that much, so just assume that I have nothing fun to talk about. Until more exciting times, then, everybody. Peace!
Hello, and a belated Happy New Year to y'all. I've been off the radar for a little while, largely due to not playing much, but also slightly due to just plain laziness. For those keeping score, when last we left off I'd been laid off from the day job and so had decided to take a break from poker for a while as well as my bankroll could suddenly be put to more important and immediate use. Since that last writing (about two months ago), I've been re-hired at the same job but at a somewhat lower capacity than previously. Things at work started off slow and have lately gradually been picking up, so in my time in limbo I managed to blow through a lot of bankroll for living expenses. I'm basically starting off 2009 from scratch, or at least resolved to act like it. I'm unsure as of this moment just how much poker I'll be able to play in the near future. The hope is, of course, that the answer will be "plenty," but only time will tell. Time to build up the old bankroll again.
Since the layoff, what time I have spent at the tables has basically been in the low-stakes limit arena. It's been an interesting time, going back to limit. I think it did take me a little while to get adjusted, but...once I got back into the groove it was...well, it was just like old times. Comforting, in a way. Of course, I get run down like crazy, but, hey...it's limit. Whaddaya gonna do.
I managed to squeeze in enough hours in November and December that I played in the freeroll tourney offered by the Trop. Yeah, I lasted about a whole hour in that debacle. Nothing really exciting went down. I basically just made a really ill-timed steal, and that was all she wrote. Everything else has been low-stakes limit, basically hanging around the 2/4 and 4/8 levels. The only exception in recent memory was when a few pals came to town and I joined them in a cheapo NLHE tournament. Did so-so in that one; made it to about the top third before busting out. And at least the bustout was strategically sound: got my money in good and all that. (All-in pre-flop with pocket nines against KQ suited. I flop a set, he flops a straight. Doh!)
Going back to limit's not so bad. Also I guess I'm sticking with the Trop as my primary place. When they first got a bad beat jackpot going over there I was thinking about setting up shop somewhere else, but pretty much forgot about it when I switched over to no-limit. Now that I'm back to limit, though...in the meantime, every place else in A.C. has set up a BBJ, so...might as well stay at the Trop.
One big side effect of going back to limit, at least as far as this blog is concerned, is that I feel like nothing really exciting happens any more. :) I have good days, I have bad days...but I feel like the hands are all ho-hum. I mean, that's only natural; I never have to make decisions for my whole stack any more. So I've gone back to being a grinder, basically, which probably means I see nothing really exciting coming up for the blog in the near future. :) Still...looking forward to working the bankroll back up to a decent level and trying my hand at no-limit once again.
Oh, and a couple asides. One, I didn't sign up for the WBCOOP this year, a little since my free time has become so unpredictable lately (as part of the re-hire at work is a wacky, varying schedule), but mostly because my Internet connection completely sucks and I don't do any online poker any more. Two, I am, amazingly, still in the WRGPT this year, though it's still slow and difficult going, as always. I've already pretty much given up hope on this one, but it's okay -- no matter what else happens, I did manage to double up with Presto, so...the rest is gravy. :)
And...I think that's about it. If anything big changes in my situation, I'll be sure and post about it, but for now just consider me a low-stakes limit grinder who doesn't even play that much, so just assume that I have nothing fun to talk about. Until more exciting times, then, everybody. Peace!
