Back To Back

Well, I'm at work and actually working today so this is going to be short.

After my success last week in the J7 Weekly TLB on www.eurolinx.com I decided that I'd play it again this week. If for nothing else to show my support to the team at eurolinx since they really do treat us like gold. If anyone who is reading this hasn't already, get there and sign up! There customer support is the best in the business and they really go out of their way to show their customers how much them mean to them.

So, with that said, I registered with the rest of the degenerates from www.jackseven.ca and went to town and before I knew it I'd won!!

When we got down to 4handed I had a pretty significant chip lead and we had 1guy sitting out. There was a short stack with us (Dwayne I think) and ScooterJess had a pretty good stack. Nobody was showing any mercy to raise/fold to blind out the 4th stack and, after losing 2 back to back pots, I lost the chip lead and started to have images of bubbling (top 4 paid).

However, that wasn't the case. The missing player got blinded out in the bubble and the short stack got felted shortly after.

Then Jesse and I went into a pretty decent heads up battle. It probally only lasted about 3omins. of so but it was back and forth and alot of fun for me.

So, thanks to Shawn and his generous contribution to me last week I've now built my online bankroll back up over $200. I'm going to focus on playing solely on www.eurolinx.com and taking advantage of their amazing rakeback program.

Unfortunately their network, MicroGaming, has terrible structures for tournaments and SnG's so I'll be focusing most of my time in the cash games.

On a side note, I just wanted to give props to Marco (PokerIsLife) for his WSOP performances this year!! Next year you'll be coming home with a bracelet dude! Also, Marc 'Myst' Karam will be heading down to Vegas next week (I think) and we'll all be looking forward to the amazing rails on www.jackseven.ca.

Peace

Rags To Riches

I'm back baby!!!!!

It's been over a month since I've played poker online or live. I'd talked about it in a previous blog but I just sort of lost the urge. I had been on a losing streak again and toying with the idea of taking a break when it just sort of happened.

I ended up withdrawing my BR from online and using it for non-poker related things which was really great!

Then, about 2weeks ago I started to get the urge again but unfortunately I wasn't in a position to make a deposit. So, I decided that I'd play some free rolls on www.eurolinx.com and see what I could do. I actually ended up playing ANYTHING BUT NLHE. It was great! I was playing again and enjoying the games. I had little to no experience in the games I was playing so it was good that I was playing in FreeRolls.

I made it pretty deep in a few but never ended up cashing. Then, last week, the weekly www.jackseven.ca free roll was being held at www.eurolinx.com (a very gracious host!!!). I told the boys and gals that I wouldn't' be playing and Shawn (kidkob) from J7 staked me fully understanding that I had no money online to re-pay him and that I live in Toronto NOT Ottawa and it would be very hard for me to get him the money back (thanks Shawn... You're the man cool guy!!!)

So, with Shawn behind me I decided that I'd simply have to win to repay him. And win is exactly what I did!!!

I don't have the HH's with me but I felt really good about my play. There was one hand when we were very close to the money bubble where I laid down 22 preflop to an allin that I think I maybe should have played but other then that I was happy with how things went. I played a patient game and was lucky enough to hit a nice heater just at the right time.

So, with that my online bankroll is now back and I'll be playing solely on www.eurolinx.com. Because of the MTT structure there I'll only be playing CashGames and the weekly J7 TLB.

The most important thing is that I once again have that urge to play poker and it doesn't feel like a grind!

Cheers!