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Kicked Square in the Bankroll 2007-10-15 07:00:00 There have been very few times in the past couple years of playing poker that have gone as badly as what I experienced this past weekend. All I can do is content myself that I had a witness to my misery and that my poor card luck seemed to be quite contagious. I've been having an incredibly difficult time playing poker this past week. With a new baby requiring a feeding every two-and-a-half to three hours (and that's from the start of one feeding to the start of the next - not three hours between meals), it's been nigh impossible to get enough time to complete a single sit-and-go without interruption. Saturday night was a different beast altogether. With the kids in bed and my wife willing to handle any baby-related emergencies, I had enough time to play a number of sit-and-gos; Mr. V. showed up as well to try his hand at some poker as well. By midnight, I had played seven SNGs. Of those seven games, I'd managed to make the money a grand total of zero times. Poor play? Not ...

Making Adjustments 2007-10-10 12:00:00 Well, I'm back to work today after taking just seven days away from the office. With two kids under the age of two, the life that my wife and I once knew is most likely gone for quite a while. All we can do now is make those fine adjustments to our day-to-day routine until we stumble upon something that works. Since my second son was born, I've had very little time to play poker. I have managed to squeeze in about ten sit-and-gos with somewhat disastrous results. I'm currently on a pretty decent down-swing in my bankroll having placed in-the-money in only three of my last twenty-two SNGs (two 3rd place finishes and one 2nd place finish). According to SNG Wizard, my decisions have all be quite sound and I've not missed too many opportunities to push all-in. As long as I keep making solid decisions, I'll continue to fight the good fight, my bankroll be damned! I'm pretty happy with my game now and I hope things will turn around. In addition to playing a little poker, I've starte ...

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It's Another Boy! 2007-10-02 12:40:00 On Sunday, September 30th, my wife and I made our way to the hospital via ambulance. At 11:10 pm, my second son was born amidst my panicked shrieks and my wife's zen-like calm. The newest addition to the family is perfectly healthy and both he and my wife are now at home and relaxing. Actually, I just found out my wife's cleaning the bedroom so I better go put a stop to that! I'll be on a reduced posting schedule for the next couple of weeks since I'll be playing a little less poker. I have a review to put up before Thursday and I may put up a review of SNG Wizard after I purchase it and analyze my recent sit-and-go play. Thanks for stopping by! Visit my site for the rest of this story and other content. ...

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Back to Work! 2007-09-28 07:00:00 Well, play time is over! After spending the past four days playing some non-turbos at Absolute Poker, along with a some heads-up and multi-table SNGs, I'm heading back to PokerStars' $16 Turbo sit-and-gos. It took me four days to lose the $10 given to me by Absolute Poker. After winning a $7 sit-and-go, I managed to accrue a number of losses and eventually dumped all of my free money back into the poker economy. All in all, I played well but couldn't overcome a few bouts of bad luck nor could I manage to win a heads-up match to save my life. When it comes to heads-up play, if the blinds aren't big enough to make each hand a gamble for my tournament life, I seem to fail miserably. As it stands now, my plans for the weekend include (i.e. excluding the strong possibility of my wife going into labour): Playing the $16 and $27 Turbos at Stars. I've got the bankroll to play the $27s so I might as well try them out. I'm allocating $200 of my bankroll towards playing these higher ...

Cool Nerd 2007-09-27 13:55:00 For some reason, I get a kick out of doing these online quiz thingies that pop up from time to time. You can thank Kajagugu for this. Visit my site for the rest of this story and other content. ...

No More Cold, No More Hot Streak... 2007-09-27 07:15:00 Guess what? My cold's pretty well gone! Unfortunately, this disease's influence is both far reaching and rather sinister... Before writing any further, I need to apologize if this post comes across as disjointed or garbled. The wonderful head cold that invaded my body early Monday seems to have left me in favour of another host; the ill-fated receptacle of this fiendish disease being non other than my eleven month-old son. There's no worse feeling than watching a baby struggle with a dripping nose and raspy chest. My son's cold got so bad last night that he wouldn't sleep. And so I found myself sitting in my son's room until four-thirty this morning, trying to comfort him enough so that he could finally fall asleep. I ended up winning the fight and my son finally passed out (almost literally) and was still sleeping soundly when I awoke at seven o'clock to shower, shave, and take care of all other morning business. In poker news, the departure of my cold has signalled th ...

Gesundheit! 2007-09-25 07:00:00 Don't you hate it when you feel a cold coming on? You hope that it's simply allergies or perhaps a little extra something being pumped into the air at work. Then you get home, start sneezing, and before you know it, the snot factory's open for business. Unfortunately for me, business is quite good at the moment. Sick or not, I wanted to play at least one sit-and-go last night to try out a new mouse I won off eBay. If you're interested, I picked up the Fellowes USB Micro Track Ball: it's a hand-held mouse that I'm hoping will help alleviate the constant tingling and numbness in my "mouse" hand. I put my new mouse through the paces by playing a single $6 Turbo SNG at PokerStars. I wasn't that pleased with the mouse, though I'll admit that I might sing a different tune after having had a little more practice with it. I was, however, pleased that I managed to take first in the sit-and-go, despite the aching body, lightheadedness, dripping nose, and sore throat. Tonight ...

The Coin Toss 2007-09-24 07:15:00 How long will it take for me finally accept the variance inherent in the game of poker? When things are going well, I feel like I'm playing well and deserve my success. When things are going poorly, I can't help but blame the bad play of my opponents. Instead, I should just accept poker for what it is: a coin toss. Maybe a coin toss is a little harsh considering my results and past performance. However, I'd rarely give myself better than a 53% chance of coming out ahead on any given evening of poker. That's enough to keep me going: even a 3% edge is enough to guarantee me a little bit of money down the road if I stick with it. Lately, I've been flipping that poker coin and coming out a winner more often than not. I made a post last week detailing some of the horrible luck I'd experienced amidst a losing streak of thirteen straight sit-and-gos. SharkScope declared me a Fish with an awful ROI printly boldly in red and an embarrassingly bad average profit per... Visit my ...

Helping Hand? 2007-09-24 07:00:00 I'm looking for someone to give me hand with a money transfer. I am currently looking to trade some PayPal dollars for some PokerStars dollars. Although I could transfer the money from PayPal to a Canadian Bank Account to PokerStars, I would get killed by the exchange rate fees. Of course, with the USD and CAD trading at par, I'd rather not pay any fees...which is where my loyal readers and trusted poker bloggers come into the picture. So if you have a PayPal account, some money on Stars, and are in desperate need of some good karma, please e-mail me at klopzi@gmail.com. Visit my site for the rest of this story and other content. ...

SAGE: The Sit and Go Endgame System 2007-09-20 07:00:00 How many times have you found yourself heads-up in a sit-n-go? First place pays you 50% of the prize pool while second place leaves you with only 30%. In order to be a winning SNG player, you must make sure that you're winning more than your fair share of heads-up contests. But surely this is not something that can be taught, right? Experience is the best teacher and until you've managed to play a number of heads-up contests, you can't possibly be expected to take home the lion's share of a SNG's prize pool. Right? Wrong! Experience is a great teacher but won't necessarily translate into a greater return-on-investment on your SNG play. If you want to make more money than the next guy (or gal), you should instead look to the Sit And Go Endgame (SAGE) system. SAGE is a heads-up strategy developed by Lee Jones (author of Winning Low Limit Hold'em) and James Kittock (a math professor and all-round brainiac). What can SAGE do for you? In a nutshell, SAGE is a solid and... ...

Managing Your Online Poker Bankroll 2007-09-19 07:30:00 Many other sites out there have gone into the dos and don'ts of bankroll management. Basically, the rules are pretty simple: twenty buy-ins for no-limit cash games, three hundred big bets for limit cash game, fifty buy-ins for sit-n-gos, and one hundred buy-ins for multi-table tournaments. But who needs numbers and math when there is an even easier way to explain proper bankroll management? So...you're ready to play online poker? You have a bit of money but don't know where to start. What to do, what to do... Here's one solid piece of advice: go read Ed Hollis' poker blog, 88% Concentration. Start reading Ed's archives, dating back to February 2006. Now, I promised you some bankroll advice, right? Now that you've read everything over at 88% Concentration, my advice boils down to one simple point: Do the exact opposite of everything Ed does in his blog when it comes to choosing your table stakes and when building and managing your bankroll. Simple, eh? And I may have j ...

Online Poker IS Rigged! 2007-09-19 07:00:00 Poker is a brutal game when you're winning and far worse when the cards really don't cooperate. I've been on the losing end of a lot of bad beats over time and have, on occasion, even pulled out the occasional two-outer to steal a pot. However, below is a hand that I believe proves, once and for all, that online poker is most definitely rigged! Actually, maybe I should re-phrase that. I don't think online poker is rigged against every player out there: that would be silly. In fact, judging from my experiences and the blogs I read daily, I'm going to go out on a limb and declare that online poker is rigged against the following three players: KlopziFuel55SirFWALGMan (a.k.a. Waffles) How is it that I can possibly begin to compare my woes to those of Fuel and Waffles? The following hand takes place amidst another horrible losing skid at PokerStars $16 Turbo SNGs. This hand put my losing streak at thirteen straight SNGs. Thirteen straight buy-ins lost with not even a second ...