Coming together...

the poker game that is. When I first started playing after watching some training videos in early March I was killing it and after 2 months and an adjustment or two I was still winning but my results were not as great and the swings were huge. What is my problem I thought? Of course a lot of things were wrong but mainly I was playing to conservative and it was time to open up again. Also I needed to figure out soem things mathematically in order to increase my edge and understand when and why to bet and how much. That all said I am still working on these fine points and many others as I will never stop improving my game.

Now the real world AKA not poker. Had the 1st test yesterday i am feeling kinda shaky, results will be posted tomorrow. I swear these mutliple choice test now a days (is this one word?). It is like they are all about tricking you. WTF? By the way that means what the fuck. Last summer I loved t my anthro teacher gave us the multiple choice test to take home and do. Then we came to class and she gave us the answers. Then we had to take the test in the classroom having fully studied it. The best way to teach? Probably not but fuck all the tricky strangley worded question that I have been encountering lately. Isnt the point to demonstrate that i understand the concepts and ideas and know how to apply them? Also can the test resemble the material we have seen? Its like here is the study material and by the way the test looks nothing like this. Ok my rant is done. Look for the grade tomorrow or Thursday as I will be at the ball game and then playing cards tomorrow, so I might not blog till the evening.

Phil Hellmuth won is 11th bracelet yesterday. Just insane. The guys an ass but he is one skilled poker player.

Now two hands from last night and today.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1169014 I like this hand because I had played a bluff the exact same way the hand before and by doing the exact same thing with a monster I figured to get payed. Cant believe he didnt play back at me on the turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1169018 example of me opening up my game. Granted I had two kings but lately I was slowing way down when Check raised fearing the worst. Not anymore, and he mucks.

BR $2588 and I have $200 in bonus pending, this is basically free money. When I deposit money Absolute credits my bonus account 200 and then after a certain number of hands they release 10 dollars at a time until the 200 has all been released. This is there way of getting people who have gone bust to put more money on the site but players like me can take advantage of these bonuses too and reap the reward.