Played for about 4 hours today. I kept playing .05cent/.10cent because I didn’t want to get cocky, play outside my bankroll and lose it all like kind of did before. So I just put on some Ustream Athene Poker and played for a number of hours.
I would have made 3x as much however I made a few loose call with low pocket pairs with BLATENT over cards on the FLOP that people OBVIOUSLY play.
I am still up but I learned I need to discipline my self more.
In other news my rating went up 6 points in one day.
I’m slowly pulling myself out of the hole I dug back when I first stated playing for money online. As a result my poker ratings is at 18%!!! Which means I have moved up from ICECOLD to just COLD!
Its 3am and I just finished playing about 2 hours of .05/.10 stakes poker. I played 4 tables at once. I personally like 4 tables for now at least, because I can still get a feel for the other players and incorporate blind steals as well as solid hand plays.
I did however deposit $30 into my account a few days ago so I could play 4 tables at once as I only had $5 in my account previously. Basically that means my current score is:
(Current Balance) – $35 = Winnings
So basically my score to date is: $31.01US
I believe I am in the lead so far but I haven’t talked to Dustin a few days so I I’m still not sure.
Here is my Poker Report card from PokerTableRankings.com for Dec 8 2009…I don’t post these every day but I felt like doing 2 days in a row because I moved up to a B ratings…ooooo
This is a video of me grinding out 4 whole tables and explaining a little bit about the Christmas 2009 challenge between DustinJanzen.com and EthanCainePoker.com.
I played a number of hours of poker and learned that I still make alot of mistakes. So far in the Christmas challenge between DustinJanzen.com I am +$1.63. I would be ahead $10 or so but I made a few common mistakes like:
Overvalueing Top Pair
Bluffing ON the river with NOTHING
Not FOLDing if MAJOR raise against me and I only have a marginal hand.
All in all a very informative day and I will work harder to fix my mistakes so they are not repeated next time.
So I was playing a cash game and got dealt JJ. Raised PF with one caller, flopped a set JJJ. Large raise to protect, guy went all in. I followed suit because it wasn’t ALOT of money but enough. He had pocket queens giving him the higher set but lo and behold the suckout gods were smiling on me and provided me 4 of a kind.
Like the old saying goes, there are many ways to play Jacks and they are all wrong.
I’m slowly pulling myself out of the hole I dug back when I first stated playing for money online. As a result my poker ratings is at 18%!!! Which means I have moved up from ICECOLD to just COLD! 
but lo and behold the suckout gods were smiling on me and provided me 4 of a kind.