Clueless Wonder

Cracknaces has an excellent post on his blog about playing the short stack aggressively. I’d like to point others to this and also refute his DO #2, which is:

Push in the SB every single time it is folded around to you, no matter what cards you are dealt.

In this case I’d like to use that old poker saying “It depends”. Because if the BB has seen you do this very many times I guarantee he will end up calling you with Ax at some point. Now again, Ax vs two random cards that aren’t dominated is only a 60-40 favorite. So in that case it still depends on exactly how short you are. If you have an ‘M’ of say 3 or less then by all means try and get your doubleup. If not though, pushing every time could just make you last a few extra hands if not go home even earlier.

Some of you might have noticed my absense the past few nights in IRC. Well I’ve been in Pennsylvania helping attend to my sick grandfather. Things are not going well for him. And since I’ve neglected to attempt fixing my laptop even though I know what’s wrong with it, I have not had a computer with which to attempt to increase my net worth.

That will all change in the next few days fair reader as I continue to attempt to win BOTH of the daily doubles as well as various other of the guarantee tournaments on FullTilt. My thirst to continue to play well and keep this year smoking will hopefully keep me from doing stupid things with the bankroll. That of course would be bad.

I do have a question for everybody though about backing plans. Have you ever participated in selling off pieces of yourself? Did you limit the number of people or just cap the % at say 50%? Did you write up a formal contract? I’d like to hear about this as much as possible. I’m planning on playing in one $1500 buyin event at the WSOP this summer but would love to try and do two or more, depending on if I can get some backers and/or win some satellites. My run through the FTOPS satellites shows me that I’ve got the potential to do this. I’m just thinking it might be smart to get some backing as well. So let me hear what you have to say on the subject.

For those not in the loop, I’ve been doing a wee bit of traveling back and forth to Pennsylvania lately to spend time with the fam since my grandfather has been in the hospital for the past few weeks. Not much has changed in the old haunts. I’ve been able to hang out with some old friends and try to have a good time as well.

I will say this though. Never have I felt so tired just by sitting around and doing nothing. Hospitals just suck the life out of you! It will feel good to be back home again and actually have ‘stuff’ to do.

Well as some of you may know, I took a bit of time off from playing poker. I also neglected this blog. That second part wasn’t really hard because I never have been much of a poster anyway. But I digress. In mid-December I was getting pretty burnt out. I was playing poorly but of course blaming it on my donkey opponents, suckouts, etc… I never took the time to reflect on my own play. So with the holidays coming and a vacation on the way I just quit playing cold turkey. After all of the crap with the payment processors I decided that I would go ahead and see what I could do with the remaining funds in my account, which really weren’t all that much. I started playing some MTTs again in probably the third week of Jan and here are my results from PokerDB on FullTilt since then:

As you can see I’ve been on a pretty solid run. Only mistake I think is throwing $800 into the FTOPS rebuy event. But hey what can you do?