Ok, it has been awhile since I last blogged… Between the deployment , getting ready for the holidays and another deployment looming, it has been busy.
Before I deployed I got to play some live poker in Delaware at a horse track, I forget the name of it but it was a nice place to play. I played for about 6 hours and had good success; I was up about 4 times my investment and ended up walking away with about 3 times my investment. Over all, I still have not made up all of my losses in poker and it is still a work in progress.
While deployed, I was able to play in freerolls at the location I was at, both on line and at the recreation center. I was able to play pretty regularly and ran pretty deep in most of them, but never making the money.
In the live freerolls, I would make it to the final table regularly out of 40-50 people, but only the top 3 were paid and I never seemed to get there. These tourneys were pretty much like home games, “no fold’em, hold’em” and there were plenty of crazy suckouts.
On line, I did not make the money except for one. I “won a ticket” to a $40 buy-in and decided to hang onto it till I got back from deployment. Little did I know that they discontinued that tournament and the website credited my account with $40.
I messed around with that $40 playing single table tourneys, and eventually that disappeared as well.
Just the other night I was able to play some live poker in St. Louis and decided it was time to move up to the 1,2,5 no limit table. I had determined that I would aim to make a specific “rate” an hour at this table to help me play more consistently, and allow room to shift gears as necessary. For this specific table, it worked amazingly well. I won about 7 times my investment, maintained a larger chip stack than anyone at the table, and “felted” (busted) three different players all in about 4 hours. But, alas, I am still “in the hole” to my losses earlier in the year (although this did take a chunk out of the hole).
I will continue to play online/live freerolls as time allows, but I do not plan to place any money into online accounts. Live poker just seems more my style, although the freerolls keep you in the game, there is just too many questions for me into what is going on with all the other people playing. Bottom line, there are too many Donkeys who will play any two cards relying on luck rather than skill. Although they will never be winning poker players, the sheer numbers of them endanger your ship stack much to often.
I hope that I will have updates that are more frequent on my next deployment in regards to freerolls, but my next live poker session will more than likely be sometime after May.