| 13 September |
Birthday, NL 2-7 Lowball, and Stud 8 or Better Runs |
September 13, 1975 is when it all started. From that day forth the world has been host to THE James. Today is the celebration of that day. And what am I doing for this grand day? My ass is getting up early, going to a bunkhouse kitchen and entering shooting scores into a computer. Ya, real exciting eh? Well, not all 4-H volunteer work is exciting, but it has to be done. I’ll be going a little early so I can go have a birthday dinner with my friend Summer.
Have you ever had one of your friends go off in such a rage of anger that you end up touched about how much they really care about you? That happened to me this week. I won’t go into the why my friend went off like she did, but by the time she was done I was really touched by what she said, even if she was hopping mad when she said it.
Tomorrow, I am going with my friend Erin to see Mamma Mia. She couldn’t get together with me today because of her working. Believe it or not, I picked this movie. For those of you that look at me cockeyed, realize I am a person who saw Sweeney Todd at the theatre 4 times. Besides, the only other movie I wanted to see I promised another female friend I would go see Wednesday.
Lately, I have been playing a lot of NL Single Draw 2-7 Lowball sit-n-gos on PokerStars. With the exception of one, I have at least cashed in every one. In these Sngs you must make it heads-up to make the money. Today I played 3. I won two and finished 2nd in the other one. I have been have somewhat poor results in triple draw limit lowball. I found out really quick in this game how wide of an array of hands you can consistently win with. One thing that I do like to still try and stick with is to try and only do 1 card draws while we are still 4 handed or more. Obviously that doesn’t always become the case, but I try.
My runs in Stud 8 or Better lately have been pretty bad. Some of it is frankly bad play on my part. I have been making a few plays and getting too fancy. In the last day or so, I have went back to playing with a little more sense and have at least finished ahead in every session. I think I need to go back and focus on playing some tournaments as opposed to the cash games I have been playing. I enjoy tournaments a lot more and I seem to focus harder on them.
Speaking of which, I have tried to pick up a couple of books to work on my Stud HI tournament game a little bit. I am a good stud player. I know this, but my tournament results live when I have played have been outright horrible. My feeling is my problem comes from playing a certain style that doesn’t work as well as it should in tournaments. I’m going to take a look at a couple of books and see if I can get some inspiration. I may just end up getting a friend of mine to sit me down and teach me some finer points like Bill Boston taught me regarding Stud 8.
I intended to go to Atlantic City sometime this coming week for the United States Poker Championships. That’s not happening now. I love the schedule, but I am holding onto my money and also focusing some on my writing. My gigs have really picked up lately, especially from one dude that has me writing a lot on poker. I talked to the guy at PokerNews about future gigs with them and it isn’t looking real promising. I got the “we may have work” line. I probably won’t hear from them until around WSOP time. That’s fine too. Actually, if things keep going the way they are with this one client writing, I may not want to take on any other gigs for a while. That wouldn’t upset me at all.
Anywho, have a great weekend all. Maybe Ill come back and tell you what Summer got me for my birthday.