OK so I'm watching the FullTiltPoker.net poker challenge or something and John D'Agastino just Layed down an AJ suited. Turns out it may have been the thing to do, not sure about that but that's why I'm here and he's there. Anyway I'm not sure I could have layed it down, see above sentence.

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So I've just been entered in a Freeroll to win a piece of $5K because I finally made a deposit and played enough to earn 100 pts.

Not bad it looks like they are paying 360 out of 1500 places. I'm pretty sure I can manage to finish in the top 20%. I guess we'll see.

Been playing and losing but in order to get better one has to make mistakes and learn from them. In my case, I'm learning to fold more often.

Fulltilt also offers a learn from the pro's newsletter. I particularly like what Howard Lederer has to say.

A month on the River

Been playing a lot lately and losing to much. Oh sure, I haven't lost anything in my play money account, it's been coasting between 150 and 200k for about a month. It seems that I've been losing the big hands to that last card. I went all in on a set of sixes last night and boom, my opponent hit the straight draw the river. Any card but the one that came up and the chip stack switches from him very dominant and looking to clean up, to me dominant and just needing to do some housekeeping.

I should have known better. He'd been hitting it all night but he was wild reraising large against known tight players who just don't raise unless they have a hand and hitting the river more than he should have. I'd been stealing the blinds trying to unnerve him and it was working. You could see it in his face. He didn't like losing before he could play. The hand before he bet large and it didn't work.

There it is he took home the pot and I didn't.

Just got kicked out of a tourney for the WSOP doing essentially the same thing. With essentially the same results. Winning right up until the last card. I'll have to think on that a bit.