OK so I got my butt kicked the Saturday. I was playing very well. I was catching cards and reading the situations correctly then I got to thinking I was bullet proof. I forgot that when someone is betting like they have a hand they often do. Not always by the way, I did catch a few hands in the cookie jar.

Still working on folding when I'm beat.

I also noticed that it seems easier to distiquish betting patterns online than in person. It tends to be quieter and I can concentrate more. That doesn't always help by the way.

Ya know when I finally get all this tweaked out. I should be a force to be reckoned with. I had hoped that I could do it in a couple of years now it looks like it may take longer.

I am working on not being quite so sticky. When someone is betting back at me or even calling large bets it's really time for me to consider that they might have something. It turns out that a set of 2's really will beat pocket rockets no matter how hard you shout or bet.

It's working too. I've laid down hands recently that I really didn't want to but if you want to survive in a tournement you gotta be willing to lay down the best hand sometimes. Course I've forced a couple of people to lay down their best hands too.

Sometimes it's nice to have an abundance of chips.

I just wish that when I bet the pot preflop more people would decide that maybe J7o wasn't such a great hand. That maybe I had something that could beat it. Course it's tough to beat it when the flop comes down 277. Grrrr.

Course people play a little tighter when there's money on the line.

So I'm also working on not going all in if at all possible.

And so it goes. Turns out poker really is a tough way to make an easy living.