Friday, November 11, 2011

What have I been up to?

Good question. I've been playing a fair amount of live poker at Bay101 and the Oaks card club which is about 15-20 minutes away from me. I didn't realize until last week that the Oaks spreads a 30-60 game. So instead of driving an hour to Bay101 to play the 40-80 game, I can drive twenty minutes and play 30-60. The skill level of the two games is pretty similar, so it's hard to say what's more profitable. Driving the extra 90 minutes to be able to play stakes 33% higher or having that extra 90 minutes to play along with saving some gas money to play lower. It's pretty close.

My results so far have been disappointing. I'm on about a seven session live losing streak over the last month or so. It terms of hands it's probably 2,000 hands which is literally one half of one day of playing online for me but it feels a whole lot worse than that since it's been spread out over several weeks. Live poker is brutal in that regard, I feel like I can play through losing streaks online, with live poker that could take months.

I have been playing some tournaments at the Oaks as well, trying to get sharper for the PCA. I final tabled the first tournament I played. Well came 10th out of about 75, but final tabling it sounds better. The rest of the tournaments I've played, I haven't cashed. I'm heading to Vegas on Monday to play some of the Venetian deep stacked tournaments.

Aside from that, I'm heading to Canada after Thanksgiving for about two weeks. I'm planning on grinding as much as possible while I'm there and trying to get back into the swing of things. I'm sure I'll be very rusty at first so I intend on restricting most of my play to lower limits until I'm confident I'm playing well.

I'll be heading to Boston for Christmas, Mexico for New Years, the Bahamas for the PCA and then likely Costa Rica for 3 months to play online next year. I just contacted Poker Refugees to help with the move to CR. We're hoping to get a nice place on the ocean with reliable internet. It doesn't sound like CR has any problems with online poker players being in their country so that's nice. The only potential issue is opening a bank account there which I've heard is a hassle. Ideally, I'd like to keep the Canadian accounts and continue withdrawing there but it's still a little unclear whether Poker Stars will allow that.

Good luck at the tables everyone.

10 comments:

  1. That is great that you get to travel the world doing what you Love to do. Hope to see you before you go Tony. See ya man, JG

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  2. Thanks man, I definitely hope I get a chance to see you before the holidays.

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  3. Any chance you'll have time to get together and play some pool when you're out here for Christmas?

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  4. I'll try. I haven't booked the trip yet or made any plans while I'm there so good chance I should be able to. I'll let you know.

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  5. Cool! It's hard to believe it's been over 7 years since we've played pool.

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  6. Wow I would have thought even longer than that, I don't even remember the last time.

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  7. How about this...It's been about 17 or 18 years since we were in the finals every week at Chalkie's tournaments. Man, when did I get so old? LOL

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  8. if the US gets legalized, are u still going to relocate to play on stars to get SNE?

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  9. It's hard to say for sure but I think I'd most likely have to leave the country to play.

    I doubt I will have anywhere near the earning potential on a US based online site (I could be wrong). The biggest issues are a very limited player pool for Limit players and whether it gets enforced at a state or federal level. If it gets enforced at the state level, California probably opts Out and even if they opt In, there would be such a small pool of players, there's no way I could make the same amount of money unless I started playing all the other games.

    We'll see though. I certainly would like the option to play and it's utterly ridiculous to be able to play poker in a casino but not from your laptop in the same casino.

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  10. Yes and it's also ridiculous that they allow people to buy lottery and scratch tickets or to play keno games yet do not allow online games. Hate it when people are illogical.

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