I Don't Wanna Stop

Random poker observations and thoughts and ideas:

Poker After Dark -- Finally new episodes. The table this week is pretty cool -- G. Hansen, D. Benyanine, P. Antonius, D. Negreanu, M. Traniello, B. Booth.

Booth is blowing up before our very eyes. He gains at least 10 pounds every time he appears on TV. The black shirts only hide so much.

I am coming to the realization that Benyamine may have more game than anyone we have seen in a long time. But he could blow up, too, even more.

All the players are betrothed to Full Tilt. Me too. I saw it coming. Maybe it was all the TV ads.

Speaking of Full Tilt, I have decided to stick to the lower level games in my tired, end-of-the-day poker zombie state. $1/2NL is my foundation. I've cleared about $1500 in the last two weeks. Its hard to lose in this game with patience and TAG play.

Speaking of TAG play, I am firmly of the belief that solid TAG play is the antidote to LAG and HAG play that is prevalent on-line. No one notices if you play TAG on-line. They notice in live play. The LAGs and HAGs still call my raises on-line when I raise UTG after folding 28 hands straight. Might as well play the nuts and rake the profits.

Speaking of raking profits, I am back to the Running Back Plan. I leave the table when I make a 2% bankroll profit, and then open another table with the max buy-in. For those of you that know what the hell the Running Back Plan actually means, congratulations. I 'took a shot' at higher on-line levels a about a month ago. One bad beat and on bad play = bad results for the on-line bankroll. The Running Back Plan is slow, but it rules.

I am curious who actually reads this blog. I have no links from anywhere, as far as I know, except a few links on my ever-decreasing Chiptalk posts.

The Tao of Poker is my lifeline to the WSOP. I read Pokernews and Cardplayer, and all the WSOP tournament results are a blur. There are too many events to even follow. The volume of tournaments dilutes the significance of each event. Joe Koozeface won the 2110-field $2000 NLHE event. Waahoo.

I continue to be disappointed that I do not have more time to give myself a chance at winning some major money at poker. I know that I am smarter than the majority of poker players, a boldly arrogant statement. But good poker players are supposed to be arrogant, right? I have worked on my live reads and concentration as much as possible. I continue to feel that I could make tons of money in poker, if only I had the time and energy to devote.

When a player folds and says "Good bluff!" they always have a medium strength hand that probably should have called and are absolutely dying to see what their opponent actually had. I know, cause I've said it.

Play on.