Finally found some time to play online poker again last weekend. I started up 4 tournaments with reasonably small fields and low stakes on both Full Tilt Poker and Walker Poker.

I was not running very good on FTP, and busted out in both tourneys there before hitting the money. On walker poker it was the exact opposite and I made 2 final tables. ITM in one, and actually took down the 1st place in a $2 rebuy event with 38 players. $50 for 1st place and just winning back my entry fee in the other one meant I was up a total of about $40 ($2 and $3 on FTP was lost, and I invested about $6 in the rebuy event ..).

So ... 'A winner is me !' ... if you don't get this reference, go watch the 'know your meme' movies on Rocketboom.

Got some confidence back .. will try and play some more soooon. I'll keep y'all posted ! 

A little humor for friday afternoon ... grabbed this from Totallylookslike.com, which is an entertaining site if you are as bored as I am at work (on a friday afternoon). i might actually have to blog something about my total boredom here at work ! Work sucks at the moment .. i'll expand on that in another post, later.

T.J Cloutier totally looks like a grumpy cookie !

Wow ... am I good or what ?  I'm playing so good lately I can hardly believe it myself. From the 8 tourney's I've played in the last week I made 2 final tables, cashed 3 times and went deep 6 times. I can probably discount the 2 where everything went wrong as they were at the very start of the series of games I played.

With the money from a $2 rebuy tourney, I have gotten myself a copy of Poker Tracker and am planning to thoroughly review it here later. So stay tuned for that ... so far I have it setup mining the 5c/10c cash tables at Full Tilt so I will hopefully have some stats on the players there after a few days. I hope by that time I will have enough info to sit down at a table and have stats on a few players. This way I will be able to do some quick table selection and make an easier profit than before (hopefully).

I think I should actually concentrate on MTTs right now as my game in those has vastly improved lately and online cash games I have never been very succesfull at. The cash game at our house has been skipped for 2 weeks with it being my birthday and all.

I got a free $45 bankroll at Action Poker and since it's windows only software, I was running it on VMware on my Macbook.  Now today I tried to start the software, and after it had updated itself, it now refuses to run on VMware. It barfs out an error saying 'this software cannot run on a virtual machine'.

Now I don't know who was the master brain at Action Poker who thought of this, but it sure doesn't help me. I guess they want to prevent people from messing around with the software, or maybe they have had people with virtual machine farms harvesting all those free bankrolls or something.

Anyway, I will now have to grab my Wintell machine in order to rid the donks at AP of their money !