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E-pass is passe
Just 2 days ago I used e-passporte for transferring money between sites to get 600$ to Poker Stars to get that new bonus they had. I guess I was lucky. E-passporte will no longer accept and transfer money to and from poker sites. They pulled out. I find their motivation understandable, but their timing is weird. Is something to come in the world of online poker / UIGEA? Or is this just a random event in an online poker players career?
Commerce last Saturday
So, I finally went to Commerce again. It’s sad, that I only get to go once a month. Before my daughter was born, you could find my in a card club about 3 times a week. Well, I didn’t work much then either… Anyway, I had decided, I was going to go and there was going to be no stopping me. I thought, I could meet up with PokerKat also, but unfortunately, she had to cancel last minute.
Hello Cake!
So I finally downloaded and installed Cake and got their rakeback and am ready to pluck away at their 500$ bonus. Of course, it all started with a -45BB losing session. Oh well, unfortunately I had to take it out on my husband a bit, which I didn’t intend. Lots of profuse apologizing later. Anyway, I can’t complain, because I’ve had a phenomenal March in terms of poker, so I don’t get why I get so frustrated with one stupid night.
Chatting is a lot of fun sometimes
Usually, when I’m online, I’m all business. I play; rarely chat. I used to be the idiot that said “nh”, when somebody hit quads or better, but now I don’t do that anymore. I don’t type out “ty” either anymore, when somebody sarcastically says “nh” to me.
I just poured my heart out on 2+2 recently
Read all about it:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=149007
Basically how I got to play poker…
In the groove…
I’ve been settling in nicely playing poker. My bankroll keeps growing slowly, but surely online. I play about 200-300 hands every day, which isn’t much, but, hey with a toddler and work, it’s all I can mange right now. I feel I’m getting the right reads of people and suddenly can shake off the bad beats easily. I mean, I scream at the monitor, but the next hand I’m in the groove again. I just gotta be careful to not get too complacent. So not much going on regarding “teh poker”. I still gotta make it to Commerce again, but life is too busy right now… 
Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
How do you react to bad books?
My mom does not know much about poker. I taught her the rules one evening, when we were bored, but she played so weak tight, it wasn’t fun to play with her. She would only bet if she had it and always was afraid to bluff. She is a tad interested in poker, though, because she is a psychologist. She just hates the gambling/money aspect of the game. I still don’t know if she thinks that poker is a game of skill. I know after explaining to her 1000 times that blackjack is beatable through card counting, she still doesn’t believe me. She just knows the stories of patients that have gambling problems and lose their shirt playing blackjack. She is not a very math inclined person, so you could show her an equation and she still wouldn’t believe me card counting gives you an edge at blackjack. Now poker it is even harder to prove you have an edge, yet because of the psychology aspect, she is willing to halfway believe it might be beatable (go figure!).
Small post
I haven’t played that much poker in the last few days, except to try to clear the 75$ bonus on Full Tilt. It ran out today and I failed miserably, having only cleared about 23$ (22.50$ actual payout). Fortunately, it came with about 122$ of winnings, so I’m not to sad. I’m thinking of moving some of my BR to Cake to Bonus Whore the 500$ sign-up bonus. But then they only have like 2-5 tables of the limits (.25/.5-2/4 LHE) I play going, so I’m not so sure. Plus the payout is s-l-o-w like on FTP. So yeah, those have been the poker related things on my mind. Plus I have a Heads-Up match scheduled this week, which is always a nice spewfest.
You create your own luck
Today are my last few days in Northern California. We leave on Saturday, job starts on Monday and the big moving company is coming by the weekend after that, so it’s a week living in hotel and with friends. Today was also the last day of my daughter at daycare. I was talking about the move with her caretaker and I told her, we didn’t have a house yet, but it was going to be fine, just shrugged it off. She said, it was amazing that I was so relaxed, most of the people she knows are not like that.
Meeting Ray Zee and Tommy Angelo
Sorry, I haven’t been posting. But when you are turning in a PhD thesis and moving to another city, there’s a lot happening in your life, that is not poker related. I have a backlog of ideas that I still want to publish in this blog, so I hope you don’t despair.
One thing I do want to write about is the meeting with some 2+2ers I had about 2 weeks ago (I know, I know, 2 weeks is a long time). Perhaps you have heard of Ray Zee (an article about him) and Tommy Angelo (his website), perhaps not. Stox (his website) was about to show up, but he went to the wrong pizza place, LOL.
