Friday, March 09, 2007

Why haven't you posted is so long?

It's been over a month since my last post on this blog and I have a few good reasons. First and foremost I haven't had much exciting or good news to share. The first two months of 2007 have been a bit of a struggle and while I haven't been losing I haven't been winning as much as I'd like either.

This Monday I had an ephiney. I used to be better at this. I used to dominate. I used to kick everyone's ass every time I logged on. How did I used to play? Once I had this thought process I realized that over the past 6 months or so I've made too many adjustments and it's thrown me off. So I went back to the philosophies and strategies that worked so well for so many years and BING, I won $1900 in 4 days. When you throw in the $1500 FPP bonus that I'm going to unlock tomorrow it's going to be a good week.

Another reason why I haven't been posting is I've used my blogging time to write a few posts on our baby/family blog www.thehuffs.wordpress.com and I've written a few actual poker articles. After hearing for a few people that I should try to get something published I did a search for "poker articles wanted" on Yahoo. This lead me to contact a fellow who runs a website www.cardschat.com. After a little back and forth we agreed that I would write something about tells and send it to him. So after all of about 2 hours I cranked out 1,200 words (almost two pages single spaced) about tells. And then the next day for good measure I wrote another similarly sized article about using and avoiding false tells. I sent them in and Nick, the guy who runs the website paid me $35 for each one. Not a mind boggling amount of money, but being able to actually get paid for something I wrote is a very satisfying feeling.

My articles are not actually on the website yet for some reason, but I have my $70 so I'm not sweating it. Also writing so much so quickly makes me wonder why in high school and college I would have to struggle for hours and hours to write 500 words. I guess writing about literature or history or whatever isn't as easy as writing about something you enjoy and know plenty about.

Poker wise I have something of interest coming up. This Sunday my good friend Matt (who is getting married in Mexico on St. Patrick's day with both E.B. and I as groomsmen) has made the offer that for the day he'll put up all the money (and pay for any loss) for me to play a myriad of tournaments and I'll take 25% of any profits (if there are profits to be had). I plan to make him regret the moment that he made the offer and blow off a few thousand of his dollars! Not really. But, I will be playing in 15-20 multitable tournaments including three $215 buy in events, one of which should have over 7,500 entrants! Hopefully I'll make at least one final table. I'll write a post about what happened sometime on Monday.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good luck.
Seems that there should be a market out there that would enable you to do most of your poker playing this way. Clearly you make money on average. If somebody else footed the expenses, they could expect some sort of return and you would also be able to make money without having to front the initial bill. Is this crazy talk?
Thank,
-Ryan

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