Hey guys what's up? Long time no see...

Since my last post, a lot has happened for me on FTP. I won a $2 tournament with 309 players which made me $155. I also qualified for the Fantasy Poker Main Event Freeroll and came away with a cool $25 (which is totally gone now). Also, I encountered a bad beat that I took way more personally than ever before. In a tournament where the top 27 cashed and we had 38 people left, a guy raises under the gun for about 3.5 big blinds. He had well over the average stack, as did I. Well it came to me in middle position where i had pocket aces. Figuring a call from him or another low stack, I just reraised all in. Folded around to the original raiser who requested time before calling with KQ offsuit. Flops a K, turns a Q, and the rest is history. This fucking idiot goes on to win the whole thing. I was railing him on and off like "HOW do you make that call for your tournament with close to nothing invested? He claimed he was "tired and hoping to leave that hand." To me, this basically means that if everything went accordingly, he was trying to hand me a stack that was good enough for top 20 at that point in the tournament. Instead, this nappy player goes on to win around $130. While losing with Aces is always devastating (especially when you get all your money preflop) but I had been playing FLAWLESS and PERFECT poker for the prior two hours. Making stellar timing bluffs and maximizing profit on hands where I was giving just the right odds for people to call with mediocre hands. The icing on the cake is that this joker (viperucla was his screen name) goes on to win. In retrospect, I don't think that viperucla is a bad player, he has good results and I've seen him play well otherwise. As far as this blog goes, I have numerous ideas for posts I want to get to. Below is a syllabus of sorts for what I have in store.

• Setting Personal Goals: The Sit N Go Challenges
• Sunday Strategy Session: An in-depth look at various scenarios in poker
• Player Analysis: My opinions on how my live opponents play (I'll be using the format for rating the players based on the system used by Barry Greenstein at www.barrygreenstein.com)
• Inside the minds of Full Tilt Poker commonfolk

Later on tonight or tomorrow, I'll probably get right into the Sit N Go Challenges and explain that further.