After closing out my best month of poker in January, I was entering February with a 4k BR and high expectations for myself. Maybe a little too big? First off I asked myself do I really need a 4k BR? After all I’m employed full time w/a fixed schedule that wouldn’t allow me to move up in limits. With that in mind, I decided to cash out and leave myself 2k to grind my normal early morning sessions. So heres a small little rundown of how my February went.

45man Sngs on Pokerstars is the route I’m taking to keep my BR afloat. I’ve been playing about 5/day and I’ve managed to bring in a nice little profit off of them. Theres also times where you go on a cold streak playing them and you just have to play it off. Twice i’ve gone without cashing from anywhere from ten to fifteen sngs. It can get really ugly. I just think that the bad runs will happen, you just have to keep a strong mind and you’ll get out of that rutt in no time.

On February 25th I managed to ship my second mtt win! It was again a rather small field of 207, but hey a win is a win. I’ll definitely take it. A week later (Feb. leap year) on March 4th I took 2nd of 207 in the same tourney. While HU I was a 2:5 to 1 dog. I picked up KQdd on the button I raised PF flop came K92. Villain checked I raised 3/4 pot and villain shoved. I called and turned up K9 for top2. I fail to improve on the river and gg me.

Okay so ya’ll got to hear about my highlights since my last post and now you’ll hear about the biggest leak in my game, which is $100nl. I’ve dropped about $500 within the last month or so playing which is verry bad. I know I dropped 3 buy ins, all on separate occasions when AA < KK, KK < AA, and AA < AQ. Those are just sick coolers that no one can get away from. The rest of my losses are just losing sessions that I’ve accumulated over the past month. I’m strictly a tournament player that has come a long way. I’ve earned my tournament winnings by dedicating hours and hours sitting at the table trying to win tournaments. It’s just ill to my stomach to see $100s of dollars leave my roll in seconds. From now on I’m going to be more careful and use better BR mgmt and I also cashed out again leaving myself with 2k to grind. This will be my last time cashing out as I’m going to try and build this BR the best I can.

Thanks you for reading and goodluck at the tables,
jC

ps- I sucked in the 4.40 challenge. I finished in the bottom 7. Congrats to our top 3 finishing teams/soloist.

**I’m not sure if anyone really pays attention to my blog, but I apologize for my 1month absence without a post.**