Cash game:  I played a bunch of different games this month.  2-7, A-5, 5-draw, badugi, HORSE, etc.  Overall, I did pretty well in them.  I've been concentrating a lot of 2-7 over the last couple of weeks and I feel I can exploit a lot of players in this game.  Using basic strategy, I've been pretty profitable playing it.  We had a HORSED game at my house this past Saturday (D = a dealer's choice draw) but the lineup was super tough.  I didn't expect to make much of a profit and whatya know, I made 16 bucks at the end of the session.  The best session of the month thus far was in my Triple Draw game (2-7, A-5, and badugi) where I profited 300+.  Ran crazy hot and got paid off.  I don't think anybody else even cashed out +.  One of those rare sessions for sure. 

League game:  I'm starting to make a mid season run.  After terrible weeks 2-4, where I fell as low as 20 out of 27 overall, I've climbed my way back to 12th and within 13 pts of 8th place.  I sorta "dumbed down" my poker if you will and just let situations play itself out.  I'm avoiding playing big pots and more of a small ball approach and I think its paying off.  I've made 2 out of the last 3 final tables and if it wasn't for a sick beat and terrible run of cards, I think I would be 3 for 3.  Two weeks ago, at one point, I had over 70K in chips with the blinds 400/800 and no one even close to threatening my position.  Then you double up a few shortstacks here and there when you have no choice but to call and you're actually in a race situation and somehow don't win.  Compound that with situations where its pair over pair preflop (and I'm holding the better pair) and you somehow still don't win those either, all of a sudden you find yourself shorstacked.  I finally got knocked out when I made a SICK call for all my chips with 55 on a 9 7 7 board and my opponent held AK (as I thought he did) but the river fell the dreaded A.  I could have folded but then be somewhat shortacked or go with my read and get bullets to make a deep run.  I'd elect the latter everytime. 

Overall, its been a pretty profitable month for me, nearly netting +400, with 3 TERRIBLE sessions.  If I can close out strong at the league on Friday, I'll be happy. 

I also opened a FullTilt and PokerStars account and playing the micro limits in those.  I can report that I am positive on both sites but not by much.  Here's a story I posted on a board about my Pokerstars experience.

Just sharing how I'm such a luck box:

So after a grueling Friday night at the league, getting beat up in the tournament and cash game, I didn't get home until 5am. However, wanting to be productive for Valentines Day, I was able to crawl out of bed around 12:30pm. (Thanks Peyton for waking up daddy.) First agenda, make a PokerStars account. After checking the availability of DonkeyThong and DonkeyTong as usernames, I was disappointed as both were taken unless I wanted stupid ass numbers after them. I really wanted to honor Justin's wife Kate with such a clever alias but was unable to do so. Its the least I can do for putting up with such a Jack ass of a husband. However, I hope she will appreciate my meetup alias for now. So for PokerStars, I opted with the FullTilt username of "TeeKei". Boring I know, who cares, bite me.

Now, with the account set up you have to sit down and play right? I'm not much of a "play chips" kinda dude, so I went through my array of credit cards to no avail. F you government for blocking my gaming transactions! As in the case with Bruce, I was a little hesitant to use the E-Check method because of the SS# requirement but then I thought, who the hell is going to try to steal my identity? I have no money and my first and last name already looks made up anyway. I went with the adventurous route and made a deposit via E-Check.

Now armed with bullets, I went in search of my inaugural game. Lets go with basics and find something like $.05/$.10 NL Holdem. Bought in for table max, $10, and 3rd hand in, KK! Early position limper, villain bumps it to $.60 and I'm thinking sweet! Online poker is so cool! I RR to $1.50, folds back to villain who pushes AI for ~$12. Uh oh. Does he REALLY have AA? Well, the villain wasn't MahownyKJ or Dr.Badhead and I'm not good enough to lay down KK online so I make the call. Villian turns over QQ and you already know the rest of the story...You'd think I was at Bob's house still.

Soooo, within 2 minutes of my first deposit I'm already down a buyin. At this rate, I'm not going to have any money to buy in for Tuesday tournament. Oh well. I decided I wanted to gamble and walked over to the draw lounge. Whadya know, 1 open seat at $.50/$1.00 2-7 limit triple draw. Perfect! Bought in, grinded for an hour or so and made $10. Meh. However, funny thing happened. 30 minutes before I was about to leave, the table paused and a bunch of red letterings came up in the chat box. I'm thinking WTF is this? You are about to be dealt hand #24,947,000,000!. "Ok, so what, shuffle up and F'ing deal already." Little did I know it was a PokerStars promotion and the winner of this very hand would get a cash bonus. So I call with something ridiculous like 2 3 K J A, wound up making 2 3 4 6 6 and the eventual winner hand was K J 8 4 3. Bonus for the hand you ask? $750! Damn, that woulda been nice but I settled for the consolation prize of $250 for being on the table. Not a bad way to start your Pokerstars career I guess. I felt like Rich in Vegas there for a minute because this is the type of thing that happens to him ALL THE TIME.

There ya have it.  I've been mostly playing games other than holdem online, especially 2-7 NL SD.  With that bonus money, I took a few shots at $50 MTT to no avail.  Oh well, I took a shot.  I'm not really looking to build a longterm bankroll online.

Good luck on your poker endeavors!  See you at the felt!

TK

P.S.  Happy Birthday Peyton on Feb 26th!  Daddy's little girl turns 1!