SNBulls

Geez, time's a flyin'. If you guessed that I'm still on top of the mountain, you'd be correct. I'm still here, pretending I'm in Vegas. Ahhh, Vegas. It's hard to live in the holy land and then not live there anymore. Cherokee, NC is far from the Mecca, but for now it has to do.

Life outside of poker is driving me bat shit. But inside my poker cocoon, all is calm. I'm still struggling a little with the roll, but what else is new. The good news is that the players in Cherokee, with the exception of a few that are really trying, have no clue as to how to handle a SNG. Tuesday is SNG day now. The buy-in is $100 + $15 (steep juice, I know) and the starting stack is 1500. The blinds start at 25/50 and go up every ten hands. This isn't as bad as it sounds. It's a little faster than a turbo, but not quite as bad as a super turbo. They pay 3 spots with 3rd getting $150, second $250 and first taking a top-heavy $600. I really feel like my edge is enough to overcome the 15% juice and make a profit. I mean, these guys are really bad. I watch as the most classic SNG mistake is made every single twirl with players limping during early levels with all sorts of KJ's and Q8's and so on. That's a killer, especially with this fast structure. After a few limps and one blind increase they find themselves severly short. More good news is that I hear them all talking about hop there is no skill involved and that these are just crap shoots. Weeeee, need I say more?

So last tuesday I went in with a strong attitude and a wish to win my very first SNG of the day. I arrived at the electro-poker room at around 11:00am and sat 1-2 while waiting for enough players to kick off the SNG. While in the cash game I doubled my $100 buy-in and when the tenth player signed up for the SNG I had a profit of $115 exactly. Well, upon reading that you know good and well that I had to have won the first one. I played as perfectly as I could and took it down for $600, a profit of $485, which put me up $600 for the day so far.

I ended up winning another one, taking thrid in one, and busting out of three. When all was said and done I was up $750 for the day. And believe me, I needed it. I then played SNGs again yesterday and after playing six with two third place finishes and chopping for first once, I was up a mere $35. I lost $19 in cash games so for the long, ten hour day I was up a whole $16. But that's the way these things go. I was very dissappointed in my last one when my KK got shot down by A8 to send me rail-bound in sixth place. Between fatigue and outside-of-poker stress, I just couldn't handle any more poker for the day.

The cash game has been hanging in there ok as well. Monday night saw me uptick $407 and the weekend brought small wins averaging $100 per day. I'm still managing free rooms and I'm keeping other expenses under better control than before. I still feel pressure and I'm struggling outside of poker, but the good that may come from it is worth every bit of the struggle.

I'll try to update more often here, I know I've been slack.