Author: Pokerukes

Over the past two weeks, I played four live tournaments and cashed in three. It would have been four, but a call to my shove on the final table nixed that. Villian made a bad call that happened to be the right call. I was sitting in the big blind with A6 suited. UTG raised Read More …

My live game is falling apart, but I’m hanging in there on online. I just wanted to check in for those following along. Nothing major happened this week as I tread water waiting for my next upswing. With a depleting “box-o-chips”, I won’t be playing live until Thursday and Friday.  Until then,  I’ll try to Read More …

I’m happy to report that I am maintaining my live bankroll and haven’t added any funds. The interesting thing about having a box of poker chips at home to draw from is that it makes me aware of what I call “Billionaire Brain” or “Corvid Syndrome”—the act of collecting money just for the sake of Read More …

I managed to eke out another win live on Friday, giving me another five days of free-rolls. I have stuff to do on Tuesday and Wednesday, so either I roll it into next week or dare to play a bigger tournament on the weekend. Tough call. I think I’ll wait until Friday to decide. If Read More …

Read Free Money It’s freeing to be playing “in the black”.  I believe that, at this point in my entire life,  I’m ahead by a couple of thousand dollars. It’s a good feeling to have. I just finished playing an online tournament. I don’t know if it’s the new website I’m on or if I’m Read More …

Well, it’s been a good week. Despite shutting down my GGPoker account for ninety days, I was lured by a large free roll that a poker buddy told me about on WPT Global. I decided to sign up and ended up coming in nineteenth overall for a nearly seven-hundred-dollar win. I now have an online Read More …

I’ve excluded myself from online poker for the next 90 days. I’ve decided to take a percentage of my last windfall and play a tournament a day for the next 10 business days. These daily tournaments have a buy-in of $105.00 on M/W/F and $115.00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The slightly higher buy-in makes for Read More …

Last week, I started tracking my games’ wins and losses. I felt it was necessary, as I found that I was spending more money than I wanted to playing online poker. I wanted a way to be constantly aware of my bankroll. Then the craziest thing happened: I won a major bad-beat jackpot. I don’t Read More …

I’ve been trying to figure out my headspace for the last month or so. Understanding my relationship with poker is important to me. I think that if I understand my relationship with poker, my game will improve immeasurably beause part of the strategy of the game is to reduce the number of variables and unknowns. Read More …