$4000 Water Bill? Wha...?!?

I haven't updated in a while because for the past month or so, we had a nasty little surprise. Still working on it, too.

You know the water bill. That cheap utility. Our quarterly bill is usually around $150.00 or less for four people, and our usage is even a little below average.

Imagine my surprise when I cracked open the latest bill and it reads $4,000. For using 300,000 gallons of water. Imagine my bigger surprise when I called the water company and they told me no, it was not a mistake with how my meter was read. I think I died a little inside.

More updates as I have more time to write them!

The good news:

New FTP bankroll high- $199.40. I went on a heater and made $52 off 10NL on Rush Poker in maybe 600 hands. People are so bad. And I've gotten much better, I have to say. My game was oddly helped by parallels drawn during my time logging thousands of hands in the superturbo SNGs. Universal poker truths and all that ;-) Then again, maybe all the donks are just coming out like me to practice for Rush Week (coming up!). No complaints here.

Back to breakeven, and beyond!!!

It must be all the donks from that Full Tilt event last weekend. God bless them. With the $12 in rakeback I just got, my FTP roll has swelled to a nice $121.46 from just $70 a few days ago. While that may not look like much, this marks the point where my formerly losing, now somewhat profitable self has climbed and clawed above break even, and by a healthy margin, too.

I started with $100 on FTP, lost $100 while keeping my bankroll the same with rakeback and the first time deposit bonus, lost a bit more down to around $40 donking around, and I've been slowly climbing my way back ever since. It's sweet to have finally come to this point, and I'm $20 over, too!

Now I just need another $80 and I can say that my profit's all due to my play, rather than Full Tilt's generous deposit bonus... I can't wait! Here's hoping a severe downswing doesn't completely wipe me out, especially since I'm on a super heater right now. Only time will tell...

Superturbos!!!

So I've gotten hooked on super-turbos at Full Tilt recently. Still STTs, but now I can still 3-table and crank out a good volume of games. To start 'em off, I'm running super hot. For example, the last 8 games I played (all of them within like half an hour lol), I've outright won 3 and then got 3rd in another.

All in all, for these first 70 or so games I'm up around 15 buy-ins. Which totally rocks, although it's impossible to sustain such a great win rate over the long term, from what my forums reading has told me :(

I love these things. People are so bad, shoving with garbage and calling with garbage. It's amazing. Also, with the number of games I'm playing, maybe I can actually generate some decent rakeback! Hehe.

The game is perfect for a hobbyist like me without too much time to devote to poker. Not to mention, since it's 99% a preflop game, it's much easier and allows me to multi-table with at most a very marginal effect on my play. I played 5 tables for a little bit, but i like being able to get some reads on people, really. I might try that again, though.

Hooray for poker!

Wha? I'm... censored?!?

MY blog's been censored by my work censor. That's right. The Thorny Road is apparently too extreme for the workplace. That's mostly why I haven't updated in a while. What bums. I probably get an average of zero clicks per day. They must be pretty good to single out the one employee out of thousands (me) who goes to my specific blog once every few days.

Also, I just saw that I got my first follower! Hooray! Mojo is a real blogger, too. Someone more entrenched in the blogging poker community. It must have been my rebel attitude, being censored and all, that lured him in...

The funniest part about being blocked by the man? I can still read the profanity strewn madness that is Waffles.

What the hell, big brother.

Poker ADD?

Alrighty, so I've jumped from heads up sit n gos to full ring cash to mtt's to 6-max cash these past few months as a solidly break-even player/marginal winner or loser. What's next?

Well, my friends, the hottest new thing are STTs for me! It's kind of like returning to my roots, how I learned the game with my high school buddies. I've played 4 so far with pretty awesome results:

1. Loss
2. First!
3. Second!
4. Second!

Not bad at all. I like STTs. They've let me combine everything I've learned so far into one, and I've pretty much dominated these first few STTs through table selection (yeah sharkscope!) and the ability to read people much, much better postflop. The cash games and HUSNGs really helped with that.

I've easily felt like I was the best player in all of the games I played, and have gotten the chips in good most of the time. Of course, this sort of winning streak is said to be unsustainable (I'll prove 'em wrong! ...maybe), but it's a darn good way to start off my newest poker love.