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Yesterday I went to a co-worker's house for our Wednesday's poker night. Unfortunetely there were only 6 of us, and we decided to play one $30 buyin with the first person who gets knocked out getting a chance to rebuy. It would pay 1st $150 and 2nd $60 (if someone rebought).

There were only 2 players out of the six who concerned me, but I felt I could run the table. That's exactly what I did. Most of the players are passive and have no clue about pot odds, and they give out more tells than my son when he is excited about a new toy.

Since they rely most on luck, I had just to play my game and hope the poker gods would look my way. I did exactly what I needed to do, especially since I was getting a lot of good cards and hitting the flop most of the times. However, this is not a story that has a happy ending -- I finished last. I am unhappy about 2 things about last night's play and I hope I can improve in one of them.

Since I took a monster runner runner bad beat. I tilted and intead of waiting for a few hands, I decided to loosen up and just play every pot. I had about 13xbb and I think it was plenty for me to make a come back. However, I felt unrested and decided to just get lucky. I need to think about "chip-n-chair" and just hope for the best.

The second thing I have made note of is that I gave respect to one of the players in this group. I give respect for a move he made on me. It certainly took balls, what I am mad about is that I didn't look at the pot and my oponents stacks. I could have busted two players out since I had about 4-1 odds to call their bets and it would have left them with about $100 more in chips. Since I was the chip leader I should have just pushed and hoped for the best.

In any case I have to congratulate the winner of the tourney. He put me on a big tilt and still managed to win the tourney.

I lost more money when I went home. 2 AA cracked, KK lost to set of TT and set of 88 to set of JJ. It is at these moments that I enjoy playing Limit. My losses were not for my bad playing but just a bad run of cards.

Played some more this morning and recovered almost all of the money lost last night. Today at least the gods were a little bit nicer to me.

On a different note, I want to share some of my goals with you:

1. Build my poker stars roll to be able to play 3-6
2. Qualify for a live event before the end of the year
3. Make a final table in Party Poker every month till the end of the year (10-30 tourneys)
4. Play 25k hands by the end of the year and show profit.

I have other goals but these are the ones I am concentrating at the moment.

Tomorrow I will head to the Borgata Casino to play 1 sub-satellite and 1 satellite in a attempt to qualify for the WPT Borgata event that will happen from Monday thru Wednesday ($9700+300).

I will play the $50+15 sub-sattelite at 11pm tomorrow. This will be a turbo tourney and I should have a chance since it will qualify 1 in every 10 (9-1) and the field should be large. This will qualify me for the 3pm or 11pm saturday $500+50 event.

On Saturday at 11am, I will play the $200+25 satellite. This is a fast tourney and it only qualifies 1 in every 50, so it will be a lot more difficult.

I hope I can bring good news. I will try to learn how to wireless blog to make my blog work while I am playing.