January

It has been a while since I have actually sat down here to write and report on my results. There has been a lot going on in both my personal and social life and as a result I just haven't been able to put the time in that I would like. Unfortunately, deciding to have a life has cost my poker game.

On the one hand, I did fairly well for the limited amount of time that I played in January. In January, I would estimate that I played 18 out of the 31 days in the month. During that time, I made $2610. I lost around $600 during the NFL playoffs because nothing turned out the way it was suppose too. I do not have that exact figure as it's been a while and some of those games made me sick to my stomach. The poker number is exact though.

I have been quite frustrated lately, because no matter what I do I can't seem to expand my overall bank account. I have been sitting on the same number give or take about $2500 for the last 4-5 months now. It is better then losing, but I have gotten a lot of things taken care of lately and I am hoping to focus more time to poker and hopefully to make more money. I am happy to report that I have paid about $7000 over the last 6 months to credit card companies and just sent in my last payment about 10 days ago. Hopefully, I can behave myself from now on and will be debt free in the future.

I am back to playing on Cake full-time as well as playing tournies on Stars. I have been on hiatus from Cake for the last 10 days or so because my computer (I have 2) that had cake installed on it crashed and the computer was not worth fixing. Just today I bought a brand new Dell for $500 and am ready to start paying for the computer that I am typing on right now. Another reason why I have been unable to make money has been unexpected expenses. I also got the California cell phone ticket which I have yet to pay and thats another $131 that I will never see again.

I ran pretty decent on Stars last month but didn't have much to show for it unfortunately as I got into a lot of random bad spots late in tournaments. My main cash was 4/3906 for a cash of $2128.

I also made $700 playing 50NL cash on Cake. For the time being I am going to stay with 50NL because it is just easy pickings and the money combined with rakeback is pretty damn good.

To start the month I have the following in my poker accounts.

Cake: $1119
Stars:$3478

I have yet to play on cake this month so the balance is still the same but I am down about $400 or so on Stars. The last couple days that I have played on Stars have been quite pitiful and I have run like shit.

I did make about $200 in a home poker game so I am only down a couple hundred for the month.

I have gotten a lot of menial tasks done over the last few weeks and am hoping to devote more time to poker.

One time please.