Steve’s Terrible Table

For all my fellow college grinders you guys know what time it is.  Summer 2009 is slowly becoming a mere footnote on our past as the school year comes on fast and furious.  Most people are beginning the migration back to our apartments/dorms, buying books, ans asking our parents for just a little bit more money for “food”.  As we all get ready to go back to our lives away from our parents most of us start to dread the school work that lies ahead for us.  This year for me however, I’m looking forward to the start of the school year for a change.

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My recent online poker success has been fueled by my MTT success in the recent weeks.  I have registered a number of micro stakes wins, and even managed to find a few cashes that broke the $1K barrier that has long been mocking me.  I have also noticed a somewhat comical omen that has been successfully predicting my prowess on the virtual felt.  Whenever I have car problems during the day, later that night I have a big session playing MTTs.

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I decided to write this post a day late (was hoping for two days late, but more on that in a bit) so I could talk about my first chance at redemption in live poker, the $340 Mega Stack $100K guaranteed at Foxwoods.  As I have been saying this was the first step in my 11-week grind to become a professional poker player and build not just the bankroll, but the skills needed to sustain that BR for many years to come.  The goal wasn’t actually to win the tournament though it would have been a very big win, what I wanted to do was get the bad taste out of my mouth from my terrible play last year at the WPF.  I can at least say I did that much.

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If you play online poker with any kind of seriousness, you know that the WCOOP is a mere 20 days away.  This year PokerStars is running 45 tournaments in 18 days with buy ins ranging from $109 to $25,000.  They are already guaranteeing $40 Million dollars in the prize pool and it’s hard to imagine they will not hit that mark.  Stars has even created a website for the specific purpose of showing the results of this year’s and all other year’s WCOOP events, as well as coverage of the FTs.  You can find all of that and more at www.wcoop.com.

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Alright, maybe this title is a bit premature but just bare with me for a bit.  My year so far has been going great to this point.  This summer and in particular July has been fantastic for the BR.  I’ve been able to rack up a ton of MTT scores, cash games have been going well, and I’ve now got Rakeback set up through PocketFives which will help out a ton given my cash game grinding every week.  Now I sit 8 days away from the start of what could be the most important 3 month stretch of my poker career.  In the coming months I’ll be able to either put myself in a fantastic position to be playing professionally when I get out of college in May 2010, or I’ll need to start looking for internships in January.

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