SwingSwingSwing's Poker Journey

That's the PokerStars Battle of The Planets bonus cleared. I had to earn about 34 FPPs per day before July 9th to make it in time so I've finished way ahead of schedule. But I've lost money overall. Some of this was being unlucky, some was me making stupid calls.

Early last week it was the stupid calls that were my undoing. Paying off large river bets from tight players is just not a good play, especially with Ace high :-) I learned my lesson though and played considerably better (well as much as Short Stack Strategy allows) and I managed to recoup the earlier losses by the middle of the week. Then over the weekend, in the final push to clear the bonus, I hit some bad luck. In the space of 4 hours, I had Kings cracked by threes, Jacks and sevens losing $70 along the way. Switching to limit didn't help as my Aces fell to AKs for another $20. So I lost more than the bonus was worth in the process of clearing the bonus.

Now, I've got a dilemma. I only need 300FPPs to reach Silver Star and 4 days to do it. I might give it a go.

I missed the BritBloggerment last week as I was at my cousins' wedding but managed to make it along last night. I cashed in third place which was OK considering that I was completely card dead once the bubble burst. I was folding so much junk that Amatay thought I had disconnected. My final hand was a shortstacked push with K3s. Amatay called with QJs and when the flop gave him an gutshot royal flush draw, I knew that my goose was cooked. A non-flush straight card came on the turn and I hit the rail.

No BritBlogger for me next week as I'll be in south Germany hopefully catching some nice summer weather.

Until next time.