When All Else Fails, Change Fishing Holes

It's been a week of ups and downs. I've gone through the frustrations of not being able to play in yet another PokerNews freeroll and not being able to get in the money in multiple tournaments to being able to help set up the next PokerNews Forum Tournament and finding a new fish hole.

Downs-

PokerNews freeroll on WalkerPoker. I sent an email Wednesday to verify that I was linked to PokerNews so that I would be eligible for the freeroll. WalkerPoker first responded "No" to me but then changed to "Yes" after the folks at freerolls@pokernews.com sent them an email. So I'm thinking that everything is going to be OK. WalkerPoker decided to wait until the day of the tournament to send out the tickets. Working on the east coast in the US, I didn't find out that I didn't have a ticket until about 1.5 hours before the tournament. Of course this is too late to do anything about it. I sent my obligatory emails to freerolls@pokernews.com but still didn't get a ticket. They have done a very good job of following up on this. Today, I get an email where WalkerPoker explains that I joined them prior to the PokerNews promotion. I'm not sure when the promotion started so it's possible. But I do know that I had never heard of WalkerPoker until it was listed on PokerNews. So how'd I miss out?? Whatever, I'm used to it. This is just another site where I can't take advantage of the exceptional values of the PokerNews promotions.

Sunday, the wheels fell off of my tournament play. I went 0/5 in tournaments. I played everything from the $200K Guaranteed NLHE to the $4K Guaranteed PLO. I just couldn't get things together. I didn't really suffer any huge bad beats, just played poorly.

Ups-

We got everything finalized for the PokerNews Forum tournament on September 12th on CarbonPoker. There's $1000 added to the prizepool so this will be a great value with only a $10+1 entry fee. Now there's another problem. I can't figure out a way to deposit on Carbon. I may try a prepaid Visa to see if that'll do it. Nothing lost if it doesn't. If it doesn't work, I may be looking for someone that plays on Carbon AND Stars that'll do a transfer on Carbon for a transfer on Stars. I won't get any of the deposit bonuses but at least I can play in this tourney and maybe some of the PN freerolls.

I found a new fishing hole. RAZZ on Stars. I started playing this Sunday night after doing so poorly in the tournies and found that these players really suck. It's a simple game. Lowest hand wins. A-2-3-4-5 is the best you can get. I've been playing pretty tight. Any starting hand without 3 cards to an 8 or better get mucked. I've seen players starting with a jack up to even a king. I've fished this hole for the last couple of nights for about a buy in per night. I plan on sticking with Razz fof awhile and venturing into the other non-holdem games. If they're as easy as the Razz games, I may have found an easy way to increase my bankroll.

Lastly, I decided after the debacle that was Sunday, I would stick to some low buy-in tournies. I played a $5 turbo and final tabled it. I ended up finishing 5th. At least this replaced my losses from Sunday. I went out when my 10-10 ran into J-J. This bigstack could have had anything and been just stealing the blinds. Oh well. It restored some of my tourney confidence anyway.

Until next time, may you win all of your pots until you face me.