Turning a new corner

This week has seen me move into a completely different phase with my poker and for the first time in six years then I no longer write for poker magazines. Since 2005 then I have written for a whole host of them including the WPT, Bluff Europe, Poker Pro Europe, Online Poker Pro, Top Pair, Player Ireland and the 2+2 online magazine. On top of this I have also written three books as well and so that represents an awful lot of written work. But these days then the entire world is going online and this is where the future is.

So I am not just playing poker online now but also increasing my online footprint with the intention of pushing my poker coaching. So today has been a huge day for me in so much that writing poker strategy for hand held poker magazines has come to an end. So what else has been happening? Well I played a session yesterday playing eight tables at NL50 and made around $170 or so.

The session went really well on the whole and I got ahead quite early when I open raised from the cut-off with J-J and was re-raised by the big blind. But the re-raise was quite small and it priced me in. I suspected that I was up against a bigger pair but with stacks of $130 at stakes of $0.25-$0.50 then I had to call when my raise to $1.75 was only re-raised to $4. The flop came J-7-4 with two suits and my opponent checked and I bet two thirds pot. They check-raised and I called. The turn card bricked out and they over bet the pot to which I shoved all in.

They must have been suspecting being behind at this stage but they called and showed A-A and I win a huge pot that really got me started. This is the good thing about playing multiple tables because someone somewhere nearly always makes a big mistake like this. On sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk then the action is nearly always huge and so table selection is never a problem. These are the types of session that I like because when you get ahead early then you feel good and this helps you to play proper poker. At the end of the day then poker is mental game and you need to be on top of you game to optimise your potential at it.