Good Poker Day [1,386 Hands] + A Good Milestone Achieved

Posted by icemonkey9 on Oct 25, 2008 in General | 1 comment

Well I got to play a lot of poker today thanks to nothing happening at my mom's house here in San Diego, and my nephew being at day care, and my wife being away in Phoenix and all my work related activities already wrapped up for the week.

I was playing well but MAN today was crazy as you would expect on a Friday with the "general fish population" coming out for us sharks to feed on. Unfortunately some of these fish can sometimes choke a shark unintentionally! Anyways I had fun and if you scroll down you'll notice that I did in fact achieve GOLDSTAR status at PokerStars this month after playing about 18,500 hands at 50nl Full Ring. Acheiving this basically means I'll receive about 50% more FPPs per month, which I use to enter the 210fpp tournies and sell off the winnings ... this month I've made over $130 already with maybe a few more wins coming in, so it'll mean that much more in November.

I think it's a good possibility now that I can nail that 20k mark for hands played, as I am only 1,500 hands away. I know tomorrow through Tuesday though it's very doubtful I'll find the time to play so it might come down to a few last minute late nights on the 29th and 30th!

There really weren't any "huge hands" to show off but I do remember hitting top two pair with something like AQ and stacking off at the turn against some guy that had Q4 for two pair and he hit a 4 on the river, but he only had like $30 to start with.

So that's that, this month has gone okay overall, that first ~8k stretch was brutal but I'm glad I battled through it.