Quest Over....F Poker

Ok, so as you can tell by the title, my quest has ended. PokerStars account sits at $0.00. Why you ask? Well, I started the weekend (Friday Evening) with $454 in my account. I lost about $300 of that playing 2/4, 3/6 and .25/.50 NL. The rest was in various MTT, SNG's and shootouts. I tried 4 shootouts for the Sunday million tournament,making it to the final table once and finishing 5th when a guy made a horrible call on me with A3. I go all in utg for T1215 with 77 and the BB (in for 100) 3rd in chips calls me with A3. Of course an ace hits the flop and IGHN. Made a profit off of that but don't understand his call. That was how it was for me all the weekend in tourneys. I played 11 overall and when all in I had the best hand 10 times. I was playing the 3+r Sunday million satellite and had bought once and then did the add on and sat with over 50k with about 75 people left. I was 4th in chips at that point. Top 16 get entries into Sunday Million. With about 60 people left I made a horrible play. One limper ahead and I make it 4x the bb with 1010. Folds to everyone and limper calls. Flop comes J high and I bet half the pot. Limper min raises me and I push all in for some reason. He had about 30k and insta calls and has AJ. That hurt and a few levels later, I'm at about 22k and had 3 limpers ahead all in for 1k. I look down on the button with AQs and I just want to take the limpers money down. I push all in and the SB calls me with QQ and I don't hit my 3 outer.

I have over 5000 FPP's so I'll probably use those for WSOP qualifiers, but I don't think I'll be depositing anymore money into PS for the time being. I might try FTP. They have a good reload bonus so I may do that.

I do have a new plan though and it doesn't involve on-line poker which is a great thing. I am going to go and play live ring games at the Casino by my job at least once a week and if it goes well will bump that up. I went last Friday and played for less than an hour and booked a nice win. Wanted to stay but had an engagement to go to so had to leave a juicy game. The play there is not horrible but not great either. Seems like the players are either solid or total fish. I have played 5 times this year there and have 4 winning sessions. We shall see how that goes. They also run tournaments Tuesday and Wednesday nights. $130 buy-in and 20 minute levels. I don't remember starting chips but I want to say 3k, not sure. They usually have around 150 entrants and pay top 18 usually from what I can tell. I plan on playing that at least once a month. Hopefully my ring game action is good where I can play that tourney at least twice a month. Live poker is so much more enjoyable than on-line.

Saw some impressive multi-tabling yesterday. Well known on-line play Apestyles finished 18th in the Sunday Million for over $6k. At the same time he was playing 2 other tourney's and cashed in both of those. Made about 8k between the 3 tournaments. Don't know how these guys can play 3+ MTT's at once and go deep in all of them. Great concentration these guys must have. I try 2 tables at once and can't even do that effectively.

Saw another player who I've railed before. MrJack-Bauer was playing the Sunday Million and almost cashed. At the same time he was multi-tabling the 25/50 PLO game. He was cleaning up one one table. Don't know what he bought in for in that game but he was up to over 16k. When I started watching, he was well below that.

One final comment/observation regarding on-line poker. I know that this won't change because of the anonymity factor but I really wish people would stop using the chat box as a tool to criticize and continually clown on players. Over the past month I have had my share of comments made my way because of my play and comments made to others about their play. Some of it was valid criticism and others weren't. Granted in low-limit 6 handed ring games, you will have players chase or call down with midfdle or bottom pair and I am definitely guilty of that. I sucked out many times on players but let me tell you, I was sucked out more times than I sucked out on people. That is a fact of life in these games. You deal with it and move on. I never criticise or make fun of a player and wish others wouldn't. Why would I want to clown on a player who is really bad? I wouldn't say a word and hope he keeps reloading at my table so I can take more. If I point out how bad he is or make fun of him, he probably will leave.

Anyways just my 2 cents and I know it won't change and that no one will even read this but it is just something I needed to get off of my chest.