July Review

This month I focused more on cash games than ever before. I played about 7,000 hands at 2/4 and 3/6 give or take. I managed to maintain my SilverStar status at PokerStars. It wasn’t the most successful month at the tables though. At the cash tables I was up but only slightly early in the month with a solid finish to the month to show a profit. The real profits came in the MTT’s. Even after blowing $1,000 on my WSOP buyin I still managed to turn a nice profit. Winning the Second Chance tournament at The Orleans is the highlight of my poker career to date along with being my biggest single cash to date. We in essence chopped it with 10 left and I was able to get between 2nd and 3rd place money. I can’t see how that wasn’t great for me. Anyways, I had been playing good heading out to Vegas so it wasn’t such a big surprise to me that I was able to take it down. I had been getting my money in ahead prior to heading out there and this time came out with the top prize. There really wasn’t much in terms of other nice tournament cashes this month. I really played very few. I think August I am really going to turn my attention to MTT’s. Well at least in the first part. If I am playing them well then I may stick to that. I am also going to try and see how playing 1 MTT while playing 2 or 3 cash tables goes. I really want to optimize my time playing and this, if it works, may be the way to go. The beauty of limit cash games is that no matter how much of a grind it is I am pretty much always grinding upward. This is nice for the fact that if I go on an extended MTT funk the cash games are always there to cover the losses. I really look forward to the coming month and firmly believe August will be a major break out month for me. Last but not least the money. For the month I had a nice amount hit my bank account but still below the needed pace. I would like to say I only played poker in Vegas and so my $2,857 was the profit. I do go by one standard and one standard only when talking Vegas. How much did I leave the house with and how much did I return with. I dropped about $150 playing craps. I won about $350 at the blackjack table the night before I blew off $600 playing on tilt after busting from my WSOP event so the damage there was only about $250. I ate really good and took cabs most everywhere. Those numbers are just an estimate. The total I brought home was $2,403 more than I left my house with. Add my live play at Tunica and I was up $2,644. I didn’t cash out from Neteller all month so this is the number I cleared for the month. That leaves me at $6,844 on the year. No where near the pace I needed but hopefully the beginning of a nice end of the year rally. Good luck in the coming month