Even I'm allowed to get lucky.

The month of March has been pretty uneventful so far. I'm finally starting to receive my Bluff magazine from the subscription that was given to me at Christmas. I guess the third time is the charm. They were sending the magazines to the people that bought me the subscription. After the gift givers called a third time to tell them that the magazines are being sent to the wrong address they have finally fixed things. I'm still waiting for my all-in magazine subscription to kick in. I sent an e-mail to the Joe Average Poker but I still haven't received a response.

Aside from reading magazines I've also been playing a little bit of poker. I've had one live session so far at Seneca and my regular daily on-line sessions. My on-line game is doing well. I have only been playing at Poker Stars and my bankroll has climbed to an increase of over 30% in the last month and a half. I took a little bit of a beating during my session at Seneca so March and February end up being a wash. I consider that pretty good since I have also been spending a lot of time learning Omaha Hi/Lo. I'm still on a climb though so I hope I can make a decent dent on my poor January results by the end of the month. I will have at least 3 more live sessions this month so hopefully I play well and don't get unlucky.

I did get unusually lucky in a free roll I just played in. The tournament was held by Poker Stars for Canadians only. They ran two daily tournaments for a week and I only ended up getting to play in one of them. This was also a turbo tournament which meant the blinds went up very quickly and it quickly became clear that you would have to push pre-flop on almost every hand you decided to play. The top 450 out of 3000 would cash and the top 100 would be entered in a WSOP Main Event seat event. My tournament was pretty average for the first 30-35 minutes or so. I started with strong hands and they usually held up. For the most part I never got involved in any pots where I wasn't the favourite pre-flop. Since that's when all the money is going in being the pre-flop fav is all I'm really trying to do.

The luck aspect comes in after the flop. On about 25-30% of my hands, and 2-3 all-in's I had to come from behind and get help from the turn or river to win the hand. I was able to get lucky and pull the cards I needed right when I needed them. Once I got to the money a lot of small stacks were eliminated and I made it to the top 200. My goal now was simple, make the top 100. I only had to play one hand during this time, and my Kings held up against Ax. By the time I made it into the top 100 all my goals for the tournament were met. I made the money and I made it into a tournament that could give me a seat into the WSOP Main Event. The rest of the tournament I played only premium hands but with an M of only 4-6 I was all-in pre-flop almost every hand. I flirted with being on the final table but ultimately I got knocked out in 12th. There was only one hand, Q9o that I should of played near the end of the tourney but I was up against a big-stack raise and a bigger stack re-raise that would have put me all in. I would have won the hand and tripled up at a key moment but I stand by my decision.

That's it for now. Chances are I'm just going to be playing on-line for the week but I should have an update after Saturday since I'm playing in the freeroll and I should be going to Seneca for a live session.