Since my membership expires tomorrow I though I should do one last blog on CR. I started this blog on October 2, 2007 when I "went pro" - WOW time flies when you are having fun. I would happily keep it going but as a non-paying member I don't think I will have access to the blogging function

With the Coaching forums removed and little to no new MSNL and HSNL content I can't justify the cost of CR membership. I hope this will change sometime down the road.

I want to thank Cardrunners for all the learning, oppurtunity to coach, and of course the community. While I will not be a paying memeber I still plan on being active in the forums.

I plan on bloggin more on KILLFATMIKE about poker, fitness, results of coaching with Sorel. And you can follow my twitter @killfatmike.

thanks for reading and good luck on the felt

Just a quick update on my progess at KILLFATMIKE

The past few months I have been playing less live poker. I have been staying close to home as we are in the process of selling our house and moving. This has given me the chance to do a bit more coaching and play some more online poker. I have been working on my online game a ton and I feel like I am back to where I was before Black Friday. Below are my results for the past few months. About half of these hands are full ring and the other half are 6-max.




I will be blogging more about poker, health, and mentoring from Sorel at KILLFATMIKE

I have had a tough week of online poker but I am still a luckbox because

I just won the Sorel Mizzi Health Challenge!

As the winner I will get coaching from Sorel Mizzi for the next year. I am really looking forward to working with Sorel to take my game to the next level. I have been blogging about this this health challenge at KILLFATMIKE if anyone wants to know more

I have been a bit burnt out after all the poker travel I have done post Black Friday. So, this past month I have been getting my online game back in order. I spent a ton of time learning how to get the most out of new software like HM2 and NCA. I feel like I am playing pretty well but I am still a little rusty playing a bunch of tables. It is also kind of funny how my graph shows me getting my chops back in the first 3K hands.

I wanted to write about these hands because they were both non-standard and had lines I almost never take. I was playing 2/5 NLH at the Rio during the WSOP. There was an UTG straddle to $10 and we were 6 handed. Villain has 1K and I cover. He was new to the table. So the only read I had was he was young MTT guy as he had many 1K chips and tournament lammers.

I iso-raise the straddle to $45 holding AQo and get one caller. The Villian 3B squeezes to $135 from the button and it folds to me. I don't like calling 3Bs out of position without reads on deep stacks. I have also found that because I am over 40 the young guns who don't know me read my 4B range as KK+ which gives my tons of fold equity. I 4B to $300 and he snap 5Bs to $500 putting half his stack in the middle.

My plan had been to 4B/fold but after how quick he bet and a few other tells I was so sure he was bluffing. Now I should say that 95% of my live poker game is just about solid fundamental play. But from time to time I find a spot were I just trust my gut. So I 6B shove my AQo and he snap folds getting better than 2-1! I told my friend Billy about this hand and he said it was a 6-bet for value because villian should have no folding range. This is of course is true but on the felt I was so sure he was folding I am going with 6-bet bluff :)

I normaly don't show cards but I thought the tilt and image value was big enough so I tabled the AQ. The villian said nothing but moved to the seat on my immediate left and proceeded to raise 80% of hands for the next hour. I don't think I played one hand as I was card dead and of course out of position - until...

Villain straddles $10 UTG and gets five callers and I overlimp the field with KK in the BB because I was so sure the villain would raise. Villian raises to $60 and gets 2 callers and I limp re-raise from the BB. The Villain 4Bs and I 5B shove and he calls it off and mucks the river after I table my KK.

So in one session I did two things I have never done before in live poker - 6B bluff and L/RR from the big blind.

I think I made the final table in the Sorel Mizzi health challenge. I have been busy blogging about it here - KILLFATMIKE

http://live.wsj.com/video/full-tilt-poker-ceo-is-arrested/F79D592C-7886-4C3C-90A0-7797A8F6A7A2.html?link=MW_hp_tboverticalx8#!F79D592C-7886-4C3C-90A0-7797A8F6A7A2

Just the cliff notes for now:

~ been in LV for the past 17 days and have been grinding the cash games and the gym

~ I run bad at 2/5NLH and run good at 5/10NLH :)

~ Condo I rented has many problems

~ Still blogging a bunch on killfatmike.wordpress.com about the Mizz health challenge for poker players

~ Met a few other CR guys

Since black friday all the traveling to grind has really impacted my fitness. I have gained back ~25 pounds of the 50+ pounds that I lost before BF. A friend of mine told me about Sorel Mizzi's poker health challenge (sorelmizzi.ca) so now it is game on for the next 84 days!

If anyone is intereted in following my progress, workouts, diet, and thougthts on getting healthy please and the effect this has on my poker - check out the blog i have created for this challenge at:


killfatmike.wordpress.com

I was on Cash plays yesterday with John Kim and Joe Tehan :)

http://quadjacks.com/category/cashplays/

I plan on writing a bit more about the hand we talk about on the show sometime in the next week.