My update

Five days ago I blogged that I made it to the 2nd round of Pokerstars tournament with the first round being a freeroll. Sad to say I bust out about 2 hours later. I didn't even make the list.

But, ah, I have some good news.

In Full Tilt Poker with their new Rush Poker game, which I like very, very much and keeps my mind moving without waiting up for other players and is billed as the "fastest poker" around, I did very well. In this game I played Pot Limit Omaha Hi. A total of 6998 poker players signed up. Game lasted 6.5 hours and I made it to the finals table and eventually placed 8th. And I won $5.25 out of the $150 freeroll pot that was dolled out to 45 top winners.

Not bad. Next to PokerStars for winning 1st place out of 8,000 players I finally got placed in Full Tilt in 8th.

Pokerstars Freeroll...advance to 2nd round

Yeah, yeah. I know. Pokerstars. I just finished playing"Tombaugh's Mixed" (PLHE, PLO) and placed 22nd out of 5668 players. Now I qualify for a Weekly Round 2 tournament for the $2,000 prize pool this coming Sunday. It'll be the Pot Limit HE and PL Omaha. With any luck I'll bust out before making the list although I do like the pot limit restriction. Gives me some added room and flexibility. And I love playing Omaha anyway. In terms of number of players this isn't my best show in PokerStars. Last year in February I placed first in Limit 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo out of 8,000 players and it lasted a little over 6 hours. Wheeeee!

As for this Sunday, we'll see.

A long boring wait.....

Yes, it has been awhile. Nothing new in poker for me. Though I was able to win first place last year in PokerStars freeroll against 5,999 other players in a limit Texas Hold'em game that took like 5 or 6 hours to do. Though that got me into a second game and got busted out a few hours later. A waste of time doing that playing the 2nd round just to get to the free cash games. I much prefer to concentrate playing freerolls in Full Tilt and Absolute Poker. And any special freeroll tourneys that get me to a bigger cash tourney without spending a dime. That's my goal. And in the last few years have been a stop and go adventure, and busy with a move to another state. I am now resuming the freeroll challenge of my own to start bankrolling free cash from my wins. The best I've able to bankroll was up to $20 dollars winning a few freeroll tourneys and use the cash wins to play cash Texas Hold'em poker (i.e. Omaha, H/L, HORSE, Hold'em, etc). Gonna try this "zero cash" challenge again and see how it goes this time.

I'll try and keep an update on my wins and the games I play on a more frequent basis.