I ran nice today. I never sucked out on anyone but flopped the nuts at least 3 times that I can remembered and won lots of chips every time. I ended the day ay 200,000, which is average chips for when we get in the money. The structure of this tournament is awful though, so I could easily busto if I lose 2 coin flips. All in all, it was a long, nice, rough, day. Katy and I will chill here at

Haven't played in about 2 weeks right now figured i'd take some time off for the holidays. God i'm so bored tho can't wait to get back to the grind tomorrow morning. Managed to land myself in the hospital on christmas eve and have an pretty lame holiday season overall lol.

So i'm pretty much happy with 2008. It was my first full year playing for a living and i really didn't have any specific

I finally reached Supernova elite. Yay. It was pretty tough since I didn't plan on doing this till a few months into the year.  I did it primarily playing mtt sngs, cash, mtts, stts, and a small amount of lhe and other stuff. So basically everything.  I ended up doing the strongest in mtts by far which was pretty nice.  I moved up towards the end into games were I still believeI have  a decent

     Tomorrow Katy and I are flying to the Bahamas for the PCA. I always like this tournament, as it is filled with super loose passive internet qualifiers and super over aggressive internet kids, both of which are easy to play against. They also added a $25,000 event that I will hopefully not be able to play because I will still be in the main event. I havent played too much poker besides making

I started to pull out of my downswing today, winning $2288. I realise now there was something I was doing wrong during the second half of my downswing that wouldn't normally make me a loser, but it still wasn't good.

During the first half of my downswing, I was getting called too often on the bubble by good hands that were supposed to fold (example coming later). So I overcompensated by not

Ok, well I blog about the good, I guess I should blog about the bad.

The last week of December was tough as I didn't get to play as much as I wanted. I had my daughter for a few days, holidays, a quick trip to Pittsburgh, and before you know it the new year is here. So when I last blogged I was hovering around $1900 BR, and crushing the $10's. I couldnt wait to jump into the $20's. However I just

Well, I ended last year on a downswing and the start of this year has been no different. I've dropped 50BI since my last peak at double or nothings which was before Christmas, slashing my ROI from 10% to 5%. As far as I can tell, none of the other winning regulars have experienced a downswing greater than 30BI. This is due to fact that there is less variance in double or nothings than regular

I just got back from Christmas vacation in Iowa. It was a really nice break. Pretty cold though. Highs were negative degrees F on some days and got above freezing 2 of the 12 days I was home. I did a bunch of drinking with friends and my brother and just chilled out during the day. My parents don't have a computer/internet which was actually really nice since it made me take a complete break from

My name is Michael Turner, I'm 25 and I live in Bendigo, Australia. I started playing poker casually in July of 2004 and but I didn't start to make what I'd call "serious money" until December 2008. At the moment I am one of the top winning regulars at the $104 double or nothings at PokerStars. My main poker goal for 2009 is to be the top winner for full-ring SNGs on SharkScope. I'd also like to

     I have a great life. I got engaged to Katy last night here in Tampa. To sum it up, I have her parent's blessing and she didn't see it coming, so I think it went well. She also snap said "yes," which is a big plus. As of now, we are most likely looking to get married on an Alaskan cruise sometime during May of 2010 right before the wsop, as May and August are the only semidead months