Poker Doldrums and NHL Trade deadline

I am getting really lazy about posting this month. If you didn't already know I am not cruising along like in January. Still just flashes of feeling a strong comfort level at the table. It has been really spotty. One day, I feel great and the next I am just playing, struggling to find a way to break even if possible. On the whole I am still down on the cash tables a couple of buyins but up overall via tourneys and fpps on the month. Coming to grips with the fact that I am not suddenly a super poker stud from a couple of changes. I think I might tone down my pre flop aggression a bit and get back a little closer to where I was in January. I feel a comfort level at the 100NL game when I am a bit tighter than what I have been trying to do in February. But I do not want to completely fall back into that shell I was in last year. There has to be a happy medium there where my comfort level meets increased aggression. Part of the problem has been I have been getting big pairs stacked on me this month whereas I was really on a heater last month with them. It seems when I get coolered it is against a big stack but when I cooler an opponent it is against a small stack or the guy smells something. I had one hand the other day where I flopped quads. My opponent turned a full house with 99 on a 66J9 board and we never got it allin!!! The river was a K and he merely calls a reraise I put in on him. I couldnt believe his call. It was really poor I thought and I told him so. Surely you must go allin with that hand!! I believe I was in the sb which made it so the more rediculous. He says he put me on JJ even though there was no raise preflop! This actully happened once before to me a couple years ago on a very similar board. Meanwhile guys are coming over the top of me with hands like K8 and hitting two pair on the river to stack me when I have been betting hard at them!! WTF!!

I have also run out of $T so to breakup the monotony of the NLH cash games I have been playing some $2/4 Omaha8 and Stud8. Although I do not have pokertracker for these games I am pretty sure I am down in the Stud8 and up in the Omaha8 and maybe close to even or down a touch in these games. Definately feeling more comfortable in the Omaha8 game at this level and feel like I'm more likely to gamble it up in the Stud8 game but the Stud8 is more fun for now and I think I'm not bad at it. For a time back a couple years ago I felt Stud8 was my #1 game until I started getting pummelled atit! Played a few hands of 2-7 Triple Draw as well but that game has a huge variance so it really is gambling to only play a limited number of hands and I was down a touch. It's a fun game though! So it did its job.

I am within 20000 fpps of earning 310000 and when I get to that milestone that is when I will no longer bank fpps. Instead I plan to leave those in my account and start grinding fpp sit and gos for $T which I will use for multi-table sit and gos and tourneys to supplement my bankroll. I am looking forward to that because that will for sure break up the monotony of the cash game tables. WSOP satellites will also be coming online very soon I think. They are due anytime now.
I will probably use some fpps for that as well.

NHL trade deadline is on Tuesday and noon pst. After watching the Canucks crush the Wings the other night and get points in 9 of 10 games I am officially calling all aboard the bandwagon. This really could be the year my friends and I predict Dave Nonis is feeling that way as well. He is going to make a splash at the deadline and I really hope it is Tampa super stud center Brad Richards he gets. It will cost some quality prospects and guys that are just breaking into the league but I do not care. Richards is a huge upgrade on ANY forward on the team and immediately becomes the second most important player on the team. IF we get him! Here's hoping. If they do not get Richards than maybe a guy like Erat or Satan would be worth getting if for cheap which is all Nonis woud send for them. We'll see. I am really stoked to see what happens!! Go Canucks Go!!