Stomping Stud8

The night of the 28th I was so exhausted I went to bed early. No poker, no TV, no hanky panky, no playing with the boy(well a little bit), nothing. Got up for work at 4am and receive email from pokerstars that the 29th is a 24 hour double fpp promo day. Swear a bit at the lateness of the warning since there was none. PS. Some of us have a day job!! Got home around 6:30 and only 2 hours left of the promo. Decided there were better things to do so I ended up not getting any bonus fpps!! Well, that leaves me a bit annoyed so when I finally did settle down to play, after everyone else had hit the sack, I figured I would do less damage playing Stud8 unless I really went cold. Well, I figured right. Last night and today have been pretty good as I have been able to win over 100bb at 2/4 while 2-4 tabling. Cashed out last night and no doom switch this morning. In fact my winrate was higher today than last night. Anyway, I hate getting too excited about such short term results but it is nice to know that I can actually play 2/4 Stud8 profitably most of the time. I had been winning a couple years ago playing 1/2 and when I had tried to move up back then I completely collapsed. Not so this time at 2/4. I cannot see myself playing 1/2 Stud8 so it is nice to have the 2/4 tables as an option when things are cool over at the NLH tables. It really is good to have a safe haven like that. A place to play when things are bad. I might have to invest in pokertracker for Stud/Omaha.

As for the Canucks they have points in 9 of their last 10 games but have squandered 2 third period leads in a row only to lose in a shootout. So far the new guy Pettinger has not done anything significant. Time will tell. Kevin Bieksa back from injury has looked out of place at times and has not been doing the team any favours with his play. That said, the speedy young forwards Ryan Shannon and Mason Raymond are starting to look like legitimate 2nd liners in the future, especially Raymond. Blazing speed with good hockey sense and great patience and ability around the net.