Eric Rizen Lynch

A big 0-fer

0 for 8 last night in tournaments. Typically that doesn't bother me too much, but I didn't play my best. I think I still had a bit of adrenaline running through me from winning two tournaments over the weekend of the fact that I haven't been feeling all that well since last Wed is starting to impact how I play, because I was officially a lagtard for the first 45 mins or so I played last night. I managed to correct myself and get back into the thick of things, but not until after I had lagged away a significant part of my stack in both the Stars 150+12 and UB 100+9 last night, as well as making an AWFUL call in the Happy Hour on Empire.

I'm going to focus on playing a better game tonight, although I still don't feel super well. It'll eat at me the rest of the week though if I play poorly tonight since I may or may not get to play again until next Monday. Between all the Christmas stuff I've got going on I don't know when I'll be home every night. If I'm home in time I'm certain you'll see me in some of the later tournaments, but that's a big if.

The newest rankings on Pocket Fives came out yesterday, and with my 3 wins last week I moved up from 68 to 61. Since I may not play much this week, then 3 weeks from now I have the PCA, I have no doubt that I'll probably move down a few spots before I return from the Bahamas. Especially since I will miss out on the 'Masters' on Paradise Poker. Obviously I'm happier to be going to the PCA than I would be playing in the Masters series of tournaments, and I will be taking my laptop, so who knows you could see me in the Masters anyways if I bust out of the PCA early enough.

I wish I could say something interesting happened last night that would inspire me to write something poker related, but it didn't. It was a pretty straight forward night of cards where I lost a few races, sucked out a few times, had a few bad beats, and at the end of the day don't have a lot to show for it.

In the past, Wed has typically been a night off for me, but I've moved that to Thursdays since my wife has class that night now. So for the first time in a while I'm going to get to play both the Super Wed limit tournament (I cut my teeth playing limit poker, so I still like to play it from time to time, just aren't many big limit tournaments) as well as get my first taste of the new 75k guaranteed 200+15 on UB. In addition to those I'm sure I'll be playing the 75k and Stars 150+12. I'll also likely add the Empire Happy Hour at 9. After that, I'll do my usual routine of adding the 45k on Stars and 40k on Party when/if I bust out of earlier tournaments, and adding the Pearl on Paradise if I bust out of anything before that. If I remember correctly, there are also a few nice tournaments on Stars on Wed nights (I want to say a 100+9 and $55 rebuy?) that could potentially get added, but honestly I hope I'm not doing poorly enough in the early ones to add anything else onto my plate :)

-Rizen