The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I'll start with the good and work my way down. Good news is that I've continued to kill 400NL. So far I'm actually doing better at 400NL than I was at 200NL. The players don't seem to be any better than at 200NL and I also feel like this level fits my game pretty well. I seem to be losing the least amount possible when I'm beat while still getting maximum value out of my good hands. Considering cash games are where I make most of my money and I make it the most consistently this is probably more of a great thing than just a good thing.

Ok, now we start with the bad. I played in the WCOOP Main Event, the $2600 NL Holdem event, and didn't cash. By far my biggest tournament that I've played in so far. I played pretty well but didn't get paid off on any of my big hands. I got aces, kings, and queens during the tournament and only the kings held up, which means that it just wasn't my day. My last hand I was starting to get short stacked and got it all in with 77 and was called by KTo. The flop and turn came great and my oponent needed a king or ten on the river to take the hand, which he got in the king. I lasted about 3.5 hours and finished somewhere around 1000th out of 2500 people. The prizepool was over $6 million and paid out over $1 million to first place.

Now we get to the ugly. The far right side of the republican party was able to attach an anti-gaming bill to the port security act which easily was passed through congress and should be signed by Bush within the week. This bill isn't going to make online poker illegal but it's going to put into effect measures that prevent banks from being able to make transfers to gambling websites. Nobody really knows what the effect of this bill will be and only time will tell what real effect it has on online poker. So as of right now I will continue to play as normal and am just adpating a wait and see attitude.