Today I became a pro.

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Update 4/14/07

I played 50 sngs today and made $64. I'm really learning a lot and am able to improve my game.

I love the Poker Stars software. The custom table layout capabilities are AWESOME!! I am experimenting with different layouts. I am able to start a set with 9 tables on my large screen and one or two on my small screen. After I bust out of several and get down to 8 tables, I can put four on each monitor with ease. Also, I don't have to worry about tables popping up when I am trying to click on a button.

Around midnight, my Internet went out for about an hour. So, I wasn't able to get into PLO for a while. I almost started to write a program in Liberty Basic that could replay entire tourneys quickly and conveniently. (If you know about a program out there like that already, let me know and I won't even waste my time.) I started to work on my bio for sngicons, but my Internet came back up. I thought to myself, "I can play one table of PLO and still work on my bio." And that was the end of my bio. I accidentally sat down at a PLO8 table. I still won $8 on it before it died. I 4 tabled PLO for about 3 hours.

The first PLO high table I played at had a maniac to my right. He raised every hand and did continuation bets each street. I could envision my huge chip stack. I recited Annie Duke's advice for playing against a maniac. "Call more often. Raise less often. And seldom value bet." Unfortunately I probably gave him more than he gave me. Only once was I able to win big off of him. He drew to a low straight for an all in bet when it was obvious that I already had a higher straight. LOL He won big in that game though. He left the table after he dropped $50 from his $189 high. My other PLO games fared rather well. The games were very soft.

Total profit: $106