Mixed Results Lately

I've been getting mixed results lately. I've place "In The Money" in every private tournament and a couple private freerolls that I've played. Bad thing is that I've been doing horrible in open MTT's, SnG's and Ring Games. I think it has to do with my state of mind in private games because i'm playing with people that I know and talk to on a regular basis. I think there's more of an urgency to win, so I can do a little brag.

Speaking of brags, Railbirds updated their February Freeroll Rankings on the 18th and guess who is holding the #1 spot....not me. I'm currently 5th in the rankings which is great because I didn't get much of a chance to play in them last week. I've also been accepted into the Dragon Clan on Railbirds which is helping my drive to win. Since I've been a member of the Dragons I've played in 2 private tournament. I came in 3rd in the RB in Atlantic City tournament and won the Dragon Clan Meet and Greet.

Since I've been planning on depositing again I've also decided to throw Bankroll Management out the window and been playing a lot of 0.05/0.10 NLHE ring games. I've been losing at them but I think it's just been because I've been playing pretty passively at the 0.01/0.02 level and I need to be more aggressive at this level. I hope I just need to fine tune my strategy to start winning. I'm updating my Status Post again so you can see how my 0.01/0.02 strategy has been holding up.

Taking it easy for a week

Between throwing my back out and being broke I took it easy last week. I did play a couple Railbirds ranking freerolls. I took 30th in a Stud Hi and 38th in a NLHE. I finished the month ranked 320th which isn't bad considering that I missed over half of them and half of the games that I did play didn't have my full concentration. I'm going to try to give it more effort in Feburary and hopefully get into the top 100.

In other news, I've been offered a small stake ($10) for ring games. I'm going to be playing 0.01/0.02 NLHE 6-Max tables. This will help me get my 'poker fix' and maybe get a little bankroll started until I can get a deposit in. I played about an hour and a hlf yesterday and made about $3. I've giving it a go again as I'm writing this. I'm also going to update my overall stats in my first post.

Also, my girlfriend won us a trip to Vegas in some contest they had at school. I think it covers airfare, 4 nights somewhere and some spending cash. She's wanting to go during spring break but I'm wanting to go the end of June to meet up with some friends from Beat the Donk poker forums. Either way we're going to have a hard time finding a baby sitter. I think that when we get out tax return back I might take a little to the tables up in Wheeling to get a little live practice.