Once upon a time I used to play poker constantly. Somehow while playing 5-6 games of soccer per week and holding down a full-time job I could still find the time to play 15-20 hours of poker per week. Moving to NY definitely changed how much I could play, but UIGEA is what really fucked it up for me. I pulled out almost every dollar I had in an online site, which was a good thing as I didn’t get my entire bankroll stuck in the Neteller mess.

A month ago, I decided to make an effort to start actively playing again. I randomly hit a limit blogger tournament and while I can’t dig up any hand histories, I do have this gem from the chat:

MiamiDon: thats limit with idiots
MiamiDon: most horrible play I’ve seen in weeks, KQ

I’m the idiot. If I remember correctly I spiked a jack to hit an inside straight and crack his aces. It actually got much uglier than that as I pulled a number of suckouts to stay alive for a while. Eventually I lost an all-in when I was ahead as the universe does have a sense of humor.

Today I decided to go back to the drawing board. Back to where I made money in poker to begin with. Limit poker. Low stakes. Today’s results were ridiculously good averaging somewhere around 20BB/hr. I don’t expect that to hold up, but it feels good to kinda get into the swing of things again. We’ll see where this goes.