An all-new installment of the Matt Poker Tour. Last night the action was at Ron's, who climbs at our gym. He has a sweet house (including regulation 8-sided card table!) up in the hills near where I work, so I went directly there from a work send-off party for one of my co-workers that's leaving. We started 6-handed, and did limit raise for about 2 hours. I finally was catching good cards, although I folded two big pots early on that I would have won, including a straight draw that I folded on the turn. After those beats I started to catch some good hands; 2 pair AJ, pocket aces that turned into a full house, and even a few good bluffs. By the end of limit play I was probably up about $20-25. No-limit was not as good. Drew had already busted out of limit play, so we started 5-handed. Aaron went down pretty early on an all-in, and so once we were playing 4-handed I started to play a bit looser, thinking that I wouldn't need as good of hands to win. Sometimes that was true, and I took a couple of pots with some dubious hands, but then wound up loosing about $10 to Joshua on a showdown I should have folded out of 2 rounds before. End result? I walked away up $15, but more important I figured out a little bit better rhythm than last weeks "disastrous":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001062/ playing. Josuha again walked away the big winner; up about $50. "David":http://bigbrit.blogspot.com/ finally had a good game; not bluffing too much, catching good cards and playing them well. He only lost $10 on the night, and our esteemed host Ron lost $20 after buying back in midway through the night.

I've also bought back in to the online poker recently to try and brush up on my no-limit skillz. So far it's working well, and I'm up around $30. No great shakes, and probably not nearly as many fish as if I went to Party Poker, but I like the desktop client at "the site":http://paradisepoker.com/ I play at.