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The recent heater has allowed me to quietly creep up in levels, to NL$2/3 on Bodog and some stabs at NL$2/4 on Full Tilt.

It’s pretty exciting to me, since I’ve tripled my bankroll since the summer when I had a lot of kitty chemo bills.

NL$2/4 also is/will be a rite of passage for me, since I blew a huge chunk of my previous bankroll when I first moved up to that level in October 2006, just about the time of the UIGEA and my break-up with Kelley.

Of course, that was pre-CR offense and I can safely say that I really had no idea what I was doing at the time.

In the most recent CardPlayer, pro Kenny Tran talks about how you should move up in limits only when you’ve become bored with the current level.

I remember when I limped my ‘roll into Bodog’s NL$200 last summer and would run away, licking my paws when I would get spanked for $24. lol. Now it feels as natural to me as NL$100 or NL$50, which I still play on Bodog if the tables are good.

Having lots of buy-ins really helps when it comes time to make a decision. I feel like I am growing accustomed to NL$2/3 (although I really feel compelled to pay the extra dollar all the time in the $2 SB way too much) but I’ll need more hands to feel good about $2/4.

I mean, I don’t have any qualms about sacrificing a $300 stack, but I felt like I did playing NL$2/4’s $400 stack, which is something that only a lot of hands — and winning and losing stacks — can numb.

Despite having all that fun, I went over to Sham’s to play poker with the crew — especially after having $4 blinds make my head spin, I thought it would be very relaxing to play in a $.05/.10 $5 max game.

So I put on some tennis shoes and ambled down the street, the warm evening packing Virginia-Highland with lots of bargoers, it was so nice to see all the activity.

Sham kept on 3-betting me light or raising light pf so I would just call and then call down whatever I flopped, if it was a J-high board, or even, in one instance 3rd pair (fours).

I raised and bet aggressively with primo draws in 2-7 TD and baducey and I also just donk called Brigid most of the time in Razz.

Those plays might have helped me in my biggest pot of the night against her, when we were playing NL Omaha and I turned my straight with T,9,8,6. It’s so hard to see a straight and especially shorthanded.

Ended up cashing 3-1/2 buy-ins (SPAM 2-3), so it was a worthy evening.

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The India Poker Tour which will take place in autumn will have preliminary events starting in June 2008. The $1 million prize pool televised tournament is organised by the creators of the popular Asia Poker Classic, and is expected to show the growth in poker interest throughout India.

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John ‘Falstaff’ Hartness

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I like how this hand developed. I thought shawty would push all in with a better hand and I thought I had lots of outs…

Full Tilt Poker Game #5283238337: Table Chang (deep) - $0.15/$0.30 - No Limit Hold’em - 20:03:39 ET - 2008/02/16
Seat 2: pat24250 ($25.10)
Seat 4: JayJay123456 ($40.65)
Seat 5: kurokitty ($60)
Seat 8: Royal_Smeagol ($14.90)
JayJay123456 posts the small blind of $0.15
kurokitty posts the big blind of $0.30
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to kurokitty [Jc As]
Royal_Smeagol calls $0.30
pat24250 calls $0.30
49JRR49 sits down
JayJay123456 calls $0.15
kurokitty raises to $1.50
49JRR49 stands up
Royal_Smeagol calls $1.20
pat24250 folds
JayJay123456 folds
*** FLOP *** [Qd 8c Tc]
kurokitty bets $3
Royal_Smeagol calls $3
*** TURN *** [Qd 8c Tc] [6c]
kurokitty checks
Royal_Smeagol bets $7.50
kurokitty has 15 seconds left to act
fcporto3 sits down
kurokitty has requested TIME
fcporto3 adds $20
kurokitty calls $7.50
*** RIVER *** [Qd 8c Tc 6c] [Ah]
kurokitty checks
Royal_Smeagol has 15 seconds left to act
Royal_Smeagol bets $0.90
kurokitty calls $0.90
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Royal_Smeagol shows [9d Kd] Ace King high
kurokitty shows [Jc As] a pair of Aces
kurokitty wins the pot ($25.10) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $26.40 | Rake $1.30
Board: [Qd 8c Tc 6c Ah]
Seat 2: pat24250 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: JayJay123456 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: kurokitty (big blind) showed [Jc As] and won ($25.10) with a pair of Aces
Seat 8: Royal_Smeagol showed [9d Kd] and lost with Ace King high

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I didn’t realize this until just now but Valentine’s Day was the 3-year anniversary of the Poker Cats blog.

W00t!

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Ashley Adams

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