Phishing victim

Recently, I had become a victim of a phishing attack on Cardschat.
I received a PM from a member who I thought was trustworthy, asking me if I could coach him in ring games, where he supplied a link where he first brought up the subject of coaching, which I had thought was a valid link since it had actually been brought up by another member and thought he had asked in the general forum, but when I clicked the link I was directed to what I thought was a cardschat page, which said I didn't have privileges to see the page and was required to log in again, and since cardschat was suffering some cache problems I never thought anything of it so I went to log on again and it was then my cardschat account was stolen.
At this point I made another account to PM a mod about what happened and after some investigating by the mod, I was notified I was a victim of a phishing attack and she would put a temp ban on my account until they got it all sorted out.
2 days later, I'm still waiting.

Moral, do not open any links you receive, go back to your browser and look it up directly from your browser.
I had to find this out the hard way.

Anyways, my cash game is taking swings, good and bad and have made a small profit in ring games but as of late, my tourney game is suffering which has brought my ROI down into the negative for the first time this year, I had started the new year off in the positive, playing my first tourney of 2009 2 weeks ago.
I had a positive ROI(50%+) for the first week of playing but now I am in the negative, I don't know if this is natural variance but I don't like it, it's throwing my confidence down a little.

I have been experimenting with 25NL and have been keeping my own and getting lucky on a few hands from the blinds and have realized that being somewhat new at this level I will have to pay more attention to it than I would if I were playing 10NL.
There are those players who don't see much of a difference between 10NL and 25NL but there is and even if it's only a slight difference, it's a difference and that is it's easier to get ppl to lay down once you show a couple good hands, what I mean is that C-bets are respected slightly more than at 10NL, min-raises are feared a little more as are min-bets and your standard bet sizing is more respected.
As I have just been experimenting with this level, it will take some time to get use to this level and see a good win-rate.
But as I can hold my own, I think my win-rate will be something I can be proud of given time.

I made a bad move and got lucky but it was only 3BB to call.
Reason for my low stack: experimenting with this level




I look to flop a monster or a monster draw and in the above case, I flopped trips which was well hidden by my bet sizing IMO.

Anyways, I will try to post more hands as this is a way you can get into my head.....lol.

BTW, do not leave links in your comments as I will not open them.

PEACE OUT HOMIES.

Back in it

I have been reading and I'm almost done HOH vol.1.
I have learned more about starting hands and pot/implied odds which has given me the confidence to play larger buy-ins($11) than what I'm use to($1-2), just this past Sunday, I tried the $200k guaranteed on stars for the first time and finished ITM (2982), not a big win but almost doubled my buy-in(profit). Not bad considering there were over 29k in entrants, I think I would have done better if I had noticed the blind structure which didn't occur to me until 1st break.
I will do much better on my next try.


I know I had mentioned that I was going to read HOH vol.1 twice and read vol.2 before I made my next deposit but I missed the action and have a little more knowledge, which I know will be a big help to my game.
I really will not go into any details of what the book had laid out but will tell you that small PPs(22-77) are not worth playing from many positions unless limped or folded around to you in LP.
I will tell you though,that if HOH vol.2 is as good as vol.1 I will totally kill the tourney circuit on stars this year when all the knowledge sinks in.
And I would like those who are reading this and have not purchased these books yet to do so, you will not regret it.


As of this post I have an 18% ROI with a 38% ITM for Jan 2009 whereas I had a -65% ROI with a 17% ITM for Jan 2008.
For those who don't know where I got these stats from, I got them from Officialpokerrankings.com

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