I was thinking that I would take the rest of the month off from poker, until the poker landscape clears up, but then I realized that I played a session on FT earlier in the month and I was down $660 for the month.  Not sure if you guys know, but since I started playing poker professionally in Sept 2008, I have made money every month (including rakeback).  Well I wasn't about to let the DOJ kill my streak of 31 consecutive months of profitability.  Not over $660.

So I did a little research and deposited on Carbon Poker.  I'm up $1,650 over a few days of mostly 0.5/1, so that I can at least write a "+1K" as my total for the month.  It was basically a case of bonus whoring gone bad (see yesterday's post), as I was "sure" I could play enough to collect the full $2K deposit bonus.  But that's not happening now.  I actually wrote them an email to switch to the $600 ($7.50 for $1) bonus, which I think is better.  Anyway, since this was a "test" to see if I could even get a working US account going and to see if I would like the software, I only deposited $1,000.  I figure I just grind that baby up from there.  Poker is poker after all.  Or maybe not...

Not sure if this is standard for NL100 (or for Merge), but I don't remember being in a hand where FOUR people got all-in on the flop.  What are the odds that four people see a flop and all four go all-in?  I was like, WTF!  UTG+1 probably has a set of kings.  But I'm not folding middle set.

Merge Network $0.50/$1.00 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players

DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

UTG: $47.00 (41/1/2.7)
UTG+1: $169.20 (21/17/5.6, 538 hands)
MP1: $64.30 (57/14/0, 8 hands)
MP2: $126.48
CO: $78.45 (43/22/inf, 23 hands)
Hero (BTN): $170.05
SB: $110.84
BB: $100.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with 6 6
UTG calls $1, UTG+1 raises to $4.00, MP1 calls $4, 1 fold, CO calls $4, Hero calls $4, 3 folds

Flop: ($18.50) 3 6 K (4 players)
UTG+1 bets $13.00, MP1 raises to $42.66, CO raises to $74.45 all in,

Hero calls $74.45, UTG+1 raises to $165.20 all in,

MP1 calls $17.64 all in, Hero calls $90.75

Turn: ($483.65) Q (4 players - 3 are all in)

River: ($483.65) 4 (4 players - 3 are all in)

Final Pot: $483.65

UTG+1 shows 3 3
MP1 shows 9 K
CO shows A 2
Hero shows 6 6 (60% equity)

Hero wins $180.37
Hero wins $42.19
Hero wins $258.09

(Rake: $3.00)

<3 NL100.  I had never played NL100 before... I just started at NL400 and will play 1/2 occasionally to retool, or when I'm not feeling it.  And LOL - I just realized there were three players with 40+ VPIPs at my table.  You never see that at NL400.  Altho tbh, at 0.5/1 there seems to be like one (maybe two) 30+ VPIP players on average.  Now I can see why Quads just plays NL100, even tho he probably should be playing mid stakes.