This post is a little late due to the hectic nature of the 1st week of April which includes my birthday.
Anyway, March was a successful month, I retained Supernova as well as got into the black for the year cancelling out my downswing completely. I hit 7 or 8 final tables and finally hit a big score when I came 3rd out of 4000 players in the Big 22 on April 9th/10th. Admittedly I was kinda running in God-mode getting lucky over and over but I feel after the shower of crap I've been in for the last 3 months that it was deserved. This is a massive lift and has left me feeling more positive about everything. I have felt I was due for a while but I still hope this is the start rather than the end as I have been playing excellently especially in my MTTs picking my spots well but ultimately not winning the crucial 50 50 situations.
But with good news comes the bad news that followed the day after my most successful day in my short poker career. On April 10th, my Pokerstars account got frozen by the site. This is due to an investigation into my account involving my trip to the US around and after Black Friday when the FBI seized Pokerstars, Fulltilt and the Cereus Network thus making online poker (for the most part) illegal for US based players. I've been very cooperative with Pokerstars and hope the matter is resolved soon but am being careful what I say about the matter until a decision has been made. Obviously, I hope a positive outcome can come of this as there is a significant amount of money on the account that could be confiscated if Pokerstars see fit.
In the meantime I've been playing on the myBet skin of iPoker under the screen name 'MaxRoflz'. Its amazing the difference in standard of players. Most regs on the site have little to no finesse moves, no concept of ICM and its rare to find a high stakes reg with an ROI of over -1%. Essentially, they are very exploitable (giving me very little need to table select and with me getting 50% rakeback, that is awesome). I find myself usually with stats of 33/30 by the end of each sit and go. Needless to say the MTTs aren't too tough as well although occasionally you find a bunch of good regs.
So, whilst I feel positive about my game, I hope I wont have to grind iPoker for much longer. It's nice to be over that swing I hope I dont have anything like it again, although inevitably when variance hits you negatively, you just have to keep your head and plough through.
bigstealer
