Day 1 in the books ...

I got stacked pretty early:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?867661

My AJs combo draw ran into a set. I could have just called his min-raise from the flop and seen a turn. I guess I got too excited about my hand.

I played a 1K session and then play for 45 minutes longer. Overall, I'm up ~4 buy-ins for the day:


My initial impressions of UB are that the software is REALLY fast. It's like FTP on crack. Or as a friend said ... FTP is UB on weed. The difference is startling - I had a hard time 4-tabling there. I was pretty much just playing my cards but ended up timing out a few times. Oh yeah ... and having to re-open my hand histories after a certain number of rounds is really annoying.

Anyway ... 50NL at UB seems pretty easy to beat - I just need to tightten up a little pre-flop - I started getting a little carried away and people just called me down with 2nd pair and such.

There were a number of times when I should have raised the turn but wanted to slow play in position and play a safe river. Both times the river bit me in the ass and I had to fold to a big bet. Ugh.

Also, my first straight flush of the challenge:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?867918

I'm a luckbox: http://www.pokerhand.org/?868299