Because since Saturday morning, I’ve been

1) in transit, and then

2) had a stomach virus, quickly followed by

3) a fairly nasty cold, and now

4) it’s already Thursday and about a week has gone since I last blogged.

Sorry about that.

…

I still have a cold. Still, I’ve been trying to get some time at the (sweet, joyous, lovely) online tables, practising my no-limit skills. 1800 hands later, and the Poker Gods have nicely enough granted me a 3.5 buy-in profit, which puts me at a completely unsustainable 11.5BB/100. I’ll get back to you on what that number is when April is over.

Specifically, I’ve been practising bluffing and small pot play. Weak/tight nut peddling is so much the norm at Stars’ $25NL tables that I feel like every pot I bet at I just pick up. Then again, I have been running good, so perhaps I should take those results, too, with a grain of salt.

Also, I’ve been working on some new articles for the CardsChat main page. One that I’m hoping will be of most help is a brief tutorial on how to use PokerStove, and what to use it for. I’ve part one written up (which is really nothing more than a functionality guide and something you can pretty much figure out by just playing around with the program) and I’m currenly working on part two, which contains a few tricks that you can pull off with the help of PokerStove in terms of figuring out expected value of certain plays. I think it’s going to be pretty cool, for those who aren’t used to thinking or calculating these things.

Time to go cough, hack, wheeze and sneeze in bed. Later.