I have been playing a little more poker over the last few days. I am trying to get ready to go and play the Heartland Poker Tour event next week at Grand Casino Milacs. I have been in a poker rut the last two weeks. If I raise preflop no matter how much, even over bets, I am getting lots of callers and then not hitting a thing after the flop and then having to fold. An example is last night blinds at 75-150, I have big slick suited and I am two behind under the gun. Under the gun raises to 300. I decide to reraise hoping to get to heads up. I make it 600. 3 people behind me call and so does the initial raiser. Great! Flop comes all under cards and there is a bet and reraise before it get to me. I fold. Hand ends with small blind winning after calling a twice raised pot with J-9 and hitting a flush on the river. I have gotten to the point where I am not raising preflop because of the amount of callers I am receiving which is a bad idea. I will just have to keep at it until this streak ends. I played two sit and go style home games over the weekend. One was a limit horse tournament and one was a NL holdem one. I was consistant. I was the first one out in both events. I had good cards and was always one card short of winning. It was fun to play basically donkless games. I don't get that much where I play. Started my new old job today. It is like riding a bike. It came back very quickly. The good thing is I have a nice schedule. Monday-Friday days. Don't get that much in the restaurant business. More later this week!