I would like to thank Katie, who was the heart of the team and helped us with all our problems.

I didn’t get a chance to play as much poker as before since my daughter was born in July, but I did make a come back in December and cashed on my first tournament in the Budapest Poker Open. Since I couldn’t play in the WSOP last year, I will still play that tournament as a member of the Live The Dream Team in 2011. I am looking forward to it.

I am happy that I got to know some of the great Everest Poker players, I am proud that I could be part of the team. I wish good luck to all of them and I hope to meet you all soon at one of the big live events again!

I really enjoy being with my baby but I miss the excitement of the poker world a little bit. It is going to be hard though as Norah is exclusively breastfed so I will need to get some bottles ready for her while I play. Luckily her daddy will be with us so hopefully it will all go smoothly.

I am not getting much sleep lately, Norah decided that she likes to feed every hour during the night. I hope this growth spurt will not last long otherwise I will collapse from exhaustion.

I managed to play a little bit of online poker here and there, but only cash games as I can get out of those anytime.

Well, I am excited that I will be back in a month or so and I think I will even try to play some satellite tournaments on Everest Poker for the Montesino tournament in Vienna.

This is the reason why this might be my last post for a while, at least about poker . I am not sure if anyone would be interested in reading about diaper changes and breastfeeding in this blog Plus, as I hear, I will be to tired to write anyway.

So, about May. It was a strange month, partly very successful but also with failures. The biggest disappointment is the online tournament result, which was a big negative (-9k). However, I won over double that last month, so I will keep trying. The biggest reason for the negative result is that I played several WSOP satellites (on which you can get the cash credited or tournament dollars) and I haven’t cashed in any of them. These are much more expensive tournaments ($700) thank the other ones I played ($55-$350), so they influence the results greatly. If I just cashed one of them, that would have offset the whole negative balance.

Anyway, the good part of the month was my 2-7 game. First of all, the tournament result included my 2-7 win, which was close to 3k. On top of that, I won over $11k in 2-7 cash games which means that my month had a positive balance. I  haven’t had a negative month in 2 years now. I played 16 sessions and won in 12 this month. I probably ran above EV, but I don’t mind at all ))) I played a little as high as $50/$100, but usually only up to $30/$60 where I am getting quite comfortable. I only play higher if the table is really good and there is no good game at lower limits.

The player, who helped me with some advice at the beginning of my 2-7 learning curve, is in 2nd place at the WSOP 2-7 tournament with 8 players left (Peter Gelencser). I hope he wins it

My 7 card stud game didn’t go well either. I played on $1/$2 stakes and had no success. It continuously seemed to happen that I bet all the way with the best hand and someone with a complete nonsense calls me down all the way and makes the best hand on the 7th street. But because this kept happening again and again, I start to suspect there is something wrong with my play, too. It can’t just all be bad luck. So I will drop to $0.50/$1 for a little bit to investigate what I am doing wrong. I will definitely not give up

My short handed NLHE didn’t go well either. My biggest problem is that I just don’t like short-handed play. However I will keep playing and practicing, learning from videos, etc. , because this game is much weaker on Everest Poker than full ring (at least at the stakes I like to play full ring – $2/$4 and up). I didn’t lose money on my cash games, but I hardly won anything which is disappointing.

So, this was probably my last month of playing serious poker for a while. I will still post if anything remarkable happens, but I can’t promise anything.

There were 42 players in the 2-7 triple draw tournament and I got $2700 for the win, but that is ok. I just want to practice 2-7 tournaments to prepare for the WSOP next year. And as long as I don’t lose money while practicing, I am fine I also came around 100th out of 3600 in the 750k and cashed quite a few other tourneys today.

I am unable to cash on Everest Poker. I played 5 tournaments there today, no cash. Well, I guess it is only short term. But long term in tournaments is usually very-very long…

My life nowadays is much more about highchairs, strollers, rocking chairs and baby clothes. Got a ton of stuff yesterday. These tiny pink clothes are just sooooo cuuuuute She is gonna be a very well dressed baby

I am also getting more and more uncomfortable in the heat and with the extra weight. Well, I will just have to cope, there is nothing I can do.

I played some 2-7 triple draw cash games on $30/$60 and $15/$30. I made $4000 last night which is pretty good. I had huge swings but finished nicely up. I was never much down. I am also trying to practice my 7-card-stud game. It’s been going well, made $21 in the $1/$2 game, but I only played very briefly while waiting for my 2-7 table. I hope to get good in 7CS too in the next year. I will gradually work my way up to the higher stakes, I don’t just want to jump into it. I made more playing 2-7 this year than playing NLHE cash games online

I am off to have some rest before starting the session today.

I should have called the floor, but I didn’t. As the lady was quite loose with her calls and I thought she didn’t want to raise (I was probably wrong), I thought I could make her fold by re-raising. I was wrong, she had a monster and pushed all-in at which point I was getting 3:1 odds on my call, so as long as her range is not only QQ-AA (which it is not), I can’t fold. My Q7o didn’t draw out on her KK.

So this was disappointing but I think I finished a good season. (I think a tournament season should be from August to July, until the end of the WSOP) This was my first season when I played a lot of big tournaments thanks to my Everest Poker sponsorship and satellite tournaments before that.

I made 4 final tables (WPT, NAPT side event, Unibet Open and Budapest Poker Open Ladies Event) and won the NAPT side event. I hope some truly big results will follow next season which is very well possible if I keep playing so consistently and improve my game as much as I can. I also think the WSOP 13th place was a great success, I qualified for the $1500 event on Everest Poker from $100.

Now I will have close to two months for online poker and then no poker for quite some time. I started to work on my 7 card stud game again, I played an hour or two yesterday for small stakes ($0.50/$1) and made $30. I felt pretty good about my game so I will try $1/$2 for next. I have played on $2/$4 before, just a couple of times but I haven’t played in a while and I am just starting to learn this game so I wanted to take it easy.

I would like to be able to play the small 8-game tournaments on the WSOP by 2012. I think in 2011 I will play the 2-7 triple draw and 7 card stud, and possibly some more stud games like Razz or 8 or better. I hope it will be a big surprise when I show up in 2011 as a very mature 2-7 player who they have never seen before By that time I will have been playing for 2 years and hopefully get to some decent stakes online. I wouldn’t mind playing as high as $500/$1000 later if I can beat the game (and not necessarily by that time).  Same for stud and other games, perhaps the 8-mix too.

So from July, no poker for months and months… only baby I am very excited about it, I can’t wait. I will be back in December playing some tournaments and then I guess the continuation depends on Everest Poker for the most part.

I am flying back to Toronto tomorrow.

I made a stupid lay-down which I still don’t understand. I went into the hand with a plan exactly to get into the situation in which I got and then through it away… arrrrrghhhhh… no idea why, I had no reason to do so except that I would have had to put another 100 big blinds in the pot. But that is what I wanted to begin with…

Anyway, I was really angry about that, but luckily it was the last hand before the dinner break so I had no time to tilt. I had a tough table on the second day. Some of my moves worked out well except a light cold 4bet, where the 3bettor went all-in so I had to fold. One more hand I could have played differently, but I think even if I did, the end result would have been the same or close to it because I couldn’t have avoided the last two hands.

Then I played my first 2-7 triple draw session on the $30/$60 tables, two-tabling and it went really well. I had a lot of good starting hands and I hit a decent amount of time, so I made over $2200. I guess now I can say I am a $30/$60 player in 2-7 TD. It is a milestone, I think this is where it starts to become serious money (at least for me). I don’t think I will play at this stake against the regulars, but this time there were several weaker players at the tables and that is why I decided to play. I will keep avoiding the tough tables for a while until I feel more confident at this stake.

Yesterday we had a touristy day with Everest Poker’s Jerome, a nice kid from the London office. It was funny walking around with my huge belly – I guess most of the people thought the 23-year-old kid was the father, LOL. We were laughing about this a lot ))

Today I will play the Ladies Event.  I would like a nice finish for the season. Then no poker for 7 months… OMG – at least not live. I guess I will need to convert this to a baby-blog for a while It will only be about feeding and pooping and burping and no poker DD

I played two nights ago and it went pretty well. I played 8 tournaments and cashed in 3 of them, final tabled 2 of them. I came 5th in both, one was the Everest Poker $109 buy-in $10k guarantee with 98 players, the other one was a $163 buy-in with 960 players and a $144k prize pool. I got $800 for the first one and $9000 for the later, not bad for one night.

I didn’t manage to qualify on the satellites for the Monte Carlo Main Event, but I decided to play it anyway. I have the budget for it from my Everest Poker sponsorship and I feel very sharp, I think my game is pretty good now. I am doing well live and online lately, so why not give it a shot? I hope it is a good decision and I can show some good results on the tournament.

Of course because I am not able to play the event this year, I will just get cash or T$ instead. I am waiting for Everest Poker to confirm that if I win a package there I can play it next year. I would really like to play their satellites too.

I am out on the first day of SPT Aranjuez. I was unable to get above the starting stack ever. Whenever I had a hand, someone had a better one (TT vs JJ, JJ vs KK, etc.). Whenever I started with the best hand, I was outflopped immediately (KK vs. A2o).

All my bluffs got called which is very discouraging when you never have a hand. I also didn’t feel that I played well (probably because I didn’t play well .

It also didn’t help that we only started at 9:30 pm and were supposed to play 7 levels until 5 am. When I was out at 3 am, I was half asleep and was happy to go to bed. I can’t do so long nights being 7 months pregnant, it just doesn’t work.

Anyway, it is my choice to play so I can only blame myself. I have 2 more tournaments, two EPTs and I feel good about them, especially about San Remo. I can’t wait to play.

I decided that I wanted to play as much as possible before taking a break and giving birth. I just wanted to make sure that I can get some good results so that I have a chance to become a Team Everest player which is my next dream So far it is going well, I won an NAPT side event and final tabled a WPT event. I just need to win an EPT and I am good to go

I also have really good publicity in Hungary, online, offline, radio, tv all, so I hope that will also help. You could say it is not a big result to be the most successful (based on tournament winnings) Hungarian female player when there is maybe one more pro female in the whole country that I know of. However, it is still a title And the media doesn’t really care that I am the No1 out of 2 as long as I am the No1 DD.

Anyway, I will concentrate on San Remo now, fingers crossed! I will go over and check on the other Everest players in the casino now.

I used to have serious problems with tilting, but I usually noticed it and stood up from the tables. I only tilted away serious money once and it wasn’t that much money ($4500). I think somehow I also managed to avoid big downswings. I think the main reason for this is that I panic much earlier than a serious downswing could hit and I start to analyze my game, my mistakes well on time. I also drop down a level very easily if I feel I need to recoup my confidence when things aren’t going well.

I am proud of the fact that since the summer of 2008 I haven’t had a losing month.

I still found the book very useful, just to summarize whatever is important in this subject, but also got some good advice. I know that making good decisions is more important than winning or losing, but I wouldn’t say I am indifferent to money in poker – although that is what you should aim for.

I also noticed looking at the Amazon poker books, that I basically read all the educational books (not story-telling) on the first 4-5 pages. It took me 4 years of only reading poker books, nothing else.

So now I will turn more to the videos on the internet, some of which are very useful. Last summer I met Annette at the Everest Poker party during the WSOP and she said she watches 2-3 videos every day. So I signed up on some sites on her advice and she was right

Oh, and of course, I started to read baby-books instead of the poker books