Beginning april:

Saying EL OH EL Cashgames says everything. I slighty played above my roll on 10NL but the level of players on 10NL is so low i thought i could beat it. But after some beats and 3 buyins less and some comment of a respected player, TheLoon, i decided to go back to 5NL. It sounds horrible that limit :D.
But I am happy that I did. I stacked of a lot op ppl and only lost 1 buyin ( 60BB/100 over 800 hands). In the end of the day i was up $ 18 on 5NL, but that didn't covered my losses on 10NL but i'm on the way back I hope.

The dutch goverment announced to handle with online gambling by there residents. In their eyes we are committing a crime. In the Netherlands the law says that there can only be 1 Casino company for the reason the can oversee "gambling" problems and guess who is the biggest stockholder of the dutch Casino's? Yes, it is the goverment. With closing the cashflows from Neteller or so, we 'must' gamble in the goverments casino's. It seems to be a little weird.

Next to that the waiting lists for casino poker games are way to long. I heard some rumours that some waitingslists are up to 3 hours before you can join a poker table. Now what are they trying to accomplish with that? We need to wait for 3 hours in a casino... What do we do in that time? The majority takes a shot at roulette or blackjack games, maybe a slot machine. But in my opinion they are just promoting gambling with closing all the poker opportunities and almost pushing us towards the "real" gambling games in wich the casino always wins in the end (I don't see poker as a gambling game). For the record, if you play blackjack or roulette, and you don't count cards etc, in the end you will always loose. That's how I look at gambling games.

Poker on the other hand doesn't has a negative expecting, because when your playing you always need to take the right disicions, and reduce the expectation to get "lucky". Every time you're opponent makes a wrong disicions it will be profitable for you. So the less mistakes you make the more you will gain. That's makes it game of perfection instead of gambling. For sure there are some players who gamble in the game and don't have the knowledge or abilities to learn about the game. But in the end it is a game of skill and not of gambling.

Goals for april:
A don't want to play as much as i did the last 2 weeks of march. I want to give my social a bit more attention. And with the tennis competition starting in two weeks i will not be able to play over 1K hands on saturdays (I our tennis team we got 5 pokerplayers so i'll gain in live tourney experience).

Hands: 8.000
BB/100: 10 (at least, but with running 60BB/100 over the first 800 hands, i hope to gain some more.)