Free CardRunners month

I had a pretty clean run at it last night. No internet problems, only one horrible bad beat, and quite a few games I felt pretty solid in. It surprises me how often a new player sits at these things. I mean I'm on there almost every night around the same time, and I keep playing new player after new player. I guess that's the beauty of such a deep network of players like FTP or PS. I managed a small profit, which came about from -$50 in HU cash and +$100 in SNG's. The HU cash was disappointing, I'd played very solid only to put in a huge bluff with ace high thinking there was nothing he could easily call with. He'd been raising my cbets quite frequently, so I looked him up on a K55 board and 3 bet shoved him. He went into his think tank for ages, and made the call with KQo. Not sure if he was slowrolling or he thought I had a 5, but he was a good folder, so I wouldn't be surprised if he thought he might be beat and was thinking whether he could fold. Anyway that cost $50, but I'm happy with the play, as he'd have folded almost any other hand, I'm sure of it. I guess that's why I hate cash games at the moment, as it's a real grind against some players, and you are making tiny amounts of money over quite a few hands rather than knowing it will all be over within a few minutes one way or the other. It's really quite a rush knowing you could be $50 richer in less than 5 minutes, which I think is partially the reason a lot of unknowns find their way here, rather than it being full of regs.

Cardrunners sent me an email to say I'm now paid up for next month, sweet. It worked like this. I bought the 1 month membership booster, got a confirmation email from FTP, then got an email from cardrunners (TrevRob, keep up the good work) saying it's done. What's missing here? I didn't tell FTP my CardRunners member name. They obviously work it out through your email address, but it's a nice touch to have to not do anything after buying the item in the FTP store. Nice.

I also watched 2 MasterLJ videos on CardRunners yesterday, the guy has some good info, well worth a watch. And I'm definitely going to go through some of Brian and Taylors HU videos now to really get some solid background information in my head. I've realised I have tonnes of HU info to be gained. I especially need to learn good places to fold, as I all too often find myself calling river bets where I only beat a bluff, or calling flops or turns OOP where I have no intention of trying to steal the pot and no equity in the pot. My bluffing skills are OK, but probalby pretty see through to a decent player.