A delayed report

This will be a short and sweet post concerning my poker experiences over the Month of December. I'll update a january one shortly.

Monthly Home Game (december)
It's your basic home game. Texas Hold 'em only Tournament- usually we play 4 or 5 games. Buy-in is usually $10, sometimes we'll do a $20 buy-in towards the end of the night. We tend to have anywhere between 6-10 people show up. This past month, I didn't do so hot. I did manage to squeak out a 2nd place victory in one of the five games which basically won me my buy-in back for that tournament.

Online
Pretty much all of my online is at Pokerroom.com. I just like it. I especially enjoy their short-handed SitnGoes. Good for quick play, and I tend to do pretty well in short-handed. My aggressive style works nicely. Except this past month. I won a few, but also tried some full tables and Multitable tournaments and didn't fair all that well. I basically burned through my last deposit and am just taking some time to cool off from some tilting. I still have some money to play a private tournament I put together for some people I know from the MSR, All-In Poker Podcast. But that will be about it for a little while.

They just introducded "Teams" on PR which is pretty cool. A team of players challenge other teams to a league. Basically one person from each team plays at a one table tournament (usually about five tournaments at once). Rankings are done and at the end of the league money is awarded. Teams also split the buy-ins which is nice. Unfortunately a team of 10 turned out to be really a team of 4 where most people didn't deposit any money or want to play, so I dropped out of that one after one league game. I was the only person on the team who managed to win their table one night. And another night which I couldn't play (the night of my homegame) there was no one to replace me so I just blinded out. I finished 2nd best on my team (5th place). So I took a break from that. Interesting concept really.

Foxwoods
I haven't hit Foxwoods in 6 months, but there are plans in the works for a trip in January or February. Might try to qualify for a WPT event. Foxwoods Classic (was New England Poker Classic) was recently added as a WPT event.

Other
Got some poker chips and cards for Christmas, nothing fancy. Got my father-in-law and brother-in-law to play a $10 buy-in game. BIL put FIL out and I was pretty short stacked. I did manage to win a couple of hands, but was swatted back down. Finally, I managed to win a few hands, putting my all my chips in with the best hand. Usually Top pair vs 2nd or 3rd pair with draws and the draws never materialized. I finally finished him off.