I was born at the Stupid Factory

....... and the 'S' on my forehead does stand for Stupid. I have been clearing my bonus on Royal Vegas Poker by playing the .50/$1 Limit Tables. There is nothing wrong with that but to get credit for a raked hand and to clear my raked hands bonus for Poker Savvy I can do it playing the .25/.50 Limit Tables. I am comfortable playing the higher tables but there is the potential to lose more money and right now what we want to do is just clear the bonus and playing the lower limit tables lets us clear the same amount of raked hands with less chance of losing large amounts. My goal is to be a winning poker player but I have to temper that by clearing bonuses so as not to lose the bonus money in the process.

I have raked 160 hands at Royal Vegas Poker so I need less than 100 raked hands to earn myPoker Savvy points. Royal Vegas is worth 450 Poker Savvy points which is equivalent to $45 dollars. I should have the hands raked by the week-end and then I am going to continue until I rake 1000 hands to clear the Royal Vegas bonus. I should be able to do that by Halloween or sooner.

Right now I am down about $17 dollars and a lot of that is from playing marginal hands in an attempt to clear the bonus quicker. I am going to slow down now and play smarter and try to earn back that $17 plus some as well as clear the bonus.

I'm almost halfway to clearing the 2500 raked hands on Titan Poker needed to earn my Poker Savvy points. That is going to take a bit longer but I am going to stay with it and may have it done by Halloween, too.

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Ryder Cup week and we are the underdogs for the first time in, maybe, forever. The European Ryder Cup teams have pretty much dominated the last ten years of Ryder Cup matches and they are on their home turf this year playing in Ireland. The Americans should have no trouble finding motivation to beat the Europeans. It would be nice to jump out to an early lead in the matches but the first two days have historically favored the Europeans with the Americans making a charge during Sunday's Head-to-Head matches.

They are calling for wind and rain so I'm not sure the weather is going to favor either team. They both have to play in the same conditions so it should be a wash but some are saying the wet conditions will favor the Europeans.

Paul Casey of the European team just blitzed a tremendous filed in last week's match play event and should be ready to go this week. It will be interesting to see how he does as, oftentimes, someone who is hot in one event has trouble sustaining that in the next tournament.

It is up to the United States team to go out and play good golf and send the Eruopeans packing.