Steve, as you are well aware, the regular limit games are quite different than the tournament games and even the no limit regular round games and yes, I do vary my stratety and no, believe it or not, I can adapt to the different games very quickly. I know that some of the pros cannot adapt and generally will stick to either tournament play or round table play--but then again remember they are playing for high stakes--not penny ante like we play.

For me personally, this happends to be a very unusual year which started out last December. I am in the midst of a very long slump both on line, in regular brick and morter casinos and tournaments. I've tightened up considerably (which is difficult to do as I am normally a tight player as it is,) but will ride it out until the tide turns.

Of course, one must consider what losses are great to one person are nill to another. As for example, a very dear friend of mine lost $80,000 last week in the market and it doesn't really bother him, but to lose $100.00 in the poker game depresses him greatly. I'm the same way except I didn't lose $80,000 in the market nor did I lose $100.00 in the game but the loss of $20.00 was enough to put me in a foul mood.

You see, the dollar amount is really not relative--it's just the idea of winning or losing no matter what the amount--especially to us seniors who are lucky enough to have no financial worry. We just don't like to lose.

I know I got off on a tangent but that is normal for me once I get on this darn computer.

As I said before Steve, your a great player and have very good competition on the board. Just who is the best? Well, that just depends on who gets luckier at the right time.

Reminds me of a World series match where the winning team won 4 games to 3 for the loser. Does that really mean that the team in second play was not as good as the winning team? Not necessarily. Who knows what the results would be if they played another 7 games--or even another 2.