I decided to move my blog to Cardrunners for many reasons. I'd like to become more active in the Cardrunner community as I've realized it is a valuable learning tool. I also enjoy looking through the other Cardrunner blogs and the new CR site has an awesome interface and publishing the blog is much easier than here on Blogspot. They also have a cool hand replayer tool which I haven't really checked out yet, but plan on utilizing.
Anyway, from now on all blog updates have a new home here.
Thanks for checking in once in a while!
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
SEND ME TO AUSTRALIA BABY!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I nailed an Aussie Million Package in the FT tourney. 41 players, 2 packages. I tracked the tourney (as well as other tourneys) in this thread on the PCH forum the whole way. There are tons of hands posted, especially at the final table. I was barely surviving the whole tourney until 5 handed.
I'm so pumped. My stomach is still in knots. My wife and I cheered like a couple children during the final table. I think I probably let out a couple squeal-type cheers. But who cares, I'M GOING TO THE AUSSIE MILLION! It starts January 14th, so I have some planning to do!
I had a feeling I was going to do something tonight (as you could tell by my ealier post)! I guess I've predicted that before with no results, but this time, ship it! This doesn't really help my bankroll since I'll probably spend all the $3k spending money on plane tickets to Los Angeles, food, and other stuff in Melbourne, but I'll take it!!!!
See that message board thread above for any other comments and stuff. Thanks to everyone who cheered me on and have sent congratulations.
Australia baby, YAH!
I nailed an Aussie Million Package in the FT tourney. 41 players, 2 packages. I tracked the tourney (as well as other tourneys) in this thread on the PCH forum the whole way. There are tons of hands posted, especially at the final table. I was barely surviving the whole tourney until 5 handed.
I'm so pumped. My stomach is still in knots. My wife and I cheered like a couple children during the final table. I think I probably let out a couple squeal-type cheers. But who cares, I'M GOING TO THE AUSSIE MILLION! It starts January 14th, so I have some planning to do!
I had a feeling I was going to do something tonight (as you could tell by my ealier post)! I guess I've predicted that before with no results, but this time, ship it! This doesn't really help my bankroll since I'll probably spend all the $3k spending money on plane tickets to Los Angeles, food, and other stuff in Melbourne, but I'll take it!!!!
See that message board thread above for any other comments and stuff. Thanks to everyone who cheered me on and have sent congratulations.
Australia baby, YAH!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Tonight I will win
Still bleh. Down almost another $2k in my 100k hand thing. Not sure how many hands I'm at, but not more than a few thousand. Spent a few hundred on tourneys too, didn't make anything except a $1k Aussie Million Qualifier seat which runs in an hour. The Aussie Million package on Tilt looks super awesome, so that would be great to win. I might try for it a little more even if tonight doesn't work out.
I made $250 from Angst on a 33% horsie from a final table he made. I know what you're thinking, NO WAY, right? No, no, I'm serious. Way to go Angst!
I decided to push my real estate licensing exam back to Nov. 5th to give myself a little breathing room and I'm not ready yet. There are a few things coming up this weekend I want to enjoy and not be worrying about the exam. One is Owen's 2nd birthday party on Sunday and the other is a big Halo 8 player system link (with 2 projectors setup) ass-kicking-fest in my basement. For anyone who doesn't like/play Halo or any video games, I know everyone involved sound like complete nerd spazzes. But, if you like Halo, sounds awesome, right?!?
So tonight I've just sat down to a couple tournaments and have a few more planned, including the $1k Aussie Million Qualifier. I've actually had a decent start in a Tilt $150 double stack tourney, was at 2nd in chips with 390 more players a few minutes ago. Though I'm in for 4 buy-ins in the Stars $109 rebuy losing every coinflip so far. I'm also going to fire up some Mansion cash game and give it another try. I noticed quite a bit more traffic there lately since the launch of their new software and promotions.
I want to book a win tonight. I don't care if it's in cash game, a nice tourney score, an Aussie Million seat, or whatever. I want something that doesn't suck to go in the records. This has been an ugly 2 month dry spell and I want it to end tonight.
I will update again later if I get a chance...
I made $250 from Angst on a 33% horsie from a final table he made. I know what you're thinking, NO WAY, right? No, no, I'm serious. Way to go Angst!
I decided to push my real estate licensing exam back to Nov. 5th to give myself a little breathing room and I'm not ready yet. There are a few things coming up this weekend I want to enjoy and not be worrying about the exam. One is Owen's 2nd birthday party on Sunday and the other is a big Halo 8 player system link (with 2 projectors setup) ass-kicking-fest in my basement. For anyone who doesn't like/play Halo or any video games, I know everyone involved sound like complete nerd spazzes. But, if you like Halo, sounds awesome, right?!?
So tonight I've just sat down to a couple tournaments and have a few more planned, including the $1k Aussie Million Qualifier. I've actually had a decent start in a Tilt $150 double stack tourney, was at 2nd in chips with 390 more players a few minutes ago. Though I'm in for 4 buy-ins in the Stars $109 rebuy losing every coinflip so far. I'm also going to fire up some Mansion cash game and give it another try. I noticed quite a bit more traffic there lately since the launch of their new software and promotions.
I want to book a win tonight. I don't care if it's in cash game, a nice tourney score, an Aussie Million seat, or whatever. I want something that doesn't suck to go in the records. This has been an ugly 2 month dry spell and I want it to end tonight.
I will update again later if I get a chance...
Monday, October 8, 2007
Start of 100k hand challenge
Like I've mentioned before, I've decided to focus my next 100k hands on $5/$10 NL across multiple sites. I've done this more to establish a starting over point since the past almost two months has been pretty "meh".
Unfortunately, this challenge has started out a little slow too, though today I'm rebounding a bit. For example, this hand just happened a few minutes ago. I'm also 2nd in chips with 13 left as I write this in the FT 2am Hundo tourney ($109, started with 172 players).
I hope I place well in this tourney because I can't catch a break in it every night I play. Twice since the last update I've flopped top set with KK and lost to draws. And this doesn't help either. I'm probably about 1/10 all-in with AK (until tonight I guess, just won a nice one with it) which is a go-hand usually in a turbo.
Anyway, my 100k challenge is $4300 down so far, but I've taken a number of ugly beats for all-in pots. I've also made some very bad river calls. I'm thinking of my opponent's range and convincing myself they always have one of the hands I'm beating. Not good. I'm really trying to focus on big turn/river bets and thinking "Am I really winning?" and not making frustrated calls because "they couldn't have got there again!".
But tonight I'm up $1500 (which I didn't count in total losses above) on the one cash table I have open and in the middle of the crapshoot of a final table in the FT Hundo (6th in chips, 8 left, I need a couple hands soon cuz I can double up into 2nd!).
And geezus, of course, my Ace down to bullshit flat tire (J4) trying to steal my BB. I'd be a healthy 3rd in chips with 6 left if I hold on the river. So annoying. I collect $645, which looks like crap compared to $4700 for 1st. Bah.
Had the family over for Thanksgiving today. Actually had a pretty relaxing day as my wife took care of everything and we had a rockin' dinner. My 2 year old son and 3 year old nephew are hilarious together, total evening's entertainment.
Feelin' okay about poker. Things still are not going that great, but I'm feeling level-headed about the beats I've been taking and realistic about the bad plays. I think things will turn around soon. Even though I won't have much chance to play before my real estate exam on the 15th, maybe I can pull the 100k challenge back into the positives before next update.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you had a good one.
Unfortunately, this challenge has started out a little slow too, though today I'm rebounding a bit. For example, this hand just happened a few minutes ago. I'm also 2nd in chips with 13 left as I write this in the FT 2am Hundo tourney ($109, started with 172 players).
I hope I place well in this tourney because I can't catch a break in it every night I play. Twice since the last update I've flopped top set with KK and lost to draws. And this doesn't help either. I'm probably about 1/10 all-in with AK (until tonight I guess, just won a nice one with it) which is a go-hand usually in a turbo.
Anyway, my 100k challenge is $4300 down so far, but I've taken a number of ugly beats for all-in pots. I've also made some very bad river calls. I'm thinking of my opponent's range and convincing myself they always have one of the hands I'm beating. Not good. I'm really trying to focus on big turn/river bets and thinking "Am I really winning?" and not making frustrated calls because "they couldn't have got there again!".
But tonight I'm up $1500 (which I didn't count in total losses above) on the one cash table I have open and in the middle of the crapshoot of a final table in the FT Hundo (6th in chips, 8 left, I need a couple hands soon cuz I can double up into 2nd!).
And geezus, of course, my Ace down to bullshit flat tire (J4) trying to steal my BB. I'd be a healthy 3rd in chips with 6 left if I hold on the river. So annoying. I collect $645, which looks like crap compared to $4700 for 1st. Bah.
Had the family over for Thanksgiving today. Actually had a pretty relaxing day as my wife took care of everything and we had a rockin' dinner. My 2 year old son and 3 year old nephew are hilarious together, total evening's entertainment.
Feelin' okay about poker. Things still are not going that great, but I'm feeling level-headed about the beats I've been taking and realistic about the bad plays. I think things will turn around soon. Even though I won't have much chance to play before my real estate exam on the 15th, maybe I can pull the 100k challenge back into the positives before next update.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you had a good one.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Real Estate & Monopoly & United Airline bastards
There are 3 assignments per phase (total of 3 phases) in the real estate licensing course. I just wrapped up assignment 1 yesterday, then also did ALL of assignment 2 & 3. Ship it. Now all I gotta do is read a bunch before my Oct 15th exam. Breeze....
On a related note (Monopoly is related to real estate right?!?), I'm addicted to McDonald's Monopoly. In fact, I think I'll need to have all my family meals at McDonald's until mid-November when the promotion ends. Please send me all your online Monopoly codes, I need more, MORE! I hope the MAF (Monopoly Addictions Foundation) doesn't raid McDonalds because there is obviously some hardcore and unhealthy gambling going on there. They can call it Project Kaleidoscope, oh wait, that one is taken. Too bad, thought it sounded cool. Ronald and Hamburglar got what's comin' to them...
I booked my Oct 19th flight to Cleveland yesterday. Can't wait to pick up the Infiniti G35 I bought! I saved the flight itinerary on Expedia a week ago, went back yesterday, and the flight went up $150. I can spend $100s on poker tournaments and such, and not bat an eye when I get knocked out, but having to spend an extra $150 on something like this (which WAS cheaper only a week ago) drives me insane. Why is that? Anyway, I booked a different flight that gets into Cleveland 5 hours later and pushes my deadline to getting to Canterbury tighter, but whatever, United Airlines bastards aren't springin' me for another $150, I could lose that playing roll 'em or something else more constructive.
On a related note (Monopoly is related to real estate right?!?), I'm addicted to McDonald's Monopoly. In fact, I think I'll need to have all my family meals at McDonald's until mid-November when the promotion ends. Please send me all your online Monopoly codes, I need more, MORE! I hope the MAF (Monopoly Addictions Foundation) doesn't raid McDonalds because there is obviously some hardcore and unhealthy gambling going on there. They can call it Project Kaleidoscope, oh wait, that one is taken. Too bad, thought it sounded cool. Ronald and Hamburglar got what's comin' to them...
I booked my Oct 19th flight to Cleveland yesterday. Can't wait to pick up the Infiniti G35 I bought! I saved the flight itinerary on Expedia a week ago, went back yesterday, and the flight went up $150. I can spend $100s on poker tournaments and such, and not bat an eye when I get knocked out, but having to spend an extra $150 on something like this (which WAS cheaper only a week ago) drives me insane. Why is that? Anyway, I booked a different flight that gets into Cleveland 5 hours later and pushes my deadline to getting to Canterbury tighter, but whatever, United Airlines bastards aren't springin' me for another $150, I could lose that playing roll 'em or something else more constructive.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Rather Uninteresting
Sorry I haven't updated in a little while. I just haven't had much of anything very exciting to report about poker.
I haven't played much in the past week, and when I have it's been very sporatic. A bunch of random tourneys, including some WCOOP events. I don't even feel like talking about tourneys because they just put me on tilt. I know I can improve a lot, but I've honestly just been running horrible in the pivotal pots in the middle/late stages of any decent sized buy-in tourney. All my premium top 5 hands are getting torn to shreds.
I qualified in a $320 satellite for a $2600 WCOOP seat on Stars. It was fun to play, but I was super card dead. I actually think I survived as long as I could have, though I hated going out with my AK being dominated by KK, but I was honestly getting a little shortstacked. Earlier in the tournament, which made the biggest pot I won, I made a pretty huge call with Q high here:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1549458
I've gotten into playing a few shots of the nightly 2am $109 turbo MTT on Tilt. It's fun and relatively brainless and the calibre of play is horrendous. The fields are always between 150-200 players. I have made a couple small cashes and one 3rd place finish for about $2400.
Cash game has just been totally blah. I just am getting cracked for medium-sized pots all over the place and not really getting much action on my hands at all. When I get back to playing a little more often I might try out a new site on the Prima or Ongame network, or just anywhere for a change. I really find the games at $5/$10+ on Party and Tilt are drying up, or maybe I'm just not putting the effort in and/or running bad.
Overall, since the last update, even though my records are full of negatives, I'm only down a few more K. So, no big disaster, but I really got to get things rolling again.
I'm sticking to my 100k hands at $5/$10, but just haven't been playing much. I am in complete cram mode now for my real estate licensing course and will be finished Oct 15th. Realistically, I won't play much at all before then.
I can't wait for Canterbury. Give me a shout if you're going. I'll be there Oct 20-25th.
I'll leave you with this beauty from my last cash session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1532213
And this one of equal loveliness in yesterday's Tilt $109 turbo:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1545822
Yah, I know, wah wah. But, someone throw me a bone...
Peace!
I haven't played much in the past week, and when I have it's been very sporatic. A bunch of random tourneys, including some WCOOP events. I don't even feel like talking about tourneys because they just put me on tilt. I know I can improve a lot, but I've honestly just been running horrible in the pivotal pots in the middle/late stages of any decent sized buy-in tourney. All my premium top 5 hands are getting torn to shreds.
I qualified in a $320 satellite for a $2600 WCOOP seat on Stars. It was fun to play, but I was super card dead. I actually think I survived as long as I could have, though I hated going out with my AK being dominated by KK, but I was honestly getting a little shortstacked. Earlier in the tournament, which made the biggest pot I won, I made a pretty huge call with Q high here:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1549458
I've gotten into playing a few shots of the nightly 2am $109 turbo MTT on Tilt. It's fun and relatively brainless and the calibre of play is horrendous. The fields are always between 150-200 players. I have made a couple small cashes and one 3rd place finish for about $2400.
Cash game has just been totally blah. I just am getting cracked for medium-sized pots all over the place and not really getting much action on my hands at all. When I get back to playing a little more often I might try out a new site on the Prima or Ongame network, or just anywhere for a change. I really find the games at $5/$10+ on Party and Tilt are drying up, or maybe I'm just not putting the effort in and/or running bad.
Overall, since the last update, even though my records are full of negatives, I'm only down a few more K. So, no big disaster, but I really got to get things rolling again.
I'm sticking to my 100k hands at $5/$10, but just haven't been playing much. I am in complete cram mode now for my real estate licensing course and will be finished Oct 15th. Realistically, I won't play much at all before then.
I can't wait for Canterbury. Give me a shout if you're going. I'll be there Oct 20-25th.
I'll leave you with this beauty from my last cash session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1532213
And this one of equal loveliness in yesterday's Tilt $109 turbo:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1545822
Yah, I know, wah wah. But, someone throw me a bone...
Peace!
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