overdue update

played a lot live. had lots of fun, roughly breakeven all said.

played some online, up a pile of cash in sngs, made $1600 playing the $540 stars million guaranteed by finishing 61st. I lost 2 flips while we were in the 60's.

nice one dumbass

38 sngs of breakeven, dropped $1800 playing live plo with KT birthday boy. I am so not good it hurts.

HAWT

yeah, played some 5/10 horse at caesar's palace with 2p2ers. lost $250 ish, dropped another $100 at wynn 10/20 o/8, then sat in a delicious 30/60 game. Made $2800 at that, so that ended a damn solid day of poker.

running hot

So I played 109 speed sngs. There were maybe 10 from before, all I remember is I was up a couple hundred. Tally after today -



64 tourneys, +$4324, 61.98% roi, 46.88% ITM

clearly sustainable.

woot

ran good at stud and omaha/8. bought a laptop with the new dell laptop promo.

Then played wynn 15 with lamont jordan, have him move to 60/120, and play 5 handed with him. he played not so good, really weirdly in fact. I ended up +700 and a new high for how high I've played live. Strangely not affected by the stakes. I really didn't have enough on me to buyin but really felt this was too good to pass up.

well then

I just dropped 100bbs at 10/20. looks like I don't get to end the challenge after all.

challenge is somewhat over

I've decided that 8 tabling 5/10 6 is too stressful/high variance to maintain my goal of millions of hands per day. Fullring probably is not, so I'm going to explore between that, sngs, and just maybe 4 tabling 10/20 again on which one I want to do the rest of the month. I also wasn't making nearly enough from the games vs rakeback.

So now my goals are $/hr and making sure I hit my VIP bonuses. Played about 39000 hands of 5/10. I reserve the right to start doing it again tomorrow and hit like 75,000 hands for the month, but I was playing so poorly today which needs to not happen.

no play

I played 0 hands. I played a live mtt, getting second for +890 losing QQ to AQo allin preflop, then made another 100ish playing drunken 1/2 home game plus strip club

It's supposed to be easy

I stopped playing after I was up 150bbs to eat. I come back and play that mess of hands. I really, really, really dislike poker right now. The boundaries of normal variance are really underestimated by everyone that plays. I was looking forward to winning more in one day than the challenge thus far. Also, I'm making about as much from playing as I am from rakeback. Wonderful confidence booster that is.

I should be around 42,800 hands right now to be on pace. I'm at 36747. I may play some more tonight but the tables look bad and I doubt I'm in the proper mental state. Looks like I need to put in either some consistent extra hands for the next week or do a poker bender and fix that pronto.

today 2315 for +439.97

ctd 36747 +$2714.43 .74 BB/100

Day 11

This one sucked ass. Another 200bb downswing makes me quite unhappy at everything in existence. I kinda snapped when I stopped too, which is not a good play. Pissed Jeff and Rich off good.


3696 hands for -$1218.5

cts 34432 +$2274.46 +.66 BB/100

Day 10

Day ten went well, some fun swings but I'll take the trend and results anyday. Made some excellent calls and some bad folds at the end that were kind of perplexing.

3684 hands, +$934.60

ctd 30,736 +$3492.96 1.14 BB/100

8 & 9

Day 8 I took off. The VIP bonus (mine rocks ass, ~2800 points for $205 meaning a free $410 a week plus extras) made the afternoon tables reaaaaaaally crappy. I decided to get good food and prepare for the epic home game that started at 8pm. Everyone got sloshed and good times were had.

278 hands for -$112 and change

Day 9 I woke up rather hungover to blaring phone call and my computer fan trying to dice wires. Fun. Spent most of the day just playing instead.

4413 hands for +$1156.94

ctd 27052 hands for +$2558.36 @ .95BB/100

should be at 32130 to finish in february. So I have some work to do. I may end up doing it as the 30 days I intended if I have to...

Day 7

I started the day at Binion's playing the 2pm tourney there. Brendan (CSC), his roomie and I went. Seemed like a decent enough break from regular crap.

I played good, ran bad, FT'ed and we chopped 9 ways. After taking care of the dealers, +$550 to the good.

Got back at 8pm and put in some hours. One awesome hand-

Party Poker 5/10 Hold'em (6 max, 6 handed)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Jd, Jc. UTG raises, 1 fold, CO 3-bets, Button caps, Hero calls, BB calls, UTG calls, CO calls.

Flop: (20 SB) 6h, 8s, Jh (5 players)Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, CO bets, Button raises, Hero calls, BB calls, UTG calls, CO calls.

Turn: (15 BB) 5c (5 players)Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, CO checks, Button bets, Hero raises, BB folds, UTG calls, CO calls, Button 3-bets, Hero caps, UTG calls, CO folds, Button calls.

River: (29 BB) Th (3 players)Hero bets, UTG folds, Button calls.
Final Pot: 31 BB

Results below: Hero has Jd Jc (three of a kind, jacks). Button has Ad As (one pair, aces). Outcome: Hero wins 31 BB.



2061 hands, +$1101.86.

ctd 22361 hands, +$1514.26

I'm about 2500 hands short of where I should be, I'm going to try and fix that in the next few days. (ha, ha ha ha ha, ha)

Time to become an ice cream man

I suck. 3318 hands, -$1623. I'm going to go curl into a ball and cry now.

day 5 and stuff

A really bad start (F U seattle) to the day ended up ok as my evening session went well despite massive headache and other gripes. Tables weren't great either, so I am cutting tonight way short at 2725 hands. That puts me in a hands deficit I'll need to makeup the rest of the week, but losing so many hours to the super bowl does that.

I'll post some pt screenshots when I hit day 7 I think. I've ran really well the past 2 days, really, so I dunno what my winrate should be but it's looking lower than what I wanted. Then again, my dip this morning was entirely getting sucked out on in large pots at the river vs superdonkey.

Oh, and F U Holmgren for costing me $$$ on some 2nd half over and seattle covering on tease.

2725 hands, +$1058.69

ctd 16982 hands, +$2035.62

day 4

4452 hands. +$1711.93. Ship it. Holla.

ctd: 14257 hands, $976.93

end of day 3

#1 is rest of today, #2 is today in sum.

another 1808 hands. of death. evil, QJ losing vs Kd8d on T98 one diamond flop, Jd turn, d river DEATH. -$680 for the session. Daily total is 3741 hands for +361 and change.

graph shows rest of the day. I hate this so fucking much. Would it kill someone to let me run good and get out of the hole already?

total challenge: 9805 hands, -$735.

wow I suck

Top one is today, bottom is challenge to date.

I slept until 5pm today. 5pm. 5 fucking pm. I went to bed around 330 am too. So yeah, I suck. 1934 hands thus far, +$1029.32. That feels pretty good.

Hooters casino sucks. I think the pit might be ok, but the poker room was really lame. You'd think advertising that a room is there would mean you have more than 3 tables.

challenge to date: 7998 hands, -$67.59

Sometime during day 2

I'm gonna go eat and meander at the Hooters Hotel and Casino (tm) grand opening tonight, and hopefully put in a couple more hours when I return.

2504 hands, +$436.34

I flopped a lot of sets today. Many lost. My won at sd numbers are still sucking for trips/fh/flush.

today thus far graphed above. Challenge to date will be done sometime after day 3 I think.

Day 1

I just flopped an underset and lost like 8bb's so I'm done for the day. This has just been quite the nightmare the whole way through.

3560 hands, -$1533.25

/endlife

Halfpoint of Day 1

Woke up at 730, have put in roughly 6 hours of play thus far.

The results? Look above.


2588 hands at -$576.75. Fucking stellar. Losing money with AKo, KJs JTs and whatnot isn't helping. Running like shit at showdown isn't helping and my wtsd is down 3% from what it has been at, so I am running exceeeeeeeeeedingly bad at the moment.

Three of the bigger fish in the games each have $200 of my money I want back.