PCA?

Thanks to Katz I'm going to PCA, w/o a seat tho. Gotta work on that this weekend.

I'm running v terrible, playing for 100% rb again now. My goal is a minimum of $3k rb/wk in volume, which under contributed is an assload. May see if someplace decent allows propping still.

update

so, didn't make 50k. Still yet to do the dinner for that yet.

The legislation business is panning out as pretty bad, the games on the remaining sites seems to be substnatially more variable than pre-bill games. Stars having less rb (via fpp) is another thing killing my percieved earn right now.

I probably should update this more, but no one really reads it either.

Leavin' for Aruba

I leave for Aruba in about 22 hours. I got plenty of crap to pack, but a challenge update before I leave:

Today I lost about 4k on absolute and won ~700 or so on stars in W$ for the wcoop net.

So, totals to date.

UB +5200 seat, -$2000
Abs +10.5k, was 15 or so before today uuuuuuuuuugh
Stars +4500 cash +1050 W$

So I need to do some hot shit in aruba to get to 50k, but I'm reasonably happy thus far, excepting today. Aruba will have the interweb so I'll update the little poker and lots of drinking that will obv happen. Also may need to reload on abs because I've pulled the initial deposit money and a lot of the profit off the site already. Lol.

lol donkaments

8th in the 10r for $1300, was in for $31

sucked out a couple times, played good, KTs < AJo at the FT where 4 of us had 10 blinds. Coulda folded some, but I wanted 13k.

Today's play was also stellar, as seen above. I played a lil more after that but am too lazy to redo the pictures. Dropped $450 playing 5/10 and 10/20 after I did the graphics. So all in all up almost exactly 6k. So for challenge, up $3.6k on ub, $10.8k on absolute, and $1.2k on stars. $15.6k in total, when I should be at 25k. Dammit. Snapping this off woulda done it.

A R U B A

Won a seat today. Was super stuck playing, decided to qualify...and did. Only seat tho, no travel or hotel thus far. Key hand:

donnieslasko is at seat 2 with 69460.
bugstud is at seat 6 with 53040.

The button is at seat 2.donnieslasko posts ante (100).bugstud posts ante (100)
.bugstud posts the small blind of 400.
donnieslasko posts the big blind of 800.

donnieslasko: -- --
bugstud: Ac Ts

Pre-flop:

bugstud raises to 2000. donnieslasko re-raises to7200. bugstud calls.

Flop (board: 9s Jc 6d):

donnieslasko bets 9000. bugstud goes all-in for45740. donnieslasko folds.

bugstud is returned36740 (uncalled). Hand #34789877-312 Summary:No rake is taken for this hand.bugstud wins 32600.


I HAVE THE BIGGEST BALLS OF THEM ALL. That, or I'm just really stupid.

zomg update?

I'm currently doing a challenge with brendan (csc) and kevin (doughhater) to make 50k in 50 days. It's currently day 9, and I just got unstuck for the challenge. I am awesome.

I intend to do this using only 5k as well. Obv, looks more like 35k than 50k, but perhaps I can snap off a couple multis and get there. Trying to go to aruba as well, that's rather soon and I need to make that decision quite soon.

yeah, if someone actually reads this, leave a comment. I have no idea how little traffic this gets, but I'll start throwing up some challenge graphs soon.

wsop update

I never won a seat. I've lost a bunch of money between side games and tournies and online play and qualification efforts. I feel like shit and I'm about ready to bust out of the last stras 650 qualifier after having 4x starting stack 75 minuets into it. Essentially, I am awful at poker. There really is no other conclusion.

Play bad, don't get there

sit in stars $650 most of sunday afternoon. Fold, play good, whatever. Then decide to pull this.

PokerStars Game #5295395207: Tournament #26169450, $615+$35 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2006/06/18 - 21:42:32 (ET)Table '26169450 56' 9-max Seat #6 is the button

Seat 1: grgrgrgr (7626 in chips)
Seat 2: 07shooter (29233 in chips)
Seat 3: tooedgi (2820 in chips)
Seat 5: SBFDFIRE (11800 in chips)
Seat 6: bugstud (10570 in chips)
Seat 7: chukkieblack (8065 in chips)
Seat 8: FinnATL (17515 in chips)
Seat 9: pfkaok (8427 in chips)
grgrgrgr: posts the ante 25
07shooter: posts the ante 25
tooedgi: posts the ante 25
SBFDFIRE: posts the ante 25
bugstud: posts the ante 25
chukkieblack: posts the ante 25
FinnATL: posts the ante 25
pfkaok: posts the ante 25
chukkieblack: posts small blind
100FinnATL: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to bugstud [Js Qd]
pfkaok: folds
grgrgrgr: folds
07shooter: folds
tooedgi: folds
SBFDFIRE: folds
bugstud: raises 400 to 600
chukkieblack: raises 1000 to 1600
FinnATL: folds
bugstud: raises 8945 to 10545 and is all-in
chukkieblack: calls 6440 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [3s Jc 4h]
*** TURN *** [3s Jc 4h] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [3s Jc 4h Kc] [Ad]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chukkieblack: shows [Tc Ah] (a pair of Aces)
bugstud: shows [Js Qd] (a pair of Jacks)
chukkieblack collected 16480 from pot



here you go, I really didn't want a wsop seat, thx

bitch, bitch, whine, moan

I am up to about ~3500 in money spent on wsop qualifying. I've made 1 DS ft for 1 buyin back and 2 33r's for 650 each, but obv no seat. I dropped 120 BB's at 10/20 6 max today in 800 hands, and I hate everything. So yeah, sorry for lack of updates. I just suck so much at poker, followed by being even worse mentally = this.

stuck

dropped many thousands today. highlights:

getting in 1500 in preflop at 3/6 plo with AA55 double suited against AA96 one suit. I flop a 5 and lost to a flush.

lost 600 with aa vs better aa allin preflop in plo.

I rebuy ~30 times in the stars 33r wsop sat. I have 5k, the min, at the break. within 20 minutes I have that to 28k and second position, then have aa vs chip leader with 77. we get in 1k preflop, 2k more on the 433 flop, and a 7 turns. I make a shitty river call for my last 14k and gg me.


time to move down and prop, I guess.

whine = get there one time

wynn 33 person $540 mtt = first place.

trip report posted http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=5885187&an=0&page=3#Post5885187

I've done perilously little as far as internet play is concerned thus far. Hung out with some 2p2ers last night and had quite a blast, even if I remember not as much of it as I should have.

frustrated

I haven't been winning online playing plo at all, really. I keep losing like a buyin or 2 each session I play, but yet win at sh limit. wtf?

played a bunch of tourneys today, cashed in both 10r's for roughly what I was in for, then got 5th in a 33r where first was a wsop seat. that one really, really makes me frustrated and depressed right now. I played v well, got 5 handed and pulled a move on a guy will to stack off preflop with A7 at 3k/6k for nearly 175k. I don't know what to think of it all, honestly. fwiw 9th-2nd all paid the same and I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to play that 5 handed against the other guy right at my stack size, with the huge stack in between us me having position.

The more I think about the tourney the more it hurts.

bah

sng pain

42 sngs, -$2.5k. first 15 were ootm, and the last 27 somehow weren't much better.

My phone is broke and I woke up at 9pm. today is teh suck.

random update

I play not nearly enough sngs - only 98, I can do that in a flippin' day.

I FT-bubbled a $5 rebuy for a pittance...I play quite well throughout.

Went to Caesar's tonight, chopped a $525 sng HU for $2060. That was fun. I might have to continue doing that, it was quite soft.


If I was playing more poker, I probably would update this more. I probably need to do a challenge again.

how have the goals gone?

I'll pwned this one

2) play good live. I could concievably play 10 days live this month. I need to play better than I did 2 days ago.


I've played pretty good and made v good $ live this month. However, my online time has been substantially lower than it should be, go figure. I'm pretty pleased with the month thus far, though. Could be a lot worse.

april goals

it's tourney time this month in vegas, so some april goals. I'm feeling pretty good thus far, the time off has helped a bit as far as general disposition goes.

1) play a lot online if I'm not on the strip. I could stand to make back my tax money.

2) play good live. I could concievably play 10 days live this month. I need to play better than I did 2 days ago.

3) play better, period. nice discussion last night kinda reminded me that I don't think about poker nearly enough

4) watch a bunch of cubs games. obvious.

if I were to set some hands goals, let's say 40,000. ~2k-3k on days where I'm not out and about seems reasonable, though I may go back to sngs. I am clearly undecided on that. sngs seem like the plan for random robotic money printing, but I do want to not suck at limit.

long overdue update

sitting in cu right now. I made a lil money on party cruise. I'll post a full report when I'm even more bored, but it's been a blast not having to do anything this month and just more or less taking a full break.

Getting back on the 30th, got some fantasy baseball drafts and then I think a full-on april hands challenge similar to feb's blown one.

the coming weeks

home in a few hours. Indy for Big ten tourney fri-sun morn. sun morn fly into ft lauderdale for the paaaaaaaarty cruise!

after that back to chicago for an indeterminate time with potential ncaa games in the horizon.

AIYA!

well, that was brilliant.

I ended up stuck at commerce.




that is all.

commerce update

Going to stay until sunday currently.

Friday - 4 hrs 20/40, +$700. 2nd session ~9 hrs 20/40 +$3700
Saturday - ~12 hours @ 40/80, +$900 thus far.

I'm running ok.

march goals

1. Put in lots of hours in between/during traveling
2. Win money
3. Enjoy my travel
4. Put in hours


I'm going to the Commerce in a few minutes, Kevin is driving. Ought to be a fun experience, but I need to catch some zzzzzs on the way down or I am screwed.

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.

Feb Goals

I think I'm going to do a challenge and update it here. The goal is 100,000 hands, which would equate to making $30,000 in 30 days if I maintain a solid winrate with rakeback. I reserve the right to run bad, play more hands, or give up a week in and just get sloshed instead. Everyone else's job in all this is to ask me how many hands I've gotten in every few hours to remind me not to be my typically lazy self.

This is similar to the 60k in 60 days some more famous contemporaries have done on 2+2, except they are good at poker. One key to doing this? Actually having normal hours so I can get a set routine. Waking up at 10pm = very bad for this project.

blog purpose

I've played some stars 11r lately and a bunch of hand fullring. I really dunno the purpose of this yet. Maybe I'll look over my final 2 table in the 11r hh and post some interesting hands.

I'm not sure how comfy I would be divulging the day-to-day and totals for ring games type stuff in my blog...input on that would be appreciated.

First entry

I'm not cool unless I have a poker blog too. Or something.

This seems like the easiest way to keep people updated on how much fun running bad can be.