long overdue update

I don't feel like going over a few months of happenings, but whatever. I have some goals from now until Christmas.

1. 120k hands. probably 2 weeks of 40k apiece. Probably 80k 10/20 - 15/30 and 40k 30/60+ if I can help it.

2. Do well on Vancouver trip (not 100% going yet), qualify for pca, maybe a commerce trip?

3. profit?

20th in 2-7

A brief recap of the lameness that is losing money while still cashing in an event:
I start day at 16.5k, run it down to 9900. Start play at 600/1200 iirc and just crush the table run hot and get it up to 40k. This is like 2x average and I'm starting to feel really good about how I'm playing. Get moved to a new, tough table. I get to 56k at the very start of the 1200/2400 level and start losing every pot I play. Eventually we get down to 26, paying 24, and I've got like 50k. I then lose 2 hands in a row where the shortstack gets allin and makes a wheel. So 50k - 65k -30k just like that. laaaaaaame. I weasel ITM and eventually have 22345 brick 3x vs jesus and I am teh bustoooooooooo for $5414. Being in for $6k, this sucks.

amde day 2 of 2-7

busted inthe 1500 plo rebuy long time ago, not gonna put up a trip report.

So the 2-7 event starts off with me drawing a decent table and some big rebuy pots. During the rebuy period (!) the table breaks and I get moved to a table with Gavin Griffin, Howard Lederer, Steve Zolotow and 2 randoms. I work my cruddy stack up to 12k by the end of 150/300 and feel pretty good about it despite being in for all of it (6k). This table breaks, I go to the table with Jeff Madsen and Chau Giang and bleed off some chips here not really winning any pots. Again, my table breaks, ending up at this gem. Seat 1, groth911t from stars, seat 2 me, seat 3 cindy violette's mantoy or whatever. Seat 4 good player with a million chips. Seat 5 Dewey Tomko, Seat 6 Barry Greenstein. Tomko busts quickly and Jennifer Harman is moved into the seat. Eventually, Barry loses a large pot to groth911t and I get the rest of the chips when I open 8662x, draw 2 to the 862 and brick, draw a 4, then a 3 for alllll the chips. So now I have 2 copies of Ace on the River, but this one has a personalized intro. wooooot.

a solid 3 weeks of losing.

Fun way to run during the wsop. Basically, this month has only gone well on the baseball front. 1500 wsop event? Run bad never get chips. Side action lhe? Down like 11k. Side action plo? up a little. 1500 rebuy? sell off 65%, get owned in the rebuy period, have a bad table draw, never get chips to do anything and basically play really well to even last 10 hours.
Online plo? Disaster.

Basically, screw this month right now. Everything since my bday has been utterly rigged.

Maybe I should play some wsop events?

Ok, events looking stuff over that I could stand to play:

#20 - 2k stud/8 6/11 (optional)
#23 - 1500 plo 6/14
#33 - 1500 plo rebuy 6/20 (budget $7500)
#42 - 1500 plo8 6/25
#45 - 5k 6max nhle 6/28
#48 - 1000 2-7 rebuy 6/29 (budget 5k)
#55 - $10k Main event nlhe 7/6

$30500 there, could probably find some lhe or stud to get to 40k if I wanted. Backing proposals are sooooooooo welcome

wow weird day

Ok, day starts off losing like ~15k at 100/200. Gooooooooood morning, Jameson! Suitably annoyed, I check some baseball box score from the games I have wagered on (they are in the links on the right). I see both heavy underdogs at +220 ish are winning, in TB's case handily. I go over to KT's to grab dinner and watch on satellite as TB walks in the winning run capping off a 6 run 9th for the guy we want not to win. Expletive. I go eat dinner and head over to rio, wait a few hours to get into a game, and end up making ~11k in a 25-25 plo game with a 50 straddle from the winner of the previous hand. This includes me winning a ~17kish pot, largest cash game pot I've ever won, against Josh Arieh. Fun times. There's other weird personal stuff involving family and a couple other things in there, but that's the gist of it. I had won like ~5k the day before so it's not like I'm even down money now, just essentially moved it offline for free. I'll probably post a graph soon that shows the ridiculous session.

May in review

goals - failed man I didn't play like any hands at all, probably gained weight. At least wsop qual isn't my fault with it becoming a buy-your-own type of deal.

money = ok

trips = fun

wsop time, bday in 2 days, next 45 days will be all sorts of work.

as far as that

graph goes, well, there was a fun 1/2 hu session at the end.

done traveling

Spent most of the past 2 weeks in vancouver and LA. Despite 2 large winning sessions, one at each locale, I ended up down a little in poker + expenses. WSOP starts next week, I have no idea wtf tourneys I'll end up playing vs just playin on the side.

When I actually get some hands in I'll make a may overview.

The week in review

Well, I'm currently failing all 3 goals but at least #1's premise is still working. Going to Vancouver on thursday for a week of poker/vacation. $2300ish in rb/promos.

some may goals

1. Some sort of ridiculous hands goal. I should only be playing for 25 days tops in may, so I gotta make this absurd. Like 75k hands @ $1/hand after rb

2. Losing weight. Getting down to a non-fatass level by jan 1st is a priority.

3. Qual for WSOP main event.

If I do 2 of these 3 in may I'll be pleased.

update?!??!?!?!

I'm running supid hot in april playing almost no hands. Playing on absolute early and almost exlcusively WPX as of late, which is kinda lame. I've started betting baseball based off of crockpot's (Jamie/nip) analysis and that's gone pretty damn well thus far. As far as this thing goes, I'll consider 5 posts a month a lot but that's a lot considering I did none in 3 months. And here's a meaningless graph, exhibit A in why I gotta play more:

wpx

put 1k on wpex, run it to 4k, punt it. put 1k on, run it to 26k at one point, punt it down to 7k now. I'm the best poker player ever.

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