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.