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

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.