Discontinued... What a stupid word.
But once again I pull the plug and abandon you guys to your grinding misery. This time I am going to Vancouver, Canada for 2½ weeks with the significant other. Site seeing, mountain hiking, nature appreciating and around hanging will be among the chosen activities. NO POKER WHATSOEVER, will be involved. To make matters worse, when we come home, it will be to finish detail planning of our wedding, no less, so don't expect too frequent updates even then. By the middle of August, things should be pretty much back to normal, and then I promise I will resume pwning poker.
Until later...
Signing out...
Bald!
Friday, July 13, 2007
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Luckboxing continues
I had a really crappy evening at the tables, I only made $4.4k today, so considerably worse than the last couple of days. I have no idea what is going on really, except that I am running at 17BB/100 over the last 7.5k hands. This is about a cool thousand dollars an hour. I can live with that I think.
Interesting/boring statistic of the day: I won with 42 pairs of pocket aces in a row now. One split pot among those.
Interesting/boring statistic of the day: I won with 42 pairs of pocket aces in a row now. One split pot among those.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Zizzling hot!
Tonight I turned in another 3k hand $5k session. Pretty unreal to to have back to back sessions like that. I even had a few nasty suckouts go against me tonight, but somehow still managed to maintain a growing balance throughout. Obviously I am on an enormous heater, but I'll take it. The Vegas trip is completely paid for now, with some to spare, so I am very happy with that.
After securing a good result for the night, I played 3 different multi table tournaments with no success. Apparently tournaments are just not my thing anymore. I like to think I am saving my luck for that one huge score. Anyway, MTT's for me will always be sort of a hobby with positive expected value. I could never play them for a living and remain sane, and I have the utmost respect for those who can. To have your bank roll depleted continually, only rarely boosted by infrequent big wins, is a great recipe for a stressful life in my opinion. There is nothing quite like winning a big tournament though, I hope to try that again some time. Anyway, I quickly went back to the cash games after those few tournaments and commenced pwning.
Right now I am channeling all mental energy and luckboxness to my friend Per Ravn who is playing day 1B of the main event as I write. I have a piece of his action you see, otherwise I wouldn't have cared one way or the other. Good luck Per, make me rich!
After securing a good result for the night, I played 3 different multi table tournaments with no success. Apparently tournaments are just not my thing anymore. I like to think I am saving my luck for that one huge score. Anyway, MTT's for me will always be sort of a hobby with positive expected value. I could never play them for a living and remain sane, and I have the utmost respect for those who can. To have your bank roll depleted continually, only rarely boosted by infrequent big wins, is a great recipe for a stressful life in my opinion. There is nothing quite like winning a big tournament though, I hope to try that again some time. Anyway, I quickly went back to the cash games after those few tournaments and commenced pwning.
Right now I am channeling all mental energy and luckboxness to my friend Per Ravn who is playing day 1B of the main event as I write. I have a piece of his action you see, otherwise I wouldn't have cared one way or the other. Good luck Per, make me rich!
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Back
I have been back from Vegas for a few days now, and I am still trying to get used to having roughly the same temperature outside as inside. In Vegas the difference is about 20 degrees minimum.
I feel great about the trip, despite miserable results. It was an interesting experience, and very inspiring from a poker stand point. I think I saw every famous poker player I know, except two. I also felt I realized some things about the live tourney game which will hopefully help me in the future. For now, getting back to the cash game has the highest priority, but I will attempt to write a post or two about what I think I learned playing so much live poker. Hopefully I will get to that soon.
In the mean time I had an absolutely excellent session tonight, winning $5k in about 3k hands of 600NL. A nice welcome back from the party fish to me. Some time during the session I put a bad beat on someone so bad it tilted two tables at once!!! Someone was at both and couldn't help telling the story. Pretty funny actually. Basically I shoved with a pair of 4's when I didn't believe the preflop aggressor had an overpair. He did, and I rivered a set. That should teach him... something.
Also, you know you've played too much live poker when you do something like this:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
Button ($682.10)
SB ($612.30)
BB ($1)
UTG ($190)
Hero ($609)
CO ($305.90)
Preflop: Hero is MP with 5d, 5c.
UTG raises to $12, Hero calls $12, CO calls $12, Button raises to $55, 2 folds, UTG calls $43, Hero calls $43, CO folds.
Flop: ($186) 2c, Ac, Qh (3 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks, Button bets $92, UTG folds, Hero raises to $250, Button folds.
Final Pot: $528
I obviously flashed my junk hand and tilted that table too. When you play live, you must let your reads adjust your game considerably more than you do online in my opinion, and I guess my read here was that he didn't like that ace on the table at all. I certainly would never have made this play before Vegas, we will see if it was a case of momentary insanity, or if I am actually going to put more faith in my reads from now on. Of course playing 6 tables will prevent me from going overboard with this concept (hopefully).
I feel great about the trip, despite miserable results. It was an interesting experience, and very inspiring from a poker stand point. I think I saw every famous poker player I know, except two. I also felt I realized some things about the live tourney game which will hopefully help me in the future. For now, getting back to the cash game has the highest priority, but I will attempt to write a post or two about what I think I learned playing so much live poker. Hopefully I will get to that soon.
In the mean time I had an absolutely excellent session tonight, winning $5k in about 3k hands of 600NL. A nice welcome back from the party fish to me. Some time during the session I put a bad beat on someone so bad it tilted two tables at once!!! Someone was at both and couldn't help telling the story. Pretty funny actually. Basically I shoved with a pair of 4's when I didn't believe the preflop aggressor had an overpair. He did, and I rivered a set. That should teach him... something.
Also, you know you've played too much live poker when you do something like this:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
Button ($682.10)
SB ($612.30)
BB ($1)
UTG ($190)
Hero ($609)
CO ($305.90)
Preflop: Hero is MP with 5d, 5c.
UTG raises to $12, Hero calls $12, CO calls $12, Button raises to $55, 2 folds, UTG calls $43, Hero calls $43, CO folds.
Flop: ($186) 2c, Ac, Qh (3 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks, Button bets $92, UTG folds, Hero raises to $250, Button folds.
Final Pot: $528
I obviously flashed my junk hand and tilted that table too. When you play live, you must let your reads adjust your game considerably more than you do online in my opinion, and I guess my read here was that he didn't like that ace on the table at all. I certainly would never have made this play before Vegas, we will see if it was a case of momentary insanity, or if I am actually going to put more faith in my reads from now on. Of course playing 6 tables will prevent me from going overboard with this concept (hopefully).
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