Archive for the 'Ring Games' Category

Two friends from different online circles arrived today, Henry from my ‘MMO friends’ and Quiksand from FOFC/FOBL. I’m happy to steal a little of Quik’s thunder and report that he cashed in the $700+$70 NLHE event that ran today, and will be playing in the final 27 as part of day 2 tomorrow. [...]

I arrive shortly after the 1pm $350+$50 gets underway. There’s 15 tables going, that’s a pretty good sign. We end up with 151 entrants. Starting stack is 8k chips, level one blinds are 25/25, and the levels are 40 minutes long.
Level 1: I end the level with 8200 chips. [...]

I get down to the casino around noon to fix up my gambling schedule for the tourney tomorrow. I register for the PLO tourney, its $350+$50, starting at 1pm tomorrow. The schedule says they play down to 27 on Thursday and finish it off Friday, but that might be subject to change since [...]

Monday:
I arrive around 7pm and get in the pink chip omaha game, buying in for two racks($500). My seat is to the direct left of one of the crazy gamblers mentioned in earlier day reports. This is the guy that will cap any 4 every hand preflop if allowed(and with 9 other players gunning [...]

Made it down to the casino around 5pm, sitting down at a 1/2 PLO game after taking some time to eat first.
The game didn’t last long. There was a guy having a lot of fun and chatting and raising blind every hand. He would tell the table how many cards he’d looked [...]

Saturday:
Another evening where I didn’t make it down to the casino until a bit later than normal. I had to catch some of Mizzou/Illinois and watch Georgia lose, a very fun first Saturday of the college football season.
PLO was going when I arrived around 8pm and was still going strong when I left around 1am. [...]

First Half of August = good
Second Half of August = bad
In the end I finished down $68 for the month in poker play, but cleared much of a $200 bonus and had rakeback and such carry me along for the month, so my bankroll grew nonetheless.

I played far fewer hands in August than I did [...]

I was a lot busier in Atlanta than I expected to be. 9-5 workdays were more like 9-7, and when you meet someone you haven’t seen in nearly two years at 7:30 for dinner, you might not finish catching up until 11pm. I played one night of breakeven poker in the hotel but [...]

The evening started off so well. Ran good, got it in good, got up a quick $150. Lost a race before the session was done but still finished up $100, a nice two buyin uptick and some hope that I’m starting to get out of this slump.
After some food and some planning for [...]

Well, after seemingly being unable to lose for all of July and the first part of August, I’ve hit a legitimate rough patch that I need to work my way through.

I didn’t include the EV line, but its interesting that when I was up $1000 over a stretch in July I was running [...]