http://www.92offsuit.com Just Slightly Better Than the Worst Possible Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=873 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=871 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=867 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=864 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=861 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=858 After not getting enough sleep, working for a couple hours and then taking a mid-afternoon nap, I finally got my lazy ass down to the Borgata around 7:30pm Friday night. When I arrive there is 1 table of 2/5 PLO going. I sit and buy in for $500. Its ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=853 I hate getting up early, so I usually leave late/arrive super late for these trips. Today I was up at 10am and out of the house by noon, a time that I hoped would be good enough to beat the DC traffic driving up from North Carolina to Atlantic ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=850 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=847 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=844 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=839 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 ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=836 Simms spent some time last week working on the site and has made some nice improvements. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but the whole 800x600 thing with the font size that we were using seemed a bit small to me, so the size of the page in general, and ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=832 Yeah that ended a little while ago. I'm up 12 buyins in my last 3 evenings of play, and after my first ~10,000 hands of PLO am a winning player, up almost 10 buyins total. That's kinda amazing to me given how much I lost experimenting and learning ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=829 1K hands isn't long at all in poker really, but I'm one tabling, so yeah. I've played 1000 hands since that last graph where I had gotten up to being breakeven at PLO. After having swings of 10 buyins and sometimes more over any 1k period, I've finally had one where I ... http://www.92offsuit.com/?p=826