Archive for February, 2006

Okay, so I’ve skimped on my “daily” updates a little. I’ve been playing though. Playing quite a bit, and playing pretty well, I think. I have some freelance stuff to tend to tonight, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to a) get any more tourneys in tonight, or b) get a chance to [...]

Last week I played a grand total of 12 tourneys. 7 on the desktop, 5 on the laptop. I placed in 7 of the 12, 2 1st/5 2nd. I made $145.50 last week. Not bad for what basically amounts to 4 hours of warmups to what i’m working towards.
I played two rounds of tourneys tonight. [...]

Here’s why.
(HoH Vol. 3, plus a new Malmuth/Sklansky tome on no-limit, for those too lazy to follow the link.)
Hat tip to Bill Rini

Well, I finished up my Empire bonus on Friday. The stats:

Hands: 4,853
VP$IP: 18.46
Win/Loss: -$73.46
BB/100: -3.01

Part of this was stupidly going on tilt one night. While I’ve gotten better, I still haven’t gotten past occasionally going on tilt. I made some total donkey plays and cost myself some money. Past that, there was some bad luck [...]

I was multi-tasking while playing tonight, so I wasn’t taking the copious notes you’ve gotten used to in the last few days. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version (Cole’s Notes for any other Canadians in the audience):
4 tourneys — 3 NLHE, 1 PLO8.
A 1st, a 2nd, and a 4th in the Hold’ems, and 5th in the [...]

The title may be misleading. They’re two separate topics.
I logged in to party tonight to check my balance, and wow, they’ve added merchandise! Will they ship you what you order? Maybe not! But the pages are there and they’re pretty. I have 12,500 points and might buy a suede jacket or something with those [...]

A conversation I had with Simms earlier in the week has me back at Stars for a little while. I got set up at Absolute Poker with rakeback and had visions of rakeback+bonus money rolling in and getting back into the swing of at least moderately high volume poker. However, after about 10 days, I’ve [...]

Lots of bubbles in the air tonight. A frustrating night all around, but c’est la vie.
Tourney #1. $15+1 NLHE Turbo SnG.
Lost most of my stack early on when I flopped a straight in the BB with 86 (flop T97). After a couple of raises back and forth, I ended up all-in with another guy who [...]

More fun with Turbos….
Day Two
Tourney #1. $15+1 NLHE Turbo SnG.
Went out 7th on a hand I played so poorly I don’t even want to think about it, let alone discuss it. Brain cramp. Ugly. Let us never speak of this again. Ever.
Tourney #2. $15+1 NLHE Turbo SnG.
Out 7th again when I overplayed top pair (out [...]

In the ten days or so since my FOPT cash, I’ve settled in at Stars and am back playing almost strictly tourneys. I’m a much happier camper because of it. Mostly the $15+1 Turbos, I’ve done pretty well for myself, which no doubt also contributes to my happy-camperedness. I did mix in a $25+2 Turbo [...]