Played my 5th ever $20 DoN.
Won my 5th ever $20 DoN.
100% is sustainable, right?
Played a little $2NL ring as well:
That's a standard call, right? :D
The short story is, a bunch of us were friends and we tend to make wild plays against each other. He had been shoving any two cards so I decided play back with any two cards as well.
I never really got a hand the entire session.
Anyway, I haven't played much poker recently.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
4/4
Played my 4th ever $20 DoN.
Won my 4th ever $20 DoN.
Maybe I'll never get back to the $10 DoN's? I'm still on that 9-win streak for the $10 DoN's. I just haven't had the will to play for #10.
As for play time, I'm till taking things slow. I just don't have the desire to grind, and I'm enjoying my play. Besides, I'm still not back at home so the environment is less than ideal.
BTW, I <3 turbos now. I used to avoid them. Now I pretty much play nothing but.
Won my 4th ever $20 DoN.
Maybe I'll never get back to the $10 DoN's? I'm still on that 9-win streak for the $10 DoN's. I just haven't had the will to play for #10.
As for play time, I'm till taking things slow. I just don't have the desire to grind, and I'm enjoying my play. Besides, I'm still not back at home so the environment is less than ideal.
BTW, I <3 turbos now. I used to avoid them. Now I pretty much play nothing but.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
DoN
Played my third $20 DoN.
Won it. Now I'm 3/3 in those.
It was brutal at the end. My first two games lasted 34 & 32 minutes. This one lasted 48 minutes, getting up to 300/600 blinds.
The way people were playing, I suspect there may have been some collusion going on. Two stacks who were aggressive vs most of the field weren't all-in via against a certain shorty when he could have been shoving anything. Maybe they were just dumb, or maybe I'm overly sensitive to that at the $20 level. I don't know. I wrote notes, and if I play against them and see the behavior again I'll report it.
It was a hairy game.
That was my second raise of the game. My previous raise was with K/K as well, but everybody folded to it.
You know what's going to happen on the river:
When we were down to 6 (he bubble) we once went 12 hands without ever seeing a flop.
This guy was too getting aggressive, but it wasn't worth tangling with him IMO:
The very next hand:
That was probably too nitty. I don't know. I figured I could outlast the three others, as the blinds would hit them pretty hard.
Ten hand later, I can't believe nobody's busted yet:
Three hands later, I called for a diamond on the river:
The next hand:
The two big stacks are the people I considered suspicious, and the shorty is someone they seemed reluctant to knock out a couple times already.
And finally...
Note: I searched some of the players and though I saw that Peter guy playing, he was *not* playing with anybody else from my table. So I'm probably just paranoid due to a small sample size.
Another note: A friend of mine looked the players up on Sharksc0pe a little while ago and informed me that only myself and Smoker are profitable S&G players. The others are stuck $1,100-$8,100+. That gives more credence to the theory that I was just seeing things.
Won it. Now I'm 3/3 in those.
It was brutal at the end. My first two games lasted 34 & 32 minutes. This one lasted 48 minutes, getting up to 300/600 blinds.
The way people were playing, I suspect there may have been some collusion going on. Two stacks who were aggressive vs most of the field weren't all-in via against a certain shorty when he could have been shoving anything. Maybe they were just dumb, or maybe I'm overly sensitive to that at the $20 level. I don't know. I wrote notes, and if I play against them and see the behavior again I'll report it.
It was a hairy game.
That was my second raise of the game. My previous raise was with K/K as well, but everybody folded to it.
You know what's going to happen on the river:
When we were down to 6 (he bubble) we once went 12 hands without ever seeing a flop.
This guy was too getting aggressive, but it wasn't worth tangling with him IMO:
The very next hand:
That was probably too nitty. I don't know. I figured I could outlast the three others, as the blinds would hit them pretty hard.
Ten hand later, I can't believe nobody's busted yet:
Three hands later, I called for a diamond on the river:
The next hand:
The two big stacks are the people I considered suspicious, and the shorty is someone they seemed reluctant to knock out a couple times already.
And finally...
Note: I searched some of the players and though I saw that Peter guy playing, he was *not* playing with anybody else from my table. So I'm probably just paranoid due to a small sample size.
Another note: A friend of mine looked the players up on Sharksc0pe a little while ago and informed me that only myself and Smoker are profitable S&G players. The others are stuck $1,100-$8,100+. That gives more credence to the theory that I was just seeing things.
E-lec-trica-teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
After two weeks without power I am back on the grid!
Seeing my security light glowing as I pulled up the driveway was such a moral boost.
I still don't have the pipes fixed so I'm without water, so I'm spending one last night away from home. But tomorrow I am sooooooooo sleeping in my own bed.
I have some cleanup people coming tomorrow to hopefully fix the pipes and work on the flooring. I wouldn't be opposed to new carpeting in the living room, but we'll see what they can do.
Things are still incredibly busy at work, but I've got the "must haves" done, which is a relief.
But with what I have, I think I'll have my plate full until at least the end of the month.
As for poker...
I played a Step 2 game using my $27 ticket and was knocked out early. I got down to $600 of my $1,500 starter, and manager to get that back up to $1,600 but I was still the second person eliminated. Oh well.
Then I played a $20 Double-or-Nothing and won that. I was pretty aggressive, probably two aggressive. I got really lucky on the river twice to eliminate people (K/8 > K/J, and K/Q > A/Ks), and losing either of those would have left me in poor (but not necessarily disastrous) shape.
Seeing my security light glowing as I pulled up the driveway was such a moral boost.
I still don't have the pipes fixed so I'm without water, so I'm spending one last night away from home. But tomorrow I am sooooooooo sleeping in my own bed.
I have some cleanup people coming tomorrow to hopefully fix the pipes and work on the flooring. I wouldn't be opposed to new carpeting in the living room, but we'll see what they can do.
Things are still incredibly busy at work, but I've got the "must haves" done, which is a relief.
But with what I have, I think I'll have my plate full until at least the end of the month.
As for poker...
I played a Step 2 game using my $27 ticket and was knocked out early. I got down to $600 of my $1,500 starter, and manager to get that back up to $1,600 but I was still the second person eliminated. Oh well.
Then I played a $20 Double-or-Nothing and won that. I was pretty aggressive, probably two aggressive. I got really lucky on the river twice to eliminate people (K/8 > K/J, and K/Q > A/Ks), and losing either of those would have left me in poor (but not necessarily disastrous) shape.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
I had a winning day.
A bunch of us had a staking game where the winner played the Sunday Million, and kept 30% of whatever he won. And the people in 2nd and 3rd place played the Sunday $200k with the same split (I think).
The two who played the $200k went out without cashing, but the guy in the Sunday Million cashed $349.92. 7% of that is mine. That just about pays what I invested for the contest.
I also played a $20 Double or Nothing game on Stars. The play there was pretty much the same as the $10 DoN's I'm used to playing.
Here's the first hand of the DoN:
That pretty much guaranteed me the win. Well, I figured I was better than 75% to win at that point.
Later, I get Q/Q again and everyone's folding and I'm thinking, "I hope the small blind makes a move!"
So yeah, I went on to cash.
As for my off-the-table life...
I went home today to cut up trees. It was warm out, and I worked up a thirst. Unfortunately I had nothing to drink at home! I don't usually have sodas, and the water to my house was shut off. I guess the only thing in the house was my wife's wine and mixed drinks.
Anyway, I cleared the fallen trees around my deck to at least the fence line then called it a day pretty early (not that clearing the trees was easy). I guess I'll have a big burn pile some time.
After that I went to Wal-Mart and bought bottles of water and Gatorade and several cans of soup so I can eat'em for dinner. There's only a microwave where I'm staying.
A bunch of us had a staking game where the winner played the Sunday Million, and kept 30% of whatever he won. And the people in 2nd and 3rd place played the Sunday $200k with the same split (I think).
The two who played the $200k went out without cashing, but the guy in the Sunday Million cashed $349.92. 7% of that is mine. That just about pays what I invested for the contest.
I also played a $20 Double or Nothing game on Stars. The play there was pretty much the same as the $10 DoN's I'm used to playing.
Here's the first hand of the DoN:
That pretty much guaranteed me the win. Well, I figured I was better than 75% to win at that point.
Later, I get Q/Q again and everyone's folding and I'm thinking, "I hope the small blind makes a move!"
So yeah, I went on to cash.
As for my off-the-table life...
I went home today to cut up trees. It was warm out, and I worked up a thirst. Unfortunately I had nothing to drink at home! I don't usually have sodas, and the water to my house was shut off. I guess the only thing in the house was my wife's wine and mixed drinks.
Anyway, I cleared the fallen trees around my deck to at least the fence line then called it a day pretty early (not that clearing the trees was easy). I guess I'll have a big burn pile some time.
After that I went to Wal-Mart and bought bottles of water and Gatorade and several cans of soup so I can eat'em for dinner. There's only a microwave where I'm staying.
Ok, where I'm at now.
Remember that bad time I had awhile back?
Well the next day that same tire was flat again.
I had the pee-dog all week.
A few days after coming back from the hospital we went back for another week.
I continued to be swamped, alone, at work.
We had an ice storm on January 26th which left us without power. It's also been freezing cold out, so without electricity (I have electric heat) I haven't been able to stay at home. I've been sleeping on the floor or on a sofa at my ex's apartment or at my in-laws for the past dozen nights or so.
I'd go to the house with a flash light every night and every morning to light a fire to keep the pipes from freezing.
A few days ago one of my fires went out prematurely, and a pipe froze. It flooded the bathroom and hallway and part of the living room and part of the bedroom.
I use a MasterCard check card pretty much exclusively for my purchases. Just before the storm there was a security leak at the bank and they responded by canceling *every* check card. It took two weeks to get my card (I think it arrived at my house yesterday, but I'll have to check) so I've been having to pay for stuff with my check book. No cash from the ATM either. That's a pain.
Everyone on my street has power now, except for two houses. Those two houses are my neighbor and myself. Driving home last week and seeing light on my street filled me with hope, so it was a little disheartening to get home and still not have any power.
I have downed trees all over the place that need to be cut but I'm so busy and it's so dark and cold by the time I get home I can't get anything accomplished other than minor damage control.
I had gone grocery shopping before the storm, and had to throw pretty much everything away because stuff in the refrigerator spoiled.
There was a big server crash at a rest home for nuns where they needed their old computer up by Wednesday (or they'd be docked thousands of $ in penalties and would have to wait an extra few weeks to get their money, which they couldn't afford to do). They had a bad motherboard with a ton of proprietary software on the drive so I needed to get it swapped out. I sent messages to people in four different states asking if I could drive out and pick up the similar mobo's they were selling on eBay (only one of which responded, and that was way too late) but ended up getting a miracle replacement in from a local business who was scrapping their old server. It was a miracle, as I only know one other place in the county that has one of those.
Oh, and as soon as that ended the police department got hit with a virus that ran rampant. They were hit *before* Norton had an update for that virus out. I had to take everything down, and eventually got one computer up and going. I've been working on getting the rest of the computers up and going since then. It's been frustrating. It infects ever EXE and SCR file, and Symantec would only quarantine them at first. Only yesterday did they give an update that will clean the file. So until then it was a *lot* of reinstallations to get stuff to work.
Basically... I wish I had some breathing room. I'm worn out.
Well the next day that same tire was flat again.
I had the pee-dog all week.
A few days after coming back from the hospital we went back for another week.
I continued to be swamped, alone, at work.
We had an ice storm on January 26th which left us without power. It's also been freezing cold out, so without electricity (I have electric heat) I haven't been able to stay at home. I've been sleeping on the floor or on a sofa at my ex's apartment or at my in-laws for the past dozen nights or so.
I'd go to the house with a flash light every night and every morning to light a fire to keep the pipes from freezing.
A few days ago one of my fires went out prematurely, and a pipe froze. It flooded the bathroom and hallway and part of the living room and part of the bedroom.
I use a MasterCard check card pretty much exclusively for my purchases. Just before the storm there was a security leak at the bank and they responded by canceling *every* check card. It took two weeks to get my card (I think it arrived at my house yesterday, but I'll have to check) so I've been having to pay for stuff with my check book. No cash from the ATM either. That's a pain.
Everyone on my street has power now, except for two houses. Those two houses are my neighbor and myself. Driving home last week and seeing light on my street filled me with hope, so it was a little disheartening to get home and still not have any power.
I have downed trees all over the place that need to be cut but I'm so busy and it's so dark and cold by the time I get home I can't get anything accomplished other than minor damage control.
I had gone grocery shopping before the storm, and had to throw pretty much everything away because stuff in the refrigerator spoiled.
There was a big server crash at a rest home for nuns where they needed their old computer up by Wednesday (or they'd be docked thousands of $ in penalties and would have to wait an extra few weeks to get their money, which they couldn't afford to do). They had a bad motherboard with a ton of proprietary software on the drive so I needed to get it swapped out. I sent messages to people in four different states asking if I could drive out and pick up the similar mobo's they were selling on eBay (only one of which responded, and that was way too late) but ended up getting a miracle replacement in from a local business who was scrapping their old server. It was a miracle, as I only know one other place in the county that has one of those.
Oh, and as soon as that ended the police department got hit with a virus that ran rampant. They were hit *before* Norton had an update for that virus out. I had to take everything down, and eventually got one computer up and going. I've been working on getting the rest of the computers up and going since then. It's been frustrating. It infects ever EXE and SCR file, and Symantec would only quarantine them at first. Only yesterday did they give an update that will clean the file. So until then it was a *lot* of reinstallations to get stuff to work.
Basically... I wish I had some breathing room. I'm worn out.
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