No, I didn't prepare my TPS reports, fuckers!!!

Instead I spent my day flinging people down stairs. My high score is 707, what is yours?

I hate Friday Afternoon

I'm sitting here, I keep refreshing blogs, bloglines, deadspin, firejoemorgan anything to keep me occupied for another 2 hours and I can't get shit. This is some bullshit. What the fuck are ya'll doing? Huh? You are certainly not providing me with any entertainment. Now I'm forced to consider working the remaining 2 hours just so the damn thing will be over. Fuck me.

Anyways, got a call from a friend today who is running a cash game next Friday. Problem is I'm having a vasectomy that afternoon at 1. I know I'll be drugged a bit, but would I be totally pushing it to play that night. I don't think the boss is going to go for it either. She's already stuck with the kids all weekend with minimal help from me (not supposed to pick up anything that weighs anything). So, I'll probably have plenty of free time to play online poker, Woo Hoo.

Okay, I'm done ranting and raving. Someone post for Pete's sake!!!

Home Game Tonight

Looking forward to another exciting home game. Especially because it might be the only poker I play until Monday. The weekends are so hard to fit itme in because of the kids and wife, but maybe I'll play a couple of nights this weekend after putting everyone down. If anyone is coming here from Poker Weblogs, thanks for stopping by. I really like how you can get a consolidated list of blogs there, so I'm hoping to check out some new ones today at work. (What, you think I'd actually work, while at work? Ha, you need to find yourself a government job like me!!!!)

Have a great weekend everyone.

Columbus Day

I guess I am grateful that I had only driven an hour Monday morning before figuring out I had the day off. Thank you Elliot in the Morning!!! Awful night of poker Monday night, losing $170 in various forms. I made a very good play (I think) at the $50 NL tables. I had been fairly aggressive to this point on a pushover table and raise UTG with QQ to $2.50 (a standard raise at the time). CO+1 reraises to $5.50 and I immediately put him on AK. I decide to call (mistake 1 anyone?) and we see a flop of 2, 6, 7 rainbow. I check, he pots and I push all in for $30 more and he instacalls with AK. And do I ever mean insta, like he had the call any button pushed. River was a King, but I got my money in as a favorite and really against a normal player I'd have a lot more fold equity than against that guy. Any thoughts would be appreciated if anyone ever stumbles over this piece of shit in the blogosphere. I don't think I'm going to get a chance to play until Saturday, but who knows. Good luck at the virtual tables!!

Weekend Update

1 tournament, $41.00 profit for 568th place out of 19000.
1 home game, 3-way chop for $140 profit
9 $27 SnG's, 7 2nd's and 2 1st's

Wow, is all I can say. I run goot. I raised my br from $600 to over $1100 online and added $140 to my live roll. Hope everyone had a good weekend as well.

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Lost Connection

So I get home from work yesterday and the fucking internet is down. Damn Comcast puts me on hold for 38 minutes before telling me the whole area is down. I was looking forward to playing last night but it was not meant to be. The connection was up this morning, so I'll get to play some tomorrow. Tonight, I have a supplemental draft for one of my fantasy football teams. I'm 4-0 so far, but my bench is downright awful, so come bye weeks (week 6, week 10) I'm going to be hurting. I get to pick 7th today out of 14 (yes, 14, who the fuck does 14 teams in a league?) yet somehow I ended up with Joesph Addai, Randy Moss, Matt Shaub, Purple Jesus, Reggie Wayne, Wes Welker and Jason Hansen (no defense used). Seriously, 14 teams picking and I end up stacked for the most part aside from Welker. Shaub is actually was my backup, as Mark Bulger is sitting on the fucking bench after I wasted a 3rd round pick on him. The QB's went Peyton in Rd. 1, Brady Rd. 2, then in round 3 the QB frenzy happened. I'm picking 7th now, and the top of Rd. 3 goes Brees, Mcnabb , Kitna (someone was thinking ahead), Palmer (really wanted him, but the guy in front got him), Romo, Vince Young (idiot), so I jumped on Bulger. I ended up getting Moss in Rd. 4, then Peterson in 5, and actually didn't get Shaub til Rd. 9. Ended up wasting a pick on Ladell Betts, and a couple of people in the late rds, so I need to amp up my bench.

Anyway, here is hoping to some poker tonight. Been getting killed in SNG's, played 12 on Monday, only cashed 3 times. Luckily two of them were first and one was third so I made up a substantial portion. The beats were horrid, but that is standard. I jumped to the $27 Turbo's, the play is the exact same as the $16 Turbos, which are the same as the $6.50's. I like the $27 though, first is $112.50, so if I can pull of a good run, I should be able to give the bankroll a nice boost to get up to the $37 turbos.

Stats

As some other blogs have been mentioning, the Chris Ferguson challenge is a great way to control your bankroll. I always seem to be able to get up to $700 or $800, only to head back towards $200/300 during a bad string. Now that I'm up to $780, I want to start employing these three rules taken from Chris' website

"I'll never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go with more than 5 percent of my total bankroll (there is an exception for the lowest limits: I'm allowed to buy into any game with a buy-in of $2.50 or less).
I won't buy into a multi-table tournament for more than 2 percent of my total bankroll and I'm allowed to buy into any multi-table tournament that costs $1.
If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represents more than 10 percent of my total bankroll, I must leave the game when the blinds reach me. "

So right now, I have $780 which limits me to putting no more than $39 into a SNG or cash table, and no more than $15.60 into a tournament. I was sticking to $6.50 turbo SNG's, but I made the jump last night and played two $16 turbo SNG's. I took third in one, which was devestating because I started 3-handed play with 9000 chips. Doubled both of the other players up on consecutive hands with pocket 10's and 9's. Lost to AQ and AJ each time. Downhill from there culminating with a walk in the big blind with K10. Flopped two pair, got all the money in against pocket queens and he hit one of his two outs on the river. We each had 5000 chips at the time and he won on the next hand. So I lost $3 on the night.

I have a home game tonight, hopefully I'll get to pad my stats there, and I'm hoping to play a ton this weekend since I have no navy reserve activities, or anything for that matter other than watching football.

More SNG Madness

Got a chance to play a good bit of poker (for me) yesterday. 12 SNG's and two tournaments. The SNG's either ended very fast, or went far. No bubbling, but too many 5/6/8 places. I finished ITM 4 times (1, 1, 2, 3) for a huge $3 profit. Woot. I have a document that I'm working on to track everything, just trying to work out some of the kinks and work in a way to show the T$ and W$. I played in two tournaments which were utterly frustrating.

Played in a $2 rebuy sattellite to an $88 sattellite. Down to 14 with 13 geting the seat and 14th getting $14. I'm in for $10 after an initial rebuy, a double rebuy after busting and the add-on. Both myself and another super short stack (think 1500 chips with 600/1200 blinds and an ante) are all in. I was forced in as the big blind already, the other shorty is all in and three others have called and check down. I've got shit, and don't improve. I have to hope that the other short stack busts too, because I had him outchipped starting the hand. Board is AKJ25, with a flush possible. Shorty has Q10 for broadway and I get $14.

Next tourney I play is $8.80 Omaha Hi/Lo. I was running really well in this one, and we are already in the second tier of payouts down to 17 players. Next bump is at the final table. I raise on the button with KK23 and the BB calling station (has been for hours) calls. Flop is 555 and he checks, I bet and he calls. Turn is a 4. I bet all in and he calls with AA96. River is a 9 making it a Hi hand only and he takes it. Very frustrating. After the hand he had 40K with 600/1200 blinds, and plenty of room to with a lot of mid/shorties still out there. $13.66 profit for my troubles. I like that I've gone deep in a ton of tournaments, but I'd like to step it up to go deep more often, rather than take that initial weak payout. Of course, I shouldn't be complaining too much with the HORSE win and all. Good luck at the tables everyone.

SNG's

I took some time to play 5 SNG's two nights ago and started out with a 7th place finish. I picked it up after that and finished 3rd, 2nd, 2nd, 1st. I'm trying to create an excel doc now where I can track my results, when I finish it, I'll post it and keep some of these mundane updates to myself :) In other news, I served as an election judge yesterday. It ended up being a boring election, as there were two commissioner chairs open, and only two people signed up. That, as opposed to last year when two seats were open and 7 people were involved. I still didn't get home until after 10. Not fun.

Great Weekend So Far

Friday was a great day for poker. The day started pretty uneventful playing a couple of heads up SNG's. I won two and lost two and wasn't really into it. I played some $.25/.50 limit holdem, but that was not what I wanted to do either. I decided to do a couple of sattelites and tournaments. I settled on a $22 9-person SNG to the $100K that evening and played .25/.50 in the background. I had a massive suckout early against two players all in, which gave me a huge chiplead. I ended up dominating the final table until we were heads up. Second place was $30 bucks, so I wasn't looking to place in this one. I ended up taking it down when he jammed J9 into my AK and it held up. The tournament wasn't until 9, (it was around noon) so I decided to take the T$ and play some other tourneys later on.

I started a $10 HORSE tournament around 630 and a rebuy satellite to the 50/50 at 7. In the 50/50 after the initial rebuy, I had to double rebuy with about 5 minutes left after running AK into AQ when the board ran out AKQQ9. Rough, but I managed to double up before the break to around 8000 and doubled again shortly after the break when I flopped the nut flush and was paid off by a donkey big stack. I love when those guys forget they can't rebuy anymore and still play the same. They paid out 40 places and with 60 people left I had the chiplead. I took it easy for a bit and picked my spots to keep my stack healthy. When we hit 40, and the tourney ended, I was in 5th in chips, very happy with my play. Because I had to get up early the next morning, I decided to take the T$ from that as well.

At the same time, the HORSE tournament was going well. I stayed in the top 15 in chips the whole time, never having a big stack, but never in danger. There were 200 to start, and 24 paid. On the bubble, I lost a big pot in stud, but that only dropped me to 10th place from 3rd. Stud is by far my worst game. Limit hold'em is where I try to play my A game, I tend to crush the Omaha round, and barring a shitload of bricks, I am solid at Razz. Both of the stud games elude me though. I just find it hard to push people out of pots from drawing to two pair. I try to play tight, but to no avail. I ended up winning a couple nice pots in stud, but lost far more than I would have liked to even played.

When we got to the final table, I had 40K in chips and the chip leader had 100K. After knocking out a couple of the shorties we were 4 handed. 4th place was $160, 3rd was 200, 2nd was $350 and 1st was $525. I was the short stack at 100K with 8K/16K blinds. The hand the changed everything, I was dueling with the chipleader villain. He raised UTG, and I called from the SB with 88, BB called as well. Flop was 8AA. I led out, BB called, UTG raised and I reraised. BB called, UTG called. Turn was a 2 and we all got all of our money in. The BB had about 50K more than me, and the chipleader had 150K more. BB had A4 and UTG had AK. River was another 8 to seal the deal. I ended up having a monster stack at that point and was able to run the table over in the Holdem and Omaha parts. After getting rid of 3rd and 4th place, the former chipleader and I went to battle. I had a 6-1 chiplead and we got all in soon after starting heads up in the omaha section. I had A234 v. KKJQ. The board came out K3456 to give me the win and over $500. I ended up playing a hundred or so hands of limit poker during this time and won $6 the first session and $16 the second. I haven't been able to play since then, so I am itching for some more tonight. I have $180 T$ so I'll probably do a few tournaments with some cash mixed in and see if I can keep on my heater.