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I managed to play about 30 or so games on Saturday and came out pretty happy with it all. I had a couple of deep runs, most notably in the Daily Double A on Full Tilt and the $27.50 turbo MTT on Stars. I made the final table in both but came out 4th and 9th respectively. I also FTed the $13 turbo MTT on Bodog for the second week in a row but ended up at 7th this time.
Played in the home games last night and also fared very well there, chopping the first game heads-up and outright winning the second one, both times against our friendly co-host Phil. We actually had 12(!) people for the first game... talk about a crowded table! All in all there weren't any problems though.
With jai-alai being finished, I suppose the wife and I will be heading to the movies for the next few Saturday mornings. Got plenty of stuff coming out that I personally wouldn't mind seeing. The Losers, Kick-Ass, Iron Man 2, the new Shrek, Robin Hood, and a few others I can't recall off the top of my head. Should be an entertaining summer of movies.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Catching Up
Wow, didn't realize it had been two weeks since I was here. I've been fairly busy with things like taxes, poker, homework and even the last weekend of jai-alai. Overall things have been good so don't fear the worse because of my absense here!
We'll skip anything about taxes except that I am getting a refund, yay. As far as jai-alai went we finally came out ahead, and by a good margin too! Maggie hit on a trifecta box bet and Marc and I also hit on a shared one. My friend and co-worker John came with us and he hit a couple bets as well. Good times.
OK, poker has been solid also. I've managed to grow the bankroll high enough that I've played my first $55 MTTs this past weekend, one of which I just missed cashing on, ugh. Anyway, I had a couple nice hits on Bodog with a win in the $11 Super Turbo at 2:30pm on week for about $150 and a win in the $13 turbo $2K GTD this past weekend that was worth $600. I also nabbed second in the $35 turbo there ($448) and also had some good cashes sprinkled around most of the other sites.
I've also tried to take time to review some of my games and see if I can't get a little better at taking advantage of leverage situations late in the 45 and 180-man games. I think the biggest adjustments I need to make is just learning with of the players are good regulars and how they would respond to different spots. Also, I feel ICM comes into play a little differently than I'm accustomed to since I'm really more tuned to a 9-player SNG. Speaking of those, I haven't played the first one of those games this whole month... I wonder if its time I left those behind.
OK, that should catch everything up. I'll see if I can't do a better job of keeping this updated now that I'm back on a more normal schedule.
We'll skip anything about taxes except that I am getting a refund, yay. As far as jai-alai went we finally came out ahead, and by a good margin too! Maggie hit on a trifecta box bet and Marc and I also hit on a shared one. My friend and co-worker John came with us and he hit a couple bets as well. Good times.
OK, poker has been solid also. I've managed to grow the bankroll high enough that I've played my first $55 MTTs this past weekend, one of which I just missed cashing on, ugh. Anyway, I had a couple nice hits on Bodog with a win in the $11 Super Turbo at 2:30pm on week for about $150 and a win in the $13 turbo $2K GTD this past weekend that was worth $600. I also nabbed second in the $35 turbo there ($448) and also had some good cashes sprinkled around most of the other sites.
I've also tried to take time to review some of my games and see if I can't get a little better at taking advantage of leverage situations late in the 45 and 180-man games. I think the biggest adjustments I need to make is just learning with of the players are good regulars and how they would respond to different spots. Also, I feel ICM comes into play a little differently than I'm accustomed to since I'm really more tuned to a 9-player SNG. Speaking of those, I haven't played the first one of those games this whole month... I wonder if its time I left those behind.
OK, that should catch everything up. I'll see if I can't do a better job of keeping this updated now that I'm back on a more normal schedule.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Simple Update
I have been playing my HUSTs but really not much else this week. I elected to throw in two 7.50STx45 and a 15STx45 games yesterday to mix it up since they don't take all that long to play. I busted the two 7.50s but I won the 15 for $240. Yay! I think I won as an underdog vs two players when all-in at least twice in the win. I also managed to 66>88 6-handed but almost found a way to blow it HU but I got it done somehow. I'll take it any way I can.
I've been busy screwing with Camtasia and took the last couple of nights to record a review of the hand history of that MTT win I had on Saturday. All of them are going to end up being posted on www.pokerology.com via YouTube, so if you have any interest at all listening to an idiot babble about poker, be my guest. I'm really doing it for my own benefit since reviewing games and such is something I should be doing. As it turns out I think I found at least a few spots that I could have played differently or learn from so I'm glad I did it.
Tonight I might get to play, but I wouldn't be surprised if I won't be able to until Saturday. I have a couple freerolls then and I'm looking to put in a full day and night of games. Maybe something interesting will happen again!
I've been busy screwing with Camtasia and took the last couple of nights to record a review of the hand history of that MTT win I had on Saturday. All of them are going to end up being posted on www.pokerology.com via YouTube, so if you have any interest at all listening to an idiot babble about poker, be my guest. I'm really doing it for my own benefit since reviewing games and such is something I should be doing. As it turns out I think I found at least a few spots that I could have played differently or learn from so I'm glad I did it.
Tonight I might get to play, but I wouldn't be surprised if I won't be able to until Saturday. I have a couple freerolls then and I'm looking to put in a full day and night of games. Maybe something interesting will happen again!
Monday, April 5, 2010
Chugging Along
Made it through another weekend and I did manage to play a good amount of poker again. I think I ended up playing about 50 games and came out with a profit, which is always nice. The one that made the weekend was on UB where I won a MTT for $750 on Saturday. This was one of the promotional MTTs from their Leaderboard Challenge. I doubt I'll be able to play anywhere near enough of these to qualify high enough to get anything for it but with a win already under my belt, who knows.
I've also continued to play around with Camtasia, which is the program I'm using to make the videos. Pretty neat little gadget to use to film what is on your computer screen. I'm letting Pokerology host whatever I record so if you wanna take a look, be my guest. I'm by no means claiming to know what I'm doing or talking about but its been a lot of fun doing it.
In other news, I thought "Clash Of The Titans" was good but not great, we did win a bet at jai-alai again (but still burned money overall) and I've just come to the realization that I really should go ahead and do my tax return. Ugh.
I've also continued to play around with Camtasia, which is the program I'm using to make the videos. Pretty neat little gadget to use to film what is on your computer screen. I'm letting Pokerology host whatever I record so if you wanna take a look, be my guest. I'm by no means claiming to know what I'm doing or talking about but its been a lot of fun doing it.
In other news, I thought "Clash Of The Titans" was good but not great, we did win a bet at jai-alai again (but still burned money overall) and I've just come to the realization that I really should go ahead and do my tax return. Ugh.
Friday, April 2, 2010
My Video Is Up
The video is nothing special, I just did it to do it. I just explained how I do my cashouts using Jennifear's system and showed the spreadsheet for it. I had to cut it down to under 10 minutes so I just winged it quickly but it came out pretty well considering the lack of planning.
If you want to see it the video is in a post on www.pokerology.com under http://www.pokerology.com/forums/sng-mtt-strategy/2040-bankroll-cashout-system-video.html#post14085 this link (if that works). I'm hoping to get a video of me playing some up soon but we'll have to see about that.
If you want to see it the video is in a post on www.pokerology.com under http://www.pokerology.com/forums/sng-mtt-strategy/2040-bankroll-cashout-system-video.html#post14085 this link (if that works). I'm hoping to get a video of me playing some up soon but we'll have to see about that.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Grinded Out SilverStar, Yay!
The past two nights I concentrated on grinding out on Stars so I could reach SilverStar and had fun doing so. I ended up just the slightest bit down overall for the two sessions. The biggest blow was the last 180-man game I was in last night. I made the money and had a decent chip stack. What was even better was that I had everyone to my left covered, all of which had no more than about 11BB stacks. I couldn't ask for better.
So, it folds to me in the SB, I shove trash, he folds. That's one. Folds to me on the button and I shove 97o, both blinds fold. Two. Folds to me again and I go with ATh, another pot for three. Folds to me again with KJo and I shove, all fold. Four. We are six-handed now and I get to open for the fifth time in a row... with AA! I get called by 77 and *whack* he flops a set on me. Finally someone took a stand when I had the goods and STILL I can't take advantage, LOL. I ended up limping into the final table in 9th and that's where I ended up when I shoved K2 into 88 SB vs BB at the end. Meh.
Tonight I'm going to try and edit a couple of videos that I made. Yep, that's right. I recorded the last 30 minutes or so of my Tuesday night set for all to see. I did it for fun but there are quite a few spots that I believe can make for great discussion. Tim from www.pokerology.com is going to see about posting it thru his site so I'll post something here when that happens in case you wanna hear me bitch, moan, and cry about getting beat.
So, it folds to me in the SB, I shove trash, he folds. That's one. Folds to me on the button and I shove 97o, both blinds fold. Two. Folds to me again and I go with ATh, another pot for three. Folds to me again with KJo and I shove, all fold. Four. We are six-handed now and I get to open for the fifth time in a row... with AA! I get called by 77 and *whack* he flops a set on me. Finally someone took a stand when I had the goods and STILL I can't take advantage, LOL. I ended up limping into the final table in 9th and that's where I ended up when I shoved K2 into 88 SB vs BB at the end. Meh.
Tonight I'm going to try and edit a couple of videos that I made. Yep, that's right. I recorded the last 30 minutes or so of my Tuesday night set for all to see. I did it for fun but there are quite a few spots that I believe can make for great discussion. Tim from www.pokerology.com is going to see about posting it thru his site so I'll post something here when that happens in case you wanna hear me bitch, moan, and cry about getting beat.
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