Even better

I just finished playing for today and thought I played very well, with the exception of a 2 or 3 hands that I feel I could have played differently to either maximise my profits of minimize my losses. I put in another 1,180 hands and ran at 9.1 BB/100 hands. I actually feel like I ran better yesterday and that the games were harder today so I don't know why the numbers improved, I played almost the same I think. I guess with this small of a sample size, it could have just been one or two pots where my hand held and that made the difference. I'm excited to keep this up and for some reason actually enjoy grinding this out. I imagine that it will get old after a while, but if this pace keeps up I may not get tired of it for a long time. I'll post my running numbers for those of you who understand them at the bottom of the post.

My mom is getting married this weekend (Congrats Mom) so I will be busy off and on until sunday with the big occassion. I will probably try to put in some more hours tomorrow though and maybe friday if there is time.

2,564 hands of 5/10 on Poker Stars
24 hours and 3 minutes
won $1,972
hourly rate: $81.97
won per hand: $0.77
BB/100: 8.2

Good News... Finally

I played about 1,000 hands of limit on Stars today and it went really well. I played well, the games were fairly soft, I moved tables quite a bit to find the best games, and I ran fairly well, or at least average I think. I didn't play more than two tables at once and I used Poker Office on every table that I had. I really have to say that I feel like a retard for never using Poker Office or Poker Tracker before this. After becoming accustomed to all the numbers and what everything means, it's really the single most useful tool any on-line player could use. The information it gives you just helps you with so many borderline decisions and allows you to make the right play so much more often. The self-analyziation that it enables on your own game is also pretty amazing. You can really tell where your leaks are over the long run and what types of plays you are making that are profitable or unprofitable. Okay enough with the plug.

I averaged 7.87 Big Bets per 100 hands today, which is a very nice day. If I could average those numbers everyday I would be very happy, and very rich in year or so. I know that it will eventually lower some, but I'm excited to see what I can do to maximize the potential in my game.

I feel like I finally have a plan of attack for the next several months, but I usually get to excited about things right off the bat and end up disappointed a few days later. Hopefully that will not be the case this time. I just want to be like Jon Little for a while and have incredibly boring days where I grind out ridiculous profits.

Decent Sunday

I played three of the Majors yesterday along with the 50k on Pacific. I didn't play very well on Paradise and busted somewhere in the third hour. I played very well on Full Tilt and got all my money in with a dominating hand (but I don't remember the exact hand) and somehow lost, tragically. I played in the Stars $530 and tried to make a little noise in it. We got down to about 200 players and I lost a VERY large pot with a semi-bluff flush draw that didn't get there. I then navigated a short stack very very well for about an hour and had myself back up to 27k (half the average at that point) There was a guy to my immediate left who really didn't seem to grasp any tournament stragegy and had been dwindling away his monster stack down to about 50k. It folded to me in the SB with blinds at 1,500/3,000 and I shove my entire 25k into the pot with AQ, fully expecting him to call with almost any hand. I screamed CALLLLL!!!! at my monitor while he time banks and finally eventually called with J7 :) Unfortunatly, he hit a Jack and I was out, but I was still pretty pumped about getting the exact result I hoped for from a very unique situation. He went on to get 8th, a borderline Miracle from the hand of God given his plays.

I'm playing a bunch of multi's today because I have been playing them disgustingly well lately, but I haven't done much today. Have taken a few bad beats in key pots that have ended my chances.... ouch, as we speak just got two outed.... it burns a little :)

Lots going on

Playing lower stakes than I am used to is kind of frustrating at first because I feel like I should be able to beat the game EVERY time. To tell you the truth, a lot of these lower stakes games are much, much tougher than some of the high stakes games on-line. It's really amazing how many really solid limit players there are at these levels, it makes me kind of suspicious that they may be bots, but who knows.
Another downfall of being poor is that I find it difficult to justify playing a lot of bigger buy-in multis. Fortunately my roommate thinks I am a good tournament player and is willing to put me into a few of them. I came really close to making him some real money yesterday in the PokerStars $300 tourney. I ended up getting 10th but played almost perfectly I think, so that has me very optimistic. I'm playing in most all of the majors today, something I haven't done for a while, so I will update tomorrow about how I did.

Back in Lincoln

I just got my stuff moved into my temporary residence in Lincoln. The house is HUGE, like 7 bedrooms and I am the only one living here, so it will be pretty nice.

Poker is not being kind to me since my return from Canada. I have started off running really exceptionally badly, and I don't usually say that even when I am running very badly. The poor fortune is in return causing me to play worse than I should be and that is frustrating me even more. I almost want to just go broke so that I can re-grip reality and start all over. Not really :)

Leaving Vegas

The trip is over for my part and my buddy Nate and I are going to take off this afternoon heading back to Nebraska. I am leaving on Thursday to go fishing in Canada with my dad, so I am pretty excited about that. I am also anxious to get an apartment and just sit there and grind on-line for a while after we return from the fishing.

Shannon and Adam both cashed for around 25k in the Main Event, so our house does show a little hope I guess. The trip as a whole was disappointing at best for everyone. We all had dreams of Final Tables every tournament and no one could seem to get anything done. It ended up being a great learning experience and I'll take a lot away from the trip.

I won't post anything until about the 22nd, so no need to check up until then.

Main Event going well

The Main Event is going very well for several of my friends. Shannon is the chip leader from our house and three of my others friends/housemates are still in as well. Day 3 will start tomorrow after everyone gets a break today. Here's the chip counts:

Shannon "Bluffforrent" Shor - 174,700
Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin - 112,000
Adam "ChukHoangRocks" Geyer - 83,000
Cody "thugmoneymkr" Slaubaugh - 22,000

You can keep updated on Cardplayer if you want to see how they do tomorrow. I think there are about 850 people left and first place is an unbelievable $12,000,000 (Yes that is TWELVE MILLION dollars). I have 1% of Shannon action :) So root for him extra hard.