Yayz. Back in Black.

Well, that was easy. I'm back on the road to riches and financial freedom. All it took was a little 600 hand session of multitabling last night to restore the bankroll. +5 buyins puts me right back where I started 23000 hands ago. LOL. If I hadn't taken that stab at .10/.25 I'd probably still be on the uptick, rather than in rebuilding mode. Oh well, live and learn!

While multi-ing 5 tables last night, I also played in Chiptalk's Monday Main Event, which was a HOSE mixed game. LHE, LO8, LS, and LS8. Pretty fun to mix it up a bit, and wonder of all wonders, I took it down. If it wasn't for the O8 portion, there's no way I would have won.

I said before, that 5 tables seems to be my max. What I liked about adding in a 6th table, specifically a tournament table, is the limited amount of time I have to make decisions. I find that if I don't have the nuts by the river and haven't invested a ton, it's pretty easy to get away from.

As I approach the 25k mark, I'd like to have someone review my stats. 1. Is there an easy way to present all the data without sending someone the entire database, and 2. Does anybody want to take a gander?

22K = -$45

Blurg. Cold Deck. Lost all my profits after moving up to PLO25. Time to start back at the bottom. Need to tighten up and focus more.

Also, to all the guys who complain about rake after a split pot where we get it all-in:

STOP YOUR WHINING, I'M NOT A MIND READER AND THE OBJECT IS TO GET YOUR STACK. I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT ANOTHER DIME WHEN THE POT IS $50 AND I'M HOPING TO WIN IT ALL.

/rant.

My rant on Starbucks

So, I go to the bank machine today, and it's only dispensing $50's. No big deal, I need some change for the subway, so this'll work out. I go to Starbucks to get my afternoon Tall London Fog and go to pay with my $50.

The girl goes "oooh, do you have anything smaller?" And I say no, because I don't, and she says that she doesn't have change. Not a big deal, I have some credits left on the Starbucks card.

I pay her, but at the same time I say "It's amazing that you don't have change for a $50 here!" half joking, and she says "Uh, we're a coffee shop sir." in a tone I don't find all that friendly.

So I retort, "Yeah! A coffee shop that sells six dollar coffees!"

She has no response. I call bullshit on not having change. After I got my coffee, I see her signing out as her shift is over. Not having 2 $20's and a $5 is ridiculous. Maybe it's some "don't take $50's or higher from nice people" rule.

I came in 10th in the CT game tonight, meh, and dropped $100 in the cash games - mostly at .10/.25 where I flop 2nd nuts and get stacked. STUPID.

Blurg. I'm taking a break for reals.

Just call me mister butter fingers. I've managed to let a large number of buyins slip through my fingers. No PLO for a while methinks. These micros are killing me.

Here's a fantastic Youtube musical mashup for you. It's all real, and amazing. As an editor, I can appreciate the sheer volume of work behind this. Well done, sir. Well done.

WSOP Event #5

Not sure if I mentioned it here or not, but I've decided to donk off $1500 by playing the PLO event at this year's WSOP. I'll likely be a fish out of water, but I've been thinking about making a run at one of these events for a few years now, and figured now was as good a time as any. PLO seems to be my best bet, as there's typically less people compared to the HE events. I'm hoping that my exploits at the micros are going to pay for it. If they do, super, if not, I've got the cash. I've also got a few thousand FPP's that I want to throw at satellite qualifiers for the big one. If they're run like they were last year, if you win, they make a $12k deposit in your account and I don't think you're obligated to enter the ME.

Looks like a nice structure:


They posted the structure recently, and one thing that kinda weirded me out was the fact that this was supposed to be a no re-buy/no add-on tournament, but at the bottom of the structure sheet, is says the following:

Players begin with $1,500 in Tournament Chips. Players may receive (2) additional Add-ons for $1,500 in tournament chips each, anytime during the first three levels. Any player that has not taken their add-ons by the end of the third level will automatically receive them.

Huh? Does this mean that I'm entitled to an additional $3k in chips for my initial $1500? Someone explain it to me.

The wife has agreed to join me under a few criteria. All of the following must be met:

Hotel must be nice, central, and have an awesome pool.
I must have dinner with her each night.
I must go to at least one show.
I must spend at least one day with her.

That last one might be tough...

Hrm, well... Uh. Wow.

Okay, seriously taking a break after dropping another 10 buyins yesterday. What a rollercoaster the last few days have been. NOT playing today, or in tonight's MMN on Chiptalk, nor playing tomorrow, or possibly even Wednesday.

After some quick analysis, I think that I was pushing too many hands on the flop or turn. Even though I was ahead, people were still calling their entire stacks on draws. Mostly flushes that made it, or flopped sets improving to boats on the river to beat my made straight or flush. Pretty sick to lose that many coinflips in a night. The poker Gods were clearly not with me. Time to watch some more videos on DC and hopefully the Gods will move on to some other shlub.

Something new (to me anyway) was the Pokerstars anti-bot defense. I had never seen it before, and it was a welcome bit of tech. Keep making it harder for those cheaters 'stars!

Also, tried my hand at PLO25. Let's just say that I'm not quite there yet. Got it all in on the flop with an overpair and a flush draw and missed against opponent's obvious Aces.

WOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!111111one

Went on an amazing run over the last two days.

Made back all 9 of those buyins and that many times over. It was some kinda crazy mojo. Went back down to four tabling and that seems to be the sweet spot for now. Crazy happy for the uptick.

Celebrating my buddy's birthday tonight, having a fun-ish tournament. No hopes of winning it, because there's a lot of non-poker players playing tonight.

OMG, 9 buyins gone. WTF?

13k hands, and things are bad. BAD.

Uh, I'm not sure what happened, but I just took a major downswing. I must be tired, or loose, or just plain unlucky. So many hands where I'm way ahead, only to be rivered, over and over and over again. Having great redraws and not hitting and being rivered, just sick stuff.

POKERSTARS GAME #25614940967: OMAHA POT LIMIT ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/03/04 22:43:55 ET
Table 'Iduberga V' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: alexpower ($32.40 in chips)
Seat 3: mattythatguy ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: looneyroo ($9.45 in chips)
Seat 5: spotza ($19.05 in chips)
Seat 6: phillaak96 ($23.20 in chips)
spotza: posts small blind $0.05
phillaak96: posts big blind $0.10
mattythatguy: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mattythatguy [Js 5c 2d Kd]
alexpower: calls $0.10
mattythatguy: checks
looneyroo: calls $0.10
spotza: calls $0.05
phillaak96: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ad 7d 4c]
spotza: bets $0.20
phillaak96: calls $0.20
alexpower: raises $1.10 to $1.30
mattythatguy: calls $1.30
looneyroo: folds
spotza: calls $1.10
phillaak96: calls $1.10
*** TURN *** [Ad 7d 4c] [3s]
spotza: checks
phillaak96: checks
alexpower: bets $5.45
mattythatguy: raises $3.15 to $8.60 and is all-in
spotza: calls $8.60
phillaak96: folds
alexpower: calls $3.15
*** RIVER *** [Ad 7d 4c 3s] [Jh]
spotza: checks
alexpower: bets $22.40 and is all-in
spotza: folds
Uncalled bet ($22.40) returned to alexpower
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexpower: shows [7h 6d Jd 5s] (a straight, Three to Seven)
mattythatguy: mucks hand
alexpower collected $29.95 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $31.50 | Rake $1.55
Board [Ad 7d 4c 3s Jh]
Seat 2: alexpower showed [7h 6d Jd 5s] and won ($29.95) with a straight, Three to Seven
Seat 3: mattythatguy mucked [Js 5c 2d Kd]
Seat 4: looneyroo (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: spotza (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: phillaak96 (big blind) folded on the Turn


This was the sort of thing that was happening over and over again. I'm taking a break, clearly I'm sucking it.