I'm still on a roll. Either I am running extremely well, people are playing very badly, my game has tremendously improved, likely a combination of all 3.
Here's the stats for the second quarter of the year:
6/12 +116 4.5 hours
8/16 -84 3.667 hours
20/40 -3784 25 hours
40/80 16468 110.75 hours
75/150 6305 3.5 hours
Total = 19021 147.417 hours for an hourly rate of 129.03!
Better than my first quarter average!
The results are partly skewed because of my big win in the 75/150 against Jerry Buss. If I remove that the hourly rate comes down to 88.36 an hour, pretty close to my 1st quarter average.
Also, seems like for whatever reason I haven't been playing well in the 20/40 game. Granted I didn't put in too many hours, but over 25 hours of play I would normally expect to show a profit, not a loss. Not sure if it's me playing too loose in that game, or the players have gotten better. I cut my teeth on the 8/16 game at Oceans 11, before they spread 40/80 regularly. It seems to me that the game right below the regular biggest game in the house, is usually the toughest. It has the lower limit players trying to move up and the better higher limit players who have stepped down to rebuild a bankroll. Possibly that's what is starting to happen to the 20/40 game at Oceans 11. When I was playing the 8/16 at Oceans 11 I thought that was the toughest game in the house, after I had made the move to 20/40.
Next time I play the 20/40, I will really bolt down and see how it goes.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Funny Quote
From some reading I was doing today:
"Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?"
- Hobbes
(I am assuming that this is from Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes fame from B. Watterson II)
"Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?"
- Hobbes
(I am assuming that this is from Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes fame from B. Watterson II)
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Father's Day Weekend Poker
Had a great Father's Day weekend of poker. Played 9 hours over Friday and Saturday Night for a profit of $2295, for an hourly rate of $255 an hour, and in terms of BB/Hr 2.69.
On Saturday night, I played with a funny character. Some young Navy guy, who called himself Crazy Mike, was playing in the 40/80 game. He bought in for around 7k, and left with around 2k. Every time he won a pot, he'd throw a $1 tip to the dealer in to the tray and say call me Crazy Mike. He played pretty horribly, however. He kept bragging and challenging people to play him heads-up. He claimed to be a heads-up limit holdem specialist and would play anybody up to 200/400 stakes. Maybe he's a good heads-up player, but he wasn't so good in the full-table ring games. One hand he capped it pre-flop with ace/ten offsuit. The two other hands I saw were pocket aces and pocket kings. He ended up chopping the pot with the pocket aces when they both made a wheel on the turn.
I had pocket aces 3 times in ten hands, with 2 of those pocket aces coming back to back. All 3 held up for good size pots as well.
On Monday night, I played my local home game with buddies and coworkers. I finished up $62! That's a huge win, given that we were playing .10/.25 blinds no-limit texas holdem with a $20 buy-in. I busted the resident rock who called off all his chips with a straight draw/flush draw on the turn, after I made top two pair. Not a horrible call, but a push on the flop by him would have gotten me out of the pot.
I think I will probably take a break from playing poker at the casino for a week or two. The last couple of times out, I wasn't really having too much fun. Seemed too much like a grind and work, then having fun like it used too. Maybe just too many hours under my belt. I've logged 297 hours at the poker table since the start of the year. Either that, or I should play some 3/6 or 4/8 just for fun and not worry about the money. We'll see.
On Saturday night, I played with a funny character. Some young Navy guy, who called himself Crazy Mike, was playing in the 40/80 game. He bought in for around 7k, and left with around 2k. Every time he won a pot, he'd throw a $1 tip to the dealer in to the tray and say call me Crazy Mike. He played pretty horribly, however. He kept bragging and challenging people to play him heads-up. He claimed to be a heads-up limit holdem specialist and would play anybody up to 200/400 stakes. Maybe he's a good heads-up player, but he wasn't so good in the full-table ring games. One hand he capped it pre-flop with ace/ten offsuit. The two other hands I saw were pocket aces and pocket kings. He ended up chopping the pot with the pocket aces when they both made a wheel on the turn.
I had pocket aces 3 times in ten hands, with 2 of those pocket aces coming back to back. All 3 held up for good size pots as well.
On Monday night, I played my local home game with buddies and coworkers. I finished up $62! That's a huge win, given that we were playing .10/.25 blinds no-limit texas holdem with a $20 buy-in. I busted the resident rock who called off all his chips with a straight draw/flush draw on the turn, after I made top two pair. Not a horrible call, but a push on the flop by him would have gotten me out of the pot.
I think I will probably take a break from playing poker at the casino for a week or two. The last couple of times out, I wasn't really having too much fun. Seemed too much like a grind and work, then having fun like it used too. Maybe just too many hours under my belt. I've logged 297 hours at the poker table since the start of the year. Either that, or I should play some 3/6 or 4/8 just for fun and not worry about the money. We'll see.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
San Jose
Just got back from a business trip to San Jose/Bay Area. Got out to play poker on Wednesday night with a buddy of mine from Canada, who also happened to be in the Bay area on business. We went to Garden City casino in San Jose after work, getting there around 7:00 pm or so. We sat together in the 6/12 game there. It was a fun little table, smaller than I usually play but I was just looking to have fun and get a chance to talk to my friend. I did end up 115, actually 116 dollars up, but one of those is the 1 dollar chip I took as a souvenir. I have a dollar chip from pretty much every casino I have ever played poker at.
Overall I was not impressed with Garden City casino much. It was a fairly large casino, but it seemed dirty and grungy. Texas Holdem games being spread were 2/4, 3/6, 6/12, 8/16, 20/40 and 40/80 along with some spread-limit games. No-limit games are not allowed in San Jose by law, apparently. I've been to the Bay 101 before, which I much prefer to Garden City. Next time I go to the Bay area, I'll probably go back to the Bay 101 before I visit Garden City again.
As far as actual poker play goes, nothing significant really happened. I forgot how bad the low-limit players as far as starting hand selection was. I saw some crazy hands being played in awful position. I made a couple of mistakes, but overall I thought I played pretty good, especially considering that I tend to play on the loose side before the flop, as the bet sizes are considerably smaller than what I usually play. 5-7 suited for a raise, ok I'll play. Normally in the 20/40 or 40/80 I would muck that without a second thought. Last night, I played it and won a fairly large pot. I flopped a flush draw, raised the flop, turned an open ender, bet it, and rivered the flush, bet it and got paid off.
I know that the bet size really shouldn't dictate whether or not you should play a hand. But I felt that I could afford to play some speculative hands since I figured I definitely played better than just about everybody at that table post-flop.
Overall I was not impressed with Garden City casino much. It was a fairly large casino, but it seemed dirty and grungy. Texas Holdem games being spread were 2/4, 3/6, 6/12, 8/16, 20/40 and 40/80 along with some spread-limit games. No-limit games are not allowed in San Jose by law, apparently. I've been to the Bay 101 before, which I much prefer to Garden City. Next time I go to the Bay area, I'll probably go back to the Bay 101 before I visit Garden City again.
As far as actual poker play goes, nothing significant really happened. I forgot how bad the low-limit players as far as starting hand selection was. I saw some crazy hands being played in awful position. I made a couple of mistakes, but overall I thought I played pretty good, especially considering that I tend to play on the loose side before the flop, as the bet sizes are considerably smaller than what I usually play. 5-7 suited for a raise, ok I'll play. Normally in the 20/40 or 40/80 I would muck that without a second thought. Last night, I played it and won a fairly large pot. I flopped a flush draw, raised the flop, turned an open ender, bet it, and rivered the flush, bet it and got paid off.
I know that the bet size really shouldn't dictate whether or not you should play a hand. But I felt that I could afford to play some speculative hands since I figured I definitely played better than just about everybody at that table post-flop.
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