3rd Quarter Results

3rd Quarter 2008 is in the books for me. I played a lot more poker in the last 3 months than normal, since my wife was out of town for so long. I logged over 320 hours the past three months, and finished the quarter up $1506 for a screaming hourly rate of 4.69 an hour! Woo-hoo, winner winner chicken dinner. Actually I'm quite happy with these results, as you can see from the graph, I was severely stuck at one point and made a nice comeback. Hopefully the 4th quarter of 2008, I won't have a big nosedive at the beginning of the quarter, and my current hot streak will continue.

Here's the summary by game:
6/12 +74 0.5
8/16 +210 12.843
15/30 even 5.5
20/40 +1229 124.6
30/60 -1800 19.0
40/80 +2420 155.75
2/3NL +30 0.16
5/5NL -657 2.6

Guess, I'm a no-limit fish, but I don't play it very often.

Oops!... I Did It Again

I went 4-bets on the turn drawing dead.

40/80 4-handed. UTG limps, button raises, I call with pockets 7's in the SB, BB calls, UTG calls. Flop comes TT6. Checked to the button who bets, I check-raise since the button shouldn't have any of that crap. BB calls, UTG calls. Crap, I don't like my hand anymore. Wow, 7 on the turn, I just check-raised myself into a monster, or so I thought. I bet, BB raises, UTG calls, I 3-bet, BB 4-bets, UTG calls. River is a Q. I bet, BB calls, UTG raises! Damn, really? QT? I call, BB calls. UTG has pocket tens for flopped quads, BB had pocket sixes for flopped full houses. Later I found out the button had AJ. Damn 7 on the turn. I could have easily folded the turn if that 7 doesn't come.

Grrrr!

Two losing sessions in a row, and I'm back in the red for the quarter. Argh, oh well just standard variance and it's not like it's so much that I can't make it back in a single good session. Down a little over 3k quarter to date, with 16 days left in the quarter. Maybe I'll get 3 to 4 more sessions in before the quarter ends, we will see.

Playing blind and loving it!

So I got into a lame 20/40 game last night. Very boring, so I start drinking with Sean S and Chris J. I got pretty loaded and decided just for fun I would play my hands blind, until the river, using my position and the others players actions to dictate my actions (with the exception of I was not folding until the turn, and only then if I had to face 2 bets cold, then I would look). On the river if I was out of position, I would check, and if my opponent bet I would look and then decide. If I was in position, and I was checked to I would look, and then decide to value bet or check. I made like 2 racks doing this for about an hour or so. Most fun I've had at a poker table in a long time!

In the Black!

For the third quarter of the year, I finally broke into the black today! It's only a small win, +107 for the quarter to date over 262 hours of play. However, at my low point for the quarter I was down $17,858 on August 8, 2008. Since then, I have been on a massive heater and have won it all back in 129 hours of play, averaging $138.98 an hour!

My wife and kids get back from Minnesota tomorrow, and I have put in a ton of hours since she has been gone. So I think I'll probably take an extended break from poker for at least a couple of weeks if not more. I'm feeling pretty burned out right now.

Today I played the 40/80 @ Oceans-11 and booked a 2100 win. I ended up playing short-handed 3 players, and then heads-up with Mike. I told Mike, that he didn't have an edge against he heads-up, and that he shouldn't play me, but he wanted to. I told him he could quit at anytime, even if he was up. I busted him for his last $400 or so heads up, and he bought another $500 and I busted him again in like 20 minutes. He quit after that. The game broke around 9:00pm, so I came home early tonight.

Jack High - No Good!

I called with Jack high for the first time in my life last night. Obviously it wasn't good, but it was almost good. It was a SB vs BB battle. I raised with J9o in the SB, BB defended. Flop comes 884, two hearts. I check, BB bets, I check-raise, BB 3-bets. Turn is a 2. Check-check. River is 5, no heart. I check, BB bets. I think for a long time, I think the BB has a busted flush draw, like 9 or T high. I call, and he shows me Q3h. Ooops, Queen high good sir. I made the right read, but didn't have the guts to raise the river.