Tourney Time

I'm currently playing the 3K guaranteed on bodog.com
I have 22k in chips, average is 10.7k, 37/266 runners remain.
I'm guaranteed at least 37th place which pays 15.00. The buy-in was $8.80. But I used tourney credits to buy-in so it's pure profit as far as I'm concerned.

Most of these players are complete donkeys. I had only 1 real bad-suck out on me. All folded to me on the button. I raise with AQo, BB calls with a small stack. I flop an ace, we end up allin on the flop. He has pocket queens, no straight draw no flush draw. He pushed into me! Spikes the last queen in the deck on the river.

First pays 735. I'm hoping to final table.

Update 1: I'm currently chip-leader with 51k in chips. 22 remain.
Update 2: Just busted a big stack with AK vs AQ. We both rivered a boat. Have 81k in chips now.
Update 3: Made the final table as chip leader 92k in chips. Blinds are 1500/3000
Update 4: On break at the final table. 4 of us left. I am second in chips with 124k. Big stack has 215k, 2 small stacks with 39k and 21k. Coming off the break blinds will be 4000/8000 with some ante probably a 1000. I'm sure the big stack and me will try to take out the small stacks first and then play heads up for first place. We'll see what happens. I'm tired and want to go to bed however. I didn't think I would make it this far when I started the tourney at 10:00pm PST. It's now after 1:15am in the morning.
Some stats from the tourney so far: I have played 233 hands winning 20% of them. I have seen a flop only 17% of the time. When I see a flop I win the hand 55% of the time.
Update 5: Finished 2nd. Won $465. Going to bed at 1:45 am.

First Quarter in Pictures

I'm a winning player, finally!

Broke into positive territory for the year, last night booking a 2700 win in 2.5 hours. Then I dumped off $40 playing pool with Danny. Could have been worse, but I won the last two games to salvage a small loss.

Here's the quarter's results. Doubt I will get out again before the quarter officially ends.

8/16 411 7.75
20/40 -2975 91.75
40/80 2825 139

totals = 261 238.5 for an hourly rate of 1.09/hour! Screaming hourly rate! Making less than the guy at McDonalds! Considering where I was coming into the month of March, it feels real good just to get unstuck and finally be showing a profit for the year, even if it is only a couple hundred bucks.

Back to Normalcy

The wife and kids get back into town tonight. It will be very nice to have them home again. I missed them very much. It also means my "semi-professional" poker playing days are over. I put in a lot of time at the poker tables while my wife was gone in the month of March. Here's the month's break down:

8/16 408 2
20/40 -683 49.75
40/80 10683 61

totals = 10408 112.75hours, for an hourly rate of 92.31

For the 1st quarter of the year, I'm still in the red, but I'm one decent winning session away from breaking into the black for the year.

Up & Down

Salvaged a winning weekend of poker. Had a good Friday night, winning 2845, then gave it all back on Saturday night booking a -2992 loss. The Saturday night game was juicy as ever, but I ran bad and then tilted off the last 1000. Should have just racked up and left and took the $2000 loss. Anyways on Sunday, I made $1555 to end the weekend up $1408. So in all not a bad weekend of poker, but could have been better. Haven't gone on massive tilt like that in a long time.

Pool Shark - Not

Damn, I gotta quit playing pool. A bunch of the guys I play poker with at Oceans-11 have taking a liking to play pool after a session of poker. I used to be a really good pool player back in my college days when I played like every day.

Of course, we play for money, nothing major 5 or 10 bucks a rack. Even so, I've shot pool with them like 4 or 5 times now, and I'm down like 200 bucks.

Bachelorhood

So my wife and kids have been out of town since March 2nd. Them not being here, really makes me appreciate having a wife and a family. I have quite a few bachelor friends, and I don't know how they do it. Coming home from work to an empty and cold house is pretty lonely and brutal. I don't think I could do it for any real stretch of time. In any case my wife is coming back March 25, so at least in all my free time I have been able to get quite a bit of poker in. Right now I am on a huge rush. Here's my last 10 sessions:

20/40 +120
40/80 -726
20/40 -800
20/40 -295
40/80 +213
8/16 +84
40/80 +2750
40/80 +2360
20/40 -380
20/40 +1865

total +5071

I'm still down for the year, but if I can keep my results like this for the rest of March, I should get back into the black before the wife gets back into town.