Results from the weekend

It was a great weekend overall. We had a Bluff Magazine forum gathering this weekend and boy did we have alot of fun. It started with picking people up from the airport in the morning and then right into a .25/.50 NL cash game. We then headed over to the Bluff offices for a $20 buyin tourney, some lunch, and more .25/.50 NL cash games. Bluff donated shirts, a pair of Oakley thumps, and some Greg Raymer and Jennifer Tilly signed magazines as additional prizes. VIP poker also gave us shirts and donated three sweet chip sets as prizes for the weekend events. Yours truly finished in the middle of the pack of the tourney but won $109 in the cash game.

Then the whole pack of us (22 in total) headed to my buddy Jeremy's house where we played a $50 tourney with 7500 as a starting stack and 30 minute blinds that started at 25/25. That structure worked in my favor since I did not get any cards for the first three hours. I then started to get some cards and slowly built my stack. I made the final table where I was a force to be reckoned with and eventually chopped the first place money with the chip lead. I got $400 for my efforts and one of those sweet chip sets (thanks VIP!!!).

Saturday the guys played Whirlyball which is a combination of bumpercars and lacrosse. Many people were sore after that. I did not play as I had a soccer game to go to. They also had another tourney with a $20 buyin followed by a .50/1 NL cash game that went to 6AM. I missed it due to a Halloween party where I drank waaaay too much thanks to beer pong game that broke out.

Sunday I was able to play some poker online and I won some playing 2/4 on Full Tilt. I also won again yesterday. Overall the bankroll is at 23.5k now. It really is probably over 24k, due to all the money (about $1300) I have sitting in my room from the past two weekends of live poker. Since I have not deposited it into my poker checking/savings account yet I will not add it to the bankroll as of now. I instead will use it to fund the bankroll for the Tunica trip that starts on Thursday.

Today I will play more 2/4 on Full Tilt as I am trying to clear that bonus. I am almost done clearing the entire $500, and I have made money doing it. I will report back tomorrow. Good luck to everyone out there.

Update from 10/24

Well last night was a light night of play due to it being bowling night. I did bowl 208-211-158-577 last night. It was the first time I have bowled well in a long time. As for poker, which is what you all really care about, I played some 2/4 on Full Tilt and I won about $100 in two hours of play. Like I said nothing to write home to Mom about, but it is still in the right direction.

The next week and a half will be alot of fun but I will not get to play much poker online. On Friday many people from the Bluff Magazine forum are getting together for a weekend of poker, drinking, more poker, some other activities like laser tag and whirlyball, and then some more poker. I am really looking forward to seeing some of the people that I have only chatted with online over the last couple of years.

Then next Thursday is my 2nd Tunica trip. I am staying at the Goldstrike from Thursday-Sunday. I got a great poker rate which works out to $30 a night as long as I play 5 hours a day of poker. Since I am sure I will average over 12 hours a day, that will not be a problem. I am sharing the room with a buddy of mine so it is even cheaper than that. I will mostly play 1/2 NL and maybe some 2/5 NL if things are going well.

Tonight and tomorrow I will get to play and then it is just live poker until Sunday. Good luck to everyone out there.

"Out of office" note

Well last night was not a good night for cash games for me. I lose a couple of huge pots on set over set and two pair/nut flush draw vs. a set. Overall for the day I lost $550 playing 2/4 which dropped the bankroll to 21.4k.

This weekend I have rented a house in a small German-style town for Octoberfest. I am looking forward to the fun weekend, but it means no poker until Sunday night. That just means I need to focus even more on clearing my bonus at Full Tilt when I get back.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I will start posting again on Monday.

Results from 10/18

Man I feel like an idiot posting some of this stuff, but in an effort to fully disclose my activities, here we go...

I entered the deep stack tourney at 9:15 at Full Tilt. I figure that deepstack tourneys should favor me, so I put in my $26. I fold for a while until I get AQ32 double suited. I raise, and I am reraised. The flop comes 654 all in my suit with the Q. I have a flush and the nut low. The guy bets out, I reraise, he goes allin and I call. He wins with a higher flush and takes the whole pot. What happened to my nut low you ask? Well it turns out it was a PL Omaha tourney and not Omaha 8/b like I originally thought. What a dope I am. Oh well.

I then join the Bluff forum regulars event that was a $10 event with $600 added to the prize pool plus a iPod nano as a bounty on someone's head. I did not collect the bounty, but I did win first place which was worth $415.

I also won over $300 on my cash game (2/4 NL) on Full Tilt which put my profit for the day over $700. The bankroll is now at 22k.

Tonight maybe I will actually pay attention to which tourneys I join, and I will play some cash games as well. Best of luck to everyone.

Results from 10/16

Well last night I concentrated mostly on clearing some of that bonus from Ultimate Bet and Full Tilt. The good news is that I cleared some bonus and won some money in the process. I finished down about $40 on UB and I finished up about $900 on Full Tilt. With the bonus my profit was just over $900, which puts the bankroll at 21.2k.

On my first day back at Ultimate Bet I was a little shocked to see no full 2/4NL games going. I played 1/2 the whole night though.

Tonight is bowling and I will be playing some more Full Tilt and Ultimate Bet tonight. I probably wont play any tourneys though.

Sorry for the long gap

I just have not felt good over the last week with regards to poker. All this uncertainty about what is going to happen, how am I going to play, how will I be able to deposit/withdraw money. It is just nuts. The government just has to wake up and regulate/tax this industry. We would all be better off.

So anyway last night I played in the Bluff Poker Tour event on Stars. Here is how I lose the hand......

PokerStars Game #6648311819: Tournament #33777618, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/10/15 - 21:04:26 (ET)
Table '33777618 3' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Borepower (1510 in chips)
Seat 2: hafe04 (1770 in chips)
Seat 3: bigtex21 (1340 in chips)
Seat 4: billinga (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: Kashuskay (1220 in chips)
Seat 6: OutlawJWales (3480 in chips)
Seat 7: JewelMick (1440 in chips)
Seat 8: Chimp__Greg (1470 in chips)
Borepower: posts small blind 10
hafe04: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Chimp__Greg [Kd Ad]
bigtex21: folds
billinga: raises 40 to 60
Kashuskay: folds
OutlawJWales: calls 60
JewelMick: folds
Chimp__Greg: calls 60
Borepower: calls 50
hafe04: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Ac Kc 5d]
Borepower: checks
hafe04: checks
billinga: bets 200
OutlawJWales: folds
Chimp__Greg: raises 400 to 600
Borepower: calls 600
hafe04: folds
billinga: raises 810 to 1410 and is all-in
Chimp__Greg: calls 810 and is all-in
Borepower: calls 810
Chimp__Greg said, "vn bill"
*** TURN *** [Ac Kc 5d] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [Ac Kc 5d Jd] [9c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Borepower: shows [Qc Jc] (a flush, Ace high)
billinga: shows [Ah As] (three of a kind, Aces)
Chimp__Greg: shows [Kd Ad] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
hafe04 said, "wow"
Borepower collected 4530 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4530 | Rake 0
Board [Ac Kc 5d Jd 9c]
Seat 1: Borepower (small blind) showed [Qc Jc] and won (4530) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: hafe04 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: bigtex21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: billinga showed [Ah As] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 5: Kashuskay folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: OutlawJWales folded on the Flop
Seat 7: JewelMick folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Chimp__Greg (button) showed [Kd Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings

Just absolutely brutal. I almost lost a laptop due to that process.

So the bankroll is sitting stagnant at 20.3k. I am going to work on clearing $400+ of bonuses on Full Tilt and Ultimate Bet. I will play 2/4 on both of them. Anyway best of luck to everyone, I will make sure to post again tomorrow.

Results from yesterday

After a day like yesterday you almost hope that the idiots in Congress get their way. I played in a couple of tourneys including the latest stop on the Bluff Poker Tour which was played at Absolute Poker. I finished in the middle of the field when with the blinds at 100/200 someone raised to 700 and then I reraised in late position allin which was 3800 with JJ. The limper folded but the small blind called me with AhJh. He hits an ace on the flop and I am dead.

The cash games we not much kinder to me as every time I woke up with KK or QQ an Ace would flop. It was so aggravating. For the day I ended up dropping $500 and the bankroll sits at 20k.

Tonight I have a fall festival with my kids so I will not be on until late so it may be a short session tonight. It all depends on how tired I am.

By the way the recent developments are getting more and more interesting. Several poker sites are staying with the U.S. market while others are abandoning it. I can tell you that any site that abandons us now will not be on my play list when all this is cleared up.

Confusing times

Boy this last week has been rough for the poker player in me. This legislation has hit, and all of a sudden everyone is panicking. Some of my accounts have been closed down and money is being sent back to me. Party poker says that they will close their US accounts as soon as Bush signs the bill. I am sad about that one because I was finding a home at Party. I will look to Pokerstars or Full Tilt most likely next for the bulk of my play.

I dont think that online poker is dead, nor do I think we will all be arrested soon for playing it. The problem is that the casual player is going to leave and that hurts our profit. Eventually this will all settle down and we will be able to understand the impact. One hopes that poker will be considered a skill game and left alone. I will not speculate what is going to happen, I am sure you can find more than enough on the subject right now.

In the meantime I will continue to play. The bankroll is around 20.5k right now, I hope to make some headway this month. We shall see. Best of luck to all of you that are still out there. Take care.