How it ended

Ended the tourney in 196/1841 for a whopping $2.20. Hand that crippled me was AQ < AJ from a medium stack that costed me a little over half of my stack. My bust hand was me shoving A3s from the CO and getting called by another medium stack that just barely had me cover with 87o. Flop A69 turn 5 river 8 GG him. The cash games went well until I hit 25nl. Had $24, only needed one more friggin dollar. I pick up QQ and raise table maniac and big stack calls flop was whatever rainbow I pot it at $2.50. He calls turn brings a second club. I bet 3/4 pot he calls. river A I check he checks and shows A6. hmm. Later I raise 1010 he calls again. Flop 10 8 3 two spades. I pot he calls. turn is a blank. I shove he calls with K2 of spades. River spade sigh, brought my little experiment to an early end. I'm going to go do something productive now.

A mid week post ZOMG

I'm pretty bored today. I had plans that had me doing things outside today, but it got cold. So I signed up for a $1 MTT on P*'s. I'm also going to do a cash challenge(see what happens when I getbored) I'm starting at 10nl with $5 and will move up when I have half of the next level. so here's how it will look

level buyin
10nl $5
25nl $12.50
50nl $25
100nl $50
etc.

This of course mean I'll have to stay alive in the tourney. I'll post where I get to and how many hands it took at each level. Hopefully this will at least be interesting for a little while.

Not Mon. but pretty close

I took a few days off last week (4) and went down to visit my Mom and brother in VA. Mom had some chest pain and they did a heart cath, found some blockage and put a stint in. She returned to work yesterday. Modern medicine amazes me. Last Wed. she was a couple of days away from a massive heart attack and mon. she's back at work and said she feels better than she has in years when she first started complaining of chest pain (her old dr. determined it was stress from work). Anyway had a good time, I got to see the house she just had built and it was nice to see them since I haven't seen them since July.

Poker

I managed to play only 62 stt's since Dec. started. Running good at times terrible at others. Had a 9 game OOTM streak. Kinda sucked. Not the longest I've had but none the less it sucks. Here's the stats from Dec. 1st to yesterday(when I should have posted)

Games - $12 turbos - 62
Profit - + $117.3
ROI - 15.77%
ITM Finish distribution
1st - 9
2nd - 6
3rd - 12
Total ITM - 43.55%

All in all a pretty good 9 days. Classes are going good. I can't wait for winter break. That's all for now.

Nov. wrap up

Well I played sng's almost exclusively this month. Started two tableing then four then six then nine. Nine is hard and really hurt the ROI. My new plan is to four table the $12 turbos in Dec. Depending on how I develope I will move to 6 tableing the $12's in Jan. If that goes well I should have enough BR to take shots at the $24's in Feb. Stats for Nov.

Buyin Games Amount Won ROI
6.5 167 $124.10 11.43%
12 77 (42.50) (4.64)

These numbers were a lot higher before trying to nine table. I played a couple of MTT's in Nov. too. Not many and not much success. Cashed in a couple on Cake but nothing big and didn't go really deep in any. Splashed in a small amount of cash here and there to. Overall I didn't play as much as I would have liked. Had a crazy time around Thanksgiving with classes, work and holiday stuff going on. I imagine Christmas and New Years will be the same way. So far in Dec.

Buyin Games Amount Won ROI
12 24 $108 37.5%

Only four tableing this month. Heaters are fun. Hope this rides all month.