For a grand total of... -$0.76. Placed 23rd/1000 in the 8-man $4.40 game so at least that is getting better.
The time sure does fly with these things. 4 1/2 hours of play is worth 6 bits I guess.
It's snowing here. We're supposed to get 10+ inches. When I bought my standard pint of rum at the packie, the clerk was worried I wasn't going to be adequately supplied, but I'm going to muddle through somehow.
For years I've been suffering with heartburn on and off, but it really took a turn for the worst last month. I decided getting up every two hours to pop Tums all night and chugging Pepto-Bismol just wasn't cutting it any more.
I did my research and stumbled on what I can only describe as a miracle drug -- the name brand is Prilosec, although I just got the cheaper generic Omeprazole, a six-week supply, courtesy of my local CVS pharmacy.
And then I stuck the $20 box in a drawer where it sat for a few weeks. But when my heartburn can back with a vengeance, I finally took a pill Monday morning, and, by that afternoon, I was shocked to discover a lack of pain in my belly that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around.
So I've been sticking with the program; a pill a day. Any ulcers I've got should get a good chance to heal while the omeprazole inhibits the protein-pumps that were causing my agonizing acid reflux.
Although I have to wonder, are there any online pharmacies out there where I could purchase this drug even cheaper? Hmmm... I guess I'll never know.
OK, so I only played two tourneys, but still, considering I just switched from 50NL to tourneys on Sunday, not too shabby.
92nd out of 1000 in the $4.40. Was doing good, but two maniacs on my left (including the chip leader), and nits on my right for the whole middle game, and by the time I got moved to a new table I was only holding 10,000 chips == 10BB. Ran 99 into QQ and that was that.
87th out of 1246 in the $27.50 -- tried to slowplay AA in the Big Blind against guy in 3rd place, he flops a set of tens and checks it thru. He was never folding a pair pre- anyway, and he's definitely not folding after he turns a full house and I open shove. I'm happy though: at one point during the 7th level I was down to 825 chips, ~8BB and it was my blind. Four hands later I had chipped up to 13,490. Never give up, never surrender!
For a grand profit of.. carry the two... $42.71. Respectable for 3 1/2 hours work, imo.
I might not be coming back to cash for a while folks!
Yeah, I had to look them up too. Still, not bad for the $11 entry fee. :-P
Edit: Still, do they have to be talking about chartering private jets? LOL, while the railbird cheers them on and gives vacation advice... kind of a funny screen shot
Eh, and then I screwed myself out of the money again. Near the bubble (those 2 pros long since out), it folds to me in the Small Blind and I have AQo, I raise, Big Blind comes over the top with a big raise for 5K, about 1/3 of his stack. We'd been in Blind versus Blind battles a lot trading the table lead back and forth since the table was fairly tight.
So I think... welllll, he could just be playing back at me, and... welllll, if I shove he'll basically have to fold a lot of his range, especially near the bubble. And even if he calls, it's almost certainly a coin flip and I'll be basically 4th or 5th in chips of the entire tourney if I win and can cruise into some real $$.
Of course, there's one part of his range he's never folding when I shove, and even though there were only 3 Aces left in the deck, he had two of them. ::sigh:: So I completely failed to narrow his range correctly.
But early on I won a few hands I shouldn't have (I was a little tilted, I guess, after the hand below) so no "doomswitch" tag here -- it's a wash. I might even get ~$2 back depending on whether the last Team Pro was gone yet or not.
Edit: Nope!
I guess I gotta work on making the big lay downs, and giving credit where credit is due. And not blowing up in BvB; back in the day I lost so many tourneys that way and I forgot. But it's only my third day back at them, so I'll get there.
Edit: And any thought I have that begins welllll is usually wrong! Larry Miller should have taught me that much....
*Got zeeboed on a three-handed table on a four-flush board when I rivered a full house (reverse 2-outer)
*Flopped a full house in a three bet pot, three way all in, got two outered for 300bb
*Ran into the top of every lag maniac's range when I 3 bet them pre
*Every time I check-raised a short stack with top pair or overs, they had a flopped set
*Otherwise, missed 90% of flops entirely; flopped a set once and got action for one whole street
*Dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria
*Ran $350 below EV over 1,870 hands, -34.5bb/100 over all
I guess I'm still rolled for multi-table tourneys. If I bink any of those deep I'll let y'all know. Otherwise, this fish will be back at the tables with his X-mas monies some time in January. gl all!
Edit: so far, go good
Edit: so far, so better. Have I been wasting my life playing cash??
Edit: Drat, 55th place after villain binked a disguised str8 on the river after calling two streets of PSBs and I put him on an underpair to the flop. FML
I don't gamble too often. I play NLHE drunk, or tired, or my reads (usually as a result of the aforementioned deprivations of my senses) are completely wrong and I spew like a maniac. But sometimes I'll play against the odds and I seem to get there a lot more than I should...
PokerStars, $0.25/0.50 NO Limit Texas Holdem Cash Games, 9 Players
SB/Conan776 bets $4
MP2 calls $4
MP4 raises to $12.50
Here I called a 3x raise on the flop with the nut inside straight draw, and it's completely mathematically incorrect... maybe if we were a lot deeper and both villains were maniacs it would be OK. But I was kind of suspicious Middle Position #4 was making a play with an Ax hand (drawing to a deuce for the wheel), rather than trying to take the pot down with an over pair, so I can just take it away on the turn regardless if my donk bet/smooth call looks strong enough...
Ah, sorry, that's the gin talking. What I meant to say was gamboooL!!!!!
SB/Conan776 calls $8.50
MP2 calls $8.50
Turn: ($44) (3 Players)
SB/Conan776 checks
And then on the turn I hit the other kind of gin. My check was kinda bad, but I had a good feeling he'd fire another bullet. And fire he did....
MP2 checks
MP4 bets $41.60 and is all-in
SB instacalls $35.75 and is all-in
(1 folds)
Of course, common courtesy demands a quick call, but it's nice to be able to use the PT3 hand replayer to go back and savor the moment.
