I finally figured out how to automate Tournament result importation into PT3. Doesn't quite work from e-mail, but with some cutting and pasting I can once again post a weekly graph.
Gee, I've really been slacking this week. But I'm off work all next week, so it's time to grind.
Well, maybe not free money, but I figured if I included that phrase in my post title I'd increase my hit counter.
I had thought maybe it was just that Full Tilt was really soft. But I just cleared $69 in profit on PokerStars since my last post two hours ago: 2nd of 18, 3rd out of 27, and bubbled another 27 man.
I really think I've finally got stuff figured out. :-)
... To feel a wrath of the unruly awaking of a sleeping giant
(Very defiant), once I give you the pressure
And then I apply it and then your breathing is stopped and totally quiet (ssshhhh!)
The following video is Not Safe For Work!
Method Man featuring Busta Rhymes -- What's Happenin'
Clouds have formed over the match between Isildur and Brian Hastings, which resulted in the biggest winning day in online poker history, after ESPN reported that three Team Cardrunners pros, Hastings, Brian Townsend, and Cole South "conglomerated their hand histories, allowing them to study the mystery man's playing style."
Poker, of course, is not a team sport, and sharing hand histories so thoroughly and thus gaining an unfair advantage over an opponent is widely considered unsportsmanlike. On top of that, it explicitly violates Full Tilt Poker's Terms and Conditions (which is where all this high stakes action occured).
After Full Tilt Poker conducted what some are calling the fastest investigation of a T&C violation in the site's history (they are infamous for their slow if not lackadaisical customer service), FTP decided the only punishment would be that Brian Townsend, the apparent mastermind of the plot, would lose his "Red Pro" status for a month, meaning FTP would no longer pay him a kickback for playing on their site for that period of time.
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....
