blonde poker

Days 74 and 75 : Time marches on and these last two days the totalizer hasn't much. Nor will it the next three.

BLONDE BASH BABY, IN IT TO WIN IT 

What I meant to say is that it's a tournament that will have a rich history and a list of winners that will read like a who's who in poker.
I'd love nothing more than to add my humble-bumble name to said list.

Trouble is 100+ players would love the same thing. Never mind all the jokes, the ribbing and the jossling. The fact of the matter is that the BlondeBash II double chance freezeout will have a lot of top quality oppostion in it. Whoever wins it has my undying respect. (I really hope it's self-respect  )

Days 74 and 75 Results : +$238.5 (+$10,771.5 total)
ROI : 8.8% (after 1,874 tournaments played)

My excuse for only playing 6 these last couple of days? Went out to Cincins on Wednesday around 10pm-ish, just to say hello.

The craic was cracking so I stayed till around 5am and had a few beers. Not exactly in a playing frame of mind when I got home if you know what I mean. 

Thursday evening, I was busy too. El blondie asked me to deal as they were stuck and i thought I'd oblige as a favour. I felt I owe him one or two after dikking him about in bob-a-job week. Back from that and played just the six. Was a little too tired, that's why I killed the session prematurely.

Day 71 and 72 Results - Good News. I got my monitors sorted 

Here's what I did......

Days 67 and 68 - (Sounds about right)

I've been fiddling manically with com-poo-tah and I think it's more broke now than it was a couple of days ago. Dual monitoring has become a complete no-no. If I have them both running, it offends the computer to the point of it crashing in protest.

Very annoyed with the whole thing and have decided just to leave it till I can get Delll-Dell to fix-fix it for me. If I continue my repair attempts, I'll just get frustrated to the point whereby I might piss away money.

Played in the early evening again, ended up down around $500. Decided to not play anymore at that time (before midnight) as I'm feeling much less invincible about doing so. (Might still have the odd afternoon sesh and see how it goes)

Using just one monitor, four tabling was annoying me. The other monitor is sitting right next to me, mocking me, as if to say, you should be playing six big boy.

"Six six six, all the cool kids play six six six" she whispered enticingly. 

So six I played, with a little bit of ovelap. That pissed me off too, having played with no overlap, it didn't feel right.

Then something inside me decided to go for a gay skip in the meadow. Seeing as I'm playing with overlaping screens anyway, why not play 10? The last 60 I played were 10 at a time. I broke roughly even (just getting used to it is my excuse)
I need to speak aloud to myself to keep the focus. That helps me loads, I live by myself so no-one is going to have me locked away for being a loon. 

Day 67 and 68 Results : -$308.5 (+$9,489 total)
ROI : 8.6% (after 1,678 tournaments)

Pisch ROI, oh dear. At least I've put 168 more tournamentals in the bag.

I'm very aware that I'm still a while away from 2,000 tournamentals (that'll be halfway fergus  ) and time is slipping by quite quickly indeed.

To that end, I'll try 10-tabling again in my next sesh. Very tentativily though, if it starts to flump up in my face, I'll cut down to 4 or 6 at a time. I may have to turn the classic rock volume up so I can't hear the shrill hollow whispers of the temptress that is my second monitor.

Day 64 - I'm writing this quite early. Usually I push through till much later on. Not so much into the wee small hours, but right past into the rather big ones too.

Not this evening though.
Having notched just the 45 on the clock, I feel it's time for Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz as it's been a long, not entirely incident free, day. (The mad woman earlier this morning, brrrrrrrrr)

A good nights rest and I'll be back to kick the bottom of at least 60 tournaments tomorrow. 

Day 64 Results : +$517.5 (+$10,184.5 total)
ROI : 10.6% (after 1,428 tournaments)

We seem to have arrived at another milestone children. I shant mention what it is, because it's one that I only wish to reach once, if you know what I mean. (That and it's a little obvious)

No reason to tempt fate.

Not that I believe in such a thing of course. Fate is as inconcievable a concept to me as that abstract some people refer to as "luck".

Day 61 - Two things to report on today.

Firstly, I decided to take on the $55s during the "no play zone" If I'm going to stand a chance of playing 4,000 then limiting my hours of when I can play is going to be a problem. I tried a batch of 30 today and it went allright, not too much more difficult than the early morning tournaments.

One good thing about playing during the afternoon. Different bunch of regulars, most of whom don't have me clocked yet   

Secondly, them there $105s are tough. So tough in fact that I believe I may even be able to make more playing the smaller ones. Most of the time, I have almost no edge when it gets down to 3/4 handed and I hardly ever see myself with an edge heads up. The same bunch of bozos play them all day long. These bozos are hard to beat.

So I'm going to leave them for now, before I have a really bad day. Going back to my $55 stomping grounds. The tournaments that I feel I was born to play and now believe that I can beat whatever time of the day it is.

Day 61 Results : +$640.5  (+$9,202 total)
ROI : 10.2% (after 1,334 tournaments)

After 182 $105 rock festivals I was only beating them for around 6% ROI. It's too small a sample for that to be accurate, but I didn't "feel" like I had an advantage over others when playing them. That's a good enough reason for me to make a tactical retreat at this point.

Day 58 - The second tournament I entered was a $110+9 six-seater. Registering for it was an accident. Never mind, I thought, will try to make the best of it.

I was shocked by some appaling play. A couple of players threw their chips at me and I ended up winning it. This made me think I'd been wasting my life playing 9-man STTs. The six-way action looked lucrative to say the least.

I played another four, walking away with a couple of 2nd places. With 2/3 in them, there is oodles of value in these things.

The problem, as I was soon to discover, is that with 2/3 fellow at the table, there is no value whatsoever. Multi-tabling, I might have even been -EV (shockeroonie). From the following eight I attempted, I only harvested myself one lonely cash, and even that was a piddily 2nd place.

No more six-seaters for me thankyou, I'll stick to what I know.

Settling into the 9-man $105s I played an ok game. Managed 30 of them on top of the 13 disastorous six-pacs. I even dabbled in one cheeky wee $55 game. Let me tell you of it's bizzarity.....

I set a new personal record for speedy winning of a STT, 29 minutes!
We didn't even get to the 100/200 25ante level. 

It was great fun, within the space of seven hands the random number generator bestowed upon me AA, QQ, AA and 99. Each one knocking a gob-smacked player to the rail.
Heads up I finished the, quite grateful, short-stack off with J8o. (He hadn't played a hand all game)
Most fun I've had in a Sit n Go for a while.  Even MikkyT could have won that tournament. 

Day 58 Results : +$859 (+$8,431.5 total)
ROI : 10.6% after 1210 tournaments    (13*$110s/109*$105s/1088*$55s)
VPPs 33,360
FPPs 78,267

Not too shabby at the end of the day after pissing away pest part of $1k six-pacing to begin with. You'd take $800 every sesh if you could.

is still hungry for that day with a comma in it though (+$x, xxx)
Close just isn't good enough 

Discalimer - Mikky is a good player, I have a lot of respect for his game.

Days 55 and 56 - Decided to mix it up today and played a bunch of the $105+9's. If I can beat them two things'll happen. I'll get Supernova sooner, and I'll make more dosh. Both good things I'm sure you'll agree so why not give them a try.

The quest is still to play 4,000 though. I'm not allowed to change the rules halfway through. That would just be naughty.

It just means that getting 4,000 and becoming Supernova won't coincide. Twice the drama or half the drama? I'll leave that for you to decide.

A bunch of guys mix it up playing a combination of 55's and 105's. The 105's can be quite slow to fill sometimes. I think I'll do that. Today I played 38 big ones and 4 little ones.

Days 55 and 56 Results : -$882 (+$7,166.8 total)
ROI : 10.5% (after 1106 tournaments, 1068 little ones + 38 big ones)
VPPs 28,620
FPPs 66,417

So I stepped up and lost. Is it time to step back down again? That's what I've been pondering for the last hour or so.

I've decided to stick at the 105's for another day, what swayed me was, when looking back over the 38 tournaments, I was knocked out or crippled by AA a total of 17 times. Running into that many aces won't be typical so I think it's safe to assume I've had a bad run and it's worth giving them another try today.

I'll be sure to let you know how it goes. If I'm down by an amount with a comma in it then I'll certainly leave them be.