Johnny

The 20 day mark has me right on schedule. I gave $110 back to the poker economy last night as a result of some amazing hands but my 20 day total has me at $2,440.25 including rakeback, which would put me at $7,320.75 for the 60 day period so I’m a tiny bit ahead of the curve.

Unfortunatly, or fortunately, things happen which mess up your plans though and a few such things happened, one very bad and one very good. One was that we had a bit of a crisis here personally which caused me to cash in a bunch of my bankroll. The other thing is that I received an invite to the All In Powerdrink Invitational next week in Vegas, so I cashed in another $1k of my roll to pay for it all and I’m off to Vegas for a few days on June 30th. It’s not a WSOP event, but at least it’s listed on the WSOP lineup page.  Baby steps!  Haha.  The tournament is a $500,000 guarantee with $1k bounties on players such as Johnny Chan, Patrik Antonius, Phil Gordon, Annie Duke, Eli Elezra, Scotty Nyugen, Freddie Deeb, Dewey Tomko, and Layne Flack who just won another bracelet last night. Trip report coming, obv. Wish me luck!

I don’t know what it is about Pokerstars but, man, it’s a grind at best for me there. I had a bonus to clear there so I played some NLHE. Here’s the stats for my first 400 hands:

Winnings(Losses): ($295.35)

EV Winnings ($180.15)

Pretty standard basic stats and aggression, went to showdown was near normal at 22.6, but Won $ @ showdown was down around 40 points from my average at 16.7%. Ha! A little coolerville.

I eventually came around a bit then won a few hundred after I switched to PLO, but I still have about 1200 hands of PLO to go before this bonus clears.

The Stars sessions kinda sandbagged my chart a little but it still looks pretty good. My goal was to add $2k to my roll so I’ve gotten that much on straight NLHE now, so the rest of the 2 month period plus bonuses and Omaha all be towards the goal of an extra $5000. Here’s the NLHE chart to date:

I figured I was in for a bit of a doomswitch after making the last post and it did hit hard and fast tonight. I played just two tables for most of the night and had a 70%+VP villain at each one accompanied by some 40s and 50s. Really loose tables. Unfortunately, they ran like god when I had hands with showdown value. ~$200 loss on the night, but at least the penance is out of the way. (Knock on wood)

The laptop I have is very serviceable. I got it on clearance from ToshibaDirect, I think mostly because it has this hideous copper cover. However, I really liked that it still had XP and resolution up to 2048 x 1536 though I use it at 1680 x 1050. It 4 tables without overlap and runs great, plays World of Warcraft just fine too. It can’t play new generation games though.

This week I purchased Age of Conan, the MMRPG. It’s huge, taking up fully 1/3 of my 100 Gig hard drive. My system met the minumum specs, but the game really isn’t playable. The graphics lag and stutter far too much. Now normally this wouldn’ t be a problem as I’d just forget the game, but some friends are playing it and so that increases the fun factor. I also had to give Bioshock a miss because it had bad problems with this particular graphics card.

But this Conan game… you don’t understand. I mean, I was never into the Conan mythos. But the game has boobies and gore, boobies and gore! See what I mean?

And they go flip-flop and everything.

How can I resist?

Looking through the laptops on the market it seems like I’m going to have to shell out about $4800k with tax to get something that will last for a few years without being obsolete. Icky, imo.

So, hey I’ll do what any good degen would… baller up the poker roll. Either a brilliant plan or really, really stupid.

I’ve been playing only a minumum amount of hands this month. I’ll swtich do more grinding and see where I can get in June and July. I’ll put $2000 of the gains into my roll and take the rest and see what kind of machine I can get and chart my progess here in teh blog.

Here’s the chart for this month so far, 9 days in and $1743.20 plus rakeback so I’m off to a good start. Hopefully I won’t screw up and I’ll be watching boobies bounce before I know it.