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Anonymous says
Good luck at Borgata.01/16/08
harlem says
I cant help but read your comments regarding the Giants first before your poker skinny. As you, I am caught up with Giant fever and hope to be watching with the boys up in the Bronx, playing NL while watching Eli and the rest of Big Blue kicking some Packer cheese ass. Look for Jacobs to have a huge game. The last time he played in 4 degree weather while in college, he ran for 260.01/17/08
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Thank you, shaundeeb
by Doylestown on 01/14/08
Snapped the Skid - Tournaments
Last post I mentioned how badly the year had started in both tournaments and cash. Really couldn’t have been much worse as I was 3-51 in tourney cashes with none significant. Things seem to be getting back to normal. I’ve played a couple of sessions since. I took 3rd (1300 runners) in a $10 10-minute donkathon a few nights ago for $1100+. Had the chip lead 4-handed with KK in the BB. Utg shoved with A8 and turned an A ugh……. Winning that pot would’ve given me over 1 million chips with less than 2 million chips in play 3-handed where I would’ve been a heavy favorite to take 1st place.
Even though it wasn’t a huge cash it felt good to get the monkey off my back. Kudos to shaundeeb for expounding the virtues of mixing in some lower level stuff to keep the confidence levels up. It was a nice slump buster. Ironically Shaun mentioned liking this specific event. Shaun let me know where to send your cut.
Next session I played I had a few cashes including final tabling the $50 1R 1A event, lost a flip to go out 9th meh.
Yesterday I sat down at 1PM to partake in the Poker Stars Passport TLB top 1000 promotional freeroll. This was open to the top 1000 TLB finishers for the month of December on Poker Stars. I was in the last tier competing against a field of 500 where only the Final 9 got paid. 1st place was an entry into the Monte Carlo Main Event with cash going to the other 8 spots. I had a top 3-4 stack all tourney long as we headed to crunch time. With about 6 tables left I called a shove in front of me and took a major hit when my JJ lost to 55, ouch. I actually chipped back up into contention and then started to battle the clock. With 4 tables left it was less than a half hour to the start of the Giants game, dammit Stars why of all days did this have to be today? I became overly aggressive (aka stupid) trying to build a monster stack or bust out to watch the game live, which I did when I lost a flip good at the time for 8th place with A7s vs KQ.
Full Tilt Saga Continues
Heading says it all. 1-20 this year cashing over there. Have lost in every disgusting way imaginable. Flopped top set over there at least 7 times this year and lost every single one. Open enders, gutterballs, flush draws, running quads you name it it’s been happening. I can “kind of” accept the bad side of variance but my lack of being a real factor in any tournament on that site has me seriously troubled. Not sure where to go from here, hoping to have an epiphany.
Erased the deficit – Cash Games
After starting the month in a 13 buy in hole I leave the online world to head to Borgata tomorrow almost back to even. I’ve strung together a bunch of successive winning sessions to wipe out the early New Years losses.
The New York Football Giants
Unfreakinbelievable. The Giants are heading to the NFC championship game Sunday night in Green Bay. I’ll be heading back from Borgata on Sunday morning and will have some great radio to listen to on the way home to get even more pumped up for the game. What a season!
Hope I see some of you guys at Borgata.
-Doyle-
Last post I mentioned how badly the year had started in both tournaments and cash. Really couldn’t have been much worse as I was 3-51 in tourney cashes with none significant. Things seem to be getting back to normal. I’ve played a couple of sessions since. I took 3rd (1300 runners) in a $10 10-minute donkathon a few nights ago for $1100+. Had the chip lead 4-handed with KK in the BB. Utg shoved with A8 and turned an A ugh……. Winning that pot would’ve given me over 1 million chips with less than 2 million chips in play 3-handed where I would’ve been a heavy favorite to take 1st place.
Even though it wasn’t a huge cash it felt good to get the monkey off my back. Kudos to shaundeeb for expounding the virtues of mixing in some lower level stuff to keep the confidence levels up. It was a nice slump buster. Ironically Shaun mentioned liking this specific event. Shaun let me know where to send your cut.
Next session I played I had a few cashes including final tabling the $50 1R 1A event, lost a flip to go out 9th meh.
Yesterday I sat down at 1PM to partake in the Poker Stars Passport TLB top 1000 promotional freeroll. This was open to the top 1000 TLB finishers for the month of December on Poker Stars. I was in the last tier competing against a field of 500 where only the Final 9 got paid. 1st place was an entry into the Monte Carlo Main Event with cash going to the other 8 spots. I had a top 3-4 stack all tourney long as we headed to crunch time. With about 6 tables left I called a shove in front of me and took a major hit when my JJ lost to 55, ouch. I actually chipped back up into contention and then started to battle the clock. With 4 tables left it was less than a half hour to the start of the Giants game, dammit Stars why of all days did this have to be today? I became overly aggressive (aka stupid) trying to build a monster stack or bust out to watch the game live, which I did when I lost a flip good at the time for 8th place with A7s vs KQ.
Full Tilt Saga Continues
Heading says it all. 1-20 this year cashing over there. Have lost in every disgusting way imaginable. Flopped top set over there at least 7 times this year and lost every single one. Open enders, gutterballs, flush draws, running quads you name it it’s been happening. I can “kind of” accept the bad side of variance but my lack of being a real factor in any tournament on that site has me seriously troubled. Not sure where to go from here, hoping to have an epiphany.
Erased the deficit – Cash Games
After starting the month in a 13 buy in hole I leave the online world to head to Borgata tomorrow almost back to even. I’ve strung together a bunch of successive winning sessions to wipe out the early New Years losses.
The New York Football Giants
Unfreakinbelievable. The Giants are heading to the NFC championship game Sunday night in Green Bay. I’ll be heading back from Borgata on Sunday morning and will have some great radio to listen to on the way home to get even more pumped up for the game. What a season!
Hope I see some of you guys at Borgata.
-Doyle-
