Wednesday, June 29, 2005

The Purchase of an SUV


Well I bought my car the same way I saved up for it, online that is.
I bought it on eBay no less. It's 60+ miles away, and I have never seen it except in pictures.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4558401675&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT

Thursday, June 23, 2005

$400 slide erased

My ugly slide is now gone, and has been replaced with profit. The funny thing is, I haven't been playing much at all. When I have it's been one table at a time....
Does this mean my ROI goes down dramatically when I muli-table? If I kept track, maybe i'd know.
I've made the money in my last 6 $35+3 SnGs with 4 1sts and 2 2nds. That provided the big bankroll boost. The best part is, most of that has been with $T so it's all profit. In $35+3s, that's real nice.
I played in a PSCrew tournamnet Tuesday and squeaked into 9th place for $16. I was pretty much card dead the whole time. I got AK twice. First time I won a small pot, second time I went bust. I did win a huge pot overplaying 77. I got it all in preflop for like 20xBB. But I felt like I 'knew' I was in a rcae.
I was right, that time. I won't make a habit of that though.
Sunday I'll be headed to Conroe. While I'm there, I should buy a car. That would mean the whole quest to buy a car would be complete.
And it would have been done with 100% poker money.
Wish me luck.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

College stuff

I'm going to hit you guys with a non-poker post. I hope you don't mind. (I don't think you exist anyway [you being a reader]).
Anway, I just got back from Oxford, Miss., yesterday. I was there to cover the UT baseball team in the Super Regionals.
texas won the best-of-three series in three games.
Because of some spotty defense, we dropped the first game, but came back and won the next two.
You have to be 21 to gamble in Mississippi so I didn't.
The people in Oxford are great. We (I was with Ben Cutrell another writer) spent one night in Batesville then two nights with a local journalist. Ben and him talked college sports till the wee hours of the morning, totally flooring me with their collective knowledge.

Now there is a 50/50 chance that I'll be going to Omaha NB for the College World Series. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping. If I go it will be as a photographer, so I'll have to give myself a crash course on modern, digital equipment. I think I can do a good job, and hopefully,. I'll get a chance to try.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

The Return to Online Poker

Bold title, almost sounds like I actually left, eh?

7-8 day break seems like forever. Yesterday I played 2 $35+3 SnGs and on $5.50 HU match.
I won one of the SnGs and finished second in the other for a tidy profit. Then I took down B.Purdy's brother, FrozeLast, in a HU match. In the match my two pair was bigger than his two pair, nothing he could really do.

$35+3s were break even today for me. But I decided to play the $36+3 sat to the $215 PS $350K guaranteed and I won that. I unregistered and took the $T.

Me an Showtime25 decided to play a $20+2 SnG after that. I played well and made the money but for the second consecutive time in the day, my AA couldn't hold up with all the chips in pre-flop. I lost to AKs when he flopped the flush and was down around 10xBB. From there, I could not recover and I finished my night with the third place finish.

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Casino Poker

I haven't played online poker in over week, mainly because I spent 6 nights in Oklahoma City covering Texas at the Women's College World Series. The team made the final four but couldn't muster enough offense to get any further.

While I was there I got my first casino poker experience. I played 3/6 limit HE at the Thunderbird in Norman, home casino to those redneck Sooners.

Sitting at the table for about two hours (after probably tw hours waiting) I only saw two showdowns, but both were monster pots for me, and I ended up +$53.

First hand, I had AA and raised. I only got a couple of callers, and the flop was a beautiful AKx. We checked the flop, and then got HU on the turn (a K) raising back and forth with the table idiot. Because it couldn't be capped HU I could have made a raise, but I finally just called to try to present weakness. I really thought that he had a K and that we would do some major betting on the river. The river was a rag, and he checked.
"I'll let him do my betting for me," he said.
I answered, "Well I'll bet then."
In retrospect, I wish I had pretended like his comment scared me, I think I could have gotten him to raise by acting scared about his confidence.
Anyway, he flat called with A6, and I took down a monster. A few orbits later, I had J8o in the BB. A player two seats down was stacking his chips to leave and carelessly looked at his cards. I saw them: AA.
He raised and got 3 callers, I called for the implied odds (I know this isn't so effective in limit).
The flop was J8x, and I was doing a river dance on the felt.
We capped the flop 3-way and the turn came down, an 8.
I check-raised this time, possibly a mistake. But it worked out fine, because the third player called mr AA's bet and then folded when AA stupidly raised my check-raise. I raised again and he called, then he flat called the river.
I showed, and he said "great hand," and mucked his cards. I felt a little sorry for the guy, losing a bunch on his last hand like that, but he paid for his carelessness.