GuyOnTilt
11-16-2004, 10:43 PM
Hey guys,
This last week was good. Not only did I reach my hourly goal without any stress, but I was way under my budget once again. A lot of my hours were logged live at Ocean's 11, so that contributed a lot to the ease of reaching my hourly goal (and it'll bring my hourly earn down a lot), but it's still nice to look at my spreadsheet and see that I've definitely improving in this area and without poker feeling much like a drag or work, which is really the whole point.
I only put in 7.5 hours this week of online play, all of it in Party's 15 game and most of it 4-tabling. It was spread over 3 sessions, but in each of the sessions it felt like I was down or even at best, but at the end of each one I was up. Heh. That seems to happen quite often to me now that I'm multitabling. Not that I'm up quite a bit more than I think I am, but that my guess is just way off. Some sessions I have no clue whether I'm up 50 big bets or down 50 big bets. I dont' know if it's just me or if that's the norm for everybody or what, but I guess it doesn't matter much. So I ended up $4,424 online this week in 7.5 hours logged. Well above average, but hey, it was only 7 hours.
A couple ho hum hands:
I'm in EMP with KK and open-raise. A unremarkable MP and the CO cold-call and both blinds call. Flop comes Q85 with the 85 of hearts. Blinds check, I bet, MP raises. Folded around to me and I 3-bet, he calls. Turn is an offsuit 7. Bet, call. River pairs the 7. Check, bet, raise, call.
I'm UTG with AQs. I raise, 4 players cold-call and both blinds call. Flop comes Q87 rainbow one of my suit. I bet, a thinking player with numbers a little to loose and passive raises, 2 players cold-call. I 3-bet, all call. Turn comes J completing the rainbow. I bet, next to act raises, other two cold-call again. I call. River comes 7. I check, next to act bets, we all fold.
Friday afternoon I went out to pick up some new shoes. I was planning on buying a particular pair of Kenneth Cole's that I already had in mind for a particular purpose, but they didn't have my size. Those jerks. So I got talked into a pair of Geoffrey Rusch's that were a bit more expensive, but still work for what I want them to and are nicer anyway. So while the salesman is putting the shoes on I get a call from my roommate telling me he's leaving for Ocean's 11. Sweet! Live poker!
I end up getting down to Oceanside about an hour after my roommate's already been there. I spend a few minutes running over a 3/6 game to the tune of $4 before I'm called for a seat in the 20 game. Spend the next 2 hours there playing shorthanded against a ton of loose/passive calling stations and get up two'ish racks. Then I spend the next 4 hours playing in a full-handed game folding a lot and missing and drop one'ish racks. Somewhere in there I realized I wasn't going to want to drive home that night when I was done, so I called a Holiday Inn and booked a room. I ended up driving back there after calling it an early night up exactly $300.
The next day 2+2'er NLSoldier and I meet up at Ocean's 11 and play a looooooong session. I got there before he did and was playing in the 5/5 NL game. He got a seat in a 8/16 and I joined him soon thereafter. But despite our table being really good, neither of us got a chance to play all that much and we both just folded all night. The constant folding and losing was made a lot easier with someone there to talk to the whole time though, so our 12 hour session went by pretty quickly and painlessly. And I ended up $35 for the day! Woo hoo! I ended up crashing at Dave's dorm for the night, went out to a lobster grill and bar for lunch the next day, got my ass kicked in HU Halo, and then had to leave to meet a girl for dinner, shopping, and a movie back at her place. I didn't get back home till really late that night, but when I did I realized how much I absolutely love my bed. Two nights without it was too much.
Anyway, I spent $565 throughout the week, but almost half of that way on the shoes so I really didn't spend much at all. I'm thinking about making some decent sized purchases in the next week, so I'm pretty sure I'll be well over my budget next week. But that's really okay with me 'cause it's all stuff that I'm going to have and be using all the time. I'm spending over a grand on a new office chair, maybe buying a loveseat for the office, and maybe buying a nice keyboard and speaker setup that I can dink around on (maybe $2,000). But that kind of stuff isn't the frivolous type of spending I'm looking to cut down on through this challenge, so I feel totally fine about it and I'd still be very happy with how much/little I've spent so far even if I ended up buying all of those in the next few days.
So yeah, I hereby proclaim Week 3 a success!
Results through Week 3:
Hours logged : 70.85, extrapolated 236.2
Money spent : $1,707, extrapolated $5,690
Money earned : $19,102.07, extrapolated $63,673.57
GoT
This last week was good. Not only did I reach my hourly goal without any stress, but I was way under my budget once again. A lot of my hours were logged live at Ocean's 11, so that contributed a lot to the ease of reaching my hourly goal (and it'll bring my hourly earn down a lot), but it's still nice to look at my spreadsheet and see that I've definitely improving in this area and without poker feeling much like a drag or work, which is really the whole point.
I only put in 7.5 hours this week of online play, all of it in Party's 15 game and most of it 4-tabling. It was spread over 3 sessions, but in each of the sessions it felt like I was down or even at best, but at the end of each one I was up. Heh. That seems to happen quite often to me now that I'm multitabling. Not that I'm up quite a bit more than I think I am, but that my guess is just way off. Some sessions I have no clue whether I'm up 50 big bets or down 50 big bets. I dont' know if it's just me or if that's the norm for everybody or what, but I guess it doesn't matter much. So I ended up $4,424 online this week in 7.5 hours logged. Well above average, but hey, it was only 7 hours.
A couple ho hum hands:
I'm in EMP with KK and open-raise. A unremarkable MP and the CO cold-call and both blinds call. Flop comes Q85 with the 85 of hearts. Blinds check, I bet, MP raises. Folded around to me and I 3-bet, he calls. Turn is an offsuit 7. Bet, call. River pairs the 7. Check, bet, raise, call.
I'm UTG with AQs. I raise, 4 players cold-call and both blinds call. Flop comes Q87 rainbow one of my suit. I bet, a thinking player with numbers a little to loose and passive raises, 2 players cold-call. I 3-bet, all call. Turn comes J completing the rainbow. I bet, next to act raises, other two cold-call again. I call. River comes 7. I check, next to act bets, we all fold.
Friday afternoon I went out to pick up some new shoes. I was planning on buying a particular pair of Kenneth Cole's that I already had in mind for a particular purpose, but they didn't have my size. Those jerks. So I got talked into a pair of Geoffrey Rusch's that were a bit more expensive, but still work for what I want them to and are nicer anyway. So while the salesman is putting the shoes on I get a call from my roommate telling me he's leaving for Ocean's 11. Sweet! Live poker!
I end up getting down to Oceanside about an hour after my roommate's already been there. I spend a few minutes running over a 3/6 game to the tune of $4 before I'm called for a seat in the 20 game. Spend the next 2 hours there playing shorthanded against a ton of loose/passive calling stations and get up two'ish racks. Then I spend the next 4 hours playing in a full-handed game folding a lot and missing and drop one'ish racks. Somewhere in there I realized I wasn't going to want to drive home that night when I was done, so I called a Holiday Inn and booked a room. I ended up driving back there after calling it an early night up exactly $300.
The next day 2+2'er NLSoldier and I meet up at Ocean's 11 and play a looooooong session. I got there before he did and was playing in the 5/5 NL game. He got a seat in a 8/16 and I joined him soon thereafter. But despite our table being really good, neither of us got a chance to play all that much and we both just folded all night. The constant folding and losing was made a lot easier with someone there to talk to the whole time though, so our 12 hour session went by pretty quickly and painlessly. And I ended up $35 for the day! Woo hoo! I ended up crashing at Dave's dorm for the night, went out to a lobster grill and bar for lunch the next day, got my ass kicked in HU Halo, and then had to leave to meet a girl for dinner, shopping, and a movie back at her place. I didn't get back home till really late that night, but when I did I realized how much I absolutely love my bed. Two nights without it was too much.
Anyway, I spent $565 throughout the week, but almost half of that way on the shoes so I really didn't spend much at all. I'm thinking about making some decent sized purchases in the next week, so I'm pretty sure I'll be well over my budget next week. But that's really okay with me 'cause it's all stuff that I'm going to have and be using all the time. I'm spending over a grand on a new office chair, maybe buying a loveseat for the office, and maybe buying a nice keyboard and speaker setup that I can dink around on (maybe $2,000). But that kind of stuff isn't the frivolous type of spending I'm looking to cut down on through this challenge, so I feel totally fine about it and I'd still be very happy with how much/little I've spent so far even if I ended up buying all of those in the next few days.
So yeah, I hereby proclaim Week 3 a success!
Results through Week 3:
Hours logged : 70.85, extrapolated 236.2
Money spent : $1,707, extrapolated $5,690
Money earned : $19,102.07, extrapolated $63,673.57
GoT