MEbenhoe
11-20-2004, 04:20 PM
Nov 17th
Through some stroke of randomness I managed to play 800 hands toady. How I pulled this off remains a mystery considering the entire sum of my day. I had 8, no you didn’t misread that said 8, hours of class today. This is what happens when you miss the lab for your 1 credit First Aid/CPR course and have to make it up by taking a 4 hour Red Cross class. It was excitement at its pinnacle. I also spent 2 hours working on a group project tonight, for a 35 minute speech I have to give on Friday.
Despite all this and 800 hands of poker I also found time to get in a fight today. Here’s the story. My roommates friend was over in our room. This friend of my roommate’s, has a habit of basically treating my roommate as his own personal “dog of the female persuasion”. As usual he was up to his old habit again this afternoon, so I chose that this time I was gonna start messing with him. In the most childish antic I could think of I stole his hat and proceeded to give him a noogie. At which point he told me I’d better stop or he’d beat me up. I just laughed and continued because this is what he would do in the same instance doing junk like this to my roommate. He chose this opportunity to spring into attack mode. He rushed me with arms flailing and definitely caught me off guard. After a slight tussle I gained control of the situation and over him, forcing him to the ground and pinning him down with a good hold on him and a hand clenched around his neck. I decided this would be a good spot to end this so I picked him up and shoved him towards the door, handed him his stuff and sent him on his way. Yeah ok, not much of a fight, but I havent had a situation even like that come up in awhile. I declare victory on this one though.
As far as the poker went, I’m not sure how much I actually made, but I was up for the day. I’m thinking something in the $20-$40 range. I’m really being lazy with some of this stuff right now, and I don’t have a clue what my bankroll is, but I’m estimating about $1050.
Nov 18th
Not much to talk about today. I put in 300 hands and was up about $2 from it. Overall I spent most of the day either in class, at practice or working on my amazing group project again. It’s a 35 minute group presentation on “Effective Group Participation”. We’ll see how that goes.
Nov 19th
Another day of not too many hands and not too much profit. 400 hands and another +$2 day. I am seriously on a roll.
I rocked the group presentation today. We got a 95/100 and clearly had the funniest presentation out of any group in our class. I was glad to see my teacher took the humor in good fun this time, because I tend to spice up my presentations by adding some funny stuff in to keep the class somewhat interested. A prime example was earlier in the year when I gave a speech on the importance of eye contact in communicating, and decided it would be an awesome idea to spend the first minute of my speech finding random ways to completely avoid eye contact with the class. I think the sad part was the few in the class who didn’t catch on to the joke.
Today’s track practice featured the hardest lifting workout of the year. We did 5 sets of 5 reps of what my coach calls the olympic circuit. Basically for this 1 rep is a Power clean, into a front squat, into a split jerk, into another front squat. Believe me after 5 sets of 5 reps of these your legs, back, and arms are just screaming. Wow, I love track.
And tonight was drinking night. Thanks go out to gonores for sharing his alcohol expertise with me and giving me quite a few options of drinks to mix up for the night. For those of you who don’t know, doug is clearly the master of all things alcohol.
Alright so I’m making some type of an attempt to come up with an accurate total for my bankroll right now, because I have money locked up in a few places and some money that is supposed to be being sent to me that I have no clue where it is so at best guess:
Bankroll Update: $1077
Once I get all this junk cleared up, I will have a more accurate picture of where my BR is at.
Also as a final side note, after thanksgiving I’m going to be getting the SSHE book club cranking in the Books/Software forum. It’d be awesome to have a lot of people participate so inexperienced poker players such as myself can hear the ideas of those of you who are far better and more experienced players.
Heres a hand for you to all comment on:
I’m on the button and get dealt A /images/graemlins/club.gif A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
Utg folds, MP poster checks, A very loose mildly aggressive player in CO raises, I 3 bet, blinds and MP fold, CO caps and I call
Flop is 8 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
CO bets, I raise, he 3bets, I cap
Turn 5 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
CO bets, I raise, he 3 bets, I cap
River 9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
CO bets, I raise, he 3 bets, I cap
Comments?
Through some stroke of randomness I managed to play 800 hands toady. How I pulled this off remains a mystery considering the entire sum of my day. I had 8, no you didn’t misread that said 8, hours of class today. This is what happens when you miss the lab for your 1 credit First Aid/CPR course and have to make it up by taking a 4 hour Red Cross class. It was excitement at its pinnacle. I also spent 2 hours working on a group project tonight, for a 35 minute speech I have to give on Friday.
Despite all this and 800 hands of poker I also found time to get in a fight today. Here’s the story. My roommates friend was over in our room. This friend of my roommate’s, has a habit of basically treating my roommate as his own personal “dog of the female persuasion”. As usual he was up to his old habit again this afternoon, so I chose that this time I was gonna start messing with him. In the most childish antic I could think of I stole his hat and proceeded to give him a noogie. At which point he told me I’d better stop or he’d beat me up. I just laughed and continued because this is what he would do in the same instance doing junk like this to my roommate. He chose this opportunity to spring into attack mode. He rushed me with arms flailing and definitely caught me off guard. After a slight tussle I gained control of the situation and over him, forcing him to the ground and pinning him down with a good hold on him and a hand clenched around his neck. I decided this would be a good spot to end this so I picked him up and shoved him towards the door, handed him his stuff and sent him on his way. Yeah ok, not much of a fight, but I havent had a situation even like that come up in awhile. I declare victory on this one though.
As far as the poker went, I’m not sure how much I actually made, but I was up for the day. I’m thinking something in the $20-$40 range. I’m really being lazy with some of this stuff right now, and I don’t have a clue what my bankroll is, but I’m estimating about $1050.
Nov 18th
Not much to talk about today. I put in 300 hands and was up about $2 from it. Overall I spent most of the day either in class, at practice or working on my amazing group project again. It’s a 35 minute group presentation on “Effective Group Participation”. We’ll see how that goes.
Nov 19th
Another day of not too many hands and not too much profit. 400 hands and another +$2 day. I am seriously on a roll.
I rocked the group presentation today. We got a 95/100 and clearly had the funniest presentation out of any group in our class. I was glad to see my teacher took the humor in good fun this time, because I tend to spice up my presentations by adding some funny stuff in to keep the class somewhat interested. A prime example was earlier in the year when I gave a speech on the importance of eye contact in communicating, and decided it would be an awesome idea to spend the first minute of my speech finding random ways to completely avoid eye contact with the class. I think the sad part was the few in the class who didn’t catch on to the joke.
Today’s track practice featured the hardest lifting workout of the year. We did 5 sets of 5 reps of what my coach calls the olympic circuit. Basically for this 1 rep is a Power clean, into a front squat, into a split jerk, into another front squat. Believe me after 5 sets of 5 reps of these your legs, back, and arms are just screaming. Wow, I love track.
And tonight was drinking night. Thanks go out to gonores for sharing his alcohol expertise with me and giving me quite a few options of drinks to mix up for the night. For those of you who don’t know, doug is clearly the master of all things alcohol.
Alright so I’m making some type of an attempt to come up with an accurate total for my bankroll right now, because I have money locked up in a few places and some money that is supposed to be being sent to me that I have no clue where it is so at best guess:
Bankroll Update: $1077
Once I get all this junk cleared up, I will have a more accurate picture of where my BR is at.
Also as a final side note, after thanksgiving I’m going to be getting the SSHE book club cranking in the Books/Software forum. It’d be awesome to have a lot of people participate so inexperienced poker players such as myself can hear the ideas of those of you who are far better and more experienced players.
Heres a hand for you to all comment on:
I’m on the button and get dealt A /images/graemlins/club.gif A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
Utg folds, MP poster checks, A very loose mildly aggressive player in CO raises, I 3 bet, blinds and MP fold, CO caps and I call
Flop is 8 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
CO bets, I raise, he 3bets, I cap
Turn 5 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
CO bets, I raise, he 3 bets, I cap
River 9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
CO bets, I raise, he 3 bets, I cap
Comments?