snowbank
12-21-2004, 11:58 PM
Day 19:
First day playing at home. At about midnight, I played for about an hour and 20 minutes on my 15 inch monitor. I could only see one table at a time. It was horribly frustrating. I had to click about 4-5 times sometimes to get to the table I wanted, and never got to see if I won on a lot of hands. Ended the session down about $200. I didn't think I was going to play again until I got a new monitor. It was just too stressful. When I woke up, I decided to play again anyways. Played for about an hour and really couldn't stand it anymore. Won about $100 on the session, but I played totally different not being able to see any tables. Later that night, somehow I was able to get into properties and change the resolution, which for some reason it wouldn't let me do before. Weird. I played a great 2 hours and booked a +$400 session. I was so relieved to be able to look at the tables I wanted to see. Still plenty of overlap, but I'm used to that from school.
Day 19 stats:
+$328.40
1,442 hands
4 hours, 20 minutes
Day 20:
I was trying to have a huge day. Thought about getting in 8-10 hours in an attempt to have a $1K day again. Sat down right at midnight to get off to a good jump. Played for about 5 minutes, and lost my connection. My luck with computers is unbelievable. At school, the internet is terrible. I was hoping to get away from that at home. Guess some wire was down or something, because we had no cable or anything for about 12-16 hours. So much for having a big day.
Day 20 stats:
(-$6)
43 hands
5 minutes
Day 21:
I was bound to have a bad day sometime. First losing day of the challenge today.(2nd if you could the $6 loss yesterday when the connection failed) No cards, bad beats, etc... Just one of those days. On top of no cards, sometimes when I'm not getting anything, I try to bluff a lil too much to make up for it, and that just added on to the crappiness. Tell me what you think of this:
I have about $120, trash talkin "pro" has $550. He thinks I have been trying to bluff him on every bet I make.(maybe because I told him) I raise on the button with 9-6 hearts, he calls from the BB. Flop is 3-9-5, 2 hearts. He comes out betting $8. I raise all-in(like $115). He calls. Flips 10-10 and takes down a $240 or so pot. Anyone like that move? He thought I was a bluffer, so I thought he would call with an inferior hand like 2nd pair if that's what he had. I had top pair and flush draw. Lemme know if people think I'm an idiot for doing that, or that's a good move. I got down about $400 or so on the day, and finally I get AA. I raise it up and get re-raised pre-flop. A few more re-raises and we're all-in. Turns out he had Aces too, so I ended up losing money after the rake. /images/graemlins/mad.gif Just not my day. Knew I had to have one of these days soon enough though, because I've been lucky as far as having pretty good sessions throughout the challenge. Hopefully I can turn it around tomorrow, because I have less than a week to hit my goal because I'll be out of town for a few days. Went to see the big public school-vs. private school high school basketball rivalry, so didn't get in another session.
Day 21 stats:
(-$255.25)
672 hands
2 hours, 10 minutes
$3,179.95
13,251 hands
41 hours, 45 minutes
12 big blinds/ 100 hands
$76.17/hour
First day playing at home. At about midnight, I played for about an hour and 20 minutes on my 15 inch monitor. I could only see one table at a time. It was horribly frustrating. I had to click about 4-5 times sometimes to get to the table I wanted, and never got to see if I won on a lot of hands. Ended the session down about $200. I didn't think I was going to play again until I got a new monitor. It was just too stressful. When I woke up, I decided to play again anyways. Played for about an hour and really couldn't stand it anymore. Won about $100 on the session, but I played totally different not being able to see any tables. Later that night, somehow I was able to get into properties and change the resolution, which for some reason it wouldn't let me do before. Weird. I played a great 2 hours and booked a +$400 session. I was so relieved to be able to look at the tables I wanted to see. Still plenty of overlap, but I'm used to that from school.
Day 19 stats:
+$328.40
1,442 hands
4 hours, 20 minutes
Day 20:
I was trying to have a huge day. Thought about getting in 8-10 hours in an attempt to have a $1K day again. Sat down right at midnight to get off to a good jump. Played for about 5 minutes, and lost my connection. My luck with computers is unbelievable. At school, the internet is terrible. I was hoping to get away from that at home. Guess some wire was down or something, because we had no cable or anything for about 12-16 hours. So much for having a big day.
Day 20 stats:
(-$6)
43 hands
5 minutes
Day 21:
I was bound to have a bad day sometime. First losing day of the challenge today.(2nd if you could the $6 loss yesterday when the connection failed) No cards, bad beats, etc... Just one of those days. On top of no cards, sometimes when I'm not getting anything, I try to bluff a lil too much to make up for it, and that just added on to the crappiness. Tell me what you think of this:
I have about $120, trash talkin "pro" has $550. He thinks I have been trying to bluff him on every bet I make.(maybe because I told him) I raise on the button with 9-6 hearts, he calls from the BB. Flop is 3-9-5, 2 hearts. He comes out betting $8. I raise all-in(like $115). He calls. Flips 10-10 and takes down a $240 or so pot. Anyone like that move? He thought I was a bluffer, so I thought he would call with an inferior hand like 2nd pair if that's what he had. I had top pair and flush draw. Lemme know if people think I'm an idiot for doing that, or that's a good move. I got down about $400 or so on the day, and finally I get AA. I raise it up and get re-raised pre-flop. A few more re-raises and we're all-in. Turns out he had Aces too, so I ended up losing money after the rake. /images/graemlins/mad.gif Just not my day. Knew I had to have one of these days soon enough though, because I've been lucky as far as having pretty good sessions throughout the challenge. Hopefully I can turn it around tomorrow, because I have less than a week to hit my goal because I'll be out of town for a few days. Went to see the big public school-vs. private school high school basketball rivalry, so didn't get in another session.
Day 21 stats:
(-$255.25)
672 hands
2 hours, 10 minutes
$3,179.95
13,251 hands
41 hours, 45 minutes
12 big blinds/ 100 hands
$76.17/hour