Weekend Challenge : MPM$

[GuyOnTilt]

More Poker = More $$$

In my continual effort to motivate myself to play more hands and have fun doing it, I have challeneged all who dare to enter this bracket. And by all, I mean exactly four or so more people.

Rules:

-The challenge lasts from this Friday thru Sunday.
-You must play 1k hands per day at your normal limits. If you play more, only your first 1k hands of the day count toward the challenge.
-Player who earns the most BB's over the 3k hands wins. $50 entry/player, winner takes all.
-Limit hold'em hands only.

So far it's for sure me, Evan, Soma, and DeathDonkey and we want like, four more players. You must be a reputable 2p2'er to enter, since we'll be doing this largely based on the honor system. This is all off the top of my head, so I'm sure more rules will be added as needed.

Four more please?

GoT

[JoshuaD]

If it wasn't this weekend I'd so be down. If you guys do it again I'm in.

[SmileyEH]

How will we make sure to only include the first 1k hands? Count me in though.

-SmileyEH

[bobdibble]

I'm not sure if I am reputable or not, but I am down.

[Evan]

Since I was entered in this contest w/o my knowledge I plan to steal $50 from GoT after I lose this thing.

[scrub]

[ QUOTE ]
Since I was entered in this contest w/o my knowledge I plan to steal $50 from GoT after I lose this thing.

[/ QUOTE ]

Screw that--take the sub.

scrub

[stinkypete]

this sounds like a good way to force myself to play some hands. i'm in if i'm not too late.

[stillbr]

Id like in if there is still a spot available. PM me please

[fimbulwinter]

[ QUOTE ]

-Limit hold'em hands only.


[/ QUOTE ]

any way to get around this? I'll take a BB/5 handicap.

fim

[cnfuzzd]

weakest challenge i think ive ever heard of....

peace

john nickle

[SippinSoma]

So that means you're down right?

[EStreet20]

Hey Got,
I don't know if I'm reputable enough but I'd def be in if I didn't have to head up to help my girlfriend paint her new grad school apartment on Saturday. It doesn't have internet yet so I won't be playing much (if any) after tommorrow until Sunday night. If you ever do this challenge again I definitely want a piece of it.

Good luck,
Matt

[EStreet20]

Wait let me rephrase, "...my goddamn girlfriend..."

--much better

[joker122]

sounds like fun. can i play?

[Sully]

[ QUOTE ]
Hey Got,
I don't know if I'm reputable enough but I'd def be in if I didn't have to head up to help my girlfriend paint her new grad school apartment on Saturday. It doesn't have internet yet so I won't be playing much (if any) after tommorrow until Sunday night. If you ever do this challenge again I definitely want a piece of it.

Good luck,
Matt

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Frank: I told my wife I wouldn't drink tonight. Besides, I got a big day tomorrow. You guys have a great time.

College Student: A big day? Doing what?

Frank: Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time.

[istewart]

BRILLIANT.

[EStreet20]

[ QUOTE ]
Frank: I told my wife I wouldn't drink tonight. Besides, I got a big day tomorrow. You guys have a great time.

College Student: A big day? Doing what?

Frank: Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time.


[/ QUOTE ]

Very nice Sully. "Cock, Balls"

P.S. I hope this is the same Sully who was calling everyone at the table a Fish tonight when he got owned. It was especiially funny though when you had AA and there were three callers and I called with 65s from the BB and bet an OESD, then hit a straight on the turn. You then flipped out and called me a fish and went nuts. Hope that was the same guy.

Adios,
Matt the Fish

P.S. If you can tell me what you would've done differently in that hand in my shoes I'll shut up, but only if that was you, which you'll probably deny either way.

[jgorham]

I think this sounds fun - count me in.

[Sully]

[ QUOTE ]
Very nice Sully. "Cock, Balls"

P.S. I hope this is the same Sully who was calling everyone at the table a Fish tonight when he got owned. It was especiially funny though when you had AA and there were three callers and I called with 65s from the BB and bet an OESD, then hit a straight on the turn. You then flipped out and called me a fish and went nuts. Hope that was the same guy.

Adios,
Matt the Fish

P.S. If you can tell me what you would've done differently in that hand in my shoes I'll shut up, but only if that was you, which you'll probably deny either way.

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I can say with absolute and complete certainty that I was not the Sully in question.

First of all, I wasted my evening playing tournaments, so I don't think we were at the same table.

But more importantly, I have never in my life been guilty of that. Never. And I take offense to those who do...it pisses me off to no end. Sit there and take it like a man.

If you want to pm me, I'll give you my Empire screen name, which does have the word sully in it. I play anywhere from 15/30 to 30/60.

I'm not even sure why I care this much to defend myself, but it really bothers me.

[EStreet20]

Sorry dude,
Celebrated a good night at the tables by boozing heavily and was surly when I saw your response.

Take care,
Matt

[GuyOnTilt]

Eight players:

GoT
Soma
Evan
DeathDonkey
Smiley
Bobdibble
StinkeyPete
Joker122

To the other guys, sorry, either you were too late or none of us knew you really. : / No hate, Only_Love.

To players, Xfer me $50 via Stars, Empire, or Party. Stars : BTAL. Empire : GeeOhTee, name Brighten Taloff. Party : GuyOnTilt, name Brighten Taloff. Let me know when you do either here or PM.

My plan for today is to take a shower, go grab lunch, and then utterly destroy you all. I might decide to bide my time and get off to a slow start though. You know, to keep morale high and all. We'll see how I feel.

GoT

[stinkypete]

money is sent on stars (from stinkypete13)

is there some reasonably simple way to isolate the first 1000 hands of the day in PT or do i have to keep track myself?

[sinfulslick18]

[ QUOTE ]
If it wasn't this weekend I'd so be down. If you guys do it again I'm in.

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[Evan]

[ QUOTE ]
money is sent on stars (from stinkypete13)

is there some reasonably simple way to isolate the first 1000 hands of the day in PT or do i have to keep track myself?

[/ QUOTE ]
The easiest way I can think of is to go to game notes, order them starting with the oldest hand on that day, then export to excel. Use excel to sum the top 1k cells of net profit.

If that confuses anyone and you dont know how to do it you can send me your exported excel file at the email address is my profile and I'll do it for you.

[Klepton]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
If it wasn't this weekend I'd so be down. If you guys do it again I'm in.

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[stinkypete]

Day 1 Results:

1004 total hands.
+35 BB.

After 1000 hands: +24.5BB.

[Evan]

Day 1:
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9361/challengeday10qi.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[GuyOnTilt]

Today's results:


http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5154/july8pokergraph6kh.jpg

After 1,000 hands I was at 51.125 BB's.

GoT

[Reef]

[ QUOTE ]
Today's results:


http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5154/july8pokergraph6kh.jpg

After 1,000 hands I was at 51.125 BB's.

GoT

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nice rush

[bobdibble]

Ok... I just got home from work and I'm just about to start and transfer money to got on stars.

I'll probably just be crossing the midnight barrier as I finish, but I figure that is still within the spirit of the wager as my PT options tab says that my day starts at 10am.. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

If anyone has an issue with this, I'll cut off my hands at midnight though.....

[SippinSoma]

I can't believe I'm the only one in the red.

[bobdibble]

[ QUOTE ]
I can't believe I'm the only one in the red.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm substantially in the red.. about -50BB. I'll refrain from whining about why though... at least I made sklansky bucks.

(I'll get graphs up too, but I am going to have to jump through some hoops. I use the pt postgress beta now and will need to create an access db and import this weekends hands for running pokergrapher against.)

[stinkypete]

http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~pollane/day1.jpg

as you can see, i play a low variance style.

[bobdibble]

Actually, it wasn't as bad as I thought.

I just did the export to excel via the game tab and did the summation and graphing in excel.

Day1: -37.9BB

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2339/day11ia.jpg

[Evan]

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8646/challengeday1graph0kg.jpg

[bobdibble]

You could have just stopped at hand 72. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[stinkypete]

http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~pollane/day2.jpg

Day 1: +24.5BB
Day 2: +30.0BB

Total: +54.5BB

[SmileyEH]

Sorry this is late. Way too drunk last night for anything constructive. I indeed suck at poker.

(-30.1BB)

-SmileyEH

[sfer]

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/4517/200507084vu.jpg

[djack]

you won 50 BBs in one hand? or is that 2 hands?

[DeathDonkey]

Good thing your not in this, damn nice run. I am now +158 BB total after day two.

-DeathDonkey

[DeathDonkey]

http://members.cox.net/mviens/luckyfuckingdonkey.JPG

This is slightly higher than my total because I won some in the few hands immediately after my 1k completed each day.

-DeathDonkey

[iceman5]

Excuse the hijack, but could someone tell me how to export to a graph like this, please? I see the export button, but it says I need to export to a file. Can you explain what that means and how to get it from the file to excel? Once its in Excel, do I make my own chart from that data?

It also says that it exports in 100-300 hand increments. How that affect me if I want to export 1000s of hands into a chart?

[sfer]

[ QUOTE ]
you won 50 BBs in one hand? or is that 2 hands?

[/ QUOTE ]

Looks like these four happened within 2 minutes of each other on 3 tables:

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (6 max, 9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: Hero is CO with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises</font>, UTG+1 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, BB calls, UTG calls, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 caps</font>, MP2 calls, Hero calls, BB calls, UTG calls.

Flop: (20.50 SB) 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG bets</font>, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, BB calls, <font color="#CC3333">UTG 3-bets</font>, UTG+1 calls, MP2 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero caps</font>, BB calls, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: (18.75 BB) 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB folds, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls.

River: (21.75 BB) 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG calls, UTG+1 folds.

Final Pot: 23.75 BB

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
UTG has Qd Qh (two pair, queens and sevens).
Hero has Kh Ks (two pair, kings and sevens).
Outcome: Hero wins 23.75 BB. </font>


Party Poker 20/40 Hold'em (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, SB calls.

Flop: (6 SB) 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.

Turn: (4 BB) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, SB calls.

River: (10 BB) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.

Final Pot: 12 BB

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
SB has 6c Jc (two pair, jacks and twos).
Hero has 2h As (three of a kind, twos).
Outcome: Hero wins 12 BB. </font>



Party Poker 20/40 Hold'em (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif. CO posts a blind of $30.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, CO (poster) calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, SB calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP2 calls, CO calls.

Flop: (13.50 SB) Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, MP2 checks, CO checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB folds, MP2 calls, CO calls.

Turn: (8.25 BB) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
MP2 checks, CO checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, MP2 calls, CO calls.

River: (11.25 BB) K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
MP2 checks, CO checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, MP2 folds, CO folds.

Final Pot: 12.25 BB

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Qd Kh (two pair, kings and queens).
Outcome: Hero wins 12.25 BB. </font>



Party Poker 20/40 Hold'em (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: Hero is SB with J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (4 SB) A/images/graemlins/club.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, T/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB calls, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises</font>, MP2 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, BB folds, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: (5.50 BB) 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, UTG+1 calls.

River: (11.50 BB) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG+1 calls.

Final Pot: 13.50 BB

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Jh Qs (straight, ace high).
UTG+1 has 9h Ad (two pair, aces and tens).
Outcome: Hero wins 13.50 BB. </font>

[SmileyEH]

This challenge has coincided with my worst ever downswing at 2/4 over 100k hands. F U all /images/graemlins/smile.gif

day1: (-30.1BB)
day2: (-26.75BB)

total: (-56.85BB)

-SmileyEH

[bobdibble]

+15.2 BB

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/5937/day26dz.jpg

[Evan]

(Edited after I realized that my last 120 hands were after midnight on the east coast so I had to change the date ranges in PT)

Day 2: -7.9 BB
Total: (Yesterday's number - 7.9) BB
Picture:
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/8059/challengeday2graph8ef.jpg

[GuyOnTilt]

The Donkey must die. I am closing in.


http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/5567/july9pokergraph2vv.jpg


Today's total : +95.93 BB's

Running total : +147.06 BB's

I have decided to run like a champ tomorrow. You're all going down.

GoT

[bobdibble]

[ QUOTE ]

I have decided to run like a champ tomorrow. You're all going down.


[/ QUOTE ]

I guess I only need a 200BB upswing to catch up. Unfortunately, I withdrew recently, so Party has put me in distribution mode.

We'll see....

[djack]

It's sad that I feel like I haven't had a four hand stretch like that in years.

Nice mini-rush.

[stinkypete]

i need to work on the timing of my swings.

http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~pollane/day3.jpg

Total: +22.5BB

[SippinSoma]

I think I was down to -75 BB last I checked. Woot.

[joker122]

i lose.

[bobdibble]

Day3: 53.9 BB

Total: 31.2 BB.. oh well.
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3033/day37rf.jpg

[GuyOnTilt]

I run awesome. This is my 3k hands this weekend:


http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/992/challengeweekendgraph1ux.jpg

Day 3 total : +110 BB's
Weekend total : +257.06 BB's

Bring it Donkey! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

GoT

[DeathDonkey]

I fell off my lucksack wagon and dropped 35 BB in day 3. Final weekend total +123 BB. Congrats GoT.

-DeathDonkey

[SmileyEH]

I lose. 3SD's off expectation over the last 3.5k hands. The GOT curse lives.

-SmileyEH

[Evan]

Day 3 Graph:
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/2263/challengeday3graph7rq.jpg

Total Graph:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8964/challengegraph4mk.jpg

[stinkypete]

[ QUOTE ]

Day 3 total : +110 BB's
Weekend total : +257.06 BB's


[/ QUOTE ]

rigged!

[mmbt0ne]

</font><blockquote><font class="small">En réponse à:</font><hr />
This challenge has coincided with my worst ever downswing at 2/4 over 100k hands.

[/ QUOTE ]

</font><blockquote><font class="small">En réponse à:</font><hr />
total: (-56.85BB)

[/ QUOTE ]

Are you [censored] kidding me?

[oreogod]

Jesus...thats a nice rush.

[SmileyEH]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
This challenge has coincided with my worst ever downswing at 2/4 over 100k hands.

[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]
total: (-56.85BB)

[/ QUOTE ]

Are you [censored] kidding me?

[/ QUOTE ]

What's more likely? That my worst downswing ever is 57BB? Or the hands played for the challenge made up a small part of the hands I've played this week?

-SmileyEH

[SmileyGEY]

[ QUOTE ]
This challenge has coincided with my worst ever downswing at 2/4 over 100k hands. F U all /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

Good.

I hope you go broke.

-SmileyGEY

[nolanfan34]

I think you win the one day variance award. Nice rush late in the day.

[Evan]

Thanks. I imported after 300 hands and I was down 30 bets yesterday. When I imported the 2nd 700 hands GoT was watching and I told him I'd be pretty happy if I was down less than 50 bets on the day. Somehow I ended up 25 or whatever, I had no idea.

[stinkypete]

[ QUOTE ]
I think you win the one day variance award.

[/ QUOTE ]

uhmm...
http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~pollane/day2.jpg
http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~pollane/day3.jpg

send me the trophy. times two.

[SmileyEH]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
This challenge has coincided with my worst ever downswing at 2/4 over 100k hands. F U all /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

Good.

I hope you go broke.

-SmileyGEY

[/ QUOTE ]

Only 15 more in a row and I will be /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

-SmileyEH

[Klepton]

i'm doing this next weekend

[nolanfan34]

OK, you win, Evan falls a bit short in the variance category this time.

As an aside, I realize of course that swings like that are commonplace, it's just funny to see them on a graphical page. That should be a requirement for people who post about win rates, do I have enough hands, am I a winner, etc. They should have to graph their results for a while, to see what the swings look like.

Of course, for some people, it wouldn't matter:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/nolanfan34/sekrah.jpg

[stinkypete]

what's that? you want more graphs? here's some more variance for ya.

http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~pollane/day4.jpg

[shadow29]

[ QUOTE ]
OK, you win, Evan falls a bit short in the variance category this time.


[/ QUOTE ]

Slip? Or intentional? /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[baronzeus]

You have obviously found a way to rig online poker.