Open Challenge July: Final report

[Emmitt2222]

Not exactly sure why a few people were reporting in the week 3 thread after I bumped it to say that this thread wouldn't be up until today. I hope they remember to report in this thread. As always you have until August 2nd to report or you forfeit.

Next month I am going to be traveling and then going to school so I won't have time to run the OC. I definitely like to see it continue though so I would like to ask if anyone would like to take over for the next month, notify me PM or in this thread. Also, maybe it's just me, but I have been getting more and more disappointed with the spirit of competition or the lack there of so when I come back in September I'm not sure if I will want to continue. If you guys are serious about this and want to continue then I would like to see some interest, at least all of the losers getting their avatars. So please voice whether this is still worth it.

[damaniac]

As of now, about 10,500 total. My internet was disconnected last week so I've been without the ability to play (I'm just now moving home for a few weeks), so that's my official excuse for losing. On the + side, I ran pretty well, so I have money now, and am moving to 5/10, and isn't that what really matters?

[mmmmmbrother]

12.56k
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[crego20]

15,021

[bugstud]

I have no idea how much MTTs count, but right now I'm at 24728 plus 500 plo hands. I played a loooooooot of MTTs yesterday and all this month actually...so if ponks come close I may need to figure out how to count them /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[shant]

10350

[Ponks]

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I have no idea how much MTTs count, but right now I'm at 24728 plus 500 plo hands. I played a loooooooot of MTTs yesterday and all this month actually...so if ponks come close I may need to figure out how to count them /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Heh, stick a fork in me, I'm done for. I think I've got around 15k, but it obviously doesnt matter the exact count. Good game :|

Ponks

[bugstud]

I don't think I'm going to go tooooooo bad on your avatar. I don't have any good ideas yet.

[grimel]

8493, this was just a bad all around month (excepting the new grandson's birth and next newest's 1st birthday).

Now, work is finding me so I'll be playing even less.

[apaugust]

14014

[Dov]

I came in with a whopping 22,106 giving myself an extra 2K for the sit n gos, MTTs, Stud, Stud hi lo, and Omaha hi lo.

Total 22,106.

I'm about 400 short of what I was aiming at. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[JinX11]

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10350

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10401

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[shant]

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10350

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10401

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[sthief09]

about 17k including live play

[BottlesOf]

live play doesn't count.

[jason_t]

I'm reporting for Klepton: 14k.

[sthief09]

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live play doesn't count.

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it has in the past, at 35 hands/hr

and if not, I still played 15,097

[BottlesOf]

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[Cosimo]

16951 previous total
6154 UB since Fri 7/22
6986 Empire since Fri 7/22
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30,091 monthly total

so, beat my goal by 5000 hands. Mostly helped by playing nearly every day!

Also did a couple OICs; stopped one at 10-20 when I ran out of time, stopped the 2nd when I had to run, uh, drink. Good month for me! Putting the hands in + OIC = $$$. Well more like $, but still.

This challenge helped keep me on track, I like it, please (someone) organize it for next month!

[istewart]

I'll accept my pwning.

[SmileyEH]

28k. I suck

-SmileyEH

[Chairman Wood]

14,835 PT hands roughly 10 hours of live play, a few STT, 2 HU matches and a lot of practicing HU and a few hours of PS 6max that weren't recorded on my PT I would say roughly 16,500.

[klagett]

30k

dov's 22*2 wins

[theredwave]

I can't even beat Stinkypete's numbers from last week so I lose. Finished with somewhere around 26,000.

[Dov]

What happens now?

[krishanleong]

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What happens now?

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Winner gives the loser an avatar. I like this one for someone who needs inspiration.


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y73/jason_t712/tattoo5qz.jpg

I'm assuming it's okay to post this as it's been an avatar before. If not, can a mod please pull it? I'm going to bed.

Krishan

[Emmitt2222]

Just to make it official...

22235

I'm not getting any feedback. Someone tell me something other than their final total related to what I spoke of in the above post.

[Chairman Wood]

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Not exactly sure why a few people were reporting in the week 3 thread after I bumped it to say that this thread wouldn't be up until today. I hope they remember to report in this thread. As always you have until August 2nd to report or you forfeit.

Next month I am going to be traveling and then going to school so I won't have time to run the OC. I definitely like to see it continue though so I would like to ask if anyone would like to take over for the next month, notify me PM or in this thread. Also, maybe it's just me, but I have been getting more and more disappointed with the spirit of competition or the lack there of so when I come back in September I'm not sure if I will want to continue. If you guys are serious about this and want to continue then I would like to see some interest, at least all of the losers getting their avatars. So please voice whether this is still worth it.


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Emmitt,
IMO, you're a damn good guy and we love your work on this as well as your other input on the forums. I really appreciate you doing this and motivating us to play more. I understand your inablity to do this in the future. However, I am a lazy ass and have no desire to take this over from you. I pray someone else will step up, be a leader and take this over from you. I am and I still think others are very interested in this challenge. I see the evidence of this as just how many people you do have signing up for this every month. As for the avatars, i have always given my opponent one but it is sometimes difficult to think of something creative and humilating. But avatars aren't necessarily the spirit of this whole competition. Although it is a great incentive, playing more hands is the goal. Another thing to note concerning July is that at the beginning people tend to think they will have all of this free time and be able to play more. However, at least for people in the US, July is the month that most of us go on vacation. So I think a lot of us fell victim to that. I wasn't able to play a single hand during the month of July until the 16th. Damn, I make good sandwiches, fluffy thick wheat bread, mayo, mozzerella and provelone, lettuce, salami, pastrami, capacola, ham, bacon some oil and a dash of pepper mmm... delicious, you should try, unless you're jewish or muslim or vegetarian or something.

[Cosimo]

I think it's just generic self-improvement problems. It's easy to commit to going to the gym on the first Monday in January, or to start a new diet at the beginning of a week, or to pledge to get the hands in this month -- but many times those commitments get broken.

Yet there are a lot of people that finished out the month and I think the challenge needs to continue. For those without RL friends and family that understand and are willing to give us moral support, external pledges like this one are great.

Learning to beat poker requires discipline, initiative, and motivation. I would hope that anyone that plays seriously has the willpower to run this competition. The major issue is one of time. If you don't have the time, I hope someone else will step forward.

[stinkypete]

46,403

most of them played poorly.

[kaf22]

13300 total.

[ds914]

15,234 online ring
718 online tourney
410 live
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16,362

(In fairness, grimel's obviously a family guy with legitimate reasons for not playing as much. I, on the other hand, work all day and turn into a degenerate poker player during the evenings because I have no responsibilities. He never stood a chance.) /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[MarkD]

11078

[jaym]

10317

[lozen]

22709

[mdeck]

13,456 and the first month I fail to meet goals. That's what I get for shooting high /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[edge]

22048. I am super-lazy. At least I ran amazingly well at 3/6 and 5/10 and poorly at 2/4.

[Brian]

86,325. I hope Edge was a lazy bastard the last week in July. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

-Brian

[CallMeIshmael]

51k.

[vetman81]

About 16K for the month.

[bugstud]

I need avatar ideas

[edge]

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86,325. I hope Edge was a lazy bastard the last week in July. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

-Brian

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I was indeed. Was my handicap 3x or 4x?

[Brian]

4x. So 21,582 will beat me.

-Brian

[The Dude]

I'm pretty sure steaknshake925 beat me, but neither of us reported in time. 23,481 hands is what I got in. I think he's in China right now, so if he beat me I'll honor it for what's left of August, whenever he gets back and gets around to posting.

[Ponks]

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I need avatar ideas

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Gimme the chief!!

Ponks

[steaknshake925]

i just got back. its close but i think u got it. i didnt play much since my last post when i had about 21k. im pretty sure i didnt play more than 2000 hands since then, so u win.