** Open Challenge August: Weeks #1 and #2 Report **

[ds914]

Please post your results by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. EST. (or face a 1,000-hand penalty).

If you have any questions about the rules, please see the original rules thread (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=holdem&Number=2772909& fpart=1&PHPSESSID=).

You should be including all hands played since Aug. 1. Info on how to determine your total amount of hands is below.

DETERMINING HAND TOTALS: Here are Emmitt2222’s rules for counting hands: “All hands will count for any game that you are a winner or trying to learn/win at. All live hands count as 35/hour and all hands that you don't/can't put into Poker Tracker online (like some tourneys or SNGs) I think should count as 50/table/hour to err on the side of caution.”

PAIRINGS
XXXNoahXXX vs. damaniac
ds914 vs. bottomset
durs vs. JinX11
wikenite vs. jba
Ponks vs. lozen
dealer_toe vs. fimbulwinter
STILLBR vs. Transference
Cosimo vs. Chairman Wood
edge vs. sublime
jrbick vs. ike (2.5:1 handicap)
TMFS9 & LozColbert vs. Brian

[ds914]

stillbr IM'd beforehand to let me know he'd be unavailable to post his results this week. However, he's currently at 6,131.

[ds914]

Shoulda mentioned... I'm at 5,727

[jba]

5458 online
16*35 = 560

6018

[XXXNoahXXX]

As of this morning I'm at 5137 hands couting my live heads up game and 4137 without. (I posted on the pairings post that I play a nightly heads up game which I hadn't included in my estimate but ds914 told me count it, so for this month If I beat you counting them, but lose without them, we'll call it a tie.) Unfortunately poker is going to have to take a backseat to LSAT studying for the rest of the month, so I have to get some hands in soon.

[witeknite]

11,306

WiteKnite

[jba]

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11,306

WiteKnite

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slowplaying isn't cool /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[witeknite]

I have never played that many hands in so short an amount of time before. I grind goot.

WiteKnite

[lozen]

9718 behind a bit on my target

[Brian]

25,261.

-Brian

[sublime]

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25,261.

-Brian

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Can I ask what game you play and how many tables? Feel free to not answer either one of those questions.

[Durs522]

I'm at 4,977 since 8/1 so I'm pretty much on track.

Durs

[edge]

8499 so far. I suck again. Anyone want to help me find a punishment avatar for Brian losing to my pitiful effort last month?

[jrbick]

8,569 true. -- 21,422.5 with my handicap (2.5:1).

I don't think I'm gonna hit 20k by next week. Hopefully will have opportunity to put in some ralley sessions later on in the month (traveling, housing guests, etc for last ~2 weeks of this month).

[Cosimo]

12634 total

(647 Emp, 6614 EU, 4804 UB)

On track for right at 35k. If I was playing every day, and more than 5 hours on the weekends, I think I'd easily hit like a billion. CMI numbers or something. So the 35k is I think a reasonable goal, and I expect that I'll be very close.

[ike]

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8,569 true. -- 21,422.5 with my handicap (2.5:1).

I don't think I'm gonna hit 20k by next week. Hopefully will have opportunity to put in some ralley sessions later on in the month (traveling, housing guests, etc for last ~2 weeks of this month).

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you're crushing me, i'm only at 16,435. i've added a 9th table though, so i should be able to get like 550h/hr now. turns out i'm gonna be away from the computer for close to a week too.

[Transference]

Good start but been tapering off lately. 10,222 as of this moment, accompanied by a whopping .36 bb/100.

[jrbick]

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i've added a 9th table though

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Looks like it's gonna be at least a 10 hour night for me /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[djack]

9631. Uh, and the early part of the month was going to be when I played alot...as I start law school in a week.

I'm only about 11K off of where I should be!

[JinX11]

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I'm at 4,977 since 8/1 so I'm pretty much on track.

Durs

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As of right now, I'm at 4941 - so lagging about two days behind.

[djack]

[ QUOTE ]
9631. Uh, and the early part of the month was going to be when I played alot...as I start law school in a week.

I'm only about 11K off of where I should be!

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Yes, I've done 200 today!

Only 45k left to go in 19 days.

[dealer_toe]

8,856 hands. Started off slow, working my wak back to getting on track.

[fimbulwinter]

I'm at 11Kish right now. next week's schedule means i probably won't make my 25K /images/graemlins/frown.gif

fim

[Ponks]

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9718 behind a bit on my target

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Only 5204 here. :[

Ponks

[bottomset]

3289 I'm way way behind

[Chairman Wood]

15696

[TMFS9]

I'm only at 7,500 online and about 500 live so far this month. I've been out of town a good bit of the month so I'm definitely going to pick it up from here on out and hopefully can get up to around 40-45k.

[djack]

I think you and I may be in trouble.

[damaniac]

I've been in NYC/DC for the last week, and honestly i hadn't even seen that pairings were made for this month (who am I against?). Anyway, I think I have 1.5k hands, but I'm not sure as I won't be able to check my database til tmw when I get home.