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

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.

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

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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.

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

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5458 online
16*35 = 560

6018

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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.

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11,306

WiteKnite

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11,306

WiteKnite

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slowplaying isn't cool [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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

WiteKnite

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9718 behind a bit on my target

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25,261.

-Brian

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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.

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

Durs

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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i've added a 9th table though

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[SIGH]

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

fim

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9718 behind a bit on my target

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Only 5204 here. :[

Ponks

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3289 I'm way way behind

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15696

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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.

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I think you and I may be in trouble.

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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.