2nd in Tourney :D

For all 8 of you (according to sitemeter ; ) who still come to my site daily to see if I updated, here it is :D

I apologize for not being one to write everyday, but when you do the same thing everyday (play Draw online) it's not all that interesting; at least to me.

At one point in the past (long past), I posted my results on Draw via StatKing. Since that time, I've gotten a new computer and, low and behold, that version of StatKing doesn't work on the newer hard/software of this machine. I found StatKing on the web, but found that you now have to pay for it (I had a beta version). So, I did what all computer geeks do and started to create my own. I now have a PHP web page driven by an Apache server with a MySQL database on the backend that I send all my stats to, and another PHP page that spits out the stats in nice tables. Things like the sites that I play on, the games that I play, what I've made, and what is my BB/hr for those games. I even broke things down into a rolling month and rolling 3 months so that I can gauge my progress! I know, nominate me for "geek king". -grin- (One second thought, I'd just have to be "geek prince", as people like Joe from www.lasvegasvegas.com have me beat hands-down for "geek king".)

After our last tournament foray at the Rio, Felicia and I have been concentrating on ring-games. One thing stats confirm is that tournaments can be -EV (perhaps others are savvy enough to be +EV, but, not us yet...I guess we are truly Sklansky devotees).

One thing that the stats had shown was that I was up overall for satellites:

Location	Game	Limit	perHour	Total	Duration

Rio

NLHE

tournament

8.61

140.00

16.25

So I made $8.61/hr playing satellites.. but this didn't compare to my ring game play at 2/5:

Rio	NLHE	2/5	28.69	134.00	4.67

..where I made $28.69/hr playing NL. Of course, I played less than 5 hours there, so using these results are less than accurate. They just fuel my "why do I play tournaments?" mindset. What also didn't help, were the last 3, yes 3 in a row, $225 tournaments that I played where I had the best hand going in but got sucked out on. One, an A4o vs. T4o.. T4o flops a full house. AA vs. QQ (all-in pre-flop); QQ flops a full house. QQ vs. JTs (and yes, this too was all-in pre-flop, JTs was loose raising woman.. why she called my all-in is beyond me): I flop quads, she gets runner-runner perfect for K-high straight flush.

Anyway, after this Felicia and I have been concentrating strictly on cash games. For a wonder, she has been playing online.. yes! FeliciaLee playing poker.. online! Hehehe.

I've had a good run playing Draw on PokerRoom. My first 100 hours I've had about a $10/hr average playing $1/2 limit. I've played the $3/6 a couple times; made a nice hit at the $5/10 the one-and-only time that I played (which I needed since I lost a bit at the $3/6 that day :-p )

All this, however, hasn't kept me from playing the freerolls at Intertops! :) At one point I had cashed out completely from Intertops after they started playing Draw at PokerRoom. But then I played some of their $100 freerolls for the heck of it. I think the first I got just barely into the money for a whole $0.65! (Where the heck did the "cent" symbol go on modern keyboards?? Just a little pet peeve.) Then, back-to-back, I won 2nd for $15, and first for $25. I suddenly had money in Intertops again. Started playing the ring games there; Felicia too, playing both the NLHE and the O8. I had a good run the few times that I've played the NLHE $25 tables always coming out ahead. The one time I lost my stack AI pre-flop w/ KK (at least no bad-beat.. guy min-raised pre w/ AA, which usually means, well, AA, but mostly AK or some suited connector), I got it all back after I got KK again vs. JJ and we both flopped sets. It's amazing how people cannot lay down a set after being check-raised. I guess at the $25 tables, there are not really any "big lay downs".

Now that Felicia and I have been playing, we've been able to play the raked-hands freerolls too. Last night, I actually took 2nd in the $500 one for $78.50:

Yippee! I held the chip lead a few times, but my tight play watched it drain away many-a-time. Not to mention that there were enough people being aggressive that my "sit-back" strategy worked just fine there. I'd get chips in a hand that would allow me to watch the others knock each other out; fine by me :) I got aggressive when I needed too, the couple times I got short, and my hands held up. I had a tight enough image that after the one time the guy to my left defended his BB and re-raised to put me all-in with my Ace-rag, the next few times that I raised his blind, he just folded (allowing me to steal once with T6s..but, I just couldn't pull the Harrington and re-steal with 62o from the button steal of my BB ; ).

After a rocking day up and down at Draw, it was nice to finish the day ahead after this win.

Just thought I'd share an update. Hope all is well with everyone.

Posted by Glenn