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August 06, 2009

I wish I could say that I have some kind of prop bet regarding hands played this month. Or rather, I wish I would've made a prop bet about it. In any case, I made it my resolution to treat August like I'm an actual online poker pro, and try to grind it out with whatever games are going. I also have this desire to remind the LHE community that I've still got it :) So yeah, you'll probably see me on the tables a lot in August.

So far other than one night with a several hour rough patch, things have been going great. Oh yeah, Tuesday was also slightly frustrating because I played 2500 hands, won over 100BBs, and was -$700 on the day thanks to being a $13,000 loser in my $100/200 and $200/400 hands, and a huge winner in the $50/100 and $30/60 hands. But I mean no complaints, swings happen in poker, and overall I'm still running pretty well and I feel like I'm playing super well too.

Here was one hand that I played while 5-tabling, that I'm super proud of being in tune with how the game was playing... i'm sure most people don't win as much here as I did even if they were on just this 1 table, let alone 5 total...:

stonecoldczy: posts small blind $50
PapaWarbucks: posts big blind $100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PapaWarbucks [9d 9s]
bxpeter: folds
joedi20: folds
NicP: folds
Big_Nemo: raises $100 to $200
Lanceryosuke: raises $100 to $300
stonecoldczy: folds
PapaWarbucks: raises $100 to $400
Betting is capped
Big_Nemo: calls $200
Lanceryosuke: calls $100
*** FLOP *** [2d 8h 8d]
PapaWarbucks: bets $100
Big_Nemo: folds
Lanceryosuke: calls $100
*** TURN *** [2d 8h 8d] [5d]
PapaWarbucks: bets $200
Lanceryosuke: raises $200 to $400
PapaWarbucks: raises $200 to $600
Lanceryosuke: calls $200
*** RIVER *** [2d 8h 8d 5d] [2s]
PapaWarbucks: bets $200
Lanceryosuke: calls $200
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PapaWarbucks: shows [9d 9s] (two pair, Nines and Eights)
Lanceryosuke: mucks hand
PapaWarbucks collected $3047 from pot

So yeah, I like to boast when things are going well, and I hope I'm not about to jinx myself, but here's how the month has went so far...:

Also I find it amusing how several times now Doughnutz has commented to me at the tables, "wow, you really are serious about trying to play some hands this month." Yup, I am. See some of you at the tables!

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Aug 6, 09 12:35:50

i wish i could call 9k hands a grind.... that's more like one day worth of hands for me!

gambler2k4

Aug 6, 09 15:49:04

what gambler said haha

BillCraven

Aug 7, 09 13:24:27

keep it up. also, watch true blood already!

lana

Aug 8, 09 04:45:26

Congrats man, good to see more red tables in your direction. Also ship the HEM already...

Hokulea

Aug 8, 09 13:11:50

fuck true blood. that show is redonkulous.

citizenwind

Aug 8, 09 22:06:35

bejeweled

how you doing in bejeweled?

xerok

Aug 8, 09 22:06:44

bejeweled

how you doing in bejeweled?

xerok

Aug 8, 09 22:07:19

bah stupid double comment

xerok

Aug 10, 09 19:13:57

nice work, mike! makes me want to grind........kinda

Taylor

Aug 12, 09 22:23:14

amazing

Equilibrium

Aug 13, 09 05:30:08

aha to the guys saying that's not a grind...LHE is a little different than NL in that it's tougher to play a billion tables of it at once!! And compared to how many hands I typically played a month the last several months this is huge.

I'm all caught up with True Blood. It's entertaining!

Yeah Taylor, you should get back into it for awhile.

Schneids

Aug 13, 09 05:31:25

oh yeah, and bejeweled... it's such a time eater! I try to limit myself to once or maybe twice a week, for 30-60 minutes... Typically get a top score of anywhere btwn 130-170k most weeks. Have had one around 225k.

Schneids