CARDRUNNERS

From Monday to Saturday I only played 1 MTT(a freeroll for people who were still in ECOOP event #3 when the server went down) and ended up getting 11th. After that Molly and I went to Montreal for a few days just to hangout and see the city since its definitely one of the cooler cities in Canada, pretty close to Ottawa and neither of us had been since we were kids. We got a foot of snow the first day there but other than that it was pretty cool. The city was really easy to get around on foot, the hotel was really nice(pretty crazy how different a $200 a night hotel is in Canada versus in a major European city) and I managed to get my Christmas shopping done. We went to the restaurant toque one night, which was definitely one of the best meals I've ever had and not that unreasonably priced all things considered. Their like "specialty" is this 7 course meals which was definitely too much for her to eat so I ended up having about 9-10 courses and a stomach ache but it was definitely worth it. Not gonna go into too much detail, but Montreal was fun.

We came back to play Sunday and after feeling so good about last Sunday I really felt motivated for this Sunday and decided to play quite a few more tournaments than I normally would since I was so comfortable 16 tabling. Unfortunately(or fortunately) I wasn't really losing out of any tournaments and between the hours of 4 and 6 I usually had 17-19 tables going(when I really shouldn't play more than 16 under optimal conditions... probably even less considering I had the Carbon Major which isn't that resizable and the betfair major which also has a bad interface). I managed to somehow do minimal timing out, but I definitely was auto-piloting more during this phase than I'd have normally liked. In spite of this, I made deep runs in 6 fairly major tournaments and had a fairly profitable Sunday(23k in cashes across 10k in buyins). For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to play some of the huge field 26 FO's on FTP and had trouble losing them early(I mostly played them since the structures are so fast that by the time where lots of tournaments have started, I should probably be out, or semi-deep in a super soft tourney). Anyways, in the big one with 16k runners, I ended up coming like 103rd. I also made deep runs in the 100k euro guarantee on Boss(45th) and the 250k on Ongame(about 70th) before the really deep runs started. I was accumulating huge stacks in the 109 cubed turbo on Stars as well as the 250k guarantee on Ipoker, and was something like 1/30 with 3 times average and 4/22 or something like that. In Stars I kept running insanely good and at one point had 5x avg with 26 left(one of the most epic chipleads I've ever had), and in the Ipoker one I went card dead for a while. Going into the final table on Stars I was 1/9 with about double 2nd place and was like 8th/12 in Ipoker. I got it in KK v AJs on Ipoker and lost that to finish 12th(kinda disappointing since it was the biggest tourney I got in + thats one of the sites I haven't really made money on, so getting in the black there would cure up some of my insecurities) and then kept running hot at the final table of the 109 rebuy turbo until I was 1st/4. I lost one pot where I limped AA in the SB against LXIXME who I thought would shove pretty light like 20BB deep and ended up getting a QJT8T board with a 3flush where I lost like 6BB before folding, and then ran AQ into AK bvb like 16BB deep and then ran K7o into AT 3handed to bust 3rd for 19k. After that tournaments slowed down for a while before I was down to 1 table(the Mulligan) and I ran good for about 4 hours in that before finally losing a 40/60 and 2 flips to finish 19th.

I was definitely pretty happy with my play today, not as good as the previous Sunday but I felt like I was focusing a lot better at analyzing the dynamic and trying to take good notes, and adapt well to my opponents etc. I realized after the whole 19-table debacle that I need to have more method to selecting my Sunday tournaments. I usually will probably play between 45 and 60 tournaments on a Sunday but there are probably about 80-100 reasonably candidates for tournaments worth playing depending hours, screen space, how much I want to multi-table, other dynamics(ie. durinng major live series, the tougher online tournaments will get softer) and decided I'm going to make a spreadsheet for Sundays and weekdays where I list them all as well as a bunch of info about each tourney and then attempt to assess which one is the better alternative  under certain situations so that I don't have to make the judgement call when 16 tabling.

Not too much new besides that, I'm heading home for the holidays in a couple days and am excited to see my family as well as friends who I haven't seen in a little while, I'll probably still have time for some poker, but I'm guessing once I get back home my volume will probably shrink a bit until PCA where I currently plan on grinding a ton and getting the year off to a good start.

Today was a pretty epic Sunday(ECOOP Main- 1580 buyin, 1.5m guarantee, Party Million- 640 buyin, 1m guarantee, Betfair monthly 1k, as well as the usual lineup which is pretty impressive in itself)

My computer has been fairly prone to crashing lately, so I opted to not read the forums when I play and also talk much less on messenger. I found that this lead to me focussing much better and overall just completely changed my whole mindset.

Usually on a Sunday, I have 12-14 tables going and am reading the forums or talking to a handful of people and then just the tables pop up and I make my decisions accordingly. I think this is the same grind that virtually everyone gets into where they know they're +EV in the tournaments but they also find that they aren't enjoying them that much and instead of really trying to capitalize on their time at the table, they just try to stay out of trouble, not take unnecessary risks and always err on the side of not playing a hand since they have so many other tables and other opportunities to profit.

Today when I had nothing running besides 12-14 tables I was thinking more about the hands before the action got to me, constantly watching pots that I wasn't involved in, really trying to make the best decision at all times and at numerous times I felt as if I didn't have enough tables(a sensation I often get on Sundays when I have like 8 going) and then counted to see that I have 15. I also felt that all throughout today I was really just in the zone and constantly making the right decisions and correctly assessing the shape I was in.

What I mean by this is that I often give regulars too much credit in a lot of spots where I feel that I "shouldn't" be able to have that much info as to the strength of their holding but in actuality when ranges are tight enough, people are exploitable enough and don't really have predefined sizing(I used to always do this a few years ago in an attempt to be unexploitable but now I have joined the masses and try to exploit since in all honesty I think I'm much better at exploiting others than they are at exploiting me) and today both preflop and postflop I was able to do a lot of things that I wouldn't have otherwise done to capitalize off of this.

All in all, I felt extremely good, and in the future I definitely think that I'll continue to try focussing more when I play since its just satisfying to do my job as well as I can.

Onto how the day went results wise:

I started the day at noon and by 3:00 I already had a first place and a second place in 2 tournaments. They were both turbos on ongame, I won a 108 turbo for 2511, and got 2nd in a 54 turbo for 1105. I run super hot on that site and was pretty close to winning both, but I was hoping I hadn't wasted all my run good getting 3.6k in cashes on a day where I'd eventually spend over 12k in buyins.

After that I went through a phase where I lost like all my small tournaments but was getting a few reasonable stacks(in the Party Million, Warmup, Brawl and 530 on UB). I then lost a bunch of allins to leave me remaining in just the Brawl and UB, including busting the ECOOP AK to KK which was kind of lame, but possibly foldable since the play in that tournament was quite nitty. I ended up getting around 70th in the Brawl after losing some allins which I can't quite remember and cashing the UB 530 but being quite shortstacked. After getting in the money, I went card dead for a while, then won a flip to get to nearly average, then got AA against 99 to get into great shape. I then eliminated 2 people KQ>AJ and some flip to be chipleader with 10 left. The final table was super deepstacked(like 55BB avg stack) and I thought there would be a lot of play since I had like 80BB. There were a bunch of coolers but the shortstack usually won, but we were soon down to 7.  I then missed an OESFD with T9hh on a 877hh board but I played it like a nit so I didn't get stacked, then lost A9 to KJ and AJ to 55 within like an orbit to bust in 7th for like 6.6k. I was pretty happy to make big final tables back to back days(1st was 38k), but it would have been nice to capitalize on one of them. I ended up having a bunch more cashes, one in the 108r on ongame, one in the 109r cubed on Stars, but didn't really connect on either of them, overall I spent like 12.4k and cashed for 12.3k today

I've been really happy with my poker lately(both in how I've been playing at the table and how its been going away from the table regarding stuff like record keeping, planning my schedules etc etc) and hope that it continues and I can turn one of my deep runs into a big score sometime in the near future.

Sorry for the cocky tone of this blog, I've just been really happy with my game lately

Hey, not really updating about anything in particular but realized that I haven't updated in a while. The most notable thing I've done recently is highly improve my record keeping. I used to keep ok records in like 2006 but then kind of stopped once I got to the point where I was in good enough shape that a mid 5-figure downswing(which was about as bad as you could go through in MTTs back then) wasn't a major setback. Over the last couple years my record keeping has been pretty sporadic and I haven't really complied things. I compiled all the live tournaments I've played into a database, and decided to add additional spreadsheet pages for other things. For the last several months I've always kept a notepad file open while I play to record what I've played, how many times I've rebought, what I've busted etc, primarily to get an idea how much I spent/cashed in a day as well as to keep me more alert if there is a table that may have closed and not reopened(euro sites aren't as amazing as all you Americans think).

The primary reason I never really recorded all my online results in a spreadsheet is unless I play like 20,000 MTTs I'm not gonna learn much from the stats, instead I'll just find ways to be bitter about my short term results. What I've been doing now is just inserting the stats of # of tournies played, total $ spent buyins, total cashes($, and #) and then show profit, ROI and ITM%.

I also have pages in the spreadsheet for Swaps(% and site-to-site), pieces I've bought, prop bets I've made, and other sources of income/poker related expenses I've incurred.  Hopefully I can keep this up, but who knows.

Since getting back, I've been profitable 4 out of 5 sessions which when playing MTTs seems pretty damn unlikely, I haven't made a killing by any means, but the sessions have been pretty interesting. I've been putting a lot of thought into how to play specific tournaments, or how to schedule specific days lately and think I'm getting a fair bit better. I'm usually not the type of guy whose big into "hiding information" but I feel like I don't really want to say which specific conclusions I've drawn, since if 50 other grinders start copying my schedule/ideas it kind of defeats the purpose, since a lot of the things are really small/nitpicky and although they likely lead to slightly more profit now, they'd probably mean significantly less profit if everyone did the same. A lot of it just boils down to playing more tournies and skipping several of the highest buyin tournies,

Last Wednesday and Sunday I had 2 Rocky like comebacks to save my sessions. On Wednesday I played in the afternoon including the 109 rebuy turbo ECOOP event. I was fairly disappointed since I was in for 709 in the rebuy period, then finally ran up a stack before the server crashed and they said they'd be refunding people. I figured the refund system would kind of screw me and distribute equally to everyone left, but it was in their T&C's that they pay back everyone whose still in the amount they spent and then split 1/2 even, 1/2 chip-chop, so it worked out to be a pretty favorable refund for me. Other than that tourney, I spent like 3700 on buyins and had 300 in cashes + a 26 FO that I registered in for some reason. I was 1 tabling for ages, but after cardracking like crazy at the final  table I won it for a little over 7k(it was the biggest field tourney I've ever won, 17xx players).

On Sunday I more or less repeated the same thing, and until ~930pm I had 1 cash of my 50 tournaments played(a mincash in the morning 109r) across nearly 10k in buyins. I then got into comeback mode and ran up stacks in the 2nd chance, 750k and 109 turbo on Stars. The 750k was fairly disappointing, I was a fairly sizable chipleader for quite some time in the money, then got it in AA v a midstacks KQ vs TT and lost the main pot and the size pot to the TT. I then built my stack back up and IIRC got the chiplead back. I then got it in AA v KK on a low flop against the same guy and then he got there against me again to bust in like 100th. The 109 turbo was actually ridiculous for a Sunday tournament. I'm pretty sure in the final 18 there were only a few people who were even close to winning players and I remember thinking about 5 of the final 9 were probably bottom 10% in the field. I'm likely underexaggerating, several people folded down to an ante, people were folding out of the BB when they had less than 2BB to start the hand, people raise folding to 5 or 6BB stacks, it was ridiculous. I ended up coming 2nd for 10k to make the day profitable.

Monday was my one losing session of the 5, and then today I decided to play 38 NLHE MTTs and cash 6 for a total of 2k across 6k in buyins, and play 3 PLO MTTs and final table 2 for a total of 14k across $860 in buyins. I think overall I have run pretty mediocre at tournament PLO before today(and am almost certainly down overall after playing the 10k in WSOPE 2008 and some of the big SCOOP/WCOOP PLO events), but today was pretty sweet. It sucks how my big blog post is about winning 10k at PLO when you can consult another cardrunners blog and see a guy win 2million at PLO and then boast about his cooking abilities instead. Anyways, I got stacks in all 3 of the PLO tournies I played(the 200's at 2:00 on Stars and Tilt, and the 400 ECOOP event), and eventually dwindled out of the FTP tourney but kept winning pots in the stars one. I managed to final table, knock out some shortstacks, get there against a big stack when he had about the perfect hand against mine but I binked the 30/70 and then was 5 handed with 1/2 the chips. I then just lost a bunch of allins and came 3rd but with Poker Stars payouts, its hard to be too disappointed with a 3rd place finish.

After that  I was still in a few tournaments with stack, most notably the 400 PLO ECOOP. I was absolutely crushing and had about double the ITM stack(30 paid) with 40 left. I kept building on that and with 18 left I was the chipleader with about 2.5x average. The guy to my right was limping ridiculous holding quite regularly and then eventually decided to mini-limpraise AA52 against my QT98ss and then win the flip on the 762 flop for the chiplead which took me down to average. People were busting extremely quickly(the bubble lasted ages so average was really low) but I managed to coast to the final table and then hold AQJJ against 9875 against a shortstack to be about average with 7 left. I then went extremely carddead and eventually busted in 5th for 9k. 

Tomorrow should be pretty exciting, it appears like it will be one of the more epic Sundays of the year(at least 3 of the euro sites are having their monthly/quarterly tournament) so I'm going to try to get some sleep and wake up to run good.

Hey, the Portugal leg of the trip may have been pretty profitable or  slightly unprofitable depending on how tomorrow goes. I busted the main event faster than I had busted a big tournament in quite some time. I lost a big pot to get down to 40% of starting stack in the first 30 minutes and then 2 hours later busted to deep. I also played 4 side events and although I lasted a while in all of them, didn't cash any. My closest call was the 300 euro turbo where I went from 2nd/9 to busting 9th when 8 paid, but it was small enough where winning would have but me just about even off of tournaments from this leg of the trip.

That said, other aspects of this leg of the trip have been profitable. I played some live cash and made about 1600 euros, bought 10% of a guy whose at the final table of the main, and crushed at degen propbetting.

I stayed with Ricky "TT_fold" Fohrenbach who seems to love 0-ev gambling and hate people who try getting an edge at 0-ev gambling(such as playing chinese) so we ended up booking a lot of bets that were essentially just obscure coinflips. We were betting on birth months of people, amounts of bills at restaurants as well as more conventional bets like last longers, and betting flop colors. Eventually we came across an excellent gambling game.

In our hotel the garbage cans have 4 color-coded quadrants, for like waste, metal, glass and paper or something like that. We thought it would be cool to throw coins from across the room and if they land in the garbage can, you win money. Ricky thought that involved far too much skill so we altered it to say that we each select a quadrant, constantly rotate the can, and whoever's quadrant the coin lands in wins money from all other players involved. To add to things we also placed some side bets involving how many people would sink when it came their turn(throwing one coin each quickly became too tame for us).

The second night we played with Mr.BigQueso and Shaun Deeb(hours after Shaun quit tournaments). Shaun ran worse than we thought was possible and at one point all of our quadrants had 10-15 coins in and his had 2. We then decided to up the variance by taking a handful of coins and throwing them all at once, this brought on some swings since they all follow similar paths and are far less evenly distributed. We then decided to finish the night, everyone would take a turn blindfolding themselves and dropping a whole handful of coins from right above the bin while someone else spins the bin- JustLuck took videos, dunno if they'll find their way online anytime. Anyways, Deeb ran even worse here and ended the came down enough that all 3 of us were sizable winners.

Anyways, Portugal has been a pretty fun few days of degeneracy but I'm definitely looking forward to getting back home to Waterloo and Ottawa, getting on a more reasonable schedule(woke up at 1130pm today) and spending some time not playing live poker until the new year. The trip has been pretty fun and fairly profitable, I'm excited about getting off the flight to Toronto and finding out what place my sweat got.

Alright, thats it for now, part 2 of my video series came out btw if anyone wants to check that out

So I played the Masters Classic, busted mid-late day 2 and played the 1k 1 rebuy as well and lost at about the same stage of the tournament(last 30 minutes of day 1). Both tournaments we pretty slow and involved a lot of me folding or playing small pots and waiting to get paid off, then not winning when that opportunity presented itself. 

I don't want to be too nitty, but it seems like this whole series has kind of mistaken what a good structure is. They seem to think that having longish levels and lots of levels early will make it good but leave out many of the crucial levels late. The main event went 1k/2k, 1.5k/3k, 2k/4k, 3k/6k when most tournies would have 2 extra levels in that space which kind of sucks since overall this tournament has a pretty good structure. I feel like tournies should all just start at 100/200/25 and have about 20k starting stacks or so rather than playing like 7.5h before antes come into play like here(that said overall the structure was pretty good, just saying I could design a tournament that would last the same amount of time and would almost certainly make the vast majority of people happier).

Anyways, my starting table sucked but all the good agro players were to my right and the few soft spots were to my left which was pretty decent. I didn't really play any pots(it took until 5 hours of play before I had a hand where I fluctuated more than 10BB, and in that time I think I saw 0 showdowns) and had like 11k or so(12k starting stack). I then had 2 small pots in a span of 3 hands where I flopped top pair good kicker and an overpair but ended up folding them both to get to like 8k. I got back up to 11k but can't really remember how and then doubled JJ against QTo when a guy 4 bet me and then called a raise with TT and had someone squeeze 30BB with 88 to get up to like 31k. I then made some more nit-folds and ended the day with like 23k when average was maybe 28. 

There was strangely no redraw in this tournament(which made me really regret not paying too much attention at the end of the day, since usually the type of people who really up the agression at the end of a day are the same people who will up the agression approaching the bubble etc). I didn't really do much during the day, hovered around 20k for a while, then won a couple pots in an orbit at 400/800 to get up to like 40k and be about average. At 500/1000/1k with about 80 people left I found aces on the button and raised to 2400, the chipleader in the BB who had a lot of really obvious betsizing tells(long story short I coolered him but just want to be able to say that if our hands were switched he probably would have found a way not to stack me) and 3bet to 13k which is like always something thats decent but never something great, usualy something where when he calls it off but not happily, I jammed and lost to 99 to bust. I then went home to play some online turbo tournies where I came 3rd in a PCA sat but lost a small amount on the session.

I'm rooming with Mickey (mement_mori) who made day 3 of the main event and I had a decent size piece of him so that was pretty exciting. There was a 1k 1r tourney today and I got off to a great start. I had one of the sickest tables in the room, 4k starting stack, 4k rebuy, blinds went 25/25 and then 25/50 in the rebuy period and 3 people managed to bust in the rebuy period despite none of them ever having 8k(ie all 3 of these people got stacked twice). By the end of 4 levels like 6 or 7 busted and I wass up to like 22k with average of like 10k. Mickey had doubled in the main and was now in the money so it was looking promising. I hovered around the same stack for a while as he continued winning pots and got up to about average with 15 left. My day was going downhill and I played one hand slightly bad(had T9 on a 875dd board after raising pre when villain had a little under 4x the pot, I cbet like 2/3 of pot but should have cbet like 90% of pot... it didn't really matter since he had 86dd and regardless of how I sized it he was getting the money in).

I got super card dead for ages, and then found out Mickey busted 12th,  and then found TT UTG+1 at 300/600/50. I raised to 1500, BB who had piles of chips and was clearly one of the softer spots in this tournament(which btw was ridiculously good value, much much softer than the main somehow) called, Flop: QT3r, I cbet 1800 at 3800, he called
Turn: 8, check, I bet 2500 at 7600 with like 5.5k behind or so, he jammed, I called and lost to J9o

After that I went back to the room and thankfully Mickey was happy with his 12th place finish. I wouldn't want to room with me after bubbling a final table like this and was expecting him to be much more grumpy, so I'll give him props for being more enjoyable to be around than I expected.

Tomorrow is a 750 euro event which I'll play unless its sold out and then I'll play FTOPS this Saturday and Sunday... enjoying the grind

So in the last week I returned to waterloo, hung out in Waterloo a bit, spent one day playing online(played 2 FTOPS events, lost them both pretty quickly and then headed down to Toronto for the Canadian Poker Expo.

Full Tilt was the main sponsor of this event and there were 5 other pros there(Scott Montgomery, Roy Winston, Greg Mueller, Gavin Smith and Lee Watkinson). I had never met Roy or Lee before but both seemed like pretty good guys. The event itself was pretty open ended in that not even the organizers really knew what to expect. I met the organizers as well as the guy in charger of the Canadian FTP pros and everyone seemed pretty cool and extremely accommodating (the atmosphere was super relaxed, not many responsibilities, lots of free time etc).

The main events throughout the weekend were SNGs at 11,3,5 and 7 each day where we were bounties, a lecture at 2(which I missed both days due to getting deep in the 1:00 SNG) and a Q&A session each day at 5 hosted by a local radio station. Beyond that we were free to just hangout amongst ourselves for the rest of the weekend. The only other responsibility was attending cabana nightclub for manditory bottle service. Everyone was so relaxed that they even said I could bring a bunch of friends for the night to drink on FTP's tab. I invited my friends Tuhin and Marius as well as SirWatts who had a group of like 6 people at his house. I figured it was best not to bite the hand that feeds too badly and figured its best not to try convincing the group of 7 people to attend.

The whole upper floor of the club was rented out by the expo and we had a booth that was just overlooking the dancefloor. A complication arose such that all the other pros(besides Scott Montgomery) didn't end up attending and for at least a while we had the whole booth and bottles to the 4 of us. Eventually Scott and I were probably too nice by letting these older guys hang out with us who eventually kind of took over the booth(not until the end of the night) but in spite of that things were pretty fun.

One of the main booths at the expo was run by "Showdown Couture" - a poker related clothing company that is run by a guy who used to work at one of the nicer clothing stores in Toronto. My most comfortable tshirt is made out of bamboo fiber and after working at that company he found it to be pretty much the nut fabric, and at the club we got to talking about his company which makes all their shirts out of this bamboo. He said they are interested in hiring some people to represent their team(currently Paul Wasicka is their main representative but they are looking to expand) and would hook them up with free gear and also allow them to create their own clothing lines and earn a % of the profits generated from it. Currently some of the designs are louder than I would regularly wear but they said they're looking to expand so I'll work on trying to come up with some ideas that I could see myself wearing every day and hopefully help them expand their market to include Ed Hardy haters. I'm pretty excited to see how things go with this and hope I can do my best to represent them well.

After the night was finished we headed back to the hotel, slept a few hours and then got up the next day for the Expo. I had a flight to catch at 5:55 so I decided to leave as soon as I busted the 3:00 SNG. They were super turbos that should end in like 40-50m, somehow mine lasted until almost 4:30 and then I rushed to the hotel, then to the airport and managed to get on the flight as the last eligible person(a guy got there 2-3 minutes later and wasn't allowed on).

The flight was direct and went by super quickly, then cabbed to my hotel which is really nice. I opted to play online today and won by far the smallest tourney I played for $900 and bricked everything else so I still had about a -75% ROI on the day despite winning a tournament.

Oh ya, the other cool thing I picked up at the event was a pair of  blue shark"poker sunglasses"... they offer no UV protection, are completely reflective and let 99% of light through. I've been wondering if something like this existed for a while now and am glad it does since my main concern with wearing sunglasses at the table(besides looking funny) is fear of mistaking a spade for a heart or something in dim light but these look as if there isn't even anything over your eyes.

Anyways, the event was a success in terms of turnout(they had more people on Saturday than they expected to between both days combined)  and although I wouldn't want to do something like this everyday, I definitely wouldn't mind doing a couple similar events each year. They definitely did a good job for their first time running an event like this and I think in the future they'll definitely make it even better.

I was on the fence for a while about whether to do BCPC or go to Europe for MCOP and Portugal. I ended up finding direct flights to and from Amsterdam at very convenient times so opted to do that.

This week was pretty fun (poker aside... played 3 sessions of tournaments this week, lost about 9k). My lifting has been pretty consistent lately, and I'm quickly recovering to where I was back when I was going to the gym very regularly. I also enjoyed making my new video series quite a bit(talked about it my last blog entry) and felt pretty good going over my hand history(apart from one ~5 minute period where I was timed out and cardracked so hard). Halloween was pretty decent, we went out Thursday night and Saturday night. I wasn't creative enough to put together multiple costumes so I decided to be the my new haircut guy both nights. The first night was really fun, but its tough to keep that persona going too long and on actual halloween my performance was probably lacking. 

This Sunday was pretty enjoyable as far as awful Sundays go. I had a bunch of mincashes and the only real tournaments I got anywhere in I finished like 13th and 15th. I've definitely been getting better at multitabling since getting my new computer, and at several points felt like I didn't have enough tables when I had 13-15 going. I doubt I'll ever regluarly play much more than this but its nice knowing that I can keep registering for things in the event I'm running pretty good on a specific day and don't have to unregister for things. 

Alright, thats about it for now, I'm going back to Waterloo in a couple days before participating in the Canadian Poker Expo (http://www.canadianpokerexpo.com/) this weekend in...wrong).

Hey, quick update since I'm about to get a new haircut for my halloween costume(which is dressing up as the my new haircut guy) but I just figured I'd tell you guys that in the last 30 hours I recorded 7 hours of videos.  I hadn't made any videos in a couple months so I definitely owed you guys a bunch of videos. 

I feel like the format of my videos might not be too highly praised but I really did my best. The cardrunners replayer doesn't support Ongame hand histories and my HEM didn't import the HH correctly(ongame hand histories are really dumb... they don't get saved by table or tournament so they get intermixed when multitabling). Anyways, I played around 600 hands and only 560 got imported. I then went through the rest of the hand history(which if you haven't played on ongame, it makes your eyes bleed more than some other sites) and found the 40 lost hands and copied them all to a text file.

Now theres no good way to determine when a "skipped" hand is coming up, so my method was to have an offscreen text file telling me the times in which the skipped hands occured and checking the time of the current HH and trying not to miss(obviously not all hands take the same amount of time, so this was far from foolproof). I think at first things were pretty shaky, but after I got the hang of it it became much more fluent. Unfortunately these 40 hands had to be displayed in text format so it still wasn't very visibly friendly.

Very few hands were skipped in the first few episodes so it will probably be like a month or two before I receive the major complaints... just warning you guys in advance.