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William "Bill" Craven's Blog

August 11, 2009

Sorry for not updating a lot but I have been putting in a lot of hours since my last post and been doing my best to have a social life as well.

That being said I haven't played really in almost a week and took a buyout for the bet so I could party with some old friends I hadn't seen in a while. Lol that being said I didn't even get to see them because my ride got wasted real early and I lost my phone, which ended up being in the middle of my driveway.

In other life news I'm single, it wasn't working between us, so we went back to being friends.

I'm really happy to be single as I really never like doing anything but what I want to do lol that sounds bad but its true. I have freak outs about committing to anything anymore, I mean I couldn't even finish this bet and I was ahead going into the last week! It seems to be two weeks for me and thats when I just need something different.

I also haven't been able to quit smoking cigs because I have been out partying too much like usual. I have gone 17 days and 14 days seperately without one and have failed to quit! I have however been eating great, playing great, and feeling great so not complaints from me!

On the poker side of things everything is good, I'm rolled for the 7s completely now, and 50nl HU bumhunting!

This has become a favorite past time for me. I table select insanely and will only play the worst players and they basically give you money! You couldn't do this seriously as multitabling "decent" players would yield a much higher hourly return, (but also need a much bigger bankroll to handle the increased variance), if your good but its fun to do while playing old gameboy games on your computer bored!

I have been trying to play more and more PLO and Razz MTTs, as I believe I have a significant edge at these stakes in these games, but they just don't run enough on FTP at times good for me to put in a decent volume. I have won 3 of 5 PLO mtts on UB and bubbled the UBOC $100 rebuy. Obviously this is running good, but I seriously outplay almost all opponents repeatedly. The second tournament I won however was a complete lucksack I will admit as I was foolishly out played by a reg and hit a two outer in the middle stages, but still I crushed the bubble and chipped up myself.

After that win I basically set up in the lab with a range calculator, notebook, computer, and Rolf Slotboom's "Secrets of Professional PLO" and set out to master the early game, bubble, and late stage ranges. There are many insanely profitable moves to make in the early stages preflop that seem so bad but is great with a MTT structure. The bubble is the easiest thing ever if you big as nobody will three bet you without quality aces lol making your life simple! I'm not going to talk much more as I really value the work I put in to learn these situations.

When it comes to Razz I have always crushed as it has always come natural to me. Its pretty easy if you can look at the game in the right way. I haven't putten up any serious tournament results yet as you need a lot of run good.

Alright thats it I'm off to get my bronze on and jump off a 35 foot cliff into the water! Lavish, check your levels, PEACE

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