great to hear your winning again.

I would leave the labtop at home and have some nice days.

Man.

The minor poker funk continues. Went out to a B&M with emmasmom on Monday night. We only played a few hours, and at 3/6 LHE there is a $4 rake pre-flop 9 handed, so I am pretty sure that it is not possible to beat the rake long term except that the players there are horrid. We each lost a rack. My rack was lost mostly due to failure to hit open enders against a field. (A 9 handed game usually meant at least 7 players were going to see a flop). emmasmom lost most of her rack in rather spectacular fashion. She is dealt two black 10s. Raises in UTG+1 after UTG limps, in an impossible attempt to thin the field. Three callers to the flop. on flop. UTG leads, emmasmom raises, two folds and it is heads up. Turn is Check, bet, call. River is . Bet, raise, re-raise, re-raise, re-raise, call. Of course, he has for the runner runner straight flush.

http://twodimes.net/h/?z=1817084
pokenum -h tc ts - 8h 9h -- th 9d 9c
Holdem Hi: 990 enumerated boards containing 9c 9d Th
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Ts Tc 944 95.35 46 4.65 0 0.00 0.954
9h 8h 46 4.65 944 95.35 0 0.00 0.046

Last night after we got home I fired up some nl50 tables at prima and ended up down $16. This was all due to a blind v. blind battle that cost me $30 against a relative shortie. I am in small blind with AQs (converter not working). I raise to $2. BB calls. Flop . I bet $3, BB calls. Turn . I bet pot, BB pushes. Expecting to see a worse ace with a flush draw, I call. Nope, he has broadway and river bricks. Oh well.

Why can't I finish a party bonus with more money than I deposit, including bonus?

-$60 an High hand jackpot 2/4 LHE tables. -$22 in tourney buy-ins. Break even 6-tabling nl25 to finsish the $75 bonus and get the hell out of party. Don't even leave the deposit in party long enough to collect party points. Just looking at the lobby makes me not want to play poker. Which is good, I guess, because I keep making money on the random casino or two. + $438 on casinos yesterday.

OK, this week is dedicated to getting into the WSOP ME. Many sites are running satelites to large MTTs to be held next weekend for seats in the main. I figure that I will concentrate efforts on Full Tilt, since on the off chance I win the ME I will get an extra $10M. Right now I have $1k and a dream. So, everyone but Seb, please wish me luck.

EDIT: I will chronicle my WSOP ME qualifier efforts here:
1st Day : Pokerlistings freeroll at PokerRoom. Won $50 (top 2 got a seat)

2nd Day : I spent the day acquiring $26 tourney tokens at Full Tilt. 9 $4.40 single table SNG's and 2 $6.60 2 table SNG's. I won four of the single table SNGs for four tokens, and placed 2nd in another for $10. I used two of the tokens in two unsuccessful attempts to qualify to the $200+16 later this evening. I will concentrate on acquiring a few more tokens, and focus my efforts on getting into the $500+35 on July 16 with 100 seats guaranteed. I am trying to do this on the cheap at first. I find the SNGs a nice break from cash games, and good tourney practice, even if the $4.40 buy in tourneys are full of donks (actually I have met two other very good players, probably doing the same thing I am doing. And trump34 has been accumulating tokens too. I avoid him.) If unsuccessful early in the week, I will be buying in directly to the $140+14 tourneys at Interpoker. That is my plan.

Day 3: This is going to be harder than I thought. Hard to put in the time for a qualifying tournament during a weekday while taking care of Emma. I played in three tournaments today while she was taking a nap, but she still woke up, needed a bottle, etc., and I am pretty much a douche if I ignore her and play poker. So, I will be limited to SNGs during her nap and then the time after she goes to bed. Which means that I will likely end up buying in to at least a couple of the qualifiers, something that I had hoped to avoid by winning a sub-qualifier.

Total Spent: $86.20
Total Won: $60
Total $26 tourney chips won: 4
Remaining $26 tourney chips: 1
Total WSOP Qualifiers played: 1
Total WSOP ME seats won: 0

Best of luck ED, you do realise your signature picture is so good it can never be changed, right? What forum is it from?

Molina

Good luck in getting to the ME. I got the bonus at PP too, and I am probably going to play the O8 limit games for a bit seeing that they don't look that tight, not like the NL games right now. Are you just going to try for the ME buyin or some other seats?

Dan: So far I am just attempting to enter the ME. I also have a trip to Chicago planned during the same time period as the day 1 and day 2 dates for the ME, so it could get interesting. Basically, if I get in to the ME i will not be hanging out in vegas playing in other events, but flying back to Chicago for the down time. Which is OK, because I want to go the the new park to see the southsiders, and the Yankees are in town.

I played quite a bit of poker today, in addition to the WSOP qualifying efforts. I played some nl50 at Hollywood, up $70. I also played some 1/2 LO8, 25 PLO, and a cheapo Razz tourney with MacAnthony. Fun times.

Just got this email from Poker Stars:

Your best chance to win a seat in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event happens Sunday, July 16 at 4:30PM ET. The PokerStars Sunday Million is going on a one-week hiatus so we can hold a tournament that will award at least 150 WSOP prize packages.This is the largest ever WSOP super-satellite, and your best chance to join world champions Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem in Las Vegas to play for your share of an estimated $80,000,000, with a probable first prize of $10,000,000.To sweeten the deal and give you even more incentive to play, we are offering automatic SilverStar VIP status until August 1st just for playing in the 150 Seat WSOP event. Within 24 hours of playing, you'll be enjoying all the benefits of being a SilverStar VIP - 50% FPP bonus, weekly and monthly freerolls, and more! Each WSOP prize package includes: • $10,000 Main Event Buy In • 9 Nights Luxury Hotel Accommodations • $1,000 In Spending Cash Each package is worth $12,000 and we're guaranteeing 150 will be awarded Sunday, July 16th at 4:30PM ET. That's $1.8 Million in WSOP seats up for grabs and all you have to do is finish in the top 150 to claim your prize. Get all the details on our 150 WSOP Seat information page or register now by clicking "Events," "WSOP" and then "Cash Satellites" in your PokerStars game lobby. A direct buy-in is $350+20 or win your seat with a satellite. Beginning Sunday, July 9th we will be running cash satellites starting at only $3 or play for free with as few as 150 Frequent Player Points.

No problemo. Now go win a damn seat man!!!!

Got a new desk today. I <3 IKEA. Here is a picture - I am cleaning up the cord mess now and the plant will be replaced with some lucky bamboo, but anyway: