"I'm about to win the $215 o8 tourney on stars."

Does anyone here have $15,650 (plus rebuys) that I can borrow?

It's never easy.

Well shit. After Turning Stone I played a really respectable amount (internet problems aside) and ran and played great. I made a lot of money quite quickly and was really feeling good. Getting bad on my feet and rebuilding, and ready to start trying real hard to grind it out and earn myself some real money.

My overly ambitious goal for this month was $1000 a day. $30,000 in 30 days. I was doing that ($1000 a day) once I returned from TS with relative ease, so I figured if I just worked hard, I could easily achieve it. After today, I need to make 11% more each day for the rest of the month. Brutal.

This morning I decided, I am running and playing well, let's take a shot at $5/$10. I played a shorthanded game with Born2DogBaby, a tilting Twin-Caracas, and some people I don't know. -$1700 in an hour and 40 minutes.

I win $200 at $2/$4 NL and win a $200 and $500 HU NOOB!? match to keep me afloat.

Then I decide to just relax for a bit, watch some Seinfeld, then put in a pseudo marathon session starting around 11:30ish. I sit down and lose a $200 HU match right away. Then I get on 6 $400 NL tables and proceed to stack off left and right and manage to drop $1800 in just under an hour. I felt like I was still playing alright but I was probably wrong and if Chip Reese and Phil Ivey think I should stretch my sessions out when I'm winning and end em quick when I'm losing, then damnit I figure I oughta listen.

$-2848.65 on the day. Not a bad start to the month where I set my highest ever goal.

Well that was fun, albeit not very profitable.

I've moved semi-permanently from $210 to $520 HU matches. This morning I played 3 and went 2-1. I fucked around and ate some food and watched some TV and sat down to play again.

I played this guy "keesbussum" and lost. I fired up another one and "keesbussum" signs up again. He doesn't play particularly well. He is very very weak tight and I can easily run him over. Shobute watches a little and estimates me as 60% to beat this guy. That's a pretty huge edge HU.

I lost again.

I fire up a third one and scrape up my first victory against this guy.

I fire up a 4th and he immediatly signs up. He defeats me yet again. The flop is 789 and I get it all in with 77 vs. 69. I'll give you one guess who won.

The 5th one is an absolute cartoon. He decides to start 3 betting me lightly and it just results in me 4-betting all in constantly and jumping off to a great lead. I then managed to get him all in 3 times. Got it in with 74s vs. A7s and lose. Got it in with 33 vs. AQs and lose. Open ender vs. top pair and lose. Then he had the chip lead and I got it in shortly thereafter with an open ender vs. an overpair and lost. The odds of me losing all 4 of those all in pots is obscene. Loss #4.

I squeeze out a victory in the 6th one.

In number 7 I again jumped to an early lead and get it all in with AJ vs. 77. I lose yet another race. Shortly thereafter I am defeated. Loss #5.

I swear to you guys I had an edge vs. this guy and I asked him if he would like to play a $1000 one next, during the 7th match. He didn't reply. After it ended I registered anyway and he immediatly played with me.

I win match #8 (our first $1000 match).

We go back down to $500 for match #9. I win again.

I lose match #10, which was yet another $500 match. I still see myself as a fairly significant favorite over this guy and I'm still playing well, so I decide to continue despite bad results. I register for another $1000 tournament.

I win match #11 (our second $1000 match).

Match #12 I try to push my momentum and start to book a win here with another $1000 match. 10 or so seconds go by and he doesn't register. "PoorUser" however, sits with me. I am not pleased as I know he is a strong player (whether or not I believe he actually has an edge vs. me in one of these is another story, but if I do have an edge I assure you it's not large and also not one I'd like to apply for a $2000 slightly weighed coinflip.) I explain my situation to him and ask if he would be kind enough to chop. He graciously agrees and asks me to throw the match and he will send the money. I bet every chip I have but 10. He shoves all in. I fold. Next hand I'm all in with J2 vs. his K6s and win but he defeats me the next hand. He quickly sends me the $1000 and I go on my way.

Cliffnotes and stats:

I played some weak tight pussy HU 11 times.

$520 matches:
Xaston : 3
Keesbussum: 6

$1030 matches:
Xaston: 2
Keesbussum: 0


We each spent $6740 buyins.
I had $7000 in cashes for a $260 win. Less than one unit.
Keesbussum had $6000 in cashes for a $1000 loss. Two of our original units.

Where did the other $740 go? To the real winner of these HU matches. Pokerstars.com!

Ended the day up $1180. I didn't play anything but HU SnGs.

Then Shobute and I decided to try and run a little bit of money up into $100,000. He didn't even come close. I managed to turn $200 into $1000 playing UB blackjack. Then it dropped to $600 and I stopped. Then I brought it to a HU $10/$25 NL table and kicked the guys ass all the way up to $1400. Then I made a 3 barrel bluff on a QQ9TK board when I knew he had just a 9. Turns out he had J9 so that didn't work once he nailed the river straight.

I don't count that shit towards my actual results though. Same with bonuses and home games.

Tommorow's plans: Win the Stars Sunday Million, Win the Stars $215 HORSE, and win the Stars $215 Omaha/8.

Keesbussum sounds very very Dutch.
I will ask around tonight at work who it is.