Not a great title, but I am exhausted. If I don't start this now, I may never. My roll that began with $50 is now over $2500, and I can now play games that pay better than the fry guy at McDonalds makes. I am celebrating by starting a journal.

I am going to start copying and pasting my posts, so you don't have to click throught to the blog from BTP.

I like the blog format, so here is my link:

http://semperfipokerpage.blogspot.com/

comments appreciated.

I do not have time tonight to read your blog, but your summary says it all.
Way to play pal!!!
Nothing feels as rewarding as confirmation of your skills.

New post on my blog. Short and sweet.

http://semperfipokerpage.blogspot.com/

What am I doing with my time?

How is this for a wasted day. I found out about a big freeroll coming up for everyone who opens an account at Bodog and deposits $20 this month through a particular site. Me being the big math aware card player, figured out that I would be getting about a $20 overlay, and 1st should be $1-2K. So next thing you know I am the proud owner of a Bodog account with the princely sum of $20 in it.

Well I have to get this up to $50 to withdraw it, and I'll be damned if I am going to let my 20 little babies waste away at Bodog. I figure I will play a $10 SNG, win it, and cash out. I figured the players at Bodog must be awful, I mean it's a sportsbook, right?

There were no $10 SNGs ready to go when I had this brainstorm, so I played a $5 one. Well I got knocked out 5th after over 40 minutes! No fear, there is a $10 one starting up. Ooops, 5th again, and another 1/2 hour, dam. Now I am down to like $9.

Played another $5 one, (all I can afford at this point) and win. Yippie! Hop in a $10+1, 3rd. Well third time is the charm I guess, because I played a third $10 SNG and won. Halelujah. About 5hours into this little lark I finally have $75 and can cashout.

The only other thing I played during this whole time was a couple of hours at a $50NL ring game at Pacific, and lost about $7 there! Did I just basically waste an entire day so I could play in a freeroll? You bet I did. Hope I win the mofo.

By the way, I really did like Bodog's software, very clean. Played no ring or MTT, but the SNG players were a bit better than I expected. The blind structure is nice though. 1000 chips to start, 10/20 blinds that increase in small increments every ten hands. Blinds also apparently cap at 400/800, not bad for a table with $10,000 chips on it. You really have time maneuver before things get hectic.

The players definitely seemed better than the $10 SNG players I have played elsewhere. Fluke? Who knows. Maybe I was just wrong about Bodog. If I were just playing for fun, I might play some more of these.

congrats on your big win. Keep it up.

Congrats on the win!!

Today was a busy day, and I am almost scared to play another tourney until we get our DSL problem taken care of, I am so sick of getting blinded out while disconnected. Even when I manage to get back on quickly, I always have this feeling that I missed my big hand.

Tonight I played in a freeroll at a gay bar here in Atlanta. Michelle and I were the only straight people there. This is my roomate's favorite bar, and he has been on me to go since they started playing poker there.

Michelle has this habit of coming over every few minutes when I play one of these, to kiss me, as if marking her territory. I swear sometimes I expect her to pee in a circle around me. She likes me so much she has convinced herself that I am attractive to the general population, love is truly blind. Thankfully tonight my roomate Freddy, and one of our neighbors were keeping her company, she seemed genuinely worried some fella was going to drag me over to the dark side.

Everyone had a great time. My cheering section got thoroughly drunk, and satisfactorily aroused in Michelle's case at least. I won the tourney, 1st prize was $40 bar cash. Michelle's condition had me expecting to have a net loss on my hands when I went to settle the tab, but apparantly one of the waitresses had been slipping her free jello shots all night, and I escaped with a small net profit. Wait a minute, free booze from a cute lesbian for my girlfriend? Maybe I am the one who should be worried.

If you have never played a freeroll at a bar, you just think these online players are bad, it is hilarious. In the course of this little event, (17 of us in it) I had to explain why a small stack cannot knock out a bigger stack if they are both all in, why you cannot reraise if your opponent just calls you, why you don't split the pot if you both have two pair, and why you don't split the pot if you both have a flush, but really it is fun if you are in the bible belt and have no live poker. Of course it can be a minefield of calling stations. I managed to get my money in ahead in every big pot I played and only got sucked out on once. Fortunately this happened after my stack was big enough to absorb it. The guy who I got heads up with at the end was not too bad and it took me a while to get him, but when I did, boy oh boy. He called my all in on the turn and was drawing dead, gotta love that.

I might have gotten him faster if I had worn sunglasses. He noticed me watching him look at his cards before I looked at mine, even when I was first to act, and stopped picking them up until I had acted, so I open raised into a hand a couple of times after that.

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$30+3 MTT. Players were awful, after 50 minutes we were down from 287 to about 85 people, paid 30. Got my money in way ahead every time, but to no avail. Had about an average stack, called a very loose short stack's reraise all in w/ JJ, he turns over 88, hits an 8 on the turn. Next I flop two pair, put a shorty all in, he hits a backdoor flush. Now I am super short. Came back from $200 to about $1250, blinds are now 100/200. In the BB w/ KQ, SB has about same as me limps, I reraise all in, he calls w/ KJ and makes a broadway to knock me out 80th. Oh well.

Monday I won a SNG in 8 minutes. This total maniac knocked everyone out but me in 6 minutes. Of course he had a big lead going in to head to head. Took me two more minutes to beat him, lol. Had to win a few coin flips, but only once was I behind when the money went in. If I limped on the button, he went all in like clockwork. You would think he would adjust the 3rd or 4th time I limp w/ a big hand.