Alrighty then, another winning, although not hugely, but still winning day!

Made the big withdrawal from NETeller to my checking account today. Sure hope it hits the bank before Friday so I can take it to Reno.

Used my new voice command Bluetooth earpiece to talk bobby's ear off for a coupla hours til the phone battery went dead. That was fun. I even won money.
Man this voice command phone stuff is the shit! Coolest thing, well, almost anyway, that I have had in a long time. I love being able to voice chat with GOOD reception while playing instead of having to type everything out. I can better concentrate on whats happening that way since I dont have to look at my keyboard. See, I'm one of those old school boys who never learned to type in highschool OR college. This thing also keeps my arm from getting tired from holding a phone to my head for ages.

Paradise Poker NL25 5max, 257 hands, 180 minutes, $28.50
Paradise Poker NL50 FR, 56 hands, 63 minutes, $46.05

RB: 0
Bonus: 0

Bonus Progress:

ZILCH

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Totals: $74.55
Time: 4h 3m

Ok, don't have much money anywhere other than Bodog right now because it's either in NETeller or in my pocket ready for vacation play. So, I decided to play a little NL50 FR to see if I could workoff some of the bonus. Bonus doesn't seem to go very fast at those stakes. Won a little bit before I got bored to tears so I went to Paradise to learn some more NLSH at the $25 level. Got set over setted for almost an entire stack and was feeling pretty shitty about that. Then the following hand happened to TOTALLY changed my outlook about the night. All is right with the world at this moment.
I have NEVER stacked 3 people at once before.

Paradise Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
5 players


Stack sizes:
SebQtaneus: $41.55
CO: $34.75
Button: $18.20
SB: $26.73
BB: $1.25

Pre-flop: (5 players) SebQtaneus is UTG with
SebQtaneus raises to $0.7, CO calls, Button calls, SB raises to $5, BB calls all-in $1, SebQtaneus raises to $11.7, CO raises all-in $34.05, Button folds, SB calls all-in $21.63, SebQtaneus calls.

Flop: ($91.78, 1 player + 3 all-in - Main pot: $5.7, Sidepot 1: $61.44, Sidepot 2: $24.64)


Turn: ($91.78, 1 player + 3 all-in - Main pot: $5.7, Sidepot 1: $61.44, Sidepot 2: $24.64)


River: ($91.78, 1 player + 3 all-in - Main pot: $5.7, Sidepot 1: $61.44, Sidepot 2: $24.64)


Results:
Final pot: $91.78

Converter isn't showing it but the SB had AKo, BB had KJo, and CO had QQ. I haven't played enough of this NL25 5max to know for sure, but I think a $91.78 pot is probably pretty good for these stakes.
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Todays Stats:

Bodog NL50 FR, 35 hands, 34 minutes, $12.99

Paradise NL25 5max, 105 hands, 66 minutes, $10.65
Paradise NL25 5max, 2 tabling, 131 hands, 91 minutes, $46.70

RB: 0
Bonus: 0

Bonus Progress:

Earned 10 points towards the bonus. 168 left to go.
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Total: $70.34
Time: 3h 11m

WOOT!
Didn't play a single hand of poker tonight and still finsihed up $100.50! Did the PlanetLuck casino Black Jack bonus and maxed it. Weird thing, is that it happened just like the StarLuck bonus did in that when I had finished the wagering requirements by my own tally I only had about 1/2 of the bonus left and in order to play a few more hands to make sure I had cleared the requirements I decided to play by feel again, instead of strictly by the chart. I once again mixed up my betting amounts and within probably 20 hands I had the total back up to $200.50 including my deposit. Only gonna be $100 in bonus though since you're only allowed to withdraw whole dollar amounts. I can live with that! That's 4 BJ bonuses down and I have either maxed or bettered each one so far. $280 total for 4 bonuses at this point and the bonuses only account for $235 of that.

God I love short term stats! $100 bonus cleared at ONE table in about 3.5 hours! At this rate, who the heck needs poker!!? Hell, at that rate, who the hell needs a job! I know all you damned lawyers and finance guys out there are doing better than that with your regular jobs but when you talking ~$30 an hour, well, that definitely beats MY daily wages.

Todays Stats:

PlanetLuck Casino, $100.00
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Total: $100.00
Time: 3.5 hours

Wow, what a nightmare of a trip.
Got within 95 miles of Reno (at night of course) when the waterpump on the car went south. Permanently. Unfortunately, those things just don't heal themselves. Luckily we were only 2 miles past a town with a hotel. Managed to limp across the median and back to the town at idle without seizing the engine up. Got a room and called Emmasdad to let him know I wasn't gonna be there to take his dough afterall. I guess he lost his brakes on the way and was held up because of that so I wasn't the only one with bad car kharma that night.

Anyhow, got up the next morning and discovered that we were in what both the locals AND non locals refer to as the armpit of Nevada. A little slice of hell known as Lovelock. Called the local towing company to find out what they would rape us for to get the car 94 miles to Reno. ChaChing! OUCH!!!! Instead, we left the car with the local mechanic to fix on monday. Then got the brother of a friend in Carson City to come pick us up and take us to Reno since we had reservations at Circus Circus and didn't want to give those up for 3 day stay in Armpit, NV. Long story short, waterpump got fixed for $230, we rented a car for $115(+gas) to go back and get it and saved a couple of bucks. We also managed to salvage a decent part of the vacation in Reno at the cost of a few days that we would have had at my parents house in Oregon.

I played poker 3 times while I was there. 1st time was a weird kind of NL tourney where they stop it after like an hour or hour and a quarter and pay the top 3 chipstacks the prize money. there were about 35-40 entrants I think and I went out in 11th. Bye Bye $18.

Next session was later that same day when I went to the Eldorado and played Limit 3/6 Kill for about 9 hours and lost $25 in the process. Normally I would NOT have stuck around for so long but the folks at my end of the table were EXTREMELY fun to play with and I really enjoyed my time there. Bye Bye $25. Oh well, it was worth it.

The next day I played No Limit at Circus Circus. $500 max buyin but nobody at the table had more than $250 so I bought in for $300 to have everyone covered. Blinds were 1/2.
2nd hand I get AQo and raise to $15 ($5 was minimum bet) get 2 callers and the flop comes Qxx so I BTP and they all fold. Thank god they did too because just then a huge earthquake and made my hands start shaking somethin' terrible!

Few hands later I get QQ in UTG+1. UTG goes allin for about $55 or so. I decide to push because I didnt want anybody else calling. Going all in was handy also because then I didnt have to deal with that damned earthquake happening again in the middle of this hand. Luckily, the 2 players that had halfway decent hands were good enough players to be able to lay down AKs and AJo both of whom of course stated they had planned on calling the first dudes allin until I had beat them to it. Apparently he was going allin a lot with a short stack and rebuying short again when he lost. A king hit on the turn so I am very happy the dude with AKs folded. Anyway, UTG flips over A4o and I start sweating the cards to come. Thankfully he didn't catch the case ace although he did hit a 4 on the flop and I of course worried about the other two 4's the rest of the way. 2 hands played, 2 hands won. Yay.

About 7 or 8 hands later, we are down to 5 or 6 handed and I get A9o OTB. 1 limper and I raise to $15, an older asian fellow (why do they always make me think they are crazy maniacs?) calls my raise. Flop comes down Ace high and he checks to me so I BTP. He calls me again and I start to shit. The turn card is the and he checks to me again which of course has me thinking I'm probably outkicked or worse so I take a free card and check behind him. Then the river is the giving me 2 pair. he checks to me once again. Then I notice something that I should have noticed earlier, there are now 4 diamonds on the board and I have the ACE OF FREAKING DIAMONDS!!!! So I start checking and double checking and even triple checked to make sure there was no possibility of a straight flush or boat. He has about $200 in front of him so I decide that since he had checked to me every time that the best he probably had would be 2 pair but more likely a weak Ace and probably wasn't going to call ANY bet that I might make. So I figured that the only way he's calling me is if he hit a flush as well so I announced my bet was $200, that would put him allin if he wanted to call and give me a very nice win if he did. But I doubted he would call it. Wouldn't ya just know it, that damned earthquake struck again and this time was so bad I was almost unable to control the shaking enough to get my 4 $50 stacks out there in a neat and orderly fashion. Damned adrenalin. He thinks, and thinks, and thinks, and then thinks some more before finally tossing his cards in the muck. I only won about a $95 pot that hand but holy cow were my hands shaking! I stated laughing about it and told them I had a palsy. I'm pretty sure I may need some more live play experience.

A few hands later, I was by myself at one end of the table and the 4 or 5 other guys at the table were all at the opposite end. They were talking and it became quite clear that they were all locals who played with each other on a regular basis and that I was definitley the new guy. Not to mention they kept looking at my now very nice stack in front of me and knowing that I was probably new to this and making plans on how they were going to take it from me. So, although I didn't really doubt that I could probably hold my own aginst them, I decided to just say "Well, I really hate to hit and run like this fellas...." as I got up to go get a chip rack. They didn't try to talk me out of it which I kinda felt good about later on after I had replayed the short session back I my head.

We left for Oregon the next day and since we had spent more days than originally planned in Reno, I didnt get to play any poker at the Indian Casinos in Oregon. Oh well.

Didn't do too well Sunday although not terribly bad. Today (Monday), I cleared my first Slots bonus at the Lucky Nugget Casino. Deposited $50 and withdrew $220.03, so not bad for basically doing nothing. I believe that puts me back above zero for the month finally.

Yesterday I played 4 SnG's. three 22's and one at Staff poker (b2b) that i used VIP's to enter. Two 2nd's a 4th and a 7th. That's actually pretty good for me I think. I hated that 4th place finish but what ya gonna do?

Yesterdays and todays Stats:

FullTilt Poker, 3 $22 SnG's, 154 hands, 117 minutes, -$24.00

Bodog, PLO8 $25, 2 tables, 65 hands, 90 minutes, $5.44

Wiliam Hill Poker, NL100, 3 tables, 300 hands, 257 minutes, -$41.62

Bodog, PLO8 $25, 3 tables, 146 hands, 194 minutes, -$23.98

Staff Poker, 500 VIP SnG, 40 hands, 40 minutes, $18.77

RB: 0
Bonus: 206.63 $36.60 from Will Hill and $170.03 from Lucky Nuggets slots

Bonus Progress:

Cleared 4.25 hours of the Will Hill 5 hour bonus. Hopefully the last 45 minutes will be good to me as I am in the red a tiny bit at this point.

Earned 51 points at Bodog. Brings total to 183 out of 300 needed.

Cleared the Lucky Nugget Slots bonus.
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Total: $141.24
Time: 11h 38m

Finished up June by playing at Paradise mostly. Also finished the last hour of the Will Hill bonus. After such a HUGELY crappy start to the month, I managed to crawl back above the zero mark with the help of some black jack and slot bonuses.

Stats for 27th, 28th, 29th:

Paradise NL25 5max, 200 hands, 127 minutes, -$50.00
Paradise NL100, 545 hands, 414 minutes, -$53.05

Will Hill NL100, 54 hands, 53 minutes, $33.75

RB: 0
Bonus: $29.08 (9.08 from WH and 20 from paradise)

Bonus Progress:

Finished off the Will Bonus

Cleared 2 out of 10 portions of the Paradise bonus.
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Total: -$40.22
Time: 9h 54m

July is starting off with a nice big bang for once.

My family got to go to Six Flags Marine World but I had to work today so I wasn't able to make the trip with them. That being the case, I decided I would use the time I did get off, at the casino playing live NL so I can get rid of these stupid Poker Parkinsons shakes. I played 2 nights but only got to play NL on one of those nights. Long story short, I lost $27 playing 3/6 limit and won $200 at NL. I also played some penny slots and won a total of $13. Overall, I am pretty pleased with my live play. What I am NOT pleased about is the damned shakes I get from the adrenanelin rush when I have a good hand playing NL. Had I been able to control that, I probably would have won about $500 or more from those guys. Oh well, I guess I just have to go back and play more I suppose. What a drag.

Came home sunday and decided I felt good about poker again so decided I would check out the NL200 FR tables at Bodog since I had a bonus left there that needed finishing. WOW. All the tables had VPIP's of greater than 40%! Many of them were over 50%! So I sat at 2 and after donking off $97, I then proceeded to hit the biggest pot of my life to this point. $414 after rake! Geez! that felt good! The other table I ended up winning a total of about $41 so when all was said and done, I had cleared about $180.

Feeling very good with the world at this point, and definitely feeling like I am on a hot streak at the moment, I let MVP talk me into playing a 180 seat Sit & Go with him and Twelver. We also had a $20 side bet between the 3 of us as to who would last the longest. Did I mention I am on a hot streak? Well, to put it mildly, I should have been busted out more than once but was able to come back each time. Then all 3 of us were put on the same table. I get AKo in the SB and MVP has TT. He pushes when it folds around to him and I called figuring that I was probably a bit of a dog and wasn't going to make the money anyway and would rather him have my chips than someone else. Well, I hit a K and he doubled me up. Unfortunately for MVP, that was pretty much the end of his tourney as he was extremely short stacked now. I don't remember exactly how Twelver went out later on, but they both sweated me the rest of the way and gave me lots of good advice. I ended up pulling 3rd place outta my ass and took home $428.04 for my efforts. Add in the $40 from the side bets with my cohorts and take out the $22 entry and I made a nice tidy $446.40 for 3h 55m & 303 hands of play.
I hadn't thought my weekend could get any better and then this 3rd place happened. I don't know how to express how much better it has made me feel towards poker after the last few months I have had. I just hope my hot streak continues.

Stats for the 1st and 2nd:

Cactus Petes Casino 3/6 Limit, 300 hands, 420 minutes, -$27.00
Cactus Petes Casino NL500, 100 hands, 150 minutes, $200.00
Cactus Petes Casino .01 and .05 slots, $13.00

Bodog NL200 FR, 2 tables, 346 hands, 348 minutes, $183.50

Pokerstars, $20+2 180 seat SnG, 303 hands, 235 minutes, $406.40

Side bets with MVP and Twelver, $40.00

RB: 0
Bonus: 0

Bonus Progress:

Cleared 92 pts at Bodog leaving 21 to go to clear the $100 bonus.

Earned 10 fpp's at pokerstars leaving 830 to go to clear the $120 bonus.
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Total: $815.90 WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!
Time: 20h 19m

Thanks for the thanks on doublin ya up as a favorite when you called my push AFTER I told you what I had...

Seem to have had a blip in my July hot streak. But thankfully, bonuses came to the rescue and saved my ass last night. Lost more than I care to lose in a session when I was playing NL200 at bodog, but then came back fairly strong at Paradise. Then the bonuses kicked in to make it a decent night and kept the hot streak and July winning streak alive.

I'm also going to change the way I keep track of my playing time. Over the first 6 months of this year I was totalling ALL the minutes played at each and every table regardless of however many I was playing at the same time. I'm switching that over to just total "real" time spent playing poker. Not sure why I was doing it the other way in the first place because it's not an accurate measure of my earnings per hour. Especially considering I don't always play the same number of tables.

Stats for 7-3-2006:

Bodog NL200 FR, 289 hands, 256 minutes, -$161.50


Paradise NL200 FR, 150 hands, 153 minutes, $144.42

RB: 0
Bonus: $120.00 ($100 from Bodog and $20 from Paradise)

Bonus Progress:

Finished off the Bodog $100 deposit bonus.

Cleared another $20 of the Paradise bonus. $60 still left to go with 93 rh to go until next release.
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Total: $102.92
Time: 6h 4m

JULY: 25.29 hours, 1488 hands, $918.82

July 4th has started off with a bang! But then I guess it's supposed to do that if you're from the USA.

Anyhow, Just thought I'd get a jump on my daily post and mention that I just won a HUGE (for me anyway) $441 pot!!!!! That's a nice tidy $200+ profit as I didnt happen to be down any money at the table yet when this took place. I had AA, he had 89o, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah, blah, I doubled up off of him when he had a $400 stack going in.

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!! This hurt! I had won a little bit more in another session at bodog after my big hand this early afternoon so I was up about 260 or so for the day. Then this horrid shit below.

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
7 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $211.25
UTG+1: $203.80
SebQtaneus: $202.70
CO: $191
Button: $113.50
SB: $40.40
BB: $200

Pre-flop: (7 players) SebQtaneus is MP1 with
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, SebQtaneus raises to $6, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls.

Flop: ($15, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, SebQtaneus bets $15, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: ($45, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, SebQtaneus bets $35, UTG+1 calls.

River: ($115, 2 players)
UTG+1 is all-in $147.8, SebQtaneus calls all-in $146.7.
Uncalled bets: $1.1 returned to UTG+1.

Results:
Final pot: $408.4
UTG+1 showed 7d 9d
SebQtaneus mucks Kh Ah


Stats for July 4th so far:

Paradise NL200 FR, 82 hands, 93 minutes, $241.20

Bodog NL200 FR, 87 hands, 85 minutes, $22.25

Pokerstars NL200 FR, 90 hands, 82 minutes, -$246.80

RB: 0
Bonus: 0

Bonus Progress:
65 more rh cleared towards next Paradise $10 release. $60 left to clear.
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Total: $16.65
Time: 4h 20m

JULY: 29.62 hours, 1747 hands, $935.47 - My best ever start to a month.

July 5th. Ugh. Took a beating at the NL200 tables. What a waste of 4.5 hours. Lost a bit over 1.5 buyins.

Stats for July 5th:

Paradise Poker, NL200, 469 hands, 268 minutes, -$384.55

RB: 0
Bonus: $50.00

Bonus Progress:

Cleared half of the Dise bonus. $10 to go.
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Total: -$334.55
Time: 4h 28m

July 6th. Kind of a weird day. I have now gone about 70 PP's in a row without flopping a set. I have caught a set on the turn once and one on the river as well. But "flopping" sets 1 out of 8 times just DOES NOT seem to be happening for me right now. Hopefully I will go on a tear soon and hit a bunch of sets to make up for it. Seems kinda doubtful at this point, but I am hoping none the less.

I started out by playing a cheap PLO8 tounery at Pokerstars. Was doing really well until I got sucked out on 2 straight hands towards the end of the second hour. That crippled me and I was gone shortly afterwards. Oh well, it was fun and cheap.

After playingthe PLO8 tourney, I decided to play Paradise NL200 and after 2.5 hours of sukkin ass and not catching hardly anything decent, I decided I had had enough poker for the night. Instead, I decided to do the Black Jack thing at Will Hill and see just how good or bad my luck is right now. It would seem to be good as I deposited $50 and walked away from the table with $331.32 for a tidy $281.32 profit. (I think about $45 of this was bonus but since I think of the entire casino whoring thing as a bonus in general I'm not gonna break it down in the stats)
There are folks around here who do not subscribe to any type of black jack play that isn't flat betting, in fact, I have been called retarded and ridiculed for not playing this way, and while that may be what works for them, I don't believe (at this point anyway) that it's the best way to make money (and have a bit of fun) playing black jack. I like to play by feel as far as raising and lowering my bets and so far after 5 casinos, I have not busted out of any of them and have actually exceeded or maxed the bonuses and won money on top of them. This most recent one, Will Hill, was particularly good to me. Made $281 profit in about ~2 hours or so. That just isn't gonna happen flat betting $1 every hand. Sure flat betting the minimum is a safe way to clear bonuses, but is it any fun? Is it going to make you much more, if any more, than the bonus? I don't feel like it is. Sure I may bust out of the next 5 casinos I do ( I doubt that will be the case though) but at least I will have a bit of fun along the way trying to raise my bets when I think I'm winning and lowering them when it seems I am losing.

If nothing else good happened today, at least the black jack more than made up for my poker losses today. Seems kinda backward doesn't it?

Stats July 6th:

Pokerstars, PLO8 MTT, $5 +.50, 83 hands, 83 minutes, -$5.50, 134th place out of 410 entrants.

Paradise Poker, 125 hands, 145 minutes, -$86.75

William Hill Casino, Black Jack, £1 - £25 bets, $281.32 (after conversion)

RB: 0
Bonus: $10.00 paradise poker

Bonus Progress:

Finished off the last of the paradise bonus.
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Total: $199.07
Time: 2h 25m