why are you sebbing yourself?

After datamining constantly for 2-3 days and playing for two days, this made me feel good. I know it's still a small data set but it feels good none the less. Guess I'll keep going at Full Tilt until this starts to change too much for my liking. Sure is nice NOT being at the OTHER end of the list.

I'll trade your winrate for Play_til_I_lose's

So I'm sitting at my desk doing a couple of sudoku puzzles online before going to bed and this occurs:

[22:58] MVP: hey douche
[23:01] SebQtaneus: hey
[23:01] MVP: i (l) bittorrent
[23:02] SebQtaneus: happy you found someone
[23:02] SebQtaneus: lol
[23:02] MVP: hey
[23:02] MVP: i went to this guys bachelor party
[23:02] MVP: at a stripclub
[23:02] MVP: and i go to give this whore a dollar
[23:03] MVP: and she squishes my hand between her tits
[23:03] MVP: and im like ... okay... cool
[23:03] MVP: then she takes her giganto knockers
[23:03] MVP: and smooshes my face in between em
[23:03] SebQtaneus: lmao
[23:03] MVP: which is also cool i guess
[23:03] MVP: but when she pulls them back
[23:03] MVP: she ripped my contact outta my eye
[23:03] MVP: and it was just sittin on her jubbly
[23:03] SebQtaneus: ugh
[23:03] SebQtaneus: lol
[23:03] MVP: wasnt really sure how to react
[23:04] MVP: should i just reach for it
[23:04] MVP: or tell her
[23:04] MVP: and then putting it back in my eye prolly wasnt my finest movce ever
[23:04] SebQtaneus: i'm starting to cry
[23:04] MVP: i was pickin glitter outta my eye for an hour
[23:04] SebQtaneus: lol
[23:05] MVP: and am just waiting for the inevitable itchiness
[23:05] SebQtaneus: thats the shit you need to post in your journal dude
[23:05] MVP: and explaining how i got eye herpes
[23:07] SebQtaneus: or should I ust cut and paste this into my journal?

You told me on IM yesterday donk....you must have smoked WAAAAYYYY to much pot, b/c your short term memory is horrible.

OK, been quite awhile since I posted anything about my poker playing and I'm leaving for Las Vegas for the big BTP meetup so I figure I'll post what I've been doing recently, and then after I get back from Vegas I'll post any amusing stories and poker results and what not, that happened in Sin City.

Since early October, basically since the time I withdrew most all my funds for Las Vegas after the US Govt's decision to mess with us, I've played SnG's almost exclusively. Mostly cheapo $5.50 ones but some 10 and 20's thrown in as well. All kinds too, 1 table and multi table, 2 seaters, 6 seaters and 9 seaters, 18 seaters, 45 seaters. Even a couple of the BTPCOOP events which are basically 2 table SnG's full of good players. But the ones I decided to play the most were the 6 seaters. My reasons for doing this were because #1, you only have to beat 4 people to make it ITM and #2, the future of NLHE looks to be 6max so I thought this might give me a little bit of an inexpensive introduction to that. And of course #3, is that I plan on playing a tourney or two in Las Vegas and am hoping these SnG's will be a help in that regard as well. Up until the stupid online gaming law crap, I had been clearing bonuses at Hollywood and PokerRoom playing 2/4 and 3/6 5max limit HE and doing fairly well at it. Now of course I can't play at those sites.

With the SnG's I went through as horrendous streak of 19 straight SnG's finishing OTM. Some of it was due to variance and horribly bad beats, but some was due to bad play and being overly aggressive. Then briachek railed me for a few of them and looked over some of my HH's that I sent him and made some observations and suggestions. It must have helped. In my last 15 SnG's (including todays BTPCOOP RAZZ event) I have finished ITM 9 times with 5 wins, 3 seconds and 1 3rd. 8 of those ITM's have come in the last 10 I've played. So something has definitely changed for the better and I am hopeful that it isn't just a reversal of the bad variance I was experiencing.

I've also begun playing RAZZ a little bit after watching the #12 finisher of the 1982 WSOP RAZZ event, (in case you unaware of it, that's our own "bobby" from here at BTP) totally PWN a couple 5/10 and a 8/16 RAZZ tables at Full Tilt. I've not begun to win much at it yet, but today I did manage to take 3rd place against 10 really good BTP'ers in the aforementioned BTPCOOP event. So I feel like that's coming along nicely. Then again, maybe I was just really trying to get the other half of the bracelet I split with Rhound last year in the same event.

Once I get back from Vegas, I'll probably deposit some of the roll (notice the positive outlook that I will still have some of it left) into the sites that spread RAZZ. The ones I know of are Absolute, Stars, and Full Tilt. If you know of others, please tell me. I'm also going to continue with the SnG's.

On a final note for this post, I have already begun thinking about my 2007 New Years resolutions. More on that to come. If you have any suggestions for good and attainable ones, please feel free to post them here. 2007 is going to be a much different year for me.

Those of you not making this weeks BTP Vegas trip, hopefully there will be many more to come and I'll get to meet you all then. Those of you who are going, see ya in a few days boys!!!! Las Vegas, HERE I COME!!!!!!! Wish me luck folks!

-SebQ

Ok, back from Vegas and I have a lot to tell. Hopefully I can remember most if it. To those of you who may have been a part of these stories (MVP, Twelver, briachek, pnutbutter, kennyg, bobby, brian (kenny's old room mate), and Cactus Jack) you can still tell your side of any of these stories in your own journal as nobody is probably going to read this anyway. I'm going to break these tales down and post them day by day instead of one HUGE post that nobody would want to finish anyway.
So here goes with Monday.

Monday: I get to town and after 2 hours of fukked up Vegas airport and shuttle BS, I finally get to my room at the Imperial Palace. Definitely NOT a high roller destination. But for a halfway affordable and mostly clean (and chlorine smelling) place to sleep that is central to most everyplace where you would want to play poker at, it isn't too bad.
I contact CJ and MVP to let them know I made it and to find out where I should play tonight. Actually it was CJ who suggested the shuttle that took forever to get me here but I forgive him for that as the Cactus Jack Taxi service got me back to the airport in fine fashion when I left. MVP told me to go over to Caesars Palace to play so I did.
My VERY first hand in Las Vegas was not a nice welcome to sin city. as I am sitting down and they are bringing me my $300 in chips (1/2 NL btw) the dealer deals me in and I look down at AK of hearts, I bet $25 from MP and an old man in LP calls for about $150 more. I think about it for about 1 second and call, figuring (wrongly of course) that he is just trying to bully me right off the bat and see if he lucks out and makes a quick $25 off me. Well, of course he has AA and i am down $174 right off the freakin' bat! AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! So much for visions of Vegas riches for the Sebster. Anyway, after that I played my normal game and over the course of the next few hours won some of it back. Then I go to find something to eat and did some walking around. HOLY COW is this place HUUUUUUUGGGGGGGEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I walked over to see the poker rooms at Ballys and Paris. Nothing to brag about at those joints as their rooms aren't nearly as nice as Caesars Palace. But Ballys will be the destination of choice for a couple good stories to come in the days ahead. After a bunch more walking around and gawking at stuff i call it a night about 1 a.m. or so.