bonuses and rake back stuff and anomolous differences of my actual winnings when PT for some reason misses out on hands and I can't get them inputed. I record the starting and stopping amount for each site so I know how much I win or lose but PT doesn't always jive with that. I caculate the rake stuff from the previous day and add it to the following days win or loss.

I'll have to try out something new for another recipe. Been thinking of cooking some rabbit up. They have a place where I can go get a fresh one killed pretty near here so I may do something up with that in a day or so.

A couple of quick early morning sessions on the plus side. Just not in much of a mood for playing right now.

Played another couple of short sessions this afternoon with TW. Managed to come away with another small win.

A pretty bad nagging headache has kept me off the tables for most of the day, hopefully things will be better tomorrow.

Empire 5-10 limit, 57 hands, 48.00
Empire 3-6 limit, 54 hands, 1.50
Empire 3-6 6 max, 33 hands, 47.75
PStars 2-4 7 stud, 32 hands, 7.75
Rake: 5.21
Various: 30.48
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Total: 140.69
Time: 1h20m

The headache finally subsided after the third tylenol and a little rest so I decided to play a little session after midnight and managed to find myself down 4 or 5 hundred right out of the gate at the 10-20 6 max table with a maniac. Managed to claw my way back to a small victory and decided to pack it in for some rest.

Empire 10-20 6 max, 161 hands, 78.00
Empire 3-6 limit, 8 hands, 16.00
Rake:
Various:
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Total: 94.00
Time: 1h15m

That nut job was at 2 of my 4 tables last night, and he had a LOT of money on both tables. If I wasn't so soft I'd have played till he left. He moved himself into 9th place on my pokertracker database in the "Won most money from" thing under misc. stats.

Yeah she was pretty silly. I took about 500 off her but lost alot of it to a donkey better who managed to hit every runner flush possible on me.

Morning session started off pretty good 3 tabling 5-10 and waiting on a 4th that had 100+ pots about 60 hands in a row with one guy seeing 100% of the flops and another over 50 and both raising like crazy preflop. Unfortunately the 100% guy busted out and I never got to the table until then and everyone else decided to sit out for some crazy reason with the other maniac still there with money. Well they sit out and he left, pretty smart. Was up about 160 or so then lost with queens 3 times and kings once in a very short span and decided to take a break.

First afternoon session in the books 2-4 tabling 10-20 and all I can say is they brought a serious can of bad beat whoopass on me. Had me down 6 or 7 hundred before I managed to hit a little run and claw my way back to just over 200 down. Decided a good stopping point to get some grub and regroup.

Empire 10-20 limit, 496 hands, -214.50
Empire 10-20 6 max, 161 hands, 78.00
Empire 5-10 limit, 154 hands, 94.50
Empire 3-6 limit, 8 hands, 16.00
Rake: 6.47
Various: 30.64
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Total: 11.11
Time: 4h15m

What a hellacious day. Took a break to go get some beer and some camarones for my sister in laws birthday tomorrow as well as some stuff to make my famous NY cheesecake and then hit the 10-20 tables again and my phucking god I got hammered right out the gate again (-524.00 in 64 hands!!!!!!!!!!!). That is just a shitload of asskicking. Well hopped up to my friendly 20-40 games and made a quick recovery then plopped down at some 5-10 6 max games and proceeded to get hammered although made a good recovery. Then I decided to bust into a couple of very short handed 15-30 games with some fools and extracted anther 234 to add to my measly winnings today. Nothing nice about this day thus far at all except that I am still showing a small profit despite getting my ass handed to me in the 10-20 games.

Empire 20-40 limit, 30 hands, 413.00
Empire 15-30 limit, 10 hands, 243.00
Empire 10-20 limit, 560 hands, -738.50
Empire 10-20 6 max, 161 hands, 78.00
Empire 5-10 limit, 154 hands, 94.50
Empire 5-10 6 max, 185 hands, -109.50
Empire 3-6 limit, 8 hands, 16.00
Rake: 6.47
Various: 30.64
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Total: 33.61 WOOT
Time: 6h

After a rough session like that I like to go back and see exactly what happened. In reality I only lost 37 or so Big Bets at 10-20 which is well within what one should expect to lose on occasions so it is probably nothing. I just ran into alot of bad turn and river cards today in good sized pots and when that happens you are just going to go down with the ship sometime.

This hand a maniac raises in EP and I call and figure I am in good shape on the flop then he hits his 6 outer. Perhaps I could have gotten away from this but against this guy it would be a tough laydown.

Party Poker 20/40 Hold'em (10 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
UTG calls, UTG+1 raises, UTG+2 calls, 6 folds, Hero calls, UTG calls.

Flop: (8.50 SB) , , (4 players)
Hero bets, UTG calls, UTG+1 raises, UTG+2 folds, Hero 3-bets, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: (7.75 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, UTG+1 raises, Hero calls.

River: (11.75 BB) (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 13.75 BB

Results in white below:
Hero has Ah 9h (one pair, nines).
UTG+1 has Qs Kd (one pair, queens).
Outcome: UTG+1 wins 13.75 BB.


A blind defense that turns tragic on the turn when I had him nutted to 3 outs.

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (9 max, 9 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
3 folds, MP2 raises, 4 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: (4.50 SB) , , (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets, Hero calls.

Turn: (3.25 BB) (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets, Hero raises, MP2 calls.

River: (7.25 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, MP2 raises, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 11.25 BB

Results in white below:
Hero has 8s Js (two pair, jacks and eights).
MP2 has Jh Ac (two pair, aces and jacks).
Outcome: MP2 wins 11.25 BB.


One of the donkeys that I couldn't beat early this morning. Spanks the old three outer on me on the turn.

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (6 max, 6 handed)

Preflop: Hero is MP with , .
1 fold, Hero raises, 1 fold, Button 3-bets, 2 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: (7.50 SB) , , (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets, Hero raises, Button calls.

Turn: (5.75 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, Button raises, Hero calls.

River: (9.75 BB) (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 11.75 BB

Results in white below:
Hero has Ad Qs (one pair, aces).
Button has Ah Th (two pair, aces and tens).
Outcome: Button wins 11.75 BB.

Another river tragedy

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (9 max, 9 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
4 folds, MP3 raises, 1 fold, Button calls, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets, MP3 calls, Button calls.

Flop: (9.50 SB) , , (3 players)
Hero bets, MP3 folds, Button calls.

Turn: (5.75 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, Button calls.

River: (7.75 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, Button raises, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 11.75 BB

Results in white below:
Hero has Ad Qc (one pair, aces).
Button has 5d 6d (straight, seven high).
Outcome: Button wins 11.75 BB.


This guy was a total wackjob. Perhaps I could have laid it down on the turn but I figured I still probably had 10 outs with this character but little did I know he just hit his gutter ball and I was drawing dead.

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (8 handed)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with , .
3 folds, Hero raises, 1 fold, Button calls, 1 fold, BB calls.

Flop: (6.50 SB) , , (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, Button calls, BB folds.

Turn: (4.25 BB) (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets, Hero calls.

River: (6.25 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, Button raises, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 10.25 BB

Results in white below:
Hero has Js Ac (one pair, jacks).
Button has 6c 3c (straight, six high).
Outcome: Button wins 10.25 BB.

Thanks for coming out, another turn job.

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (9 max, 9 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
1 fold, UTG+1 calls, 4 folds, Button raises, SB calls, Hero calls, UTG+1 calls.

Flop: (8 SB) , , (4 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, UTG+1 calls, Button folds, SB calls.

Turn: (7 BB) (3 players)
SB bets, Hero calls, UTG+1 raises, SB calls, Hero calls.

River: (13 BB) (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks.

Final Pot: 13 BB

Results in white below:
SB has 9h Jd (one pair, tens).
Hero has 9c Ac (two pair, aces and tens).
UTG+1 has Kc Td (three of a kind, tens).
Outcome: UTG+1 wins 13 BB.

And throw in the perfect storm hands where I have KK and run into AA a couple of times and other assorted nasty things and it is not hard to see where the loss came from. For the most part I am running pretty god damn badly over the last two weeks but yet still managing to win so I can't complain too loudly although getting my teeth kicked in continuously at the 10-20 game has not been a load of fun this week.

BUT---Let's not forget about the 70 or 80 days in a row showing at least a small win---Still one of the more amazing poker stories I have ever heard...........
Kick ass my friend....