No poker (yet) this week.
No poker (yet) this week, which continues a vacancy streak from the game that I've only broken in the past two weeks with a single SNG session, and a live game during the last Ultimate Fighting event.
The homegame we rolled for UFC 58, while lower stakes than usual, was a lot of fun, moreso than any of my recent homegame tournaments. I modified the format to be T1000 in starting chips, blinds starting at 5/10, 15 minute levels jumping 5/10, 10/20, 20/40, 25/50, 30/60, 40/80, then jumping to thirty minute levels at 50/100, 75/150, 100/200 and would have jumped to 200/400 if necessary. This gave people the ability to play a lot of poker early, with no one really getting blinded off until we made the jump to 50/100. Then the 30-minute levels allowed for a lot of poker to be played at the final table, with much less concern for the blinds increasing and just more focus on playing poker. Highlights along the way include dropping the Krabbler on Cujofan to bluff him out of a pot, complete with doing the crab dance standing on my chair, and then Dross dropping Quadzilla on me a few hands later, complete with Godzilla roar and stomping around the table. Tournament legend and fellow Kansas City resident Rizen was also able to attend, and made his way to the final table before getting cracked out. Anyways Dross and I ended up chopping first and second place for a $100 payday each, a nice little sweetener on the evening's festivities.
As far as online poker goes, I've played exactly one session in the past two weeks. Its been really sad. I have this strange, bad tendancy to get away from the game when i'm running really well. The weekend of Feb 11th-12th I go on a pretty good tear, including two MTT cashes, and then I don't play much poker for two weeks. Last Thursday/Friday I did manage a SNG session of 12 games. I started four tabling the $55s, and actually ended up dropping back down to the 33s by the end: I ran a consecutive 12 games out of the money which is my worst OOTM streak so far (thanks PokerTracker for the stats). I was running "short money" on Party anyways, being short from a combination of spreading the bankroll around multiple sites so I can start focusing on MTTs on the various sites more frequently, as well as having intentionally withdrawn the significant portion of my bankroll to pay some real-world bills and intending to redeposit around the end of March. Well, this downswing combined with the withdrawls means I'm currently too short on Party to realistically play the $55s (considering the portion of my bankroll i've got reserved for multitable tournament entries). I'm going to have to grind it out at the $33s unless I can hit another major MTT score or until the end of the month when I can drop another couple grand back in to Party.
The homegame we rolled for UFC 58, while lower stakes than usual, was a lot of fun, moreso than any of my recent homegame tournaments. I modified the format to be T1000 in starting chips, blinds starting at 5/10, 15 minute levels jumping 5/10, 10/20, 20/40, 25/50, 30/60, 40/80, then jumping to thirty minute levels at 50/100, 75/150, 100/200 and would have jumped to 200/400 if necessary. This gave people the ability to play a lot of poker early, with no one really getting blinded off until we made the jump to 50/100. Then the 30-minute levels allowed for a lot of poker to be played at the final table, with much less concern for the blinds increasing and just more focus on playing poker. Highlights along the way include dropping the Krabbler on Cujofan to bluff him out of a pot, complete with doing the crab dance standing on my chair, and then Dross dropping Quadzilla on me a few hands later, complete with Godzilla roar and stomping around the table. Tournament legend and fellow Kansas City resident Rizen was also able to attend, and made his way to the final table before getting cracked out. Anyways Dross and I ended up chopping first and second place for a $100 payday each, a nice little sweetener on the evening's festivities.
As far as online poker goes, I've played exactly one session in the past two weeks. Its been really sad. I have this strange, bad tendancy to get away from the game when i'm running really well. The weekend of Feb 11th-12th I go on a pretty good tear, including two MTT cashes, and then I don't play much poker for two weeks. Last Thursday/Friday I did manage a SNG session of 12 games. I started four tabling the $55s, and actually ended up dropping back down to the 33s by the end: I ran a consecutive 12 games out of the money which is my worst OOTM streak so far (thanks PokerTracker for the stats). I was running "short money" on Party anyways, being short from a combination of spreading the bankroll around multiple sites so I can start focusing on MTTs on the various sites more frequently, as well as having intentionally withdrawn the significant portion of my bankroll to pay some real-world bills and intending to redeposit around the end of March. Well, this downswing combined with the withdrawls means I'm currently too short on Party to realistically play the $55s (considering the portion of my bankroll i've got reserved for multitable tournament entries). I'm going to have to grind it out at the $33s unless I can hit another major MTT score or until the end of the month when I can drop another couple grand back in to Party.
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