Chips....or GTFO

So I'm heading down to the Borgata tonight for a friend's birthday and I'll be there tomorrow too for some pokers. If anyone wants to meet up down there or something PM me here. Though tonight I may be too drunk to notice.

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So I've decided to post this here, because its easier to link to my friends this way. Let's see if I can do a little better than I did in March.

Poker:
20k hands (I'll shoot a bit lower this time.)
Gold Star
+$2k in AC
stop being 'loose Bill' at the home game
nothing but NLHE cash for the whole month

Non-poker:
Be running 10 miles/week by the end of the month
Not spewing on anything unnecessary other than going out to eat/getting drunk (and running shoes)

Also, there are some bad April Fool's jokes on the internets.

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So I decided to set some goals for myself for March:

On March 01 2009 09:24 JerseyMuscle wrote: Poker goals for March: [] Gold Star (which should be easier now) [] Playing NL50 regularly [] Playing 40k hands [] Mastering O8 and Stud8 to beat the soft 10/20 2-way at the Borgata [] Not playing NL100+ or PLO50+ when I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything at these lower limits Life goals for March: [] Not spewing on anything unnecessary other than going out to eat/get drunk.

...and yeah, I didn't do too well.

-Gold Star? I didn't really play much at all this month for whatever reason, and didn't make it to Gold Star. Somehow with my limited number of hands I made it a little over halfway, which seems silly to me because last month was the first month I made Silver, which I guess will happen when you move up like I have, and aren't playing NL2/NL5/NL10 anymore. Sweet. Next month for sure.
-Playing NL50 regularly? This one is a win, though not through playing, so it's probably not. Around mid-March I cashed out a large portion of my roll, and when I put it back on I put more in there than I cashed out. This gave me a roll for NL50, though not through poker. So I'm calling this one a win, mainly because I didn't do well at the other goals.
-Playing 40k hands? lol. Try 4364. For whatever reason I only played 9 sessions this month, which is entirely too low. Some of them weren't even that long. I don't know why, but I haven't regained my focus and desire to play online, so hopefully that comes back.
-Mastering O8 and Stud8 to beat the soft 10/20 2-way at the Borgata? Eh, I've been reading more about the games, but I don't think this should be a priority for now. FWIW I did play about an hour of this at the Borgata and ended up down $200, so I'll take this one as a loss.
-Not playing NL100+ or PLO50+ when I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything at these lower limits? lol. Well, when I cashed out most of my roll I left $80 online, and one night while drinking I made some bad decisions. First I sat with the $80 at NL400 and turned it into $460. Sweet. Then I saw a shortstacker at a NL400HU table, so I sat with him and he dumped about $120 to me. Sweet again. Then I saw another one at NL600HU, so I stacked him for $120. Tres sweet. Now, instead of doing the smart thing and taking my $700 and again having my roll, I decided to be a degen. I really almost sat HU with RaSZi at NL600HU and gave him a $700 present, but I decided I would play another shortstacker at NL1kHU. Problem was he just was owning me. And while I wasn't paying attention he kept reloading a little at a time to cover me. Well, after spewing like $200 I decided I was getting up, and played my last hand. I didn't think he had the flush, and he did, so I was wrong for my last $500. So that was fun. So the next morning I made sure to lock myself out of anything about NL50, which is probably a good idea going forward. It was only $80 anyway, right? lol.
-Not spewing on anything unnecessary other than going out to eat/get drunk? Eh, I'm not quite sure what to call this one. I did buy all 4 seasons of Entourage on DVD, but I got them all while they were on sale. I'm going to call it a loss though, just for motivational purposes.

At this point I'm running at .42BB/100, though the sample size is incredibly small. I'm also running ~7 BI below expectation, so I expect that number to come up at some point. Here are my stats, though it's missing a BI I lost at a friend's house:

I'd like to get that PFR up a little more, ideally to about 19, and I've been playing more aggressive in the last 2 sessions. Anything people see that would help, or what you were running at NL50 would be appreciated. The accompanying graph as well:


Live play is going fairly well imo. The 2/5 at the Borgata is incredibly soft. This month's AC trips:
3/7 Borgata - +$1505(2/5)
3/11 Caesers - -$1000(2/5)
3/11 Ballys - +$700(BJ)
3/12 Borgata - +2140(2/5), +$75(BJ), -$75(Slots)
3/14 Borgata - -$1400(2/5), -$200(10/20 O8/S8), +$255(1/2)
3/21 Borgata - +340(2/5), -$140(1/2), +$145(2/5PLO), -$370(HEB)
March- $1585(2/5), +$115(1/2), +$145(2/5PLO), -$200(10/20 O8/S8), +$775(BJ), -$370(HEB), -$75(Slots)
March- $1975 overall

The Caeser's game was so different than the Borgata game, and I missed a couple big draws so I lost two buyins and left to play blackjack. The table I had on 3/14 was just brutal, though I didn't know until after I had lost a decent amount of money. There was one guy who coolered me pretty hard (set of kings on the turn vs. flopped set of aces) for a ~$1600 pot. Then this guy just went nuts and was three and four-betting so light. At one point someone called him and they checked through for this guy to show down 82o for a $220 4-bet PF. So I got it in against him with AJ for a stack and he of course had AK. Then I got it in with T8 on an 8222x board only for him to have TT. He turned out to be a 5/10 regular who will occasionally play 10/20+ so that kind of sucked. He just ran so hot that night. On that table was another 5/10 reg, two 2/5 regs, and two high-limit limit players, one who plays 40/80, and one who plays 80/160. Yeah, when I found most of this out later it kind of sucked, but at least I know for next time. If you play blackjack at Bally's, the Lucky Ladies bet or whatever made me like $300, even though its such a sucker bet. Any 20 pays 4:1, any suited 20 pays 9:1, any same-card 20s (ie. JsJs) pays 19:1, QhQh pays 125:1, and QhQh when the dealer has a blackjack pays 1000:1. Pretty standard sucker bet, but when you're already kind of counting 10s, you know when its better to make the bet. Also, never playing Hold 'Em Bonus again.

I'm probably done with poker for the month, so that's where I stand. In the coming days I hope to make an April goals list, which includes multiple nights of binge drinking for my birthday and my friend's girlfriend's birthday. One of the goals may be staying alive. GL LP.

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