Frustration

Well, that barely felt like a weekend.

Great Indian food on Friday night, and general vegging afterwards. Saturday saw an easy day followed up with a multi-birthday party that will likely cap off the annual early summer birthday rush.

Who throws a party and doesn't put the booze out? It resulted in many of the gifted bottles of wine being opened as options were still in a cabinet in the corner. If you don't want people drinking your booze, four little letters let people prepare appropriately. It's better than being passive-aggressive or lazy, whichever it was.

Sunday was a late wakeup (let's say 3ish, with me finally decided to walk at 4ish). I opted to fire up some poker for the first time in a few days. $25k NLHE guarantee was fun, with me bouncing all over the place for a while before settling down with a well-above average stack. I like my play, but in the end went out with 60 or so to the money. Out in the 200's with 1800 starting. Ah well.

Latest RNG lesson learned? I will win a race as the odds dictate when someone is playing their ace aggressively (ie.- QQ vs AK, and the AK is re-raising, betting the all-under flop, etc.). I will lose a race if I put A-rag-off all-in and they make the crying call pre-flop from the blinds... every time.

Also played the $2 rebuy satellite to the 50-50, won a seat easily, and unregistered for the T$, since I was tired of HE for the day, and another multi-hour flipfest wasn't appealing. Instead, I used half the T$ to buy into the $5k PLO nightly game.

Which I spent most of in the top 10, regularly showing up in 1st on the list, and ALWAYS being at the table of whoever the chipleader was when I wasn't. I really liked my play in the game, but once the bubble burst, I saw my stack disappear rapidly to donks who suddenly didn't care. 2nd pair would hold against my multiple draws. AAxx DS would fall to KQJ5 with 3 of one suit. I quickly found myself on the rail in the 20's or 30's without a decision I regretted. It was mildly frustrating, but on the flipside, I got to go to sleep and realized how mentally tired I was from 3 donk-filled games in a row (yah, there's a reason I don't do crazy multitabling).

Which doesn't mean I won't be back.

A side note, farewell to the The Donkament. I'm sad to see it go, but understand the reason why. Another bloggerment bites the dust.

Not that I don't expect it to show up again on Kat's birthdays though.

GL to the donkeys bloggers in the ME. LJ's in Day 2 if I recall. I think Lucko plays today. Not sure who else is out there playing, but if you go deep, I'm sure we'll all hear about it.

And GL to Pauly, Change100, Otis, F-Train, Al, and everyone else walking through the Amazon rivers of donkey blood in their efforts to provide us weaklings with coverage. The end of the tunnel is near guys... just keep dodging the trains.

3rd in a 10-Cent Rebuy

After missing the first numblowme event, I wasn't about to miss the second.

What? You want strategy on a $0.10 rebuy turbo? Please. I pushed almost every hand, went all over the place, and then built such a monster stack that I was in NO danger at my table, because everybody else had starting chips at my table. Then I went on a run and ended the first hour well in first.

That held until around the final table, when Schaubs and I kept switching between 1st and 2nd. We got to 3 with Stoner and he came from behind and clobbered us both. To say it was a fun way to win $25 is an understatement. Around 1.5 million chips in play and no care about the money makes for some... interesting situations.

Donkament tonight. $1 rebuy, 9pm EST @ Full Tilt, PW: Donkarama.

At Least There Was Money

Alright, I'm done with my last post. The short of it is that I won over $300 last night between winning the donkament (let's say I put around $10 in) and getting 3rd in the MATH. Why is it every time I reload my account I go on a hot streak? The weekend also had some decent wins and my SnG game has seen some cashes as well again. Go figure.

So that's not bad. My BBT ROI is still negative (down about $66), but one cash can turn that around. The 131 points last night don't hurt either, although they're useless for this month. That's alright.

If anything, I'm much more focused of late, which is good with an Omaha game tonight. It could be the last Skill game I play this cycle, with HORSE next week and Stud 8 the week after, two games I'm not that fond of.

Anyway, I had a couple good suckouts last night, but most of my success came from aggression and getting my big hands paid off. I probably broke even on the number of races won/lost.

And on a previous theme - before my Donkament win and Hoy 3rd? Breaded tilapia (egg, flour, crumbs, ground lemongrass, dill, rosemary, garlic, salt, pepper, fresh parmesan), sweet potato home fries (oregano, basil, garlic, worcester sauce, olive oil, salt & pepper), snow peas and broccoli (steamed). Chocolate cake for dessert.

Tonight might involve chicken, potato, and green beans. I've got a bit of a BBQ craving.

Donkament Fun

Pictures speak for themselves... oh, and I didn't win.