Happy New Years

Happy Early New Years everyone! For some people in Europe I might be fairly close, but I'm still about 10 hours away. Although only about 2 hours away from starting to party for it!

So the last couple weeks have been very exciting for me, and that is part of the reason that I haven't posted at all. On December 22nd, the Tuesday before Christmas, I proposed to my girlfriend to marry me, and she of course said yes. I did it as a huge surprise for her as well. We both live in Chicago, but her family is from Austin, Texas and she was going down there for the holidays. Well, I flew in earlier than she did so that I could get her parents permission and then surprise her when she walked in the door and I was there on one knee. It took me a couple months of planning and a LOT of lying to her to make sure she had absolutely no clue(I was really afraid someone in her family would slip up). I then spent the rest of the week there with them and it couldn't have been a better Christmas. I might try to post some pictures a little later, but I don't have them here at work.

On to poker. I really haven't played too much, and when I have, I have been having a bad run. I have bubbled out of the last 5 Bodog $8.80 tournaments that I have played in and I can't figure out what's going on. I do great until right before the bubble then I just start spewing chips. I need to reevaluate what's going on. Also, I have been having a lot of people end up screwing me on my big hands with hands they should have never called with. Today I was dealt AA with a medium/short stack and a guy that just barely had me covered called with 97s. He ended up making his flush(which I had the Ace for), but why would you call that right on the bubble? I can't figure this play out. I wish I could get REAL hand histories for Bodog so I could go over them, but Bodog's software sucks and won't let you.

I played very little on FullTilt, but I did have the opportunity to play on there from about 35,000ft, which was pretty cool. On my way back from Austin, I got free WIFI and played the entire time on FT in Matrix tournaments, one which I cashed in all 4, the other which I busted in all 4, so I broke even. It was just a cool way to pass the time on a plane.

Well, I am done for today. I just found out that I get to leave work early, so I am taking off in about 4 minutes. It's time to partay!! Have a great night everyone. Don't do anything I wouldn't do ;)

Updates and Goodies

Take one goody away and I give another. So I have been trying to update the Hand Distribution Calculator that I had on the sidebar, but the Javascript widget that Blogger includes is for some reason not compatible with my code and I don't know why. I have it working on my side, just not when I paste it into their screen, so who knows what is going on. I will try to make some kind of a work around, otherwise it might have to wait until I start hosting my own site, which is in the back of my head for down the road. Blogger is just too limited, and I can't host files and everything, just gets kind of annoying...especially since I have run my own websites before where I had all of the control I wanted.

So the new goody... It's a Hold'em Manager Stat Guide(can be used for any poker tracking software, just different stat names). It's officially my gift to the members of CardsChat.com that I wrote for my 1000th post there. I wrote it as a gift because of all the knowledge that has been passed on to me through my reading and writing of posts on there. My poker skills have improved multi-fold because I have so many great minds pretty much at my fingertips at the forums. So I will be keeping the updated version of the file located on the sidebar, I say updated because I plan on taking any suggestions into cosideration to make changes to it, because I know that how I have my stats set-up, may no be the best way, or 100% correct. So please let me know on the forums of any changes you think should be made here, Special 1K Post: Holdem Manager Stat Guide.

That is all for tonight, after that I am tired of typing. Peace out for now!

First Off... Money

Hey everyone. First, I'll start off by saying Happy Holidays, they sure have been good for me so far, and I have been really busy, both with playing poker and trying to roll out some new things. I'll talk about poker in this post and leave the other subjects for subsequent posts. So since December has started, I have been going positive just about anywhere I have played. On Bodog, I have been killing the $8 tournaments, making about $190 so far this month.

On UltimateBet, I got 6th place in a CardsChat.com member buy-in tournament for ~$18. Earlier today I also played in Joe Seeb's 1 Million Twitter Follower Buy-In because there was so much added. Huge bounty's on UB Pro's and big prizes if the final table was made. Well, I started off really slow, losing about 1/3rd of my chips in the first 15 minutes on someone going for a 2 outer and hitting it. I actually got all the way down to only 150 chips right after the first break and brought it back to 1000 over the chip average to 3500. A little later on I stupidly got involved with another big stack at the table where I had top two pair on the flop, Aces and 10's, and lost to the other guy's set of 4's that he hit on the flop, and that knocked me out. Overall, I was sure I had the hand, there were no straight or flush draws on board, just couldn't see him having that. I went out in about 350th place out of ~900 and it paid around top 160, so I was kind of bummed about that.

On FullTilt, I have been playing my cash games here and there and matrix games here and there. Not as much as I would want though, mainly because when I sit down to play a cash game, I would like to be able to play for at least a couple hours, but I can't always find that time. All of the holiday festivities have been keeping me too busy, lol, still in the positive though.

Also, I just broke another milestone, this month I passed the $1000 mark, so I am officially 1/10th of the way there. I know that it was definitely longer than a year, but who gives a fuck. I have a job that I have to pay more attention to and I have been able to make that on top of it, so that's perfectly fine with me. Well, that is all for this post, now on to the next.