Layout Change

So I decided that the last layout was really boring and made me want to change it, so I found a cool wallpaper for it and I have spent the morning importing my widgets on the side into the new HTML, which was kind of a pain in the ass with all of the borders and margins and stuff, but that's all done.

Other than that, I was playing on FullTilt last night for about 15 minutes while I was waiting for friends to get ready to go out and won .58c on the .01/.02 tables, so now I am up to over $2. I am going to start the OFC(OnlineForumChallenge) tourney today on there, but I won't be able to play longer than about 45 minutes because I am going to see a concert, Black Label Society, so that will be fun.

Probably no more poker today, but tomorrow afternoon I plan on playing, so I will update.

Small Profit

So I made $3 playing on a .01/.02c cash table last night for about 15 minutes. I was in the mood for playing a MTT, but I couldn't find one that I liked. I was also playing on UltimateBet's Step to the WSOP Tourney, I was playing Step 4 last night and won, so I won the ticket to Step 5. I played Step 5 today and I got 5th, which gave me a ticket down to Step 2 again, which sucks, but hey, it isn't very often that you play a 9 person SNG that pays out something to the top 6, so I will take it and build my way back up.

I also signed up for Bodog today just to see how it is. I played on it about 5 or 6 years ago and I wasn't that impressed, but we'll see what they can do for me now. Anyways, I am playing a tournament later on tonight that I already registered for, so wish me luck to that, I will try to keep you posted. Also, I am registered to play the OFC tourney tomorrow on FullTilt, but not sure if I will have enough time before a concert that I'm going to. Take it easy peeps.

Problems...

So, I realize I have not posted since like September or something, but my job had been killing me. I was waking up early and by the time I got home, I was drained and the absolute last thing that I wanted to do was sit back down to the computer again. But there is good news, I was promoted and now I have my own office and my hours are not as long(not to mention I get paid tons more), so I will be playing poker a lot more, but some things are changing.

Walker is OUT!!! They have been really sketchy with my winnings lately...my funds have been disappearing and reappearing, and no one can seem to give me a real answer, so I completely withdrew everything from there(that is another story, worst withdrawal experience of my life!) So now I am going to be playing on UltimateBet, Carbon(not much though, same network as Walker), FullTilt and PokerStars. I understand that it is kind of crazy trying to do the 0-10,000 on 4 difference sites, but there are certain things that I like about each site, so all of them have started with $0 bankrolls. From now on I will try to keep everyone a little more updated.

Peace out everyone,
AbsolutHamm

I'm Back

Hey everyone,

So this past week has been difficult as well as far as playing poker. Who would have thought that a job would get in the way so much with poker? I have still be playing a bit, usually only one or two games a night though, and I haven't even really attempted and MTTs just because I have been exhausted after work and don't feel like sitting there for that long.

I think I have found out a workaround for some of the MTTs. freerolls and Buy-Ins, that I want to play though, the PokerSpace and CardsChat ones. I set up my computer so that I can log into it from work as a VNC. Basically what that means is that I can connect to my computer with a program that will let me view my home desktop, and control everything on it while I am at work. Therefore I will be able to open up my Poker sites and sign up for the tourneys, and the program will be open so that I won't get booted after 15 minutes of not being in there for not being logged in. So I am pretty excited about that.

Other than that I am almost at the $70 mark on Walker, which isn't too bad, but I still think I need to start getting into some MTTs with a higher payout than the $14 max possible on the Bounty tournies I have been playing, and that is if I got every single player out. I recently had a discussion with another poker player about whether Bounty Tournies were better than regualr ones, and what came out of it was, sure in a regular tourny, if you win you will win more than in a bounty, unless you get a lot of people out. But in a bounty, you don't neccesarily need to win to make the most money. I have gotten in 3rd place and made more money than the winner of the whole tourney, just because of my bounties. So think what you want about them, lol. Well I think that will be all for tonight.

Bounty Champion

Hey all,
So I haven't been playing as often as I would like. As was said before I had my test last week and then this is my first full week of work, and I am starting a new workout plan that is BRUTAL, so I feel like I have been completely overwhelmed with all kinds of stuff, and I want to play poker the most of all, but there just isn't enough time in the day for a lot of it. I have to drive an hour to work everyday and that isn't so easy on my wallet right now thanks to the damn hurricanes, hopefully it goes down though...

So on to the bankroll. I was smoking tonight in the two tourneys that I played, getting first place in both of them, but the first one I think I only got 3 bounties, so it wasn't anything special. The second one I was on fire. Out of the 10 people in the tourney, I got 8 of them out, and I won, so I got the $8 in Bounty money and I got $5 for winning it, so I was only one player away from running the entire table...(would have tried for him to, but I ended up having 73o when he went all in with two to act behind me).

If you have been reading this blog you will realize that my winnings from tonight don't quite add on correctly to my previous winning balance. That is because I played a little bit drunk and wasn't thinking straight the other day. Kind of pissed about that as I should have just used my UB account for that if I was going to, although I would probably be pissed if I lost money regardless because I was playing like that, but oh well, I made it back tonight. Until next time, peace.

Oh yea, I forgot to mention why I have the title Bounty Champion. They have a Bounty Ranking System on Walker(and Carbon for that matter) and you work your way up through it to Grand Master(Rank 1-10), Master(11-50), Champion(51-100), and Elite(101-200). And I have been teeter-tottering in and out of Elite for the past month and now I shot up to Champion. What that means is if I can keep that position until the 21st, then I will get a coupon to play the $11 buy-in tournament on that Saturday and also, $5 automatic cash. And if I can move up in the ranks some more then those go up to a $60 coupon and $250 cash, but that is for first place, and I am not sure I play enough to get up there. Although if I have a couple more games like tonight....who knows. Take care all!

On A Roll

Hey all,
I know I haven't been on very much, but like I said last time, I have been really busy lately. Tomorrow I have to go all the way down to Springfield, IL to take a state test to become licensed in my field, and that is going to be a pain, so I have been stidying for that. On top of that, I started work today, so that takes up a ton of my time, but it went well, so that is ok.

Even though I have been busy, I have really been on my game, I have won $15 today in just 3 games, winning 2 times and getting 2nd once, so now I am up to $55, a new high and also the first time over $50, so that is pretty exciting. I kind of realized this week that I might need to start entering a couple MTTs so that I can get some real cash, because even though I am going upward, it isn't very fast, and with my original guidelines to follow, it will be a while before I can go up in limits for SNGs, and it sure isn't going very fast with $2 ones.

Maybe later this week or even next week I will start being more aggressive with the challenge because my test will be over so I might have a little more time. I will not be playing at all tomorrow or Wednesday during the day I know, so you won't hear from me until at least then. Til then good luck at the tables while my head's in the books. Later

Weekend Update

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't really been updating as much as I was before. I have been studying quite a bit for a test that I have to take next Wednesday that is going to be hard as hell. I have still been playing, but my swings have been going up and down and pretty much evened me out at $42. Really I have just been playing the Bounty SNGs, but I have played a couple of forum freerolls.

One of the freerolls that I played in earlier today I got out in 24th place, right on the bubble, so that kind of sucked. Then I played another freeroll, which I was the chipleader for the first 3 levels, then I had to go work on my car, changing the oil line, hoping it wouldn't take very long, but it did. So by the time I got back, I was down to 1.2 BB left, so I was forced to go all-in on Ace high. But I might play some more on Sunday. Til then good luck!