Going home soon

The summer hasn't been all I'd hoped for this year. I wanted to make at least 50k for June/July, but I haven't even broken even this year. I've dumped some money unnecessarily in the pits which is a poker player's worst enemy and have 2 measly tourney cashes with some horrible flip bad juices for big stacks in those tourneys. The only thing keeping my summer afloat is the online pokers. Liquid cash hurts more to lose cause you actually feel it going away. I've only had one losing day online this summer which is pretty sick. I've gotten some decent 10/20 action and played my best and profits are good. Yesterday was a pretty standard sunday, min cash a tourney or two and brick everything else. I had a decent run going in the ub200k but lost kings to 9s all in pre and that was the end of that. There is a 1500 wsop tourney today that I might play.... i'm really not sure. The wifey and her sister are on an all day helicopter tour of grand canyon today, so I hope they have fun. I hate heights and aircrafts in general so it's just not for me.

I'm feeling pretty discouraged and disappointed with the results the summer has brought, but there's always next year right? I've pretty much decided I'm not going to play the main event either.

WSOP sinkage continues

The tourneys are pretty much a laughing joke to me. Build up a nice stack and lose every flip known to poker and bust.... that's the story of my wsop tourneys. the series is over half over and I have 2 measly cashes. I mean if it wasn't for online, i'd be stuck 25-30k and be flying home already, but online has been kind. Yesterday, i played the 1500nl event. You start with 4500 chips and i built up to 36k by 150/300/25 which is a ton of chips. I lost a flip 1010 to AK to get to 70k and then lost AQ to KQ which is also rigged and finally shoved 99 over a raise and dude behind me has aces. gg. thanks for the waste of 11 hours of my life. At least my Mrs D is here. :)

Live tourneys are still rigged, online is good

Been crushing pretty good online lately. It's been really nice in the office because there will be 4 or 5 people playing and we can all communicate about hands and discuss strategy with eachother from all angles of poker. There are tourney guys, rush poker guys, full ring, 6 max and then heads up guys. I'm excited because Mrs. D (the wifey) flys in tomorrow night. :) I haven't seen my wife in almost a month. Other than online, I bricked the 1k on Saturday - really couldn't get anything going and shoved 66 over a limp and guy behind me had QQ and I didn't catch up, but I did do well in a 5/10 cash game before the tourney started. i'm still down like 16k liquid, but I'm up about that online so it's all good. I played a guy at 10.20 yesterday for 3-4 hours and started down 6k then ended +7.5k on him before he quit. I've just recently been starting to sit at 10/20 so the swings are pretty brutal sometimes, but you can really clear some big profits if you game select and play your best.

Been playing a lot of ping pong in the house with the housemates and we went out a few times to some steakhouses and once to blue martini for cougar night. Funny to watch the youngster housemates try to pick up on the girls. We've taken some badass limos around town as well as it's cheaper to just pay for a big limo then get 2 taxis to the strip.

I'm not sure how many more events I'm going to play this year. It's been pretty frustrating as the fields are super soft yet I haven't made a deep run yet. We'll see though... there are just a few short weeks left....

Golfing in Vegas other random stuff drunk SNGs

4 of us from the house golfed yesterday at Rhodes Ranch golf club here in Vegas. It was an awesome sick course, pretty challenging with some nice greens. Price wasn't too bad either. I had 2 birdies on the round which was pretty nice. Tonight I have some friends going to a wine bar so I might join them. I'm having some serious laptop problems so I have to run up to best buy to either have the geek squad fix this lagging problem or just buy a new one. Also need to find a place in vegas for a haircut.

We've been playing 100.00 house SNGs every night. I won one and got HU with kyle last night but he owned me pretty hard and scooped the house. Tomorrow is the 1500 which I'm probably going to play. One of us really needs to go deep in something. It's really fun to be on the rail of your friends deep in a tourney. I want to be that guy that is deep in the tourney though. We set a goal for our office of 200k for the summer. There are 7 of us total and we range from 1/2 6 max grinders to Derrick who plays 25/50 and up. I think I'm up the most so far :) so let's just hope it continues!!

Live from Vegas

It's been a frustrating start to the WSOP for me this year. It's my first year playing an almost full schedule of events. I have one cash so far in a 1500.00 and then I cashed the 1600 at Venetian, but overall I'm down 14k on the trip. We just moved into our house yesterday and all the guys are really cool and easy to get along with. Most of us went out to XS night club at Encore. I'm the senior of the group at 29 as most of them are 23-25, plus i'm the only married one (well jason is pretty much married) so I guess I have to keep my fatherly eye on them to keep them in order. It's okay though.... I'm not a huge fan of nightclubs. They are overpriced for entrance, overpriced for drinks and it's so crowded just bumping into people.... it's really not my thing, plus I grew out of that stage of life a while ago.

We got our office set up though and I ran awful today, but played people worse than I ran so had a good day yesterday and today clearing 10k. I withdrew money before the series to buy into events, so it's nice to recover the bankroll a bit. It's hard being away from the wife (and the dog) but she's coming out next week which I'm super excited for. I'm so fortunate to have a supportive and understanding wife. She loved me when I had 100.00 to my name and always tells me that she'd live in a cardboard box with me if that's what it took. You can't beat that. I plan on playing a few more events but still haven't locked up my 10k main event seat yet. Hopefully that comes soon. I'll try to keep this updated throughout the series.

Mover