Well I hit my goal of +$1500 in poker before May. However, I've been thinking with the priorities in life given my current financial situation and my upcoming expenditures that I probably shouldn't piss 2k out the window. Could I afford it, yes. Do I want to be potentially strapped for a few months, not really. To be perfectly blunt, I need a car which is something I've wanted since The Fast and The Furious came out, the 1st one with Paul Walker sporting the '96 Eclipse. Along with that I want to move out of the fraternity and have a legit apartment where I don't need to worry about drunk people stealing stuff, but mostly so I can cook in a clean kitchen. That being said, I'm looking at ~$20k in expenses between car and first/last/security for an apartment. I just got my taxes back and with the poker money, I have enough to cover a down payment for a car to take out a minimal loan and enough to cover the apartment upfront fees.
If somebody still wants to toss me $500 for the WSOP event in June, I'm very persuadable. But onto the poker updates which have been driving this blog for the time being.
I went to Mohegan on Saturday the 24th knowing I was going to play 1/2 and grind out for 12+ hours. I sold action to a buddy in FL for a straight 20%/20% split. Throughout the session I got rivered twice by 3 and 4 outters in $200+ pots and still walked away a $400 winner on the day. $400 does not equal $1500 +, I know. I had a clause with FL friend that said if I hit high hand i'd give him an additional 200 bucks. I cut ties and called it a night around midnight. I transferred him back his $40 plus $80 in profits I made for him. I also had a clause with my friend Marek who came to Mohegan with me that we'd split high hand jackpot so the winner would give the other 10% up to $200. Well let's be honest, I got drunk in celebration after midnight waiting for them to finish up, wandered around then got bored. I decided to take $100 and go play 1/1 to sober up before driving home. I sure did sober up after waiting til 5am to leave.
The 1/1 game was soft and the lady to my right hated me off the start cuz I was talking with the players (3 of which I had played with before, including one UMass kid). I got AA twice within 15 minutes of sitting down. Those weren't the big winners. Somebody raised 3 bucks early position and about 7 of us called. I was in the cut off with 9c8c. Flop came out, in order of the cards being unstacked as the dealer flipped them over, 7c 8c Jc. Yatzee. First thought I had "shit, is the pot big enough?" I looked, the dealers had set aside the $1 for the high hand and taken out $2 for rake. bingo, I'm qualified, lets just extract money. Checks around. turn is a 7h. Beauty, I hope somebody hit a boat or trips or something. Checks to me, i bet 11 and get 2 callers. river is a 5c. Even better since the Ac likely would call that turn bet and now think they're good. Checks to me again, I fire $22 and get 2 folds. I flip my cards over and call the floor before the dealer can even get a chance to. I hit that at 2:20 and immediately went and told my friends. (i'm a bit of a showboat). 2 hours an 40minutes later I got paid out a nice $2400 high hand jackpot.
In the next couple weeks I probably won't be able to hit up Mohegan due to Alum events for the fraternity and golf but I'll sit on it for a while and make some moves to get a car/apartment lined up.
I ended up busting out of the $109 main event on sports book with QQ all in pre vs AK. he turned K. then i titlted away the rest of my money on .25/.50. I honestly don't see myself playing online any more. I'd rather spend my time blogging/programming/golfing. Plus live is so much more profitable. Maybe when PS or FTP ever come back, count me in.
Last night I did drop $110 at the weekly .25/.50 game. I played well but the cards said no. I had two straights get smoked by flushes (all river). I had 2nd set vs top pair vs lone flush draw and the kid hit a river flush after 3 way all in on flop. I had two times where I had top pair and floated an aggro kid to river and he rivered two pair. I had top trips top kicker get boated on the turn. And to cap the night I had KK all in pre when I was short stacked vs AA. The way I see it is I lost $16 on each of those hands which I'm not mad about. Plus the high light of my night was straddling $10 blind after busting. Got two callers. board was 2-10-8-K-K. First caller showed AK. 2nd caller mucked. I flipped over one card at a time. K was the first card. Table got interested now. 9 cards to win, 3 to split. I curled up the corner slowly, bink, 10. #winning #donk.
That is all. I will be spending more time between now and June programming the Pollis since we fired our incompetent developers. Next blog posts may be about golf gambling
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