So I am still kinda swimming around with the low limit fishes, probably for a while until I can get myself back on my feet financially (so likely not until the house is sold). But I have been doing well in the mean time. I deposited $100 a little over a month in and have turned it into over $400, which is a good feeling. That has been coupled with NO lawfish moments - unless you count sitting at the $100 NL table a LF moment, which I don't, because I wasn't chasing loses per se.

Anyway, I decided to retool my tracking spreadsheet, and included one of these niffty little charts in it:

http://www.geocities.com/patrickbj/recent.JPG

It actually goes back 1 full year, with a 3 and 6 month divider in there. But I wasn't all that good at keeping track until about 2 months ago, so the numbers are fairly inacurrate. Another thing about that chart is that it includes the $215 MTT I played for douglan in there, and also the SNG where I won the seat, so the numbers are slightly slanted toward SNGs and away from MTTs, which is important to note since there is a large positive in SNGs and large negative in MTTs.

Well, it has been a while since I have gotten around to getting an update on here.  As you will see, I have been very busy!

I will start with the me section:

ME!

Life has been crazy here.  We listed our house on Tuesday, which means we had to get the house ready to go before then.  So last friday up until right about at 2:00 on Tuesday when the papers were signed (and a little bit after that), we were cleaning, organizing, painting, cleaning, and organizing again.  Then it was all the little things like putting things away so that house looked less clutterly and therefore bigger.  Needless to say we had some very sore muscles a few of those mornings.  So the house got put up on Tuesday, and we showed it for the first time  yesterday.  That was exciting, and we have a few more showings and an open house this weekend.  My house has never been so clean and organized.  It looks great!  Anyway, that, and looking for an apartment in Boston has eaten most of my life up. 

POKER

Yes, despite all this, I have found time for the game I love.  I have been playing mostly as a distraction, hitting the $5 and $10 SNGs, but the 1 and the 2 tables.  That has been a nice release for me while all the craziness has been going on.  I have been mixing it up with $100NL cash games, and luckily I haven't been stacked yet, so the bankroll is still holding steady in the low 3 figures, which is fine by me for now.  I really don't have the cash to be tossing around anyway.

I will cut it short for the day.  I don't really have many comments on politics and sports.  I did watch the state of the union on tuesday night along with all the comedy that provides.  But I am not sure I have any new puns of comments that one could not find on google or yahoo.  =)

Me!

For those that have not heard the good news...I decided to accept the job offer in Boston!  Yay!  I think the thing I am most excited about is that this is a chance to start over.  Pretty much the only constants in this move will be:
My girlfriend.

And that's about it.  Yeah, I'll still probably keep most of the same furnature I have.  But i killed lawfi5h on the AO.  I am going to kill my stars accounts.  This is a chance to start all over.  So I want to take it.  I am very excited about that aspect of it.  Don't get me wrong, I'll probably still be playing poker, both online and in B&M (translated, at foxwoods).  Bot it won't be under lawfive....or lawfi5h.  ;)

Sports
Boring football weekend.  I am sure one of those games was not boring if you were a fan of the winning team.  Being a devout Browns fan, I wanted to cheer against the steelers, but I am a Big Ben fan, so my loyalties were conflicted, and the tie breaker was the fact that I hate the Broncos, too.  So I didn't mind seeing the Steelers win that game.  I could not care less about the NFC game, I just wanted to see an exciting matchup, which also led to disappointment.  Sigh.  Oh well.  There is always hockey, I suppose.

Poker
What football lacked in excitement yesterday, poker made up for, and then some.  After I gave up on the NFC game, I came down to check on freeman, since I knew he was average stack with 300 players to go.  When I came down he was top 20 with 90 to go.  So I settled in for some fun!  After watching his heartbreaking final table bubble finish for 10th, I got another treat:  watching that final table.  With so many chips in play and the blinds being frozen, it had the potential to be boring.  But the eventual winner didn't even participate in the chop talk, so it gave me a chance to watch them duke it out for over $160K.  That, to me, was solid entertainment.

Politics
I really have been too busy with the job stuff to notice much about what is going on, except I did notice on the sunday morning talk shows (from flipping through them) that Gore and Kerry were back at it again.  I really don't know what they were on those shows for, but I suspect it was the wire tapping thing.  A message to the dems...next time send other people.  The message instantly loses credibility when those 2 send it.  Just a thought.

That Jeffo Guy gave me a brilliant idea....

For future reference:

Partypoker will now be known as the restroom, or toilet, depending on my mood.

FTP will be "da club" as in "in da club".

Stars will be the penthouse. Maybe party should be the "outhouse"...that would be a good complement to Stars.

Anyway...there will soon be new usernames out there. As they say, don't toss the baby out with the bathwater. Well I intend to do just that. Stay tuned...

As I still think I need an outlet to the world, I think I will use this as my own space, try to post twice a week or so, and let you know what is going on in my life a little bit too.

I think I'll try to break it up into a few categories:  Poker, Political, Sports, ME!

Example:

Poker

The debate around Gigabets new SNG bet is quite acadmenic.  For those fellow actuaries who have sat for course 4, you may remember a small section on Ruin Theory - or Gambler's ruin.  Given a certain mean and standard devision, you can use a formula to derive expectation and the probability of ruin.  What makes this problem challenging is you have to consider the buy in being large enough to actually buy in.  I think with small modifications, one could use this to calculate gigabet's expection.  Of course, you'd have to know his mean and std deviation, which would be easily calculated if you knew his place distribution.

Alternatively, one could work to prove this is a positive EV bet for him (regardless of magnitude), but considering assuming the probability of ruin to be 50%, and back into his mean and std deviation, or provide a range, and thus state that his mean and std dev. are very likely above that. 

Just some food for thought...

Politics

So OBL has a new tape out, huh?  And he claims that it is not the security at home, but the fact that they have turned their attention to Iraq that has been the reason for a lull in attacks here in America.  Sounds like a victory for Bush.  That provided time to beef up security. 

Sports

So....ESPN said the Indians are likely to win the AL this year (said that after the world series).  So what exactly are they doing in the offseason to make this true?  Hmmmm

ME!

I got a job offer, which is good news.  But I am still mulling it over.  I have a lot to consider, and it feels like gambling to say no with no other offers on the table.  We shall see

Anyway....that is just a quick example.  I expect more insight into other things besides poker, but I wanted to provide an example of whats up.

Thanks for hanging in there!

Hey, you guys may not care, but this blog will run as my documentation of my goals for the remainder of 2005:

1) Lose 30 pounds
2) Finish painting my bathroom, the living room, and the half bath
3) Eat healthier
4) Stay on top of daily chores like cleaning the kitchen and keeping my bed room straightened up.

I'll add more as I can think of them.

...and so resurfaces the "lawfish moment".

I don't want to disclose how much I got stuck for this weekend. Lets just say it coulda paid for 2 events in WSOP-Indiana. And to that end, I am the most pissed at myself and the bad beats.

The last bad beat I took:

don't feel like getting the hand history, but it was a $350 pot on 1/2NL. I have ATh, villian has T9o, flop is T87, 2 hearts. We get it all in right here. He has 8 clean outs and I have lots of redraw outs. Feel free to run the numbers but I guess it is 75/25.

Stupid fucker catches his 6 on the river. I literally pulled the plug from my computer when the pot went his way.

I can't begin to tell you how mad I am with myslf right now. I put that anger to good use. I emailed every poker site I have ever played on and asked them to pull the plug on my accounts. Pokerstars has already obliged. Waiting to hear back from FT and party.

So this blog will keep going, but it will not involve poker...not at least the online game.

I hate weekends.

I hate them very very much.

Weekend update...down almost 2 hundy.

Add 1 part donkey play, 1 part "second best hand syndrome", 1 part suckout. Mix it all together and bake at "tilt" degrees and you have a piping fresh bad weekend.

I swear, I think I am gonna stick to weekday play. It wasn't even all on FT either. Transferred my $600 over on stars to get the bonus. But a lot of it was on FT.

Maybe there is something to this "withdraw consiracy" theory.......

Tuesday-

Didn't play much. FT was down most of the night, and I hadn't played much before it went down.

Wednesday-

Played for a little bit, but not a whole lot. I think I walked away up $30 or so.

Thursday-

Sat for a while at one table. Somehow managed to escape on the turn with QQ against AK (flop was AKx) for ONLY $14 dropped (.5/1 NL 6 max). That was my moral victory of the day (he showed it after I folded) since I dropped $20 on the day between that and 2 multis.

I think I have figured out why I like full tilts NL 6 max tables (at least at the $1 big blind level). The fish bet strong with top pair, or some players just TPTK. But then they bet like $1 or $2 with their sets and two pairs....and they min raise A LOT. Yeah, I might only make the hand I am chasing 1 in 20 times, but they pay me off for their whole bankroll. It's sick. I think sotally things I have some zen power over the players there because I get them to commit their stack. I just think they are THAT BAD.