Off the schnide...


Finally. Playing poker has its series of ups and downs, but this being my first real heavy up/down it was probably the most difficult. Last week I was on fire, qualified for a WCOOP Event and the Sunday Millions on my first try(almost double qualified but took 3rd in the tourney) won a sick amount of loot in cash/6man tourneys, and then there was the quite possibly the most profitable/detrimental of all, HEADS UP. I consider myself a decent poker player, but I'm a grinder, not a loose cannon nutjob that throws all kinds of chips around just to see a flop. But it was exactly what I became last week, I felt I was invincible, and my bankroll was invincible as well. Ohhhhhh, could anything be further from the truth. Let's just put it this way, I reached the comma that I was seeking late Friday night after the gato/c squared trip, and head's up got me there. I won a 20 dollar and 200 dollar match. So in the span of an hour I won 240 dollars profit. Got me to a short and curly one over a grand, and that's when the bad stuff happened.

I can relate it to reaching the top of a rollercoaster, great feeling, then you are instantly thrown down the slope of the coaster and you can feel your ankles getting cozy with your nipples. Ended up losing close to a g, and that did not bode well for my already fragile mindset for the Sunday Millions. Didn't cash in it this week and upcoming Fantasy Draft is keeping me out of this week's. Have no fear, I am already halfway qualified for the end of the month 530 buy in Millions event. With the better part of 2 weeks to accomplish that task, I'm sure I can do that. Lesson learned though, cash the fuckin money out when you got it. Because before you know it, you're playing a 500 dollar heads up match with some dude in Russia who has not been drinking for 10 hours. Well, if he's Russian there's a possibility he has been drinking for 10 years straight, but you get the point. Hopefully I can build the roll up a little bit with mini-grind sessions here and there, and then there's always the dart cash game which I have been rather unsuccessful at since the first night. More on that as it develops.

Halfway there, bitches.

Well last night after a serious shift at the gato, the Augger entered himself in a 8 man heads up tournament, winner take all entry to Event #3 the 215 buy in Heads Up No Limit Tournament in the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). It's a guaranteed prize pool of 300,000 and if it get's maxed out(which it probably will) at 2,048 top 256 players get cash money and it would be a 409,000 prize pool. I'll have to stay unemployed until then, I'm so upset, because the tournament is on a Tuesday. Regardless....I'm fucking playing for a bracelet and a ton of cash. Hopefully I will make a better cash in the Sunday Millions between now and then....Quite a segue..

This afternoon I got rather deep in a 20 dollar MTT, my aces got cracked by the loudmouth of the table J10 diamonds. Hit one diamond on the flop, diamond on the turn, and of course another on the river. Fucking awful, he laughed and I went on a tyrade for about 10 minutes then realized how much of a retard I was for arguing on the computer. Anywho, I got into a 11 dollar turbo double shoot out satellite. Hung around, got some blinds in the right spots, and got hands in even better spots. Ended up crushing the last two guys on my table, and waited for about 15 minutes for the rest of the table winners to get together. Started up in pretty good fashion, played a little more aggressive than usual in the beginning and it got me to 1,900 in chips. Lost a hand, pre-showdown, and had to tighten up a bit. Battled back and forth with this one clown, til I knocked him out with trip 9s to his pair of jacks. Nice. Ended up getting down to the final 4, took one guy out and widdled it down to the last three, first two get tickets to the 215 Sunday Millions. Let the blinds battle it out when I had the button, worked out rather nicely, guy that was about 3k lower than me ended up blasting the other guy out in non-dramatic fashion (AQ vs A6) uck. But it ended as it should and I am on my way to the Sunday Millions for the second week in a row. Gotta try and get my first comma in my pay out this weekend.

Sunday Millions.



After qualifying last Monday for the weekly 215 buy in tourney on the stars, I hit a run of bad cards the rest of the week. Bought, re-bought, took digi-credits on wednesday nights after darts, thankfully I only ended up losing 13 bucks when I cashed in for like 120 bucks. Took a day and a half off from Poker on Friday/Saturday, got pumped for the Millions on Sunday.

Sat through about 2 levels without being able to make a move, then after the first break, I made some headway in the tourney. Starting up after the 3rd break, we were down to like 1600 people(started with 5434) and top 750 get paid. Blast up to over 20,000 in chips, sitting very pretty but still a decent way to go. Get down to play hand-for-hand after blowing some chips on some ill advised blind stealing, and I'm looking phenomenal. As soon as hand for hand is broadcast 4 people get knocked out. Fantastic, in the money and now all these lunatics are going to go nuts going all in...End up waiting it out and make the ALL IN push with KQdiamonds. Get called with A10 o/s, Ace spikes on the flop and i don't get lucky to move on. Finish up 569th make about 100 bucks an hour, and went out for the evening. Came back later that evening only to find that 2 out of the top money winners last night were playing at my fucking table all night---these dudes had no game, just a ton of fucking chips and an everlasting bag of suckouts. Whatever, I cashed in another tournament today and hopefully I can cash in the live tournament that I'm going to be playing tonight.

Bigger news: Dart championship this Wednesday. Going for the second title in as many leagues this year motherfucker.