Stupid Turbo Takedown

So I didn't know what time this thing started and slept in and woke up 5 minutes before it started. Not bad I thought least I got up in time. Played a couple pots early and lost 500 of my 3K stack. I get JJ UTG+1 and make it 300 donk behind me makes it 800 and I decide to gambool a bit and flat call and get it in on any non Ace flop. Flop comes T22 he bets out 1/2 pot and calls my shove with AJo. Turn is an Ace obv. wp sir. AJ ownz. gg me.

Anyway I sent an e-mail back for the 2nd job interview asking if there was any way we could do it Tuesday morning and if not I asked to get the earliest spot they had on Wednesday. If I can get the Wed interview at 9am and I can get out before 10am. I should be able to get to the airport with time to spare as Southwest always has a long line and their terminal is at the end of the airport.

Another interview

I swear I must have put a note on my resumes saying I'm flying to Vegas on the 2nd please schedule all interviews for the 2nd and 3rd. I've got an interview either on the 1st or the 2nd for another company doing IT work. The prob is Tuesday I have an interview at 3pm and the other job is 2 hours away from the 1st interview. So there is probably no way I can schedule both on Tuesday. I might be able to do the 2nd interview before my flight on Wednesday if I can get it as early as possible as its on the way to the airport.

Anyway there is also a cardrunners party w/open bar and free food Wed night when I arrive but the beat is I got a 10am sat the next morning. So I'll have to use some moderation so I can get up in time to make the event.

Job interview the day I'm leaving town?

That's my luck lol! I got a phone call yesterday wanting to set up an interview for Wednesday which is the day I'm leaving town. Usually you get a call and they say they'd like to interview you on a certain day and ask if that's ok with you. I got a message saying we have you set for an interview on Wednesday please call to confirm. I tried to get it set for Monday but that didn't work but I did get it pushed to Tuesday afternoon. Better than nothing I guess and I probably wasn't going to get much done Tuesday anyway. Hoping it goes well though cause it will take a lot of pressure off me in Vegas and I can just focus on my game.

Been watching a ton of videos lately and not playing much at all. Watching the brsavage satellite videos on PXF and a lot of the 6 max LHE videos on Cardrunners. I know the 2 don't seem to have much in common but when I come back I think I'm going to focus on 6 max LHE. Schneids and KPR on cardrunners have some great videos though IMO. Also I used my fpps a last week to order the Professional Hold Em videos from Ed Miller and I can't think of the guy's name who did the short handed LHE DVDs but I got his coming in as well. Stars as usual is right on the ball. Might give me something to watch on my way out to Vegas if I decide to use my laptop.

Most likely I'll grab a couple books to bring along. I'm debating about bringing poker books or bringing some fiction or something to read so I'm not just thinking poker the whole time I'm there. I'll be nervous enough going in I'm sure cause I haven't played live in like 18 months.

Vegas trip

OK so I'll be flying into Vegas on July 2nd coming back on the 8th. I'll be playing 6 sats to the Main event. The 2 $550s each day of the 3rd-5th. Hopefully I'll be playing the Main event on the 6th. Wish me luck. :-)

I'm hoping to meet up with some CFers but I'm not sure anything is scheduled. I'll try to make some updated here while I'm in Vegas if I can.

WSOP offer

Well tonight a guy I know who is in Vegas trying to sat his way in to the ME and playing a couple smaller events offered to back me for 1/3 of the event. Now I just gotta find someone to put up the other 2/3 :-(. I may try to go and just sat my way into the event through some Super Sats as I've never been to Vegas before and would love to say I've been. Obv I get this message just before I was going to bed so now I won't be sleeping tonight LOL!

end of stake?

Well my stake runs out tomorrow and I prob won't get to play any on it cause it ends tomorrow afternoon so I put in a huge session of 89 games tonight. Most I've ever played without a break. Finished down -108 which isn't horrible but the session went pretty bad. Morons calling 12BBs shoves on the bubble with QJo and getting there, last hand of the night 4 handed moron (he just called 1/2 his stack 1 orbit earlier with 98 when I shoved the btn) min raises, dave_wII I think his handle is who has been in all my games today it seems shoves and I'm in last place with 4BBs and I shove QQ and moron calls with AK. dave had 99 and flop comes with a 9 and I'm out.

Overall on the stake I played 463 27Ts and 6 38s and finished down 205.50. Which sucks but I really ran bad over a couple hundred hands in there. Somehow SNG Luck Analyzer said my luck was dead even tonight but I really don't see how unless I sucked out on a lot of people with out knowing it. I only won HU about 1/3 of the time which is about standard for me during this run as I can't seem to run good HU. I had QQ-AA a ton today and somehow got paid off with them rather well so that was nice for a change.

On the job front I sent out a ton of resumes the last 2 days and going to the Career Center to apply for a few jobs Monday too. Not sure what limits I'm going to be playing but I'm leaning towards the 12Ts at Full Tilt and maybe playing some HU SNGs again too.

I also used my FPPs to get the DVD sets from Ed Miller and one of the other Stox poker guys on LHE. Not sure how profitable LHE is these days but it used to be my bread and butter and I'd love to be able to start playing it profitably again since I suck so much at NLHE cash.

back after a couple days off

OK I took a couple days off. Was out of town yesterday and heading down the interstate at about 80mph there is a tire in the middle of my lane and an 18 wheeler beside me so the only thing I could do was try to center my car over the tire and hit it dead on. Damage wasn't bad enough for me to turn in on my insurance but probably run me a couple hundred to get it fixed. I've got one of the new model GTOs. I got some scratches on the bottom of the bumper and it busted my lower grill and popped my passenger side bumper out of place but I think its an easy fix. But to replace the grill I have to take the entire bumper off. I could probably go without the grill but I'd prefer to have it on there in case I ever hit another tire on the interstate. I got to really spend some time cleaning it up cause the front end is covered in rubber and tar where I hit it and jumped over the thing. Luckily it somehow didn't damage the rear bumped when it flew up out from under the car though.

Anyway played a few sessions today was up about 170. I think I'm even through almost 400 games at the 27Ts on this stake and down about 100 at the 38s but its like 6-8 games played there. Anyway I gotta get up early to place some calls on repairing my car so I'm calling it a early night.

another shitty day

I'm really starting to think Stars dislikes me. I have never beaten the 27Ts in my life yet done pretty well at the 6.50s and 16Ts. I can run good at one and move to the 27Ts and instantly run bad its unreal. Today 67 games and -$211. Of course my luck today was -192. So over the last 5 days my "luck" has been -950 and my results only -860 so I'm doing something right but still this really sucks. Basically over my last 250 games I'm -35 buy ins cause I run bad.

I got a couple PMs for the link to SNG Luck Analyzer. The link is below. http://www.jukofyork.com/Juks_BackTestAllInLuck_v1_02b.rar

Run at the Steps

Well I ran a Step 2 with my FPPs today and won it. Won a 3, and a 4. Got to 5 and was completely card dead. 6 spots pay 7 left and LP raises I shove TT and he had QQ. Flop T82 and the turn is 9 river J and I'm out 7th. :-(

PokerStars Game #18159870061: Tournament #92191947 $670+$30 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2008/06/15 - 17:02:25 (ET)
Table '92191947 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: nkd1972 (1405 in chips)
Seat 2: jackofheartz (830 in chips)
Seat 3: TXTyphoon (3475 in chips)
Seat 4: stevie444 (1795 in chips)
Seat 6: busto_soon (3300 in chips)
Seat 8: QuasiFiction (1355 in chips)
Seat 9: morrow25 (1340 in chips)
TXTyphoon: posts small blind 75
stevie444: posts big blind 150

Holecards:
Dealt to jackofheartz [ ]
FOLD busto_soon
FOLD QuasiFiction
FOLD morrow25
RAISE nkd1972, 600 to 750
RAISE jackofheartz , 80 to 830 and is all-in
FOLD TXTyphoon
FOLD stevie444
CALL nkd1972, 80

Flop:
[ ]

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]

Showdown:
nkd1972: shows [ ] (a straight Eight to Queen)
jackofheartz : shows [ ] (three of a kind Tens)
nkd1972 collected 1885 from pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot 1885 | Rake 0

Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: nkd1972 showed [ ] and won (1885) with a straight Eight to Queen
Seat 2: jackofheartz (button) showed [ ] and lost with three of a kind Tens
Seat 3: TXTyphoon (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: stevie444 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: busto_soon folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: QuasiFiction folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: morrow25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

scratch that winning session

That went into the tank in a hurry. Bubbling like 8 of 25 didn't help. Losing JJ to K8, and a couple other 60/40s on the bubble killed my day pretty quick. I just ran SNG Luck Analyzer (i know I'm using it all the damn time now) but my luck at the 27Ts on the week is -659 but my actual earnings is about $45. So had I run even I'd be up 700 on the week. so sick.

finally a winning session today

OK this is a short update. The Mattu bet is off as well for those who were asking. I did a 50 games session still ran bad but least made a small profit. My luck over the last 3 days is -$500. really hoping that turns around. I'm hoping to get in another session tonight but I'm not sure I will. If I do it will probably be a short session like 2 sets of 12 or something.

Also wanted to post this hand cause it was kind of interesting. Not sure if its a great call or not but he had been very agro and had just min raised and when everyone folded he showed AA so I took QQ+ out of his range.

PokerStars Game #18136081518: Tournament #92066595 $25+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/06/14 - 16:38:51 (ET)
Table '92066595 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: letaj (1670 in chips)
Seat 3: mtg38skopok2 (6112 in chips)
Seat 4: jackofheartz (2920 in chips)
Seat 9: .ReloaÐ. (2798 in chips)
jackofheartz : posts small blind 100
.ReloaÐ.: posts big blind 200

Holecards:
Dealt to jackofheartz [ ]
FOLD letaj
RAISE mtg38skopok2, 2600 to 2800
RAISE jackofheartz , 120 to 2920 and is all-in
FOLD .ReloaÐ.
CALL mtg38skopok2, 120

Flop:
[ ]

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]

Showdown:
jackofheartz : shows [ ] (two pair Aces and Jacks)
mtg38skopok2: shows [ ] (a full house Eights full of Aces)
mtg38skopok2 collected 6040 from pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot 6040 | Rake 0

Board:
[ ]
Seat 2: letaj folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: mtg38skopok2 (button) showed [ ] and won (6040) with a full house Eights full of Aces
Seat 4: jackofheartz (small blind) showed [ ] and lost with two pair Aces and Jacks
Seat 9: .ReloaÐ. (big blind) folded before Flop


I took some notes during my 1st session. They are listed below and are random as I typed them as hands played out. It would be nice to run good once in a while. This is a small % of the bad luck I had today. I had a ton of spots on the bubble or ITM where shorties made massive suckouts and I then went out 3rd or 4th. And I ran horrible HU as well.

This is so bad so far. JJ <> my AJ in BB. MP shoves 7BBs A(o I shove 16BBs in SB AKs and BB with 35BBs insta calls KQs turn 9 river flushed me. HU moron shoves 25BBs like 2/3s of hands and pbv runs better than me. Bubble I'm UTG+1 with 1.5BBs and moron short stack can outwait me and cash calls and rivres a 4 A4 v/s AK and I bubble and of course the CL had 2 chances to shove him and gave him a walk. A6 < 86 on bubble. KJ to 54o on the bubble he rivers gutshot. I lost a flip when guy makes a bad call and lose CL. Then lost K8 to QJo who rivered a J on me. Lost another flip on bubble. And to finish off A6 < A5 HU.