I saw this topic over at Nik's Poker Palace, and thought it would a good post here. 2011 New Year's Resolutions:
1) Win a Dino's league final. It's usually not too hard to make the top 10 in points during any given season, but get to the final and I find a way to fukk up one or two hands and bust out.
BTW, new players always welcome to play, 8pm (or just after) Monday nights - 9 and Woodward area! Had to get my shill in for that game.
2) Play more live tournament poker at charity card rooms. Yeah, the rake can be a killer if you're not a winning player, but there is just sooooooo much dead money out there, too hard to pass up. With the Mrs working nights, should be easily attainable.
3) Try to lessen the boredom and actually make it through a 4-hour session of 4-6 tabling SnGs before calling it quits (no matter how I am doing) after 90 minutes because my ADD mind kicks in.
4) Satellite into a big tourney online again, only this time actually play in it. Satellited into the Sunday Million on Stars more than a few times back in the 2004-2007 era (when I actually had a legitimate bankroll before UIGEA fukked everything up), but always unregistered and kept the T$. Not this time.
That's all I got - Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good...
Ran pretty bad in Nik's Poker Palace HU tourney - but since I don't play HU SnGs much, a good learning experience. Fukked around in a Micromania tourney on Stars, hung around for awhile, and then caught fire once HU. Down 10-1, donkey-shoved 4-2 and hit straight flush on river to stay alive, then won a couple of races to stay alive against an opponent who didn't use his big stack wisely to get the chip lead. Once that happened, full-speed ahead, and ended up taking it down:
PokerStars Tournament #345039329, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.50/$0.05 USD
36 players
Total Prize Pool: $18.00 USD
Tournament started 2010/12/23 23:42:11 ET
Dear BKrywko1,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 6.66 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
So I guess I can expect a small bonus once all the winners of this tourney are paid out.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
PokerStars Tournament #345039329, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.50/$0.05 USD
36 players
Total Prize Pool: $18.00 USD
Tournament started 2010/12/23 23:42:11 ET
Dear BKrywko1,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 6.66 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
So I guess I can expect a small bonus once all the winners of this tourney are paid out.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Running bad...with a mini-comeback last night
So the last 2 weeks I've been running bad in just about any form you could think of...SnGs, cash games, MTTs (although not as bad in MTTs), which for a part-time hack like myself is qute frustrating. Smartest thing I did was take the weekend off from playing, spend a couple of hours looking at some hand histories (both good and bad), and start off with a more positive attitude.
Variance is a great thing when it is to your benefit, but when you are on the downswing it's a bitch. Every one of us goes through those runs of "Flop set, get all the chips in the middle, runner-runner straight or flush, good game!" periods, so you just have to deal with them.
Playing in Heads-Up tourney tonight for Nik's Poker Palace - a great group of guys who play a weekly game on Tuesday nights on PokerStars. Check them out sometime.
Took 3rd in Dino's tourney last, after bubbling final table and finishing 8th the last couple of weeks. Tourney took too long, and had too much stuff happening to fully recap. Went into the final table 3rd or 4th in chips, and managed to maintain position throughout. Couldn't get Slow Joe to play his big stack on many of my numerous blind shoves when 4 and 3-handed...until he busted my A-2 when his 9-10 turned and rivered 10s for a boat. Slow Joe wins...and I officially think Dino's is in bizarro world today.
A few days early, but Merry Christmas to everyone reading this!
Variance is a great thing when it is to your benefit, but when you are on the downswing it's a bitch. Every one of us goes through those runs of "Flop set, get all the chips in the middle, runner-runner straight or flush, good game!" periods, so you just have to deal with them.
Playing in Heads-Up tourney tonight for Nik's Poker Palace - a great group of guys who play a weekly game on Tuesday nights on PokerStars. Check them out sometime.
Took 3rd in Dino's tourney last, after bubbling final table and finishing 8th the last couple of weeks. Tourney took too long, and had too much stuff happening to fully recap. Went into the final table 3rd or 4th in chips, and managed to maintain position throughout. Couldn't get Slow Joe to play his big stack on many of my numerous blind shoves when 4 and 3-handed...until he busted my A-2 when his 9-10 turned and rivered 10s for a boat. Slow Joe wins...and I officially think Dino's is in bizarro world today.
A few days early, but Merry Christmas to everyone reading this!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
DEATH STORM 2010 IS COMING!!!!
So I was watching the news yesterday and today, and the latest weather reports show that us Michiganders will be getting our first "real" snow tonight/tomorrow morning. In keeping with long-standing (ahem!) tradition, it's time once again for me to post this ditty that I first wrote 5 years ago...with the occasional edit or 2 here and there, it still applies to today, as well as anytime we have any snowfall forecast around here. Enjoy!
DEATH STORM 2010!!!!
Since yesterday, the Detroit media has been full of warning as a nice little snow shower is hitting our area tonight and tomorrow. In Metro Detroit I can expect to see a couple inches of snow by tomorrow morning (That oughta make rush-hour fun!), for example. That being said, by later on this evening, you'll swear that "The Event" is taking place or something, the way these asshats blow everything out of proportion.
What always amazes me about the news coverage is that you end up seeing the same shit on the TV stations with every storm. Each and every station could, and should, just run a tape of their broadcasts from the last time a snowstorm came through town, since the same shit is always reported. Keep this in mind when you are watching the news broadcasts the next day or 2:
Here's how it works in Detroit, at least:
1) First, you get the overweight reporter (and it's always a black guy, too....Jesse Jackson needs to forget about non-existant Diebold vote fraud in Ohio and Florida, and instead look into this obvious form of racial discrimination!) who stands outside in the falling torrent of snow, then proceeds to tell you that "Yep, it's snowing pretty good now!".
2) Next, you have the blond reporterette who's hanging out with the salt truck drivers. Always get the obligatory reference from one of the workers that "we'll be doing this all night!", somehow, as well. Imagine that, working until the job is actually done...what a concept!
3) Cut over to video of some senior citizens standing in line to buy shovels and snowblowers hours before the storm hits...because we know that Michigan never gets snow in the wintertime! There are plenty of unemployed kids teenagers who could use extra money shoveling your snow, grandpa.
4) Next, we get the weather guy, who's been "on alert" all day just for us, telling us just how bad the snow is going to make life for us. Yes, without the weatherman around, I wouldn't know that I should allow a few extra minutes to get to wherever I'm going, or that I should probably slow down when driving on 3 inches of unplowed snow. Thanks, dude!
5. Make sure that no matter what, this snowstorm is the STORM OF THE CENTURY (complete with ominous-sounding music at the beginning of the updates)! Either that, or regardless of what may have happened in earlier year, this snowstorm is definitively THE BLIZZARD OF '10!!
6. Break into everyone's favorite daytime and evening programming to remind them that it's snowing. Yes, because people, evidently, are either too stupid or too lazy to peek out of their windows and figure that out for themselves.
7. Special reports from the local supermarket, where senior citizens are falling over each other in the aisles to get to the last available gallon of water, the last available gallon of milk, or the last loaf of bread. As we all know, milk and bread are the two most important items to have when protecting one's self from inclement weather.
8. Cue the safety czar up, reminding everyone to keep a warm blanket and a shovel in your car should go off into a ditch and get stuck for a couple of days.
9. Don't forget the friendly county sheriff (Mark Hackel seems to be the go-to guy in Detroit - he's quite the handsome fellow, too!) who shows up, making his plea to people to stay off the roads "if you absolutely don't have to be on the roads". That's actually pretty good advice when it's also 80 and sunny outside, but somehow it's supposed to sound more impressive when it's said during wintertime.
Somehow, we'll manage to survive all of this, until DEATH STORM 2010 V2 hits us, at least.
DEATH STORM 2010!!!!
Since yesterday, the Detroit media has been full of warning as a nice little snow shower is hitting our area tonight and tomorrow. In Metro Detroit I can expect to see a couple inches of snow by tomorrow morning (That oughta make rush-hour fun!), for example. That being said, by later on this evening, you'll swear that "The Event" is taking place or something, the way these asshats blow everything out of proportion.
What always amazes me about the news coverage is that you end up seeing the same shit on the TV stations with every storm. Each and every station could, and should, just run a tape of their broadcasts from the last time a snowstorm came through town, since the same shit is always reported. Keep this in mind when you are watching the news broadcasts the next day or 2:
Here's how it works in Detroit, at least:
1) First, you get the overweight reporter (and it's always a black guy, too....Jesse Jackson needs to forget about non-existant Diebold vote fraud in Ohio and Florida, and instead look into this obvious form of racial discrimination!) who stands outside in the falling torrent of snow, then proceeds to tell you that "Yep, it's snowing pretty good now!".
2) Next, you have the blond reporterette who's hanging out with the salt truck drivers. Always get the obligatory reference from one of the workers that "we'll be doing this all night!", somehow, as well. Imagine that, working until the job is actually done...what a concept!
3) Cut over to video of some senior citizens standing in line to buy shovels and snowblowers hours before the storm hits...because we know that Michigan never gets snow in the wintertime! There are plenty of unemployed kids teenagers who could use extra money shoveling your snow, grandpa.
4) Next, we get the weather guy, who's been "on alert" all day just for us, telling us just how bad the snow is going to make life for us. Yes, without the weatherman around, I wouldn't know that I should allow a few extra minutes to get to wherever I'm going, or that I should probably slow down when driving on 3 inches of unplowed snow. Thanks, dude!
5. Make sure that no matter what, this snowstorm is the STORM OF THE CENTURY (complete with ominous-sounding music at the beginning of the updates)! Either that, or regardless of what may have happened in earlier year, this snowstorm is definitively THE BLIZZARD OF '10!!
6. Break into everyone's favorite daytime and evening programming to remind them that it's snowing. Yes, because people, evidently, are either too stupid or too lazy to peek out of their windows and figure that out for themselves.
7. Special reports from the local supermarket, where senior citizens are falling over each other in the aisles to get to the last available gallon of water, the last available gallon of milk, or the last loaf of bread. As we all know, milk and bread are the two most important items to have when protecting one's self from inclement weather.
8. Cue the safety czar up, reminding everyone to keep a warm blanket and a shovel in your car should go off into a ditch and get stuck for a couple of days.
9. Don't forget the friendly county sheriff (Mark Hackel seems to be the go-to guy in Detroit - he's quite the handsome fellow, too!) who shows up, making his plea to people to stay off the roads "if you absolutely don't have to be on the roads". That's actually pretty good advice when it's also 80 and sunny outside, but somehow it's supposed to sound more impressive when it's said during wintertime.
Somehow, we'll manage to survive all of this, until DEATH STORM 2010 V2 hits us, at least.
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