I Hate Multis

Ok, so in my last post I said I was swearing them off for good. Yea right. :( Since then I've played in a few and no cashes. Maybe one of these days I'll learn.

On a much more positive note I've been doing great in cash games. A couple nights ago I took home $430 playing 5/10 shorthanded on Battlefield. I really don't know if I'm just getting lucky or if I'm playing well. I'm sure time will tell but for now I'm happy with the results.

Short post but I wanted to give the new results of my bankroll.

BR $2400

Rakeback yet to cash $237 (it looks like this is building up for Christmas.)

Done With Multis

Really...I don't know why I play these things. Honestly I'm probably not very good at them but I also get crushed often. (another bad beat story to follow) Yesterday I'm holding KK and I raise 4x the BB and get one caller. 89T comes out so I push hard to hopefully get him off any draws or have him call with something like AT. He calls and flips over 66 and what do you know the 7 comes on the river. Today I'm starting a new streak of days without playing a multi.

I've also been taking more shots at 5/10. I know, I know. It's out of my bankroll but I always go into it with the understanding that if I lose my buyin that I'll immediately move back down. I've done this at least 4 times and either broke even or come out a winner. In fact I've probably made about $600 at this level so I don't mind continuing to take shots, still keeping my understanding, because that has made me some good money lately. I really don't think the play is that much better anyway.

That's all for now. After my crushing blow about a month ago I'm now steadily moving up again.

BR - $1962

Casino Coushatta

Tonight I made the 1 1/2 drive to a casino called Casino Coushatta. It's really a pretty good casino with a nice poker room. Just not a lot to do around it. Unfortunately they only offer 3/6 holdem and 5/5 NL. I can't get them to put in a 1/2 NL. Anyway the night was all over the place. I jumped on one of the 3/6 tables and didn't get anything for a while until I woke up to q's. Unfortunately I flopped a set but the other guy hit a flush. After that though I went on a nice run to profit $80.

Later my brother shows up and I give him the 80 to go play with while I jump in the nightly multi. This is where I need to stop and say that I am swearing off multis. Honestly, why bother. I have placed in a few but overall I have to be a big loser. I guess I'm just frustrated from a hand last night. Blinds are 100/200 and I'm on the bb with 5/7. EP calls and I get in for free. The flop is 468! EP bets 600 so I'm like "bring it on cuz" and I just call. The turn is a 7 and this guys goes all in for 4k. I of course call thinking he maybe had a set or big over pair but he didn't. He had the nuts holding 9T!!!!! And it's all over. Over all that tourney cost me like $75.

After that my brother brings me a $100 bill after he profited $75 so I made a little $20 profit doing nothing.

I don't know why but I was in the mood for a little "Let it Ride". Dropped $50 there and then said out loud "I'd have a better chance at the slots". So that's exactly what I did. I threw in $40 in a slot machine and within two minutes I had 2 300 coin pulls so I made $80 there.

So after all that I actually walked away up $60.

I know, I know, boring post but that's how the night went.

As far as online goes I've been jumping up a little to 3/6 and for fun took a couple shots at 5/10. I'd like that to be my home in a couple months. It's crazy the runs that can be put together at these levels compared to 1/2 and below. Of course the opposite is true also. I'm really trying to master these shorthanded levels. There is a lot of money to be made if you know what you are doing. Unfortunately I don't always know what I'm doing.

Crawling Back

Not that anyone really reads this but if you do you'll notice that it's been about three weeks since my last post. The reason is nothing but embarrasement. I became the definition of a donkey. I lost about $150 getting hit in the face and then I did the worst thing I could possibly do. I tried to win it all back by raising up in levels. The deck continued to crush me and now I lost that much more money because of the higher stakes. All in all I dropped about $600+ in 2-3 days.

So I had $1000 sitting in neteller and $50 in rakeback on Battlefield. I cashed the $50 out and decided to do what I could with that. It's taken me three weeks but I've made about $700 back bringing me close to where I was before. Lesson learned...I hope.

One nice boost to my bankroll happened a couple nights ago in a $15 multi on Battlefield. I made the final table as the short stack but ended up taking the chip lead with four left. It was then that I took a huge hit on a perfect hand for the other guy. Here is the hand.

Me 99 in the BB.
He raised twice the BB on the button and I call

Flop is A9x - not wanting to scare him away I check and he checks.

Turn A

I check again and he checks

River X

I make a small bet assuming he has nothing just hoping to just maybe get a call. It's then that he makes a huge raise on me. I was a little confused by this becuase we are getting close to the big money and I didn't think he'd risk that much of his stack on a bluff. I push the rest of my money and he calls me immediately. Turns out he was holding A9. I had him on the flop but then it was all his on the turn. That's poker. AAA99 vs. 999AA. So I go from 1st with 85k to 4th with 30k and am never able to move up again. I ended up taking 4th for $240.

Lately I've been playing shorthanded 2/4 limit. It's been working well for me. Not sure if I've got a good strategy down or not. Time will tell. I think I might play that same tourney tonight at 10:00 on Battlefield. My name is funkytown.

Bankroll $1575

Survivor Panama

Not that you probably care but here are a few of my thoughts of the first show.

I thought it was great that miss "this is what I'm here for, I'm such a great athlete" lost the first challenge. And...they have to be fake. ;)
High fives to the editors for fuzzing up black chick's breasts that were falling out of her swimsuit.
What was the old ladies gang doing dropping their hardest worker on the first day - retarded.
The young guys probably have a combined IQ of 50. Nice tent.
It looks like there will have to be some merges pretty quick.
I'm liking the new twists. I would have watched regardless but it's nice to see something new.
I'm getting a little tired of Jeff Probst's Q and A time at Tribal Council. I'd be pretty pissed if I was working a plan only to have him ask questions that ruin it for me.
Why is it cool to have a guy reveal that he is an astronaut? Don't know why but I thought it was.
The immunity challenge tonight gets a 7 out of 10 from me.
I felt bad for the lady whose son died. Really sad.
"Three packs a day" guy is going to explode on someone.
The hottest of the old chicks looks like a cross between Olivia Newton John and Michelle Pfeiffer (at least when she wears that headband)
I'm rooting for the old guys.

As far as poker goes - tonight I finished up my February bonus on 365. Unfortunately I finished down $38 for the day. That happens when you lose $50 on a set over set. Happens. So with the $50 bonus from 365 I finished up $12 for the day.

BR $1683

Multis...Why Even Bother?

Tonight I played a little $5 multi on pokerrom. I have to admit I love playing them. I think it is a nice challenge to go up against a huge field and see how far you can go. The problem with them is that you can spend two hours playing, like I did tonight, and come up with nothing. Not only that, but at the $5-$10 level with a field of 400 or so you have to make top 5 to make any kind of $$$$$$$$$$. Anyway, I had AA early and about doubled up and then never was able to catch any steam. I had to constantly deal with hands like k4 and j7 - nothing to raise or even call with. So I came up about 14 people short of the cash. Even though my results are rarely good in them (minus the one a couple days ago) I'm sure I'll keep donating.

After that was over I decided to chip away at my 365 February bonus. Instead of playing 2 shorthanded tables like I usually do I decided to play 4 full tables at the .50/1.00 level. I ran into some decent hands and picked up a couple lucky ones. My lucky hand of the night was when my QQ was up against KK all in preflop and I caught runner, runner for a flush. I guess I could have typed in "sorry" like some people do but forget that. I've taken my fair share of those.

Multi 2hrs. -$5
Rings 1 hr. +$122

BR $1671

BET365 Feb. Bonus

Took a brake from Battlefield to head over to 365 and take advantage of its Feb. $50 bonus. I have to clear 500 hands to get the full bonus. To be honest, I'm not sure it's worth doing because I have to raise up a level to qualify. So far I've got in about half the hands. I was up as much as $100 but finished up $50. The last hand I played the guy flopped a flush on the flop to beat my rivered straight. What really sucks is that he hit a flush on me just two hands earlier. So that one sucka took my whole buy-in on that table. Oh well. I'm still up for the day.

BR $1544