Aside from the golf the holiday was brilliant all round, good food, good weather, good banter = happiness. Plus got to spend some quality time with the missus which was nice.
Came back and played my first game of cricket for the year. Took two wickets and hit 30-odd runs but was a bit rusty. Should be playing again in early September so have that to look forward to.
Now onto the poker... A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ED ROGER AND WILL BREWIN! They finished 191st and 118th respectively in the World Series of Poker Main Event for about $38k and $41k. I managed to get a slice of their action as well (2% in each of them) so returned around $1600 for my $450 outlay. It was great to see them go so deep, made it very interesting reading the updates knowing that I had an interest in 2 of the runners for so long! Ed has written a few blogs of his time out there which you can see from the link on the right of this page, hopefully he'll do a more thorough report at some stage as well!
In terms of my poker it's been all about the swings baby...the end of the graph shows it all really, up and down like a yo-yo:
When I break it down into hands played at $0.25/$0.50 and hands played at $0.50/$1 it isn't hard to figure out where I have a problem.
Here is the $50nl graph:
As you can see, a fairly even upward curve.
Now here is the $100nl graph:
Hmmmm... maybe I should steer clear of moving up for a little bit. I would love to blame it on luck and being coolered but, quite frankly, I've just played terribly and moving up has had the opposite effect that I thought it would in that it has made me gamble more rather than play tighter with the higher stakes.
So I'm about $750 up from $50nl in the last couple of months and down about $475 at $100nl.
Tonight was a very good night, made about $240 in about 250 hands so I am content at the moment. Will hopefully post some time soon with a few of the hands that have been involved in my swings over the last couple of weeks, had some quite interesting ones and in fac I'll leave you with a couple that just show why I love Party poker at these stakes. People literally want to give you their money:
***** Hand History for Game 7222185777 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, July 15, 16:31:35 ET 2008
Table Table 164946 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: tornado1974 ( $112.13 USD )
Seat 1: mmiguelena ( $86.50 USD )
Seat 3: ben_w_2004 ( $103.26 USD )
Seat 2: rodiplby78 ( $50 USD )
Seat 4: pjferr ( $73.75 USD )
Seat 5: clabbesbulle ( $50 USD )
mmiguelena posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
rodiplby78 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ As Ah ]
ben_w_2004 raises [$2 USD]
pjferr folds.
clabbesbulle folds.
tornado1974 calls [$2 USD]
mmiguelena folds.
rodiplby78 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 6h, 8s ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
tornado1974 bets [$5 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
tornado1974 bets [$15 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$15 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
tornado1974 bets [$18 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$18 USD]
tornado1974 shows [ Ac, 4s ]high card Ace.
ben_w_2004 shows [ As, Ah ]a pair of Aces.
ben_w_2004 wins $77.75 USD from the main pot with a pair of Aces.
#Game No : 7222190139
And his beauty. Can't believe he called the extra $18 on the end with no pair no draw:
***** Hand History for Game 7201441301 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, July 07, 16:45:50 ET 2008
Table Table 164767 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 3: maurov79 ( $80.10 USD )
Seat 1: ronnie6017 ( $30.37 USD )
Seat 6: BottonAnna ( $50.50 USD )
Seat 2: ben_w_2004 ( $55.27 USD )
Seat 5: ddrogue ( $50.25 USD )
ben_w_2004 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
maurov79 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Ad Ah ]
ddrogue folds.
BottonAnna raises [$2 USD]
ronnie6017 folds.
ben_w_2004 calls [$1.75 USD]
maurov79 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 8c, Ac ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
BONER_LOL has joined the table.
BottonAnna bets [$4 USD]
ben_w_2004 raises [$8 USD]
BottonAnna raises [$8 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
BottonAnna bets [$17 USD]
>You have options at Table 165557 Table!.
ben_w_2004 raises [$36.50 USD]
lol
BottonAnna is all-In.
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
ben_w_2004 shows [ Ad, Ah ]three of a kind, Aces.
BottonAnna doesn't show [ Jd, Qs ]high card Ace.
ben_w_2004 wins $99.50 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Aces.
#Game No : 7201445997
