Go New Jersey!

Hopefully other states follow in their footsteps.

First 10k Hands

It took me two weeks to log 10,000 hands at $.50/$1 no-limit. I'm impressed both with the speed in which I played that many hands as well as my results.

My actual results are as follows (click all images to enlarge):


Obviously I'm less than impressed with that outcome. However, some nifty software called PokerEV has me more at peace.

Here is a graph of my "all-in luck" during these 10k hands:


This is how much I would have won if I was "running even":


If my actual results were an actual representation of my expectation at these games, I would be throwing in the towel right now, but seeing that I'd be winning 11bbs/100 hands in a luck-free vacuum is quite comforting. Hopefully things even out over the course of the next 10k hands.

I played all of these hands at PokerStars and FullTilt. I'm going to branch off into some other sites where I can get rakeback soon. I've been extremely surprised with how soft PokerStars has been. I only started playing there to clear a reload bonus, but it's actually been a better site for me.

Adjusting for all-in luck, I've been winning nearly 14bbs/100 through 3,500 hands on Stars and just 9bb/100 through 6,500 hands on FullTilt. I was definitely not expecting that to be the case. I realize that is an extremely small sample size, though.

Balla Condo in Vegas

I'm in Vegas for a couple days to visit some friends. Today I'm playing some of the Sunday majors from the 26th story of a sweet, sweet condo that my friend Exitonly and a bunch of his friends (Thay3r, and a bunch of other young MTT ballas that I don't really know) are renting while they're in town for the Bellagio 5 Diamond WPT series.

The condo is right across the highway from the Bellagio. It has windows all around and a balcony on both sides of the building. North is the only direction that doesn't have window representation. It's easily the sweetest dwelling I've ever seen in my life. Being 6'4", I'm a little uneasy by the height of the railing on the balconies, which only come up to my waist.

Thanks to the housing crisis, these guys were able to rent this place for something like $80/night/person. It's definitely the sweetest dwelling I've ever hung out in. Winning the Sunday Million with my feet propped up on the balcony and the Vegas Strip in front of me... okay stfu Cory it's not happening.

Back To Poker

I haven't played much poker at all in the past two months. A lot of the time I might otherwise devote to poker has been spent on fantasy football, exercising, and who knows what else. Now that the NFL season is winding down, I'm getting back into the mood to play poker.

Instead of focusing solely on MTTs, I'm going to start playing cash games. Frankly I'm a little nervous about the whole thing. It's entirely possible that I'm a "fish" for all intents and purposes in online cash games these days. To start, I'm going to just play some $.50/$1 6-max no-limit. After a few thousand hands of that, if things seem to be going smoothly, I'll probably move up. Historically I've had horrible discipline when it comes to online cash games, which is probably part of the reason why I like MTTs so much. Hopefully this time around I'm mature enough to handle it.

If worse comes to worse, I can always just drop the cash games and focus solely on MTTs. I'm hoping not to come to such a bridge without putting a significant effort towards beating small stakes no-limit on the internet. We shall see...

I'll post some stats on how I'm doing after ~10k hands provided the results aren't too embarrassing.