Didn't see that one coming. Seriously.
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It doesn't matter if you saw it coming from a mile away, there's just no way I could not say it.
Crosspost:
Spring is in the country!…well, at least theoretically. It seems that March 2008 has been one of the wettest Belgian March months in the last century. Unsurprisingly, I played a decent amount of hands, simply because there weren’t a lot of other things to do.
Overall, it has been one of the most satisfying months of my poker career. Not only did I manage to have my second most profitable month, but also I finally reached the deuce status at PartyPoker. I mean, it’s nice and all that they’re sending me a greeting card to wish me a happy 2008 (being it 2 months too late), but I rather have a decent rakeback deal that gives me some sweet cash ;). Which I now finally have. Also, I broke some personal records: having the highest amount of cash at a table (1400$) and having the most profitable day (also about 1400$)
The graph is mostly NL200 and NL400. I took a shot at NL600 as well, but after immediately losing 1.5 buyin I left it for what it was and decided to come back when I was a bit more rolled. Which hopefully be soon if things keep going this way. Anyway, you can probably guess based on the graph when I played my brief session of NL600. There’s 400$ unnaccounted for due to broken hand histories, btw.
It’s a shame there aren’t a lot of midstake full ring games going on at Party, but it has its merits too. I learned a little bit more about playing headsup recently at another, not further mentioned educational site, and now, whenever I feel like there are too little tables available, I just start a new one. You’d be surprised how many donks there are, that are willing to play headsup for their last roll. And heck, who am I to refuse them to have fun donking their last money with K high when I have top pair
I cashed out a bit too. All poker play and no other play makes Jack a dull boy, or something. It’s nice to have a decent roll, but sometimes it’s nice to reward yourself for a good month. Anyway, I spent the money on:
- A new laptop. I have a decent desktop at my studentroom, but when I’m at home during the weekends and vacations, I’m forced to play on the laptop. Which has been bugging the hell out of me, because the network card keeps dropping out every hour or so. And if that doesn’t happen, be sure about it that an hour or 3 of having the Party client open makes it lag more than any slowmotion video of a snail crossing the road. Yesterday, I had a hand where I was just about to get it all in with the nut straight 3-way (900$ pot), and once again…the damn thing froze. I wouldn’t be writing this blog now if it hadn’t unfrozen the last 2 seconds of my time bank, and I just managed to pull the slider to the right and press “bet”. Then this thing would be laying on the bottom of my pond right now for sure. It has come to a point where I’m actually more stressed about being able to do what I have to do, and less about the actual game. Hence, my new laptop will definitely be EV+
- A trip to Bulgaria in July. I heard the girls there are pretty and the drinks are cheap. Or maybe it was the other way around, I don’t quite remember. Anyhow, it should be fun.
It’s a shame I probably will have to focus more on school the upcoming weeks and months, because I really feel like playing the same number of hands when I’m in an upswingy mood. I haven’t even read the literature for my master paper yet, let alone started to write on it. Well, at least I already have my reading material stored on my hard drive. It’s a start, I guess.
Play well, and until next time.
He's just trying to find a way to pick back on me because I point out to him that he doesn't follow BRM. But I guess it doesn't matter anyway if you squander half of your bankroll to pay the fines for your hooliganistic vandalizing practices.
congrats on the deuces status, If you don't mind me asking what is the requirement for this, and what are the benefits/points multiplier for this and do you know the effective rakeback for this....Thanks.
Hey, nice read Timor. Gratz on deuces. Nice recovery there at the end of teh month too 
Hope you bought yourself a MacBook! 
Grz,
Leo
Originally posted by csnmf
congrats on the deuces status, If you don't mind me asking what is the requirement for this, and what are the benefits/points multiplier for this and do you know the effective rakeback for this....Thanks.
I thought 20000 base PP in a quarter and about 20-25 % rakeback. (7x, right ?)
Yes, you need 20k standard points quarterly, and get a multiplier of 7.5x, which results in about 21.5% rakeback. Still not a lot compared to other sites, but it's a huge difference with the 11.5% you get from the Ace status.
I'm not running very good at NL400, am at a 20k hands breakeven stretch and that's with a lot off headsup and shorthanded hands where I have 40PTBB in 3k hands 
I think I have decent headsup potential which I maybe should explore some more, we'll see. Too bad that you can't play HU on Party.
Have been playing some more PLO and so far the results are modestly positive, can't really say for sure because I don't have PT Omaha yet.
All in all, I haven't really been playing all that much lately, life is hectic these days and I have a hard time to find a couple of hours for some grinding. I always put studying the game before playing (perhaps a little bit too much lately), so I do watch my daily pokervid, sometimes even 2, but that's it. Things are probably even going to get more busy because I definitely should start working for school. Probably the upcoming weeks and months will be quite uneventfull pokerwise, but if it won't, you guys will read about it here first-handed
Coming to Bulgaria, eh?
When it comes to nice girls and cheap alcohol, yes - it's the right place for you. I hope you enjoy your trip
Ok then, a quickie:
- I was on a moderate downswing again at the end of april, losing about 3k on NL400 and NL200 FR.
- I hopped back to shorthanded and applied a tight table selection procedure, meaning that I only play at tables where I'm in position on at least one big fish.
- This has been working out so far, as I was able to beat NL200 pretty fast
- The last 2 weeks I took a shot again at NL400SH with the same table selection procedure (though slightly underrolled at the beginning), and took down about 5k after 5k hands (meaning I'm running pretty hot, +/- 10PTBB).
Currently, roll is at 13k.
P.S. I hate the new Partypoints system.
I qualified for Friday WSOP satellite (540$+40$). Already took a shot at it last week after winning the same subqualifier, but busted out with 54 players left to go. Hopefully things turn out better this time
