A Real Grinder

How's this for a sick bet. This kid bet a whole bunch of people at 2+2 BBV forum he could win 10k at $25NL in a month. He has action to the tune of $40k+ on it getting 2.5:1 odds ... and thats a lot of buyins (400 in fact, an average of 12.9 buy-ins a day) to win at a heavily raked game though admittedly the players are godawful at $25NLHE.

Here's a live webcam feed

Here's a screen cap:



Here's the Update Thread

Here's his blog

Now THAT's a sick bet, baby. Good luck to the guy. I hope he makes it.

Searching For Rakeback Deals

As a step to building a respectable bankroll again I’ve started to look for a good rakeback deal. Frankly, the poker sites are making too much money. Seriously.

I mean all of us playing poker have to beat the rake somehow else you'll lose money long term. FYI, RAKE is the percentage of each pot that the poker room charges us to play. I know that I rake my fair share each month playing my low limit games – and if I can keep some of it I am saving myself a few bets - It just makes sense. Rakeback gives a certain percentage of the rake you pay back to you, usually once a month. So why pay more than you have to?

The easiest way to get rakeback is by visiting a rakeback site that provides deals with the poker rooms you like. I recently checked out Rake Rebate Review, a serious rakeback site with great offers and a lot of in-depth rakeback information. They have a rakeback calculator that helps you to see how much rakeback you will get each month depending on how much you play and on what level. You will also find poker rakeback articles dealing with different issues regarding online poker and rakeback. But hey, the most important thing is the rakeback deals, right. Money for nothin', chicks for free.

The site offers 30% InterPoker rakeback , you get 27% at Full Tilt and 30% at Ultimate Bet, to give a few examples. The site is well worth checking out, unfortunately they don’t offer any Party rakeback, but I think that’s impossible to find anywhere. Otherwise please let me know.

Later y'all,
T

Last Weekend In G+P - May 19th, 2008

Sorry for the delay, I know you're all waiting with baited breath for the weekly update.

This past (long) weekend was awful. The weather was awful, my golf swing was awful, it was awful. Harry I'm positive beat me convincingly with his newfangled golf swing. I was pull, pull, pull, hook, pull, PUSH, whatever. Bah. 82 / 87 (yes, 87 with 2 triples) / 82. Sucks.

Anyhoo, played a tiny bit of the online poker. Recently I've started trying to squeak an hour in here and there to feed the beast within plus i'm re-reading Sklansky/Miller's No-Limit Theory and Practice before bed. Nothing like Sklansky to put you to sleep baby. I'm back to NL Cash games mainly with a Sit-n-Go Donkamant thrown in here and there (Heads Up or 9-man). Donkaments I still suck at, cash games I'm running well mostly. My 'online poker bankroll' is rapidly approaching respectable again. Maybe I'll start talking about it again as I did back in the Party days.

Speaking of the Party days, I realized that my decision back in those days to cash out instead of continue to move up into the middle limits was a major fork in the road of life. I had a solid bankroll to play games where I could have won/lost in a night more than I made in a week at work, and yet I chose real life instead of poker... I likely chose wisely but who knows what might have happened.

How Golf Was Invented

When It All Falls Apart

Thursday I felt the tickle in the back of my throat. No, not that sort of tickle, you pervert.

I knew I was heading for some sort of cold. It sucks, I hardly ever get the things but sometimes there's no avoiding it. This was one of those times. I just hoped I could get rid of it Friday to play golf on the weekend. I was already 10+ rounds behind the sickos I play with regularly this year. Yes, that's a lot.

Well, Friday came and went. I knew Saturday morning was a long shot and it didn't surprise... I had to skip golf due to 'illness'. Feh.

I sat on my interweb connection and played Online M'fin Pokar. I played Heads Up Sit & Go's against some Fin prior to noon. Those scandi's really are consistently crazy. By the end of our series of matches I was snap-calling his all-ins with second pair. Good times. I ended up winning 5/8 matches. I then played a Heads-Up Shootout-style satellite into FTOPS HU event. I won the first, lost the second on two beats. Meh. Was far better though... god I hate tournaments. Played some 50NL 6-max, made a buy-in and a bit. I have great clarity in my poker lately, too bad I can't afford to play often due to time constraints.

Today is Sunday. I got up at 7:15 for golf, praying I felt well enough to go. I walked around, I judged my illness and I came to the conclusion it might drag deep into next week if I let myself go play like this. Feh.

No poker either, just did some crazy stuff in Grand Theft Auto 4 world to de-stress and read the interweb.

Really entertaining picture of the day (poker geek style):



This comes to you courtesy of the sweet sweet 2+2 NVG forum. Here's the original. For those who don't know it, the people in the car (pre-gasoline fight) are Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke in the drivers seat, Daniel Negreanu in the passengers, Barry Greenstein behind Gobbo and Tom "Durrr" Dwan beside him.

I will note that when it all falls apart next time, I should have a copy of Zoolander to watch. Great movie.

Smoochies. T.

Heads Up While Bored

So, as some of you know, I am a geek. Not just a typical Internet dweller, but a computer programming, server administering, Interweb building geek.

So anyways, one night one of my servers was going down constantly so i'm totally unable to get any of my geek-work done because i'm babysitting it. Naturally that's boring so I cracked open my Full Tilt Pokar account. I look around for tables, nothing piques my interest and then I recall a conversation Matty had with me earlier in the day about a friend of his running like god at heads up NL tables. (He plays 1/2, i'm not carrying a roll like that yet tho).

So I find a $50NL HU table and sit against some guy short-stacked. He loses that in 5 hands, reloads. I win that as well, he runs. This HU poker stuff is easy. So I find another table and sit. This guy is less bad and actually beats me out of half a buyin and he runs away. I think twoplustwo refers to this maneuver as a "Grimstar". Oh wait, that's buying in, raising to steal a blind and leaving. Hah.

Anyways, I find another guy and I win a buy-in. Then he rebuys and gets ahead by that buy-in and I'm actually stuck for the first time when I make the nut flush on the turn, board pairs and he check-raises my $8 bet to $24... hated to call it but it wasn't enough to fold. 95o beats AKs, gg. Anyhoo, I take everything he's got eventually. I'm actually not BAD at Heads-Up for never having studied it. I have a pretty good read on people after 50 hands and I'm pretty aggro... maybe this is a good game for me.

And so yeah, thats what a poker geek does when he's bored while waiting for a server fix. +2BI and i'm out yo.

T

Golf And Best-Of-TwoPlusTwo #1

Played golf with Matt & Gary on Saturday. Didn't play well, but neither did they. I got it around in 77, as did Matty and Gary shot 78 and somehow won all the money (match play rocks most of the time). I beat Matty though so break even. That boy can PUTT. No golf Sunday, too damn cold.

Much respect to Harry who qualified for the mens tour. He's Gooood. Also, i'd like to point out that I got a text message today from Harry (at the first tour event) that said... and i quote:

Just saw matt 4-putt up in front of me. He lost it. Yelling and slamming, good stuff.

Good times folks, good times. Thanks for the txt msg Harry. Could you not have got a video capture on your crackberry? That's youtube material baby.

I'd like to try out a new section here at G+P. I do follow the message boards over at twoplustwo to feed my offseason (due to golf) poker addiction, and one of those i read for time killing value is the group of gossipers over at NVG (news, views & gossip).

Our first thread is from NVG: Tony G Gone Bad.

It starts off with a post of:



And a first comment of:

I didn't know him and Clonie were an item

Good times for sad little poker nerds like myself.

I found out this week that pushing 8 high as an overbet on the river on a 22x2A board against a pair of pocket aces does not, in fact, make the opponent fold very often. This pokar lesson is brought to you by the letter T, and cost me a buyin. ;)