Sunday, April 20, 2008
Quest For The WSOP This Year
Well after a log break from blogging I'm back. Had a busy winter with work and really didn't even want to look at a computer after I left work. I was really only playing my home game and no online poker all winter long. But the last month my basement "The Poker Room" has been under construction. And it will be another 2 or 3 weeks upon completion. When it is done there will be a full bathroom down there, more heating and a/c vents, and the lighting is really cool. No one will have a problem reading their hole cards. I'm giving the basement a Vegas theme which will be really cool.
So over the last couple of weeks I've been back online playing, it's not the same as live play and I really miss playing cards with the gang. However, playing online has got me back on track with making money online. I've played 8 180-players tourney's and have made the final table 5 times so I've been doing really well on PokerStars. I've also decided because of how well I was playing in live games this year I'm going to take a shot at winning a seat for the WSOP. I really haven't attemped this in the pass. So I've played in 2 qualifiers so far, and both times I was knocked out early when I held pocket aces and pocket queens. Both times I was knocked when the other player hit trips against me. Tommorrow I have the day off of work and I will take another shot to qualify for the WSOP. I plan to really start to journal my efforts again in my blogs.
I'm also coaching baseball for the first time ever. This will be interesting since I only played baseball 2 years when I was in junior high and I really don't care for the game. But my son and his 11 year-old team don't have a coach so I stepped in to help. It's not football so I have to figure out how to coach and teach baseball in a couple of days.
I'm also going Vegas June 6th for the weekend for my 41st birthday. I plan to play in a $2,500 WSOP event that weekend. It's been 2 years since I've been to Vegas and this will be the first time I'm there in the summer. I'm staying at the Polo Towers which has a pool on the roof so that should be fun. Usually I have my whole tripped planned out for Vegas, where to eat, what shows I want to see, where I plan to gamble. But so far I haven't planned anything. One a good friend of mine has moved out to Vegas so I know I will have dinner with him probably Friday night. Saturday I plan to enter and play in the tourney. If I survive the first day, I will do my best to go after the game hard enough to make the final table and stay an extra day in Vegas. If I get knocked out I will look for a show and other dinner options. I should look for a show for Friday night after dinner. I might even sit down with my buddy Wayne and play Blackjack. Poker is my game but after seeing 21 and reading about how the MIT guys actually could count 4 decks I figure maybe I will play some blackjack. I can count cards of course, one deck, no problem. But I've never applied it to Blackjack because you never can play one deck BJ anywhere so I never played it. But I've used my card counting in other games with friends. I'm a math guy, not math wiz like MIT guys, but I'm good with numbers and good with cards. So maybe I'll sit down with Wayne at the tables and he can teach me how to play and I can make a little money and have some fun. He is a good Blackjack player, when he lived here he would usually fly out to Vegas a couple times a year to play Blackjack and always come home a winner. Don't get me wrong he is a low limit player like me. But he would make enough to pay for his trip and come home up $400 to $1,000 playing Blackjack.
So, I'll keep updating this blog.
So over the last couple of weeks I've been back online playing, it's not the same as live play and I really miss playing cards with the gang. However, playing online has got me back on track with making money online. I've played 8 180-players tourney's and have made the final table 5 times so I've been doing really well on PokerStars. I've also decided because of how well I was playing in live games this year I'm going to take a shot at winning a seat for the WSOP. I really haven't attemped this in the pass. So I've played in 2 qualifiers so far, and both times I was knocked out early when I held pocket aces and pocket queens. Both times I was knocked when the other player hit trips against me. Tommorrow I have the day off of work and I will take another shot to qualify for the WSOP. I plan to really start to journal my efforts again in my blogs.
I'm also coaching baseball for the first time ever. This will be interesting since I only played baseball 2 years when I was in junior high and I really don't care for the game. But my son and his 11 year-old team don't have a coach so I stepped in to help. It's not football so I have to figure out how to coach and teach baseball in a couple of days.
I'm also going Vegas June 6th for the weekend for my 41st birthday. I plan to play in a $2,500 WSOP event that weekend. It's been 2 years since I've been to Vegas and this will be the first time I'm there in the summer. I'm staying at the Polo Towers which has a pool on the roof so that should be fun. Usually I have my whole tripped planned out for Vegas, where to eat, what shows I want to see, where I plan to gamble. But so far I haven't planned anything. One a good friend of mine has moved out to Vegas so I know I will have dinner with him probably Friday night. Saturday I plan to enter and play in the tourney. If I survive the first day, I will do my best to go after the game hard enough to make the final table and stay an extra day in Vegas. If I get knocked out I will look for a show and other dinner options. I should look for a show for Friday night after dinner. I might even sit down with my buddy Wayne and play Blackjack. Poker is my game but after seeing 21 and reading about how the MIT guys actually could count 4 decks I figure maybe I will play some blackjack. I can count cards of course, one deck, no problem. But I've never applied it to Blackjack because you never can play one deck BJ anywhere so I never played it. But I've used my card counting in other games with friends. I'm a math guy, not math wiz like MIT guys, but I'm good with numbers and good with cards. So maybe I'll sit down with Wayne at the tables and he can teach me how to play and I can make a little money and have some fun. He is a good Blackjack player, when he lived here he would usually fly out to Vegas a couple times a year to play Blackjack and always come home a winner. Don't get me wrong he is a low limit player like me. But he would make enough to pay for his trip and come home up $400 to $1,000 playing Blackjack.
So, I'll keep updating this blog.
