MATH

Played in the MATH blogger tournament last night. This is a $24 buy-in tourney at FT. Ran well early on and built a stack only to run 1/2 of it into quad Aces which was great. Guy led out with trip A's on the flop which was a fantastic move, another A came on the turn and I was pretty much convinced I had the best of it after that, wrong! Anyhow still managed to finish in the points at 24th.

The better news is that I pulled another $500 off of the FT 1/2 6 max tables in about 2 hours. So that's a nice 1k boost to the bankroll over the last 2 days and the hourly rate from cash games is now back up to a living wage - barely.

Playing a Little Poker

Played just over 600 hands of 1/2 NL yesterday at FullTilt and finished up $500 which was a nice confidence booster after really not playing for about three weeks. Played surprisingly well given the break, picking off some bluffs and generally just playing tight agressive. Only All-In once all session with AA v AQ preflop (it held up). There's def still some weak players on FT but I didn't see anyone blow through multiple buy-ins or just making ridiculous calls so the play has dried up some IMO.

Played for awhile at a table with blogger Hoyazo. He suffered one of the worst beats I've read about in the FT 400k yesterday costing him the chiplead. Then he blew through some bankroll tilting. You can read about it on his blog. Awful beat...he's a qaulity player though, as evidenced by his two wins already in the FT bracelet races, so he'll bounce back.

I think I'll play in the blogger tournament tonight for the first time and just grind some more 1/2.

Haven't heard anything about the job - fuck'em.

Waiting for the Phone to Ring

A couple posts back I mentioned that after coming back from Palm Beach I had an interview for a job I really wanted. Well Tues of this week they called me back for a second interview. I was interviewed by the entire office (only ten people in this company) and it went really well. It's down between me and another guy. The position is perfect cause it's a maternity leave fill in, which would carry me through the summer/early fall and still let me be a PT by Nov which is my goal. It also pays about 30k more than I'm making. The CEO of the company mentioned that, in a perfect world, he would fill this position with someone who would be willing to work on an as needed oncall consultant type basis. He then mentioned that he knew how difficult this was - getting great people on a part time basis. While listening to this, I'm thinking to myself, how do I communicate to this guy that I'm dedicated and hard working etc but that I would LOVE a job which paid what this job pays requiring only part time hours. The truth - that I want to make my living playing poker, and bonus whoring, but would like something to fall back on during the bad times prob wouldn't go over, so I told him "sounds perfect, let me get you through your busy season (Spring Summer) and then in the Fall I'd be more than happy to take part time hours so that I can take some time off to study for the bar exam." I should hear in the next day or so....wish me luck. I've decided if I don't get this job that I am going to approach my current employer about scaling back to three days a week - I just can't take it here anymore. If they won't go for that, then I think I'm at a stage where I'm just going to quit. Hopefully this other job comes through and it won't come to that.

Since West Palm I've really not done much of anything other than sweat this new job possibility. One of my best friends did come to DC for a visit and we saw a Wizards, Capitals and Nationals game all in the same wknd which was pretty cool except that all home teams got their asses kicked.

Have been betting some sports and am in the black finally. Have actually been on a torrid hot streak with baseball as of late. I literally played no Poker since back from Palm Beach other than this live charity satellite for the WSOP which literally had the worst structure of any tournament I've ever been in. 30 minute levels which isn't horrible and the blind structure started at 25/25, then 25/50, 50/10 but you only got $1000 in chips to start for $150.00. Rebuys were $100 for the first 3 hours and an addon was offered. The problem was (and the one I found myself in) was that after 1.5 hours, the rebuy only got you 10BB. I didn't even bother....I mean I realize that it's for charity, that they have to get the thing over in a day, and that they want as many rebuys as possible but what about the next 1.5 hours. If I had stayed and busted, another rebuy would have got me 7BB.

I've got some money on FullTilt now using mywebatm.com. Played some last night with a positive result. Have nothing planned for this wknd so am going to try and play a few thousand hands and get that cash game hourly rate back up to a living wage.

I'm also going up to Atlantic City next week (Thur) to play the Junkies Poker Open. The Junkies are a morning talk radio show here in DC, sorta shock jocks, sorta sports guys but pretty funny. You can actually catch their webcasts here. Should be a good time. Prize pool should be about 100k. No idea re the tournament itself regarding structure etc....will have to see.

Great Money Management, Phil

Here is the link to Phil Hellmuth's blog where he rationalizes his loss to Ivey. Of course it's all attributable to bad luck etc, etc.

Wound up betting on G'town and the Fla UCLA over so broke even. Picked up a win betting the Mets over the Cardinals so 1-0 on baseball betting so far. Not sure who I'm going to take tonight in the NCAA championship game. Have no doubt that Fla is winning this but the game could be close and Fla is laying 5 right now. The over looks attractive.

Played a little poker this wknd, mostly $50NL. Boring but beatable. Building the bankroll one set against TPTK at a time lol.

Phil Hellmuth - Down $536k to Ivey in Chinese Poker

Phil is such a donkey and a meglamaniac....I mean what the hell is he doing playing chinese poker or anything with Ivey, for that matter.