July wrapup

July has came to an end, and because OPR/PokerDB are pretty inaccurate I don't have an exact figure on profit. PokerDB missed a ton of FTP this month - even AP looks low, and since Cake isn' t tracked it makes things even harder....I could rummage through account balances but Im too lazy so I'll try to give a ballpark figure. I did well once again this month on AP, lost on Stars, slightly up on FTP, and maybe even on Cake? I think Im looking at +7k roughly, so we'll go with that number for now. For August I'll be able to give exact amounts as a fellow poker player made a great spreadsheet where I just enter in the buy in and the result and the excel sheet calculates the rest....

Last week I had a brief 3 day trip to the Borgata in AC- we ended up playing about 10-12 hours of poker over the 3 days - all 2/5 NL. I didn't feel like getting tied down to MTTs while I was out there, and the 2/5 NL game is soft so I figured I'd give it a shot. I ended up maybe +450 on the trip - Im easily a winner in the game but shear boredom made me make some -ev plays...Another issue is figuring out chip stacks - I had one hand where an aggressive player opened in MP1 to 20 or 25 pre, 1 guy calls, I call out of BB with Q10s. Flop comes 244 with 2 spades. First guy checks , I check, original raiser bets something like 60 into a 80 dollar pot....I take a look over at his stack and decide to make it 175 to go with the intention of calling his shove.....It looked like he started the hand with 300 or so, so really the only course of action here is to c/r commit myself and hopefully get him to lay down on the flop here.....at this point he goes all in and I ask the dealer how much more it is to me......Dealer says something like 245 more to you - d'oh. Apparently he had like 450 to start the hand, and I had that covered, so here I am stacking off a FD for nearly 100 bbs effective, oops.....Anyways he turns over KK, I dont get there and now Im realoading another 500....its funny how when the money is infront of you how much things change - online I could careless about 500 but taking it out of your wallet and placing it on the felt is a little different feeling...

It was a fun though and a nice change of pace...It is wierd getting use to the chips though - alot of times I was making a bet and taking forever to count out as alot of times your dealing with the 5 dollar chips and they love to stick together....It definitely felt akward....another thing is how dirty the poker room is - those chips have been all over the place and I dont think they ever clean them or replace them for long periods of time....playing live poker and eating food immediately after with your hands is -ev and I wish I washed my hands more when I was down there...

more to come half way through the month - now back to losing this ftp 50r1r1a