The Shark Tank

This article is the conclusion of a series. If you haven’t done so already, you should probably read Part One or skip this post too if you are my Mom.
There are five basic results that you will see when you check-raise the flop in terms of how the other players will handle it. [...]

A spate of terrible, terrible weather gave me some down time at home to plow through some hands and get in enough play to requalify for Platinum for another month.  Unfortunately, this seems to have caused my table selection to go out the window.  As a result, I managed to give back a lot of [...]

They did manage to fill up with all 50 seats occupied and for the most part it was run fairly decently.  They used an entirely different blind structure than they said they were going to use, but the original blind structure was crap anyhow.  They still started with $500,000 in chips, which was awkward.  Suited [...]

They decided to limit the field to 50 runners and thanks to some last second radio promotion, they appear likely to fill up.  Since the after tax cost to me is about $300, I figure there is still a small overlay, since the prizes for 1-10 all have some value.  My wife is going to [...]

I’ve been grinding away.  I’m up to 7,100 VPPs and am starting to believe I will get to Platinum again this month.  My daily goal only is 428 now, which is pretty easily attainable.  I’ve had some real up and down days.  Yesterday I ran about -12 bb/100 and today I was up about 14 [...]

Yesterday when I posted my update I was at 4,300 VPPs for the month of April and needed to earn 500 and change a day to reach my goal.  Today I’m at 5,800 VPPs and now I only need 466 VPP/day to get there.  The downside has been that my table selection has not been [...]

I have cashed in my FPPs for an entry to WSOP Event #2!

So, the side benefit of my SuperNova quest has been $1,500 in a tourney entry fee and the nice little $120 deposit bonus last week. I’ve generated about $7,200 in MGR this year, so that is about 23% rakeback. I’ve also [...]

Since the last post, I had two days where I played a reasonable amount of poker. I managed to lose and win almost exactly the same amount on the two days, so I’m holding steady there. I’m still only at 4,300 VPPs, which puts me way behind pace. I have 11 days [...]

I finally got in a nice long session tonight. I played four tables most of the time (there were no 30/60 or 10/20 tables, so I was on all the 15/30 tables and one 5/10). I earned 1,000 FPPs and $2,500 or so. It would be much simpler if it always went [...]

I tried to make up some ground by five tabling 10/20 tonight for a while and I had decent results, but I’m only at 2,000 FPPs for the month at this point.  Given that the month is half over and the remodel gets back into full swing soon, I think I’m unlikely to hit my [...]