2 New Blogs

I have been working, slowly as you can expect, on two new blogs as this one has started to bore me a bit.

The first one is Rants and Raves in the Motor City. This is a blog that deals with my personal views of what is going on in the Detroit sports scene.

The other blog is Singular Ineptitude. This will be just short snippets of the idiots I deal with on a daily basis. Still playing around with layout and such and for some reason the stupid people around here stopped calling or coming in so I have no new material. But it won't take them long before they hook me up.

So I hope you head on over from time to time and check them out. And as always, please visit and enjoy my wife's site, The Park Bench

$1.58 Challenge Day 5

Starting BR: $8.40

Not going to great. I was playing .01/.02 6-Max NLHE but I think I am going to switch today and play some .05/.10 LHE 6 max and see where I can go.


This is a good example of how this session is going...PokerStars Game #15803837321: Hold'em Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/03/07 - 11:15:19 (ET)
Table 'Signe' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: SBriand ($7.59 in chips)
Seat 2: donkeygod ($1.55 in chips)
Seat 3: delphos54 ($3.03 in chips)
Seat 4: 8monkeys ($6.59 in chips)
Seat 5: BraveSociety ($0.77 in chips)
Seat 6: hardleft75 ($3.10 in chips)
hardleft75: posts small blind $0.02
SBriand: posts big blind $0.05
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SBriand [Qc 6c]
donkeygod: calls $0.05
delphos54: folds
8monkeys: folds
BraveSociety: raises $0.05 to $0.10
hardleft75: calls $0.08
SBriand: calls $0.05
donkeygod: calls $0.05
*** FLOP *** [4c Kc Tc]
hardleft75: checks
SBriand: checks
donkeygod: checks
BraveSociety: bets $0.05
hardleft75: folds
SBriand: raises $0.05 to $0.10
donkeygod: folds
BraveSociety: raises $0.05 to $0.15
SBriand: raises $0.05 to $0.20
Betting is capped
BraveSociety: calls $0.05
*** TURN *** [4c Kc Tc] [4s]
SBriand: bets $0.10
BraveSociety: raises $0.10 to $0.20
SBriand: raises $0.10 to $0.30
BraveSociety: raises $0.10 to $0.40
Betting is capped
SBriand: calls $0.10
*** RIVER *** [4c Kc Tc 4s] [7c]
SBriand: bets $0.10
BraveSociety: calls $0.07 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SBriand: shows [Qc 6c] (a flush, King high)
BraveSociety: shows [Js Ac] (a flush, Ace high)
BraveSociety collected $1.66 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1.74 | Rake $0.08
Board [4c Kc Tc 4s 7c]
Seat 1: SBriand (big blind) showed [Qc 6c] and lost with a flush, King high
Seat 2: donkeygod folded on the Flop
Seat 3: delphos54 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: 8monkeys folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: BraveSociety (button) showed [Js Ac] and won ($1.66) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 6: hardleft75 (small blind) folded on the Flop

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 132 hands and saw flop:
- 25 out of 28 times while in big blind (89%)
- 16 out of 29 times while in small blind (55%)
- 26 out of 75 times in other positions (34%)
- a total of 67 out of 132 (50%)
Pots won at showdown - 20 of 39 (51%)
Pots won without showdown - 10

BR: $7.45

$1.58 Challenge Day 4

Starting BR: $10.52

$1.10 45 Man SNG
Finish: 23rd
-$1.10

BR: $9.42

oiejwoiewjfpaowiefmn

Was up $4 but second to last hand with AA on a Q43r board we get it all in and he has QT and hits on the river...

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 154 hands and saw flop:
- 25 out of 31 times while in big blind (80%)
- 17 out of 33 times while in small blind (51%)
- 28 out of 90 times in other positions (31%)
- a total of 70 out of 154 (45%)
Pots won at showdown - 15 of 26 (57%)
Pots won without showdown - 13

BR: $8.40

$1.58 Challenge Day 3

Starting BR: $6.99

Blah

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 75 hands and saw flop:
- 9 out of 16 times while in big blind (56%)
- 6 out of 17 times while in small blind (35%)
- 10 out of 42 times in other positions (23%)
- a total of 25 out of 75 (33%)
Pots won at showdown - 2 of 5 (40%)
Pots won without showdown - 4

BR: $7.36

eh...

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 121 hands and saw flop:
- 18 out of 23 times while in big blind (78%)
- 9 out of 24 times while in small blind (37%)
- 17 out of 74 times in other positions (22%)
- a total of 44 out of 121 (36%)
Pots won at showdown - 9 of 16 (56%)
Pots won without showdown - 6

BR: $10.04

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 26 hands and saw flop:
- 2 out of 7 times while in big blind (28%)
- 2 out of 5 times while in small blind (40%)
- 5 out of 14 times in other positions (35%)
- a total of 9 out of 26 (34%)
Pots won at showdown - 2 of 3 (66%)
Pots won without showdown - 3

Br:$11.12

yuck

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 71 hands and saw flop:
- 14 out of 18 times while in big blind (77%)
- 8 out of 17 times while in small blind (47%)
- 7 out of 36 times in other positions (19%)
- a total of 29 out of 71 (40%)
Pots won at showdown - 5 of 8 (62%)
Pots won without showdown - 9

BR $10.52

$1.58 Challenge Day 2

Starting BR: $4.93

Ugh...nothing hitting at all...

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 51 hands and saw flop:
- 2 out of 11 times while in big blind (18%)
- 7 out of 11 times while in small blind (63%)
- 17 out of 29 times in other positions (58%)
- a total of 26 out of 51 (50%)
Pots won at showdown - 3 of 9 (33%)
Pots won without showdown - 2

BR: $3.86


Eh, made some ground but not as much as I hoped...

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 125 hands and saw flop:
- 12 out of 22 times while in big blind (54%)
- 13 out of 23 times while in small blind (56%)
- 19 out of 80 times in other positions (23%)
- a total of 44 out of 125 (35%)
Pots won at showdown - 13 of 19 (68%)
Pots won without showdown - 5

BR: $6.99

$1.58 Challenge

Little challenge going on where I post to see if you can take $1.58 and turn it into $500 by the end of March. Pretty close to impossible I think unless you go on a sick run of cards but I thought I would try it and see what happens. If I go bust then that is that. So I will update this as the challenge is going so you can see my progress but hell, it could be done by noon today. Enjoy.


Starting BR: $1.58

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 55 hands and saw flop:
- 7 out of 10 times while in big blind (70%)
- 9 out of 10 times while in small blind (90%)
- 5 out of 35 times in other positions (14%)
- a total of 21 out of 55 (38%)
Pots won at showdown - 4 of 5 (80%)
Pots won without showdown - 5

Had to quit for a bit.

BR: $3.07

Played some more...

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 116 hands and saw flop:
- 17 out of 22 times while in big blind (77%)
- 12 out of 22 times while in small blind (54%)
- 15 out of 72 times in other positions (20%)
- a total of 44 out of 116 (37%)
Pots won at showdown - 11 of 15 (73%)
Pots won without showdown - 9

BR: $3.72

and some more

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 55 hands and saw flop:
- 7 out of 11 times while in big blind (63%)
- 6 out of 11 times while in small blind (54%)
- 10 out of 33 times in other positions (30%)
- a total of 23 out of 55 (41%)
Pots won at showdown - 4 of 5 (80%)
Pots won without showdown - 9

BR $4.93

All this action made me want to post something.

I really need to update this more and I keep saying that but it never really happens.

Poker is going okay. Currently in a couple of challenges. First challenge is the King of the 45 man SNG's. This starts tonight at midnight. We have to midnight 2/27 to complete 20 45 man turbo sng's. You get points based on your finish and the top 3 scores with the prize pool.

The next challenge I am in is the Feb. $4.40 challenge. We are on teams, $50 a team. We have to play 30 $4.40 180 man SNG's on Stars between 2/1 and midnight 2/29. Drop the lowest 5 scores. We have about $1200 in the prize pool right now, tomorrow is the last day to register but so far so good. My team is in 6th after 8 games. I won one this past Sunday which helped. Looks like my partner had a bad day today but we have a long way to go and the early leaders have played a lot more games than we have so if we can keep it going we should have a good shot at a top three finish.

Other than that it's been the same old same old. Working, taking law courses, reading up on Buddhism, and playing Rock Band and Call of Duty 4.