P is for Pain

Monday was one of those nights where you run so bad and watch the A.T.C. fuckers run so good that it makes you question the metaphysical properties of the universe. I makes you question good and evil. It certainly makes me wonder if I should just take my bankroll to the store and buy a freakin LCD TV. In that state of mind why did I go to the Belle for the first time in a year tonight? It's like William Bonnie said: "I shall finish the game Doc". I'll get back to that Belle of BR trip. First I wanna talk about the state of Monday night poker. Luckbox in early position open raises to $15 (in a 1/2 game), mid position calling station calls. Im in the Small blind with KK. I make it $50. My buddy in the BB who I love but want to choke (and sometimes I want to tackle him before he can put so many bad chips in the middle) goes All-In. Everyone folds, I call. I ask him does he have Aces and as smoothly as the flop comes out he says "No but I have a set of nines now". Holy fucking shit. Felted by a degenerate dream chaser again. Later I would make it $15 to go UTG. I got 5 callers. I have the absolute bottom of my range there: AK. The flop comes like its been coming for me all night when i have AK and I raise, 8 high. This time all hearts. Luckbox #1 flopped the nuts. Thats really the most exciting hands I played. I sat there and watched luckbox #1 and #2 catch every flush and straight they went for. They've been doing it every week. So so so sick. I remember continuation betting once when I missed my 20th flop. That was fun. I got raised and then someone smooth called the raise. I was livid by the time I left. I cashed out my last $100 because I was about to stick it in before the cards came. So livid that I got sick and slept til 3:40pm the next day (works starts at 7:30am). I was like a zombie the next day. Numb from the neck up. I started to use my bankroll to pay bills. Of coarse I couldnt do it. Instead I ran to the Belle and got on the $2/$5 list. I heart pain. I shall finish the game Doc. Some of the usual suspects were there. Some guy named after a utensil. My friend with pocket 9s was runnin the room. I noticed after about 2 hour of playing they had a Bad Beat Jackpot. It was $15kish. The dealer said it hits often. Its Aces full of tens beat by quads or better. Well the NL list was a mile long so I got on the 4/8 limit list and sat quickly. Flopped the nuts the first hand and made a flush on the turn which I had to check but I got to bet the river. Drug about $100 pot. I wouldnt win another hand until I was down $10. Then I went on a steady tear and quit when I was up $245. Had I not given these poker dregs too much credit I woulda made another hundred. The suckiest hand of the night was when I had it capped preflop between 3 players and the board makes a straight to a Jack. I was actually glad we chopped but I see I was up against 3,5 and AJ. So brutal. By the time I left the crazies were busto and the table was bad. Now Im at home writing this blog and dumping in a 6 handed .5/.10 game and talking much smack just for fun. Actually Im down almost $17 and getting pissed. Oh wait. i just got it all in with J6 preflop. Im up against AJ. I win. Now only down $9. Weeeeeee. If poker has an acronym the first word has got to be pain. Good night.

Internet Dink Smackdown Weekend

I didnt play any live poker this weekend which is unusual. I stayed home mostly and watch movies and did yard work. Very domesticated. I did however give me a little more time to play online. Aside from my $20 HUSNGs I played a $6 18 person SNG which I busted out of very quickly and a 90 person knockout SNG which I got 4th and made $50($50 payout plus $6 for knockouts minus $6 buyin). When we made the final table I was second in chips but I got stuck with the monster chip leader on my left and he was being very aggressive. I played fairly aggressive when I could. I stole some pots with the old all-in from the BB to a bunch of limpers. I gotta say it was painfully boring (until the final table) playing full ring tournaments. Playing HU has spoiled me on constant action. I guess I could go back to multi tabling cash games which is pretty constant but I just hate always having to play against premium hand having nits. Sure I can steal a lot but that only makes you so much and then when they actually play back at me Im always behind. In live games I usually play premium hands but thats because a standard raise will insure that you are playing against 6 people so you have to over raise. You need premium hands to win over raising or calling or reraising the other over raisers. You have to punish people for playing out of line. My HU sessions went ok this weekend. My roll is up to $701. Not bad for being down to $22 a coupla months ago. I played a 6 handed cash game .10/.25 and I bought in for $25. It was pretty live and people were slinging chips. I remember calling a raise from the BB. The raiser was early and one guy called and I called. The flop was Ace, 8, 2 and I had 8,7. I checked and the original raiser bets 70% of the pot. The other guy folds. I would typically fold but I decided to try something since it was low stakes. I repopped it pretty large. The guy starts chating about how I suck and I limped in with 88 or Ax and blah blah blah. I quickly turned off my auto muck and when he folded I showed him my hand. Then he called me fish and called him nit. It was entertaining. I dont think he was really upset. I told him to take a valium. He told me he had a gutshot. I love when online idiots talk uber extreme trash. Thats something online offers that live doesnt. There's nothing like being able to tell someone what you really want to. I dont bash bad play but I dont mind bashing people who do. I love calling them little internet pussy geeks who still sleep with their mothers and actually think about their moms when spanking it because their moms are the only girls they've ever talked to. I love telling them if they dont calm down all their pimples are going to simultaneously pop all over their quad monitors. I rarely ever hit the chat box but its fun sometimes.

Played Higher to Recoop Again. Pure Genius.

Went on full cursing, throwing shit tilt last night playing $20 HU SnGs. Especially when we play a raised pot and I have K6 and flop is J66 and get it in against fking A6. I played this one Brazilian who was so aggressive just raising every time preflop and potting the flop and I didnt catch any good starting hands and couldnt hit anything. All I could do was reraise with air every now and then and hope that this wasnt the time he had something. I was wrong quite a few times. The funny thing was he got disconnected and I went into min raise mode trying to get as many hand in before he got back and I saw so many good hands in that stretch. When he finally reconnected his stack had gone from 1900 to 400 (we start with 1500 each). He immediately doubles up to 900 because I have A9 and had raised it into his QQ. I remember having QQ like 3 times during his absence. I ended up winning that one. I played him some more hoping he would lose his connection again. He didnt but I think I ended up winning 1 or two games total over him. They were mostly back and forth long games. I ended up up for the night and decided to goof off and play PLO. I lost $10 and it made me wanna play just one more SNG. Stupid. I ended up losing $50 before I went crazy and bought into an $80 game. Shortly into the $80 game I found myself at the river having overplayed a flush draw and looking at a 1400 chip pot and only having 500 left. I donk it in and HE FOLDS!!!!! whew. CHIP LEADER!!!!! I eventually won after a very long game of cat and mouse but never relinquishing the chip lead. So I ended up being rewarded for a bad decision. Probably the worst possible thing that could happen to a degenerate chaser like me. The old BR is at $524. Weeeeeeeee.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Wild night at the Shack. First we got to hear about RDG's main event and who he played with and how he bluffed Phil Ivey all-in with 5 high. The best story of the night was about RB who was going to fly to Vegas to root for RDG but was so drunk he got tossed off the plane so he went to Harrahs where he has no recollection of running over the table and getting up a few thousand only to lose big since he was wasted and in every pot bluffing. A guy who was there told us about how he was about to actually win a pot but before the guy actually folded RB turned over an 8 high and said "ship it". BUT the best part of the story is about when he went to the bathroom and his table hit the $250,000 dollar bad beat jackpot. Now thats frikin funny. Of coarse they wouldnt have hit it had he not gone to the bathroom and he did get a decent amount of consolation chips from the players but its still pretty brutal.

The tournament started out great as I was chipping up with good cards and big bets but would go south later when I would bluff a river in which a guy hit two pair on. I had turned an open ended straight flush draw and play so good that I didnt bet it in position against 2 guys checking to me but I bet half my chips on the frikin river. I donk it off a hand or two later to Elvis. Oh btw Elvis when you made the super star laydown of the monster A10, I had AK.

The cash game was wild. There was a serious lack of regard for chips. The best hand of the night was when G and J were betting back and forth and J ended up moving in on the River and G after deliberating called him down and they both turned over second pair with a 10 kicker. It was about a $500 pot they chopped. I was up most of the night because I dodged a flush draw and doubled up early but I dwindled over the night. I really never had hands that I could stick $20 in the middle with and thats what it was going to cost. I had a GCP blogger on my left who liked to play big pots. I did make a bad laydown that turned out to be great. UTG limped and in second position I make it $15 with QQ. I think a couple of people call and it gets to Scary on the button. Scary pops it to $50 or makes it $50 more and starts talkin. Scary is a smart player with some gamble. Well before it can get back to me he gets 2 callers. One maniac and one rock. I contemplate the possibility that they all have AK. The maniac who smooth called fifty did the same thing when I had QQ a month ago and won all my chips with K7. So the 2 callers probably have an over or two each. I put Scary on a big big hand. The absolute bottom of his range is JJ. I muck my QQ. Well they get it in on the flop and Scary had JJ but he hit a set so I didnt feel to bad. I actually still think it was the right play 7 out of 10 times. Scary was on fucking fire. I bet he was up $2000 when I left. The biggest hand of the night for me happened a few mintues before my announced cash out and go home time. I raise to $12 with JJ in early position and luckily only the button and G the maniac in the small blind call. The button is a good player who makes moves but I have to respect his moves becaus ehe probably has either outs or a good read or the best hand when he makes those moves. The SB will go crazy with air. The flop comes 10, 10, 7. I hate it. Sb checks I bet 50ish and the button fold thank God. BUT the SB maniac smooth calls. Now Im depressed. He knows I have a big hand. The turn is a Queen which I hate and now SB bets into me and it smells so much like value. $65. Sick. SB has been losing about $200 per pot all night and has been caught bluffing sooooo much. I decided I had to make at least one call. The river is a blank 5. G bets $90. So value. I think I would have felt better had he bet $120. I go in the tank. There's no figuring this hand out. Do I want to be the only guy who didnt call G and let him bluff a pot or do I want to be the only guy who G bet a pot all night. Tough call. Ive got $130 in the pot already. I take a look at him and I cant tell anything. I has a scowl on his face. Whatever. I put my head in my arms and make the crying call. Apparently G didnt seem too happy because the GCP blooger to my left says he thinks I made a good call. PHEW!!!!!! He floated me with AJ just to try and take it away from me. He coulda been doing the same thing with KQ and I woulda have another fucking G story like my buddy to my right who made it $100 preflop with AA and got two caller including G who had 8 high and the board comes 88J. Ouch. I so anyway I book a win finally. Scary reads this blog and called me Sofa King during the game. I wonder if thats inevitable.

Bleeding but not Profusely

Poker, poker, poker aka kiss me poker. Friday night I went to the .25/.50 game at my friends house. Its a very relaxed home game. I lost $70. Most of it in a pot I had no reason to be in which is typical of this home game. The stakes are low and the goofing off is high. I called a raise to $3 with 86 suited. A guy behind me called and then a short stack went all-in for $10. Why the original raiser didnt reraise us degenerates out of the pot is beyond me. We all call. Thats 5 people going to the flop out of 8 players for 20 times the big blind. Flop is 876. I put in a $23 bet and the guy behind me goes all in for $28. I call and lose to his 54. Then I berate the original raiser for not shutting us both out of the pot which he wouldve won had he done so.

Saturday night I went to Harrahs. I sit down next to a guy who I have played with at Baton Rouge home games and he generously gives me the scoop on everyone at the table. We had a good time chatting the rest of the night. He raised it to $4 once in early position and I said he must have J10suited which was funny after he won the hand cause he did. He ran really bad and went bust eventually. I fold a shit ton for a while then I get JJ but the tightwad UTG guy raised and there were a few callers so I just call. The flop is 10 high all clubs. everyoine checks to me and I look to see my Jack of clubs and bet about 70% of the pot. Im very relieved when UTG folds. This crazy old dude who was very abrasive to the table pushes all in but its not that much more. I call. He had a gut shot straight flush draw and an Ace of hearts. Thank you mister nut ball. I feel real smart until a few hands later I raise with 10s and flop a set against a made str8 and the money goes in on the flop and I dont improve. FELTED. The guy that felted me had sat down 15 minutes earlier to my delight. I basically said to my buddy he looked like a good addition to the game. Old, well dressed guy with a flowery print shirt on. Looked very tourist. He played on pot where he called all three streets with Ace 10 on a 10 high board. I told my buddy during the hand he had A10 and was going to be a stubborn old man. Total drooler. Well the drooler busted me. I rebuy for $260 and lose $80 before I even get my chips. I get AQ and raise. The flop is KJbrick so I cont bet. I get minraised by a guy who then has 11 bucks left. I know Im behind but Im not folding to a min raise. He could have Q10. Well the turn is a 9 so I cant beat anything now. He waites till the river to bet the $11 and I throw it in the pot anyway. Fuck it. I get AQ the next hand and raise and lose too. So I rebuy up to $260 which is what i was down. a couple hands later still sitting with a $100 bill on the table i get K10spades. I call a raise on the button and flop broadway. I flat call the flop and turn bet. I cant believe the guy still bets into me on the river. I ship it in after a little hesitation act and get called. He has an unfoldable 1 pair. A pair of Kings with an Ace kicker. Thank you mister nutball #2. How can he not at least check call the river. How can you think one pair is godd after I flat the turn. Just another espn fan that cant fold AK. So I get even for the night. The rest of the night was lame. I lost $120 buck overall. I missplayed a hand so bad one time because I didnt see a guy in the pot and I thought I was heads up. Terrible. Maybe I dont bet the flush draw out on the turn but to let him get there for free is just donkey. I let the flush hit the river after I had turned the straight. At least I folded. The flower print shirt drooler I thought I was trapping called to see the flush. Had we been heads up he wouldve definitely kept betting behind me but the guy who I didnt see in the pot was an uber rock so drooler was rightly worried. I bluffed a river once which was pretty exciting. The guy had his chips in his hand and said "well they're just chips right" and I said "thats true" and he backed off and eventually folded. I realized I was in that stare at the board and dont breathe position once it looked like he was seriously considering calling so I sat up and took a sip of water which was funny because I didnt have any water. Just some random bottled water. Trying to look comfortable. It may have even been his water. I wonder if he woulda noticed me drinking his water would he have called. He finally mucked QQ but the was an Ace, a King, and a flush on the board. I called his first bet with a pair hoping to improve but when he checked the Ace behind me on the turn I figured I would have to bet the river especially if a heart hit. Soon after I left because my buddy I rode with was flat busted and my table wasnt that great. Driving back at 1am was strangely early. I usually dont leave till sun up.

Online is going well. I over $500 now. I think Im going to stick to my $20 SnGs though and not move up. I just have a feeling there arent near as many players or suckers at the $40 to $50 range. I will play a few higher games but Im going to keep the $20 as my main stay for now.

On the golf front I won 15 out of 17 holes in a wolf game in which we all shot exactly the same total score. I made some big putts on the back nine. I made a 25 footer on 18 to half the hole. I havent played in 6 months and really average about 4 rounds a year. I only played because it was the only mild day all summer with temps never going over 91. I shot an 87 which I thought was pretty good considering I showed up 5 minutes before tee off. I did get to hit a few drives on the range but that was it. No puts and no irons. I think I could get back to shooting in the low 80s pretty quickly. My buddy gave me some clubs about a year ago and the irons hit great. The driver is a big bertha and its so light compared to the walmart club I've been hitting for 10 years. I switched to my old driver after the very first hole and drove pretty well all day.

I hope the Monday night tournament is on for tonight. I wanna hear all about the main event and Vegas adventures.

Trying to Go Broke

I was at $375 online bankroll. Ive been hovering around $400. Ive been as high as $475. Anyway last night I started playing $20 HU SnGs and ran pretty good. Went up to $450ish. Then I lost a few in aggravating fashion. Then the evil gambling monster called Gamblore showed up. I moved up to a $50 HU SnG and lost. Then I went to a $100 HU SnG and lost. That one really sucked. I had two pair on the turn when the money went in and he showed AA. The the river was an Ace. That left me with about 50 chips and I went out the next hand. So now my bankroll is at $220. Full Steam Ahead!!!!!! I decided to put basically my whole roll on a 1/2 NL full ring game. I sucked out on a short stack to be up $50 quickly. Then I lost down a bit calling with small pairs and not hitting. I did have a pair of 4's onetime out of position after the flop but I checked the flop and the preflop raiser checked behind which was weird. AK and missed or he flopped really big. I check called the turn and he pussied out on the river. Weeeeeeee. The hands I raised with I generally won. I had to buy one pot with AQ. I raised in late position and got called by a guy who had limped in front of me. The board came 9 high and I bet out about 80% pot. Call. I guess he has a pair of 8s or something. The turn was a King so I bet again. $32 into a $48 pot. He thought for a really long time. Im begging him to fold and when he finally does I start chatting "Hercules, Hercules, Hercules". So I won my bankroll back up to $350. Pretty much where I started but we all know that its only a matter of time before I do some more dumbshit like that and lose my whole roll. Fuckin degenerate.

Stumbled into a Goofy Little SnG with Rebuys

Played in a game I'd never been to last night. It was in the back of a bar that used to be not a bar and where I used to spend many a days gamblin. I went there cause my normal Monday game was canceled this week because our fearless leader was busting out of the main even out 119th place and someone told me about this "tournament". Well it wasnt quite what I imagined. There were only 9 of us (and I brought a guy sooooo). $20 each with one $20 rebuy before the break and one $20 addon at the break. I had played with everyone before except maybe this one girl. Dinky town. The game had 3 absolutely terribad players (well they played bad that night at least). All but one busted out before the first break having put two buyins in the game. Another guy went out pre add-on who seemed like he could play but was too aggressive with so many bad calling stations and the rest tight players waiting for hands. I guess he was not a great player but compared to the other three he was Stu Ungar. As for my significant hands I won a coin flip with 10's vs AQ. The guy raised to $800 after my raise to $60 so I just decided he really didnt want to see a flop and the only hand he could have that crushed me was JJ so I went all in. I also more than doubled up with 10's again when 5 players saw the flop for $250ish when blinds were 20/40 and it came 577. The first to act guy who in the past was Phil Helmuth jr. but seemed chill last night led out for $600. How could I fold? How could I call? I went all in. Fuck it I could rebuy. My all in caused the QQ behind me to fold (I wouldnt have folded that but yippee for me) and then the original better trys to read me and I look like Im ready to rebuy so he makes a hero call with 22. Whoops. I win. I also won a small pot HU with QQ and a 7 high flop. Standard raise, cont bet and fold. At the break we had 6 players left and everyone bought $1500 in chips for $20 buck EXCEPT ME. I had $4500 and figured I wouldnt need them. I was maybe a little below average after the add-on. Well to get to the not very important point, once it was down to 3 of us I was the shortest stack but still only a 2 to 1 dog. I proposed a chop (which I shouldve waited more than 1.3 seconds to propose after the 4th busted out cause he seemed to take offense to it). My buddy decided since he had more money invested and double my stack that he didnt wanna. The other guy did. So we played. I went all-in on them a couple of times and suddenly the chop was accepted. I took $20 less for being the shortest and since they both had $20 more (maybe $40 more) invested. I made $70 after giving the dealer $10. She thought it was the sweetest thing and is apparently used to getting nothing for her time and effort. Then we played some pool. Not the best poker night in the world but my alternative was to go to a game that might swallow my meager bankroll whcih I was contemplating.

Loveshack places 119th

Oh well. The dream of going to Vegas to root on the Loveshack in the November 9 is over. He finished 119th. Good run. Nice cash. RDG is a tourney beast.

Loveshack has 600k with 150 players left

The next money bump is around 100 players so there should be some short stacks gambling it up right now.

Loveshack has 800k with 180 players left

The blinds are at 8/16k so RDG has some chips to work with. Bring it home boy!!!!

Update

Loveshack has 900k with 200 left. Go RDG!!!!!!!!

Loveshack is in the Money

Loveshack made the money!!! He has 337k with 650 left.

LoveShack at 331K / 800 left (thats 188 position)

Last I heard was at 2:45am and Loveshack was at 331K in 188 position with 800 left

Update

LoveShack is at 300K with 1200 left

Love Shack with $220k at break on day 3

Go RDG. Big Money No Whammies!!!!!!!

Tourneys, Online and Cash-tastic-ness

I wanna go to Biloxi this Sunday or next and play in the tournament but DAMN $20 fee for a $100 tournament! I guess fuck it anyway. Its just the excuse I need to go play the cash game. I love that poker room.

I keep getting rivered in all-in pots online in my $20 HU SnGs. Lucky Im usually ahead in chips and I have more than 40% of the time been able to come back and win. I've been hovering around $400 for a week now. Im ready to push on and maybe expand my game. I have 2GB of RAM coming today so I will be able to multitable should I chose to.

Im also ready to play some cash. My new goal is to minimize my losses. I will concentrate on maximizing my wins later. Not going on tilt is so paramount with half a bankroll. Im proud of myself for leaving early last week and saving $200 I had brought to play with. I have this bad habit of overplaying AK, 10s, and JJ when Im stuck a couple of buyins. Also limping in with any suited or connecting cards and Bad aces. Must become a folding machine again. People used to actually give me credit for having a hand. I'd like to return to that a little.

Send Some Main Event Love to the Love Shacker

Love Shack texted last night that he is sitting with 100k in the Main Event and plays again on Friday. Lets all send some positive thoughts his way. Ommm Ommmm Ommmm Im pretty sure they started with 30k in chips.

Folded the Sucker Straight like a Sucker

Wow. I got a shout out from GulfCoastPoker.net today. I may crack under the pressure to rant about poker and make it relevant to Baton Rouge. I havent been to the damn Belle poker room since they were rockin 3 tables. I hear they have 5 now. I was actually up overall playing there the last time I went regularly for a couple of months. If they would spread a 1/2 Nl game I'd be up there too much. The last time I played up there I had 56 and the 789 flopped out there. I reraised a large amount to the original better and an over caller. The over caller went all-in. I remember thinking in my head that I would raise enough that only J10 could possibly continue. So I had $85 in the pot and would cost me $400 more. I mucked and the all in guy shows Q9. I was so disgusted that I havent been back. I decided that I shoulda called that guy and didnt because I wasnt properly bankrolled to have $500 on that table and even though I was up on that game I said I would play there again till I had $5k set aside for poker. Maybe it was a good lay down and Im beat there enough times versus the random assclown bluff to justify laying it down. People love to play J10 and it was a limpfest preflop.

Going Broke the Loose Passive Way

Well I had someone ask me if this site was mine. I guess that means I had a reader. Still no comments but whatever. I just got from my cash game and Im home 2 hours early. Thats ALWAYS bad. Late is usually bad and early is ALWAYS bad. I dumped. I dumped in a grotesque calling station loose passive retard fashion. My lone reader took many chips from me by playing better. I think 80% of the times I put money in the pot I knew I was behind and 80% of the times I figured I had the best hand I checked. Ummmmmm going broke soon. I dont really have any interesting hands to recall. Just general calling with Ace rag against Ace better or way better. At least I saved $200 I had on me. I know I woulda lost it. I really need to think about this poker game and make some decisions about what I want to do. Do I want to play right and try and maximize my chances of winning or do I want to sit around and laugh and watch tv and throw money into the big hole in the middle of the table. Im down $900 for the last few weeks and I only have $1100 left in my bankroll. I dont even know if I have a bankroll. I have a car in the shop and zero money. I probably play better when I dont have 5 bullets in my pocket any way. But all that aside I really need to make a decision. Pay attentioin and think or just laugh and donk. My bud Dave is playing the main event today. I heard he was up to $70000 chips on day one. For all I know he is out as I write but I hope not. Good luck Dave cause we all know you got the chops. Ok Im goin to go consider whether I can enjoy something more than poker or if I have to get better. Scrapbooking? Heroine?

Beyond Degenerate

I had coffee with a friend of mine who is "off the bet" as they say in Gamblers Anonymous. He is one of those people who lose their minds gambling and steal from anyone they can to keep going. I was pretty sure I was never going to have anything to do with him since I was one of his victims but I had a change of heart and wanted to talk to him and see where he was at. He was doing good. He still owes so many people so much money but I think at this point he is committed to paying it. I think he will have to do it on his own terms which will upset some people. Its sad when you read articles about people who were compulsive gamblers doing things like robbing banks or embezzling money. I think its obviously a mental illness just like drug addiction. I had a dopefiend friend who robbed pharmacies in broad daylight with things like bricks and crow bars. Of coarse he got caught and he shoulda known he would get caught but addicts dont think logically. I let that guy stay on my couch for a while and try and kick drugs. Should I have been surprised had he stolen my TV? No. I was actually expecting it. I guess I will have to use that same attitude when it comes to my gambling addict friend because its so easy to just think he is a bad person who steals. I know bad people who steal. They dont stop and they are much sneakier than compulsive gamblers. They know how to shear the sheep and not skin it. Addicts skin everything including themselves.

I havent been playing much real poker. Looking forward to my Monday night 1/2 game tonight. My AC went out on my last officially sanctioned poker night so I spent all night with the AC repair guy. Ive played a coupla home games with non serious players. I made $100 overall from two friend games and probably shoulda made more since its as easy as betting untill they seem interested or they play back at me. But I did partake in the spirit of the evenings by gambling and donating some. My online stuff is still going well. My roll is up over $400. If I ever get some more RAM Im gonna try some more multi tabling full ring games. Right now my computer just cant run my big new monitor at the same time as my old monitor plus running 4 to 6 games of poker while having Holdem Manager constantly crunching stats.