{"id":43,"date":"2007-06-02T17:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2007-10-02T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:12:54","slug":"early-june-poker-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/early-june-poker-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Early June Poker Success :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I really can’t wait until the end of the month to write this report. Not so much because I want to brag, but more because I have every expectation that I will lose it back, and the drama<\/em> won’t be there when all is said and done. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So, June has only had two days so far, but I’ve had a lot of play already. I was up late last night, and I have played a number of tourneys today as well. Here’s the rundown.<\/p>\n

Started off with a $1 Omaha Hi Lo and lost. Darn. Played an $11 Omaha Hi Lo and lost. $11 Hold’Em tourney and lost. Great start to the month, as I was now down $22.68. Then I entered a $6.50 Omaha Hi Lo last night with 303 people in it. I finished 21st, and got back $12.19 for it. Not a big return, but an excellent finish percentage-wise. End of “first day” total: -$16.99.<\/p>\n

First tourney this morning was a $5.50 Hold’Em that I lost. Second was a $5.50 tourney that was a qualifier for a $200K tourney tomorrow. Only top spot paid the entry fee, but they also paid prizes for the next seven places. There were 25 players, but it was a “rebuy” and “add-on” tourney, so when people bust out, they can buy more chips and stay in. So, it’s like playing against a lot more people. I didn’t rebuy (meaning, I played just with my original chips, then I did the one add-on). So, my total investment was $10.50. Most other players put in more, some much<\/em> more. I finished 4th, and got back $31.50. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed an Omaha tourney starting in two minutes, which had an $11 buy-in. I quickly registered. On the second hand, I had the nut low<\/strong>, and ended up all in. Oops, it turned out to be an Omaha High Only tournament, so my low was worthless<\/strong>! So much for rushing<\/em> to register. I was out in 3 minutes, and lost my $11, all due to my own stupidity…<\/p>\n

Now the good one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Entered an Omaha Hi Lo (yes, I verified the “Lo” part this time). 54 entrants, each paying $11. Prize money to top 8. Long story, but it was a little bit of a struggle, because one guy hit practically every single river, one with a miracle card, and I ended up staying out of his way, even when I had hands that likely would have beaten him. It was hard to lay some of those hands down, but he was a real luck box<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Long story short, he was an overwhelming chip leader, but eventually busted out in 4th. I ended up winning<\/strong> the tourney! It’s been a very long time since I’ve had this kind of result. I’ve won this much money recently (twice in fact), but in higher entry fee tourneys, where I came 3rd and 4th respectively. Today, I came first, and got back $162.00 for my $11. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I am now up $149.91 for the month. As you might recall from my most recent entry, I was up $140 last month as well, so I am not bragging that this will be a good month, simply sharing that I had some good results yesterday and today (even though I lost money yesterday!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I really can’t wait until the end of the month to write this report. Not so much because I want to brag, but more because I have every expectation that I will lose it back, and the drama won’t be there when all is said and done. \ud83d\ude09 So, June has only had two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,2,18],"tags":[1363,1368],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-gambling","category-2","category-poker","tag-gambling","tag-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}