{"id":96,"date":"2007-11-01T10:36:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/october-2007-poker-update\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:36:28","slug":"october-2007-poker-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/october-2007-poker-update\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2007 Poker Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October was not a good month <em>economically<\/em>. That said, I had an excellent month of winning qualifiers, including three in one week to the weekly <em>big tourney<\/em>, so it wasn&#8217;t all bad. I only got to use one in October, as we&#8217;ve been much busier on weekends than usual (if you read my non-poker posts, then you already know!). I won&#8217;t be playing this Sunday either, as it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlyman.com\" title=\"Girlyman\" target=\"_blank\">Girlyman<\/a> night! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I thought I played reasonably well this month, with a few extremely notable exceptions (meaning, I got frustrated, and took some <em>shots<\/em> that were ill-advised). The majority of my losses came in the qualifier entries, meaning, even if I won the qualifier, the entire entry fee ends up counting as a loss.<\/p>\n<p>My bottom line this month was down $239.89. Since the three seats that I won in the one week were worth $645, and I won other qualifiers (for roughly another $88), I far outstripped my entry fees, but my account is still down on the cash front.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t cry for me (yet), as my account is still extremely healthy, and in the beginning of the month, actually hit an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>Not much else to report, other than that I haven&#8217;t played at all this week, which is marginally shocking. I&#8217;ve had a number of other things that I wanted to take care of, and while I could have snuck in a game or two, I didn&#8217;t want to keep being distracted by having to pay attention to the poker table, so I didn&#8217;t launch the software at all this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October was not a good month economically. That said, I had an excellent month of winning qualifiers, including three in one week to the weekly big tourney, so it wasn&#8217;t all bad. I only got to use one in October, as we&#8217;ve been much busier on weekends than usual (if you read my non-poker posts, [&hellip;]<\/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":[1363,31,1368],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-gambling","category-2","category-poker","tag-gambling","tag-girlyman","tag-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}