Sunday Results

It didn't exactly go well in the main tournaments yesterday, busting each one with the best hand, but had a few decent runs in the satellites so I was able to store up some T$ to be used in the future.

Busted out of the FTP Holiday 100K when we got it all in KK vs. AK and obviously A comes on the flop

Busted out of the Stars Million Dollar Turbo Takedown when A9 couldn't beat Q9 with the board became 4 card straight

Cashed in the Stars Guinness Book of World Record for $30 ($10 goes back towards the last longest bet) when AK is inferior to A9

I did manage to win a few satellites like I mentioned, but I just wasn't "in it" from tiredness in the past few days so I decided not to play any of the bigger tournaments.

As far as the Turbo Takedown, I have not cashed once and I've played it 4 times or so. Heck, I have not even made it to the first break in any of them I've played, and this is a tournament where at least 1/3 is supposed to make the money...I guess I'm just saving it up for a deep run soon.

Not going to be playing again until the New Year, so happy new year to all.

End of the Year Review

First and foremost - Merry Christmas to the 2 readers that actually follow this blog.

On to the other stuff

Took time off from sports betting/poker/whatever due to exams/holidays and what not...I played a $2 MTT on Stars last night while waiting for my online boxing day sales order to go through, ended up making a deep run but busted with 5 tables left. Made one wrong read and put a guy on overs and shoved into an overpair, which essentially crippled me and a few hands later I busted. Still finding my MTT game to be quite...weak. I discovered that I still need to work on chipping up, as I have found that too often, the only way my chip stack increase during the course of a MTT is through a big hand or two, otherwise I end up getting short real fast.

Looking forward to this weekend, mainly this Sunday with the various MTTs I'll be playing. So far the list consist of:
1. FTP Holiday 100K Freeroll
2. Stars Guinness World Record Attempt - $10+$1 $500K Guarantted
3. Stars Million Dollar Takedown
Going to be trying to satellite into the Sunday Million as well since they're guaranteeing $2.5 million in the prizepool, theres also the $215 HORSE, $215 Mixed Hold'em as well as Sunday 500 on Stars that I'll try to satellite into, so it should be a fun Sunday to end of the year. Not sure how I will be able to put in the hours for these satellites, so I might just end up doing those hyper-turbos before the tournaments on Sunday.

This year has been a mediocre year to be honest. I didn't put in as many hours as I wanted to, and as a result the profits from poker this year definitely didn't reach my goal. With that said, it was still a profitable year, and finally breaking through with a decent cash at a relatively big live tourney (by my standards - $235 - 600+ players at Venetian) as well as taking down a live tournament ($120 - 36 players at Binions). Still many holes in my game that I hope to fill in 2009, and definitely need to get more motivated to put in more hours as well.

I don't really make new years resolution, but I do have a list of goals that I hope to accomplish in 2009 - albeit some is definitely tougher than others.

1. Have my first 5 digit score
2. Final table one of the bigger Sunday tournaments
3. Work on my heads up game (cash)
4. Put in some serious volumn for MTTs (35~ tournaments weekly)
5. Satellite into the WSOP ME
6. Satellite into one other live tourney (EPT/Aussie Millions preferrably)
7. Work on my deepstack cash play

I know this list seems pretty long as well as some of them being relatively hard to quantify and reach, but I figure it needs to be something that will really motivate me to put in the work. With a work term from Jan-Apr, it should allow me to put in a decent amount of volumn on evenings and weekends. Furthermore, my spring term from May-Aug looks like a term where I'll just take the minimum 3 course requirement, so that should allow me to keep putting in solid hours online while hopefully getting away for a week or two at the WSOP.

Other than that, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours, may your 2009 be your best year yet.

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Sports Betting Dec 2

So I ended up making a couple of bets on the MNF game, simply because the line of 48 for the game seemed too good to be true, and it was until like 29 points were scored in the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter to make me sweat out a 47 total performance for both teams. Not a bad start to December...nothing really caught my eye in NHL for Dec 2, so just taking a couple of picks in basketball for today.

NBA:
Lakers -8.5 vs. Pacers 2u LOSE
Wizards +5 vs. Nets WIN
76ers vs. Bulls u194.5 LOSE

Soccer:
Man Utd. to win the EPL. 2u
Chelsea to not win the EPL. 2u

MTD: 4 - 1 - 0 +3.3u
YTD: 36 - 29 - 1 +9.8u

Sports Betting Dec 1

So much for taking it easy - but it was a very good day for me going 8 - 4 - 1 to wrap up the month. I am really going to take it easy on the Monday with only a couple of NBA and NHL games going on respectively. Depending on how things work out, I might take a couple of late picks with MNF but thats highly unlikely as I will be at school starting at 5pm for the finals of our intramurals.

NBA:
Magic vs. Celtics -9.5 WIN

NHL:
Leafs ML vs. Kings WIN
Canucks ML vs. Blue Jackets LOSE

NFL:
Titans vs. Jags u48 WIN
Titans vs. Jags u24 1H WIN

MTD: 0 - 0 - 0
YTD: 32 - 28 - 1 +6.5u