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Sup kids-

Hope all is going well in life and at the tables. Poker has been very +ev for me, as I have continued to have success in the 180 mans on Stars (a couple more final tables in the past few days… this is getting ridiculous =P) I’ve been doing good (…or running good?) in the MTT scene too, which I’m pretty stoked about. 3rd in the Midnight Madness last week… meh, should’ve been 1st but it just turned into a big crapshoot at the end. So far things have been good. Just cashed out a bit last week, so I’ll have some extra dough to spend. But yeah, school is going slow… couple of midterms this week so I won’t be playing till after my tests. Like I said before, I have a pretty chill schedule. Life is good, school is good, poker is good.

And on that note, watch out, because I’m gonna take over the world… I promise

-B

HAI KIDS-

So winter quarter just ended and spring quarter just started this past Wednesday. I don’t have class on Mondays and Fridays, so that’s a 4-day weekend every weekend.. go me! But I’ll still be pretty busy studying for the upcoming MCAT on May 11th, so I won’t be playing a TON like before, but definitely a lot more than last quarter. So yeah school just started this past Wednesday and I have a pretty chill schedule like I said. Started playing again, but this time jumping into the 180 man tournaments on PokerStars. I had played a couple over winter break, having some success in them; I made like 2 final tables during that one week I played. Anyway so I’ve been playing the 180s this past week and I’ve done pretty well. These past 7 days have included 5 final tables! Results: two 1sts, a 4th, a 5th, and a 6th. They pay pretty well too so that’s always good haha. I actually just got 4th like an hour ago. I was trying to win 2 FTs in one day… sad to see it didn’t happen though =( Also been branching out into MTTs… I had started to play em before I went into poker hibernation so I’m back at it again. Hopefully they turn out as well as the 180s! It’s getting late, and even though I don’t have class Mondays I’m pretty damn tired. GG GL kids

-B

Greetings kids,

As many of you know, this new year has brought new changes for me. Poker-wise, I have had less and less time to play due to my absolute pwnage of school and MCAT classes. Poker has been thrown on the backburner, for this quarter at least. Seriously, I play about 1 session a week (if I’m lucky). 1 session for me involves multi-tabling SNGs, so I get in about 2-3 games at once (which takes about an hour at most). It’s a shame, too, because I’m doing really well in the SNGs. But I guess it’s good that I can play at least once a week so as to not forget everything. I’ve only played 16 SNGs since the start of 07! Crazy huh? I remember the days of me playing at least 16 SNGS in one day. Meh, oh well. The first 4 I played this year, 2 finishes were ITM (in the money) and the other 2 SNGs… well, I was playing on campus and kept getting d/c so I had to have a friend take over. Wasn’t ITM in those 2 SNGs, if I had played it might be different but shit happens and you gotta move on. My last 12 SNGs = 9 cashes, which is a 75% ITM rate. The places I’ve finished are irrelevant since your main goal is to be ITM when it comes to SNGs (but if you really want to know, I’ve only had 1 3rd place finish). I feel I finally have the main concepts of SNGs down. Like I said, it sucks that I can’t be playing the same volume as I had been before but more important things come first.

Looking to get into back into MTTs next quarter. I’ve never really been an MTT guy, I guess cause I’ve had so much success in SNGs. But from the MTTs that I have played (Sunday majors, 180 mans, various $ Guarantees), they look to be pretty profitable. Or maybe I have high aspirations to be like Faraz, Kevin, and Andy… who knows.

The pokerhaus had a party last night. I was gonna fly down again but totally forgot that I had other shit to do… oh well, next time guys. Guess my study break is over. Don’t know when I’ll post again (seeing as how this is a poker blog and I don’t play much anymore), so till then, gl kids.

-bao

Edit: I just realized what a small sample size I provided. LOL whoops. Don’t base my confidence on that, just truuuuuuust me.

Last night (Thursday 9/28) Faraz, one of the residents of the pokerhaus, took down Partypoker’s Super Thursday for a sweet $32,712 cash. He had a dominating chips stack for most of the event once it was down to 100 people and entered heads up play with greater than 4:1 chip lead. From there it was only a matter of time before The Toilet got the cards to cooperate against his heads-up opponent. There were 928 entrants with a $162 buyin for a total prizepool of $139,200.

Read the rail thread from the forums here.

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