In the last article, I explained a proposition bet I took part in last year with my roommate. With a month’s rent on the line, we both hand to play twenty four hours of uninterrupted internet poker. Whoever made the most money within some rules was the winner.
My roommate Tom was a pretty good player, certainly a consistent winner. He specialises in No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha cash games, either six-max tables or heads-up. If he had a good run at the heads-up tables, I could be in trouble but I fancied myself to win. It was with great relish that I booted up my laptop at 5:55 and prepared myself to go.
5:55pm Friday
I fire up the laptop, knowing it takes a while to load, crack out some Red Bull and settle down on the sofa with some Super Noodles (Bacon flavour, if any one was interested) and get ready for the oncoming challenge.
6pm Friday
I normally specialise in Limit Hold’em, Stud and Razz (probably my single best game) and the odd mixed game (HORSE especially) cash games with the odd tournament thrown into the mix. Of course, limit games aren’t always great if we’re looking for an explosive profit. Of course, Tom could fail in a spectacular fashion and lose a couple of buy-ins in his higher variance games. Per, the rules, we weren’t allowed to tell each other how much we made so I was blisfully unaware of his gameplan as he played upstairs. I decided to load up 8 tables of $6/$12 limit hold’em on Poker Stars, clicked on the stereo and got down to business.
7pm,
An hour in and I’m running really well, have found some tables with some fish and am up about 25 big bets for a profit of $300 which is a good start but with Tom playing No Limit, he may already be well in the lead. Of course, he’s not a great multi-tabler so we’ll just have to see. I decide to lift the stakes up to the $8/$16 level and switch down to let me fire up a few tournaments. I sign into the $26 double stack on Full Tilt, a tournament I used to really like when I was on my way up with a $50 event on Stars starting at quarter past the hour. I’m convinced that a big tournament pay day is the way to go for a big windfall.
8pm
Boo and Hiss! I find myself out unceremoniously from the event on Stars but am going well in the Full Tilt event, having doubled my inital starting stack after some moron shoved the river with air and I’d be sandbagging the absolute nuts, much to my pleasure. I like the deep stack events so am looking forward to going long. I’m also in the $22 rebuy event and after taking a re-buy straight away have rebought twice more and have a reasonable stack.
9pm
I’m still going strong in the deep stack event, and lie in the top 40 with 250 getting paid. I bust out of the rebuy event in the first hand after the break as I moved all-in with Queens and got stacked by the big blind who had Kings. Too bad. Cash is going well as I’m up $400 in total. I’m probably at my peak operating efficiency right now and am really happy with how I’m going. I sign up for a $20 Razz event on Stars which seems to have a weak field.
10pm
The bubble’s burst in the Double Stack event and my chip stacks a little diminished after a couple of dirty suckouts around the bubble but I’m still there and looking to go super-deep. The Razz event is going well and I’m right in the mix above the chip leaders in what is definitely my favourite game. I’m now also in the $26 Deep Stack Pot Limit Hold’em tourney, a game I don’t play so often but I really like the structure, so I’ll take it. Lost a sick pot on a LHE cash game with a straight flush to another, losing the absolute max. Still have $300 profit in the bank so it’s Ok. What I wouldn’t give for a bad beat jackpot, I don’t know though. Pretty sick
11pm
My now I’m getting pretty tired. I found myself shortstacked approaching the final table of the first event but made a double up after shoving the button with 57, getting called by TT and sucking out. Fun Times. Unfortunately busto in the other events, just bubbling in the Razz. Cash is still going OK but I’m flagging, not usually playing in long sessions.
12pm
I find myself out in 11th place in the $26 dollar event for $300 or so. Missed a big one, but I’ll definitely take it. By now, I’ve decided focus on cash now for a while and has switched to a few HORSE tables, am $450 up but in need of caffeine.
Check back tomorrow for the next installment. See if I can take home the bet.
This article was written by meshuganater.
Tags: poker, poker marathon