Best day of the year

Had to write a blog after this one. Just ran ridiculously hot today. This month has been crazy. After running 10k below Expected Value (EV) in January, I am 30k above during February. Although the upswing is incredible, it is a little sickening to think that I will probably have a month where I run that much below or close to it. Lets hope that doesn't happen anytime soon. I hit the 200k VIP points for the year and about 165k hands. If I could get to 190k hands after two months I would be very happy. I need 1M VIP points for the Supernova Elite status and everything that comes with it.

I didn't do much this week. We took Preston to the library and I to him to gymnastics on Thursday. That has got to be the best activity for toddlers hands down. He runs non stop for almost an hour laughing, climbing, jumping, rolling and swinging. I am sweating a little when I get out of there just from chasing him around.

Hung out with the guys for a little on Friday night. Trent made me laugh so hard my cheeks were sore the next day. I am probably going to head out to Walnut Creek this weekend for Dustin's birthday.

Running good then bad

I am at almost 150k hands so far. I pretty good start on the year. I was looking around on one of the sites that track cash game stats and I think I have played more hands of Pot Limit Omaha than anyone in the world. There could be people who play with different names, but I would probably still be in the top 5 if that were the case. Only one day this week did I get over 4k hands. I think it was 5k on Wednesday, but I have not played less than 3k in a day. I also played some Ftop events on Fulltilt yesterday along with some big tourneys on Stars. I don't think I cashed in any of them.

I took Preston to Jeff's 5th grade basketball game on Saturday. We had some friends over for dinner that night and I was fairly hungover the next day after only 5 drinks. Quite different than the college days.

Jenny and I are going out tonight to celebrate valentines day since I almost never take Sundays off. Good thing she is very understanding like that. We are going to dinner at one of the Winery's then out for a movie. Both Grandmas are babysitting. Should be fun.

Super Bowl

We had another successful Superbowl party. Jenny even picked the winning square for the final score!! We had a ton of food from fajitas, 7layer dip, fruit salad, chicken, pot stickers, corn dogs, cookies, cake, brownies and of course the famous bacon wrapped duck. The keg was about 95% finished when I took it back on Monday. We had somewhere around 20 adults and 7 kids running around. Preston had a blast, he even got to play a little Wii with the Doblers across the street. I didn't get as much poker as I wanted that day, only played from 5:30am to about 9:00. Then spent the rest of the time setting up and hanging out with Preston. I need to get some extra hours in this week, which is going to be tough because my back has been really bothering me. I just bought a ergonomic chair online today for about $400 so hopefully that will help.

First Entry

I thought it might be cool to document my journey to play a million cash game hands on poker stars this year. My plan is to write every couple days, but we will see how that goes. I made a feeble attempt at a million hands last year, but didn't have the new 30" monitor, didn't start at the beginning of the year and wasn't quite adapted to playing that many tables of PLO at a time. I got a good jump on this year playing 92k hands in the first month. I have only taken one day off since the beginning of the year and played or studied at least 6 hours a day. I usually study more on the days where I am getting crushed and don't fell like continuing to play while getting my ass kicked.

I have only left the house one time in the last 6 days. Although some of that has to do with the fact that Preston and now I have been sick. I have been trying to start at 7am everyday, but that was pretty tough this week since Preston's fever was spiking around 103-104 during the night and you can imagine he wasn't very happy about it. I try to play 3-4 hours sessions at a time and then usually take an hour break to eat and hang out with Jenny and Preston. I usually get done around 6pm just in time for dinner.

The WSOP start around June 1st and I am attempting to get 600k hands in before that time. I started looking into renting a condo for the month so that I can bring the family and my desktop with monitor to keep up on hands while I am not playing in WSOP events. I looked at the schedule briefly and I think I would like to try to play about 20 events or so.