Cacheing up

We took last week off and went north to stay at a resort. The Kids had fun swimming, hanging from the ceiling fans, etc. We took day trips to local attrations and did a few hikes in the woods aided by my hand held GPS. If you have kids you should try geocaching (www.geocache.com) There are millions of small caches hidden around the world that you can find. From that site you can bring up google maps and see where the caches are in your area. It's like a treasure hunt and takes you to areas that you would otherwise never see. Kids love it. Just make sure you are not in hunting season before you go. Wouldn't want to see a story posted from Vikes telling how he heard a wild turkey and ended up maiming your 7 year old kid.

I see AP was making changes again. Their new loyalty program looks like it's pissing off a few more long time grinders. I'm not sure they could do anything to actually make those players leave the site. AP has already tried pretty hard to do that with limited success. It also appears they have cancelled their Aruba satellites for the most part. They changed their Monday WSOP bounty game to an Aruba prize, but the twice an hour small rebuy satellites to the 25r and 55r daily satellites are gone. I guess if I want to continue my quest I have to sign up at UB, something I really didn't want to do.

I noticed one change for the good (as far as my bottom line is concerned) Yesterday they didn't restrict you from entering a satellite for an event you already won a ticket for. They credit your account cash for subsequent wins. I shipped 2 150k tickets back to back in 20r matches. I think I'll play a few more today. I can't think of anything more +ev then playing rebuy tournaments with a bunch of people that have no intention of ever rebuying or adding on. I also enjoy being called a donk during the first hour. As far as I'm concerned the only 'donk' move during rebuy period is not rebuying. Everything else is fair play.

Slowing down

I really haven't played much poker. A few HU games, a little badbeat jackpot cash games, and a few 45 mans on Stars is all I've done the past week. I'm a little upset at myself for making some suggestions to the PRM at AP. I told him how much overlay was in the satty's and suggested an alternative structure. Well they seem to have taken my advice and implemented the change. Now my cash cow 150k rebuy satty's are gone :( I noticed that the overlay in the 150k was huge this past weekend. Some of that has to do with less people satelliting in. They effectively just moved the overlay from the sattys to the main event.

I played my first golf tournament of the year last week. I play a few 4 man team scramble events every year. We managed 3rd place in a field we could easily have won. We shot -12 and -14 won it. So many missed opportunities. I picked up a 40 ouncer of Rye (whiskey) from the prize table. Something that will definitely get used.

I also watched the last 3 rounds of the US open this week. Pretty entertaining. I'm not a huge Tiger fan but I sure appreciate how good he is and have a hard time cheering against him.

Weekend wrap

On Sunday I was out of the house by 6:30am and on my way to a course in Bondhead. It's a top notch course and our group of 12 negotiated a great rate of $80 including cart. It is basically a links course with a few trees lining some holes but the rough is pretty thick shit and the sand traps are plentiful and deep and very difficult to play out of. Thankfully it was sunny with a bit of a breeze because the deer flies are pretty thick around there.

Check out the hole by hole helicoptor videos of the course.

http://www.theclubatbondhead.com/southholes.html

The good... I didn't lose a single ball or have any penalty strokes.
The bad... I hit about 5 fairways all day.
The ugly... I 3 putted 6 times and only drained 1 outside of 10 feet. (40 putts)

My chipping and approach shots were just shy of brilliant and I managed an 89, which considering my driving and putting was a fantastic score. This was also the first time in 9 months that I have held a club.

I also managed to secure US Open tickets for next year at Bethpage. I took Wed/Thur since I really hate crouds.

I ended up winning a P5 hat somehow... weeeeeeeeee. Not sure what it was, maybe it was a bounty on seal (sealeddeck). I took him out when he opened UTG with AJ and called my UTG+1 10BB shove. I had him covered by a few chips.

I also recently played a couple of the AP allinenergy drink games and won 5 cases of the Johnny Chan sponsored drink. Having not been contacted I finally emailed support and sent proof that I won them. (they are so disorganized) They told me they would be shipping.

GL all.

'super' Saturday wrap up

I played the Pocketfives open which had some good prizes. The top 3 finishers that put that blurb I had in my last post into their blog each received a $530 entry to another tournament. I finished 9th in that list but that isn't the worst bubble of the day. In the 250k I finished 55th, 54th got $850.

I was at a table where we were not stalling. Other short stack tables were doing huge stalls. I had no choice but to call my short stack off as it was always raised to me. UTG Big Stack with a range of any two cards opened I was next and about to be blinded away so I called with Q8 suited. GG

As that was happening the 50r aruba game was in the early stages I was in the BB with 56 and a couple limpers, the board hits 569 so i reship then call the shove from a guy i know. He easily has an underpair but this time he had 78. I choose not to rebuy so I could have a few minutes off before the 2nd chance and bounty games start.

I shuffled the kids off to bed and put my golf clubs in the trunk. 7:00am tee off tomorrow. First game of the season.

Bounty and 2nd chance have started... gl me (as Buchs would say....)

Man I suck, out of both of them. Once again zero bounties and another 'oh for' weekend. I need to rethink my game plan.

I'll probably shoot 95 tomorrow and drop all my bets to top it off.

idk, i fell for it....

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Full slate

I continue to have awesome success in the AP satellites. I found that even though you can't register for subsequent satellites once you have won a seat you can register for multiple satellites at the same time and receive cash for any duplicate wins. I shipped 3 150k tickets within an hour the other day which puts me in great shape for another 2 months of satellites entries.

I threw in a couple $5r wins recently so I know I can do it. I just need to keep the volume up. I by no means put myself in the upper echelon of player but I'm smart enough to know that I can run deep. Hell I finished 5th in the 100k in my first attempt 3 years ago! If the donk I was can FT then for sure I can do it again now.

This is what my typical registration looks like:


Wish me Luck! I need it.

Optical Illusion?

Don't hurt yourself trying to figure this out....

That hole is my ticket to Aruba....