Running Hot

After running hot in cards in 2009, Trinity managed to finish the year by running hot one more time. Trinity participated in a nuclear hot wing eat-off on Daytime Tri-Cities. The challenge: to eat 20 Beef O'Brady's Nuclear hot wings in less than 20 minutes. "I feel pretty confident that I can do this in under 10 minutes," Trinity said when ask prior to the beginning of the challenge how he thought he would do. Friends and co-workers were all in agreement that Trinity would go untouched in this challenge.

The Results: Trinity (1st on left) finished in 6min, Mike 7min (2nd from right), Kevin 7min45sec (1st from right)...

To quote Andrew T (2nd from left) from Beef O'Brady's "Impressive".

Trinity hopes to continue his hot streak with a win in the 2009 RPL Main Event on January 9th. Trinity was also the 2009 Player of the Year and is going into the Main Event as the defending champion.

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2009 Reed Poker League Tourney of Champions and Main Event

First of all, thanks to everyone for playing again in 2009. We have had 70+ different players play in our game over the 3+ years. Our numbers fell off somewhat this year, but that's expected the economy and "real life" has been over the past 12 months. Hopefully, we can get back to two tables in 2010. Before we can get into 2010 we have the 2009 Tournament of Champions and Main Event to play. Both will be played on Saturday, 1/9/10 with the TOC at 4:00pm and Main Event at 5:30pm.

The TOC is a winner-take-all freeroll for a $75 seat into the Main Event. The Main Event is obviously a $75 buy-in deep stack finale with added money to winner, trophies, non-playing final table dealer (hopefully), etc.

Looking towards 2010, the first tournament will be played on Thursday, 1/21/09 at 7pm. If anyone has any suggestions for changes in 2010 please let me know. I think the $10 rebuy was a success, so I see another one of those. Let us know! Thanks!

Tournament of Champions Qualifers 4PM 01/09/10
Shorty - confirmed
Brian R - confirmed
Mike K - not coming
Derrick N - confirmed
Adam B - maybe
Chris S - confirmed
Daniel
Trinity L - confirmed

Main Event Qualifers 5:30PM 01/09/10
Sean - confirmed
Trinity - confirmed
Vern - confirmed
Adam B - maybe/maybe not
Kevin D - not coming
Mike K - not coming
Brian R. - confirmed
Derrick - confirmed
Aris - confirmed
Chris S. - confirmed
Bean - not coming
Shorty - confirmed

Hot Turns to Cold, at Least For Today

I played nine SNGs tonight and managed to mincash once, bubble once and the other eight times were not good. I probably should not have been playing tonight. It didn't exactly feel right before I started but I pressed on anyway (especially since D was not home). I managed to drop 8 buyins for the evening. I attribute this to my mood and of course variance. I like to think this is my hot streak with a minor correction. I decided to stop while it was going downhill and not donk off another 8-10 buyins. I am still up a significant amount but just wanted to move past the $300 mark as I work to reach $500 before the end of January.

My overall ROI for UB is 60.1% over 46 games with my bankroll at $252.

A Short Snow Session

I got back from Pigeon Forge Sunday morning to find lots of snow and no cable or internet. Around 4PM I got both the cable and the internet back.

Around 10PM, I decided to play a quick session of four to six tables before going to bed after a full weekend. I managed to do well on two of the four for most of the session and then on one of them I got to around 10BB and ran AA into QJo, all in preflop... and of course he hits two jacks for the win and bust me eighth. oh well. Instead of opening another table I decided just to play my three remaining tables and call it a night. On the second table I managed to get in the money and run into a bad run of cards only to bust out third to a better pair. I'm gonna need more than that cash to keep climbing to break $500 in January for my UB bankroll. On the remaining two tables I am sitting comfortable on one and very bad on the other which was on the bubble. I finished the third table in first fairly easily especially HU. The last table was four handed for some time and the blinds were climbing. With the blinds at 150/300 I was down to just over 900 in chips and managed to stay alive and then take a calculated move and regain a comfortable stack. When I got HU I had a 5:1 chip lead and took it soon into the HU play.

My overall ROI for UB is 94.6% over 37 games with my bankroll at $292.

After Four Days of UB

I made a $100 deposit on UB on Dec 13th. I have since played approx 33 nine man $5 SNGs and have turned a pretty profit ($160 profit) along with maintaining a beautiful ROI (88.4%). Here is my graph so far.

and here is my graph for SNGs between PStars (mostly $3 SNGs and UB $5 SNGs combined for approx 375 SNGs. While I was turning profit on Stars it was a serious grind as I would go up then would drop down some due to the usual variance. The players on Stars are just so many and seemingly much better than those on UB. (totals approx $250 profit and 45% ROI)

I contribute my steady climb to a number of things which include playing multiple tables at a time (4-6). Holdem Manager software to track my hands and those of my opponents and the book Sit'n Go Strategy .

I am going to probably take the weekend off since it is my anniversary and then hit the tables hard again next week. I would like to grow my UB bankroll to $500 by the end of January.

Setting Goals for 2010

As we wind up down 2009, it's time to start thinking about 2010 and
set some goals.

My goals for 2010 as far as poker go are to blog more. I was way down
in 09 in keeping the blog updated. While we have added Facebook to the mix I think the updates to the blog have been way down. I would also like to find some interested in writing for the blog to help out as Sean and I are currently the only authors.

I would like to find additional home games to play in where the rake is not killing you. I have a few possible games so we will see.

As for online poker, I hope to build a nice bankroll and move up in buyins. Currently I am multitabling 4-6 tables at the $5 SNGs and turning a decent profit. I have after much debate joined UB and started playing there with rakeback. The players at UB are not as good in SNGs as those at Stars, at least from what I have seen so far.

I also plan to review more of my sessions using Holdem Manager to close up any of my leaks. I have been using HEM since September and the HUD has made multitabling much easier.

I plan to set monthly bankroll goals that will help grow the roll.
In the Reed Poker League I hope to continue to run hot for a third
year. I would like to have at least another three months of taking
first, win POY and start the year by winning the 2009 Main Event.
What are your poker goals for 2010?

Thursday Night Poker Extravaganza

Thursday, Thursday, Thursday!!! 7pm, $10 rebuy to close out the year's regular tournaments!!! Bring ALOT of gamble with you!! Unlimited rebuys for 3 levels and one add-on at the end of the rebuy period! Depending on prize pool, you may win a seat into the Main Event (Regardless if you qualified or not). We have 9-10 committed right now...the more the merrier! Reserve your seat before they are gone (20max). Email Sean or Trinity to reserve a seat or with any questions.

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