Update

Grrr, one of those annoying nights last night. Entered the 9pm $150 on Stars, Party, a double shootout for Atlantis and the $200 WSOP/WPT qualifier on Full Tilt. Was in a great spot on Stars in the $150 and on Full Tilt and blew it (even though I did cash on Stars).

On Stars I ran into one of the funniest hands ever. I raised with 44 from LP and a shorty moved in, I called getting over 2:1 on the call and he flips up 43. lol.

*********** # 17 **************
PokerStars Game #3010277598: Tournament #14705213, Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2005/11/08 - 23:42:45 (ET)
Table '14705213 14' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: EdCarver (15020 in chips)
Seat 2: dynasty003 (7880 in chips)
Seat 3: phoneman111 (10100 in chips)
Seat 4: cmac8t2 (29322 in chips)
Seat 5: booyahka (39701 in chips)
Seat 7: Nordberg (12396 in chips)
Seat 8: 4ofaKindBud (7180 in chips)
Seat 9: girlontop (11485 in chips)
EdCarver: posts the ante 50
dynasty003: posts the ante 50
phoneman111: posts the ante 50
cmac8t2: posts the ante 50
booyahka: posts the ante 50
Nordberg: posts the ante 50
4ofaKindBud: posts the ante 50
girlontop: posts the ante 50
girlontop: posts small blind 400
EdCarver: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Nordberg [4s 4h]
dynasty003: folds
phoneman111: folds
cmac8t2: folds
booyahka: folds
Nordberg: raises 1400 to 2200
4ofaKindBud: raises 4930 to 7130 and is all-in
girlontop: folds
EdCarver: folds
Nordberg: calls 4930
*** FLOP *** [Kh 9s Jh]
*** TURN *** [Kh 9s Jh] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 9s Jh 2c] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Nordberg: shows [4s 4h] (a pair of Fours)
4ofaKindBud: shows [3s 4d] (high card Ace)
Nordberg collected 15860 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 15860 | Rake 0
Board [Kh 9s Jh 2c Ac]
Seat 1: EdCarver (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: dynasty003 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: phoneman111 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: cmac8t2 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: booyahka folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Nordberg showed [4s 4h] and won (15860) with a pair of Fours
Seat 8: 4ofaKindBud (button) showed [3s 4d] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 9: girlontop (small blind) folded before Flop

I also played some 20/40 and booked a small profit for the day, which was nice.

For the past week I've been datamining the 20/40 and 30/60 games on Party pretty much around the clock, 10 tables each. I wrote a script using AutoHotKey (thanks Matt M for that suggestion) that opens the tables every so often, collects all of the data and then i use Pokertracker to import it. Its nice having a lot of data against the players I play against - and I think its really helping me. I still maybe only have 40,000 hands of full ring limit play (about half 15/30 and half 20/40) and the results aren't good - I need to get way better at this before I turn pro because I do not want to deal with tournament variance all the time without some cash game backup.

Oh, and the other night I tried to get into Party hand #3billion. I missed by 90 - I was playing 10 tables and could hardly keep up. (Many of them were shorthanded). Somehow I won a few hundred while I was screwing around. And did anyone else notice that Stars and Party crossed #3 billion in the same night? How odd!?!?

I will not be playing all that much in the next few weeks. I am headed to Europe for a week starting Friday, am back for a few days and then away again at Thanksgiving for four days. And in early December I am headed to the Bellagio -