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Here's to an awsome June for everyone!

This was a fun hand i played today, my range here is so polarized obv.

Party Poker $200.00/$400.00 Limit Hold'em - 3 players - View hand 140384
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Pre Flop: (0.75 SB) Hero is SB with 9 9
1 fold, Hero raises, BB calls

Flop: (2 SB) 7 K 8 (2 players)
Hero bets, BB raises, Hero calls

Turn: (2 BB) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets, Hero raises, BB calls

River: (4 BB) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets, BB calls

Final Pot: 5 BB
Hero shows 9 9
Hero wins 5 BB

Ah what 2 days of non-laziness can do

June Goals:

Must do:
4000 VPP to maintain the charge for Supernova (10,000 hands at 1/2)
Cash in $184 insta-cash bonuses
At least 1 coaching session

Would be nice:
Move up to 2/4

Cool day for me, breakeven stretch broken via +60BB session!

Rounded off the day by ordering a custom mouse mat, micro baller gogogo!

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm139/triffids_photos/peskymat.jpg

I just realized...

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Hey Lubbers,

New month comming up once again... Time is flying by IMO.

June goals:

Pass the last exam
Play good poker
Improve my poker skils (plenty of things to work on)
Only play HUHU if I can find a known opponent, I feel super comfortable sitting down and I'm mentally ready to loose 20BB's in no time
Cash in a good amount of bonus' (cash-back) ~$700, $640 to go
Get 1 coaching session
Post more in the strategy forum.

Would be nice:
Finish the month with a BR of 500BB's for 3/6

BTW May was a great month.

*CLAP CLAP*

OI!!!!

Right now that I have your attention, I think it may be time for a friendly little wager

I understand Adri and Spiers are both looking to put some hands in this month so I'm going to throw down a little challenge based on that nightmare mind-blowing idiocy I went through at the end of last month.

Here's my goal:

3850 VPPs to maintain my limp towards Supernova and the awesome-sauce $160 stars 10,000 VPPs bonus.

For reference this is about 10,000 hands of 1/2 or around 8500-9000 hands of 2/4.

And here's the deal:

If I fail in my challenge, whoever takes me up on this, which i'm hoping Jess and spiers will becasue we lag behind in hands sometimes (btw max of 2 BGLLer's plz, don't want to go busto) , I will give the following:

1) $50 - DC membership for a month + a little extra (Or a coaching session with PH)
2) The right to pick my Avatar for the next month (If more than one person takes it you can divide the month up)

However to take me on you must also have a hand/time goal and I would at least like the avatar part of the deal should you guys fail .

This is meant to be a little fun and motivation so take it as that (remember I had to play 4000 hands in one weekend last month becasue I'm so crap at getting hands in) and if you want let me know

Have fun guys

OH you are so on Boomer! My goal for the month (June obv) is 100 total playtime hours, includes both cash and SnG. I'm making a big deal of doing around 5 hours per day, 5 days per week but I think that's more to keep myself on track and not part of the bet.

I was confused about how to add up the hours since I play SnG and Cash on different sites and would have a cash table open during beginning of SnG.... But for simplicity's sake this month I'm just going to close down the cash table when the SnG fills, so that I may add up the total hours played cash and total hours played SnG at the end of the day/month.

Because I did not do this on the first day and kept a cash table open for 15 mins during a SnG, my monthly total playtime hours must exceed 100 hours and 15 minutes, ie overlap time from the first day. Legal stuff blah blah blah. Offer is not valid if participant is incapacitated due to prolonged hospitalization, loss of internetz or loss of laptop due to pirates. YARRR

I wish you guys all the best with the challenges I know how hard it can be hard to get motivated sometimes and it doesn't get any easier with the more free time you have as I've found.

Jess, i had a think about your problem and might have found a bit of software that can help you. You won't be able to track your results but you can at least track session lengths with it and keep a tally of total time played. Hopefully it can be of some use to you if you don't find it's too much like working for the man.

http://www.punchclock.com/

I was thinking you could keep different time sheets for sngs and cash tables. So sng table 1, sng table 2, cash table 1, cash table 2 etc and punch in and out each one as you open or close them. It looks fairly easy to set up and could help.

Jess,

I thought a little bout your problem aswell. Isn't it quite simple to sit up an Excel-sheet to handle this.

Like

Session start time Session end time Session duration (sst+set)

and then have Days total and month total aswell ?

If you wan't I could do a simple set up.

Thanks for the ideas guys but it's simple enough now to add up the PokerTracker times since I stopped overlapping Cash and SnG

Plus this way I can show the screenshots at the end of the month for proofz

Yeah I saw that in the June goals thread, and obv it's a sollution too...

Howerver i would look for the highest hourly winrate, and if that commes from playing 1 cash table + 1 sng untill the sng gets 4-5 handed then that's what I would do, and the screw the time overlap on tracking software and just fill it in myself.

IMO go for highest hourly winrate and not a the best way to "proove" that you played so and so long

lol it's Day 3 of this June Regime and I've already played more cash hands than I did the entire month of May ^.^
I'm looking forward to a big feeling of accomplishment at the end of the month

So Boomer is it just you and me on the prop bet? What's the specifics again? If either one of us doesn't make our 'Goal' then the other person gets $50 and Avatar Rights?

So Boomer is it just you and me on the prop bet? What's the specifics again? If either one of us doesn't make our 'Goal' then the other person gets $50 and Avatar Rights?

If you're happy about the $50 bit that's fine. I was only gonna hold you to avatar rights. $$$-wise whatever you feel comfortable with is fine, if you're playing on a $300-500 roll 10-15% of it may be rather hefty but if you're comfortable with that then sure (If spiers joins in then $50 is too much if you're playing on that kind of roll).

But aside from that, yeah you got it, I'll use a Stars Screenshot with the date and my Username in clear view since Star's Cashier counts the VPPs fromt he current month. Btw I'm currently at 70k due to the UK deals but obviously that doesn't count so my target is 73,850

Also if you want a lol, I played more hands last weekend than I did in the whole of April too ..... in fact in pretty much any month from the last 6 months.

I've chatted w/ spiers on skype and he's almost done with his network so hopefully he'll be joining us. I've told him to post here when he's ready.

In keeping with the spirit of the this thing and out of the kindness of my heart i've decided to sweeten the pot by donating an ubercool mystery gift to the prize fund!

Ooooh! That's exicting!

Boomer, I already have so many great ideas for your avatar, here's my current fave:
TAGS rule & LAGS drool