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July 16, 2005
Heading Home
Well I get to go back home tomorrow. I just want to stay in bed and watch DVDs until this damn cold is gone. Also I can't wait to get back to my office. Playing in a hotel room just isn't as comfortable. I miss my couch and my monitor. I'll miss the food out here greatly, as we have nothing even close to it in Akron. Fine dining there is pretty much Olive Garden. Vegas is more or less the center of the culinary universe these days. Even the fast food (In N Out Burger) is better than Ohio. Still though, I'll be glad to be back.
Last night I was coughing and didn’t feel like playing so instead I just worked on a script for Rakesucks to figure out all my payments and such. The tacos made a mistake and I haven't been able to get a hold of them since. Guess I shouldn't have paid in full until I tested it a little more. Even if they hadn't made any errors I would have had to make a script to do currency conversion, which probably would have been just as hard for a non-programmer like myself.
Today I spent a couple hours finishing up that script. After that got done I decided to play a little on Euro. The account was only at about $27.5k, but having made a pretty big chunk off of Rakesucks for the month I decided to just jump the gun a little. I played about 1.5 hours and won $6k and decided to call it a night. Hard to beat that hourly rate. In all for the week playing from my hotel room I made about $12k, plus $2k more from the Plaza tournaments, plus my Rakesucks profit. All of that combined returns the bankroll to where it was in May, before all of those WSOP buy-ins and a fairly expensive vacation.
I also ordered a batch of books off of Amazon, which for once actually was entirely poker related. I'd guess I've bought maybe 2 poker books in the last two years. Well, I might have bought a few more, but I only read two. A few are still just filling out my bookcase.
Here's a list of the purchases in no particular order:
• Ace On The River by Barry Greenstein This one has to be interesting. Should help as I move up the ladder.
• The Making Of A Poker Player: How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play Championship Poker by Matt MatrosGood guy and knowledgeable poker player, interested to see what he has to say.
• Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, The : Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time by Michael CraigBecause nobody can get enough of the Andy Beal vs. The Corporation stories.
• One of a Kind : The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player by Nolan DallaMostly because it couldn't possibly any worse than the Stu Ungar Movie.
So we have two strategy books and two stories. I'm most excited to read Barry's book, since I'll soon hopefully be playing some higher stakes games, which is what it is geared for.
Well, I'm off to catch a few hours of sleep before the flight. Maybe I'll finally get around to the couple book reviews I had planned this upcoming week. Stay tuned.
Posted by themaroon at July 16, 2005 7:59 AM
Comments
I personally found Greenstein's book very disappointing. There's too many photos and too little content. Much of it is just general advice that is obvious to anyone who's played for a year. In fact, some of it is pretty laughable. "If you are a sugar daddy, it can deplete your bankroll." lol.
Posted by: Matt K at July 17, 2005 8:15 AM
If you read my review of Ace on the River on Amazon you'll lower your expectations vis a vis strategy. There isn't much strategy talk in the book, really just a few hand analyses. They are very good, though.
Posted by: Damien at July 17, 2005 10:48 AM
The Ungar book was tremendous. I've got the Andy Beal book on order. I'm looking forward to your review of Matros' book.
Posted by: fun160 at July 18, 2005 12:25 AM
greenstein's book was no where near as good as he made it out to be. i finished the entire thing in about 4 hours. fairly easy task considering it's loaded with photos and the font is kinda big. reminded me of a kid's book really. i have no idea what he's talking about when he said that it was truly the first advanced poker book ever written. i'm interested in the matros book, hopefully you'll read that first.
Posted by: eric at July 18, 2005 5:00 AM
Be forewarned, for a player of your level my book will be more story than strategy. But there should (I hope) be some strategic stuff that interests you, particularly in the second half.
Posted by: Matt M at July 20, 2005 12:09 PM