It's not a race....but a marathon

OK, so I played my first marathon session of 2007 at Planet Hollywood. I started at Monday Feb 26th at 12:30pm I stopped playing Wed Feb 28th at 1:30am. Here is how my schedule during this session broke down:

Feb 26
12:30p - 3:30p (3hrs)
9:30p - 12:00a (2.5hrs)

Feb 27
12:00a - 10:00a (10hrs)
2:30pm - 12am (9.5hrs)

Feb 28
12a - 1:30 (1.5hrs)


All in all I played a total of 26.5 hours, and as February has gone, I was making up ground most of the time. Finally when the smoke cleared I was up $600 over these hours for an hourly rate of $22.65. Not ideal but for February, this is great.

During this session I saw a lot go on. A lot of suck outs, me personally going on tilt then re correcting, but I was able to change gears pretty good most of the time. In the final leg of the session, I was getting tired, and I guess a bit cranky, which is not good for the Duke, after all i already don't handle being drawn out on very well, so to add to this just makes it worse.

I was sitting at the same table with Mike and Todd when Todd and I got into it a little over a hand where he had QQ, I had KJ of hearts and there were two other players in a pot. Todd was upset cause I had flopped a flush draw with 2 overs, and called his raise of another player to $40 and turned a K, he was not happy, and so a few minutes later when i had JJ he called my raise then lead out, and caught a board pairing 10 on the turn, where I had to fold my hand. As we exchanged words, such as the ingenious phrase only I could say when mad at a friend at the poker table, "Don't worry, I'll 4-6 you, I will snap you off, maybe not today or tomorrow, built soon and I will refer back to this and say, remember when?" OK we were being idiots. Highwaytime Mike saw this, and knew we were on a crash course, so as the blinds approached he stood up ever so quietly, picked up a rack, and racked up hi mound of newly found wealth from the table, and left. I told he before he left I would have put $2000 on it he was about to leave when Todd and I started after all, neither Todd nor I know when to stop.....LOL

In the end it all worked out, although I did play one other pot with Todd when he re raised a Donkey to $40, when i was on the button with AcKc and called, to my surprise the flop of KKA came down, Todd lead out, I called, and the Donkey folded. I had wished Todd would have checked as I know the Donkey if he didn't think one of us had a full house, would have been willing to go broke with almost any two cards. Anyways on the turn Todd Checked and I just went all in, he had done that earlier when I had KK, and he had AA, so i felt it was only fair to return the favor. After all we both work too hard to take each others money when there is so much of the tourists money on the table.

Well I am off again today to finish my month at Planet Hollywood. I would like to book around a $500 win today in 8 hours, hopefully I can pick up some momentum and not be in the game, deep early. Wish me luck, and the sun has got to shine soon, thank God March is right around the corner.


Stats:

Hours: 130.5hrs

Profit: $2105.00


Hourly: $16.19/hr (way below goal)