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Jumpin' Jive
Apr. 3rd, 2006 08:17 amClearly this machine does not want me to get in any kind of quarterly update here. Started it at 5.55. Kept cocking up the table and getting an unhelpful "invalid mark-up" reference that could have been anywhere in rather long code. Gave up at 6.20 because I was late for the train. Just started working on autosaved draft. Cocked it up again. Lost tinypic reference to chart. Got annoyed.
Not much else to report, either. I'm getting more cagey about sites and things because I suspect that many of the silent visitors are just looking for soft games. And if they don't contribute back, I don't see why I should make life easy for them. Times seem to becoming tougher on Party, and if I find any good games, I'm minded to keep them to myself.
I did come across another total wanker from Finland yesterday though. What is it about me with Scandinavian opponents? Do I just get unlucky and find the dicks? Or do I just happen to remember them if they are Scandinavian?
It seems to be the same with Georgians (the US kind, not the ex-Russian kind). However, New Yorkers and Californians I get along fine with. Odd.
I did catch Sean Penn in woody Allen's Sweet & Lowdown at the weekend. The more I see of Penn the more I admire his talent. He seems to have quietly put together a varied body of work without gaining the stature that de Niro did a couple of decades earlier. He doesn't go for the big budget numbers and he doesn't seem restricted to just one director.
FX this morning: $1.7260. Birks position, up 140 points. Yay.
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And here follows the bloody table, after an hour of de-bloody-bugging.
And what is there to learn from this, apart from the fact that producing tables in Livejournal that do not look like total crap is bloody hard work?
Well, as I said in my previous post — not that much.
In my three-tabling exploits I won $27 from 75-odd sessions, although this does not include bonuses generated. Since most of my three-tabling was at $2-$ and at $1-$2, the results for these stakes are somewhat lower (in terms of hourly rate) than they should be. However, $1-$2 is clearly not worthwhile and I shall try to get three tables at $2-$4 on Ultimate. If there aren’t three tables then I shall make do with two tables.
Although the figures for $5-$10 look good, these are skewed by a very good couple of hours on Virgin that could have occurred at $4-$8 or $3-$6 (where the figures don’t look so good!).
Notice that the bonus and rakeback money comes to nearly 50% of the profit. This is not a good thing. But it's an indication of how any limit player is burning cash if he (or she) does not take advantage of the bonuses.
Now here's the table for the first three months.
Not much comment to make on that, either, except perhaps to say that what might look at first glance to be a relatively smooth path contains some gut-wrenching shifts (and that's not to mention the variations within single sessions, where a $500 shift can end up as a three bucks win or loss and look as if nothing has happened!)
Not much else to report, either. I'm getting more cagey about sites and things because I suspect that many of the silent visitors are just looking for soft games. And if they don't contribute back, I don't see why I should make life easy for them. Times seem to becoming tougher on Party, and if I find any good games, I'm minded to keep them to myself.
I did come across another total wanker from Finland yesterday though. What is it about me with Scandinavian opponents? Do I just get unlucky and find the dicks? Or do I just happen to remember them if they are Scandinavian?
It seems to be the same with Georgians (the US kind, not the ex-Russian kind). However, New Yorkers and Californians I get along fine with. Odd.
I did catch Sean Penn in woody Allen's Sweet & Lowdown at the weekend. The more I see of Penn the more I admire his talent. He seems to have quietly put together a varied body of work without gaining the stature that de Niro did a couple of decades earlier. He doesn't go for the big budget numbers and he doesn't seem restricted to just one director.
FX this morning: $1.7260. Birks position, up 140 points. Yay.
++++++++++++
And here follows the bloody table, after an hour of de-bloody-bugging.
And what is there to learn from this, apart from the fact that producing tables in Livejournal that do not look like total crap is bloody hard work?
Well, as I said in my previous post — not that much.
In my three-tabling exploits I won $27 from 75-odd sessions, although this does not include bonuses generated. Since most of my three-tabling was at $2-$ and at $1-$2, the results for these stakes are somewhat lower (in terms of hourly rate) than they should be. However, $1-$2 is clearly not worthwhile and I shall try to get three tables at $2-$4 on Ultimate. If there aren’t three tables then I shall make do with two tables.
Although the figures for $5-$10 look good, these are skewed by a very good couple of hours on Virgin that could have occurred at $4-$8 or $3-$6 (where the figures don’t look so good!).
Notice that the bonus and rakeback money comes to nearly 50% of the profit. This is not a good thing. But it's an indication of how any limit player is burning cash if he (or she) does not take advantage of the bonuses.
| SITE | 2-4 | 3-6 | 5-10 | Bonus | 4-8 | 1-2 | 50c-1 | £1-£2 | Total | |
| PTY | Win | $356 | -$116 | -$103 | $295 | $432 | ||||
| HOURS | 94 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 130 | |||||
| UB | Win | $408 | -$57 | $60 | $399 | $60 | $870 | |||
| HOURS | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 53 | ||||
| Virgin | Win | -$66 | -$113 | $660 | $110 | -$118 | $11 | $485 | ||
| HOURS | 27 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 53 | |||
| PS | Win | -$2 | -$296 | $120 | $7 | -$171 | ||||
| HOURS | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Betfair | Win | $3 | $79 | $82 | ||||||
| HOURS | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
| Paradise | Win | $273 | $19 | -$8 | $100 | $384 | ||||
| HOURS | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Empire | Win | $369 | -$8 | $210 | $35 | $606 | ||||
| HOURS | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |||||
| Total Win | $1,338 | -$275 | $314 | $1,234 | -$118 | $109 | $7 | $79 | $2,688 | |
| Total HOURS | 169 | 38 | 32 | 0 | 8 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 280 |
Now here's the table for the first three months.
Not much comment to make on that, either, except perhaps to say that what might look at first glance to be a relatively smooth path contains some gut-wrenching shifts (and that's not to mention the variations within single sessions, where a $500 shift can end up as a three bucks win or loss and look as if nothing has happened!)
