Week 3 Update - Blaargh

1. Most gained as a % of bankroll from beginning to end of challenge

Week 3 graph above

starting br		date	current br	% week	$/wk
1,960.82	week 1	1/11/10	$2,506.43	27.83%	$545.61
	week 2	1/18/10	$2,782.20	11.00%	$275.77
	week 3	1/25/10	$3,482.82	25.18%	$700.62
	week 4	2/1/10
	week 5	2/8/10
	week 6	2/15/10
	week 7	2/22/10
	week 8	3/1/10
			Totals	64.01%	$1,522.00

Having some trouble adjusting to rush, but I *think* I have some stuff figured out. You can see from the graph that I've had an extremely swingy time at the rush tables. A lot of it was coolers, but a ton of it was me being a pay off wizard. I stopped pushing so hard and had an $800 upswing on sunday. I'm way down in EV, so I'm looking to suck out on folks a lot in the coming week (kidding of course) Last week I claimed I wasn't going to try 100NL, but I broke that promise and have 7k hands at 13bb/100. Not too shabby, but I actually think I can do better, at least until the general population learns how to beat rush.

Since 100NL was the highest you could play (200NL has rolled out recently) I ended up at tables with tons of red pros. It's hilarious to watch people fall over themselves to raise, re-raise and shove on the poor fuckers. It has got to be impossibly hard to play a decent game with that red target on your back. I took a decent pot off of one of em (I can't remember who, and can't find the hand in my DB) with a set of 9's, but otherwise stayed out of the way, as most of them played pretty snug.

Playing this many hands reminds me... where do we stand with rakeback on the challenge? I always assumed it was included in the grand total, but I want to make sure, since it's actually going to be a contributor if I keep playing this many hands. I guess I shouldn't worry, as I have no hope of winning the grand total bet with a starting roll this big....

2. Largest score

date	tourney	buy in	prize	won
1/6/10	mookie	$11.00	$46.00	$35.00

3. Slayer of Donkeys (smallest fraction: finish place / # of entrants)

date	tourney	entrants	finish	%
1/6/10	mookie	23	3	13.04%

4. Funniest post (non-monetary)

I got a boo boo

Sorry, best I can do atm.

5. Betting the horses (picking the victor of bets 1-3, non-monetary)

Will CK post the bets on this one?

6. Bad Beat of the Challenge (worst bad beat of the challenge, non-monetary)

This one is still pissing me off....

7. Most hands played during the challenge (cash game only)

	date	hands/wk
week 1	1/11/10	4,037
week 2	1/18/10	1,725
week 3	1/25/10	8,336
week 4	2/1/10
week 5	2/8/10
week 6	2/15/10
week 7	2/22/10
week 8	3/1/10
	total	14,098

Well, MHG is in love, so I'm assuming he's too busy playing kissy-face to bother getting the hands in...

8. Best overall winrate over 10k hands

For 14k hands I'm running a paltry 12bb/100. At the end of this I'll pick my best 10k run. Thanks to rush, I'll have a pretty good sample, I think....