hdouble emailed an interesting challenge (well, I took it as a challenge):
Anyway, I came up with about 120 wins in the 90 days to the WSOP. Doable? Not for this poker player, but I suppose if you had 3 hours a day, you might be able to do it.
Some quick grub calculations...
The WSOP begins May 22. That gives 90 days plus change. Or, playing SnGs for 2.22 hours a day, approximately 200 hours (to make it a nice round number). You would need to win at least $60 per hour or $120 per day to reach the goal of the $10K seat plus airfare, Wendy's food, and a cheap downtown hotel for 7 days and 7 nights.
If I ignored all the other horrid losses this past week and tallied just the SnGs I played yesterday (five 30+3 SnGs in almost three hours), I had a ROI of $135.
This is about average for me. Where I lose the most (financially as well as in confidence) is the shorthanded games. If I stick with only SnGs for the next 90 days...
Sounds like a good challenge to me! I responded that I thought it was absolutely doable.
HD's point was that you have a much better +EV of grinding it out in the SnGs the next few months to
buy yer own damn seat into the WSOP over winning one in a multi. He's probably correct, but on the other hand, if you won a seat you'd have no choice but to go. If you won over $10K, you'd have some hard decisions blowing it all on a poker entry fee vs. paying child support for the kid you barely know who hates you and is still not potty trained.
Or for me, versus buying a laptop. Which I want really really really badly. Because I want to be like
Boy Genius and go wireless, playing online poker and impressing girls at the local dive.
So let's shoot for the moon
and the bracelet, shall we? Win $10K in 90 days while also playing multis to win a WSOP seat. Then I can take the seat
and blow $10K in craps.
Deal? Join me, why don't you. My bankroll is only $200. Let's start... now!
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I love my new computer setup! I can't believe it took 12 years to come to my senses. Then again, I haven't been playing online poker for 12 years.
I got home in time to catch the last half hour of "Average Joe II." I haven't been following this one as much as the first, but from the bombardment of radio ads, tonight was the fatsuit episode. Like the first season, she dons a disguise (without bothering to affect her voice 'cause honey, that annoying warble is a dead giveaway) and laments how hard it is going through five minutes of life with people looking at her and not giving her directions to the movie theater because she's
fat. Poor thing.
She then pretended to be her mother and interviewed the Average Joes, most of whom she chose based on looks and by them
not being fat in the first place. Of course the Joes were taped saying dirty things behind her back (hello, it's a reality show with cameras everywhere, you should know what you say can and will be used against you) and the footage was produced to her to watch with nailbiting glee. Guys being guys, they naturally made comments about her mother. She got upset, and promptly booted the worst of the insultees off the island.
"Average Joe I" was more interesting, perhaps because I liked the guys and the girl more. She had more depth and eloquence and genuinely seemed to start falling for some of the Joes. This one is more aloof and a-model (I think she represented her state in a beauty pageant against fur), and it's hard to well up any solid tears for her. That's clearly based on seeing just the first episode, so I'm not in the least biased.
But watching the last half hour let me play two 30+3 SnGs from the comfort of my computer-that-faces-the-TV.
I placed 3rd and 1st for a $144 return. Heck, I'll pack my bags to the WSOP right now!
lunch:
McDonald's bacon ranch salad
fries
fruit 'n' yogurt parfait
Tostitos blue organic chips
3 Diet cokes
Coke
dinner:
rice crackers
Dove chocolates
butter cookies
grub: 8
poker: 144
WSOP/hours: 144/1
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