By Bond18 on February 20th, 2008 (more posts by author)

With the Joe Hachem Deep Stacked series over I’m free to occupy myself with more serious online play. I wrote about the very hot day I had in Sunday Money Sunday but perhaps more incredible was the day I had during my day off from the Hachem main event. I was also lucky enough to remember to fire up Camtasia mid way through my session so I ended up recording what was one of my best days in my online poker career. When I turned on Camtasia I had nine tables running, and by the time my video was over I ended up final tabling four of them and winning one. My results for the day looked like:
PokerStars 22 rebuys: 1st for $7,115
PokerStars $150 100k: 3rd for $10,707
Pokerstars $50 50k: 50th for $126
Full Tilt $30 rebuys: 17th for $171
UltimateBet $120 Bounty: 5th for $1200 (I think, the UB updates are delayed on Bluff)
UltimateBet $150 20k: 7th for ~$1000 (again, not sure, definitely final tabled it though.)

In total for the day I made something like $18,000, edging out the previous big Sunday. Since then I haven’t had any epic days online, though today was frustratingly close. I went deep in the stars $1000 only to get QQ all in pre vs TT with 14 left and get 2 outed. Then with 12 BB’s left I made what is a questionable (and to be honest, likely bad) resteal on a HJ raise of a player I perceived as looser than he probably is. Later in the Stars $150 I was top 5 in chips with about 35 left. I opened QQ in MP1 to 10500 and the SB flat called with 80k in his stack (to my 110k.) On a flop of JT4 rainbow he open shoved 3X the pot and I obviously called. He tabled ATo and promptly hit a T on the river for what was to be either first or second in chips. I lost a flip with my remaining chips.

Things are peaceful for the time being. I’m on a good diet and in a good exercise routine. I’m running every morning first thing, and I’ve cut just about everything enjoyable out of my diet. I feel a lot better less than two weeks later having done so. I’m going to begin pitching the ‘Around the World in 90 Days’ to poker sites and websites to see if anyone is interested in filming it and having exclusive rights in order to help fund the trip. I have no idea what the chances of success are but it seems like it’s worth a shot. Until the trip I’ll be putting in my enormous online volume and aiming to get my current roll over the $150,000 mark. It's raining outside at the moment. I don't have much else to do.