Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Split Stats







Long :


At the request of Grinder I split the stats between Short and Full Ring.
To my surprise I am winning at Full and Down at short. That very much confuses me since I swore that most of my limit winnings were from short handed at pokershare.com.

Thursday, July 13, 2006


I am a stud player, but here are my number for limit Hold Em.

I am pretty much a break even player, just collecting bonus at limit. At NL I am a losing player.
I really should work on that, but it is hard to get away from my very profitable bread and butter.

I know I am a little loose and wild, but I am interested in how others think I can specifically change my game. I am very open to suggestions, since I know that I am not very good, and should be able to win at 3-5BB/100 or more at these levels IMO. A lot of my hands were short handed 5/6 Max, so my VPIP should be more around 27% or so I suspect, not 33%.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Here is a link to my personal updates blog, so that anyone randomly searching my name can 'find' me.

http://frankpippel.blogspot.com/

Friday, February 24, 2006

Non Poker Puzzle

I thought this was a pretty darn fun puzzle/brain teaser.

Took me a good while, but I did figure it out.

Click Here!

Let me know how it goes!

Monday, January 30, 2006

Musing the Amusing

Musing the Amusing

Links I should read from Rizen's blog(http://rizenpoker.blogspot.com), which has been excellent from the start.


Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

And I thought I would have time

Blogs are great, but I don't think I will every find the time to do one. I had great intentions, but alas I have resigned myself to just being a blog reader.

It has made me have all the more respect to the blogging community that keeps those posts rolling. I appreciate your efforts!

I will add a little poker content about my current game and bankroll status. I hadn't played online poker for a for years, when someone from a stock forum site I post at got a private tourney set up, where FullTilt added 25$. This was in March or May of 05. Needeless to say I finished first out of about 60, and took home 9.25! Alright, I will fool around with the free money on the .25/.50 stud tables. I quickly run it to 20$, and then just as fast I remember being all in. I happen to win the pot, and then I decide to get serious. The 9 dollars was free, but the potential challenge and upside winnings are too much to pass up. From my all in, I grind at the baby stud tables up, to around 400$. Then I got hooked into the blogging community, and starting chasing some bonuses at different sites and from PSO.

By Decemember fo 05, I cash outed 1900$ to get a 17' Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop as a desktop replacement. The laptop was only 1250$, but I am one of law abiding tax payer types.

My online roll, is just under 2k now. I am OneTrueRock or TheTrueRock on most sites.

I think the 50K challenge is pretty cool, maybe I will think about running a 10k or 20k challenge. I know I don't play but a few hours a week any more, since I am trying to get my MBA, and have a 3 month baby(Josiah), and want to continue to grow an awesome relationship with my wife.

Well that is my story. I posted it mainly for anyone who links to my blog through any comments I post.

Musing the Amusing

Musing the Amusing

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

In the beginning......

First post, hmm..............I guess I should start with my poker exploits, since that will probably engage the most people.

My poker background started as a teen. My friend Carlo and I would spread a home game for the normal .5c, 10c, 25c. We would pitch chips, be the house for blackjack, and of course play poker on the felt of a pool table. The name of the game was 5 card draw of 7 card stud. This was before poker become a fad so Hold 'em was not even played on the east coast at the time.

The gaming was done in the name of fairly good fun , though I can't say that we weren't compelled by the boost it gave our fragile teen male egos, or the extra money. Everyone enjoyed themselves and nobody lost or won much.

As my age progressed, we spread a steady home game of players from the local pool hall. By then we were playing 1$-3$ 7 card stud. This game however was not in the name of fun. The people there varied in age from 17 - 50, and for the most part were gamblers. Early on I booked a win or two, and picked up Skalansky's 7 Card stud with some of my profits for huge price of 30$. From the tight agressive style that I developed, I became know as the Rock. Don't know if the name fits in the larger scheme of things, but in the midst of a wild and loose home game, that could see many a street capped, it fit. Luckly my style was tailored perfectly to the play of the table and I proceeded to do very very well for the next couple summers. I vaguely remember on night winning over 430 dollars in 4 hours or so. That would almost come out to a ridiculous rate of ~40 big bets an hour!

Looking back, I am not sure if it was skill, luck, discipline, but I would have to guess some of everything. I know that discipline and my conservative nature with money really kept me in good situations.