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A place to document my two favorite hobbies, music and poker.

Poker, the story so far

posted Jan 28, 2010 3:29 AM by Ben Shin   [ updated Jan 28, 2010 4:20 AM ]

Cash Games

2005: The games are good, I'm learning fast and moving up stakes to 2/4NL....



2006: Still doing well at 2/4NL until the UIGEA hits and the games start to dry up....


2007: Start to struggle at 2/4NL but then go on nice little tear....



2008: No graph available (PT3 can't import my old hands), but I lose about $2,000 when the games continue to dry up and my game starts to slip from lack of practice....

2009: After continuing to struggle at 2/4NL I drop back down to 1/2NL on my main site.  For fun I also start a Ferguson challenge to see how fast I can build up my Pokerstars account from $0 playing freerolls and microstakes -- so far I'm at $94.74!  At 1/2NL I plug some leaks, and eventually get comfortable enough to revisit 2/4NL.  I start taking stabs at 3/6NL at the end of the year, but that doesn't turn out so well.  Not going to try that again for a while.  Incidentally, PT has this feature that lets you see how lucky you are in all-in pots.  In my case, not very....


Tournaments

2005 to present: I win a bunch early on, including a seat to the 2005 WSOP, where I got to play with James Woods for a while but busted out 10 hours into Day 1.


Since then, still looking for another big score....




A productive Saturday

posted Nov 28, 2009 2:03 PM by Ben Shin

Just recorded and posted Dream Machine.  Two songs in one day?

Variations on a theme

posted Nov 28, 2009 11:24 AM by Ben Shin

I just posted Abaddon, Part 3, which is actually the original version of the song.

Luck

posted Nov 21, 2009 7:55 PM by Ben Shin   [ updated Nov 22, 2009 4:15 PM ]

We should be birds.  But we walk backwards, eyes empty, the roar of the end in our ears.

Stuff and nonsense

posted Nov 21, 2009 6:51 PM by Ben Shin   [ updated Nov 21, 2009 8:32 PM ]

Welcome to the new website!  I'll occasionally post news and commentary here, but this page really exists more as a kind of landfill for my brain.  It often won't make much sense.  Sorry.

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