Monday, February 25, 2008

Properties, Variance and Beer

Moving closer to making an offer on a piece of investment property. I wouldn't say it's even near certain that we can negotiate with them, the property we're interested in is owned by a former realtor.

Been looking at a few other properties, but nothing terrific.

Have encountered a lot of variance this month, I'm working on adjusting my play to minimize these periods of struggle. I think I've been a little too loose with certain hands, but I feel I'm hitting a lot of the strong part of people's ranges. Time will tell.

I've moved to regular speeds to close out the month, my hourly is probably higher in these and the variance lower (though you wouldn't tell from my first 40 in the last 2 days). I can play a lot more games at these levels too, something I may go into in more depth in the future (see 2+2/hu forum thread about regular vs turbos). I'm down like 500 on the month actually, not counting a few hundred in FPP bonuses.

I ended up like +150 in the turbos this month and hit a wall of variance in the regular speeds from the get go. I was hoping I'd be up in the 200s again soon, but until I'm at least around +500 for the month that probably won't happen.

I also cleared the 100k fpp 1500 dollar bonus I bought in late January, so I have a little br boost.

In other poker news, I've added two new students, one is a personal friend and long term project that I am pretty excited about. I'll talk more about this in the future.

On the beer front, we have an Imperial Stout in the fermenter. We're very excited about this beer, it should end up 8-10% ABV, and will have lactose, vanilla extract and some really really tasty German chocolate coffee in it. Should be ready in 3 weeks at the earliest.

We'll be making a new beer Wednesday, we're not sure what kind yet. Probably a nut brown ale or another IPA since our last IPA turned out so great. Not quite sure yet, will figure that out tomorrow. We also have some extra hops, so we'll probably do a 2.5 gallon batch as well, and maybe do some crazy type of beer for that one.

I actually kept the yeast from our last beer, they say the 2nd or 3rd time you use the yeast is when it is at its best, so we'll experiment with our 2.5 gallon batch there (usual batches are 5 gallons for us).

I'll post some strategy soon, until then, take care.

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