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Make sure to use signup code jhub for 33% rakeback when signing up for Cake Poker. Make sure you type it in as the SIGNUP CODE, not the promotional code or any other code. There's also a 100% deposit bonus up to $500. Transfers do not count as deposits. However, if you get money transferred into your account you will still be eligible for a deposit bonus once you actually make a deposit. If you need help getting money into Cake I usually have excess money in there & can swap money for money on another site where I have an account. Just post a comment on my blog or email me.
I got married on August 8th. Everything went very well. We went to Aruba for our honeymoon and it was great. It was 90 & sunny every day. The water was a perfect temp & color. The food was great. The shows were good, etc... We also purchased a timeshare package while we were there. For my bachelor party we rented a boat & about 18 of us went on Lake Minnetonka for 8 hrs. I was blackout drunk about 4 hrs into it (3 pm). Then we came back to my house. During that time some of us decided it would be a great idea to play a cash game. I was dealing backwards & arguing w/ Jeremy (thevosh, voss1313's bro) before finally realizing I was wrong. Later he decided to fire up the weed whacker past midnight & weed whack a penis into my lawn. I was asleep by then. Thankfully he didn't do the greatest job in the dark & you couldn't really tell what it was.
Here's 1 pic from the wedding:
This is my wife Paula & I doing a nice ninja turtle pose. I was obsessed with the ninja turtles when I was young so my brothers gave me a ninja turtle shirt during their best man speech. Maybe I'll post some other pics another time. Some people have requested that I post more pics on my blog but it can be time consuming.
As for poker, I haven't played a whole lot. There was 1 week when I was really sick & didn't play at all. Then I had the wedding & honeymoon & obv didn't play during that. July 16th I decided to stop playing pokerstars, at least for now. There's so many ignorant regs who don't table select that you have to constantly babysit them by keeping an eye on the lobbies. This takes away a ton of focus from your tables, a bit too much w/ 4 sites going imo. Whether this helps my hourly remains to be seen and will be tough to tell due to the high variance of the games I play. However, if nothing else the games have been less stressful & more enjoyable w/o Stars. I'm pretty confident in my game. I've reviewed poker tracker stats of a bunch of top players & my #s are very similar to all of them. I love when people tell me I can't play post-flop. Of all the players my went to showdown/won at showdown #s were the best.
I don't have the time to post all my stats but my total profit for the year is at $208,188.33
Cake has been pretty quiet lately so FTP has easily been my #1 site volume-wise lately. I've done ok there. Their sharkscope was very screwy during a bunch of updates. It missed a nice upswing of mine but that's ok because it will just help feed the ignorant donks' opinion of my play recently.
As far as Brett Favre goes, I think he's kind of a d-bag but I'm glad the Vikings got him because he should be an upgrade over what we had. I think the Vikes are 1 of the favorites to win the NFC this year. The Eagles are gonna be really tough though.
Now on to a more serious subject:
My brother is running a race in support of 1 of his best friends, who has colon cancer. All donations are greatly appreciated. I'll just leave you with the story my brother wrote on the race homepage:
Hello,
I recently joined a team for the 18th Annual Rivertown Shuffle here in Winona that will be held on Friday, September 18th. This event is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and is highlighted by luminaries placed on the bike path around Lake Winona. One of my very best friends, Joe Vogel, has been chosen to be one of this years Person's of Hope for this event.
In May of 2006 Joe was diagnosed with colon cancer. At age 28, the thought of cancer shouldn't even enter one's mind. But Joe faced the battle head on like a true champion. Joe did the chemo and all the treatments and side effects that came along with it and eventually was back to life before the cancer. Unfortunately, a few months back his colon cancer came back and was in his brain. Once again Joe's positive attitude got him through the radiation treatments and a Gamma Knife procedure.
During the 2 months that Joe was receiving his treatments for the brain tumors, the cancer spread significantly to his spine, lungs, and possibly liver. At this moment Joe is on Round 2 of chemo out of 6 for these areas. Joe is 31 years old and has had to deal with more than anybody should ever have to deal with in their entire life. His attitude is unbelievable and the way he's fought is heroic to say the least.
Joe is the reason I've decided to raise money for this event. In honor of Joe Vogel. I set our initial goal at $1000 and to be honest I think we can reach that no problem. So I hope we can raise that goal in the coming weeks.
You can visit Joe's personal CaringBridge page at:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/joevo
Thank you for your support!
Jeff Hubbard
To make a donation please click the link below:
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/Relay
Here's a picture of Joe (left) & Jeff (right) recently after Jeff shaved his head in support of Joe:
Thanks,
Hub
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Garry - badcallthat!
Congratz on your marriage Jhub ;)
You're not missing anything by not playing on Stars. I've pretty much stopped playing 119+ 6 max. There are always at least 2 good players loading, usually more.
darinvg
GL,
Hub
AFAIK he's also a pro online player.
I notice your yearly profit is just over 200k. Looks like your total profit for the year maybe fairly lower than last years at this rate, no? Wondering why this may be, harder competition? Not many hours played?
Also, when you play poker, do you play multiple sites simultaneously? If so, how do you arrange the tables - is there a way to do it auto. so they all tile, because when I try they overlap and I have to manually move the tables around from the 2 differed poker rooms. (I use only one monitor).
I play all my sites simultaneously. There is nothing you can do other than move the tables around manually.
GL,
Hub
As of about 10 days ago I am no longer under Hub. Things have been going good.
I don't update my blog because I'm extremely lazy. If I noticed that over 100 people read it every time I would update a lot more. I might start a twitter account(gay i know), but I feel like I would update it a lot more with quick notes. I also plan on making a blog entry of a final wrap up of the staking.
Thanks for your interest,
VOS
Now turn your damn AIM off!
GL,
Hub
GL,
Hub
JD
Also, keep in mind I made $270K before any rakeback in 2008 & about $160K before any rakeback in 2007. It shows you not only how crazy high stakes variance can be, but how much tougher the games are. I know of other top players who are also down pre rakeback this year.
GL,
Hub
Also, I know you probably dont have much experience here, but how do you think this comes into play in the lower stakes at the $10-$30 levels. I mean the rake collected is so less, and in return the rakeback would be very minor, so would it be beneficial to play turbo/s.turbos here?
And when your playing, which formats do you play and how much of each of them. I know you stopped Super turbos recently, but what about before that? How did your average sessions looks like.
Thanks
As for as the lower levels, the rake collected may be less, but it's still basically the same in proportion to the buy-in. On one end, I think super turbo profitability vs the other formats is better at the lower stakes because a much larger % of people understand push/fold compared to the higher stakes, and this is where most of your profit comes from in super turbos (other than rakeback). However, when at the lower levels you should be focusing on improving your game & moving up in stakes. Super turbos aren't going to improve you a whole hell of a lot so I'd still advise against playing them for the most part.
Before I would say my sessions were probably 40% super turbo, 50% turbo, & 10% regular speed. On cake alone it was more like 55-60% super turbo. Now I'd say it's more like 90% turbo & 10% regular speed.
GL,
Hub
Ron
GL,
Hub
Important questions; I multi table (12) and try to use Tournament Indicator and/or Hold Em Manager. But with so many tables open my computer freezes or lagges for 2 seconds. I can only run 4 tables. What do you do Hub?
I enjoy your blog because it's honest and not full of fluff like most others. Anyhow, you should post your blog on your own website and sell some products. I would love to buy a JHUB shirt or a book/video you produce. A little extra money doesn't hurt 'ya know?
Thanks a million HUB. :-)
As far as Kenny's blog, when he started it he planned on updating it but then he realized it just wasn't for him.
As for hold em manager lagging while mass multi tabling, I had the same problem. Because of it I didn't use a hud for all of last year other than the 1st couple months, & then partly into this year. Now I use PT3 because it seems to work better for me. It might be because you're running too many other prgrams at once. If you're only running hold em manager & the sites you play on I think it should be fine. Otherwise maybe you need to clean your database? I'm not sure what it's called in HEM but it's called housekeeping in PT3 & once your database gets big you pretty much need to do it daily to prevent major lagging. I'd try that or try to contact HEM support.
As for my own website selling t-shirts I'd do it but I think you might be the only person purchasing one. :)
GL,
Hub