Another_rack, his wife (pregnant by the way, congrats!), Skates, myself and my girlfriend went out to Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Chicago the other night.

People always seem to ask for more pics of things in the poker world, so here's some pictures:

(above) Top left: Myself with girlfriend in front.  Top right, Tim (another rack), front and center Derek (Skates) and front right, Mollie, Tim's wife.

(below) Me standing between a mash tun and boil kettle in the brewing area of Rock Bottom Chicago.

The dinner and drinks were good, we went on a short private tour of the brewery towards the end of the night, thanks to a small bribe of Pliny the Elder (Russian River, CA brewery double IPA, 2009 beer of the year from one of the homebrewing magazines).

A friend of mine recently invited me to a private tour of Goose Island's downtown brewery.  Goose Island has several locations throughout Chicago, a main brewpub on Clybourn as well as a secondary brewpub near Wrigley Field.  The main brewery for this tour, however, has no bar and is not open to the public.

My friend is a big beer fan, and at this point has far surpassed me in knowledge of various beers out there, particularly newer and rarer beers.  He is an active participant and reviewer on the popular beer site, beeradvocate.com.  There were roughly 15 total people in atendance for this private tour, all of them, except myself, being beer advocate users.

Wow, what a sick finish.

I had all these updates for like 2.5 hours during my final games and I misclicked on it and I hit one of the sidebar links.  When I hit back it was gone.

So anyways, I was running really hot for about 25-30 games towards the end of this, then I got to about 52-37 or so and just started running like crap.

I was 55-44 going into my last game, meaning we push if I lose and if I win I take the bet down.

Up and down game, here are the last two hands:

Seat 1: no2spencil (1765 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1235 in chips)
no2spencil: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac 4h]
no2spencil: raises 200 to 300
RyPac13: raises 935 to 1235 and is all-in
no2spencil: calls 935
*** FLOP *** [2s Th 5s]
*** TURN *** [2s Th 5s] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [2s Th 5s 6c] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ac 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
no2spencil: shows [8h 8d] (a pair of Eights)
RyPac13 collected 2470 from pot

Sandeep and I ran better today.

I am now 42-34 and he is 45-33.

These are unofficial, based on SS (mine are verified by me actually, so that's accurate for sure, his are likely accurate as well though) so it is possible they could be one or two games off, but highly unlikely.

Sandeep has to finish his games tomorrow, I have until Wednesday night.

The bet is close and winding down, we'll see how it finishes.  I'll probably share a few other details about the bet when it is over, win or lose.

Interesting day...

Sandeep got somebody to give him $500 on $450 for him, so he's back in action.  He played a lot of games today, and the bet is pretty close at the moment:

After 67 games I am down $5 and after 65 games he is up $225 (hence the blog title).  We'll see how his results are by morning (he usually plays early AM).

I went 3-2 today, all five games against fairly decent winners, two of which were of the "sit same time" variety.  Sunday nights are bad for $115 fish action, but I woke up late after that Cotto bloodbath and visited my grandparents for the first time in a few months.  They took my girlfriend and I out for a nice dinner, I had a NY Strip that was actually dry aged for 30 days, it was very good.

Brutal day.  I'm 32-30 on the bet now.

Sandeep is still 17-12.  He is flirting with busto, attempting to rebuild his bankroll before Tuesday night so that he can finish the prop bet and attempt to win.

He was playing too many side games at higher stakes during the bet (I think he's played over 80 games since we started the bet, but only 29 towards the bet) and he also made a side bet with skates, giving him almost 3-1 on over a grand of Skates money (so he risked like 3.4k in escrow there).

We'll see what happens, but despite my horrible day I still am in pretty good shape.

Some of the types of hands that I experienced today:

Seat 1: RyPac13 (2580 in chips)
Seat 2: zarkon13 (420 in chips)
zarkon13: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9s Ad]
zarkon13: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: raises 2520 to 2580 and is all-in
zarkon13: calls 360 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2160) returned to RyPac13
*** FLOP *** [6c 5c Qh]
*** TURN *** [6c 5c Qh] [Ks]

A better day today.  I am now at 27-21 for the bet.  I had a really bad player rematch me a few times again today and luckily came out ahead, unlike days 1-2 of this bet.

This was day 4 of the bet for Sandeep, he is now 17-12.

So my ROI has been around 8% and his 12% at this point.

I will update a bit more detailed tomorrow, I'm pretty tired after another meeting with some community organizers tonight about our building.

A pretty poor day, to put it mildly.  I'm 18-18 right now.  Sandeep is 12-5.

I may take tomorrow off, I have the court hearing and it may be a very busy day.  Sandeep agreed in advance that I could take Thursday off if I don't play any games on that day and then my deadline would be extended one day until Wednesday.

I made one really poor play today, a husng.com member played me and I made a bad turn bet/call when I should have checked.  I then asked about a prior hand to get an idea how I played it and he was kind enough just to send the whole HH over.  I felt better after checking it out, though the bet/call play was still bad.

Today was mostly just a lot of run bad in big pots, in all parts of the game.  I ran decently bad in the end game AIPF type stuff, but very badly in early to middle game big pots.  I finished off the night with two wins against the same player, a winner that I declined after the first win and he sat me again, but I ran incredibly well in those two to close and put me at even overall on this bet, which is not a particularly good place to be.

I'm done for today.  I single tabled 20 games today, finishing with a result of 11-9.  Sandeep is currently 6-2, so he is winning, but it's pretty early.

I played a ton of fish, so that was good, and I played pretty well overall, another positive.  Unfortunately I chopped every rematch (all against pretty poor players) for a total of 4-4 against players that I played more than once.  The lobby also lagged once and Beeschnuts and I double sat (no chops in this prop obviously) so I was forced to play a fairly profitable player once.  I'm sure this will happen again anyways, but I'm taking a slightly different approach to registering than usual so I do expect less matches with regulars overall.  Normally I don't mind too much because it comes up every 10 or so games and it's a good challenge to play most of the $115 regulars, though there are a few good aggros and/or ego trips that aren't really particularly enjoyable to me.

I have received escrow and the prop bet with Sandeep1234 has begun:

Details:

We each play 100 $115 Turbo speeds 2 mans on Stars.  We have one week to complete this.  Whoever wins the most at the end of 100 games wins the 1k bet.

I will update my progress, either every day or every 20-25 games.  I will try to update Sandeep's progress as well.