Poker, literally for one day straight

24 Hour Session: +$624.09

At 5pm on Tuesday we began our 24 hour quest. I did it because I really wanted to put my mind and my body to the test, and see if I can still play successfully under such circumstances.

I had three tables open to start:
Table 1 = $1/2 NL Longhanded
Table 2 = $2/4 NL Longhanded
Table 3 = GBP 2/4 Shorthanded

Right off the bat, I made the mistake of playing a huge pot with just KK on table 2. I raised it to 14 preflop (my standard raise) and he reraised it to 40. I called, the flop came all low rainbow cards. I check/raised him, he came over the top of me, I made the horrible call and obviously lost the pot to AA. It was bad play by me, because there is no reason to built such huge pots with just one pair in such a deepstack situation.

I added a 4th table to the mix a little while later, because I discovered that my favorite fish was playing EUR 3/6 Shorthanded. Those of you who look at the screenshot will see his name, but keep your hands off of him, he's my fish :) I got my seat right next to him and a few hands in, the following hand happened. I had QTo in my BB and it was limped by all 4 players to me. I checked, and saw a pretty nice flop of T9T. I bet at it aggressively, got one call. I bet the turn and got raised by player sybs. I called his raise and saw a 7 land on the river. I tried to get cute and bet just 6 on the turn (you'd be surprised how often this works). He raised me to 96 and I made the crying call, only to see he rivered the shit out of me. Again though, I was the one making the final call, as is the case in most lost pots.

A short while later, I lost my whole buy-in at Table 1. You can find the screenshot here. We were all in on the turn, of course.

Meanwhile, the only thing that was stopping this from becoming a diasaster was Table 3. I had built myself a decent stack, but that quickly changed after this hand. I had 33 and could have potentially lost my whole buy-in if I didn't play it safe in the end.

At this point of the session, we were about 7 hours in and I was down well over $1k. Olli and Sutti were also down, and we began to look at each other like maybe this wasn't such a great idea. Sutti quit shortly afterwards, leaving Olli and myself as the lone survivors. No way in hell we were going to give up.

Over the next 4 hours, I was able to win back some of my money through small and medium-sized pots. At halftime, which was 5am, I was down just over $600. By the time 10am rolled around, I was just about even. At 1pm I was up a couple hundred. Just 4 hours to go and things were looking nice.

With around an hour to go, Gerlihard joined me at the $1/2 table. I came over the top of two of his preflop raises, both times with very strong holdings. He played back at me in a later pot where be bluffed me out of the pot and then showed 74o. Then, the following hand came down (edited to just show the both of us):

thecortstr is at seat 3 with 834.74
gerlihard2 is at seat 9 with 206.15

thecortstr: As, Kc
gerlihard2: --, --

Pre-flop:
gerlihard2: Raise 6.00
thecortstr: Raise 36.00
gerlihard2: All in
thecortstr: Call 206.15

Board (Board: Qd, 4c, 2h, 7d, Ac):

Showdown:
thecortstr shows: As, Kc (a pair of Aces)
gerlihard2 shows: Ks, Kd (a pair of Kings)

Mainpot:
thecortstr wins the pot of 411.30 with a pair of Aces

I decided to make the incredibly loose call preflop based only on our previous play. Obviously I am not making this call against an unknown opponent. I thought there was a good chance he was making another play on me, but he really deserved to win this pot. I got incredibly lucky, oops!

At 5pm, the task was over. Olli and I had each played for 24 hours straight. I did not take a single break longer than 5 mins, and the same goes for Olli. Hopefully my body will forgive me for feeding him just döner, pizza, sushi, and 2.5 liters of energy drinks while pretty much sitting for 24 hours straight.

Going into the session, I thought that I would barely be able to open my eyes by the end. Surprisingly enough, I was very awake and very concentrated for most of this session. I became very tired only a couple times for about 30 minutes each, but then I would snap out of it and play fully concentrated. Even at the end, I was very aware of every move that I made. I only made one misclick throughout the session, and most of my bad plays came in the beginning anyways. Kind of interesing...

I am proud of myself that I stayed focused even when being down so much in the beginning. For those of you who are considering doing something like this yourself, I say go for it! It helped to have Olli here as well, because it gave me somewhere to talk to and share my highs and lows with. Playing 24 hours alone would get pretty lonely I think. I'm very glad that I did it, and I would consider doing it again sometime.

*I was not involved in the hand myself, but this hand is pretty sickening as far as 99.9% favorites go.