Friday, September 25
Sunday, September 20
only one way to go
so i went bust. fml.
ive got 25 dollars left and im going to grind up the sng ladder. 1 dollar sngs here we come. ill post results here daily just to keep track.
<3
ive got 25 dollars left and im going to grind up the sng ladder. 1 dollar sngs here we come. ill post results here daily just to keep track.
<3
Tuesday, September 8
motivation
so things have been going about as shitty as they possibly could and i hit a real low point mentally last week. i've taken a step back to think and get a perspective on things and i think everything is ok now. that doesn't mean i will start winning big right away, but i'm on the right track.
i ran bad at 50nl and have been grinding sng's for a while. i cashed out a little to help with life and have been donking off money in mtt's hoping for the big score like a fish. i watched one of vital myth's vids today and i REALLY liked what he was saying and it just helped getting me to start thinking about the game again. i haven't really thought about anything in months. since like 7 months ago. i just fucking play the game now, i don't think. that needs to change and it will.
i have new found motivation and even though my 4k mini-goal for the month of september is looking a bit lofty i am in no way worried i won't make AT LEAST 25k by the end of the year. i'm off to play a bit.. 25nl and i'm not embarassed to say it. i really should be though, its' fucking annoying :/ lol. but i will think about the game and clean it up and move on with my career and that will be that. in 5 years i will look back on these times and thank myself for putting in the hard work when it needed to be done to achieve greater goals. the work needs to be done at some point and nobody is going to make me kick it back in gear. i need to want it myself and that's exactly what i want now. weird how i just realized i've been smoking all the time for the same reason i did back in the apartment and i didn't even realize it until now.
see you at the tables :O
i ran bad at 50nl and have been grinding sng's for a while. i cashed out a little to help with life and have been donking off money in mtt's hoping for the big score like a fish. i watched one of vital myth's vids today and i REALLY liked what he was saying and it just helped getting me to start thinking about the game again. i haven't really thought about anything in months. since like 7 months ago. i just fucking play the game now, i don't think. that needs to change and it will.
i have new found motivation and even though my 4k mini-goal for the month of september is looking a bit lofty i am in no way worried i won't make AT LEAST 25k by the end of the year. i'm off to play a bit.. 25nl and i'm not embarassed to say it. i really should be though, its' fucking annoying :/ lol. but i will think about the game and clean it up and move on with my career and that will be that. in 5 years i will look back on these times and thank myself for putting in the hard work when it needed to be done to achieve greater goals. the work needs to be done at some point and nobody is going to make me kick it back in gear. i need to want it myself and that's exactly what i want now. weird how i just realized i've been smoking all the time for the same reason i did back in the apartment and i didn't even realize it until now.
see you at the tables :O
Wednesday, August 26
mahhhh
so this is just random but im a weird fucking kid. there is another 50nl player with the name 'kittiesgomah' and he has the cat as his avatar. for whatever reason i thought this was the funniest thing when i was playing him and we were playing on a few tables and both had deep stacks.
everytime i would get involved in any type of pot with him i was just see his name and laugh and go 'mahhhhhhhhh'. i think i was high for this session. i just thought i'd share this and if you ever read this kitty just know that your name made my night :)
everytime i would get involved in any type of pot with him i was just see his name and laugh and go 'mahhhhhhhhh'. i think i was high for this session. i just thought i'd share this and if you ever read this kitty just know that your name made my night :)
fantasy football
had my draft tonight and i'm actually pretty excited about my team after looking over it. i ended up getting the number 1 pick which is kinda annoying but getting AP makes up for it i suppose. he better not let me down. i also got peyton and dallas clark which will make watching indy games fun and i have eagles def and mcnabb and their kicker. i guess i'm an indy/eagles fan this season. i actually ended up getting to pick up favre too. i didn't even really want to but he was just there and who knows, he could blow up and if not i still have 2 good qb's. rest of my starters are steve smith, kevin smith and brandon marshall. all in all pretty solid -- 250 for first in the league so here's to do well.
poker i had a blowup day 2 days ago and dropped 8.5 BI's. i'm slowly winning it back but i've been playing well.
the blowup was -438 in 5 hours monday night and since then i've made back 260 in 6 hours. mehhhhh BUT after my last entry and just laying things and and looking at the big picture it helps me to realize that it really doesn't matter if i have days like this in the scheme of things beceuase i know im going to win it back once im in the right state of mind again which is becoming easier and easier to get back into. obviously i'm always working on controlling tilt and not having days like this but realizing that they are going to happen and that it's ok is the first step to preventing them as often imo.
not much else to say i don't think. going to go play -- been playing just 4 tables but all deep tables. i like how this is going although it can get a bit slow at times. genreally with the deep element im deep enough with someone to fuck around in position and always have a hand to be playing with. i should probably work on my patience. i can feel myself being pulled back to 10-12 tabling soon just because i like the feeling of always having something waiting for you to do but 4 tabling is going to be more profitable in the long run (easier to cut down on tilt and easier to stop while tiling for some reason to me) and is going to be much much better for improving my game as i attempt to move back up. im actually thinking of everything i do instead of just doing and the game is making a lot more sense again. levels are sexy.
ok seriously -- peace out.
poker i had a blowup day 2 days ago and dropped 8.5 BI's. i'm slowly winning it back but i've been playing well.
the blowup was -438 in 5 hours monday night and since then i've made back 260 in 6 hours. mehhhhh BUT after my last entry and just laying things and and looking at the big picture it helps me to realize that it really doesn't matter if i have days like this in the scheme of things beceuase i know im going to win it back once im in the right state of mind again which is becoming easier and easier to get back into. obviously i'm always working on controlling tilt and not having days like this but realizing that they are going to happen and that it's ok is the first step to preventing them as often imo.
not much else to say i don't think. going to go play -- been playing just 4 tables but all deep tables. i like how this is going although it can get a bit slow at times. genreally with the deep element im deep enough with someone to fuck around in position and always have a hand to be playing with. i should probably work on my patience. i can feel myself being pulled back to 10-12 tabling soon just because i like the feeling of always having something waiting for you to do but 4 tabling is going to be more profitable in the long run (easier to cut down on tilt and easier to stop while tiling for some reason to me) and is going to be much much better for improving my game as i attempt to move back up. im actually thinking of everything i do instead of just doing and the game is making a lot more sense again. levels are sexy.
ok seriously -- peace out.
Monday, August 24
im back -- QUAD DAY!
sooo -- i have two things to talk about. the first is that im going to really try to blog more to start thinking about my game at a higher level (review hands and just set goals for myself to keep myself motivated) and i will also write about things going on in my life just because im already writing about poker and i know it will happen. i'll start with life this time..
QUAD DAY! quad day was baby spencer's idea. the premise is simple -- smoke a quad to yourself in a 24 hour span (really we did the actual quad in a 8 hour span but whatever). it was just ian spence, me and nadine (nadine and i split the quad).
we were at the spot smoking at midnight anyways before we started and shared like 2.5 between 4 or 5 of us. then we woke and the festivites began. first we smoked out with spence/ian's friend jermey who was a pretty chill guy. i think we sparked a joint/blunt (dont remember) and then matched bowls in the dual bowl piece and were pretty faded after that. then we smoked out first out of the quad, went to the hat for lunch and had the most amazing food in the world. then we went to lindsays and rolled up a bunch and smoked number 2 and 3. watched year one at the dollar theatre (mehhh .. michael cera does make me laugh though) and then drove over to spences to roll the rest while smoking number 4. got there, picked up dawar on the way, rolled and then smoked 5 outside in a park near her house. secruity for woodbury was driving around near us so we walked away which wasted valuable time (it was like 1115 and we still had 2 to smoke). we finally got back to the car at 1130ish and headed to the spot and then finished the last two back to back. it was exactly midnight as we were finishing, kinda wonderful. we then went to in n out (decided this had to be done around blunt 5) and then went back to the spot for a 'dessert' blunt that we all shared. all in all it was a ridiculously high day.
for poker i made a new goal in my head but haven't rolled worked out how i'm going to get there so that's what i plan to do now. here it goes.. ! so i want to make 25k by the new year, which gives me 4 months. if i just averaged it out that would be 6.25k/mo. obv im going to make a lot more in december than i will in sept, but it's nice to know that. soooo.. well say in sept i play 50nl for the first week and the 100nl for the last 3 weeks.
if i expect to win at 3ptbb/100 AT LEAST that would mean i would have to play ~20k hands/wk to make 4k that mo. i think 4k is a good number to shoot for in sept. right now my roll is at 1.2 -- making 4k would put it at 5.2k BUT i will be taking out 1k at the minimum for life and whatnot so my goal for my roll is ~4.2k at the end of sept (this isn't including rakeback at all so i have quite a bit of cushion).
so now going into october i'm aiming to have 4.2k -- let's say i stay at 100nl for another 2 weeks probs, which should net to 2.5-3k at least. then we'll bump it to 200nl for that last 2 weeks and well just at least 4k from that. soo that would be 6.5k made in october before rakeback which leaves me at 10.5k -- BUT we still take out at least 1k, we'll call it 2k this month just to keep things good, so aiming for 8.5k at the end of october.
now we start out november with 8.5k before rakeback and hopefully be chillin as a 200nl reg. well say 2-2.5k/wk as a 200nl reg .this would mean i have to play ~15k/wk which isn't much. all these expectations have been on the low side, i will constantly be pushing myself to play more but i think it's good to make conservative expectations because if i set my goals to high and i fall short it will really upset me (i know how my head works) but if i set somewhat conservative but still very adequate results and then push myself to do better i will feel very good. anyway, i'll stick to 200nl all month and expect to make 8-10k which would boost my roll to 18.5k by the end of the month. at this point i would start to think about my live roll for 2/5 which i want 5k to start (i will still take more out to have 20+ BI's but i think i can start playing with 5k). soo -- let's say i take 6k out this month, that would leave me at ~10.5k at the end of november.
now december -- what a wonderful month. still chillin as a 200nl reg -- don't plan to try to move up (who knows what my mindset will be in 4 months) but well go with the same expectation as last month which is 8-10k from this. the lovely part about this is that i should be playing live 3+ times a week with my newly aqquired bankroll. how will i have time to play 3+ sessions/wk live and 15hrs+/wk online you ask? the answer is simple -- I WILL FINALLY QUIT FUCKING ISLANDS!! i'll actually put my two weeks in sometime near the end of november so december should be a restaurant free month. i haven't had enough exp live so it's hard to set goals for myself in terms of winrate. i'll say that if i end up +5k at the end of the month i would be very happy with that (i don't know how long to expect upswings/downswings but i'm pretty sure live downswings can last for months at times so we'll take this easily). so my online roll should jump to 18.5k and my live roll i would be very happy to be 10k+. idk how much i'll take offline -- we'll say 5k because this is my birthday and christmas month so i'm sure i'll want to go to vegas and do things realllllll fucking big since everyone is 21. so, end of december we should aim for 13.5k online and 10k+ live.
with these goals i set for myself this would me making 26.5k online and 5k live -- and i orignally said my goal is 25k before the new year so i like what i've laid out for myself over the next few months.
like i said, all of these expectations are very adequate and i would be quite happy with them but i can also achieve a lot more than this soooo as far as putting money aside and saving to move out i'm not quite sure how i'm going to be doing that BUT if all of this falls into place fairly nicely i'd say i could be looking to rent out a pretty fucking baller place around the turn of the new year. good things are around the corner.
funny thing is the high point of my 'career' so far was last december (200nl baller who thought nothing could stop me) so even though it feels like it was FORRRRRREVER ago when i was an online baller it was really only a year roadbump. that is nothing in a lifetime.
i'll post pretty regularly how i'm doing -- off to session. poker, not drugs. peaccccce
--geoffff
QUAD DAY! quad day was baby spencer's idea. the premise is simple -- smoke a quad to yourself in a 24 hour span (really we did the actual quad in a 8 hour span but whatever). it was just ian spence, me and nadine (nadine and i split the quad).
we were at the spot smoking at midnight anyways before we started and shared like 2.5 between 4 or 5 of us. then we woke and the festivites began. first we smoked out with spence/ian's friend jermey who was a pretty chill guy. i think we sparked a joint/blunt (dont remember) and then matched bowls in the dual bowl piece and were pretty faded after that. then we smoked out first out of the quad, went to the hat for lunch and had the most amazing food in the world. then we went to lindsays and rolled up a bunch and smoked number 2 and 3. watched year one at the dollar theatre (mehhh .. michael cera does make me laugh though) and then drove over to spences to roll the rest while smoking number 4. got there, picked up dawar on the way, rolled and then smoked 5 outside in a park near her house. secruity for woodbury was driving around near us so we walked away which wasted valuable time (it was like 1115 and we still had 2 to smoke). we finally got back to the car at 1130ish and headed to the spot and then finished the last two back to back. it was exactly midnight as we were finishing, kinda wonderful. we then went to in n out (decided this had to be done around blunt 5) and then went back to the spot for a 'dessert' blunt that we all shared. all in all it was a ridiculously high day.
for poker i made a new goal in my head but haven't rolled worked out how i'm going to get there so that's what i plan to do now. here it goes.. ! so i want to make 25k by the new year, which gives me 4 months. if i just averaged it out that would be 6.25k/mo. obv im going to make a lot more in december than i will in sept, but it's nice to know that. soooo.. well say in sept i play 50nl for the first week and the 100nl for the last 3 weeks.
if i expect to win at 3ptbb/100 AT LEAST that would mean i would have to play ~20k hands/wk to make 4k that mo. i think 4k is a good number to shoot for in sept. right now my roll is at 1.2 -- making 4k would put it at 5.2k BUT i will be taking out 1k at the minimum for life and whatnot so my goal for my roll is ~4.2k at the end of sept (this isn't including rakeback at all so i have quite a bit of cushion).
so now going into october i'm aiming to have 4.2k -- let's say i stay at 100nl for another 2 weeks probs, which should net to 2.5-3k at least. then we'll bump it to 200nl for that last 2 weeks and well just at least 4k from that. soo that would be 6.5k made in october before rakeback which leaves me at 10.5k -- BUT we still take out at least 1k, we'll call it 2k this month just to keep things good, so aiming for 8.5k at the end of october.
now we start out november with 8.5k before rakeback and hopefully be chillin as a 200nl reg. well say 2-2.5k/wk as a 200nl reg .this would mean i have to play ~15k/wk which isn't much. all these expectations have been on the low side, i will constantly be pushing myself to play more but i think it's good to make conservative expectations because if i set my goals to high and i fall short it will really upset me (i know how my head works) but if i set somewhat conservative but still very adequate results and then push myself to do better i will feel very good. anyway, i'll stick to 200nl all month and expect to make 8-10k which would boost my roll to 18.5k by the end of the month. at this point i would start to think about my live roll for 2/5 which i want 5k to start (i will still take more out to have 20+ BI's but i think i can start playing with 5k). soo -- let's say i take 6k out this month, that would leave me at ~10.5k at the end of november.
now december -- what a wonderful month. still chillin as a 200nl reg -- don't plan to try to move up (who knows what my mindset will be in 4 months) but well go with the same expectation as last month which is 8-10k from this. the lovely part about this is that i should be playing live 3+ times a week with my newly aqquired bankroll. how will i have time to play 3+ sessions/wk live and 15hrs+/wk online you ask? the answer is simple -- I WILL FINALLY QUIT FUCKING ISLANDS!! i'll actually put my two weeks in sometime near the end of november so december should be a restaurant free month. i haven't had enough exp live so it's hard to set goals for myself in terms of winrate. i'll say that if i end up +5k at the end of the month i would be very happy with that (i don't know how long to expect upswings/downswings but i'm pretty sure live downswings can last for months at times so we'll take this easily). so my online roll should jump to 18.5k and my live roll i would be very happy to be 10k+. idk how much i'll take offline -- we'll say 5k because this is my birthday and christmas month so i'm sure i'll want to go to vegas and do things realllllll fucking big since everyone is 21. so, end of december we should aim for 13.5k online and 10k+ live.
with these goals i set for myself this would me making 26.5k online and 5k live -- and i orignally said my goal is 25k before the new year so i like what i've laid out for myself over the next few months.
like i said, all of these expectations are very adequate and i would be quite happy with them but i can also achieve a lot more than this soooo as far as putting money aside and saving to move out i'm not quite sure how i'm going to be doing that BUT if all of this falls into place fairly nicely i'd say i could be looking to rent out a pretty fucking baller place around the turn of the new year. good things are around the corner.
funny thing is the high point of my 'career' so far was last december (200nl baller who thought nothing could stop me) so even though it feels like it was FORRRRRREVER ago when i was an online baller it was really only a year roadbump. that is nothing in a lifetime.
i'll post pretty regularly how i'm doing -- off to session. poker, not drugs. peaccccce
--geoffff
Thursday, July 30
what up what up
lol -- its been a long while since i posted here. back in the day when i was at the top of my game (stakes wise -- i think i've stilled grown as a player and just had other shit going on in my life) i was blogging all the time and i think that was a huge part of what helped my game grow. i've said that before but it doesn't hurt to reitterate it.
i've been playing a little more often and i'm working on my HU game. i'm mostly withdrawling most of my winnings because i'm broke as hell right now. i've been winning 2.something ptbb/100 over the last 15k hands. this includes my HU endeavour as well which has me just barley in the red ... not a bad start. i've always had tilt issues when it comes to HU because it doesn't come as easily to me so i'm just happy i'm moving in the right direction with it instead of getting frustrated with it and letting it go to shit like i have in the past.
just opened pt3 -- official numbers are 2.24 ptbb/100 over 13k hands at 6max -- 3.43 ptbb/100 in the red over 2k hands for HU -- this is all 50nl.
i doubt i'll post very often but hopefully i do. PEACE niggies.
i've been playing a little more often and i'm working on my HU game. i'm mostly withdrawling most of my winnings because i'm broke as hell right now. i've been winning 2.something ptbb/100 over the last 15k hands. this includes my HU endeavour as well which has me just barley in the red ... not a bad start. i've always had tilt issues when it comes to HU because it doesn't come as easily to me so i'm just happy i'm moving in the right direction with it instead of getting frustrated with it and letting it go to shit like i have in the past.
just opened pt3 -- official numbers are 2.24 ptbb/100 over 13k hands at 6max -- 3.43 ptbb/100 in the red over 2k hands for HU -- this is all 50nl.
i doubt i'll post very often but hopefully i do. PEACE niggies.
Monday, May 4
vegas and other stuff
vegas was pretty sick. shroomed both nights i was there ... friday night i tripped pretty hard. i was there for my friends end of bowling league tournament so they wanted to practice friday night, so i went bowling like this. the lane would get shorter and longer and the pins would shake. it was nuts. weird thing is when i took them saturday i didn't trip AT ALL ... but i had the afterglow for a long time. if you've done them you know what i mean, you just feel all philisophical and want to talk about everything.
didn't play much poker seeing as i was broke. idk if i said this in my last post but i pissed away my 1800 live roll so i had barley any money in vegas. i played some 2/4 LHE with 150, came up like 2.5 BB's (10 dolla holla) after playing for 5 hours or something stupid. then i decided to just sit a little short in NL, ran my stack up to 425ish then bluffed it off like a 'tard. i'm really going to work on not making big bluffs live and also generally just giving people credit unless i have seen them make a big bluff. here's my HH's from the 2 pots i won and then the 2 big bluffs in order.
this is 200nl btw.
1st hand at table i sit and get AJo UTG+1 (we're 7 handed). open for 10, HJ or CO call (covers). he was a young 20's kid too, super talkative and aggressive (i had been watching the game for a little) and thought he was the shit. liked to make moves. flop is HU -- something like 67Tr. i cbet 15, he calls quickly. i've got 125 behind at this point. turn pairs the board, i pretty sure the 7 and puts a FD out there. i think for a few seconds and check, he thinks and slowly bets 20. i take like 20-25 seconds and CRAI and he folds fairly quickly. in retrospect idk if this was the best move, but i really felt like it was a high % play and it worked out so whatever.
2nd hand at table get dealt AQo (UTG now if you can't follow that). folds to CO who is a nitty middle aged asian dude with 80-90 in front, he calls. BB calls as well, he had me covered. not much of a read on him besides he was probably the 3rd best beside me and this other grinder who was a local i think. that said, i find out later he's got major leaks. anyway, flop QJx two clubs, i cbet 25. CO calls and BB calls. turn blanks off. BB checks, i think for probably a minute and then ship. i had like 25 more than the pot and didn't want to entice the BB to come along if he had a FD and figured i might look bluffy seeing as i shipped my first 2 hands at table. CO quickly calls, BB thinks for a bit and folds a FD he says. river blanks and CO mucks his hand.
so now i was at 300 something, i keep chipping up and get up to 425ish like i said.
i was directly to the right of the aggro dbag kid in the first hand (i moved to have this :O) and decided to start 3betting him light. so he raised a limper from the HJ to 12, i 3bet to 35 with J9cc, the SB (BB in hand 2) calls and the aggro kid calls. effective stack was ~200 for both. flop comes down T97 dd. they check to me, i decide to cbet 100 hoping the cold caller has something like AK/AQ and will muck and even if he does show up with QQ+ i have plenty of outs. SB insta ships on my for 60something more and aggro kid folds. i call and he has K9dd for basically the flopped nuts and raping my hand. who cold calls 3bets with K9s at live 1/2 games? fml.
so now i have barely over 200. i'm in BB with 47dd. some limpers, this terrible european kid raises to like 7 over the limpers, aggro kid calls, i call because i was bored and it was just tossing in one chip (i hate when i do this) and limpers call. flop J66dd. aggro kid donks out 20. i make it 65 (whyyyy) folds to euro teribad kid who tanks for at least 2-3 minutes and finally flats (wtf?) and aggro kid folds. at this point i have about a pot behind and i'm trying to put him on some sort of range. i figured QQ+ or AJ, maybe KJ QJ? he was fairly tight so i didn't think his range was overly wide and i couldn't imagine what he could be flatting there. he tanked to long for me to think it was JJ or a legit hand. turn was Ah. i ship fairly quickly figuring i still have outs if he had AJ and calls, thought he folded a lot though. he snap calls with A6o (fml again, i assign way too good of ranges for terrible people. why?) and river bricks.
just finished up a 3 1/2 hour session online +800 though, felt good. was 4 tabling 6 max with 2 HU games on the side (all 100nl). 7 BI's were 6max and the other was HU. i was up more in HU but made 1 donkey calldown for a stack and then got rivered for another stack. it happens though. i was really happy with how i was playing online. i wasn't playing super nitty or anything, but i was just playing patient and well imo. i chipped up 2 BI's in the 6max before i even played a hand for stacks and my hand reading is getting much better at HU. i really liked the 2 HU / 4 6max thing.
i feel like i'm going to make a lot more playing fewer tables and crushing than playing lots of tables and griding out a small winrate/rakeback. i'm running at 8.87 PTBB/100 over a 12.3K sample, we'll see how well it keeps up.
anyways, that pretty much wraps it up. plans for this week or put in some hours, withdrawal 1k by tuesday or wednesday so i have it for vegas this wekeend (yes i'm going back and this time i plan to play basically all weekend) and grind out some more so i can a) hopefully withdrawal more and take more than just 1k to vegas and b) have money for europe and my cc bill. i haven't made a payment in months (i know it's really bad) and my credit is probably going to be shot for a few years. oh well, i'm young and my job can be pretty lucrative at times. i shouldn't need much credit.
that's it for now ... going to sleep for a bit and then probably session before my shitty job. i can't wait until i can quit there. fuck serving. :)
OHHHH -- if anybody actaully reads this that doesn't go on CP forums i'm looking for winrate prop bet action. nobody lower than 50nl. i'll obv take higher limits, but just know i'll be at 100nl. we can do over 10k/20k/30k hands, don't really care. just want to keep motivated.
didn't play much poker seeing as i was broke. idk if i said this in my last post but i pissed away my 1800 live roll so i had barley any money in vegas. i played some 2/4 LHE with 150, came up like 2.5 BB's (10 dolla holla) after playing for 5 hours or something stupid. then i decided to just sit a little short in NL, ran my stack up to 425ish then bluffed it off like a 'tard. i'm really going to work on not making big bluffs live and also generally just giving people credit unless i have seen them make a big bluff. here's my HH's from the 2 pots i won and then the 2 big bluffs in order.
this is 200nl btw.
1st hand at table i sit and get AJo UTG+1 (we're 7 handed). open for 10, HJ or CO call (covers). he was a young 20's kid too, super talkative and aggressive (i had been watching the game for a little) and thought he was the shit. liked to make moves. flop is HU -- something like 67Tr. i cbet 15, he calls quickly. i've got 125 behind at this point. turn pairs the board, i pretty sure the 7 and puts a FD out there. i think for a few seconds and check, he thinks and slowly bets 20. i take like 20-25 seconds and CRAI and he folds fairly quickly. in retrospect idk if this was the best move, but i really felt like it was a high % play and it worked out so whatever.
2nd hand at table get dealt AQo (UTG now if you can't follow that). folds to CO who is a nitty middle aged asian dude with 80-90 in front, he calls. BB calls as well, he had me covered. not much of a read on him besides he was probably the 3rd best beside me and this other grinder who was a local i think. that said, i find out later he's got major leaks. anyway, flop QJx two clubs, i cbet 25. CO calls and BB calls. turn blanks off. BB checks, i think for probably a minute and then ship. i had like 25 more than the pot and didn't want to entice the BB to come along if he had a FD and figured i might look bluffy seeing as i shipped my first 2 hands at table. CO quickly calls, BB thinks for a bit and folds a FD he says. river blanks and CO mucks his hand.
so now i was at 300 something, i keep chipping up and get up to 425ish like i said.
i was directly to the right of the aggro dbag kid in the first hand (i moved to have this :O) and decided to start 3betting him light. so he raised a limper from the HJ to 12, i 3bet to 35 with J9cc, the SB (BB in hand 2) calls and the aggro kid calls. effective stack was ~200 for both. flop comes down T97 dd. they check to me, i decide to cbet 100 hoping the cold caller has something like AK/AQ and will muck and even if he does show up with QQ+ i have plenty of outs. SB insta ships on my for 60something more and aggro kid folds. i call and he has K9dd for basically the flopped nuts and raping my hand. who cold calls 3bets with K9s at live 1/2 games? fml.
so now i have barely over 200. i'm in BB with 47dd. some limpers, this terrible european kid raises to like 7 over the limpers, aggro kid calls, i call because i was bored and it was just tossing in one chip (i hate when i do this) and limpers call. flop J66dd. aggro kid donks out 20. i make it 65 (whyyyy) folds to euro teribad kid who tanks for at least 2-3 minutes and finally flats (wtf?) and aggro kid folds. at this point i have about a pot behind and i'm trying to put him on some sort of range. i figured QQ+ or AJ, maybe KJ QJ? he was fairly tight so i didn't think his range was overly wide and i couldn't imagine what he could be flatting there. he tanked to long for me to think it was JJ or a legit hand. turn was Ah. i ship fairly quickly figuring i still have outs if he had AJ and calls, thought he folded a lot though. he snap calls with A6o (fml again, i assign way too good of ranges for terrible people. why?) and river bricks.
just finished up a 3 1/2 hour session online +800 though, felt good. was 4 tabling 6 max with 2 HU games on the side (all 100nl). 7 BI's were 6max and the other was HU. i was up more in HU but made 1 donkey calldown for a stack and then got rivered for another stack. it happens though. i was really happy with how i was playing online. i wasn't playing super nitty or anything, but i was just playing patient and well imo. i chipped up 2 BI's in the 6max before i even played a hand for stacks and my hand reading is getting much better at HU. i really liked the 2 HU / 4 6max thing.
i feel like i'm going to make a lot more playing fewer tables and crushing than playing lots of tables and griding out a small winrate/rakeback. i'm running at 8.87 PTBB/100 over a 12.3K sample, we'll see how well it keeps up.
anyways, that pretty much wraps it up. plans for this week or put in some hours, withdrawal 1k by tuesday or wednesday so i have it for vegas this wekeend (yes i'm going back and this time i plan to play basically all weekend) and grind out some more so i can a) hopefully withdrawal more and take more than just 1k to vegas and b) have money for europe and my cc bill. i haven't made a payment in months (i know it's really bad) and my credit is probably going to be shot for a few years. oh well, i'm young and my job can be pretty lucrative at times. i shouldn't need much credit.
that's it for now ... going to sleep for a bit and then probably session before my shitty job. i can't wait until i can quit there. fuck serving. :)
OHHHH -- if anybody actaully reads this that doesn't go on CP forums i'm looking for winrate prop bet action. nobody lower than 50nl. i'll obv take higher limits, but just know i'll be at 100nl. we can do over 10k/20k/30k hands, don't really care. just want to keep motivated.
Wednesday, April 29
looking up
so i'm just going to post on the old blog from now on -- i created a new one just because i couldn't find this one but know that i've found this one problem solved. first thing is first, I NEED A NEW MOUSE. it doesn't right click anymore and it drives me crazy. also, why is 'doesn't' underlined in red? i know i spelled it right.
this is mostly going to be a goals post and a what's going on. i could find hands to review, but i don't want to. i'm not a good person.
before i start i actually just want to say something real quick. i'm in a semi-annoyed mood (you'll find out why below) so i decided to look up how long it's been since i went broke online to cheer me up.
my current bankroll started off a $20 transfer from my friends uncle on stars. he plays 2/4 3/6 LHE i think. anyway, i took down a 2 dollar MTT for ~560 dollars. the next day i took down a 4.40 180 man for whatever that is, just under 300 i think. i then transfered that money over to FT to get rakeback, and the rest is history. that was in june of 2007. i'll admit i did deposit 500 a few months after that to increase my roll so i could jump into 50nl more comfortably, but never because i went broke. i should be pretty proud that i've had enough self control to keep a roll going for over 2 years online where it's very easy to just say 'fuck it' one night and play way over your head and we all know that never ends well (and trust me, there were a few nights when i thought the 5/10 games were soft ...).
first off, I RUN LIKE SHIT LIVE. you hear people whine online about how they never take beats live and everything goes perfectly at the casino but online is rigged. well fuck that, live is rigged. RIGGED! after 25.5 hours i'm down 6BI's. i'd say that's just under 800 hands. 2-3 of the BI's were definetely bad bluffs/tilty dumb shit, but the other half was cooler. not a huge deal, just annoying because i'm going to vegas in 2 days and know i have like 300 dollars to play with there (which i haven't decided if i'm going to play the 1 BI and see how i do or just save it and not be a degen).
my goal is to start building up a live roll as well, starting at the 2/3 down in oceanside though. my roll online just hit 4k (4.2k me thinks, don't quite remember from last night) so i can take a 200nl shot. hopefully that goes well and i can be a 200nl reg again (wow that feels good to say, and at the same time makes me sad that it feels good to say but whatever. i need to work on my ego a bit.) so anyway, i will be happy playing 200nl for a bit and really concentrating on building up a live roll to be a reg in the 5/5 and eventually 10/10 game down in oceanside (there are other games around i will play, but that is just the most easily excessible game). honestly, if i put in the volume i can take out a 2/3 roll in less than a month and then grinding that up shouldn't be that hard as long as i can keep my patience/concentration live (something i need to work on).
as far as online, like i said i'm happy with 1/2 for now. if i absolutely crush (which i doubt will happen for a bit) i would consider moving up somewhat quickly, but i think i'd rather take on the challenge of climbing the ladder live than online past these limits. i really don't think jumping into the 5/5 is going to be difficult at all either, nor do i really think building up to the 10/10 is going to be (although i think i will be a bit intimidated when i take shots at 10/10 ... but that will be a few months down the road).
so yea, those are my goals. run good at 200nl online, take out a nice live roll, build it up. going to play a little 200nl before i go out tonight. wish me luck!
this is mostly going to be a goals post and a what's going on. i could find hands to review, but i don't want to. i'm not a good person.
before i start i actually just want to say something real quick. i'm in a semi-annoyed mood (you'll find out why below) so i decided to look up how long it's been since i went broke online to cheer me up.
my current bankroll started off a $20 transfer from my friends uncle on stars. he plays 2/4 3/6 LHE i think. anyway, i took down a 2 dollar MTT for ~560 dollars. the next day i took down a 4.40 180 man for whatever that is, just under 300 i think. i then transfered that money over to FT to get rakeback, and the rest is history. that was in june of 2007. i'll admit i did deposit 500 a few months after that to increase my roll so i could jump into 50nl more comfortably, but never because i went broke. i should be pretty proud that i've had enough self control to keep a roll going for over 2 years online where it's very easy to just say 'fuck it' one night and play way over your head and we all know that never ends well (and trust me, there were a few nights when i thought the 5/10 games were soft ...).
first off, I RUN LIKE SHIT LIVE. you hear people whine online about how they never take beats live and everything goes perfectly at the casino but online is rigged. well fuck that, live is rigged. RIGGED! after 25.5 hours i'm down 6BI's. i'd say that's just under 800 hands. 2-3 of the BI's were definetely bad bluffs/tilty dumb shit, but the other half was cooler. not a huge deal, just annoying because i'm going to vegas in 2 days and know i have like 300 dollars to play with there (which i haven't decided if i'm going to play the 1 BI and see how i do or just save it and not be a degen).
my goal is to start building up a live roll as well, starting at the 2/3 down in oceanside though. my roll online just hit 4k (4.2k me thinks, don't quite remember from last night) so i can take a 200nl shot. hopefully that goes well and i can be a 200nl reg again (wow that feels good to say, and at the same time makes me sad that it feels good to say but whatever. i need to work on my ego a bit.) so anyway, i will be happy playing 200nl for a bit and really concentrating on building up a live roll to be a reg in the 5/5 and eventually 10/10 game down in oceanside (there are other games around i will play, but that is just the most easily excessible game). honestly, if i put in the volume i can take out a 2/3 roll in less than a month and then grinding that up shouldn't be that hard as long as i can keep my patience/concentration live (something i need to work on).
as far as online, like i said i'm happy with 1/2 for now. if i absolutely crush (which i doubt will happen for a bit) i would consider moving up somewhat quickly, but i think i'd rather take on the challenge of climbing the ladder live than online past these limits. i really don't think jumping into the 5/5 is going to be difficult at all either, nor do i really think building up to the 10/10 is going to be (although i think i will be a bit intimidated when i take shots at 10/10 ... but that will be a few months down the road).
so yea, those are my goals. run good at 200nl online, take out a nice live roll, build it up. going to play a little 200nl before i go out tonight. wish me luck!
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