The New FTP update is the absolute nuts. Evidence of this :

Had a good day today! Won 8.5 BI at 3/6 off a reg and dropped a bit at 2/4 and 10/20lhe. If not for PLO id be up a good amount this month!



Be good

Whats up guys

My new video is up. Hopefully all the micro guys out there get a lot out of it. Its a live play video, which was fun to make




Thats my "lifetime" at HU LHE mostly 5/10 and 10/20(and nothing above). Goddamn have I run hot, but at the same time check out that red line! The players are really terrible. I wouldnt be surprised if a really good p-layer could get 1$/hand at 10/20 easily, maybe not even multitabling


Thats it for now, got nothing else to really say except I am over halfway done with Fooled by Randomness and I am liking it more and more. I also finished the intelligent investor. Ill probably read it many more times, but it was a really enjoyable read for an aspiring investor like me

Im out

I've kind of fallen off in updating this blog which sucks. I am going to try to update it a bit more frequently this summer.

Not a lot going on atm. I finished my spring quarter this past wednesday, and have another week from today off until I have to return to summer school. Ill have 12 weeks and 5 classes and then I am totally done with school!

Poker wise Ive played like 2-3k hands this month, 2 HU sessions vs 2 different friends, and 2 100nl 6max sessions in attempt to make a video. Both attempts have failed miserably. The first one I tried to record the audio after and camtasia crashed twice after I finished the audio, wasting 2 hours. The second one, the audio did not record(was doing a live play). FML. I will get it right sometime this week

Ive been kinda kicking back pokerwise since school ended. For some reason I havent really felt like grinding at all, but Im starting to get the itch. Hopefully I can put in a solid 5-6k hands of HU this week.

My staking venture is going well. It started off pretty poor with both of my stakes running horridly, but they both have made really nice comebacks. I also have 3% of a friend in 75k worth of events, and 15% of another friend in the ME. I am also beginning to coach quite a bit which is nice.

Ive been doing quite a bit of recreational reading lately. I am nearly finished with the Intelligent Investor, and have begun reading Storage and Stability which is also by Benjamin Graham. The first is an investing book which is supposed to be the bible for value investors, and I have enjoyed it very much. I dont know a lot about investing or speculation, but value investing seems to make by far the most sense for most people including myself.

Storage and Stability is an economic theory book written in the late 1930s in the post depression era. I would guess not a lot of people would find it interesting, but Ive always been very interested in economics and economic theory. In fact I was an econ major for 2 years before I switched to history.

I also just started reading Fooled By Randomness. It seems good so far, and likely a book that about 98% of the public should read, although it seems less useful to poker players since we are accustomed with the concept of variance and the like

I really enjoy reading a lot, although I like doing it only on my own terms. I generally feel very restrained by the texts I have to read for my history courses, as they are often very poor choices imo. I really look forward to exploring different areas that interest me after I graduate. As is now, with 500 pages of reading a week usually, I dont have the energy to read stuff on my own while I am in school

So this is basically a may wrap up, and also an oppurtunity for me to complain about school

If you want to see my may stats check out my last blog entry. I played about 200 hands since than, and won like 700$, so not gonna post another graph that is the same thing

School is kicking my ass I have 2 10 page papers due this week, which requires something around 1,000 pages of reading to complete. On the bright side, I only have 1 final, because the 2 papers serve as finals. My only final is on Monday, and then Ill have 1 week off before summer school starts. 12 weeks of summer school(5 courses, 20 units) and I'll have enough upper division units to graduate! Everything else on my transcript is completed except upper division units.

I spent the week at my parents house which was fun. Was harder to get work done than I thought tho which has set me behind a bit. They just got a new puppy named Molly. She was a lot of fun to play with, although she likes to chew on everything, including hands, feet, toes, and clothes




In other news, I broke my microphone. It was plugged into my PC and I was rolling around in my chair, and it grabbed the chord and ripped it out of the usb socket, splitting the connecting part in two. So I have to buy a new mic b4 I make any more vids

Allllllllllright, got to get to work I guess.

Later

Havent blogged in a while. I was super busy with school for a week or so and didnt play much poker. Now Ive got 2 10 page papers coming up, as well as a couple other small assignments, and 1 final.

Also on the horizon... graduation! I decided to just take both sessions of summer school and graduate at the end of september. I AM SO STOKED TO FINISH SCHOOL. Good god I hate school.

Anyways this month pokerwise has been interesting. Holdem has been fantastic.. Plo not so much. Will post screenshots below. One thing I finally realized this month is that one of the most detrimental things to my results is playing poker when I have other obligations. I have thought about this before, but never really applied it much. However, pretty consistently, whenever I should be doing school work, or something else important, and instead choose to play poker, I pretty consistently lose. I think it has a lot to do with whats going on in my subconscious, being preoccupied and all.

So, thats my new goal, is to not play poker when I knw I should be doing something else. Even just taking a poker break never works out because I am not concentrated

Anyways, heres the screenshots

Holdem :



PLO:



-Danny

Well, today was a pretty bad day. I played a morning session of about 600 hands, all HU and 6max plo. I think I played too many tables, played poorly, and ran poorly, which led to a subsequent 4k loss.

I am happy though, that none of my bad play was due to tilt, simply just making poor decisions, partially a function of playing too many tables right form the get go, partly form not having played much plo in the last 10 days.

These days my mindset/mood rarely changes during a session good or bad, which is an extremely good thing. About a year to 18 months ago I went through a period where I would actually get upset about a losing session. This was incredibly out of character for me. Ive always been the most even tempered person I know, at times to my detriment in certain social situations. I am really happy that that phase or whatever you want to call it has passed, and the way I deal with negative results in poker is similar to how I have always dealt with negative results

Beyond the poker trouble today, I also apparently forgot to do an assignment for one of my classes. It was a pretty small assignment, more of a turn it in and you get credit sort of thing, but it was annoying to completely forget like that. I think my professor is going to give me full credit for turning it in later today though.

I finally got through all the staking applications, and picked the 2 people I want to offer the stake to. Hopefully it all works out well for everyone involved. As I wrote in the pms I sent to those who I didnt pick, I will most likely be doing more of these sort of staking/coaching deals in the future, and possibly for higher stakes, so keep your eyes open if thats something you'd be interested in.

Finally, the season finale of LOST was on tonight. I thought it was a really cool episode, although some of the dialogue was LOL bad. I kept finding myself laughing when some of the emo/relationship dialogue between Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet was going on. That whole love "Square" got pretty weird and hilarious as the season went on I thought. But maybe Im just a cynic.

thats all for now folks

-Danny

Whats up guys

Just played a really long and really good session. I played and ran poorly for the first half or so of it, but played a lot better towards the end, and ran really good as well. Here was the damage. Its 900 hands of 3/6 6max, 600 hands of 3/6 HU, 600 hands of 2/4 6max, and 130 hands of 2/4 HU, all no limit holdem




Also heres a cool hand I played vs SA3. I def run into a flush here sometimes, but I think my line puts him into a real tough decision with a set even if he knew my exact range. I wonder if he had AsJx if that would be an easier call than a set, since a lot of my flush combos are gone. Would be cool to figure that out

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $6(BB) Replayer
SB ($636)
BB ($1,245)
UTG ($1,200)
Hero ($1,301)
BTN ($618)

Dealt to Hero QK

Hero raises to $18, fold, fold, BB calls $12,

FLOP ($39) JT8

BB bets $30, Hero calls $30,

TURN ($99) JT82

BB bets $72, Hero raises to $235, BB calls $163,

RIVER ($569) JT826

check, Hero bets $1,018 (AI), BB folds,

Hero shows QK

Hero wins $567



As far as the staking, Ive gotten a bunch of great replies/interest. Im going to decide on the two people I want to offer the stake to in the next couple days. Sorry it isnt going to be sooner those of you that applied, but Im pretty busy with a variety of stuff right now. Im pretty excited to stake some people, and hopefully help them move up. I obviously want to make money from doing the staking, but it definitely feels good to help people out in something like this. About a year, year and a half ago someone put a lot of faith in me when I was really struggling with poker, and it made all the difference in my game and mental outlook. Not that everyone who applied is struggling, in fact some are doing quite good by themselves, but want coaching, which I think is great.

Anyways, that was quite a ramble! Thanks for reading

-Danny

Hey guys,

I have decided to offer 2 staking-coaching deals for 100nl HU on Full Tilt Poker.

The basic premise of this deal will be that I will stake you for 100nl HU. I will also give you private 1 on 1 coaching for the duration of the stake. The length of the stake, the % of profits we each get, and other terms will depend on each individual. All terms of the stake will be set before any hands are played or any coaching is given.

I think the players that will benefit the most from this offer will be players playing 50nl HU as their regular game, who are looking to improve their game and move up, 100nl HU players who are breaking even or only winning a little bit and want coaching, but dont have the money to pay for it, or 100/200nl 6max players who are winners, but would like to learn HUNL for more options as they move into MSNL.


What I will need from you right away

1. You need to have some sort of reputation in the poker community, either on Leggo, or 2p2. If you have a join date of 2003 on 2p2 and only have 4 posts, you are out of luck

2. A paragraph on why you would like a stake, or why you need a stake. It doesnt have to be super long, but shouldnt be 1 sentence either

3. Screenshots of Holdem manager/PT3 reports tab of your last 50k hands of No limit Holdem. If you have never played HU before, thats ok, take a screenshot of your 6max stats. The stats I would like to see are VPIP/PFR, 3bet %, Fold to 3bet %, Flop cbet %, WWSF, WTSD %, Won without showdown and if your stats are for HUNL, Id also like to see positional vpip/pfr stats. You can do this by going to the position report in the reports tab of holdem manager.

4. Screenshots of a graph of your last 50k hands of NL

Stuff I will need from you eventually

If I decide that I think you will be a good person to stake, before the stake officially begins I will need the following from you. The reason I am listing these out now is so that there are no surprises later on

1. 45 minute video of you playing 2 tables of HUNL at whatever stakes you want. If you dont have camtasia, you can get a free 30 day trial. This video will likely be used for our first coaching session, but is also helpful for me to get an idea of how you play.

2. You will have to send me, via email, your home address, and a copy of your drivers license


Stuff we will have to discuss individually

1. How many hands are to be played for the stake
2. How often we will have a coaching session
3. Exactly how winnings and rakeback will be divided


There will be some other stuff we will have to discuss if we enter an arrangement, but it is all relatively minor. If this sounds like something you are interested in then PM me. If you have any questions or need clarification on something you can PM me or post a comment on this blog

-Danny