Went to the gym today with erick we did some weights i am sooo weak sauce lol. But i'm going to start going everyday or every other. Its the 2nd time i went this week so I'm pretty proud .

After the gym we went to santana rowe to plutos for a salad it was good and pretty cheap. It was suprising i thought everything there is hella expensive.

Then i mentioned my 21st bday is on the 29th during lunch and we thought about a few places to hold it. In the end we drove to the cypress and reserved two suits one for him and one for me. It was pretty funny we were in our gym cloths all tired and the lady at the front was super nice she showed us like 5 rooms and we picked the nicest suites on the corners to keep the noise down. We got the suite across from ours to make sure no rooms were touching ours so we wouldnt get blown up. Can't wait to get super faded with all my hs buddies and pass out.

So pokers been going pretty good i played 9max and hu yesterday and won a good amount. I remeber that at 9max i was pulling in like 600-1000 a day. So i'm going to play a lot of 9max hu and 6max. I think limiting myself to 1 is gay. I'm awsome at everything so might as well do it all. The key is to not do more than 16 tables cuz then i learn bad habits. 9 tables i am still thinkin hard and not auto piloting.

gl everyone at the tables cya

Timoshi

well i played dtd 75 freeze and after nicely chipping up early found myself three bettin with all kinds of trash and making more chips against nits. then after ive been uncovered as a little thievin ****er i manage to find aces twice and ship the stacks of fellow opponents(all the 10 4 repopping plays pay off.) then i double loads of shorties thru in flips as is customary with a big stack.then move table and watch people donate chips so i sit tight and wait for my share. make final table from 84 runners as a shortie and before i get my chips in im 6handed and sucking out when dominated but hey u gotta be crushed at some point to win in any tourney its just seems.
so anyway i knock maria demetrio out probly mispelt it and i pissed dave smith of but thats all fun and games. anyway always good to win a toureny so 1760 in the uk pounds helps with the vegas fund whoo hoo. i tipped 60 quid and it felt really dirty i hate tipping its deffo against my religion.

salfi123

So i just finished up my first 100k hands at 50nl this year with great success. Most of it 8 tabling with a little 12 tabling mixed in towards the end when I didn’t feel the need to browse the internet, aim or have any other distractions.


Sadly, I haven’t had the same success at 100nl as I'm down $1k over 50k hands this year, But I've been doing much better recently and will continue playing 100nl baring a ~10 buy in downswing which has happened before. Around 2 weeks ago I was in the exact situation, move up to 100nl, do well, and then I dropped about $1k real fast and had to move back to 50nl to rebuild. I have hope though as I struggled trying to transition to 50nl too at first but once i "got it" I've been crushing.

I have 43k VPPs right now which is a pretty good pace considering I started the year with $500. I'm earning .33vpp/hand compared to .22vpp/hand at 50nl so that is a nice increase and i should be hitting supernova in may. From there I plan to play a lot more over the summer and hit 300k vpps which would be 950k fpps ~ $14250 and a $2000 and $3000 milestone bonus (which cost 50k fpps each to buy) so thats another $3500 or so. So my goal in $18k in ******** this year which would be more than enough, and god forbid I actually figure out how to win at this game this year has great potential. 400k VPPs and another $9k in value is not out of the question if I can move up to 200nl this summer.

bantam222

I can’t quite believe what’s just happened to me. I’ve lost $30,000 now in 3 days. WHAT THE ****…??? How does that happen? That’s like nearly $50,000 AUD. That’s like more than a yearly wage for a lot of people. I could buy a decent car, an awesome holiday, heck I could probably feed a freaking African village for a year…

I remember two years ago when I was a 50NL player I’d gawk at the blogs of the CardRunners pros who’d swing up and down $100,000 in a session. I’m not quite at that level yet obviously, but I still remember thinking how ludicrous and upsetting it would be if anything like that happened to me… Now that it has, I know I should probably be telling myself ‘don’t worry Joey it’s completely normal, happens to everyone, just standard variance’ but believe it or not (sarcasm) that really doesn’t make me feel better.

I lost 8 out of 10 races today. Of the ones I won, one was only for $1000 total. Of the ones I lost two were for pots greater than $8000. In all I ran $15,000 below-EV in the last 3 days. The funny thing is though (and I agree you’re going to find this hard to believe), I really don’t care how much I lost. Yes, $30,000 definitely hurts, but what really hurts me more is the stupid little things: the fact that my PTBB/100 is now much worse, the fact that I’m not going to be able to string together five $20,000+ months in a row anymore, the fact that my goal to make 100 buy-ins at 5/10 and ‘graduate’ from it will now take much longer. I know that these are all stupid little things that I shouldn’t really care about, but I do; they are what drive me as a cash game player. Unfortunately, they are also what make downswings hurt the most. I’m also sure a lot of poker players can relate to me when I say that whenever I fall significantly below a previous peak, I never feel quite right until I get back there. And that’s why this downswing is going to be so annoying; it’s going to take a hell of a long time to get it back, and I won’t be relieved until I do. Now it’s obviously terrible and quite sad to live your daily life slightly under the weather until you re-reach a completely artificial barrier that you’ve set for yourself, but that’s really how it feels and it’s hard to feel otherwise.

Part of the problem though I think, and this is something that I realised quite a while ago, is this blog! I started this blog one year ago because I wanted to hold myself accountable for my play, to stop myself from ever tilting away an entire bankroll again like I did in late 2007. I figured that if I had to publish my poker results at the end of every month, I’d be less inclined to tilt and would practice more discipline since otherwise I’d have to embarrass myself by publishing a losing month. What’s happened though is that I’ve gone too far the other way. I’m too obsessed with having good months, with publishing winning months, with bettering previous months. I’ve often stopped playing in order to ‘lock-in’ another good month for my blog, yet chased until midnight on the 31st in order to do the same. I like setting goals and showing that I’ve reached them, I like publishing good $/hr figures, good PTBB/100 figures, and pretty graphs that trend upwards. In short, I don’t treat poker in the way that it should be treated; as one long session. Instead, I treat it as a bunch of monthly snapshots where each snapshot must do its best to be better than the last. If it’s not, then insane chasing and a perpetual nagging feeling inevitably results. This isn’t how it should be.

What I’ve decided to do therefore is two-fold. First, I’m going to stop publishing my monthly results and graphs. I’m not going to mention how much I made in any given session, week or month. I’ll only do a yearly review at the end of December. Hopefully this will help me to treat poker as a long-term thing rather than rushing at the start of each month to get in hands and meet a dollar quota. This should also help me to relieve the pressure that I put on myself. I found that after putting together a string of solid winning months the last thing that I wanted to happen was for that streak to break. But since I also wanted each month to be better than the last, it became harder and harder for me to maintain the streak and since there were only so many hours in a month that I could play I found myself not only chasing but chasing in a mad rush, chasing under pressure. This I’m sure contributed to some bad plays on my part and when combined with running bad can prove lethal.

Secondly, I’m not going to look at my session results in HEM until Sunday night when I make my weekly cash-out (in order to see how much I can afford to cash out). Hopefully this will help me to focus only on the hands that I’m playing and not on all the money I just lost in the last 1000 hands I played. I tried this tactic for a little while last year in order to stop myself from chasing and rushing to win my money back but soon realised that it was pretty much impossible since I needed to constantly check my results to a) see if I could move up and b) publish my results in this blog. Since both those considerations are now largely gone, I think I’ll have a much better chance of sticking to that goal.

The worry of course is that without my monthly reports holding me accountable I’ll once again go on wild tilt some day and bust my entire roll. However I really don’t think that’s an issue anymore. I honestly only swore once today and it was barely in anger. I surprised even myself. Backtrack one and a half years ago and I probably would’ve slain a cat. The difference between now and then I think is that I really don’t feel like I have much to prove anymore, either to myself or to anyone else. Part of the reason I got so pissed off when losing in late 2007 was that I knew I was better than like 90% of 200NL players yet I was losing everywhere, often due to bad beats by bad players. Nowadays, with a decent track record behind me, I know that on the whole I’ve had it pretty good.

So then, without poker reports, what on Earth will this blog be about? Well, I’ll still post about significant milestones such as moving up stakes or winning a large tournament, and I’ll still post about goals I set for myself (I just won’t track them!). I’ll also continue to do live tournament trip reports since I really enjoy writing them up. To fill the void of my usual “I made/lost $X this week” posts though, I think I’ll write more on poker strategy and poker theory and things that I’ve been thinking about and toying with and working on. I’ve done a few of these posts in the past and have enjoyed writing them and they generally have been pretty well received. The only thing that has stopped me from doing more of them is that they actually require a deceptive amount of effort to write, a hell of a lot more than simply pasting a graph and writing a couple of lines about how I ran well or didn’t!

Anyway, I think that’s enough reflective rambling for one day. I’m now going to cash out down to the nearest $10,000 and mentally set that number as my zero mark. I’m going to reset my filter in HEM so that today is zero and tomorrow is what I make it. I’m going to win that $30,000 back and more.

I’ll let you know how I went in December…

jcl87

I'm just gonna hit the ground running with this and do introductions later if there is interest! (there might be)

Life stuff: Last couple days I've just been watching college games at different friend's places, I've been tearing it up in my brackets so far but that really means nothing right now. But I am the only decent looking bracket that picked Pitt to win it all so I'll be sweating them all the way.

I started working out again last week and hopefully writing about it will help me stick with it for the rest of my life this time. I really want to be one of those people that stays looking healthy their whole life.


Poker stuff: I currently play 200nl(12bb/100 since I started in january, but I can only 4-6 table :| i know! i suck at multitasking! ) with some fun tourneys to try and force cash volume on the side. Took another shot at 400nl yesterday, lost 2.5 bi but I was still happy at the end of the session. It seems to have a lot of the same regulars as 200nl who I am very comfortable with their games, and feel +ev against, a long with the same mixtures of fish and awesome shortstackers. My plan for the weekend/march is to play more and put a lot of the profit (hopefully) towards as many SCOOP events as I can.

Peace!

Bondosu

LT22

ran sh1t all day really bad tardy plays and just ran hand into morons in all decent equity pots ive played. lost all flips etc etc etc . no more rant i decided trip to dtd to play the 75 wil cheer me up . im stcuk for 4th session in a row . thats a sick rush of cold deck stuff against the morons who sit beside me on stars. anyway. il leave the donktards alone i know there feeding my dirty poker habbit so i shudbe grateful wen they hit occasionally i guess it keeps em coming back for more.




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salfi123

I finally reached platinum star this morning, and I lost 4BIs in the process. I'm down 7 BIs over the last couple days, so I'm now approaching another break even month. How ****ing awesome.

I was brought to pokertableratings yesterday and I can't believe how successful some of hte shortstackers are. I have thought they were all fish but little did I know , they were hauling in some serious cash. Sure, they're playing a few hundred K hands, but they're still making monies. It's something for me to think about I guess.

Thanks for reading.

lambo

Okay, so. What. The. ****.

I go to K (I'll call her K because I'm nice but I should say .. whore?)'s house earlier today to hang out and her cute friend Emily and hot 16yo sister are there. Life is amazing. I got home and was talking to PJo and my roommates about how life is cool, and K calls me and says PJo and I should come back to the bars in Toledo with her and Emily. So after the Michigan game (LOL **** YOU BEVILL), we get around and head there.

Arriving in Toledo 15 mins late, they're still not ready, and don't get ready til about midnight. I stop at Brooke's and see Chloe for like an hour, and then get dinner and a beer for PJo and they say they're ready finally. We drive there and are chillin and everything's awesome. They show us their corsets and their bras and whatnot and we're on cloud nine. It's so sweet and we're basically thinking we're getting laid tonight. I'm the designated driver so I take E's BMW and drive it to the bar.

We roll out to this Ryno bar that is the exact opposite of the Rhino in Vegas... a ****ing hole in the wall piece of **** bar with 30 people, 26 guys and 2 other girls besides K and E. They flirt with like everyone and start making out with each other and we're like, whatevs, we got a hotel room with them tonight and they're all ours. Oh boy were they not.

After the bars closed down, the night began. We go to this after-party thing and there's no one there so we go to this ripped Air Force dude's house and we're real glad he's not an enemy cause dude is BIG. Like 6'5, 260 and cut like crazy. There are probably 10 of the sleazeball guys, three other girls and K, E and me and PJo. The three other girls bounce and K and E start making out and being sluts.

We just chill for a while and like 4am rolls around and the people at the house were saying we all had to leave because they had to lift at like 9am (lol). So K and E go to the bathroom and this skinny-ass pale nerd tells us we need to get the **** out. We are like "are you serious? the girls are in the bathroom, just wait like 45 seconds" and the dude starts pushing me tryin to get me out the door, I tell him to just hold the **** on and he punches me in the stomach and the Air Force dude tells us to get outside.. we gladly oblige cause dude is ****in huge.

So I have E's keys to her car and we're standing outside wondering what the **** to do, and she calls me and says get back up to the apartment with her keys and in the background I hear one of the dudes say "those mother****ers can WALK to their car". I tell PJo we're going. We start to drive off in E's car... not knowing where we're going. We know we turned a lot of times, but other than that we have no idea. Here's a visual of where we stopped and called Brad (bknollenberg) because we were lost and needed directions compared to where my Z was:



So Brad decides he needs a cigarette and I decide **** him I'm driving. I eventually find the road I need and remember some of the landmarks. I get to that diagonal road close to where my car is and I pass a cop going 10 over the speed limit. He doesn't turn around.. whew. I get to the road before we turn to get to my car and pass another cop... he stops us. We get turned onto the road where my car is -- I can physically see my car -- and we do the whole "getting pulled over" thing.

I can see so many things going wrong.. they reported the car stolen, the cop wonders why we have the car, the lack of an insurance card ****s us over, the Air Force dudes are at K's house just waiting for us to pull up.. the possibilities were endless. So I tell the cop I'm taking E's car back to K's house because she's passed out drunk at some dude's party and I need to get back to my car. He says he just gave my Z a warning because I parked illegally and asked if I know the speed limit and all that bull****, I tell him no, and he gives me a warning. Yay, two warnings in one night, ship that!

So I get back to K's driveway, put her keys on the seat and drive away in the Z. It's 6am and I'm wired and was scared for our lives, and I am pretty sure I've never had so much fun.

I PJo.

thac

Last 3 days were pretty brutal. The 17th was a 3.5k loss which cancelled my winnings for the month, making me feel miserable, again, then made a great comeback the next 2 days. The site is quite fishy these days, guess that also helped to the upswing, not only my awesome poker abilities..

I'm also in the process of hiring a coach, talked to some last month, they were all available but unfortunately didn't took the last step, I kept lying to myself maybe I didn't need one. So this is my objective for the next month. Last week I purchased a 50k video database review from a coaching site, and found it very helpful, was able to identify a handful of leaks, which is always a good thing.

I hope I'll also be able to log 20k more hands till the end of the month, so I can reach 60k. To be noted that I'm not able to play on week-ends, the most fishy days of the month, as my girl is from another city and we spend those together.. Oh well, can't really complain with week days either, don't know why but it seems the recession doesn't affect the fish.

Below the graph with the last 3 days swing, lots under ev ofc, for the month I'm at +10k, bonuses included, not a great winning rate, but that's why I'm getting a coach for. Was also thinking about having sweat sessions with other players at my stakes (400-600NL) over mikogo and skpe or maybe exchange recorded videos of our sessions. Please let me know if any of you is interested in this.

Cheers.

plzchazemynutzz