I played in the leggo micro member vid last night and had a TON of fun. Details and results and such can be found in this thread http://www.leggopoker.com/forums/mic...read-7122.html. I'm really excited to see the video cause I was so preoccupied on my hands I missed a ton of other action. I'm not really sure how I'm gonna come out looking. I was one of the big winners but I ran pretty well. I showed a ton of bluffs from what I can remember which should be cool. I also did a few things I'm really not happy with, I tried bluffing the wrong ppl in the wrong spots a couple times. I think overall I did ok, I guess I'll see what kinda feedback I get from Probability's audio commentary and the forum static. I'm not going to put all my stock in it though as the game was insanely aggro and I would almost never play like that unless I was drunk or something, even then probably not, cause most my plays were thought out to some extent. My basic gameplan going in, was I knew certain ppl would most likely play tighter than the others and kinda tried to just steal from them. And I expected certain others to be very aggro and I tried to play back at them in small pots and just play straight forward in the big one's against them. I don't wanna say who I thought would do what, but my reads were actually pretty solid, it's just too bad I didn't really stick to my gameplan. For the most part I did well but def some spots I made mistakes in and didn't think all the way through. I did adjust and snug up a bit toward the end as just about everyone was a spewtard (no offense anyone who played, I mean it in a nice way).

After the vid I was so jazzed up about my run good victory combined w/ it being incredibly hot in my house, I couldn't sleep. I ended up going to sleep somewhere around 1a which isn't fun when u have to wake at 5a and go to work for 10hrs+. I was pretty slow in the morning but I powered through and feel decent now. I'm probably still gonna try to get to bed at a decent time tonight though cause I'm in the mood to grind later this week and wanna be fresh.

Saturday is the 10k freeroll for Ironman so hopefully I run good in that and take down some extra cash. First place is like 1k or something. I do terrible in mtt's so i'm not expecting much. Just hoping to recover my losses for the month which was actually like 200 so I'm gonna have to make the final table. July was pretty bad to me, I had to move down to 10nl which I wasn't too thrilled about, but something I gotta do if I ever want to have good bankroll management. I'm still floating round even since dropping down but looking to explode in an upswing soon. Also, I got my check from Player's Only finally so I'm deciding what to do w/ that. Still torn between saving it for Vegas or something, or throwing onto Poker Stars.

Well that's it for now gl for the rest of the week and I'll cy'all around the forums and such.

I really didn't play much this week. I've been working a bit of overtime and just been doin other things that have preoccupied me. I still studied a lot though which was good just didn't get a lot of chances to play. I've been going back and forth for a while now on what my next move in poker is going to be. Do I want to continue to play 6max where I've been breaking even and don't feel like I can get anything going? Do I want to start playing HU which is probably one of my favorite things to do? Do I want to focus on PLO which is another one of my favorite things to play? I've also considered redepositing on PS and rolling myself for 25NL again, or depositing even more on FT and rolling myself for either 25NL or HU 50nl. I kinda decided not to do that for the time being and am just going to play it out. If anything i may just put another 200 on FT so i can play 25nl again comfortably, but i really don't see the point unless i was trying to make ironman again which i already discussed i won't do for a while. I'm still kinda undecided at the moment and will probably just play whatever I feel like at the time. I still wanna stay fresh in NLH but really like PLO a lot and feel like I could get a significant edge there in a hurry, if I put in the amount of hrs that i did when i tried to get good at 6max NLH. I think for right now poker (esp PLO) is becoming fun for me again and I'm not going to try and push anything. I have that 100d bonus promotion on FT but I don't think i'm really gonna go after it that much, cause like ironman, it will just push me to play when i really shouldn't.

That's it for now gl at the tables and in life everyone!

I went out drinking last night for the first time in while. I really don't drink much anymore usually b/c I don't like being hungover. I had a good time just going to some local bars here in Woodstock and now today I'm hungover. I feel like such crap, I actually just threw up not too long ago. So I probably won't be drinking anytime soon after this experience.

My internet has been down at home for almost a week and won't be up for another couple days. I've just been chilling at my friends house the last few days playing poker while a bunch of random ppl I don't know walk by and put in there two cents about poker. It's amazing how stupid ppl are and how blind they are to poker being a game of skill. Even as I sat there owning ppl and explaining how I owned them they were still not sold. It's really no use I guess, some ppl are just too stubborn and ignorant to change there mind. I guess it would help if I had a nice graph showing how much I've won, but my graphs are generally pretty embarrassing and I really don't like sharing my poker stuff outside the poker community anyway. I usually try to not even talk about poker at all b/c most my "friends" think I'm some degenerate as it is.

In poker news, I'm just one day away from making Iron Man for July on FT. That was one of the goals I had for this month so it'll be nice to achieve something. I'm down again this month and don't really see coming back unless I go on a ridiculous run.

Well I'm gonna try and shake off this hangover so I'll update everyone on my boring life later. Peace!

Well I found out today that I am keeping my job at Snap-on tools. I guess this is a good thing. They were moving us to Kenosha, WI from Crystal Lake, IL... Kenosha is about 1.5 hrs from my house and I told them I wouldn't be going if they went up there. Perhaps if I was some big executive or even made some decent cash, but i'm just a labor lackey at the bottom of the totem pole. Anyways, they found a position for me in Crystal Lake still which is nice. I was looking forward to some time off of work to focus on poker for several months and then go back to school in the spring if nothing panned out. However, a job these days is hard to come by and now I can save more money for when I do decide to go to school full time. Also, money would've been a lot tighter had I not found a job so I guess in the long run this is a +EV move.

I've been playing/studying poker very hard now for two months and have definitely seen some improvement. I'm still a break even player but I think that's a lil better than I was before and I also think I'm not too far away from crushing! I am a little frustrated with poker right now, you can reference previous blogs, cause I've just been falling in the same pattern of winning steadily and losing it all back quickly. I'm trying to work on some ways of fixing this problem and I think most of it has little to do with my actual game.

My game overall is solid, I'm sure, I know I have some leaks still but I've reviewed been sweated and had other ppl review my HH and it seems to be the general consensus that I play decent enough. I think the real problem lies in my lack of control when I run bad. If I run bad I generally spew and tilt, leading to an even larger downswing. I suppose I need to implement some rules to help control these downswings and prevent them from keeping me a break even player and make me a winner. I know also that I need to work on my game as well and will continue to do so.

I'm probably going to take a lil break from being a hardcore poker junkie b/c I've found my quality of life has plummeted. I seem to get depressed easily now and that's something I never used to do. I think if I go back to having poker just a big part of my life, instead of my whole life, this will also help limit my tilt b/c I seem to be much more happy when I only play 5-10hrs/week instead of 15+. Honestly if I wasn't working it would've been 60-70+.

Anyways, this is yet another long ass blog and sorry again if your reading this, but sometimes I can just type forever. I'm a lil under the weather right now and think i'm gonna watch some tv and go to bed. I wish everyone gl this weekend and I'll see you at the tables(but not as much).

So I don't what the deal is at FT, I keep just gaining back my confidence and then I just get coolered and beat down. I'll have a couple days in a row where i win a couple buy ins and then one or two nights of just awful coolers and beats. And then I have a bunch of break even sessions that shoulda been huge wins but again just got beat down. Today was a good day, only played like 1-1.5 hrs and won like 3+ BI. But somehow i just get the feeling that i've read this story before. In fact just last wknd this happened and I went on to have a horrendous week. I'm not sure what the deal is but I'm kinda sick of just breaking even, I've put a ton of work into my game and feel like it's come a long way and just don't understand how i'm not crushing the donks. I'm going to continue to work hard on my game, it's something i didn't do a great job of this week but it's time to get back on track. Hopefully I'll look back on this time of my "career" and laugh thinking of how little I knew... which I often do just about every 6 months.

I'm still planning on learning omaha more, i'm still a huge donk at that game but am way +ev against pretty much any random ppl on playing. Against regs or good plrs i get owned but honestly I've played bout 10+ hrs this week and maybe saw 5 ppl who had any game at all. It's just soooo soft.

Well I was gonna play more poker today but I had two mini sessions that went very well and i don't want to shake my confidence at all by having a losing session so I'm just going to "quit while i'm ahead" and play some tomorrow w/ hopefully similar results. I'm actually going to be going to a UFC 100 party tonight so I'm pretty stoked. I really don't like Lesnar, although he's getting a lot better at martial arts rather than just being a fn huge gorilla unfair freak of nature. But still he's not there yet and don't think he deserves to win in the UFC cause I like the complete fighter. I'm almost more excited to watch the GSP Thiago Alves fight, i'm a huge GSP fan and love watching him fight cause he's not a big guy but just owns every opponent he faces. And being from the U.S I want Henderson to smash Bipsings face in for talking so much crap.

Alright then, still 2 hrs til party time, guess i'll review some HH or something. Gl to everyone(when i say everyone, i mean every leggo member, not just every single person) grinding this wknd, and also everyone(every leggo coach/ member) left in the WSOP ME!

So I was clowning around w/ Maximus13 yesterday and we decided to play some PLO 5d BI. He had been playing a lil and talking bout how soft the games were and thought i'd give it a try. I really don't know much bout PLO used to play very lil back in the day when i got sick of Hold'em. For the most part think I started off running well and winnning and ended up prolly a slight winner. Either way that was like over 1.5 yrs ago when I was even more of donk So we're playing and these games are soooooo juicy, i mean it's unreal how bad ppl are at PLO and I can even tell this knowing very little. I think all u have to do is nit up post flop and value town.

So basically I'm going to be spliting time between PLO and my normal game of 25NL 6 max. I feel like I've learned quite a bit bout micro NLE and just feel like i'm plateaued for a while. I know I still have a lot to learn but I think this site has really turned me into someone who can crush up to 50NL maybe even 100 or 200. (many thanks to Prob and Vitas for sweats and all other amazing threads/posts, and also quick shout out to Red Joker for awesome stats thread). All I really need to keep doin is keep playing hands there and still study some and my results should come... could be wrong there but think that coupled w/ a lil more patience/non tilting and I'll be good.

I'm starting to watch vids and post in the PLO forums and hope to get really good at PLO. This is a game I've heard for a while is soft and think it's time to jump on the bandwagon before it's too late. I feel like my NLE skills transfer pretty well and just need to learn some other differences. I'm a total noob and have much to learn yet but I think I could be a winning player at micro stakes in almost no time.... may already be judging by my first two sessions, but i do know it's super high variance so not gonna get cocky.

All that being said I prolly won't be as involved in the micro forums as I have been. Although I'll prolly still be one of the more active posters. I just won't comment on every single new thread i guess. I was posting there like 5+ times a day and now maybe only like 2.

Alright that's it for now I guess, I'm sure no one cares anyways and this is getting long again so sorry to waste your time if your still reading this.

Well I didn't grind quite all weekend but I ran well and regained some confidence. I actually started the weekend at 10NL and normally play 25NL. I've been on kinda downswing and was just tired of getting beat up. I quickly won bout 4BI at 10NL fri night only playin bout 1.5 hrs.

Saturday only played bout 2-2.5hrs total and won just over 2 BI at 25NL(after killing at 10NL prior night was feelin good again). Today was for sure my best day. I played 2hrs for afternoon happy hour on FT and won near 4BI just stacking donks left and right... honestly shoulda been more actually ran a lil under EV I think. I know I lost two huge pots when I got 4 and 5 outed on the river But I really can't complain too much cause I was able to compensate nicely.

I sweated marinus who is fairly new to leggo I think and is looking for some coaching/sweating... I'm really not qualified as a coach but definitely like sweating from time to time. It was a pretty good session, he just played 1 hr and we had some good discussion. I'm really loving the community here at leggo and am meeting some good people and making friends.

I just finished up another session lil bit ago during Late night happy hr at FT(i really like happy hr). It didn't start so good and kinda spewed a bit in some spots that were marginal at best. I may post some of them cause they may have been ok but def weren't great. I was able to refocus and after being down near 2BI I ended the session up near 2BI, after just 1.5hrs so that was nice.

So overall I think I was up like 6BI for the weekend or something, idk don't feel like doin math or pulling up my PT3 right now... come to think of it I think it was closer to like 10... sweet ship it! Either way it was nice to run decent this weekend and finally book a nice win. I've been waiting to make a decent score since moving up to 25NL 1 month ago. Prior to today my biggest win was like 2BI or something.

So this is getting a lil lengthy and I know how much I don't like reading lengthy things so I'll wrap it up. I don't have to work tomorrow so prolly play a few more hrs tomorrow(prolly during happy hr ). Think I'm gonna go to bed now it's round midnight here and I'm old so I'm getting tired.

Well it's the last day of June and I'm not planning on playing poker today so I suppose it's time for a monthly review. June pretty much sucked a fat one! It started out well and I was up near 5BI. I was just coasting through and then all the sudden I just got pounded by beats and coolers. I ended the month down near 6BI but at least have been weathering the storm. I'm glad this month is done with and am ready for a fresh mindset heading into July.

For July I think I'm going to try for Iron Man on FT. I've come close 2-3 times before but was always too busy or lost too much and got pissed half way through the month. I've always wanted to do it though just to say I did it. It shouldn't be too hard for me now cause I am playing a bit higher than I used to and would only have to play half the time I normally do. I would've hit it in June but was not playing on FT for the first 10 days or so. Another goal is obv to win! June broke a 3 month winning streak and I'm not happy about it. I need to get back to my winning ways.

Outside of poker I've actually ran pretty well. I went mini golfing w/ a bunch of ppl last weekend and won a free game for getting a hole in one on the 18th hole! Also, I ate lunch at Burger King today and was 3/3 in choosing correctly on those Transformer scratch off tickets. SHIP IT!

I've had yet another wknd of poker ruined by work. My boss told us Friday bout 2 hrs before we are supposed to leave that we had to come in Saturday(today). This really sucked cause I was looking forward to grinding Fri night and all day today. I just got back from work now and it's 2pm here. I have to go to grad party from 3-5ish so I won't be able to play til after that.

It may be for the best since I could use a little break cause I've been playing and studying non stop for the past month or so. My brain was pretty much fried this week and I made some forum posts that just look retarded to me now lol. Sometimes too much poker is bad, it's good to be that involved cause it accelerates learning but I think at a certain point it actually hurts more than it helps.

I did go and see Transformers 2 last night and I thought it was just as good if not better than the first. I really liked the first one and thought the fight scenes and general action in this one was far better. The plot was pretty much the same and some unnecessary boring parts but other than that it was good. And most importantly Megan Fox was still hot as hell

Alright, I'm going to review some hands and hang out in the forums for a little bit and then I'm off to a boring grad party

Well nothing has changed too much lately. I've still been hemorrhaging money at the tables. I think I may have found a problem though. After reviewing my play I figured out that I'm just bluffing WAY too much. I'm actually getting pretty good at hand reading I think at that is really the main source of my downswing. I put someone on a medium strength hand and just try to empty the clip to get them off of it. At these limits it's just not working b/c no one folds enough for it to be profitable. I am falling victim to FPS and it hurts. I thought lowering tables would help but really it just made it worse and I would get bored and look for spots to get fancy. So I'm going back to my standard 4 tables and just back to straightforward poker w/ few bluffs. This has worked really well for me in the past so hopefully it will bring me back to a winning player again.

On another crappy note I was trying to get some time off to attend the leggo party. However, my work sucks and I cannot take any time off. It's nice to know they give me vacation time I can't use. I'm kinda bummed cause I really wanted to get away and get kronked with everyone. On the bright side I'll have more money now for my bankroll