So for the first 5 days of the trip my computer wasn't working at all so i couldnt play at all. So I tried out live and it was mega boring. I won like $300 and pretty much hated it. I finally got my comp working but got sick from matt. Then i was just hibernating and watching 24 and band of brothers. Lol and after watching it my dreams have been really fucked up like at least 10+ people die in them and people are always attacking me.

But ya i finally felt better yesterday and put in about 5k hands since then at 400nl 9max. I won 900 and 1700 at ev. I am playing the best i can and i think and i been thinking a lot about the moves before i make them and it just seems like if you break things down into smaller peices or just look at them as simple as possible based on logic. Then It all fits together, i always fuck up when i try to overcomplicate things and try to add on things that are just inferances and not reality. Like what i noticed from good players that i've watched and met is that they all think logically and the difference between us is not that they know some crazy math or that they make up crazy plays. They just precieve the hand/situations in a more realistic view point because they are more logical. And i think that increased logic comes from them absorbing things just simply as what they are and not trying to force it to be something more or less than it is.

But ya i really feel ready for 3/6 and 5/10 i just need to grind more $. I feel kinda poor atm cuz i think i prob lost 4-6k since the trip to, food, taxes, clothes and stock has been going down.

Andddddddddd so far this trip has been great everyones super coo and its really nice being here. I learned a lot auctually because this is the first time i've lived away from home for a while. I have made a lot of new goals for myself and for a while i felt like there was a cloud over me and i wasn't really sure what i wanted to do like if i wanted to go to skool or play poker. And like a lot of other things about if i wanted to travel and or what my overall goals for the next few years were. But i think i've sorta figured everything out and ill prob blog more about what i wanna work on when i get home.

But ya having lots of fun. My parents and brother are going on a trip next week and want me to come so i'm not sure if i'm going home to travel with them or staying in vegas. I was sorta thinking go with them then fly back to vegas or stay here iono its a hard choice cuz my dads taking time off work nd i dont rly get to see him much cuz he works so much. we will seeeee.

So far i love the food here. I went to naked fish which was really good and reasonable prices and the food at the venetian cafe is good price and really good as well. Everyone at the house is really cool and we been doing a lot of stuff. I been out like 90% of the time and being productive.. So i played live twice at 1/2 it was mega boring and i am + like 200-300 live but i think i should play like 500 or 1knl next time. I think for next few days ima play online a lot and just grind a bit at home nd chill.

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So ship it the connector works my 13" macbook can run a 30" and its super clear + no lag lol. Its so weird that it can it just seems wrong..... Next i just need to transfer all my hands and get my hem working!

But ya havent played any pokers today. Just sorta bored and for some reason i thought the
15th was sunday so i planned tomorrow to pack and buy stuff then to leave early sunday. But i realized its not till monday. So wtf am i going to do with my life on sunday?????? the anticipation is killing me cuz i've never been to LV.

Oh and today i swam for 1.5 hours and now im a bit burned, i need to wear sunscreen 24/7.

Sorta boring post but i didn't poker so not shit to say. O ya i will be taking a lot of pictures of everything and posting it while on the trip.

Thats all i'm out!

So played 400nl everyday this week im at +2kev and + a little less. I made a 200$ mistake with top set i knew he had a straight still called him. I think i can easily fold. In general throughout this shot i've made small mistakes.....one time i called with a low flush too when i felt like his range was a bigger flush. So i feel like my win rate could be the best at this level if i just fix these few problems.

I got the apple 30" connector for my macbook woot woot, si probably wont have to bring my desktop. I am going to test it today haven't tried it out yet....

Also getting some clothes since its going to be mega hot in vegas so i need shorts and tshirts.

Thats about it....oh i'm 3k-5k away from where i want to be to try out 600nl. i'll prob try to grind out 6k-7k more at 400nl since im new then mix in 1-2 600nl tables for a bit. I am hoping if i run well that i can be doing 2/4 3/6 mix by end of my vegas trip.

So last night played more 400nl 9max won like 500$ in ev and then i played hu today vs tc at 50nl. I had lost to him 4 times already and today i won! i felt like i played well and ran super hot too. But i feel like i really did some good plays. In the end my game is coming along nice.

VEGAS IN 4 FUCKING DAYS. Trying to get a 30" monitor connector for my macbook so i dont have to bring my desktop.

that is alllsss

Didn't blog a while my schedule has been fucked up i been sleeping from about 10am till 6pm and waking up feeling like shit.... then eating dinner/breakfast and putting in a few hours on less tables and then going out or playing vid games then reading/chattin in general

In terms of poker i lost about $1000 last night playing 200nl hu. The spots i lost in i think i played poorly could've folded but $800(4 different pots) or so i lost with trips okish kicker. I just dont play hu much and i thought trips in hu is the nuts??? I dunno i felt like i got the better of one guy but the other guy was either running hot or owning me who knows... And in 9max 400nl i been doing well i'm up i think $1000 playing really well still running under ev but i feel like i am playing way better and am actually the best at each table i am on. I think in large part its due to matt sweating me at 9max and giving me a 6max perspective on what was going on. He would give me good suggestions and i would think about them a lot and implement different things into my game. I still think we play a lot different but just him sparking my thoughts and helping me learn things that he is better than me at helped a lot. So after we worked together i changed my game a lot and i thought a lot about my post flop game as well and i saw a few vids by irockhoes and omgclayaiken that made me realize a few things. Also i was thinking a lot about how tc has taught me to play and how it may or may not be able to be beat. But i think by thinking about how to beat myself i found some leaks and or ways to analyze other peoples actions more.

Either way i feel good about my game but i feel like i need to work harder to get in hands and play as much as i can because i think this will prob be the time in my life where I'm going to have the best hourly endless i'm like a doctor... and i don't wanna look back when im 25-27 and broke and be like i wish i played more hours a day. So I need to work hard! VEGAS in a week! =D

Sooooo after getting denied by amex for my first credit card i applied for a charles schwab one and got denied. I really liked the schwab one because it was no fees and 2% cash back everywhere unlike the 3% cash back on amex which is like 1% in some places and not 3% till you spend at least 6000 meaning to beat 2% i would have to shop at the places that give 3% first of all and 2nd of all spend at least 12k on that card which would be hard cuz not everywhere takes amex and 12k is a shitload. Sooooo i was about to just apply for like a capitol one chase whatever card but then i thought about it fuck that. Schwab has like a lot of my money sitting there in their acct them making $ off it and they get commissions when i trade stock of like $10-$12 each time. In the end i called the regional manager of schwab and showed her my accounts, and told her that i keep a lot of capitol here give me a god damn muffuckin 2% cash back card imo or ima go to fucking fidelity. Obv i said it super nice but ya! so they are sending me a card this week ship it! its only a 500$ limit for now but they said they will up it in a few months to be a few 1000.

Erm in terms of the challenge i think I'm at 4000/15000 i am running substantially under ev now but! i am pausing the challenge for now until after vegas for a few reasons. First of all i ran shitty today and lost a lot. And second of all i am going to be going to vegas for 2 weeks or a month in 9 days. Meaning i would be leaving on like day 18. Second of all i have a shitload of stuff i have to do at home before i leave and need to take off 2 days to do all that. And in vegas i might be playing donkaments and i dunno what kinda mindset ill be in since i never really been there. Like will i be able to grind? will i be drunk 24/7? will i want to play live? How many shows will i go to? I don't want a challenge to change what i do or dont wanna do there. And my last reason is i have a big enough roll online now so i want to continue to take 400nl shots so by the time i hit the house ill be playing 400nl. I think the majority of the ppl in the house and ppl ill be hanging with play from 400nl-2000nl so i think to get the most out of it in terms of a learning experience i need to be playing games and experiencing levels like 400nl, 600nl and 1knl. So basically before school starts i have till August and i'm getting home in mid july at the latest so i will pick up the challenge exactly where i left off when i get home. And if by time school starts i cant complete it or not able to play like 600nl+ as my main game then ill be enrolling in online classes so i can maintain traveling but get enough credits until I'm upper grad. Also i will still be donating my car to charity prob even if i win or lose this challenge cuz i think its kinda nice.

sooooo till vegas i am going to be in the gym like 2-3 hours a day cuz im behind on weight and taking 3 hours a day of shots at 400nl. until the 13th. then i am going to package up my 30" and get all my shit straight at home then driving on the 14th or 15th. I was sorta dumb about this challenge cuz i woke up one day and was just like i need to work harder i need to create a challenge that will make me do that. And i think this challange did. It pushed me to put in multiple 10+ hour days and i made 5.5k in the first 5-6 days. so i consider it successful in that sense and.. i will complete it but i need to move up. I spent like less than 6 months getting to 200nl, then i been farming it for like almost a year now just because i ran bad a few times when i took shots higher and cashing out too much $. So time to not worry about $ and worry about my skillset more. Once i establish myself at 400nl and 600nl ill be able to knockout the remaining 10kish to prove that i can sustain making enough $ to support myself without skool. SOOOOOO thats it. ttyl and gl at the tables i am super excited to rape retarded 400nl regs tomorrow. peace

Soooooo today i lost about 1.2k at 400nl 3 buyins. So back to 200nl i guess. In terms of my shots at it during the challange i am still up in ev at 400nl. It is super frustrating because i know that i've probably tilted away 5kish+ at 400nl and mad ev of like 4-5k in 60k hands +rb. I can play about 90,000 hands a month at 400nl and make 15k+ a month easy mode if i just run normally. And if i really get comfortable and grind a lot i can make more. The players are soooooooooooooooooooo bad everyone at those 400nl games have huge leaks. Ppl shove their 9 high flush draws and or backdoor flush 2 overs vs my sets all day.

Anyways this is my 400nl shot graph have fun laughing at me. This shit has induced so much tilts so ya i'd be a 1ptbb winner ev adjusted but i swear this shit has made me lose at least 1-2ptbb just off going insane. Anyways this shot i didn't tilt at all cuz i guess i can handle it more but seriously its getting anoyying to see worse regs there playing games higher than me granted most of those fags are rb pros so i make more playing 200nl at 6bb. It is just anoyying because i wanna run well and make them all quit poker because they suck at life. I am going to win like 10k more this week at 200nl. Then hopefully ill work up to playing 24/7 at 400nl so i can take out every single regular who wins at less than 1bb/100. I will be so motivated to play none stop to make them lose their rolls and go back to being insurance/used car salesmen cuz seriously they are retarded drones. In the end i still think im overskilled and overrolled but to finish my challange i need to be consistant so these 400nl fr ppl have 15 more days till i come and destroy their souls... /theend of rage post.

Oh and Much love! lol

So today i loaded up 15 tables of 400nl and just started grinding. I got in about 2 hours so far and won about $400, i lost a huge pot which was sorta unlucky. This might sound cocky but today i felt over skilled for 400nl fr at all my tables i thought i made the least mistakes out of the regs and i put the most pressure on people. I guess its cuz i played like 500,000 hands at 1/2 already and 100,000 at 2/4 6max. But i mean not skill wise but emotionally i have issues... I'm still not use to the swings. At 200nl a 5buyin swing i wouldn't think twice about for some reason losing a pot at 400nl feels like a lot more even though its really not... And although i didn't tilt yet i can feel it inside that if i lost like 4 flips in a row i would just mega hate life and maybe go into a spew mode. So I'm going to limit my sessions to 1.5 hours and have a 2 buyin stop loss till i win 5000-10,000 at 400nl fr. But so far today i made 800 in ev and from review i saw 1 mistake which was 90$. I'm just hoping this time at 400nl i dont go -7k ev like last time! one time please!!!

Going to play again later for a few hours probably and shoot for 600ish+ on the day then swim workout and get some rest.

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So i played another session it went smoothly i think, i find 400nl easier than 200nl because peoples ranges make more sense to me. Also i think ppl see me as sorta an unorthadox player and noone knows me and they kinda spazz vs me or maybe 400nl ppl are just agressive spazzes iono. The big hand was vs some guy who i ended up playing hu i called him 3 streets all in with 2nd pair because his range could not contain the top pair. I think its really funny when ppl try to rep something they can't have i almost peed myself laughing at his shove. He obv showed 9 high. And its funny cuz i had cbet lead but i checked to induce with the intention of c/c 3 streets.

I am taking the shot mainly cuz i think i'm overskilled and overrolled for it and i might as well go all out if i fail whatever ......... i wanna go to the top!!!
graph for 400nl so far. Total so far is like 5500/15000? dunno forgot.