Holy Blog Posts Batman...it has been a while.

Haven't been playing much poker recently. Think I have 5k hands from my last blog post and now. Just really haven't had any motivation or desire to play that much. Obviously that would be a concern but I honestly don't really care that much at the moment.

Been working alot over the last few months. My department is sadly understaffed at A&F and worked 12 hours yesterday and feel completely drained. Wanted to go check out the new casino that opened up this week in Columbus but I just don't have the energy. Sad story bro.

Other than that, things are fine. Not great but not terrible.

Been playing Borderlands 2 with my cousin in my free time which is awesome. Really fun game and plenty of replay value.

Until next time

Greetings Party People

Haven't been grinding online poker very much in July due to being busy at work, unmotivated about online poker in general, and playing more live. I don't want to go all uber-emo but I'm trying to find a balance between all the areas of my life and online poker wasn't high on the priority list at the moment. I do still play online a bit but I'm going to start back on the bottom rung and try to not let unachievable goals bum me out and enjoy myself. Going to play 10k hands at 4NL FR and 6Max before evaluating/reviewing and if things look good then I'll go back to 10NL. I've been reading Verneers (2p2er and CardRunners Coach/Vid Producer) book Building a Bankroll and trying to rebuild my "poker foundation". Also, plan on watching some Leggo Micro Stakes videos and taking notes as well. I'm abandoning all 2012 goals I had and just want to enjoy playing and learning again.

In other news, ran the Color Run in Columbus a few weeks ago with Mrs Yurk and some family. Fun time and we lucked out on it not being hot and humid on race day and enjoyed the dye corn starch. Here's some Before & After pics.





Hope everyone is enjoying their summer and running good!

Until next time

Hey blog viewers

Sorry about the delay in posting but I've been sweltering in the +100 degree heat over the last week and have had power on and off due to some crazy storms that rolled through Central Ohio last week. 80+ mph winds and heavy rain equals no power for a lot of Columbusites.

Poker is very meh at the moment. I'm struggling to get motivated to put in hands and when I do put in a decent 1k+ hands session it feels like I'm breaking even and auto piloting a majority of the time. I really wish I could find it within myself to strive to do better but maybe its a personality thing or a work ethic issue but I don't think I'll ever be a serious online cash grinder. I just don't have the drive and the times when I enjoy poker the most is playing 2 tables and really trying to get in each villains heads and taking notes and trying to decipher their ranges. Obviously, that doesn't really lend itself to putting in decent volume but maybe that just isn't going to be my poker "life" going forward. I beat myself over it sometimes, thinking "If you just put in the hours than you can reach X limit or make X amount of money" and that is something worthy of striving for. It may not be for me.

I've actually going to play more live though and prepare myself for the casino that is going to be done and open in the fall. Its a completely different game in terms of lines, bet sizing, bankroll, etc. and I need to put some hours in so I'm ready. I do like the social aspect of live but knowing me I'll probably come to hate it and all the random bad beat stories that people want to tell you.

Any who, here's some graphs and stuff for June

June Graph


June Stats


Until next time

Hey interwebs

May is over and I consider it to be a semi-successful month. Even though I fell a bit short of my goal in terms of hands played (I wanted to put in 20k hands and ended up with 16k) I feel like I was playing my "A" game the majority of the time I sat down at the tables. Hopefully I can keep up the volume and hit 20k hands in June.

I plan on playing at both Merge and Lock now that they are different networks and do a better job in regards to table selection. So far, Lock is looking really fishy over the first 1k hands I played yesterday and I can deal with the mediocre Cake 2.0 software if the games at uNL are this good. Obviously, some regs screennames got changed because of the move so I'll have to play pretty ABC until I can build up hands and take notes.

So far so good though

Here's the graph for May



Hope everyone is having a good start to the summer and that we can all continue to play well and run good!

Until next time

There is a new upstart in the poker tracking business hoping to offer an alternative to Holdem Manger and Poker Tracker, and it lives in the cloud. With cloud based services becoming all the rage nowadays , it makes sense that the poker tracking industry would come along. It makes sense too. Between training site forums, 2+2, peer-to-peer sweat sessions, players want to be able to access, review, and share their hands and graphs from anywhere at anytime. The saturation of smartphones and tablets also makes the move a proactive one that recognizes this technological shift.

Pokeit hopes to fill this void by building your poker database in the cloud from the beginning, and allows you to access it from any browser. There is still a small client (for both Windows and OSX) that enables your hand histories to be uploaded to the cloud from your poker clients saved hand histories folder or from the processed hand folder in Holdem Manager or Poker Tracker. After these hands are uploaded (either manually or automatically while playing) to Pokeit, everything is accessed from your browser.

Lets take a look at the offerings in the browser

Pokeit Dashboard



After you sign up, this is the home screen of Pokeit. It has your graph, summary of recent sessions, and tabs that allow you to get you where you want to go. I really like the layout and presentation of the Dashboard (and Pokeit overall). Its simple, clean, and clear.

There are 3 main tabs that you can access from the dashboard: Hand Browser, Report Builder, and Smart Graphs.

Hand Browser



Here's where you can review and filter individual hands. There are several filter options based on Stakes, Position, Session, Site, Date, etc. You can also custom tag individual hands and filter by those as well. Sharing can be done in various formats including forum (2+2, Leggo, etc), Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.

Report Builder



This is where you build reports...obviously. You can do this by Position, Players, Session, Hands, Game Type, Date, etc. Useful when your looking for which hands, position, player is giving you trouble.

Smart Graphs



With the Smart Graphs tab you can customize your graph based on Money Won, Dates, BBs, Sessions, etc. The small bar graphs at the bottom of the graph represent hands played on a particular date. You can also zoom in on any range you select in the graph to get a closer look at a particular upswing (or downswing...sigh).

According to its website, Pokeit supports most US and Non-US facing poker sites and supports games ranging from Holdem to 2-7 Triple Draw. As a standalone product for a recreational Badugi player, Pokeit could be a no brainer. For a 6Max NL grinder, it is probably at best a supplemental product since it has no live HUD (though one is in development).

The product is free up to 50k hands in your database and is only $5 a month for up to a million hands in your Pokeit database.

You can check them out at Pokeit.co and take it for a spin yourself.

Hey all, I'm about halfway through May and I'm on pace to have at least 20k hands this month. I feel like I'm playing alright and have just need to make adjustments to particular regs at 25nl and called off too light in a few spots. I've been pretty much breakeven over the first 10k hands or so (even ran a little over EV wise which is a welcomed change of pace, lol) but I feel like I've been playing pretty well given my knowledge and experience level. Hopefully, I can keep on pushing and do more video/hand reviews in the near future and spike a heater and take a shot at 50nl by the end of the month. Woot woot!

Graph so far in May


Until next time.

Two blog posts in two days?! What has gotten into me?

I'm going to start a new bankroll challenge for 6Max starting today and it will go until busto or until 100NL and then I'll reevaluate. The basics are this: Took $300 out of my bankroll on Lock and put the rest in the Vault. $300 is 12 BIs for 25NL, I'll grind that up until I hit $450 while 4-6 tabling. At $450, I'll take a 3 BI shot at 50nl and play 2 tables. If I hit $300, than I drop back down to 25NL, If I reach $600, I have 12 BIs for 50NL and will play that. I'll repeat this until I hit $1200 and have 12 BIs for 100NL and than I'll reevaluate.

Here's a little spreadsheet if anyone else wants to set aside some of their roll and join the fun with me.



I hope that this will motivate to play with a purpose, challenge myself, and break the rut I've been in.

My goal is at minimum 20k Hands in May.

All ******** and bonuses stay in the Vault. No more "******** pro" status for me.

I'll do session/hand reviews on a weekly basis on Sunday. This is a huge problem for me since I almost never go back to review my lines, spots, or analyze particular villains.

I'm really excited to try this and hope it can give me the jolt that is needed.

Until next time

Hello Leggoland

So 2+2 is down and "LOLZ, where am I going to get to trolled on now?!" is in effect. Luckily, Leggo is still here and there are other things to do than mindlessly browse BBV. I've been super busy at work the past couple weeks. We recently "let go" (read: fired with a separation package) someone in my department so that coupled with a dumptruck of work being deposited on me while my other co-worker was in Ireland left me working too much for my liking. Also, spending our entire tax return on furniture and appliances sobered me because I realize more and more that I'm a "big kid" now.

Anyways, In my last post I was super excited playing HU and of course, this excitement led to its obvious conclusion in getting curb stomped. I don't think I played extremely bad, but I guess I just needed to remind other me that HU is really swingy and will crush your soul. Of wells....

I recently have been trying out PokerTracker 4's Beta and have been really happy with it. Its well laid out and doesn't crush my CPU's performance as badly as Holdem Manager 2 does. I did set up separate databases for HU and 6Max, don't know why I did it that way but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Two results screenshots this month.

6Max Results



HU Results



Yay! Whats funny is that this is my worst month money-wise in almost 2 years. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I plan to post tomorrow with a bankroll challenge that I'm going to do to hopefully break the cycle of mediocrity that seems to have it's grips on me.

Until next time

Hey blogland

I've been playing almost exclusively HU Cash the past week or so and am starting to enjoy the madness that is HU. I've been in sucked in by this particular siren in the past and it seems likes its resurfaced. I really want to get into analyzing opponents and using Flopzilla to understand how individuals think about the game and how I can figure them out to exploit them. Its really fun (swingy too) and really is stimulating me mentality more so at the moment then 6max was.

Don't know how long I'll keep this up but I'm going to keep doing things that enjoy and challenge me until they prove otherwise.

If anyone wants to sweat/talk HU Cash with me, hit me up on Skype.

Woot Woot

Until next time.

Still feeling a little salty over the result of yesterdays Ohio State/Kansas game. Terrible to see a team you root for choke away a shot at a national title but I think a Final Four appearance for this team (especially given where they were at a month or so ago) is a successful season. Whew.....run on sentence.

Poker is chugging along for me. I've been busy with work and house/yard work the last few weeks and hopefully I can put some hands in come April. I downloaded the PT4 beta and am going to mess around with it for a while. I like HM2 but am not in love with, particularly since it seems like a resource hog on my glorified netbook PC.

March Graph


March Stats


Don't know if I'm going to do weekly updates going forward. I don't put enough hands (or have sick graphs) to make it interesting. Maybe instead I'll do weekly television breakdowns and play couch tv critic. Who knows.....

Until next time.