Kidding. Poker:
Sucks. I've managed to run even worse after the first day. I'm still down for the month, and life still sucks.
School:
I was actually looking forward to having something to do in between sessions (ie. class, read, etc.) but theres nothing like one day in class makes you appreciate summer vacation. Summary, been to two classes, have 3 chapters to read + 1 assignment + 1 30min online tutorial on plagirism
Life:
I have a pretty old cordless phone in my room. Last night it started ringing when their was no call (1 ring, followed by interference) about once a hr. I unplugged the adapter before going to bed. Thats the end of it, right? Of course not or else why the fuck would I blog about it. The phone itself is on rechargeable batteries or w/e, the type with a base for the phone to stand/recharge. The phone ran out of batteries at 5am and started ringing. With it being right next to my fucking head, it woke me up. So I had a total of 3 1/2 hrs of sleep last night and had fucking migraines all day.
Brag: Coke Blak was on sale, 4 for $1. Parents bought 24. Beat: Coke Blak is disgusting Variance: Its free for me
Started the day down $450 at 100NL, no biggie. Took a 6hr break and started 200 after dinner. Then shit hits the fan.
After losing like, 9/10 flips (literally, maybe even more and winning just one) this happens http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/263236
Well, I've managed to not do anything I was planning to do this month lol
A solid month of 100NL without going into 200( )
A session with myth ( )
Help a struggling 25 or 50NL player ( )
Play lots of poker ( )
JACK OFF ( X )
Ok it wasnt that bad. I played a fair bit, about 55k hands. But considering my goal was 60-80k, I'm a fair ways off. A session with myth, still not done. Help a struggling lower stake player, did it once to no real result lol.
Heres my result for the month
Not bad, definitely a step in the right direction. But considering about half of that is from heads up (and about 1k of that is from sucking out on some fish at a stake I shouldnt have been at) I'm not so sure if I did myself any favours this month by being a moron.
Anyways, school starts soon. Next Tuesdsay in fact. Oddly, I'm looking forward to it. The last month or so, I've been bored out of my mind. I've been so bored that I've started playing CS again lol.
Beat: My Mario DS's save file got fried some how. I had beaten all 8 worlds + all coins & all coins spent, so I was only missing a few secret exits.
Um, thats about it for now I think. So yah, peace yo
July started off rather shaky. I was a bit burnt out from poker and played very little at the start of the month. I ran pretty poorly and was playing spewtard hockey, thus resulting in about 10k hands of breakeven/lackluster poker. After clearing the $1500 bonus for 100,000 FPPs, I started getting more focused and into it. Here is the result
The graph here shows only my results from my laptop. Theres about 6-9k hands on my laptop where I'm down about $100 or so. July tournies I finished down $115 as well as 5400 FPPs. Finally, I'm down something like $460 playing live this month too. So in total, I estimate that I netted maybe $4000 in winnings this month + $1500 in bonus, which is easily my best month to date.
My goal for the coming month is to play a solid month of 100NL while logging lots and lots of hands (ok not crazy much, but like, a fair sum) considering I dont have much to do anyways. I'm mainly aiming to solidfy my ABC game as well as prove to myself that I can beat and destroy this silly weak-tight stake that I have grown comfortable with over the past 2 or 3 weeks. I find setting monetary/win rate goals semi-silly considering I've ran at 8bb/100 before while not knowing what I'm doing (and 6-9 tabling to boot) and I've also ran at 1bb/100 even though at that time, I knew significantly more than when I ran sick hot. As long as I feel I am cutting down my spews to minimal and making right judgment calls, I will be fine with the results regardless.
In terms of coaching, I'm hoping to get a session in with Myth soon. I'm not sure how his sessions work, but I'm hoping to lay some stepping stones down for 200NL, both in terms of what differences there are between the stakes as well as patching up some of my leaks. While on the topic of coaching, I run sick hot in terms of getting freebie lessons from some of the best players in the game. Late May, I dont remember what triggered this, but Nolan/Sean offered to sweat me for a session which I hopped all over since I wasnt playing too well and wasnt running too good either. During the sweat session (where I was learning lots mind you) a sick individual that plays some of the highest stakes online --n0rthf4ce-- came into the vent channel. Me being the passive anti-social nit fuck that I am, just kept my mouth shut as Nolan can see my cards anyways. However, Nolan being his awesome self, invited n0rthf4ce to sweat me with him which he cooly accepted. I dont recall much of what happened that night in terms of details, but my game has definitely improved drastically. Shout outs & thanks to both of you.
On to more coaching run-gootness, this past Monday I made a standard stupid blog where I lost close to 8BI and listed off a ton of hands. Moloch PMed me and asked me to add him on AIM. I did... like 7hrs after his PM (thanks to class/life, gay) By then, he was probably already off for the night. Fast forward onto hmm... Friday night I believe. Some fish was talking shit and wanted to play me HU. I usually just play them off and keep running my mouth, but since I was running damn hot that night, I opted to take him up on the offer and tried to assemble a horde of people to block seats for me so I can take this fish to value town. The horde assembling did not take place in time as I know like, very few poker players on MSN & even less were online at the time. However I did go on AIM to see who else I can ask, and one of them happened to be Moloch.
What did end up happening was, that he offered me a free coaching session. (I know, how fucking good can I run? Nolan + n0rthf4ce, now Moloch?) For those of you who dont know him, look him up. The session itself was awesome as usual. Moloch, despite his goofy forum demeanour, is scarily good at commuticating his thoughts. I dont want to go into details, but honestly, this man can do wonders for any mid-stake NL players looking. I think he says he charges $200/hr, but LP's instructors list doesnt have him listed yet. So I dunno, PM him or something.
Life! I'm thinking about selling my iPod Nano. Its a 1st gen or w/e (more square edges as oppose to round) with 4gb of memory. To replace it, I think I'll get the 2gb one from pokerstars for 5000 FPPs (which is about $75 US to me based on bonus conversion) But I dunno, kinda undecided yet. oh, the reason I want to sell the iPod is because its starting to do weird things. ie. when I start it up after closing it for the night, the track it was playing plays at like 2-3x original speed and cant be fixed unless I skip the song and come back to it. This is happening more and more frequently. Plus I think the battery will need to be replaced soon. Its supposedly 12hr battery life on a full charge, but honestly, its more like 9-10 at best.
Lastly, to wrap it up: my goal for the end of the year is to hit 200k VPPs for the sick bonus (50k FPPs for $2000). Right now, I'm like 55 away from 125k, meaning in the last 5 months of the year, I need to average 15k VPPs per month. This month, after my binge during the last week, I'm at 19965 VPPs for the month. I definitely think I can do this. Gonna aim to crack 20k next month hopefully to give myself some breathing room since the fall semester is going to be more strenuous.
Anyways, heres a reward for staying to the end
EDIT: I FORGOT LOL. I'm willing to offer struggling 25NL or 50NL players free coaching/hand review for like, August, both to pay back to the community & that I have plenty of time. As far as coaching goes, I'll prolly only tack on like 1 student maybe a session a week or something. PM if interested I suppose.
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(which is about $75 US to me based on bonus conversion) But I dunno, kinda undecided yet. oh, the reason I want to sell the iPod is because its starting to do weird things. ie. when I start it up after closing it for the night, the track it was playing plays at like 2-3x original speed and cant be fixed unless I skip the song and come back to it. This is happening more and more frequently. Plus I think the battery will need to be replaced soon. Its supposedly 12hr battery life on a full charge, but honestly, its more like 9-10 at best. 
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