To do list
RICHI8, Nov 01 2009
1. Practice breathing while playing. I get to the point sometimes where I start talking to myself and can feel myself getting pretty agitated.
2. Don't let poker results dictate how my day goes.
3. Change my attitude at work and try to find joy in my job.
4. Switch to part time at job and go back to school next semester.
5. Physically write my life goals down every day 5x each.
6. Blog more.
pity blog
RICHI8, Oct 29 2009
Ive been playing for over a year now and I have nothing to show for it. The high point in my bankroll was over 8 months ago and since then I've never been over $1500. Part of me wonders if this game is just some unreal dream I'll never experience and I think lately that is becoming more and more apparent, especially with so many mid stakes players experiencing the biggest lows in their careers and shit. I realize a year is nothing if you ever want to be successful at anything, but I'm not asking to be the best, I just want to be a winner.
I've made a promise to myself. If my bankroll is not over $2,000 by January 1st, 2010 I will quit poker and never look back.
Coin flip isn't 50-50
RICHI8, Oct 25 2009
It has been Scientifically proven that the coin flip isn't 50-50.
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_...ally_flawed!_lets_overhaul_everything
My life is in shambles. j/k
Thank God
RICHI8, Oct 23 2009
My $EV line stopped working in HEM randomly. It was reaching /barf status and I'm sure it's well above that now. Poker going forward will be much more enjoyable now that I have no way of knowing how much I should have won.
what goes up
RICHI8, Aug 27 2009
must come down
Nice tease Full Tilt. It was cool while it lasted.
Best day yet
RICHI8, Aug 24 2009
Today was my first re-shot at NL50 (It was my regular game back in February but my mental game lacked) and it went marvelous (pronounce that word like an old fashioned stuck up British lady). I seriously could do no wrong. I had hands where it's was like standard "omg I gotta get it in here" and I'm behind and then the river comes and I suck out. I checked back a flopped set of Queens and a nit turns an underset and we practically stack off pretty deep.
I didn't play very long. I don't do sessions longer than 2 hours. I like to break them up and eat in between and get away from the computer so I'll have a second session later today. Feels great to run good!
In short, awesome day and the most winning day of poker I've had yet to date. Here's the graph:
Hello NL50
RICHI8, Aug 22 2009
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
< angryblackmanvoice>AND I'MMA MAKE YOU MY BITCH!
BR is $1000. Taking a 3 buy in shot.
birthday, vegas, etc.
RICHI8, Aug 18 2009
Hadn't touched poker until today since the 10th so my August goals are really slacking. Hopefully I can still get my BR to $1k and take shots at NL50 by month end, but who knows, I've played about 4.5k hands this month most of which I've ran like crap and have been set up a ton of times. But life goes on.
Anyway, August 14th was my 22nd bday and two of my best friends and I made our way up to Vegas from San Diego. I've been really stressed out and annoyed with work lately so this trip was just meant to relax and get my mind off of work. We didn't go balls out party style this time since relaxation was the main focus. We stayed for 3 days and 2 nights. Every day consisted of lounging by the pool at our hotel (Monte Carlo) and having some drinks and laughs. I meant to get a massage while I was there but in the drunkness I completely forgot to.
A friend we grew up with back in NY moved to Vegas and happens to work as a door man at Xs so he hooked us up greatly. We went there on Friday and he just walked us right in. You should have seen the faces on the assholes standing in the table reservations lines as three young looking shit heads waltz right by them. Priceless. Xs is really, really nice inside and Friday night was great. A couple of my other friends had a table there so we met up with them. Their bottles got finished pretty quickly and they had a room at Encore so we left the club and went back to the room to do some shots up there and then came back to the club. My friend Mark also had a ton of coke but I couldn't do any because I'm becoming a police officer. I wouldn't do it anyway, I was super drunk and I read a story about a couple drunk kids doing coke and dying so that's scarred me for life.
We ended up being in the club from ~10pm til after 5am lol The place supposedly closes at 4 but that night it was still going around 5:30 I'd imagine.
Saturday started with more pool lounging. We met a couple hot Canadian girls from Vancouver. We were supposed to go to Pure with them at night so we all go back to our rooms and get ready to go. We get down to the lobby and all of a sudden some random guys come up and ask them if they want to go in the limo with them. Obviously, they being girls, how can they resist. They tell us they'll meet us at the club but my friends and I start thinking it would be a waste of time. Turns out the one girl gave me a call when she got to Pure but we came up with a different plan...
We figured if we went to Pure the wait would be stupid long and sometimes Pure can be very hit or miss and we didn't really wanna run into those girls again if they were just gonna whore themselves out for limo rides, drinks, etc. So we call our buddy up again and went back over to Xs and went right back in again.
Xs on Saturday night wasn't as good as Friday. There were waaaaay too many people packed inside there and at least 80% of them were Asian people who thought they were members of that MTV show America's Best Dance Crew. Also getting drinks was like a solid 20 minute wait. They have 3 or 4 bars inside of the club with about 3-4 female bartenders at each bar. These female bartenders move soooooooooooo slow it was ridiculous. Still had fun regardless just not as much on Friday.
Overall a very enjoyable and relaxing trip. I completely disconnected myself from just about everyone except the people I was there with. I rarely carried my phone on me and even when I did I only had it inside the club in case I lost my friends. Felt nice to just get away.
Now that I'm back time to keep on getting in shape and playing and improving at poker. I took my police test so I'm awaiting the results for that. I'm going to try and not drink for a month so we'll see how that goes. I'm trying to run a lot and waking up and doing push ups, sit ups, etc. I won't be going to the gym because right now I just want to improve my body weight exercises. I've also got into surfing which is a good work out too. At the same time of all this and work I want to be more focused on poker and get to NL100 by year end. Gogo nerd mode!
Rich
set over set
RICHI8, Aug 03 2009
Theme of the day imo
PS: Zalfor I'll gladly trade my red line for your blue line.
July results
RICHI8, Jul 31 2009
I started the month playing Fixed Limit still. Then I realized there's just not as much money in that game anymore and I can't deal with the variance involved. So after about 4 days into the month I switched to SnGs. Played those for about a week and then a friend of mine was visiting and he also plays poker. In short he basically was like "Lol why don't you play NL 6max cash.. it's the most profitable." Since then I've stuck to 6mad NL cash starting back at NL25.
It's kind of hard to swallow because back in February I was NL50 reg and about to move up to NL100. But I had some rough downswings + tilt and moved back to Fixed Limit and wasted 5 months, and here we are at NL25. I've gotten better though so I guess it doesn't matter which stakes I'm playing, I know I'll get to my end of year goal which is to switch to part-time at my job once I make 50 buy-ins at NL100.
I won't post an EV graph because it's kind of sick to look at how much I "could" have won. I'm trying to not use this function at all and if there was a way to delete it from HEM I would. I've been mostly 4-6 tabling on my laptop and I just built a new desktop to use later on I just need to get a monitor for it. It will be strictly a poker machine but I will still only 6 table at max.
Here's my graph for July:
About 10k hands at NL25 + another 10k at Fixed Limit and SnGs. 20k hands isn't too bad since I work full-time, my goal for August will be 30k. We'll see if that happens though because my birthday is in August and I'll be going to Vegas :D
GL all.
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