The Poker Life

ITBP= In This Blog Post imo


Just became positive on PTR today when it finally updates and thought I was done playing for the night, then as I randomly loaded up Stars lobby to see the games and I insta see Scout sit at 10/20 and I scrambled to get on the table but couldnt log in fast enough. Then I go look at the 25/50 game filling up and boom score the jesus seat on him there!!!


A few hands in this hand happens and to be honest I figured we were flipping and felt like fucking gambling lol oops



Submitted by : Joeingram1

***** Hand History for Game 42453090854 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 07:57:14 ET 2010
Table Antares IV Real Money
Seat 9 is the button
Seat 1: SarahSugar $4950.00 USD
Seat 2: 0Human0 $5987.00 USD
Seat 3: sx49732 $5600.00 USD
Seat 4: Shippotamus $5115.50 USD
Seat 5: newg_choier $2092.00 USD
Seat 6: insyder19 $8088.50 USD
Seat 7: Blackops1337 $5841.00 USD
Seat 8: scout326 $4847.00 USD
Seat 9: Hero $5597.00 USD
SarahSugar posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
0Human0 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
sx49732 folds
Shippotamus raises [$150.00 USD]
newg_choier folds
insyder19 calls [$150.00 USD]
Blackops1337 folds
scout326 folds
Hero raises [$650.00 USD]
SarahSugar folds
0Human0 folds
Shippotamus folds
insyder19 raises [$7938.50 USD]
Hero calls [$4947.00 USD]
insyder19 wins $2491.50 USD

Flop (Pot : $11,419.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $11,419.00)

   

River (Pot : $11,419.00)

   
insyder19 shows
insyder19 wins $11416.00 USD from main pot
Hero doesn't show

***** Hand History for Game 42453590115 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 08:13:39 ET 2010
Table Antares IV Real Money
Seat 7 is the button
Seat 1: SarahSugar $10091.00 USD
Seat 2: 0Human0 $5937.00 USD
Seat 3: sx49732 $6514.00 USD
Seat 4: Shippotamus $5000.00 USD
Seat 5: newg_choier $4931.00 USD
Seat 6: insyder19 $14629.50 USD
Seat 7: Blackops1337 $5000.00 USD
Seat 8: scout326 $4550.00 USD
Seat 9: Hero $5000.00 USD
scout326 posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$50.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
SarahSugar folds
0Human0 folds
sx49732 folds
Shippotamus folds
newg_choier raises [$100.00 USD]
insyder19 raises [$325.00 USD]
Blackops1337 folds
scout326 folds
Hero calls [$275.00 USD]
newg_choier calls [$225.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $1,000.00)

   
Hero checks
newg_choier checks
insyder19 checks

Turn (Pot : $1,000.00)

   
Hero bets [$750.00 USD]
newg_choier calls [$750.00 USD]
insyder19 folds

River (Pot : $2,500.00)

   
Hero bets [$1650.00 USD]
newg_choier raises [$3856.00 USD]
Hero calls [$2206.00 USD]
newg_choier shows
newg_choier wins $10209.00 USD from main pot
Hero doesn't show

***** Hand History for Game 42453841416 ***** Poker Stars
$2000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 08:21:29 ET 2010
Table Italia Real Money
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: HT-Max $2000.00 USD
Seat 2: georh1 $1540.00 USD
Seat 3: insyder19 $2838.00 USD
Seat 4: 0Human0 $2000.00 USD
Seat 5: Hero $2067.00 USD
Seat 6: SarahSugar $770.00 USD
Hero posts small blind [$10.00 USD].
SarahSugar posts big blind [$20.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
HT-Max folds
georh1 folds
insyder19 folds
0Human0 raises [$50.00 USD]
Hero raises [$190.00 USD]
SarahSugar folds
0Human0 raises [$370.00 USD]
Hero raises [$1867.00 USD]
0Human0 calls [$1580.00 USD]
Hero wins $67.00 USD

Flop (Pot : $3,837.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $3,837.00)

   

River (Pot : $3,837.00)

   
Hero shows
0Human0 shows
0Human0 wins $4017.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 42454168930 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 08:31:45 ET 2010
Table Lacrimosa Real Money
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 2: 0Human0 $5056.00 USD
Seat 4: Shippotamus $5100.00 USD
Seat 5: newg_choier $4209.00 USD
Seat 6: Hero $9554.50 USD
Shippotamus posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
newg_choier posts big blind [$50.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
Hero raises [$150.00 USD]
0Human0 folds
Shippotamus raises [$525.00 USD]
newg_choier folds
Hero raises [$1300.00 USD]
Shippotamus raises [$4550.00 USD]
Hero calls [$3650.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $9,550.00)

   

Turn (Pot : $9,550.00)

   

River (Pot : $9,550.00)

   
Shippotamus shows
Hero shows
Hero wins $10248.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 42454580333 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 08:45:01 ET 2010
Table Antares IV Real Money
Seat 9 is the button
Seat 1: SarahSugar $9466.00 USD
Seat 2: 0Human0 $5075.00 USD
Seat 3: sx49732 $5711.00 USD
Seat 4: Shippotamus $6297.00 USD
Seat 5: skllzdatklls $10938.00 USD
Seat 6: insyder19 $13129.50 USD
Seat 7: Blackops1337 $5479.00 USD
Seat 8: scout326 $3268.85 USD
Seat 9: Hero $6616.00 USD
SarahSugar posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
0Human0 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
scout326 posts small blind [$25.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
sx49732 folds
Shippotamus folds
skllzdatklls folds
insyder19 raises [$150.00 USD]
Blackops1337 calls [$150.00 USD]
scout326 calls [$150.00 USD]
Hero raises [$850.00 USD]
SarahSugar folds
0Human0 folds
insyder19 folds
Blackops1337 folds
scout326 calls [$700.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $2,075.00)

   
scout326 checks
Hero checks

Turn (Pot : $2,075.00)

   
scout326 checks
Hero bets [$175.00 USD]
scout326 folds
Hero wins $175.00 USD
Hero wins $2097.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 42454688589 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 08:48:32 ET 2010
Table Antares IV Real Money
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: SarahSugar $9441.00 USD
Seat 2: 0Human0 $5000.00 USD
Seat 3: sx49732 $5661.00 USD
Seat 4: Shippotamus $5847.00 USD
Seat 5: skllzdatklls $10938.00 USD
Seat 6: insyder19 $12979.50 USD
Seat 7: Blackops1337 $5279.00 USD
Seat 8: scout326 $2393.85 USD
Seat 9: Hero $8460.00 USD
sx49732 posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
Shippotamus posts big blind [$50.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
skllzdatklls folds
insyder19 folds
Blackops1337 folds
scout326 raises [$150.00 USD]
Hero raises [$750.00 USD]
SarahSugar folds
0Human0 folds
sx49732 folds
Shippotamus folds
scout326 calls [$600.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $1,575.00)

   
scout326 checks
Hero checks

Turn (Pot : $1,575.00)

   
scout326 bets [$700.00 USD]
Hero calls [$700.00 USD]

River (Pot : $2,975.00)

   
scout326 checks
Hero checks
scout326 shows
Hero shows
Hero wins $2972.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 42454767793 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, April 10, 08:51:06 ET 2010
Table Antares IV Real Money
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: SarahSugar $9441.00 USD
Seat 2: 0Human0 $5000.00 USD
Seat 3: sx49732 $5636.00 USD
Seat 4: Shippotamus $5797.00 USD
Seat 5: skllzdatklls $10938.00 USD
Seat 6: insyder19 $12979.50 USD
Seat 7: Blackops1337 $5279.00 USD
Seat 8: scout326 $943.85 USD
Seat 9: Hero $9982.00 USD
Shippotamus posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
skllzdatklls posts big blind [$50.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
insyder19 folds
Blackops1337 raises [$150.00 USD]
scout326 calls [$150.00 USD]
Hero calls [$150.00 USD]
SarahSugar folds
0Human0 folds
sx49732 folds
Shippotamus folds
skllzdatklls calls [$100.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $625.00)

   
skllzdatklls checks
Blackops1337 checks
scout326 bets [$350.00 USD]
Hero calls [$350.00 USD]
skllzdatklls folds
Blackops1337 folds

Turn (Pot : $1,325.00)

   
scout326 bets [$443.85 USD]
Hero calls [$443.85 USD]

River (Pot : $2,212.70)

   
scout326 shows
Hero shows
Hero wins $2209.70 USD from main pot

0 votes

POKER




I sure have progressed far in a month since I wrote my last blog. I said last time that I was going back to fullring and giving up on PLO for good. I stuck to the giving up PLO part and am pretty excited that I did! I started playing NL100 after my last blog and made like 30BIs in less then 10k hands. Then started game selecting at NL200 FR and did really well and was able to start doing the same for 400/600. Once I hit 5/10 again though I had to go back to mixing in mainly 6max tables because those games are so much better then the 5/10 FR games that run on Stars. The main thing I was doing different was actually playing less tables. I have been trying to play mainly 6-8 tables at a time and my results have been tremendous at each level so far doing this, defintly plan on sticking to this for awhile.


Here is my 5/10 graph so far, as you can see at the beginning when I was just playing FR I was about breakeven. Then I switched back to the game I am best at 6m and started crushing.






I actually haven't ran that well in terms of EV but I'm still up so pretty happy. Im down like 6BIs at 10/20 from some ridic run bad and up some at 25/50, especially after this hand from today.


Submitted by : Joeingram1

***** Hand History for Game 42394927447 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, April 09, 12:04:28 ET 2010
Table Wallenquist IV Real Money
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: MHXANH $4973.00 USD
Seat 2: mbolt1 $5000.00 USD
Seat 3: WheresMyRoll $5075.00 USD
Seat 4: tcblade $5522.00 USD
Seat 5: Hero $5495.00 USD
Seat 6: bfl4me $5547.00 USD
MHXANH posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
mbolt1 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
WheresMyRoll folds
tcblade folds
Hero raises [$150.00 USD]
bfl4me calls [$150.00 USD]
MHXANH calls [$125.00 USD]
mbolt1 folds

Flop (Pot : $500.00)

   
MHXANH checks
Hero bets [$300.00 USD]
bfl4me calls [$300.00 USD]
MHXANH folds

Turn (Pot : $1,100.00)

   
Hero checks
bfl4me bets [$720.00 USD]
Hero calls [$720.00 USD]

River (Pot : $2,540.00)

   
Hero checks
bfl4me bets [$3000.00 USD]
Hero calls [$3000.00 USD]
bfl4me shows
Hero shows
Hero wins $8537.00 USD from main pot

0 votes

What is up blog readers! I made a promise to myself that I would update this more often so here we go.

My roomate search is hopefully going to be over soon so all that stress about finding someone will be off my mind and over. I'm talking to a few people currently and am pretty sure I will go with a guy over the girl from my last blog, but not 100 percent sure yet. Just need to get whoever I pick approved to move in and then it should be all done. Weather is starting to get nicer out here too which has been pretty cool. Get to hang out at the pool and work on the tan/be outside rather then sitting inside doing nothing. I met this 18 year old Persian girl who just moved to USA a few months ago and we went out on a date the other night. Seems like it might have some potential, and by potential I mean she is 18 and we all know where that leads to lol who knows. Seems like she could be an odd fellow though



My god-mode at PLO has finally ended. I've been 24 tbling plo50 to try to get better at the game/get hands in. I was running like god for the first 35k hands but these last like 5k hands have been fucking brutal and pretty sure I lost back all the profit I was up. Whatever, fuck that crazy game, I think I may just give up on it or load up plo10 when I want to play. My results at NLHE are just sooo much better that it would probably be a pretty big leak if I keep playing PLO. I mean, it did ruin my life kinda a few months ago lol.

I've actually started to get back into playing fullring now. I analyzed my FR game from the past and changed a few leaks I had and am doing alot better now. What did I change about my game?? It is actually a rather large change that I'm sure the regs who play with me will notice but I don't want to give it away lol. I wll probably play nl100 until I make a little bit more and then stick with nl200 for awhile. Im still off and on about going for SNE this year. Some days I am super motivated to play and get SNE and then other days I just want to lay in bed and do absolutely nothing. Usually a trip to the gym always gets me in the grinding mood for some reason and I always come back and play some. Pace for SNE after this month is around 240k vpp and I probably will end this month around 150k vpp but could be more depending on how hard I work. I'm still confident I can get SNE pretty easily but I just don't know if I have the work ethic in me right now. I really don't want to do anything lately, no poker, no fucking random women, no going to bars, no driving around, I really need to snap out of it somehow but it is tough when you have limited people to help. Back home I always had a bunch of friends I could hang with and feel better but out here its just hard. I really was/am contemplating moving back home but I just think I would look at it as such a big failure, plus the drive is 35 hours long. None of those things I want to look foward to at all. I will probably just give another roomate/6 more months a shot and see how things go over the summer, who knows??


Whatever, fun to write. Going to try to go to sleep so I can wake up and grind the pool tomorrow lol, Thanks for reading



Joey


VPP: 112k

0 votes

Comments (1)

0 votes

Comments (0)

This might be a record for me, 2 blogs in the same day


As I wrote about in my last blog my current roomate is moving out at the end of our lease in April and I am looking for a person to live with out here. I have talked to a few poker people through what I posted on 2+2 and have a few people seriously interested that seem like cool people. The wildcard in this whole process is that their is a girl from back home in Chicago/Indiana that I've known for a long time/has visited me out here before that really wants to gtfo of there and move out here. Everyone I have even mentioned this idea to has said no way it will work.

What I want to try to figure out here is what is my exact potential EV I lose/gain in having her move in. Lets set the pro's first. She said she will cook/clean/laundry/as much sex as I want. Now thinking about this aspect alone overall it is pretty big. First, I fucking hate cleaning and rarely do it. To have someone around on a consistent basis making sure everything is good, laundry is washed would probably make me feel alot better about myself and my surrondings. As for the cooking aspect, I think this would be absolutely tremendous. Would help me eat healthier/help body get in better shape, save money on fast food all the time, would enjoy the meals more, not have to worry about leaving the apartment. The sexual aspect obviously speaks for itself. I will say she is a pretty girl, nice body, good in bed and a pretty pleasent person to have around. Plus I feel like I will be making a big difference in her life as life back in Indiana pretty much sucks for her right now.



Now lets weigh some con's. First, we wouldn't exactly be "dating" but we kinda would be in a way. Therefore I'm sure bringing other girls home would be frowned upon from her vantage point. Also the overall bills here are around 1200-1300 total each a month. She has her own bills of around 600 a month so assuming she got some sort of waitress/bar job out here making 1k-1.5k a month, she would really only be able to pay 500-600 towards bills therefore sticking me with about 1800-1900 just to live here. I mean that is pretty fucking ridiculous lol. Also there is no guarantee that she can get a job making that sort of money right away so the first month or two I could end up paying more. In addition I have to factor in the possiblity of me just getting sick of seeing her as well which has been known to happen in the past.


Therefore weighing these options I need to come up with a forumla to figure out if I should go the poker player route where I can still meet as many women as I want, hire maid/find a girl to cook for me. Or have her move in and live in a clean/cooking environment. I figure the cleaning alone can probably come to about $200/month, cooking $300-400/month, sex $500 month (this is assuming in a normal dating relationship I would end up spending the equivalent on taking women on dates plus the time taken up texting/driving/bs stuff). Now we factor in the negatives, I end up paying extra $600-700/month, $200-300 month with no other women.


So if I actually use this equation to figure things out it looks as if I about breakeven overall on the situation so basically I just need to decide what I actually desire for the next few months of my life. Getting better at poker while living with someone to play or having food/ a clean place and sex anytime.............

decisions, decisions !!!!!!!!!


Please if I messed up on this formula somewhere or am missing some key factors let me know. Feedback much appreciated and will be shown in the form of Pictures I have recieved through text messages on my next blog

0 votes

Comments (30)

Hello all, welcome to the blog! First I want to say that I am looking for a new roomate out here in San Diego starting May 1st. I made a thread on 2p2 about it which is located here if your potentially interested

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/102...-poker-place-starting-may-1st-725593/


Life


Let's see what I have been up to lately. Seems as if my main focus lately has been hitting the gym and enjoying the pool out here. My physique is coming along rather nicely and I am excited for summer to roll around so I can start pwning up the women. I would post a pic but who wants to see a guy with his shirt off anyway lol. Since I suck at blogging regulary I will give the people that actually read this a little bonus Date Trip Reports. For the people that read my dating challenge trip reports, some of these can be pretty awesome IMO. As some know, I broke up with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. After sitting around sad for a few days I decided to get happy again and go on a date or two. Now I will write about one.


First date I went on was with a girl from the online dating world. She was 27, divorced, had pretty face, nice smile, interesting facial piercing but..............she was a little bit bigger . Can't be perfect right? Since I was just coming off the breakup I figured I had to get back on the horse at some point, why not now! We do the usual messaging back and forth online then exchange texts for a little while. She thinks I am good looking, I figure why not give it a chance. We setup a first date for the movies to see Valentines Day. Normally I would not pick a movie as a first date but to be honest I figured the less I have to see of her, the better. Movie goes fine and then we get some yogurt after and engage in the usual first date conversations. I'll be honest I started to question what the fuck I was doing at some point in time but I figured, give it a chance, only live once, etc. etc. Finally the night ends and I give her hug goodbye rather then the kiss she was going after .

We text a little bit over the next few days and inevitably the topic of sex comes up. I tell her me and my ex sex life was subpar and she assured me her game was on point. Obviously this leads to the whole prove it, blah blah blah talk that comes from that opening. She sends me interesting pictures that actually make her fuckable (pics on request obv). She then tells me that she has to be exclusive with a guy to have sex with them.....I ask wtf she is talking about and she says we have to be in a relationship to have sex. I reply with "okay....". She says that wasn't the answer she was expecting lololol. She ends up coming over the next day and the topic of sex and being in a relationship comes up. I explain to her that for me to date someone she has to be good in bed. I tell her that I cannot be with her unless I first find out she is good sexually, she thinks it over for a bit and says that is actually smart and a good idea . The next 20-30 minutes were never to be remembered for me. She did not look like the pictures and during it I just wanted to stop and say plz gtfo now. I just close my eyes and hope for the end though as to not be too much of an asshole. The final straw came when she got on top of me lol i was like listen I have to stop. She asks "Why?". I say I just cannot handle it anymore and you are too good..... 10 minutes later I am walking her out to her truck and give her a hug goodbye. She text me/calls me that night but to no avail. 3 texts the next day and no response by me. Finally a few days later she sends me one last text asking how I am doing lol.......


Man I sure do love writing these things, I don't like to hold anything back lol if you guys like this one I will write about the 2nd date I went on next blog. Also since everyone I talk to tells me I need to blog more often I will give 50 dollar freeroll to the first 3 people to quote this part of my blog along with some good first date ideas.



Poker


February was probably my laziest month ever when it comes to poker. I basically took about 15 days off from not playing 1 single hand and worked out/lounged around the pool all day. I must say I felt pretty great and when I did start playing again I did pretty well. I was pretty content with my current living/money situation and didn't really feel like putting in much effort on the tables. When I found out that I would need a new roomate and potentially have to pay more money on my end, I realized it was time to get my ass back in fucking gear and start playing again. I came up with a few prop bets just to get me back in gear. The first one I took action on was being top winner at NL25 for the month. Alot of people asked me why I would do this? I really don't want to take the chance of having a losing month at like nl100/200. At NL25 there is 0 percent chance I can have a losing month there, I also wanted to put in some practice for my potential 10k at NL25 in 1 month prop bet I am looking to do. I also am doing another side challenge where I have to make 100BI at any level PLO for the month.


So far at NL25 this month I am about +550 playing mainly FR with 1 6max session mixed in. The games there are so ridiculous lol. I should win the prop bet I have to be top winner at NL25! I am also like +2BI at PLO for the month so only 98 more to go there






Thats all I really want to write about for right now, need to go get some sleep and then wake up tomorrow and do it all over again, hopefully I find a roomate

Thanks for reading

0 votes

Comments (9)

Hello all, long time no blog! Have had a few people asking me to update my blog and it sounded like a good idea. Have had a few interesting past couple of months IMO and an even more interesting past few weeks.



RELATIONSHIP

I have wrote about my girlfriend in the last few blogs of mine. As was inevitable since the beginning of all relationships that have existed things are now over. It took me a few days to actually put 2 and 2 together but it all became clear while I was working out. She was just a gold digging bitch. Here is what happened, when we originally started dating I felt amazing! 33k prop bet win, +20k up swing from the tables, all time record high in terms of money for me. We went out to alot of nice restaurants, went to concert, took a trip to Palm Springs, everything was pretty good. Then end of December/January I went on massive losing swing. At the end of which I was left with a pretty low amount of money . Now Lindsay knew I was losing alot from poker but she never totally had an idea about my finances and just assumed I still had a bunch of money. 2 days before we breakup, I explain just how serious/depressing it was for me to have lost so much money and that I didn't think I was in a good enough finanical state to move in with her. She had talked to me that week about the possibility of moving in together after about 1 month being BF/GF and a few months of dating. She assured me, I don't like you for your money/this wont make a difference/blah blah, bs bs bs, im a whore, etc...

Sure enough 2 days later she says she is starting to rethink things and she might still have feelings for her ex-boyfriend and it isn't fair to me for us to be in a relationship if she still has feelings for him. At first I was like okay cool story bro, this seems all randomly odd, where is this coming from. Honestly a part of me was pretty excited at the potential of being single though but then a few days later it hit me!! I had just had the talk with her 2 days before and then all of a sudden this happens!!!??? I guess you live and you learn, I actually feel like I learned a little bit from dating someone older/more mature but in the end I remembered that all women are whores in some form!


San Diego Dating Challenge


It took me a few days/week but I decided it was time to get over it. I decided that since I really didn't make many new friends, because of having a girlfriend, I would make new friends and meet as many people as I could. I started just saying hello to all the people I come upon that live in my massive complex and in a few days I met someone to play basektball with and a few girls to hang out with. I was pretty amazed at how far some conversations have gotten just by saying "Hey, whats up". Sure some people look at me like I am a fucking wierdo but overall I engage in some cool convo's.

For the people who go on 2p2, alot of people followed my 30 dates, 30 days dating challenge I tried to do back home in Indiana. This thread was wildly popular and included pictures/videos/trip reports from all the dates! Ultimatly someone spoiled the fun by sending out messages to all the people on my facebook that I was being some sort of predator.

The reason I originally did something like this was just to show that people who grind poker for a living can indeed pick up/date woman out there and hopefully I could provide some inspiration to the many lazy poker players out there and help there women lives! Also it was super fun to do!



Well now I live in San Diego and I really don't give a fuck if they send that message out again, most of the people on my FB I will never see again and the ones I will are just going to LOL at it. I am now ready to conquer the online dating world in San Diego 30/30 style. I don't have an exact time period I am going to start this but I will be supplying trip reports/pictures/videos most likely thru this blog and with a thread on 2p2. This will be easier for me to edit posts if necessary for any reason. In prepartion for this I have been hitting the gym super hard and changing up my diet from fast food 3 times a day to on special occasions. My results I have been seeing have been pretty awesome so far and the bod is getting pretty solid. The type of women I hope to attract for this type of thing will surely appreciate work I am putting in. My lower abs/sides could use some more work especially but I am hoping a better diet will have a good affect.

I actually logged onto my dating site of choice tonight to edit up my profile a bit and see what is out there. I honestly can say there are probably 100x more women to choose from and wayyy better looking ones on average compared to back home. Also it is pretty beneficial that most live so close to me out here compared to 45 mins-1 hour away before. Will keep updated on this front but I did get a chance to send a message or two out tonight, I give you a sample one that I just couldn't resist sending. Will let you all know how this works out lolol

Hey xxxxx,


I was going to send you a message and tell you I just wanted to "hit it and quit it" but then I noticed that I shouldnt keep reading about you if those are my intentions. I would love to get to know you though, you seem sweet.

Joey

POKER

Poker has actually been pretty interesting/horrible the past few months. As those of you who read my blog/look at my PTR (almost 110k views somehow) I have lost alot of fucking money. It was about -55k in a matter of only a few weeks. Now I can contribuite alot of this to running horrible at PLO/playing awful but it wasn't until the breakup I realized how much mental capacity I was devoting to the relationship. I don't think that is a coincedence that since we ended things I am 17 winning sessions 2 losing sessions. I did take a few days off after and kinda regrouped mentally, ever since that I have been doing super well. I am currently being staked for nl100/200 and am actually down a good amount in makeup because of last months bad results. I am hoping that if I can continue on with my playing well/good results/running slightly better that I will be out of this in no time!! Stay positive!

As far as SuperNova Elite pursuit goes, I am still on the fence about it. I could still be in striking distance of pace if I can pick it up this month but I honestly do not know if I can do it. Has been hard for me to flip the switch on into grind machine knowing that It is impossible for me to get back to having as much money as I did just 2 months ago. I got to experience that feeling of having 60k+ and to be honest it wasn't much different then having 10k+. I still buy the same shit I would have bought but was just playing a higher limit/having bigger swings. I honestly don't think having that much more money made me anymore happier about life and actually provided me more stress with thougths of "I need to make more money, i want to hit 100k". Hopefully when I grind my bankroll back up I will not make this same mistake again and choose to actually do something productive with my funds. Time will tell.......



Life in General


Overall I must say life is pretty good right now. I live in San Diego, the weather is still pretty awesome! I started playing basektabll again and finally making some friends out here. Am starting to win again at poker and have more then enough money to live life and be happy for the moment. Hopefully things will continue on the up and up!! As always thanks to all for reading


VPP Count= 86,000

Joey

0 votes

Comments (19)

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: 691014

0 votes

Whew, finally finished up a fun exciting 11k Hand PLO50 session. I have been trying to learn the game of PLO lately and finally feel like I am seeing some improvement in my game. The whole PLO process has not been good to me so far but I feel like in the long run I will have learned alot and will pay off. I have played some in the past, a few tables only and had good results so naturally last month when I started playing I jumped into 5/10 6m PLO on Stars and ran well and was up +15k. Then came the running bad aspect of the game where I dumped it all back and was convinced I was good at the game but just running bad. Finally after losing about 40k playing 1/2-5/10 PLO I decided that a self-ban of limits for Omaha was in order and I setup a freeroll thru 2p2 that if I play higher then .50/1 PLO I would owe a bunch of people money. For some reason I cannot allow myself to play less then 24 tables when I do play (the whole vpp obsession thing I and many have). At first, not knowing really anything about the game, I was losing at a ridiculous rate but was also running pretty fucking terrible. I feel I am gradually progressing at the game though and am learning quite well. I really want to get SNE by July so I feel like learning to 24 table PLO profitably will be a huge, huge help to that overall goal and the money I may lose will be made up in the end. So I will be grinding the 25-50PLO games on Stars for January-February and working on improving my game. My self ban for 100-200PLO ends in March so then I should be able to take a shot at those games.

Here is my 11k hand PLO session I played this morning at 50PLO, I took a break down about 21BI and refocused, turned off my HUD and proceeded to crush. Actually ran at EV for one session finally, which has been rare in my experiences at the game so far.





As far as NL has been going this month, I have been doing fairly well. I am only allowed to play up to NL200 for awhile since I am not really rolled to play higher and am trying to focus on only playing 6max games, rather then mixing in full ring as well. Here is my graph so far for the month, missing about 10k hands, +1k profit from my other computer.

This is a mix of PLO and NL, all the money I am down is from PLO lol




Current Hands for January5k
Current VPP: 35,144


I am in 4 Hand pools this month so I basically need to play 200k hands or I lose a few thousand so I will be getting it done no matter what


Thanks for reading the blog!!

Joe

0 votes

Comments (6)

I haven't blogged for about a month now and have been getting alot of PM's asking if I am going to blog and update. Had a pretty adventurous end to the year. I won my prop bet at the beginning of the month for 33k and felt on top of the world. I took my play to the mid-high stakes on stars and right away started up about +25k. Around this same time is when I started losing alot at 10/20. Soon after I found PLO.......I started up about +12k playing 5/10 PLO and thinking I ran the streets, within the next 3-5 sessions of playing to many tables/bad game selection/to much HU/running super horrible, i was -20k in the game. Nice like 35k swing. Yes some of it was running bad but most of it was the tilt/playing bad/lack of self control that led to all of this. Soon after this I was jumping back and forth from PLO and NO limit and basically losing at both. I went home to Chicago for Christmas and while there I dropped another 15k in one session of 3/6 PLO, i mean what the fuck am I thinking at this point. Pretty soon my +25k month at the tables turned into being a -25k month at the tables. GG $50,000 dollars.

At the time of all this I was a little mad/sad about it all but really not that affected. I have been trying to figure out why that was. About 1.5 years ago when I started playing poker, I had nothing, no money, no car, was just living in Chicago in the city. Grinding it out, hooking up with random city women, hanging with friends, going to beach. 1,000 dollars seemed like 1 million to me at the time. Over awhile I started actually making money though, bought a nice car, nice bed, fancy clothes, ton of fun toys/amenties, took trips, ate awesome food. I never really thought I would have any of this stuff to be honest at age 24 or ever in my life really, so the fact that I can lose all that money and I still have this other stuff left over plus a good amout online/offline when before I had nothing kinda helps me not feel as bad. Idk if this is good also and is probably really hurtfull overall in the long run. People have suggested that setting some goals for myself and practicing a better bankroll management will be good for me and I agree. I really don't act like the money is real/usually just try to run it up as high as I possibly can before hitting the inevitable losing. I am trying to come up with some for this year/the near future, whether that be buying a home, new car, invest a certain amount in long term, or something of that nature. Still really undecided on what I want to achieve and until I figure all that out, I fear I may have more repeats in the future.

Here is last month's graph




I did end the year up a good amount from a combination of my prop bets/fpp/milestone/tables/stakes and live play so all was not to bad about 2009.



All of that said I have been trying to come up with a good plan for this year. I am 100 percent going for SuperNova Elite this year as I feel I can attain it fairly easily and won't take to much time for me to do so. I am hoping to get better at mass tabling PLO and become a slight winner/breakeven player while collect mass amounts of VPP. Will be starting the year off playing 100/200nl 6max and some plo100. I also became "official" with the girl I posted in my last blog that some interesting comments to say the least lol. I am finding it interesting to find some common balance between hanging out with her/playing alot of volume of poker. She gets mad at me because my sleep schedule isn't normal and I am bad at sticking to a plan but thats how I have been the past 2 years. It is hard to just snap out of all that while still being a poker player. We spent New years together with some other friends and had a pretty great time, also took a little mini-vacation to Palm Springs and got to do a little hiking in the mountains, I defintly sucked it up during all of this and kept falling on my ass lol.

Here are some pics, hopefully better thoughts this time lol




haha far right hand side








Started off the Hike in my jeans, quickly bought some sweat pants though because spent to much money on those jeans to ruin them




Random pic of Lindsay




She does lurk the blog comments so hopefully the comments aren't that mean-spirted this time around as I don't think she looks bad as is very beautiful in person haha



Going to start posting more frequent updates as I go towards with SNE


Current VPP: 25,200- On, Pace
Monthly Profit: Not good lol, need to combine both databases


As always thanks much for reading and leave comments

0 votes

Comments (14)