Went out with my law school buddies tonight cause they just finished their last final and are done with their first year. They were pretty pumped because it's basically the last summer they will ever have to do what they want. When I was sitting there listening to them talk about how it's all downhill after this summer I just felt so lucky. I get to do the thing I enjoy the most for the rest of my life and whatever else I want.
I think im heading home tomorrow. I'll probably spend the next 10 days relaxing, reading, working out, playing some poker, and hanging out with friends. I'm heading to vegas on the 21st to play in the mandalay bay WPT event and prelims, then pretty much every wsop event I can.
I have pretty modest goals for the summer, just want to make at least 1 final table and make an overall profit playing in tournaments at the WSOP. Hopefully all goes well.
Oh by the way, if you havent seen it, i highly suggest renting crank. One of the most awesomely bad movies ive ever seen in my life. Basically this dude gets injected with a Chinese super virus called the Beijing Cocktail, and the only way to extend his life is to keep his adrenaline levels high, so basically its just an awesome excuse to work in gratuitous action scenes.
One spoiler, jason statham gets to bang his girlfriend in public, and during it, screams I FEEL ALIVE. After all he needs to keep his adrenaline going, so what better way to do it than exhibitional coitus. There are a whole bunch of crazy asian people watching it and going bonkers. It's an awesome scene in an awesome movie. I'd draw a picture but I just cant do it justice.
You heard me. No I'm not crazy. Running bad has not made me dillusional. Here is the breakdown: I went down stairs to make some coffee, and I hear this pretty catchy song on TV, so I look over and see that TRL is playing some music video with this cute chick singing this emo pop song. The song was so good and the chick singing it was so hot that it froze me in front of the TV from start to finish. The entire time I was trying to figure out who the singer was since she looked really familiar. Then the little title key in the bottom left corner of the music video showed up at the end of the video, and I was totally left shocked as to who it was:
Artist: Gwen Stefani
Song: 4 In The Morning
ZOMG? I was like "There is no way that chick is Gwen Stefani!" Like in 95% of all of Gwen Stefani's pictures and TV appearances she looks like that total fake dumb blond that got her brains bleached out:
See? That's fucking not hot at all. But this isn't the first time that Gwen Stefani has shocked me with a surprising new look. In her music video 'Cool' (That song is good too) there is a really hot brunette chick playing in the flash backs. Wait... THAT'S GWEN STEFANI AGAIN! She makes a freakin fine ass brunette. But the blond version of her is like sooo yuck! Total Mind Fuck Yo!
Artist: Gwen Stefani
Song: Cool
And no, I absolutely hate most of Gwen Stefani's mainstream crap. But these two songs just really get to me. She just looks so fine in these two videos (aside from her blond self in the 2nd video). She's got that kind of hot that only comes out once in a while. You have to look hard for it. Somewhere behind all that crap she puts on, there is a beautiful face. Just letting you guys know!
You heard me. No I'm not crazy. Running bad has not made me dillusional. Here is the breakdown: I went down stairs to make some coffee, and I hear this pretty catchy song on TV, so I look over and see that TRL is playing some music video with this cute chick singing this emo pop song. The song was so good and the chick singing it was so hot that it froze me in front of the TV from start to finish. The entire time I was trying to figure out who the singer was since she looked really familiar. Then the little title key in the bottom left corner of the music video showed up at the end of the video, and I was totally left shocked as to who it was:
Artist: Gwen Stefani
Song: 4 In The Morning
ZOMG? I was like "There is no way that chick is Gwen Stefani!" Like in 95% of all of Gwen Stefani's pictures and TV appearances she looks like that total fake dumb blond that got her brains bleached out:
See? That's fucking not hot at all. But this isn't the first time that Gwen Stefani has shocked me with a surprising new look. In her music video 'Cool' (That song is good too) there is a really hot brunette chick playing in the flash backs. Wait... THAT'S GWEN STEFANI AGAIN! She makes a freakin fine ass brunette. But the blond version of her is like sooo yuck! Total Mind Fuck Yo!
Artist: Gwen Stefani
Song: Cool
And no, I absolutely hate most of Gwen Stefani's mainstream crap. But these two songs just really get to me. She just looks so fine in these two videos (aside from her blond self in the 2nd video). She's got that kind of hot that only comes out once in a while. You have to look hard for it. Somewhere behind all that crap she puts on, there is a beautiful face. Just letting you guys know!
So this game has not been kind to me these past few weeks. I've been on a sick downswing where each day I keep telling myself it will be better the next day. Infact, 2 days ago I told myself that it was impossible for me to run worse. Well yesterday I ran worse than I've ever run in a single day. The beautiful thing about it was that I only lost $1200 over 2500 hands. That is a miracle considering the shit I was put through. So last night I went through my pokertracker and spent like 3-4 hours just going over hand histories. Today I present you with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly --->
The Good
The good is that I still have enough of a bankroll to continue NL200 and attempt to ride out this crap. Also another good is that PokerStars changed the graphics on their cashier! The old one was still like x100 better... dont fix what isn't broke.
Now for some hand histories ->
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189818 - Stacking total aggro moron donkey. 99% of the time I'm like tossing my hand in this spot, but not vs this tard.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189824 - Dont you love when you got ridiculous amounts of notes/stats on someone and can pin them on exactly AK before the flop comes?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189827 - Playing like a loose/passive station vs Day[9]. He's sooo aggro though, so I dont really know another way to play it. Made sense that he could be making a move on this pot thou, so kind of a loose calldown.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189829 - Mind fucked FrinkX. Beautiful value raise on river. FU people who say double barreling this spot is better, because I disagree in this situation.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/188398 - GG & LOL @ FGators26 #2 (Btw the flat call in this spot was because dataporton and RiverStars seemed to be squeezing frequently in these spots and so I figured maybe set up deep limping aces. Pro-gamer style yo!)
The Bad
Ok that was the good. Now here comes the bad. First lets start off with a graph of yesterday's session.
Ok now lets get into some of the hands from this month:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189842 - vs Loose/Aggro Player. I guess I'm stupid for getting the money in behind? Like, everyone knows that it's totally gosu to call 3 bets out of position with 43 caz you flop 2 pairs all day baby.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189848 - First time I 4 bet Colombo218 and he snap calls this. Does he pwn me? Or is AJ too big of a hand for him to laydown?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189856 - Probably the worst beat I've taken all week. potodds is like one of my buddy listed fish. Gets away with total murder on this hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189857 - Another one of the fish on my list, CasinoRoyale makes it a habit to constantly call out of position with these hands.
So this game has not been kind to me these past few weeks. I've been on a sick downswing where each day I keep telling myself it will be better the next day. Infact, 2 days ago I told myself that it was impossible for me to run worse. Well yesterday I ran worse than I've ever run in a single day. The beautiful thing about it was that I only lost $1200 over 2500 hands. That is a miracle considering the shit I was put through. So last night I went through my pokertracker and spent like 3-4 hours just going over hand histories. Today I present you with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly --->
The Good
The good is that I still have enough of a bankroll to continue NL200 and attempt to ride out this crap. Also another good is that PokerStars changed the graphics on their cashier! The old one was still like x100 better... dont fix what isn't broke.
Now for some hand histories ->
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189818 - Stacking total aggro moron donkey. 99% of the time I'm like tossing my hand in this spot, but not vs this tard.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189824 - Dont you love when you got ridiculous amounts of notes/stats on someone and can pin them on exactly AK before the flop comes?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189827 - Playing like a loose/passive station vs Day[9]. He's sooo aggro though, so I dont really know another way to play it. Made sense that he could be making a move on this pot thou, so kind of a loose calldown.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189829 - Mind fucked FrinkX. Beautiful value raise on river. FU people who say double barreling this spot is better, because I disagree in this situation.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/188398 - GG & LOL @ FGators26 #2 (Btw the flat call in this spot was because dataporton and RiverStars seemed to be squeezing frequently in these spots and so I figured maybe set up deep limping aces. Pro-gamer style yo!)
The Bad
Ok that was the good. Now here comes the bad. First lets start off with a graph of yesterday's session.
Ok now lets get into some of the hands from this month:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189842 - vs Loose/Aggro Player. I guess I'm stupid for getting the money in behind? Like, everyone knows that it's totally gosu to call 3 bets out of position with 43 caz you flop 2 pairs all day baby.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189848 - First time I 4 bet Colombo218 and he snap calls this. Does he pwn me? Or is AJ too big of a hand for him to laydown?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189856 - Probably the worst beat I've taken all week. potodds is like one of my buddy listed fish. Gets away with total murder on this hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/189857 - Another one of the fish on my list, CasinoRoyale makes it a habit to constantly call out of position with these hands.
so anyways finals are winding up and i probably did pretty bad this semester but i took alot of my senior classes junior year because im baller and i just want to take only 3 classes a semester next year and spend a lot of time on my hammocks. got a stretch of finals the next two days and then i move into my new condo which should be pretty sick. my roommate in the new condo is one of the first guys i met at university and he's a real cool person, his like existence is a conversation piece in the condo, he's that level of interesting.
anyways,
i've been limiting myself to 1k hands per day and i think it's working out ok. more time for school less time for tilt. also, after this marathon of finals ill probably take the weekend off from poker to move into the new condo but i would like to have some really good reading in the meantime. this is where you guys come in, i really need your help. if you LP'ers could just link me to any really interesting poker articles or forum threads online that you might have bookmarked or remember so that i can print out a few hundred pages of readings to do when its nice out and i want to be outside i would really appreciate it. theres really not much good poker literature in print so im just going to go to the library and try and print out everything useful i can online. special prize to the guy who sends me the article/thread i find the most interesting.
other than that just been on auto pilot cruising along, shout me a holler and thanks in advance for anyone who passes along some good reading, i'd really appreciate it.
P.S. I hide the stats because there's just too many lurkers. Want to know how I play feel free to sit with me.
Ok, so some things in my life are changing, the shyt needs to end, recently I have recieved multiple life bad beats, the aftermath of these beats has resulted to me needing to cash almost my entire bankroll. O well, I'll be back niggas, holla still.
So I'm officially 22 yrs old today! Go me. Sorry I haven't been updating this blog as much as I use to. I've been kinda busy. Running like shit in poker. Fun stuff.
I'll leave you guys with this fun piece of media. Listen to DMX, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg first then listen to this. It's pretty fuckin amazing:
Aries Spears is just so sick. So if you want to send a b-day present ---> ID: JonnyCosMo @ PokerStars I need all the lucky pennies I can get.
So I'm officially 22 yrs old today! Go me. Sorry I haven't been updating this blog as much as I use to. I've been kinda busy. Running like shit in poker. Fun stuff.
I'll leave you guys with this fun piece of media. Listen to DMX, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg first then listen to this. It's pretty fuckin amazing:
Aries Spears is just so sick. So if you want to send a b-day present ---> ID: JonnyCosMo @ PokerStars I need all the lucky pennies I can get.
So I'm still playing the Martins Poker league and we're in first place in our group. So hopefully we can reach the finals and go to vegas and win the €20,000. I can explain briefly how it works, you play against another team (8 people in a team, 4 get to play). So you start off with 4 heads up matches, everyone plays against everyone in the other team. Then you play a SnG, and you play a 128 person MTT. This all takes about 6 hours. The goal is to get more points than your opponent.
The other league is a live poker league. Basicly a 60person MTT. 4 team mates play, and you are never allowed to sit on the same table as a team mate. We need to get to the final table next time to win the team poker:
baller (hungover and unshaved - posted it already)
Dusty and Saki - Hands down to you guys
I was in Uppsala last weekend where Sakii and Dusty study, a swedish holiday called "Valborg". That shit was craaaaaaazy. I actually have no idea why we vikings celebrate this, but I know that the social democrats like to demonstrate when we are hungover, i'll post some pics. In my next update. Oh and I turned 22 on sunday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRONE and )ls(honest.
Elky is the first supernova elite on stars. Not really a surprise because elky has more stamina when it comes to poker than Peter North on crystal meth, but still a sick sick accomplishment in just over 4 months, especially when he is traveling to WPT and EPT events.
Anyone who knows elky knows that his favorite place in the world is the Spearmint Rhino. I, along with many others, hope that one day elky can win the main event of the WSOP so he can buy the rhino and lead it to more glory than it has ever had.
What most people haven't realized is that elky has an odd resemblance with his friend the rhino.
If you dont believe me, check out the following photo shoot:
Only 2 more weeks till I'm in vegas. The rhino gang is waiting.
Elky is the first supernova elite on stars. Not really a surprise because elky has more stamina when it comes to poker than Peter North on crystal meth, but still a sick sick accomplishment in just over 4 months, especially when he is traveling to WPT and EPT events.
Anyone who knows elky knows that his favorite place in the world is the Spearmint Rhino. I, along with many others, hope that one day elky can win the main event of the WSOP so he can buy the rhino and lead it to more glory than it has ever had.
What most people haven't realized is that elky has an odd resemblance with his friend the rhino.
If you dont believe me, check out the following photo shoot:
Only 2 more weeks till I'm in vegas. The rhino gang is waiting.
I deposited $50 on wednesday to pokerstars. It was a pretty big hassle because I don't have a credit card so I had to deposit on an account I created for my mom. I got it on there now though. I'll keep this fairly short, I would HIGHLY appreciate some comments on my PT stats even though it is a relatively small sample (this is fullring). I should probably also note that I now have to pay $300 a month for insurance+my truck payment(I got a 2003 black chevy shortbed, I'll probably take some pictures of its sexiness and upload in the near future) It has really changed my outlook on money and poker. I have some new found discipline that I very much so needed and hopefully I can stick with it.
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I also enjoyed this hand a lot. The table had got down to just me and this guy for about 20 hands. I won a hand off of him with middle pair for about 50bbs. He insta went on tilt and I made sure to never get out of line with him. This hand was about 25 hands later when some more people joined the table and I dunno I just found it to be rather interesting.
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PokerStars Game #9788637808: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2007/05/07 - 01:18:58 (ET)
Table 'Jimarnold' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: mgunter11 ($5.94 in chips)
Seat 4: khoos ($4.05 in chips)
Seat 5: alexnever ($3.05 in chips)
daniell_77 will be allowed to play after the button
mgunter11 : posts small blind $0.01
khoos: posts big blind $0.02
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to mgunter11
daniell_77 joins the table at seat #8
alexnever: folds
mgunter11 : raises $0.08 to $0.10
khoos: raises $0.08 to $0.18
mgunter11 : calls $0.08
mgunter11 : bets $3
khoos: calls $2.87 and is all-in
River (Pot : $8.36)
Showdown mgunter11 : shows (high card King)
khoos: shows (high card Ace)
khoos collected $7.70 from pot
Summary Total pot $8.10 | Rake $0.40
Board
Seat 3: mgunter11 (small blind) showed and lost with high card King
Seat 4: khoos (big blind) showed and won ($7.70) with high card Ace
Seat 5: alexnever (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
I'll preface this post with saying that i hate nothing more than people who complain about bad beats/coolers. I almost never do it and really hate it when people start im'ing me with these setup hands they had and expect me to show them sympathy. that being said, I am going all out today with my coolers in the donkaments today.
Played the major tourneys today. Hilarious what happened:
I go from top 15 in chips pretty close to the money, to out without even making the money. Insane. I thought a bit before calling the 99, i know it's pretty much an impossible fold to make but i definitely felt as if i was beat there. I dont want to be results oriented about it because it's just a cooler and it happens.
so to sum up the day, i busted from my 4 major tourneys with a set vs overset, AA v set, KK vs set, and a combination of losing an 85% advantage and a set vs a straight. man, i do not know how the online donkament players do it.
im gonna run a late night session at 3/6 to try to recoup the losses from coolerville.
I'll preface this post with saying that i hate nothing more than people who complain about bad beats/coolers. I almost never do it and really hate it when people start im'ing me with these setup hands they had and expect me to show them sympathy. that being said, I am going all out today with my coolers in the donkaments today.
Played the major tourneys today. Hilarious what happened:
I go from top 15 in chips pretty close to the money, to out without even making the money. Insane. I thought a bit before calling the 99, i know it's pretty much an impossible fold to make but i definitely felt as if i was beat there. I dont want to be results oriented about it because it's just a cooler and it happens.
so to sum up the day, i busted from my 4 major tourneys with a set vs overset, AA v set, KK vs set, and a combination of losing an 85% advantage and a set vs a straight. man, i do not know how the online donkament players do it.
im gonna run a late night session at 3/6 to try to recoup the losses from coolerville.
I just finished my last final exam, but all my friends have exams tomorrow morning so not partying tonight I just played a quick session and decided to quit while I was ahead because I had a swingy session last night. I think there must be mad fish playing on friday nights or something because they did all the work for me stacking off with TPGK and air all session.
Hey All. Been just on the grind lately, running pretty poorly. The last two days have been brutal with awful suckouts left and right. Had a couple two-outers (set vs. overpair) for 300bb pots and some other random BS. Here's the obligatory stats and graph of yesterday's results.
I've obviously been playing way too much full ring lately as is evident by my stats, if I played a little looser I'm sure I could have boosted my winrate, really dumb of me.
In other news I need to decide if I'm going to vegas this summer, and I also need to figure out how to dance a little better.
So I decided that I would start playing a lot more online mtts for a couple reasons. First I would like to improve my mtt game and its a great way to practice. And secondly, I think that there is a lot more dead money in mtts than cash games, so it could be very profitably.
Tonight I decided to play 4 tournaments. The 22r and 100r on stars, and the nightly 150 on both stars and ftp.
So 8:00 rolls around and I am scrolling through the tournament lobby when I see this big stud tournament. I was like SWEET I LIKE STUD IM GOING TO PLAY. So I register for it without even reading what it really was. Turns out I entered a 7stud play money tournament.
And since I registered for the thing less than 10 minutes before it started, I couldnt unregister. So along with my cash games and other tournaments I would be playing a 7stud play money tournament.
My table opens up and of course I recognize nobody, although I'm sure there were a few sharks mixed in there. My guess is Joe Awada and Ted Forrest were using secret accounts and were at my table. It was a real blood game. Pretty much 90% of the hands were 7 way to 4th street, cause I was the only one who folded.
So a few minutes go by when I see something in the top left of the table that I hadnt yet noticed cause I was playing a lot of tables.
there was a link to make first time deposits. Here is the link if you guys want to make a deposit for the first time:
So anyway, I play it for a while and eventually bust . I was very upset and expected much better. I probably could have folded this last hand for my last 238 but I felt pot committed with my 2 pair and 4 flush:
yada yada yada, i build a monster chip lead with 12 people left and have about 35% of the chips in play, and hold the chip lead all the way to hu, fall behind a bit, but then pull back ahead and take the shizzle down.
So I decided that I would start playing a lot more online mtts for a couple reasons. First I would like to improve my mtt game and its a great way to practice. And secondly, I think that there is a lot more dead money in mtts than cash games, so it could be very profitably.
Tonight I decided to play 4 tournaments. The 22r and 100r on stars, and the nightly 150 on both stars and ftp.
So 8:00 rolls around and I am scrolling through the tournament lobby when I see this big stud tournament. I was like SWEET I LIKE STUD IM GOING TO PLAY. So I register for it without even reading what it really was. Turns out I entered a 7stud play money tournament.
And since I registered for the thing less than 10 minutes before it started, I couldnt unregister. So along with my cash games and other tournaments I would be playing a 7stud play money tournament.
My table opens up and of course I recognize nobody, although I'm sure there were a few sharks mixed in there. My guess is Joe Awada and Ted Forrest were using secret accounts and were at my table. It was a real blood game. Pretty much 90% of the hands were 7 way to 4th street, cause I was the only one who folded.
So a few minutes go by when I see something in the top left of the table that I hadnt yet noticed cause I was playing a lot of tables.
there was a link to make first time deposits. Here is the link if you guys want to make a deposit for the first time:
So anyway, I play it for a while and eventually bust . I was very upset and expected much better. I probably could have folded this last hand for my last 238 but I felt pot committed with my 2 pair and 4 flush:
yada yada yada, i build a monster chip lead with 12 people left and have about 35% of the chips in play, and hold the chip lead all the way to hu, fall behind a bit, but then pull back ahead and take the shizzle down.
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