Not a bad month...one of my best so far. Played cash at the beginning of the month about 8k hands of nl25 up about 10bi and moved up and it didnt seem to go to well at nl50 for me 2nd nuts vs nuts...set over sets and i just didnt put in that many hands of nl50 to get out of the rut play thru the downswing. Here is a nice little graph have a chuckle with me haha i know i kinda laughed when i seen it
After being pissed about the nl50 about halfway thru the month i switched back to playin some sng and mtts and scored some nice profit there as well...little under 4k wwwweeee go me haha
Im going to be playing mostly all mtts next month and hope to score a couple FTs and hopefully get 1 of the 2 goals i have set for mtts which is a 10k month as well as a 10k day and if i can get two birds with one stone that would be even better
well gl LP its time to go chill and relax for the night
here to bring good neeews
FINALLY I had a great NL50 session, after 3 previous mega-fails (you can see then on my previous blog posts)
I dont know if it was the coaching with sniderstyle that helped me, or that after this time I really improved my game, or that I just didnt run like shit like the other times, anyways, I am finally feeling that NL50 is gonna work for me!
sniderstyle, I RECOMMEND!
Also played my biggest pot today, coolering two guys :D
I almost started praying so the board doesnt pair hahaha
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***** Hand History for Game 16145227641 ***** (Full Tilt)
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, November 19, 03:30:41 ET 2009
Table Alto (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ( $50.25 USD )
Seat 2: Simplemind26 ( $11.90 USD )
Seat 3: basset69 ( $22.85 USD )
Seat 4: bucanero33 ( $31.10 USD )
Seat 5: TripleDouble13 ( $55.40 USD )
Seat 6: nonamem8 ( $50.00 USD )
Hero posts small blind $0.25 USD.
basset69 posts big blind $0.50 USD.
Lately I've developed some weird habits with poker. For a while I would play a standard 2-3 hour session and when I finished, I wouldn't check the results. It's not that I didn't want to, I just wouldn't remember to. It's only when I restart my computer, or feeling like I'm on some wicked tilt that I check it.
I've played two sessions today, and I ended the last one with the impression that I was down a bit or at best break even for both. After looking at my PT the only thing that came to my mind was Aj (Doomer). Allow me to explain. For anyone who has ever met Aj, you are probably familiar with how Aj says 'really' when hes excited or surprised. If you've never met Aj, you really need to make an effort to find him at an event, because I can't find the words to describe it, but it's just one of those things you need to experience.
This is basically what I call an Aj 'really' moment. I was pretty shocked to see that I was actually up, and not only that but my red line was pretty much break even. I've always had a non showdown graph that was a constant -5ptbb, so I never really bothered to look at this graph. But I made a few adjustments last month to plug some leaks that I thought I had and I guess it worked a lot better than I had expected. For the last hour or so, I've just been replaying Aj's saying 'really!?' in my head every time I see this graph.
Aside from poker, I'm getting a car tomorrow with the help of Subaru from lp. I'm not really sure what I'm buying but it's definitely nothing fancy, because it's only going to be a winter car. Other than that I turn 23 next week, and I just got Modern Warfare 2. So on that note, I'm gonna go play some video games.
about to go for another NL50 shots, but this time I want some coaching
I hate my redline and I feel that I have a lot of leaks to be fixed by a good coach
pm me or
MSN: arthur.alencar@terra.com.br or
skype: arthuramlima
Stop dealing me KK vs AA
Stop giving me AA vs flopped sets
Stop givin me set over set
Stop givin me flush over flush
Stop giving me set vs flush and straight
Stop making me lose 6 buy ins in one session
Stop being rigged
First of all I want to publicly apologize to my staker. I promised him I would play huge volume for a month and make us a nice profit and I pretty much failed that in every way possible. I started the stake off playing at least 4k hands a day, making good money and everything seemed to be perfect. I started to lose money (like -10 buyins in EV) and took a day or two off and got called for a job interview at a local computer place. They literally hired me and I started working the day of my interview. They gave me a gym membership, I enrolled in college, started studying to get certs, i started eating healthy and started to pump some iron again (which feels great).
My life literally took a 180 and I hate poker for the most part anymore and if I didnt have to play, I didn't want to. I have structure in my life now, and that is something that I've never had. I know he is upset with how things worked out and it's no ones fault other than my own because he was great to work with.
I think I'm done playing poker as a "grinder" for now, and probably forever unless i just fail @ life and become a 5/10 live pro or win a big tournament, but that's pretty unlikely. I've fathomed the idea that when or if i fail in life to the point of chronic depression that I would just live in vegas and spend my 5/10 profits on cocaine/heroine and do that until i OD and die inhaling a line off of a hooker's ass. The game is so much harder than it was 4 years ago when I started this journey and I never accomplished anything to begin with so why stick around.
I guess the game is pretty well imbued into my system and I don't know how I could ever quit but the idea of competing against 5000 other nerds trying to do the same thing I am where I don't put in the effort to keep up and waiting for a spot that happens 1 in 3000 hands to turn an edge is fucking retarded. I seriously would not suggest anyone to get into poker in the current and future state that the game is going to be in. It's never going to get better... I feel pretty cheated because I'm self taught and now people can pay some faggot retard who ruined the game $30 a month and make my winrate be dispelled into nothing. I want all of the time I spent studying the statistics of everything and figuring formulas for fold equity and shit back. All the money i wasted playing 60/40 as a newb to increase my hand reading ability, everything. Fuck you carddrunners and everyone teaching random faggots and not people you care about how to win at poker. I hope you guys rot in hell with your $30 a month dues and people start not watching your videos anymore because you are now a losing player and no one wants to watch you play so you get fired and work at mcdonalds because you dropped out of college.
I've wanted to get that out for a while now. Honestly though, that's my life update and when my body starts to look like I used to I'll post some results. Also, I don't plan on disappearing if that's what you was hoping for I'm probably still going to play poker casually and I just love this community as much as it hates me and I don't feel the need to leave. I think i MIGHT play a $200 tournament this weekend @ the local casino. There will probably be around 200 people in it with a good structure and I just don't know that I can pass EV like that up. Also, fuck the girl in the blog below.
So I realized that updating my blog on a weekly basis is just too much work. I really wanted to get some pics of the beach house I live in now (moved in at the end of August) but I lost my camera which sucks. Anyways, Evan and I moved up stakes in life and now we live in the WindanSea area in La Jolla with TeeJayOrTJ. Other than that life has been chill past few months. There are a ton of online poker players (Like 20-25 players that I know of) living here in San Diego and a bunch of us have taken up golf, so recently I've been golfing atleast 1-2 times a week which is a blast except for the fact that I'm averaging losing ~$500 in prop bets everytime I go out with the boys. I'm a sick betting fish apparently, but atleast my golf game is improving. First round of golf I shot a 180 (I'm sure most people would just give up counting strokes, but I wanted to see how bad I really was) but now I'm averaging around 125 strokes from the middle tees which is nice. I've even shot my first legit birdie already!
Been playing mostly live the past 2 months and been crushing until the last week of October where I pretty much ran like dog shit and probably didn't play my best while running that bad. I had a set goal on what I thought I could maintain monthly at Palomar (the cardroom I mostly play at in San Diego) and I was on track until my very tragic last week of October. Sucks to run bad on one of the very few times the No Limit game runs with $10/$20/$40 blinds. Lucky for me, my next door neighbor is | Scubba | the cap NL wizard, and watching him play & crush Ivey at $500/$1000 cap NL got me motivated to play online once again. Actually ended up learning a lot about playing vs short stacks from watching one of his sessions and listening to how he thinks about the game. So far thou, my own online en devours have been slow, as I feel like playing live vs mostly fish has set me back on the learning curve. Been watching a bunch of videos and studying up so hopefully I can return strong! Other than that, I got myself into a relationship and it's cool caz my girlfriend is basically awesome in everyway. For some reason, my mind set is on such an even keel no matter how bad or good I run and I feel it's mainly caz of her.
Left to right: Girlfriend's roommate, Girlfriend, Me
Here is most of our poker group down here at dinner for Clayton's (Leggopoker Clayton) birthday:
Oh and Halloween @ Hardrock in downtown San Diego -->
So I realized that updating my blog on a weekly basis is just too much work. I really wanted to get some pics of the beach house I live in now (moved in at the end of August) but I lost my camera which sucks. Anyways, Evan and I moved up stakes in life and now we live in the WindanSea area in La Jolla with TeeJayOrTJ. Other than that life has been chill past few months. There are a ton of online poker players (Like 20-25 players that I know of) living here in San Diego and a bunch of us have taken up golf, so recently I've been golfing atleast 1-2 times a week which is a blast except for the fact that I'm averaging losing ~$500 in prop bets everytime I go out with the boys. I'm a sick betting fish apparently, but atleast my golf game is improving. First round of golf I shot a 180 (I'm sure most people would just give up counting strokes, but I wanted to see how bad I really was) but now I'm averaging around 125 strokes from the middle tees which is nice. I've even shot my first legit birdie already!
Been playing mostly live the past 2 months and been crushing until the last week of October where I pretty much ran like dog shit and probably didn't play my best while running that bad. I had a set goal on what I thought I could maintain monthly at Palomar (the cardroom I mostly play at in San Diego) and I was on track until my very tragic last week of October. Sucks to run bad on one of the very few times the No Limit game runs with $10/$20/$40 blinds. Lucky for me, my next door neighbor is | Scubba | the cap NL wizard, and watching him play & crush Ivey at $500/$1000 cap NL got me motivated to play online once again. Actually ended up learning a lot about playing vs short stacks from watching one of his sessions and listening to how he thinks about the game. So far thou, my own online en devours have been slow, as I feel like playing live vs mostly fish has set me back on the learning curve. Been watching a bunch of videos and studying up so hopefully I can return strong! Other than that, I got myself into a relationship and it's cool caz my girlfriend is basically awesome in everyway. For some reason, my mind set is on such an even keel no matter how bad or good I run and I feel it's mainly caz of her.
Left to right: Girlfriend's roommate, Girlfriend, Me
Here is most of our poker group down here at dinner for Clayton's (Leggopoker Clayton) birthday:
Oh and Halloween @ Hardrock in downtown San Diego -->
Just scored 2nd $77 turbo 10,000 guarantee on stars. Now I wanna move $900 to FTP.I need it for mtts on ft tonight. Any1 help me out plz??? I will send first. PM/ reply here if you can help.
Just scored 2nd $77 turbo 10,000 guarantee on stars. Now I wanna move some to FTP. Any1 help me out plz??? I will send first. PM/ reply here if you can help.
Had multiple house vs house, AA lose in 4b/5b pots ect for 400+bb pots to start the session, nuts vs 2nd nuts...some days I hate this fucking game.
Then I started making some hands, my hands started holding up, got lucky in some spots.
Still ran "above expectation" because there isn't a calculation for house vs house, AA vs QQ on Qxx when 50bb go in pf ect. Made some 2 outers, won some big coin flips.
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