A bit late posting these as we went on this hike over a week ago, but better late than never. The weather got nice and I was eager to leave the house since I never get outside these days, so we headed out to my old hometown of Boulder to get on the trails. I used to go up to Mallory Cave all the time as a kid with my family, and wanted to do the hike with my GF.
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0036.JPG I got lost right away as I couldn't remember if we needed to go north or south at the first split in the trail... so I had to call and ask for directions, haha. Weird world cause when I used to hike these trails no one had cell phones, so it was odd just pulling out the cell and calling for directions.
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0040.JPG Once we figure it out my GF poses for a quick pic
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0045.JPG We make it to the cave and I explore a bit
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0049.JPG Self portrait time - I'm getting pretty good at these... sadly we couldn't get the cave to show up so well in the background cause of the lighting.
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0053.JPG The view of Boulder - pretty sweet
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0057.JPG This is where we ate lunch that we packed with us.
http://premium1.uploadit.org/IAElitesquad//DSC_0059.JPG One last view from up near the cave. I love Boulder.
It felt really good to get out and hike... at the end to get up to the cave there's a bit of light rock climbing which was kinda tough cause there was still ice and snow up there. We were really happy to make it up there though - it's so nice getting out into nature again. I spend way too much time in doors playing poker!
Anyway, just a quickie. I know the pics were on the boring side compared to normal, so sorry about that. Planning to do more outdoorsy shit as the summer keeps approaching and will try to document it for the blog!
So I decided to reactivate my old blog.
The main reason for this is that when I used to updated it I played a decent amount (yay), actually I played a lot more than now (not yay). Also I'm trying myself in the game of headsup and I want to play it at least for April.
My plan is to throw a few hands after every session, especially the ones where I had a problem deciding what to do or I find interesting in some way, so you guys could flame me ;>
Tomorrow will be the first update, I will start on NL200 and see how it goes from there.
Been sick for a few days so I chose not to play poker during this time cause I didn't want to not play my best, and lose and kick myself later for it. It's starting to clear up though so I can start being productive again.
Today I'll just catch up on all the things unrelated to poker, recheck my goals, homework, clean room, pretty much tie up as many loose ends as possible.
I'm looking forward to April, when I can focus on poker 100%.
I played a single table at PS trying to apply concepts like floating and trying to identify when someone's hand missed the flop for about an hour. I lost 16 bucks in less than 50 hands at NL10. I think the entire table was laughing at me. Can't blame them. When I look at my hand history I laugh at myself. I really looked like an idiot. And, of course, since I looked like an idiot people started playing back at my flop cbets and raises so I thought I'd better stop. Before I did, I got my flush that obviously hit on the river called because I looked like such an idiot that nobody took me seriously.
It's also tough because the stack sizes are now 100bb instead of 200 like at 5NL. It was so easy to get away from hands back then. Now every decent sized raise seems either a shove or a committment to a shove on the next street.
Funnily enough, to me, posting my hands on LP.net asking for help is tougher than playing poker. I always know that I'm asking a stupid question, or that I'm posting a lousy hand (otherwise I wouldn't be posting it!) but I just have to force myself to post it anyway.
In Singapore, people seldom get second chances after major screw ups. It's almost impossible to get a job with a criminal record, for instance. People tend to be rather dismissive of mistakes. Very few people speak up and ask for help for fear of looking dumb. That culture is changing with the internet encouraging people to speak up, but it's still very prevalent.
Experimenting with new concepts at the poker tables and looking foolish or posting badly played hands and asking for help is tough for me. I'm glad I'm continuing to do it.
In lieu of making big bucks at NL10, I guess something that makes me a slightly better person is some compensation.
all in all, my play was extremely erratic. some days I'll be at the top of my game and doing great, other days I'll play like a complete idiot. Despite it being a reasonably decent month (around $5.5k including tourneys) I feel like my overall play was just horrible. Because of this, I've decided to take a week off and concentrate on other things to clear my head...I've also got a pretty severe case of life tilt that I need to get corrected as well. I'm in a rut when it comes to hobbies so I feel like I need to make a lot of changes. It's very possible this week off could turn into months...I'm just not happy right now, and while poker isn't to blame I do need to make some life style changes and if that bumps poker off the map then oh well.
Kinda ended the month semi-bad, but still up like 5k after rakeback and donkament scores so I actually had a "real" winning month for the first time since November. Feels really good. Gotta see if I can get up to decent mid stakes and pwn som nits and make some real money now. Anyway, found a song. "There's a place in the world for a gambler";
Before I start, I promise I'll post my Day 2 report from the Wynn Classic main event before I leave to Vegas this weekend. I'd like some more feedback on my bust-out hand from the event as it was very interesting. For those of you who didn't hear, I basically bluffed off a 56k stack at 600/1200 and got caught by some very obscure rivered two pair that almost folded. So today I did some clean-up, got things organized, been reading up on taxes (which is depressing, because it sounds like I'm going to get waxed pretty hard) and finally planned my upcoming trip back out to Vegas for Bellagio's WPT Championships.
I went to this event last year for a few days and it was a blast since there are so many tourists who come to watch, making for a very exciting environment, along with some extremely juicy side games. This year, the plan is to leave early in the morning on the 5th and leave on the 13th. Here is the list of events I plan on playing:
At least, that's what I told peachy. Although realistically I might have to take a break from an event or two to play the side games. They really are too juicy to pass up this time of year. Almost as sweet as WSOP time. Obv, Myth and FrinkX are going to be playing these events as well (actually more since they are leaving on the 1st) so hopefully we can deliver some more magic from San Diego.
Now you guys might be wondering why did I titled this blog 'How Good Do I Run?'... well it basically speaks for itself. I'm pretty sure no one runs better than me this month. Came up $54,500 total this month by playing less than 10,000 hands online and entering a couple donkaments. Ez life. Plus I have more POY points that mig.com, and I am going to make sure he hears about this every time I see him. Finally, about 30 minutes ago while I was booking my flights, a friend of mine showed me how to sign up for Southwest Rapid Rewards (basically rakeback for the airline I use the most). What the heck, I signed up for it. A notice to call a certain number appeared so I called the number and was answered by one of the Southwest travel agents. I tell her that I was signing up for their rapid rewards program so she figured it was my first time flying with Southwest... she figured wrong. For the next 20 mins, she is pulling up all my past flights and adding them to my new rapid rewards account while I'm put on hold... somewhat. She basically has the phone on her desk and I over hear her talking to her deskmate saying things like "Look at how many previous flights are on this account!" "Wow" "Oh my, there is another page of them" "Jesus" "I've never seen someone with this many previous flights and no previous rapid rewards account". Finally she gets back on the phone with me and is like "Sir, we were able to locate 31 previous roundtrip flights from the past 3 years, does that sound about right?" What can I say? I like to travel. "That sounds about right" I said, and then I hear her do some more typing until finally she gets back on the phone with me and says the following:
"Southwest is rewarding you with 5 free roundtrip tickets."
LOL? Ship it crucial! That pretty much covers all my trips back and forth to Vegas from now til the end of summer. As for other updates in my life, I haven't been playing much poker online at all. Been really lazy since I got back from the Wynn. I can point my finger at one huge reason why... I have a crush on a girl. It's totally like a high school style crush too. I need to grow-up, and that's about all I'm going to say on that matter.
Was going back over my old blog posts when my graph's were like rollercoasters and it was ironic to read some of the comments from people.
All the negative stuff like "play money 4 u obv" was from players that are still at nl25-nl100.. and most constructive was from relatively high stakes players (little did I know at the time).
So basically this is a big fuck you to the tough guys going no where in poker but like to talk shit, even though I'm sure they wouldn't know who they are.
since i am waiting for my rakeback to continue NL50
i thought it be nice to play some poekrstars sngs
3.40 $ 18ppl
busted the first 2 then won 2 in a row
29$ profitz ! ship
then
lost 14 in a row without getting ITM
Now i remember why i changed to cashgame as my primarly poker game a long time ago
when i made myself the rule to never ever play sngs serious again.
Its just all about getting it all in with the better hand preflop and lose to 3 outer all the time >-<
Its funny that even though i dont care abot that 19$ that i lost the fact that its just plain luckbox poker tilts me to the max ...
on another note
I just read
mastering the rubber guard by Eddie Bravo
even though i dislike Eddie as Person his grappling stuff is pretty sick !
Yeah was again running terrible lately(last few days) just in terms of card I think the play was rather steady and controlled maybe at a few exception.
But now I'm pretty happy I'm back at 36k in account, also I'm in the 200k sunday since UB gave me free entrance. Last time I was something like 20th in chips rank and lost most AQ vs AQ+66 preflop then went in JJ vs KK and died. Not really sure at what point I busted out but soon before the bubble. Something like 90th. It's not a big deal anyway I'm gonna keep going the best I can until I focus only on poker 5 weeks from now.
Also I'm in a Brian Townsend video which is pretty good I think we play a good amount of hands together but of course I had no idea I was playing him I just got notified later by Fayth and also some people on UB.
For overall March result it's probably something like up 15k over maybe 50k hands, I'm not really satisfied but more to come.
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