PokerStar's WCOOP is just around the corner but with school going on and classes in the middle of my day I'm going to have to cut back on a couple of the events I wanted to play. So I've planned out what I'm going to do to work around school and came up with the following list of events I plan on playing:
Friday September 14th: WCOOP Event #1 - $215 NLHE (6-Max)
Sunday September 16th: WCOOP Event #5 - $530 NLHE
Friday September 21st: WCOOP Event #10 - $320 NLHE (Heads-Up)
Friday September 21st: WCOOP Event #11 - $215 Razz
Saturday September 22nd: WCOOP Event #13 - $530 PLHE
Sunday September 23rd: WCOOP Event #14 - $1050 NLHE
Wednesday September 26th: WCOOP Event #17 - $320 NLHE (6-Max)
Friday September 28th: WCOOP Event #20 - $530 NLHE (Shootout)
Total of WCOOP Event Buy-Ins: $3,710
If all goes as planned I'll hopefully turn up some sort of profit through all of this. If I break even I wont think of it as too bad. But if the karma of the universe continues to shit on me, then I will probably be destined to down-kick the entire $3,710. As of right now I don't plan on playing the Main Event, but that will probably change. I'm still playing some satellites for it every weekend, and if I happen to grab a seat before then I will most likely play. That or I'll sell pieces of myself out. GL to everyone in the WCOOP.
Busto...worst beat everby JoeDeertay, September 12
I'm now busto on my LionCash account after taking a horrible beat by the laundry machines.
I did all my laundry today because I of course waited until I had absolutely no clothes left, and I combined both loads into one dryer, which costs $50c per use and 50 minutes to dry. So it ended up taking me 3 runs through the dryer for my clothes to actually get dry, and on the third one I split both the loads into 2 dryers, so instead of paying once I had to pay 4 times. Now I don't even have enough in my LionCash to run a load of laundry in the washer for $1.50. Looks like I might have to reload and maybe move down stakes next time.
Yay finally hit 2000$, I also have 420$ RB for august, with something like 150$ already for this month. I've been pretty damn pissed off in the last weeks, running really shitty, but it settled. I'll try to focus on my friday exam now that I can. My master TheTrees is focusing hard on school so I should too.
So as you can see on the graph today was my worst day ever The amount I lost is equal to amount I won in my best day ever . Today I saw 2 really fishy nl400 tables so I decided to take a shot. After 50 hands I got stacked twice - set vs set and top 2 pairs vs str8 against a huge donk. Oh well. Apart from that I played nl300 6max today as well and was getting coolers and beats left and right.
I'm not pissed off or anything. The only thing that worries me is that my roll dropped to about 10k (because of latest big cashoutament and recent downswingament). Well actually 9,6k but 10k sounds better lolz I think I'm gonna drop to nl200 for a while (mixed with some good tables of nl300) but I'm not gonna take shots at nl400 till I hit 14-15k or so. I'm also gonna take a break from HU or at least drop to nl100 HU cause the variance is pretty sick. But now that I think about it I'm probably gonna watch as many HU vids on CR as possible cause I feel like I'm quite spewy (calling peoplez down lightly and trying to bluff too much).
I would be lying if I said that I'm happy about the dowswing but to be honest I think it's good that it happened cause I was getting a bit too confident etc.
Enough poker talk though. On Friday I went out but couldn't drink much cause I had to drive early on Saturday cause I went to play golf for the first time in my life (mini-golf doesn't count). So I just had two beers and a drink and went home about 1am. Woke up early on Saturday, picked up my friend and headed to the golf club in my city. I practiced for like 1,5hr on a drive point (not sure if it's the right name) and putting course (not sure as well). After 15 minutes I already had blisters on my hand cause I didn't have a glove lolz. It hurted a lot but I got some plasters and continued playing. At the beginning it was pretty hard but a trainer gave me some good tips and I started doing long shots. My best shot was around 130-140 metres. I did quite good at putting after I managed to realize approx. strength that you need to put to shoot from a certain distant. Overall I have to say that I loved it and I'm definitely gonna continue playing. Any tips for the beginners? How to practice, what sort of clubs should I buy etc etc. Thanks in advance.
So the same day in the evening I went out with my friends. I got drunk pretty quickly cause I drank a lot of vodkas with redbull at my friend's place. Then we obviously headed to my favorite club and I had more and more drinks. I was pretty drunk and we left quite early - about 2:30am. My friend wasn't drinking so he drove me to my house. We stopped at a gas station cause he wanted to wash his car. My friend told me he'd give me $5 if I put my head under this big brush thingy and wash my hair. I was quite drunk so I obviously did it.
Sunday and Monday were pretty boring. I watched my brother's soccer game, had a family dinner etc. Yesterday my friend was organising a big party at his house. I thought there's gonna be only like 20 peoplez or so but when we arrived there were at least 40. Right away I noticed a guy that seemed really familiar. After 5 mins I realized he was a golf trainer that I met on Saturday. I bought 1l of Jack Daniels and 1l of Absolut and we had it between 3 of us so I obviously got really drunk but I had a really good time. Went to bed around 6am and woke up around 11am - still drunk. Had a lunch with my friends and watched a soccer game (Poland - Finland 0:0) which was really boring. Then decided to play a session that turned out to be the worst I ever had
Tommorow I have to go to the dentist (my mum ) and I really hate it. It's like the worst thing I could imagine. Bleh. On Friday my mate is organising a farewell party for me at his house so it should be pretty awesome. I'm coming back to the UK on Sunday. I've got mixed feelings about this. It was awesome to stay in Poland and do nothing for 3 months apart from partying, hanging out, relaxing, eating out and playing poker. But I'm gonna start the uni now, meet loads of peoplez, party a lot and hopefully find some time to play poker.
W00t, I'm an adult now! Time to get driver's license asap.
Oh, and I dropped $200 last two days after getting up to $630 so now I have to drop down to NL10 again, but oh well.
Nearly back to nl25, prolly wud be there if i didnt keep doing donkaments.
I'll move back up at 500.
Nl10 is really soft my vpip is insanely high cos i keep finding myself in 4-5 way pots with a suited connector, apart from that im enjoying playing a wider range of hands and ill keep playing something like 22/19 at nl25 when i get there and see how that works out (was palying like 18/13 before)
Played another slate of tournaments tonight. Got 10th in the $11/10 min levels after a guy stacked off REALLY light v. me on the bubble which was pretty blah. Also got like 19th in the $55 6 max never recovering after my set lost to an OESD which was also blah. But completed the night with:
I haven't been playing consistently well for a long time. Sometimes I play really well and I'm really satisfied with my game, but I haven't able to string good sessions together. I have a good day, then play badly the next.
For about the past 3 months my bankroll hasn't moved, I'm still winning but my win rate has sucked and I've been cashing out everything I win. Part of my problem has been I'm playing too many tables and I make hasty bad decisions so I've been 4 tabling again mostly. But when I get stuck I get frustrated and impatient and have a hard time focusing on just 4 tables and I usually open more.
I tend to dwell on bad plays I make, I get obsessive. It seems like I have to play so well/get lucky to win anything, but losing is soo easy. idk i should probably stop whining because I still make like 3x more than I have at any other point in my life. I'm just frustrated because I feel like I'm failing. I am failing.
Fortunately I don't really tilt, so I haven't had any disastrous sessions. I may get some coaching or something, get someone else's point of view. That would probably help. I'm also thinking about dropping down to 1/2 for a few weeks and see how that goes. A lot of good players here have been dabbling in omaha, maybe I'll give that a try. I'm just frustrated that I can't get my bankroll up. Every time i start playing well I have a spew session.
Of course suicide is my ace in the hole, or my get out of jail free card as TalentedTom puts it
I really like the 10/20 games on ftp. I've been running well in the sense that i've gotten way more monsters than I should. I'm not really winning more allins than i should probability wise, just getting into lots of good situations, which definitely wont last but its fun to ride the rush out.
Im going to grind a lot the upcoming days, mostly at 3/6 and 5/10 on stars. Id like to make another 5-10k before i play in the 10k borgata wpt event this weekend. It's nice to more than pay for an event before you play it, i will feel like im freerolling it and will definitely play better.
On a side note, id like to say that daniel negreanu is my hero. he managed to get deep tables for 100/200 nl on stars within an hour of requesting (minimum buyin 50bb) and is a really nice guy. I also suspect that he will be an online beast in the future when he learns how to fully adjust to online play. It's great to see someone as influential, personable and legendary come to stars to really get the important changes made to make stars even better than it was.
And one last note, i think in the next few weeks ill make the video i promised a while back. There are a lot of options for it and im open to suggestions on what people want to see.
Vector calc is kicking my ASS =[by JoeDeertay, September 11
I'm trying to get this homework done for class tomorrow and I've already been working on it for about 45 minutes, but I've only managed to complete 5 of 19 problems and I still have to study for tomorrow's quiz. I hear this class only gets harder to the point of impossible by semester's end too, so it looks like I'll be hitting the books more often and playing less. It took me about 3 hours to do my physics homework online earlier today too. Ugh college is such a bad beat.
I guess it's a good thing I've been able to log about 5700 hands of my weekly 10k goal so far already this week after Sunday's marathon, so I can spend some time to get ahead in some classes over the next few days. Maybe I'll see some TAs for help or something with this shit after I bomb the quiz
Ran superbad at first, got into a lot of shit situations, tbh i feel i ran badly overall but the players are just so soft. My vpip was really really high since i often found myself with a suited connector vs a 5 way flop in position.
Had $94 on one table at a point that waz cool
Anyway im on $445 or so on stars ill move back up to nl25 soon i shud rly stop playing donkaments i keep losing them and getting annoyed.
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The amount I lost is equal to amount I won in my best day ever . Today I saw 2 really fishy nl400 tables so I decided to take a shot. After 50 hands I got stacked twice - set vs set and top 2 pairs vs str8 against a huge donk. Oh well. Apart from that I played nl300 6max today as well and was getting coolers and beats left and right. 
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