So, I haven't written a blog in awhile but I have been fairly active at my local casinos. For a little while playing 1/2, 1/3 I felt on top of the world wrecking every table i played at have consistent days of 600$ profits. Some days good, some bad. Overall I felt great. My problems began when my regular 5-6 hour days turned into a 12-14 hour days and i would always feel tired and lazy toward the end of my sessions. For some reason I just bean playing every day trying to win back any loses from the last day and usually playing pretty well in the early hours only the make mistake after mistake and miss reading my opponents constantly. So yeah, pretty much the worst 2 months after being up around 4.5k. I would get mad at the way the cards fell without realizing that the problem was post flop and i was aggressive against a tight player. It was just a snowball of bad poker by me. I consider myself a good player when I am thinking clearly and understand my limits but i got greedy and tried to exceed what i was capable of.
From my loses I took the last 1k or so and spent it on things i needed before i would take a small break. I decided to take a break when my girlfriend moved in with me and i took a little vacation. I decided that I would switch from cash games to tournament play. Prior to playing cash games as my primary focus, I played the local casino tournaments and although i wasn't too good at the time, after winning a few for around 1k each, I was hooked.
Lately I have been playing in a lot of tournaments and doing exceptionally well. Like cash games, I want to build up a little larger of a bankroll before enrolling myself in tournaments that are above 300$. The unfortunate thing where I am is that the tournaments are usually 25 min blinds, 5k ish stacks, and start at either 10/20 or 25/50. I wish they were a little more deep with longer blind levels but that 150-200$, I probably won't get my wish. The 5 tournaments I played in I have made the money in 4 of them, usually chopping the winnings with the remaining 3 or 4 at the table depending on the take. So, as things are looking up i am sad at my previous performances lead me back to tournaments. Not because of my choice to play.
On any note, things have been going well and as time allows (girl friend) I will continue to compete. I played in a wsop satellite a little ways back without being rolled for the type of re-buy that it was so I hope to build my stack to be able to compete on that level again. I am not a good player but i think I know a lot more than the competition that I am up against which bodes well for me.
I have learned that my weakest point in any tournament is usually when I have about 20 bb's and blinds are 200/400 with 50 ante. I just can't seem to get a good fix on stealing correctly and picking my spots. right around this time is when the tight players begin a steal attempt or two and i find myself being the victim of their first "steal" attempt and forced to fold due to having the only information on them as a Tight player. Obviously they may not be bluffing but they will show their cards trying to tilt me or feel like a bad ass, I can't tell.
So, I will try to start submitting spots that I wasn't sure about keep you guys updated on my tournament play. I have a few casinos to choose from with all sorts of different ranges for tournaments so once i build my stack up higher I will join the larger tournaments with prizes for first coming around 10k.
Since moving up to 25NL I haven't experienced the same success as I had at the limits before. I don't feel it's harder, but I've just played worse and ran bad.
Started yesterday in my first 500 hands losing 3 buy-ins, spending all day trying to grind it back. I did, went over it and then lost my winnings again. Ending up with a 0.09 BB/100 session after 15 hours of play.
This morning, same thing happened, but even worse. Lost AA vs KK, AA vs AQ, small pots and an awful tilt bluff. Back down to -4 buy ins.
I know, I shouldn't whine too much, in the little over a month I have been playing again I haven't experienced any real downswings yet, but progression stagnating is a bit demoting.
I kinda want to revamp what I wear. i basically dress like a 15 year old high school athlete and its time to change that. i've tried to get my girlfriend to help a bit but what she likes and what I like are so far different that Id rather get some other opinions and form something thats more of my own style.
I searched some of the old threads on LP (http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/559749/Clothing_thread.html) but given how much people were recommending ed hardy and affliction shirts, I think it's safe to say that those threads are outdated.
I guess i'll just go over every part of an outfit that I need help with. I've got nice pairs of jeans, nice dress shirts, a good pair of sandals and finding cool sneakers is really easy. so i need help with shorts and casual every day shirts.
finding t shirts to wear is easy and i can do that either online or at a place like pac sun. finding nice polos and casual every day shirts is not. it doesnt help that i have a hard body to find shirts for. im 6'0 170 so im tall but pretty thin. muscle wise i have lean arms, a very small chest and a thin frame but well developed shoulders. so basically mediums are snug on me and really short while larges are the right length but are extremely loose fitting around my arms and chest.
any recommendations for nice casual every day shirts that arent t shirts and arent golf shirts? one big pet peeve i have is guys who dress like they are a professional golfer every day. looks really stupid to me. just as i imagine me dressing like im some pro mma fighter looks really stupid to them.
but these really arent enough. any recommendations on other good every day shorts to wear?
i also have absolutely 0 sense of what kind of stuff matches together to the point that I probably come off like I have aspergers lol. what are big no-nos for matching shorts and tops? and what colors go well together or dont go well together?
The USD : CAD conversion rate is almost exactly 1:1, and yet everything in Canada costs between 30-100% more (this pisses me off). Anything I can do here? Or anyone know of any good quality headphones that are under $50 which ship to Canada?
Washington State Online Poker Initiativeby curtinsea, August 05
Some of you may know, Washington State was the first state in the US to be dropped first by Pokerstars, and then FTP, prior to Black Friday. This was due to a State law passed in 2006, and which survived a narrow court challenge in 2009. Once that challenge failed, the sites decided against continuing to offer play to Washington State. Unfortunately for them, it was too little too late.
Violation of that State law in Washington is at the cornerstone of the Black Friday cases, and the Washington State Gaming Commission worked hand in hand with the DoJ to bring the cases that shut down the big three sites. But now the landscape has changed.
With the recent reversal in position by the DoJ with regard to the Wire Act, one by one states are passing their own online poker legislation. Even with Federal legislation, Washington would be still out in the cold under the current RCW. But the people can act to change the law themselves, without help or support of the State Legislature, thanks to the Initiative process.
So, in January of next year, at the earliest date allowed by statute, an Initiative to the Voters of Washington State will be introduced that will carve out an exception to that 2006 language specifically for poker, and create some framework under which online poker can be offered in our state. But that is the easy part.
We will need to gather signatures, our goal is 300K to assure we meet the required 241k valid signatures, by the end of June, to qualify for the November 2013 ballot. It will take a small army of volunteers to collect the needed signatures, but surely this can be done.
Once qualified for the ballot, a 60% yes vote is required for this gambling issue, so a real campaign will need to be mounted at that time.
Between now and then, we need to rally as much support as we can get. Spread the word to every poker player you know in Washington to get on board and help make this a reality!
It's a lot to read so I can just provide a short synopsis here. Basically, he called me out (like so many others have in the past) claiming that I was a losing player, that I was cheating people by over-charging for coaching that I wasn't qualified to be giving and that he would destroy me in a HU battle.
It's not like me to accept a challenge like this or to ever challenge anybody else for some kind of HU duel scenario, but what this guy did was way way over the line. And if you know me at all, it's not in my nature to back down against someone making such accusations, and I always got a chip on my shoulder as if I have to constantly prove myself.
So we are playing 10,000 hands HU @ 3/6NL. We escrowed 5k each -- with whoever being up at the end of the match winning the side bet while still keeping any other profits earned during the match.
Today we played ~400 hands and I finished up ~2400. That was the first session of our official challenge but the second session we've played. I'm up on him about 5k in less than 1k hands over the two times I have played him HU.
Based on what I think about this guy's play, he's in way over his head, he could drop an additional 20k to me over these 10k hands in addition to the 5k side bet. I'm feeling very confident.
Okay so I finally made a twitter account. I'm going to tweet when the matches are being played for whoever wants to rail it. You guys can follow me there @PeterJennings28.
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