My friends around here probably noticed that I haven't blogged in a long time. Considering that I was one of the most active bloggers, it is kind of weird that I've gotten so scarce on LP. But it's all for good reasons. I've basically been getting my life together. For a while I was overworked at my normally part time job for a nonprofit as I was finishing up a brand new website that I'd built for them with a buddy of mine. Then I took a break and went to vegas for the WSOP and got into a big poker mode for a while. I started coaching and also grinding a lot and had some good results after vegas. Coached a bunch of people but the crowd thinned out to 2 guys that I really enjoyed working with. I kept coaching them and at the same time started having another big downswing. Not so much in terms of losing lots of money, just a lot of breaking even. I ended my coaching with sakisaki as he went off to medical school (thanks for everything Anders, I'd suck at poker if it wasn't for your help) but it was a nice parting as we'd become good friends and I feel like he did an amazing job as a coach and couldn't ask for more.
So I continued coaching and started playing poker less and less as I got back into working on this website for my job. And now I'm in another transition. I've been planning a trip to India with my lady for a while now and we've set the departure for mid january. That means between now and then I need to save up as much money as I possibly can and also finish all the work I want to do on this website and then train everyone on how to use it and maintain it once I'm gone. December is pretty much filled up with holiday travel to see family so I've got 2 months to do those 2 things. I realized that while I've been covering all my expenses and saving a little money, at the rate I'm currently saving I won't have enough to do this trip properly. So I'm refocusing myself to play even more poker and do less coaching, and to spend less and less time at my part time job.
I dunno if I'm gonna keep blogging a lot but I have a feeling I'm gonna get back into it, so keep an eye out for more updates =) I do miss all you weird mofos and I miss poker, so I'm happy to be refocusing on this part of my life again!
Pocket 9s - "Standard" Play?by superfashion, September 25
Submitted by : superfashion
PokerStars Game #33273635265: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/09/25 15:06:16 ET
Table Larink IV 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Mr_Mutton ($2.10 in chips)
Seat 2: gpurvis ($11.70 in chips)
Seat 3: alajo ($10.20 in chips)
Seat 4: faibinger ($10.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Mr Ouskan ($15.65 in chips)
Seat 6: Hurstel ($6.45 in chips)
Seat 8: czarnainess1 ($3.90 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero ($4.35 in chips)
Mr_Mutton: posts small blind $0.05
gpurvis: posts big blind $0.10
Showdown Hero: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
czarnainess1: mucks hand
Hero collected $2.05 from pot
Summary Total pot $2.15 | Rake $0.10
Board
Seat 1: Mr_Mutton (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: gpurvis (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: alajo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: faibinger folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Mr Ouskan folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Hurstel folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: czarnainess1 mucked
Seat 9: Hero (button) showed and won ($2.05) with three of a kind, Nines
The over cards spooked me on the flop, but I probably could've gone from the Gus Hansen school and bet higher preflop. I pulled a semi-bluff when the flush draw came out, but I was willing to give up 30 cents to see if he'd re-raise.
OK, so I sat down on table, guy on my left open-shove like 6-7 of 12 hands. I'm on big blind, 4folds, guy shove, I have AcKs. Little me says "Oh god yes yes yessss", call. He shows As3h.
flop comes 378ss. omg.
Some hands later. 2 guys logged out - guy on my left stacked one with KTs on AA (flop Kxx, and rivered K), second one had 44 (vs guys 55).
Guy open-shove to me again, I with my AJ had edge on him. (Range that i give him here is kind too tight for him, because he shoved 93 one too, and there were shoves that everybody folded)
equity
Hand 0: 59.369% { AJo }
Hand 1: 40.631% { 22+, A2s+, K2s+, A2o+, K2o+, Q7o, JTo }
I showed AJ he 99, no J, no A.
Last couple of sessions (except that one I brag about last post) is just armageddon for my br. If I hit something villain have better (set over set for most of the time) or I dont get any action, but for most of the time I dont hit anything :/ I know that AK is only connector pf, but fck, nearly 20times when I got that no A nor K on board :/ Didn't won with pocket pairs like for eternity :/
That is sooooo frustrating.
When I started this blog it was my milestone from ~$20 to $200. Had $250 some time ago. I didn't change my game, not played after booze nor drugs. Not playing when tilted or ill (except play money but it doesn't cout). My game is crappy - I know - that's why I play nl2-5-10 and not nl2k-5k-10k, but for the stakes that I play it was profitable.
Is this a swing? Or is it my lame game made that I lost half of my roll. Or both?
I'm learning from pretty good players every single time I go to see them. I'm watching videos. I'm reading LP every day. And playing nearly every time I have free time.
So I'm improving, right? RIGHT?
If it is just a normal swing (i never had one ever) then omg, poker is horrible.
If it go even more like that, I will have to move down again to nl2 :/ and I don't want that :/ I am capable of doing that, for me it's no shame to play nl2, but if I can hold up nl5 I will try.
This whole thing is frustrating me so much, that I don't know if I'm sane now at the moment.
But it will pass, I hope.
Oh, and (maybe it's lame) I hoped that I could try "Avatars lottery" on LP but on "Poker Bonuses" section it disappeared.
Besides poker, today is my final exam :/ Maybe it will go better than poker. I hope.
USA->EPT Warsaw? Make free $ ;oby Defrag, September 25
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Yes, I cross-posted this at 2p2 as well, since they have some players that regularly come to EPT's.
If I dont find anyone, then I will just spend more money, but I would prefer to save some cash and let somebody earn some as well.
My sennheiser 570's headphone cord has gotten old and brittle I guess, and I think it crapped out. It only plays out of the left earphone now lol. I went to buy a new headphone cord and went to two different shops before I realized its a proprietary cord with 2 different sized ends, and I need to order it from the website, haha.
I visited best buy in the process and finally decided to get a replacement for my trusty old..old.. very fucking old microsoft intellimouse 3.0. Its left click was crapping out for the past year and a half and it just needed to be replaced. I got a logitech mx 518 which is apparently the gold standard of gaming mice lately. Its working nicely so far.
I downloaded tableninja today and holy FUCK. Its awesome and probably saved me 1000 mouse clicks or other button presses today. Which is awesome. I will definitely be buying it as soon as the FTP version is no longer free. Just 4 or 6 tabling it is still 100% worth it for the health of my hands/wrists plus it is rather aggressive with your tables so it kind of forces me to pay attention the whole time I'm grinding instead of minimizing when I start getting bored rofl.
Playing nl100 and feeling like I have a solid edge + being newly armed with TABLE NINJORZ, I played 6 tables today. It went fairly well, and I think I will sustain 6tables at nl100 for the next (x) number of sessions to see if I can solidly 6table nl100 yet.
Kind of thinking I should spend a month grinding nl100 and try to win like 5k with RB. Withdraw 2k at the end of Oct. for the next 3months living expenses and then move to nl200 full time without having to worry about moving down because of 5 buyins.. Not really sure if this is a better idea than taking shots every weekend or not though. I'm realllllly bad at *not* taking shots though so I think the nl200 every weekend until I'm fulltime there is what will happen. Any thoughts? I'm really confident I am a winner at nl200 now, just can't afford to bust my roll.. and need a little money to live off.
best friend is telling the girl I'm casually dating that I've hooked up with other girls.
girl 'asks' me if I have been hooking up with other girls, I admit it since we're merely dating and we haven't committed anything.
Neither of them know I know that my buddy is telling everything to her.
background - he has slept with her a few times much before her and I got acquainted.
Well there is a stunning lack of volume of hands played this month, but 60-70 hr work weeks have significantly cut into my free time. However, still was a fairly successful month, had a little bit of a rocky past week or two but rallied back to have a strong finish. I am off to go party with some friends out of town for the weekend, followed by my birthday monday so I wont have much of a chance to play so I figured I would do my sept results post now. Without further delay:
Hope I do this right, never posted a hand before...but was this a good fold? I assumed he had a higher pocket pair than I did since he opened with a raise and then came back over the top...I'm not really too bothered by the hand, just kind of curious.
Submitted by : superfashion
PokerStars Game #33251313559: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/09/24 23:16:18 ET
Table Quintilla 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($22.45 in chips)
Seat 2: bballbutta5 ($7.05 in chips)
Seat 3: TomSFC ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: rh7878 ($10.10 in chips)
Seat 6: jdotWINS ($15.90 in chips)
Seat 7: drewseim ($18.90 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.05
bballbutta5: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards Dealt to Hero
TomSFC: folds
rh7878: folds
jdotWINS: raises $0.20 to $0.30
drewseim: folds
Hero: raises $0.70 to $1
bballbutta5: folds
jdotWINS: calls $0.70
Flop (Pot : $2.10)
Hero: bets $0.90
jdotWINS: raises $3.30 to $4.20
Hero: folds
Uncalled bet ($3.30) returned to jdotWINS
jdotWINS collected $3.75 from pot
jdotWINS: doesnt show hand
wiseksd joins the table at seat #5
Summary Total pot $3.90 | Rake $0.15
Board
Seat 1: Hero (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: bballbutta5 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: TomSFC folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: rh7878 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: jdotWINS collected ($3.75)
Seat 7: drewseim (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Went hiking with my friends Nick (speedybanana), Nolan, Nicole, Nadia, Anna, and James. Wow 4 out of 6 of those people have N for the first letter of their name.
Anways, had a great time wish we went longer. Need new shoes though, the ones I wore made my feet bleed. I've had them for over two years so its about time I get new ones.
After the hike we order pizza and went back to Nicks place and watched two movies. The first one was called "inside" some french movie which was fucking horrible. The second one was called "The last King of Scotland" Very good movie based on a true story. I highly recommend it.
Other then that life has been good. No complaints other than not playing well on that -1.6k day, but whatever it happens, you shake it off. P90x has been good. I've been trying to do it almost everyday. Sometimes I miss a day but I continue the next video that I'm suppose to do the next day. I don't think I've lost any body fat though so that's kinda depressing. I really need to weigh myself at some point again. At least I feel great, and I know my heart is working harder and my lungs are getting stronger along with the body.
In poker the problem is my mind has been wondering a lot and it hasn't been focused on the game. I've been having problems at home kinda... My mother has been stressed out because we are having someone live with us from Japan for a month and its naturally a damper on people when there is someone new living wtih you mainly because you don't feel fully comfortable. That's why I'm considering taking the next two weeks off until she's gone.
Breaking up with my exgf has taken its toll on me as well. I don't know its still a weird feeling that I'm not use to but I'll shake it right off its not like I dated her for a long time.
There's some other things in my life that I can't mention because it involves another person that's also adding some stress in my life but oh well that'll pass with time to.
Anyways, there's a BBQ at my house this Friday for poker players that read my blog. Please let me know if you want to come. Free alcohol and food . we can go to a club/bar after if you want on me just let me know ahead of time if your interested thank you
Dealer: ImmortalGnome shows a pair of Kings
Dealer: quadfive shows a pair of Eights
Dealer: ImmortalGnome wins the pot ($152.70) with a pair of Kings
Dealer: Hand #14913510580
Dealer: ImmortalGnome wins the pot ($0.50)
Dealer: Hand #14913512579
Dealer: quadfive wins the pot ($0.50)
Dealer: Hand #14913514456
quadfive: i run so bad
Dealer: quadfive has 15 seconds left to act
quadfive: unreal
I'm planning on starting to exercise as it will apparently improve my poker game. I'm going to cycle every other day, on the days im not cycling i should be doing bodyweight exercises right? I only have 7kg dumbells, what exercises should I be doing and how many sets/reps or whatever keeping in mind im really unfit (not fat though, just havent exercised for a long time)
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