Greetings, I have been a long time lurker of both the teamliquid.net and liquidpoker.net sites. I have decided that after recieving a no deposit bonus for mansion poker, I will attempt to make it as a winning player. I've already started about a month ago. So far I have done terrible, especially in sit n gos. I tried some double ups but mainly play full ring standards. The following pictures will show my progress. This blog will be where I will post my progress and hopefully be given tips to improve my play.
The most recent BI loss was rockets faced against a rivered flush against a loose aggressive who happened to do it again except against my pocket kings. My sit and gos have been horrendus. The majority of my losses have come from hands like AQ vs pocket pairs and coin flips during the high blinds. The huge negative in the 2 dollars was from me attempting to move up in stakes twice.
I know I shouldn't be jumping from stake to stake which I apparently did when I went to a 25c/50c game which I was able to double up with pocket aces after getting bad beat and losing half my bankroll. I from then on decided to play within my bankroll but now that it has shot down really low, I've started to buy in to the 1c/2c games with 100 big blinds. The max buy ins for both the 1c/2c and 2c/4c were both 5 dollars so I opted for the latter but with my bankroll being a third of what it was, I've decided to multi-table 1c/2c full ring cash games with 100 big blinds as opposed to 250 big blinds.
But yeah, I actually got to say hello. I can't remember exactly what I said but it was something like: "Mr. President, thank you for everything you're doing. You're doing a great job, keep it up." I was in the 2nd row during the speech so I was able to get up to the barrier as soon as it ended and so it was like being in a receiving line, except he walked it instead of us going to him.
The town hall was on health care reform and before I went my view was that I agreed with Obama on the general philosophy of where to take health care reform, but I had no clue on the specifics. During the town hall he explained everything very well and I totally support what he's doing. I personally am the type of person that likes the UK and France and other European country models with a more universal health care system. Sadly that is not Obama's plan but I understand why he isn't doing it. Overall that's just impossible to get in the USA right now.
His approach is a very middle of the road one. I find it hard to believe that anyone other than extremists would be upset with this plan. And that's who is upset, the extremists on both sides. The far left uber liberals are all in an uproar cause they don't want anything less than a single payer system, while the far right uber conservatives hate any government involvement and overall just hate/fear Obama so therefore automatically hate anything he wants to do.
And the funny thing is that the news is only focusing on the BS rumors and lies of the "Death Panels" and the Public Option. That's it. And they're twisting both of those things to try and scare people. They use the death panels to scare people into thinking the government is gonna kill your grandparents, and they twist the public option and try to say that it is a government takeover of health care. Total bullshit. There are no death panels and the public option is just that, AN OPTION! Why have it? to help add competition to the market and bring down costs. Basic economics.
But there's lots of other good stuff in there, like removing these lifetime caps and banning insurance companies for discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. There's a lot of things he's doing that will help protect those of us with private health insurance and lower our rates. But no one knows about that due to the media focusing on the drama and the extremists on both sides.
I really hope that this passes because this bill is full of important things that we need ASAP. It isn't perfect but it's a great first step. And once it passes we can work on improving health care even more. But if it fails no politician will be willing to touch health care for a long time because it will be political suicide. This is far too important to let it fail.
Hadn't touched poker until today since the 10th so my August goals are really slacking. Hopefully I can still get my BR to $1k and take shots at NL50 by month end, but who knows, I've played about 4.5k hands this month most of which I've ran like crap and have been set up a ton of times. But life goes on.
Anyway, August 14th was my 22nd bday and two of my best friends and I made our way up to Vegas from San Diego. I've been really stressed out and annoyed with work lately so this trip was just meant to relax and get my mind off of work. We didn't go balls out party style this time since relaxation was the main focus. We stayed for 3 days and 2 nights. Every day consisted of lounging by the pool at our hotel (Monte Carlo) and having some drinks and laughs. I meant to get a massage while I was there but in the drunkness I completely forgot to.
A friend we grew up with back in NY moved to Vegas and happens to work as a door man at Xs so he hooked us up greatly. We went there on Friday and he just walked us right in. You should have seen the faces on the assholes standing in the table reservations lines as three young looking shit heads waltz right by them. Priceless. Xs is really, really nice inside and Friday night was great. A couple of my other friends had a table there so we met up with them. Their bottles got finished pretty quickly and they had a room at Encore so we left the club and went back to the room to do some shots up there and then came back to the club. My friend Mark also had a ton of coke but I couldn't do any because I'm becoming a police officer. I wouldn't do it anyway, I was super drunk and I read a story about a couple drunk kids doing coke and dying so that's scarred me for life.
We ended up being in the club from ~10pm til after 5am lol The place supposedly closes at 4 but that night it was still going around 5:30 I'd imagine.
Saturday started with more pool lounging. We met a couple hot Canadian girls from Vancouver. We were supposed to go to Pure with them at night so we all go back to our rooms and get ready to go. We get down to the lobby and all of a sudden some random guys come up and ask them if they want to go in the limo with them. Obviously, they being girls, how can they resist. They tell us they'll meet us at the club but my friends and I start thinking it would be a waste of time. Turns out the one girl gave me a call when she got to Pure but we came up with a different plan...
We figured if we went to Pure the wait would be stupid long and sometimes Pure can be very hit or miss and we didn't really wanna run into those girls again if they were just gonna whore themselves out for limo rides, drinks, etc. So we call our buddy up again and went back over to Xs and went right back in again.
Xs on Saturday night wasn't as good as Friday. There were waaaaay too many people packed inside there and at least 80% of them were Asian people who thought they were members of that MTV show America's Best Dance Crew. Also getting drinks was like a solid 20 minute wait. They have 3 or 4 bars inside of the club with about 3-4 female bartenders at each bar. These female bartenders move soooooooooooo slow it was ridiculous. Still had fun regardless just not as much on Friday.
Overall a very enjoyable and relaxing trip. I completely disconnected myself from just about everyone except the people I was there with. I rarely carried my phone on me and even when I did I only had it inside the club in case I lost my friends. Felt nice to just get away.
Now that I'm back time to keep on getting in shape and playing and improving at poker. I took my police test so I'm awaiting the results for that. I'm going to try and not drink for a month so we'll see how that goes. I'm trying to run a lot and waking up and doing push ups, sit ups, etc. I won't be going to the gym because right now I just want to improve my body weight exercises. I've also got into surfing which is a good work out too. At the same time of all this and work I want to be more focused on poker and get to NL100 by year end. Gogo nerd mode!
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..im putting this at the top of anyone even reads it who doesnt like house, but for the record, i also listen to alot of 90s alternative rock, 80s rock, some 90s gangster rap, and several different like.. indie rock bands that are kinda underground. (and play the drums quite reasonably well with a very minor ability to play guitar) so don't label me !
ideally my mixes would be for someone who doesn't want to take the time to find tracks for themselves but likes some housey music once in a while, and they can check my track names and go find the ones they like
i joined some music hosting website but it kinda sucks, lol. i'm going to see if i can embed the player into this blog, and ill put separate links to each of the track listings, apparently if you want to download them you have to go to the individual links at the bottom of this page and rate them and then it allows you to download, or some shit. which is gay.
anyway, i know most people just arent into music in general, and definitely not niche music. i dont really consider myself an expert or anything, but to put it into perspective i pretty much have at least quickly sampled through something like 10,000 different tracks in varying genres of "house" (which seems to be the accepted phrase to represent all of electronic dance music[electro, progressive, trance, minimal] these days, back in the day i thought that phrase would be electronica), and over the past two years i put together something like 20 compilations of on average like 14 tracks, so its not like i just randomly put a bunch of songs together.
i try pretty hard to make the mixes somewhat cohesive, matching up styles and sounds and i think i literally retooled the july mix like 15 times between may and july.
im kind of a perfectionist, but i think i have to realize that i have to kinda stop somewhere and work on the next new thing.
july is 60 minutes, mostly just very light poppy electro house, and some mellow progressive at the end
august is 79 minutes, the first 8 tracks are a little harder electro tracks and the remaining 7 tracks are melancholy trance, it doesnt really transition well , but i was enjoying these musics recently :o
oh. and by the way, poker is fucking retarded today.
on the month, i am +3200 for like 2ptbb and +5600 for like 3.5ptbb on ev, so basically it means i play so horribly bad that my winrate can cut in half by variance, imo. heres todays graph.
Full Tilt Poker Game #14112454325: $34,000 Guarantee (103800404), Table 120 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:25:04 ET - 2009/08/18
Seat 1: Sullydabully (4,410)
Seat 2: UhhMee (2,415)
Seat 3: pierrenl1 (2,995)
Seat 4: Blind Flying (3,580)
Seat 5: R3ISC11L (3,870)
Seat 6: Moscow1980 (1,110)
Seat 7: Hero (3,120)
Seat 8: Apollyon53 (2,675)
Seat 9: shadyJ10 (2,825)
Sullydabully posts the small blind of 20
UhhMee posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #9
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
pierrenl1 folds
Blind Flying folds
R3ISC11L folds
Moscow1980 has 15 seconds left to act
Moscow1980 raises to 1,110, and is all in
Hero calls 1,110
Apollyon53 folds
shadyJ10 folds
Sullydabully has 15 seconds left to act
Sullydabully folds
UhhMee folds
Moscow1980 shows
Hero shows
Hero: omg
Moscow1980 shows a pair of Queens
Hero shows two pair, Tens and Fours
Hero wins the pot (2,280) with two pair, Tens and Fours
Moscow1980 stands up
Summary Total pot 2,280 | Rake 0
Board:
Seat 1: Sullydabully (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: UhhMee (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: pierrenl1 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Blind Flying didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: R3ISC11L didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Moscow1980 showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 7: Hero showed and won (2,280) with two pair, Tens and Fours
Seat 8: Apollyon53 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: shadyJ10 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Had a conversation with my friend SDoyle over msn. He told me a story of a hand he recently played live limit hold’em at a casino. I found it rather amusing.
SDoyle said (Yesterday at 10:39 PM):
There was one really funny hand with the three guys from Quebec. I had been laying a beating on one of them all night and rally punishing him. Finally he made a straight to draw out on me, it was obvious he made his straight and he checked. I went to reach for my chips, then said to him. NOPE, you’re about to check-raise me. He went nuts, couldn’t believe it, and kept going on about how I was betting all night with the winning hand and the one time he made a hand I knew he was gonna check-raise me. At that point I said to him the Helmuth line, and that I could see into his sole”. Other players at the table recognised the helmuth line and laughed. He and his buddies just shook their heads.
Masaki – Working said (Yesterday at 10:56 PM): LOL thats awesome
Had a pretty good day today. Got two second places in two small $11 tournies and a first in a small $33 tourny.
I’m going to be playing less tournies and focus more on the ones I’ve been doing well in. Yesterday was bloody because I entered way too many tournaments and played some big majors… Oops! LOL I wouldn’t be saying oops if i won any of them though.
Altough I believe it's better to have a plan, in case of Vegas the best plan would be not having one - cause I've no clue what to expect. The only thing I prepared is 120 pages of poker room decriptions from the web so during my flight I'll try to put them in order which to visit first.
I will be flying over on wednesday late night which is the 26th and on the 27th I'd like to buy laptop ( shops, or recommended model? ). Mine broke down and I'm sad And I will probably be sleeping after 24-hour travel, and if not I'll be making pictures and maybe play some.
On Friday the 28th my friend Natalie is coming over to Las Vegas to meet me, along with 2 female friends. Also, my friend Kelsey from Arizona will be coming over for the weekend as well with some friends hopefully. It will be nice to start Vegas adventure in a pimp style So ... pool,eat, cirque du soleil, eat, drink, fuck, sleep, repeat for 3 days
Since they booked Flamingo I'll stay there for 5 nights. I got some package for which I paid like 60$/night on avarage from Wed-Mon. I guess I'll extend my stay in Flamingo until Thursday and throughout Mon-Thu I'll be looking for some other hotel/place to stay. The price are picking up a bit starting early September and during the weekend it's like 150-200$ a night in 3star hotels @ strip. I'll try to ask poker room managers for some rate - I'll be playing 1/3->2/5 and 5/10 if I will be feeling comfortable.
The only thing that sux is that I'll have to be studying 2 hours a day ROFLFUCKCOPTER... I signed up for CFA exam level 1. The good thing is that I am motivated to pass it beacause... I don't have any choice. Here's why:
CFA exam is for finance students and it consists of 3 separate levels.
Level 1 can be passed during december, and june.
Level 2 can be passed during june only
Level 3 june only as well
So... I need to pass it in december, and then take 2nd level in june next year. Otherwise I'll be doing it 3 years MINIMUM if I will be passing them every time. I'm gonna look like a dumb fuck studying @ the pool, or pherhaps in a buffet but w/e. I'll check Nevada State University library if it's available and maybe I'll just grind once a week.
Suck out
I crashed on my bicycle today and my arm, leg and head hurt so fkig much I can't fall asleep b/c of the pain. Skin on my elbow and knee looks like it wasn't there ever. Thankfully I didn't break anything cause it would have been a cooler lol
Had a winning session today. Only a short one but I won a coouple of races, a few hands held up, they didn't always have the nutz....maybe just maybe....I am due a heater.....or would just settle for a run normal-ish.
So August hasn't gone quite as well as I'd hoped so far, but still not too bad. 55k hands in and +1,900 in cash games (running about 2k below expectation) with another +1k+ in rakeback and the reload bonus. I'm really determined to make my 150k hand goal so much so that I've promised myself and my gf I'm not going to be going out at all for the rest of the month so if I can hit a decent patch of rungood my 10k month is still well within my grasp.
It's really important that this month ends up being very good as well, mine and my gf's birthday is Sept 9th and since it's her 21st we're going to spend it in Vegas...I'm wanting to get one of the better suites in the Bellagio to spend the weekend so I'm planning on spending a pretty huge amount of cash. It should be tons of fun though, most of our friends from down here and going to come too and we'll be partying it up so I'm really looking forward to it...if you're in vegas the weekend of the 11th send me a pm, wouldn't mind hanging out with some fellow lpers.
after that, I'm finally going to cash in my APPT credit and head to seoul for the APPT event held there late September. This vacation will probably be a lot more laid back than the one in Vegas, I really wouldn't mind just laying around all day on the beach after the tournament. If any baller lp members are going to be playing in this tourney hit me up.
In any case, my gf is still trying to do well in poker. I've been watching her play and she makes a lot of typical rookie mistakes (bad bet-sizing, too much fit-or-fold flop play) but otherwise she does pretty well. She's been basically breakeven since starting (probably around 30k hands, although I could be way off) which isn't bad considering she's a beginner and considering I haven't set up holdem manager for her yet. Her ability to grind still amazes me, yesterday I put in about 7k hands and was reasonably proud of myself, when I tell her she says nonchalantly "oh I got you beat, I'm at about 8.5k", pretty sick. She wants to go for supernova next year but if I can get her playing reasonably well and her bankroll higher she could easily make SNE.
Shout out to Neilly and everything he has been showing me over the last couple of days as far as MTT's goes. After just a couple Teamviewer sessions and some long talks on Skype i really adj most of my game to include what Neilly showed me.
As far as the new goals ive been pondering on what to play and what i think is best not really sure what i want to do. Taking a couple days off to enjoy the nice score of the $109 turbo 20k gar score from last night.
I have plans to go to pitts tomorrow and go to kennywood for the first time with my new girl. We are going there with a group of friends and then since she seemed to enjoy the crappy baseball team we have here where i live i figured i would take her to see a MLB game even though the pirates suck balls every year the stadium is nice ranked for a #1 tie. We have center field seats in the front row and the VIP passes to watch them practice and meet them i think (this is not open to the public)
Well im going to enjoy my next couple of days GL to all LP
Turn (Pot : $0) glibaaa bets $7.75
gate13pao calls $7.75
RIVER $24.62
glibaaa bets $76.02 AI
gate13pao calls $57.47 AI
glibaaa showsJd
glibaaa wins $136
to laazy to edit the HH, (but i had JJ)
he was this superpassive fish that never woulda bluffed a missed draw / even bet trips by himself im almost convinced, he was just sick passive..
cut down tables to only 3 tables today. obv it went well, and felt well too
Played pretty loose this far aswell, around 26/21 with 3bet of 9%
alot more laggy than i use to play. 2-3 tables might be a great adjustment for me atm to make since ive lowered my goals on how much $$$ i make and more of how i play
Played about 15 mtts today starting this morning and crapped out early in all of the them except 1. I Won an 11r plo for 1.7k. Crushed the FT and beat down Kabutze(fairly well known reg). Now I have to do paperwork for my "job"(sigh).
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And I will probably be sleeping after 24-hour travel, and if not I'll be making pictures and maybe play some.
So ... pool,eat, cirque du soleil, eat, drink, fuck, sleep, repeat for 3 days
ROFLFUCKCOPTER
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