Today I didn’t have much time for poker. I had exam from English today and after I completely screwed up writing part of exam it was a drama a bit, but from oral part I had maximum points and finally passed. I played only short session in the evening finished break even.
In the afternoon I won heads up tournament on CakePoker. Buy in was 10$ and 28 players registered. For first place I took 130$. I also played two another MTT with small buy in but with no result. In the evening I played 100+9$ freezout tournament but after second break I was on shortstack and lost my AQ against KJ.
I played two sessions today and finally finished well. I won 68$ in 599 hands.
I still continue watching videos and reading articles.
It's been a while since I last updated. Well, this is how it has gone since the beginning of may.
May
May was a awesome month. It started off, where I had spewed almost half my bankroll of $600 at the end of April so I could secure SilverStar again. So I was down to about $230. I had to change things in May. I took my finals, and I got off academic probation! I played 1c/2c and 2c/5c for about a week or two, then played 5c/10c.
Results: http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/6c06b6e321cfa148f3b398fc33a63cd4.jpg
Late May, I went to Turning Stone Resort & Casino with a friend, here's my post from 2+2.
So, I have been getting my friend into poker, and he has been able to beat the microstakes on pokerstars for sometime now, so we decided to give it a shot at a local casino. The closest one was Turning Stone, so we drive 10 hours to Verona / Rome New York.
Apparently New York sucks ass at signs. We were to get off on exit 16A on I-81. Well, unlike every other state, where the exit number is located by what mile they’re at. So instead of mile 16, it’s around mile marker 80 or so. Finally we get to Verona New York. We pass the casino at like 8:30 pm and are like “holy ****, there it is!!!” It’s my second casino to go to 1st was the Monte Carlo in Monaco, and his first casino.
We smoke a few cigarettes, to relax and fall asleep for the grinding the next day.
Day 1) I make $200 at $1/$2 in ~2 hours against super fish, limp/call every hand. 13$ raise from UTG they instasnap with K4s etc… then they play hit or miss poker.
My friend on the other hand had better luck, he ends up making $400. We grab some lunch, smoke a few cigarettes relax and feel good about making a couple hundred in the matter of a few hours. We were living the life. We decided to hit the casino a bit longer, and we both sit at the same table for 200NL and he loses a buy-in and I make another.
We call it quits and go back to Rome New York to get some rest.
Day 2) We both play at the same table, and about 3-4 hours into it I’m up about a buy-in and a half, and my friend is down a buy-in and a half.
Then this hand happens:
Ten players are in the hand. I fold, and start playing with my chips, talking to some kid with a fraternity hat on. Then I hear my friend say, “All-in”.
I’m thinking, god damn it. He’s going busto day 2. I don’t want to stake him! Oh well, hope he wins! Guy in seat 2 snap calls, as does the guy to my left.
Flop: As 2s 7d
2 players are all-in.
Turn: 4s
River: 2h
The guy in seat position 2 shows KQs for the nut flush.
My friend shows 22 for quad 2’s
Guy to his right shows 3s5s for the Straight Flush.
Right before the dealer gives the chips to the guy with the straight flush, the player next to my friend quietly says, “That’s the Bad Beat Jackpot!”
So everyone realizes this and very quietly make sure it is true. The dealer (Joe?) calls “Floor!” and it gets approved and the Bad Beat Jackpot was really there.
It was 90 days since the last day someone hit the Bad Beat Jackpot, so $100,000 was in it.
My Friend got $50,000 for losing with quads.
Guy to his right, my left got $25,000
Everyone else got $3,125.
My friend gave me $5,000 for teaching him poker/money he owed me for food/gas/money I loaned him etc…
So Day 2 ends and I make ~$8,600.
My Friend makes $45,000.
We decide to quit for the day and relax and feel good about ourselves. We after all made an ungodly amount of money in 2 days! So we go back to our hotel room, order some cheap Chinese food, and enjoy the fuck out of the best Chinese food we ever had. For $9 each, it was AMAZING.
Day 3 – 5) We both pretty much breakeven and just relax, and tell the story about how the Bad Beat Jackpot went down like a hundred times.
Overall, we had great trip to Turning Stone. We’ll probably return there later this summer. We drive back to Virginia on Tuesday June 2nd. I’m now using the money I made to get my Private Pilots License as its always been a dream for me to fly planes, and now I have the money to do it (costs ~$6k).
I guess that’s it for now.
Total May Results
$270.74 online
$8,600 live
$8,870 total profit.
June So Far
June has been going pretty well. I had to cash out $300 for my trip to NY and I still have not deposited a single dollar onto online poker, and I intend not to. So, I start the month with $250.
I hope to get a $500 bankroll so I can be rolled for NL25 in a week. Current Bankroll: $378 as I transfered a friend $30 to start messing around online.
Is it considered running hot or running cold if I flop the nut boat 10 times in 30 minutes but get 2 outtered in half of them? Cause at first you think you're running godly cause how many times can that K55 flop show up when you're holding KK? But then it's like, how many aces are in the deck that one always hits the turn? I guess it depends on the +/- of your bankroll and I'm breakeven so I guess I'm not running hot or cold.
Swingy as fuck. Last two months have had the same pattern of god running for 4 days, then losing it all in the next 3 days. Hopefully my month/summer doesn't end up looking like a giant Cos curve
Been having a pretty reasonable recovery since June began, had one -1100 day but have been averaging a reasonable profit most days! I'm definitely feeling a lot better about things, and am not pulling my hair out with stress anymore :D
This month I've played tennis for the first time EVER. I think we've played 3-4 times so far and wow its a really fun game. I suck balls, but whatever, will rapidly improve to a reasonable level. I'm currently stuck -10 in tennis bet games (we're balling outrageous with $10-20 a game), and everytime I'm on myth's team I totally blow the game and we get raped. The first day we all played together I lost 4 games on myth's team, changed teams to be against him... started playing reasonably.. and pooruser and I beat him and his partner citizenwind for 2 games. Its definitely all me doing the losing too, lol.. SORRY MYTH <3
but still more losing, whatever. down 6k at 5/10 in 600 hands, jesus christ. going to grind this shit out at 1/2 and 2/4. hope to report back at the end of the month at even and up in rakeback moneys!
oh, i need to xfer ~ 1.1k from FTP=>Stars known regs only plz. been playing
~ 7-8k hands a day. 12 tabling nl25. I've definitely gotten back into the groove of poker and am owning these people pretty hard.
i've definitely fixed a lot of spews and tilts in my game. on a 3 day good streak. today was a pretty great day for me imo.
since everyone wanted a pic, here is a pic of me getting devastated and tilting. I've finally solidified a winning 28/24/9 strategy that i'm going to stick with. The main leak i've been having recently was 4-bet bluffing and at nl25, that shit just doesn't work too well unless i pick my spots right. I've definitely perfected it for this limit and so i'm going to move to the next limit... i'm no longer spewing like a tard. although ill prob. have to start playing like 24/20/9 or something like that at nl50..
Too tired to write much right now. But today I got a lot of grind in and I felt really happy about my game. I also found a nice fish at NL400 but it didnt end up very well unfortunally.
Guess I am up to pace if I want to make it to Vegas. Goal is set for 10BI at NL200 and then I go. Results so far:
Played some 25nl today, went pretty well. Actually focused a bit which is nice. Anyway on to more important stuff aka life. So I posed my resume on career builder and a few other sites, however, no luck so far. I've been offered 5 sales positions, but I'd rather continue with the path I'm taking rather then selling insurance. I'm just not interested in a sales position at the moment. On the upside I should be getting a call in a month or two about an underwriting position at a really good company, so hopefully that works out. Anyway golf, camping, hanging with the girlfriend. This should be a good summer.
so got my free $50 @ full tiltby jasper5408, June 08
so i did the free promotion, i thought why not give it a go, and after waiting like 5 days i pretty much gave up on it since there was no response. anyway silently secretly, lp sent me my 50 which was a pleasant surprise.
after grinding 10 ---> 500 so many times, starting with 50 seems like a god send. anyway things feel different, i feel 5x smarter, experienced, and much more ready to successfully grind my way up.
still want 150-400 in pstars. trying to get my paypal verified so i can avoid the 5% bogus fee they require. that should be ready by tomorrow.
also i made a major decision to let go of my electrical engineering minor and just graduate next semester. i came from a pretty competitive high school and am managing to graduate college pretty early by about 3 semesters, but college doesn't interest me anymore, and i'm tired of being such a pos being a bitch complaining about how i don't know what i want to study. i don't mind graduating with my econ degree and coming back to school later.
i think i'll go to korea for a year and teach english/get paid try to go meet nick plott and co host with him 8^D], maybe try out this poker thing for about 2 years. if i can't make at least 70K i'll probably just pass it up for good and get a job/back to school.
anyway this leads me to another problem....i was gonna get the palm pre but i think you need like a 2 year commitment with them...i desperately want the palm pre but i feel like if i run away to korea for a year my palm pre is pretty useless and so is my contract with them...but the palm pre is so....preeeetyful. whhat to doooo??
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