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this month is very disappointing so far..... didnt reach any of my goal and probably won't. apart from my nice 1k tourney win everything is going quite shitty. I think I will have to re-evaluate my poker career if this doesn't change in the upcoming 2 months.

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5707/gag.png

Cashed out too much as well, but I needed the money.....

GL guys....


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I am so tilted i literally just made the greatest video ever and camstudio SUCKS.

its fucked me over 3 times now, someone tell me a good program that i can use to make a nl100 video jesus tits man


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Hey all,

It has been just over a week since tax season has been over and I can finally RELAX. It was definitely a time-pressured season, working nights, working weekends, and dealing with stressed out coworkers but I managed to get through it with just a few bumps and bruises. Now it's time to prep up and study for my CPA. That is sure to be a challenge.

With tax season out of the way, I can put in more volume with poker. I've been on a MTT/Cash Game stake for the past few months and I have yet to BINK anything serious. It has been a struggle to gain some traction but I think with more free time at hand, I can refocus and hopefully have profitable months ahead. Time to put in the grind $$

I'll be staying at the Borgata Water Club over the weekend for some grinding, nightlife, dinners, etc. We have two rooms for Friday (COMPED! ) and one for Saturday, if anyone is around this weekend, hit me up via pm or something.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/GV2007/WaterClub.jpg

On a good note, my boy nutshot has been progressing well in his MTT endeavors. He's binked the 50R and 100R in a matter of 2 weeks. Mad props to him for his HEROISM.

Heroism Song

HEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


WSOP

Me and my friend Mike G are all booked for June 12-June 20th at the WYNN in Las Vegas. I'm probably going to play the June 14th $2500 PLO EVENT and the June 16th $1500 NL EVENT. I was in Vegas last year hanging out at the minicastle mansions in June but never got to enjoy the nightlife too much since I grinded the majority of the time I was there and saw a Penn and Teller show with PoorUser. With a week under my belt I'm sure I'll get to experience all the shows, grinding, etc I need and will eventually get tired by the week end. (probably not) Me and Mike will be meeting up with Steve (PoorUser) and gang and definitely enjoy the likes of SW Steakhouse and the WYNN Buffet. Does anyone have any other suggestions on other nice places to eat? Also, does anyone know what casinos regularly run PLO? (PLO Degen lives!)

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/GV2007/wynn.jpg

I'm excited to see the star studded field thats gonna be there in June and all the LP crew members that will be present in June. I'm sure I'll get an opportunity to meet most of you guys.


Gl as always!



Your Always Smiling NIT,

NBB


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After I got rivered for my BR - kindof, I suddenly feel more motivated to play than when I was rolled for NL20.

Not sure about the whys, hows and whats that lead to this, but I'll play poker in the coming time.

After the bankroll incident, I was left with 8 bucks - all I can do is grind NL2. So I did it, played a bit, now I'm at $23.

Anyway, my decision is to use the bankroll managment some of you might call "super agressive" but IMO it's "common sense BR managment". Something that dawned on me a while ago, but I brushed it off coz of not seeing anyone mention it or play by it. That why I was very glad to see Maynard post it here on LP a while ago.


I will play NL2 till I reach $30, then I ship over to NL4, playing 4 tables on both limits.

If I lose a Buyin on NL4, I move down till I'm at $30 again.

I realized there's really no point in griding all those extra buyins as long as you can lean on moving down when necessary.

Some people get 20/50/100 Buyins for the next level before playing it. I'll get 7-8.
If I lose one, I will move down and earn some more, then move up again.

I'd say I have much higher chances of successfully moving up faster than had I grinded the before mentioned 'normal' number of buyins.

When you look at it, you need as many buyins as the number of tables you play, the rest of the money is there for some kind of safety. Safety that I don't need that much.

My safety is that if I lose one buyin at a higher level, I'll still have almost 20 for the level below, which is plenty for the levels I'm currently playing.

Once again, I totally agree with Maynard; if you don't live off of poker, you have a place to stay and food on your table, wasting time securing X number of buyins makes not much sense.

Other than that, I'll try to face all my fears.
Before, in tricky/unusual situations I used to automatically do something, and try to forget what happened, because my not knowing made me uncomfortable.

I will try to eliminate the 'running away from the unknown' problem, try to face the problems and actually learn how to play.

I will also not play too much, I have no reason to put any pressure on myself.
I have some exams to study for in May, so that will be #1 priority. Poker will be something alongside of it.

A chance to learn to play a game that some day may help me to earn an extra buck.

EDIT:
Ok, I gotta use this chance to give a huge shoutout to my man Lucas from www.ballerpoker.com
He goes by the alias 'keuner' here on LP, and he's the one that offered me the deal on propagandapoker in the first place.

Their deal is awesome, you get a good VIP deal which equals to about 40+% rakeback.
However, special thanks to Lucas who was there on msn to answer many of my numerous questions, helped out enormeously with information and direct contact to support when this whole incident with my bankroll happened.

And finally, he gave me a nice $30 bankroll boost (in addition to ~20 I had), so I don't have to hunt for a new free $50 deal.
I ask him something like:
"hey, do you think you could arrange me another bonus so I get back up sooner?"

And within 60seconds, there are 30 additional dollars in my account.

awesome! cheers Lucas if you read this!


I'll go straight to 4tabling NL10 with this $50 I got.
If my BR drops to $40 at any time, I shut down those tables and open 4 NL4 tables.

If I drop below $32 (2 NL4 Buyins), I go to NL2, till I recover a bit.


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drunk rambling


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Or just for me.. my internet is working... it's just FTP thats not.. and I got disconnected during a sng that I was in 2nd place in -_-.

I live in SoCal. Any advice? Or just wait it out?


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I know I said I wouldn't make a blog post again until I was rolled for NL100. However, this time I feel that I could not resist. I realized today that I need this blog. I need people in the poker world to talk to. To sympathize with, to empathize with.

My last blog entry was back in February I believe. From that time I've been bouncing back and forth between NL25 and NL50, mostly playing NL50. While I have times I feel like I'm starting to have success, I have days like this that just crush my soul, bring out the worst qualities in me, and just down right make me depressed.

I know I can beat this game and when I'm at these tables I feel an edge over the competition. I don't even know what to write. I'm sure it's all been said before. I'm just sick of running in circles. I can't give up though.

A new pressure has been put on my shoulders. It's 95% certain I'll lose my job within the next 2-3 months. I have enough saved to live for 8-10 months but I'm really going to look to poker for some income while I job search. I've been playing more and studying more. I've really begun to feel like poker is what I would want to do for a living anyway. I have a passion for nothing but money. That was a problem I had when looking for a major in school.

But anyway on to today. I loaded $600 onto PS to take advantage of the 20% reload bonus. My intentions were to just hit the bonus and then withdraw the $600 like many people do. Well I am here today to tell you that over ~1300 hands I lost $618. I didn't stand a chance. I really need to do a 3 buy-in stop loss. I'll admit I tilted a little bit, although I did stay quite focused and slowed my game down and took extra time to think. I still should have made a stoploss.

Today I acted in ways I had not acted since I was a juvenile playing Starcraft. I was shouting at my computer, cussing. I even punched my wall. I took a break to get myself together. Had a long conversation with a girl I've been talking to and went for a drive to the ocean to just think and cool off.

Between my this job crisis, my grandpa being hospitalized, and this poker circle it's just been too much lately. I can't quit though. Anytime I've ever quit at anything in life success has been just around the corner. I try not to quit at anything any more as I know giving up was something I used to be bad at.

Anyway, if you read this I truly appreciate it. If not, it felt good just to get it in words and out there. I'm looking for some more poker friends so if you have MSN and would like to talk poker, life, or just anything feel free to add me. MSN: ez4utonv@hotmail.com

Oh, and here's todays graph:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f60a9d4e450266a96904d9f12983ba35.jpg

I'm considering setting it as my desktop as motivation.


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need $200 - $250 on FTP got PS. Help please


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got back 600 from the scam and i want to move 200 to ps

halp?


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b56fe6cd00385ac1a3063be9feede80b.jpg

also got accepted to SDSU, after working part-time and going to community college for 4 years...

will definitely be attending UCSD no matter what the cost... here goes the tiny roll, fml

=D

I will be transferring over as a poli sci major.

I think this is a good start to a new blog, even though it has nothing to do with poker.

/bump nolan


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so i just woke up a few hours ago, just in time for the bruins to sweep les lâches in the NHL playoffs.

anyways, last night I realized I play too much poker because I had a bizarro dream about Nazgul and Raszi, whom I don't even know whatsoever in real life. It was one of those things where I don't even know what they look like but I know it was them in the dream because of context etc.

I rarely remember dreams too so when I do remember one it freaks me out. Anyways, so check this dream out.

I get off a plane in some middle-eastern city, like, Beirut or Baghdad or something. I show up at some car auto-body shop and Raszi shows up and is like "yo me and nazgul borrowed 120k from you man" and I was like "dude come on! you can't just do that!" and they were like "nah it's cool we'll pay you back."

So I went to a computer and checked and it said like "120k loaned to Raszi and Nazgul" and I was all bummed out about it because they didn't ask they just borrowed it without letting me know until I got off the plane in the middle east. So then I go back to the auto body shop and find Raszi again and I'm like "yo Raz, what the hell did you need the 120k for anyways" since I cooled off a little bit. He was like "you really want to know?!?!" and got all excited and pulled back this curtain in the auto body shop and behind it was like a massive spaceship looking thing. Nazgul popped out of the drivers seat of it and is like "yo nolan! this shit gets 25 trillion horse power! sick right!!! we'll pay you back soon!"

I shook my head, walked down some middle-eastern street, and woke up.

Weird, huh.

p.s. i went through HEM and looked at my last 25 flips (AK vs QQ JJ TT etc and vice versa) that were all in preflop at 3/6 6m and 9m, and I'm 2 for 25. I don't think I've flipped worse than that in my life, and would be surprised if it ever happened again. Good news is I'm still somehow slightly in the positive. Anyone check out their longest flip cold streak? Bet there's some way better than mine.


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ok so im looking into places my plan is to get there 5/28 for start of wsop, then through out the month eventually find a permanent fixture.

is anyones down to get a place for a month does anyone in that neighborhood want to house me (i will pay of course) any ideas or interest please let me know !

thanks


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Today was fucked up lol. I lost a few big pots right away in the session and found myself stuck 4 buyins. I was thinking fuck this is going to be a long day agian lol. I ended up 15 tabling it for the rest of the day and managed to make a decnet profit for the day. Pretty nice upswing to get out of the red. I wish I started swinging up and stayed up lol.

Heres todays graph:
http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp360/mbs03/apr22.jpg

Hopefully I can take this fuckin tourney down Im in right now. Would be sick!.

PZZZZZ

SMOKINGDOUGH


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Hey again. Seems I'm getting "addicted" to blogging about my success or lack thereof again, this was one of the reasons I had my blog deleted the first time, I spent so much time merely posting brags or beats and it's all a waste of time and space, but here I am doing it again.

Anyway, for the first time in about 2 years I had to move down limits due to losing money. I've moved down limits before, but it was never because I was losing at a limit, it was always because I made a withdrawal, leaving myself with too little of a bankroll to play a limit, but this time it's because I continued to lose at $3/$6 to the point where my bankroll is down to $12k. I'm using 30 buyins to move up, then move down a limit if I drop to 20 buyins at that limit, so I had to move down to $2/$4. It served as a bit of a reality check to me, I haven't been winning in poker the last 50k or so hands I've played, including just before I took a 4 month break and I'm beginning to think that, although I have been running below average, it's not just bad luck. I have to admit that I'm doing a lot wrong, and so I approached $2/$4 with a little bit of a different mindset, a refreshed attitude and I started to have more success again. I've been playing 6 tables instead of 4, playing a bit tighter preflop, making extra effort to adjust to preflop situations where players are overly aggressive, overly tight or shortstacked players behind me.

I have built back up to $18k and will be playing $3/$6 again later today, hopefully I'll be able to maintain this surge through $3/$6 and bounce back to the games where I feel I should be playing, $5/$10 and $10/$20.

Here are some HEM screenshots so far:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2278/april.jpg

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8566/aprilgraph.jpg

My graph with showdown/non showdown winnings used to have me positive in both showdown AND non showdown winnings, but since restarting over this time my showdown winnings have been TERRIBLY negative. This is because I've been running bad overall and playing bad a lot too. Since moving down to $2/$4 some 8k hands ago or so, my showdown winnings have stabilised at approximately breakeven, which is a good start.

I had posted in the last blog that I would make another video, and I did exactly that. 3 times. However every single time I had a problem with Camtasia saving it, or producing it, despite changing the version of Camtasia and adjusting settings. I effectively wasted about 5 hours trying to make one and still don't have a video to show for it, so I'm not gonna bother. 2 out of the 3 videos I felt were really pretty good too, so I'm really disappointed, but at the end of the day I'm not gonna spend my time making videos that won't even save when I could be playing for myself at the stakes I normally play. I've tried to help people out a lot both back in the StarCraft days on TeamLiquid and here both by videos (I've posted 2 or 3 total) and on the forums so I feel like I've done enough for the community anyway. Sorry this video didn't work out, hope you enjoyed the $2/$4 one as that's gonna be the last one I make most likely.

Until next time, adios.


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Don't be scared to use your heart sometimes. Stop relying on all those numbers to make those decisions.

Math is idiotic.





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Well I spent 10 days in Vegas. Got hooked up w/ a nice place at Caesars Palace by an old friend of mine who is a huge baccarat baller now. I'm not one to write long stories or anything, so I'll bullet point the significant things

1. Had Sushi Roku (~$100 a person) with my friend, the waiter thought we were gay lovers I think :|. Either way, food was awesome.
2. A bunch of friends from home came to vegas, we went to Club XS at the Encore, which was absolutely ridiculous (ly awesome), it's so huge and it has a nice ass pool in the middle of it, surrounding blackjack tables lolol.
3. The next day we all went to Club Rain at the Palms, which was a much shittier club but Above and Beyond played (which is why I went), and while I'm not a huge trance fan, I like A&B and it was pretty cool there.
4. Played at CP, Venetian, Bellagio, and MGM, 2/5 and 5/10. Ended up winning about ~2k on the trip which, considering I played like 30 god damn hours, is really really shitty (especially considering I didn't play online much during this trip, and missed out on 2 Friday nights where I usually make 2k alone online )
5. Got food poisoning from Caesars Palace room service. Was knocked out with a high fever for like over 24 hours. Never bothered to complain because I was too lazy
6. My busto friend I went with put $30 on the number 2 on Roulette as we were leaving CP on the last day and binked it for $1000 and some change.

Overall I think I was getting a bit bored with the city maybe a week in, I can't imagine living here for like 2 months without succumbing to my inner degen (Only played table games twice, came up $10 on blackjack booyah). Having said that, I'm still going back in like 2 months or so when all my online internet poker homies come for WSOP and I'll be playing more table games and just having fun (not 21 til August). I think that's probably mandatory for anyone staying at Vegas for a while, is that you have friends to hang out with - for the 2 weekends I was there my friends from home came so it was like hanging out with them, only in a much wilder scene.

The best thing I got out of the trip though was that in a way I sort of "found myself". It really put things into perspective...on the 2nd day we were partying at XS and my buddy who is 20 also was like "dude...who else does this?" (meaning compared to our peers who are studying for midterms, working min wage jobs, etc. we were out in vegas underage partying and ballin, etc.). Then on the night we drove back (it's like a 3 hour drive back to LA), we saw a couple stranded in the desert with their engine broken down, and it made me think wow, here I am having the time of my life as a 20 year old kid, going home in a nice BMW (although I hate BMWs) with thousands of dollars in my pocket, etc. how on earth can I EVER complain about my life?

So yeah I hope I didn't come off as too arrogant, and I know I suddenly broke into story mode even though I said I wouldn't write a story, but somehow the sick degeneracy of the city was able to bring out a very nice, humbling perspective for me. From that, I think I somehow have a better sense of what I want to achieve, how I'm going to achieve it, etc. So in the end, I thought it was very cool that on the drive to Vegas, I was filled with anticipation (to gamble, to have fun, etc.), and as I was coming back from Vegas, I still had a great sense of anticipation, only this time for my immediate future, my goals, etc.


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I stupidly spewed 4BI in the morning NL10, during 25minutes. (Why do I play anyway? Always in sports, school, university, I can't bloody focus before 11am... but I always play...and lose. And when I play 30/28 NL10 it even multiplies. I was not going by equity but by hope)

Thank god I got it back in a few (and lost some of it at the end, see my last post) this afternoon.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/54ddf222fc8002cc06b39f6b1675edaa.png

Than I saw my luck is running out and I am getting tired, so I got back to my 14table NL5 Grind.


And guess what, although I try not to, my openness at NL10 affects my 14tabling as well. I ran 21/20 instead of the usual 17/13 and its actually a better approach as its 200bb. But now I know from NL10 what to do with those tiny SC and One gappers, and I am no longer taking free money from only from the mid-stacks, but with the suck out hands I also stacked the nitty regs here and there.


Here is the brag graph and my 36$/Hour this afternoon.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/274ef4cc79e2259866581a0c37ab6707.png




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So i've taken a hiatus from the poker life and focused now on working to save up a bankroll. I've been doing delivery for Pizzeta, an Italian restaurant and so far since April 6th I've earned about $500 including working on the weekend doing casino night for an entertainment company and not including 2 more weekly paychecks that are owed to me for another $300-400. The job isn't bad and i don't mind taking a break from poker.

I've still been playing online mtt's on full tilt in my free time so between all of this i plan on just saving up a solid roll.

That's something i've never done before and in the past i've always built my bankroll from taking shots with a couple hundred bucks at 1-2 nl. I like this new approach as I know within me that once I have a solid 10k or even 5k bankroll that I will most likely never go broke again. I thought to myself, what would it be like if i just worked for 6 or 9 months and didn't play poker and just saved every dollar. I've been having poker dreams of what it would be like to have a solid bankroll and be able to play 5/10 and 10/20nl and learn with the game.

I think that's why it was necessary for me to take a break from school and to put in those hours at the 1-2 and 2-5 tables, just so i can prove to myself whether or not this is for me. Even though i went bust, all that time and all those hands did not go to waste. They hold real intangible value.
In the past though, working for me has been like pulling teeth. Mostly because the jobs were awful and i was miserable but with this new goal in mind i think it will give me the motivation i need to actually make this happen.

I guess we'll see in the days to come.


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