Basically Tom Brady can nominate himself as one of the biggest chokes in sports history. Eli Manning on the other hand...
Eli Manning is like... amazing. How clutch was that play during the Giant's winning drive on Sunday? Underdogs for the win! Anyways, speaking of football, my friend just sent me a link to this video:
CLICK COMMENTS IF YOU CAN'T SEE VIDEO
1994 High School football game between Plano East and John Tyler (apparently high schools in Texas). With 3 minutes left in the game the score is 41-17 in favor of John Tyler. This video is... fucking hilarious from start to finish. A must watch if you love football! "God bless those kids... I am sick, I want to throw up"
Basically Tom Brady can nominate himself as one of the biggest chokes in sports history. Eli Manning on the other hand...
Eli Manning is like... amazing. How clutch was that play during the Giant's winning drive on Sunday? Underdogs for the win! Anyways, speaking of football, my friend just sent me a link to this video:
CLICK COMMENTS IF YOU CAN'T SEE VIDEO
1994 High School football game between Plano East and John Tyler (apparently high schools in Texas). With 3 minutes left in the game the score is 41-17 in favor of John Tyler. This video is... fucking hilarious from start to finish. A must watch if you love football! "God bless those kids... I am sick, I want to throw up"
Haven't updated the blog in a long while... so this is going to be random-->
Told you! I've had a retarded amount of free time on my hands in the past month and have been playing a lot of poker. For the first time since the summer time I played over 50,000 hands in one month and ended January up a lil over $11,000. I would screen shot my PT but there is something really wrong with my computer. Everytime I screen shot something and copy it to MS Paint... it turns out all black? Anyone know how to fix this? I'm told it's a Windows Vista gfx problem or something? Anyways, when I'm not playing poker down here I've been doing a lot of surfing. I'm still somewhat bad at it but it's just so great to be out at the beach everyday, especially because the weather down here has been absolutely amazing considering it's winter.
On to another news flash in my life: I'm now an uncle!
Meet my nephew Logan! He was born last Saturday at 5:40 in the afternoon, weighing in at 8 pounds 4 ounces. My mom says that he looks exactly like me when I was born with the exception of his deep blue eyes which you can somewhat see here:
Still a very cute baby, but I'm sure I was cuter . Obviously my little sister is really excited, and I'm going back home next weekend to visit. I was going to go back this weekend... but come on... It's Superbowl Sunday tomorrow. How can I miss that? My new nephew is going to have to take a backseat to that.
So I realized this semester that school kind of sucks. Plain and simple... when you're making 10k+ a month on a pretty consistent basis... your motivation to study for school kind of drops off in a big way. Especially since I'm a Communication major with an emphasis on journalism, which earns me a starting internship with salary of 35k/yr coming out of college. Big fucking whoop? I almost made that in one month over the summer. Recently I've seriously considered just dropping the whole thing and figuring out my poker career. I'll check back in on that. The only thing keeping me going to school are my friends who are totally awesome. Here are some pics from the past week:
Not very good quality obv, mainly caz my friends are donks at taking pictures, and my camera is dead. FPP store re-ship my new camera faster plz? Finally, check out my new love:
If you can't see the video click on the comments to view it - Dave Matthews Band is like... so good. I've always liked Dave Matthews, but recently I've really started to listen to all his CDs and wow... amazing? Especially this song, #41 where Victor Wooten comes in and plays the sickest Bass Guitar solo around 6:45 into the video. If your a fan of good music, this is def not a video to miss.
See? Told you this was going to be a random blog post.
Haven't updated the blog in a long while... so this is going to be random-->
Told you! I've had a retarded amount of free time on my hands in the past month and have been playing a lot of poker. For the first time since the summer time I played over 50,000 hands in one month and ended January up a lil over $11,000. I would screen shot my PT but there is something really wrong with my computer. Everytime I screen shot something and copy it to MS Paint... it turns out all black? Anyone know how to fix this? I'm told it's a Windows Vista gfx problem or something? Anyways, when I'm not playing poker down here I've been doing a lot of surfing. I'm still somewhat bad at it but it's just so great to be out at the beach everyday, especially because the weather down here has been absolutely amazing considering it's winter.
On to another news flash in my life: I'm now an uncle!
Meet my nephew Logan! He was born last Saturday at 5:40 in the afternoon, weighing in at 8 pounds 4 ounces. My mom says that he looks exactly like me when I was born with the exception of his deep blue eyes which you can somewhat see here:
Still a very cute baby, but I'm sure I was cuter . Obviously my little sister is really excited, and I'm going back home next weekend to visit. I was going to go back this weekend... but come on... It's Superbowl Sunday tomorrow. How can I miss that? My new nephew is going to have to take a backseat to that.
So I realized this semester that school kind of sucks. Plain and simple... when you're making 10k+ a month on a pretty consistent basis... your motivation to study for school kind of drops off in a big way. Especially since I'm a Communication major with an emphasis on journalism, which earns me a starting internship with salary of 35k/yr coming out of college. Big fucking whoop? I almost made that in one month over the summer. Recently I've seriously considered just dropping the whole thing and figuring out my poker career. I'll check back in on that. The only thing keeping me going to school are my friends who are totally awesome. Here are some pics from the past week:
Not very good quality obv, mainly caz my friends are donks at taking pictures, and my camera is dead. FPP store re-ship my new camera faster plz? Finally, check out my new love:
If you can't see the video click on the comments to view it - Dave Matthews Band is like... so good. I've always liked Dave Matthews, but recently I've really started to listen to all his CDs and wow... amazing? Especially this song, #41 where Victor Wooten comes in and plays the sickest Bass Guitar solo around 6:45 into the video. If your a fan of good music, this is def not a video to miss.
See? Told you this was going to be a random blog post.
So since I cant seem to win anything at 2/4 and my self esteem is at an all time low I have decided to rape 1/2 for a while.
I will be playing 50k hands on 1/2 before moving back up again. I will update my blog after each session, talking trough some interesting hands and discussing diffrent conceps which I hope people will find helpful. Hopefully it will help me plug some leaks aswell.
I might make a video on 1/2 if I feel like it but I havent decided yet.
Its a phrase that is tossed around alot but I feel it is not far from the truth. I have always been serious about taking responsebility for my results, and I definitely know I havent played all hands perfectly but I still think Im playing really good. Mostly Im thinking way ahead of my opponents and my dicipline has gotten alot better. I dont think most of you guys can even comprehend how frustrated I am right now. I dont mean to sound like a jerk, I know Im not special. We all go through the same variance and bitching about it wont help.
But I am actually break even/slightly down on FTP 2/4 over around 100k hands, this after consistently beating higher games for several months before this. When ever I sit down shit just rains down on me and todays session was no diffrent.
And after school I went out and got drunk. Now it seems like ive lost some radio equipment worth over $1k while being drunk hitting on semi hot chicks. 1k isnt really a big deal, the humiliation is another thing. Im retarded, so standard, I hate when bullshit disturb my hitting on chicks flow.
So last night I downloaded Ket's Party Poker Late Night episode to check out him in action. Sadly after watching it, I am forced to say it's really not worth the time to download nor the computer space. If you don't believe me, you can go and download it yourself here: http://www.thepokerbay.org/details.php?id=2247. For the rest of you guys who are going to take my advice, but are curious as to what went on, I have put together a quick recap of the episode (only the important parts ofcourse):
Here is the first hand, Ket raises this weird looking guy's open limp with KK. The limper calls, the flop comes ace high and they check it to the river...
Then they interview Ket... and he tells us how he got started in poker
And then finally Ket got short stacked... shoved A6 against a super nit and...
So last night I downloaded Ket's Party Poker Late Night episode to check out him in action. Sadly after watching it, I am forced to say it's really not worth the time to download nor the computer space. If you don't believe me, you can go and download it yourself here: http://www.thepokerbay.org/details.php?id=2247. For the rest of you guys who are going to take my advice, but are curious as to what went on, I have put together a quick recap of the episode (only the important parts ofcourse):
Here is the first hand, Ket raises this weird looking guy's open limp with KK. The limper calls, the flop comes ace high and they check it to the river...
Then they interview Ket... and he tells us how he got started in poker
And then finally Ket got short stacked... shoved A6 against a super nit and...
For some reason you are going to have to click on my comments to view the embedded video. Not exactly sure how new these are... but they're freakin awesome
For some reason you are going to have to click on my comments to view the embedded video. Not exactly sure how new these are... but they're freakin awesome
Showdown JonnyCosMo : shows (a pair of Kings)
natedawg2211: shows (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
natedawg2211 collected $1001.40 from pot
Summary Total pot $1004.40 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Flupkees folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: JonnyCosMo showed and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: natedawg2211 showed and won ($1001.40) with two pair, Tens and Sevens
Seat 4: Maden2k (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: m_reed05 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: sniderstyle (big blind) folded before Flop
Showdown JonnyCosMo : shows (a pair of Kings)
natedawg2211: shows (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
natedawg2211 collected $1001.40 from pot
Summary Total pot $1004.40 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Flupkees folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: JonnyCosMo showed and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: natedawg2211 showed and won ($1001.40) with two pair, Tens and Sevens
Seat 4: Maden2k (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: m_reed05 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: sniderstyle (big blind) folded before Flop
Recently I've been getting a little too out of line and lost a lot of my basics from trying to think too hard, too many levels into certain hands. Some of you guys might have seen the funky AJ hand I posted in the mid stakes forums asking whether I should call with AJ high on the river. NOT GOOD! So to fix this, I've decided to implement a new rule into my sessions: I will have to play an hour of 8-table NL200 for each and every big mistake I make at NL400 or NL600. This past week I've played a total of 7 hours of NL200, and let me be the first to inform you guys who still play NL200 or lower... The jump between NL200 & NL400 is HUGE. I cannot believe some of the stuff that goes on at NL200, and some of the fish that play those games. It's absolute amazing. Hands like this: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/370047 NEVER happens at NL400 no matter how bad the fish are. Plus, every regular at NL200 plays the same 19/16/3 ABC Tight-Aggro game which is horribly transparent and very easy to exploit. No doubt, these players probably destroy NL200 for a good sum of money, but they are in for a very rude awakening when they move up.
In other news, I'm getting much better at surfing. My friend has a water camera so I'll try and get pictures the next time I'm out there. Oh yea... and my little sister is having a baby on Saturday so I'm going to be Uncle Jonny soon! Yes, I know my little sister is only 20, and yes I find it really weird, but at the same time it going to be exciting to see the new addition to the fam. :D
Recently I've been getting a little too out of line and lost a lot of my basics from trying to think too hard, too many levels into certain hands. Some of you guys might have seen the funky AJ hand I posted in the mid stakes forums asking whether I should call with AJ high on the river. NOT GOOD! So to fix this, I've decided to implement a new rule into my sessions: I will have to play an hour of 8-table NL200 for each and every big mistake I make at NL400 or NL600. This past week I've played a total of 7 hours of NL200, and let me be the first to inform you guys who still play NL200 or lower... The jump between NL200 & NL400 is HUGE. I cannot believe some of the stuff that goes on at NL200, and some of the fish that play those games. It's absolute amazing. Hands like this: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/370047 NEVER happens at NL400 no matter how bad the fish are. Plus, every regular at NL200 plays the same 19/16/3 ABC Tight-Aggro game which is horribly transparent and very easy to exploit. No doubt, these players probably destroy NL200 for a good sum of money, but they are in for a very rude awakening when they move up.
In other news, I'm getting much better at surfing. My friend has a water camera so I'll try and get pictures the next time I'm out there. Oh yea... and my little sister is having a baby on Saturday so I'm going to be Uncle Jonny soon! Yes, I know my little sister is only 20, and yes I find it really weird, but at the same time it going to be exciting to see the new addition to the fam. :D
I played only 6-max today and I think I played really well. I completely owned some regulars and thats always a good feeling. I also played alot with a guy who Im sure usually plays 25$/50$, Right now I cant remember his name but I have definitely seen him alot at high stakes. For the first time in a looong long time I felt completely owned. He just buldozed me until I almost begged him to stop. Its very inspirational to see a player like that in action but also really scary. I cant believe the mindfuck swings of playing 25$/50$ against players like that all day long.
In other news, tomorrow is my day of from my fuckall workout routine. Apart from taking a long walk before breakfast I will rest the entire day and thats great because it feel like my entire body is on mad tilt right now.
By playing 6-max. 8-tabled it for a couple of hours and made 2,5k so now im only down 1,5k for the day.
I realized something today about my HU game. I always tend to lose at the beginning of the session. I start out bulding a nutty image and try to beat myself and my opponent into deep stacked play, where I am really comfortable and most opponents arnt. This usually works out pretty well when my opponent stay long enough for my deep stacked edge to kick in. This is basicly what happened yesterday, I lost like 1,5-2k in the beginning and then just steamrolled the guy and ended up over 3k on him even though he pulled some really ugly suckouts for multiple buyin pots.
Today on the other hand, started with me playing one guy HU on three tables. Kinda solid but way to tight and gave away tons off buttons. I lost a couple of pots, some because of bad play and some coolers/beats.
When he had convinced me to open yet another table we where getting pretty deep and I had a really good idea of how he was playing. Then all of a sudden he just instaleaves, leaving me down like 2k and being a saaaad panda.
So I played this other guy and he ran like god himself in the beginning. He just hit every flop and I was way to impatient thinking "fuck he cant have it all the time"
and I actually tilted off one or two buyins. Kinda sucks to do that because Im usually a strong advocate of not letting a small sample of hands determine your action and dicipline is sooooo important HU.
Ahwell, I slapped myself in the face, focused and kept playing. I played really well from there on and I grinded down more than half of what I had previously lost to him before he eventually left. I think my deep stacked edge was really obvious in this match. I didnt get it in bad for 120bbs+ once I think whereas he managed to twice put tons of money in with like 20% equity. Unfortunately he managed to suck out a few times, some of them where pretty huge but w/e, ship the sklansky bucks.
This is a hand that just shows so perfectly why HU is so much fun. He was 3-betting ALOT and I was calling alot of 3-bets. Probably calling a bit too much but I felt I had a big edge over this guy postflop. Elected to float and take it away on the turn since he c-bets his entire range on this flop. Now, betting the turn I know he isnt giving me much credit at all so I wasnt suprised to get raised here and I definitely didnt put him on a queen since I think he leads turn w/ it 100% of the time. I think his raising range in this spot is superwide and I just knew he was going to do someting like this so I called and obv took it down on the river.
This is like one of the biggest misstakes people do HU I feel. They make moves in so predictable spots. Like, it just so easy to tell that this guy has had enough and is going to raise with his entire range. A good player is going to exploit that sooo much. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/368949
.. to play 6 4 hours of poker a day for the rest of my life the year.
Maybe I'll make it less when the new monitor arrives and I can play more tables, but this is getting ridiculous, a new low point discipline wise. Probably not played more than 9k hands this month, and less than 6k of those were at the 2/5.
I should probably get an excell sheet or something setup and document everything to help me make sure I do this and mark days off etc..
4 hours of 4 tabling should allow me to get in about 1.5k hands a day (I think), and therefore 45k hands a month, which is an acceptable amount.
A night or two ago while scouting out the tables I saw the sickest player on Crypto was 6 tabling 2/5 tho, so I decided to stay away. By sickest I don't mean to say he's the best, simply because I have no way of knowing who the best highstakes crypto players are as I don't play high enough, but Gulkines is simply the craziest player I've ever seen. If you want to see some crazy hands I'd highly recommend checking out his hands posted here: http://www.pokerhand.nu/user/gulkines
Usually I see him sitting at every single 25/50+ HU table, but I guess he wanted a change of pace or something.
Ran into a highlight video of the headcoach and owner (I think) of the MMA gym I joined recently:
By the way, is solemnly vow or solemnly swear better? Google can't decide, nor can the dictionary
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. Obviously my little sister is really excited, and I'm going back home next weekend to visit. I was going to go back this weekend... but come on... It's Superbowl Sunday tomorrow. How can I miss that? My new nephew is going to have to take a backseat to that. 
(two pair, Tens and Sevens)
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