JonnyCosMo United States. May 16 2009 05:21. Posts 7292
SPOILER: Blog post contains epic pictures of VITAL FUCKING MYTH below.
Yea, so my New Years Resolution about keeping my blog updated is not going so well as you can see. The playing 2500 hands each day minimum was going well for about 3 weeks, then I realized I'm lazy. I started going to the gym, then stopped, then started again, then stopped again, and now I'm just too busy to get my ass back up to go again. I'm pretty bad with time management and organization in general so that definitely is probably contributing to my so-called laziness. Other than that, this year has been a successful one already for one simple reasons: THE LIVE POKERS!
There is a card room in San Diego called Palomar where they run a 5/10 game with a $2k cap buy-in, with the occasional 10/20 w no cap buy-in. I knew about the place when I first came down here to San Diego, and visited it once or twice at the beginning of last year, when I didn't really have the motivation or discipline to play live poker yet so I never really went back. After a year of practice on the live tournament circuit, and losta time spent in the Vegas live cash games I came back to San Diego with more of both motivation and discipline. So starting last November, I started to dedicate atleast one day a week to the Palomar grind. At the beginning of this year, I was going 2-3 times a week. Starting March I upped it to 4-5 times a week. Basically it would be spewing money not to go, the games are THAT juicy. It really is the sweetest mix of loose/passive random middle aged guys, super old super nits, and gambling loose aggrotards. Very comparable to the Commerce games during LAPC (Really, nothing on earth will surpass the goodness of the live games are Commerce during LAPC). From Jan 1st to the present I'm up ~$65k playing live 5/10 and 10/20 (which breaks down to 21k at Commerce 10/20, and 44k at Palomar 5/10). Pretty funny since most of my time is still spent playing online NL 6-max / HU, and I'm up but not close to those numbers so far this year.
All the practice has really made my live poker reads really sharp, mainly because I get pretty good insight into how different people think about how to play hands. Before I'd always think "Shit this guy is so stupid, none of his logic makes any sense" but now I realize that most people actually attempt some sort of reason to their play and even thou it is incorrect the majority of the time, now it makes a lot more sense to me on why they think these ways in certain spots. Can't think of a better way to put it, here is kind of a basic example of what I'm trying to say: Player A never realizes the pot size in any hand. Therefore, when he faces a $50 bet to him and has the decision between calling or folding he only sees the size of the bet. He reasons that his opponents hand is probably weak because he only bet $50. If his opponent bet $250, he reads the hand strength as strong. So he ends up calling looser in single raised / limped pots, and folding big (seeing ghosts in the closet) in 3bet pots, assuming that his opponent is adjusting his betting sizes to the size of the pot (surprisingly some people don't adjust their betting sizes either because most of them think like Player A). Just one of a dozen things that run through the head of your average live player. Live poker so ez lol...
So far this year, went to LAPC which was a bust tournament wise (Direct yourself two blog posts down to my 10k Commerce event recap), followed by a trip to Rincon which is an hour north of San Diego (even thou they call it WSOP Circuit in San Diego, but in reality that shit hole is nowhere close to SD). Only played the main event there and ended up getting 8th for $24.5k which made up for all the LAPC buy-ins I dropped which was nice. Last hand was a coinflip to the ever so aggressive shaundeeb prodigy, Esther Tayor (E-Tay) for a top 2 stack. Decided to skip the Bellagio series because I got lazy and decided to do real life fun stuff with my friends, here is a short recap with pics:
On Oahu with a couple high school buds of mine, this is the backside of Poli
On top of Diamond Head over looking Honolulu & Wakiki
Going snowboarding for the first time @ Big Bear
On the lift... before I bruised my tail bone on a rock
My boy Noah and I on Valentines Day with the girls in LA @ Geisha House
Some girl smiling at the camera before I smashed her skull open with my pool stick. GTFO bitch it's my picture day imo.
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH!
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH ONE MORE TIME!
Oh yeah so last Friday was my 24th birthday. Fuck I'm old. We've discussed that if you're 21, you are the average age for an online poker player. At 24, you reach your mid-life crisis. At 28+ your like grandpa (or grandma) to all these young-ins. We ended up having a chill dinner in Mission Beach at this bomb place called Mizu's where they are like "FUCK YEAH!" if you sake bomb. So we sake bombed all night, then headed to Bar West in PB which is also pretty ill. PBDrunks round-house kicked one of our grey goose bottles to the floor. Smooth.
For the weekend me and my "kinda" girlfriend Anna, went to Vegas to see Dave Matthews Band two nights in a row at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Let me mini-rant first: Wynn's ticket service people can suck my fucking left nut. Other than that is was an awesome weekend. Boyd Tinsley on the violin is the illest. Dave Matthews Band absolutely rocked the entire house. I'm def a big fan of all the new stuff they have coming out too. Can't wait til the new CD comes out in June.
Here is some random youtube clip of my favorite song 'Dancing Nancies' played on the second night (Note-> Boyd Tinsley rocks socks):
And a pic from weekend:
Fixing my laziness! Maybe post something more enjoyable to read soon...
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Everyone needs to see that you are king of the castle - PoorUser
FrinkX United States. May 16 2009 08:18. Posts 7561
BRO
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2nd off FAMBO IS 100% UR GIRLFRIEND DEAL WITH IT CRY ABOUT IT T_FKING_T JUST SHIP IT & BE DONE U CAN BORROW SOME CONDOMS IF U WANT
3rd off solid posts of corwin respect
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FrinkX United States. May 16 2009 08:19. Posts 7561
oh & 4th it may have taken u a long time but congratulations on figuring out that people who play live poker FUCKING SUCK & their thinking process = their retardation
regardless of how it took u all year, ship it that u realized it. now u will bank off of poker 4 life. ship? i think so. ship.
Netherlands. May 16 2009 08:21. Posts 7080
