-50k Downswing, Year End Reflect, SNE!!, GF pics

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Joeingram1 United States. Jan 08 2010 21:27. Posts 943

I haven't blogged for about a month now and have been getting alot of PM's asking if I am going to blog and update. Had a pretty adventurous end to the year. I won my prop bet at the beginning of the month for 33k and felt on top of the world. I took my play to the mid-high stakes on stars and right away started up about +25k. Around this same time is when I started losing alot at 10/20. Soon after I found PLO.......I started up about +12k playing 5/10 PLO and thinking I ran the streets, within the next 3-5 sessions of playing to many tables/bad game selection/to much HU/running super horrible, i was -20k in the game. Nice like 35k swing. Yes some of it was running bad but most of it was the tilt/playing bad/lack of self control that led to all of this. Soon after this I was jumping back and forth from PLO and NO limit and basically losing at both. I went home to Chicago for Christmas and while there I dropped another 15k in one session of 3/6 PLO, i mean what the fuck am I thinking at this point. Pretty soon my +25k month at the tables turned into being a -25k month at the tables. GG $50,000 dollars.

At the time of all this I was a little mad/sad about it all but really not that affected. I have been trying to figure out why that was. About 1.5 years ago when I started playing poker, I had nothing, no money, no car, was just living in Chicago in the city. Grinding it out, hooking up with random city women, hanging with friends, going to beach. 1,000 dollars seemed like 1 million to me at the time. Over awhile I started actually making money though, bought a nice car, nice bed, fancy clothes, ton of fun toys/amenties, took trips, ate awesome food. I never really thought I would have any of this stuff to be honest at age 24 or ever in my life really, so the fact that I can lose all that money and I still have this other stuff left over plus a good amout online/offline when before I had nothing kinda helps me not feel as bad. Idk if this is good also and is probably really hurtfull overall in the long run. People have suggested that setting some goals for myself and practicing a better bankroll management will be good for me and I agree. I really don't act like the money is real/usually just try to run it up as high as I possibly can before hitting the inevitable losing. I am trying to come up with some for this year/the near future, whether that be buying a home, new car, invest a certain amount in long term, or something of that nature. Still really undecided on what I want to achieve and until I figure all that out, I fear I may have more repeats in the future.

Here is last month's graph

I did end the year up a good amount from a combination of my prop bets/fpp/milestone/tables/stakes and live play so all was not to bad about 2009.

All of that said I have been trying to come up with a good plan for this year. I am 100 percent going for SuperNova Elite this year as I feel I can attain it fairly easily and won't take to much time for me to do so. I am hoping to get better at mass tabling PLO and become a slight winner/breakeven player while collect mass amounts of VPP. Will be starting the year off playing 100/200nl 6max and some plo100. I also became "official" with the girl I posted in my last blog that some interesting comments to say the least lol. I am finding it interesting to find some common balance between hanging out with her/playing alot of volume of poker. She gets mad at me because my sleep schedule isn't normal and I am bad at sticking to a plan but thats how I have been the past 2 years. It is hard to just snap out of all that while still being a poker player. We spent New years together with some other friends and had a pretty great time, also took a little mini-vacation to Palm Springs and got to do a little hiking in the mountains, I defintly sucked it up during all of this and kept falling on my ass lol.

Here are some pics, hopefully better thoughts this time lol

haha far right hand side

Started off the Hike in my jeans, quickly bought some sweat pants though because spent to much money on those jeans to ruin them

Random pic of Lindsay

She does lurk the blog comments so hopefully the comments aren't that mean-spirted this time around as I don't think she looks bad as is very beautiful in person haha

Going to start posting more frequent updates as I go towards with SNE

Current VPP: 25,200- On, Pace
Monthly Profit: Not good lol, need to combine both databases

As always thanks much for reading and leave comments

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Last edit: 08/01/2010 21:31

Zalfor United States. Jan 08 2010 21:36. Posts 2236

gj man.

life +Ev = poker +EV. =) just play thru the variance

qwerty67890 New Zealand. Jan 08 2010 21:39. Posts 14026

In the first pic is it intentional that you look like ur taking her from behind? judging from your smile id say yes.

to having an asian gf

terrybunny19240 United States. Jan 08 2010 21:40. Posts 13829

I think she's cute ^^

stick to proper stakes and move up properly

Squishedpoo United States. Jan 08 2010 21:47. Posts 12

shes cute man

Youre about as useful as a poopie flavored lolli pop .. Patches OHoulahan

Shad United Kingdom. Jan 08 2010 22:01. Posts 866

Your girlfriend is lovely. Gl and keep your blog going!

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djforever Canada. Jan 08 2010 22:04. Posts 1510

SNE!!! yea lets crush 2010 gl man.

RICHI8 United States. Jan 08 2010 22:19. Posts 1341

She's milkin ya

Just kidding. Or am I?

ggplz Sweden. Jan 08 2010 22:28. Posts 16784

joe, good luck this year man ^^

if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN

Baalim Mexico. Jan 08 2010 22:59. Posts 34305

well stop doing dumb shit like playing stakes you cannot beat like 2knl and 5knl for a start

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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 08 2010 23:02. Posts 4742

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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 08 2010 23:03. Posts 4742

No disrespect yo xD

Maynard! United States. Jan 08 2010 23:03. Posts 4453

Joe "Hero" Ingram.

Now I really am a busto. Thanks FTP.

Joeingram1 United States. Jan 08 2010 23:06. Posts 943

lol i love the ronaldo500 chat!

k2o4 United States. Jan 09 2010 00:19. Posts 4803

that pic in ur old blog was a really bad one of her, these ones are much better.

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