Poker Tracking and Thoughts

What's Up June?

2009-06-03T02:32:00.002-04:00

well...it's june...i'm thinking of starting playing again...i've been playing, but not often, and not many sessions a night...it's been busy, but we'll see if i can find some time...

Bored

2008-12-10T09:43:00.002-05:00

i stopped playing cash and started playing sng's again...cash is a real pain in the ass...i think i fried out so i went back to the easier stuff...at least easier stuff because i know it better...i dunno i run alright...my little brother is challenging me to some gay bet...100 sngs, best roi, 3 dollar 40 cent on pokerstars...so annoying...1 thing, people suck at this level beyond belief...i get bluffed CONSTANTLY though...i can just run the range i run in 10's and treat them as the same opponents and kill them 9 tabling...he obviously has no chance in hell to beat me...

plexico burress, you're a real dipshit

Cash y0

2008-11-06T03:26:00.002-05:00

so i'm playing cash now...i've been playing .10/.25 6max...i'm rolled for .25/.50 but i'm just learning so i'll try to keep the variance down...i have been doing alright...super small sample but i'm at 6bb/100 so that's good...

i haven't updated this in forever...i went on a tear in sngs the last few months and ran about 55 percent for a little bit...i was playing them to roll myself for cash, and i finally got there this month and some...i'm at a 1k roll right now...sadly it's more than i have in my checking account, but like they always say, poker money is poker money...

i'm going to try and update this as i go...i don't know that anyone reads this but who knows....

Internet at Home

2008-03-31T02:35:00.002-04:00

alright well i finally can play away from work...i have to get my own because i'm stealing from the hotel right now and the signal is weaksauce...it can't handle more than 2 tables without choking itself...

poker...grind...up...down...up...down...i cannot get to 1k to save my life...i was at 920 at one point last week, but i got slammed down the next night...i run in god mode one night and then suckout mode the next...i've come to realize that donkeys are hilarious...they're so oblivious...whenever i lose big pots, it's either against a good player with 2 monster hands, or against a donkey (literally like very bad player) with a crap hand and me with standard early game hand...aa,kk etc...i'm starting to embrace it better though...and i am playing better...especially around the bubble...

i want to play cash but i'm afraid to make the move...i know it'll mess up my sng game, but brandon is killing it pretty consistently so i might have to start...anything is possible with the right teacher...always remember that when you're posting hands in the forums...there has been more know it allers in the sng section lately...i was going to 67 to read ac's stuff and now he's starting to post again on cp so i hope i can get some good stuff going with him...i think what he does is pretty crazy...

so yeah that's what's going on...i'll be on more...

Gross

2008-02-27T01:19:00.002-05:00

pokers getting gross...i'm just not running like super hot anymore and i'm getting screwed so much...i'm back down to 10 dollar sngs...my bankroll right now is $450...i can't even believe the swings i've been taking though...3 days ago i was at $700 playing 20's...then i moved down to 10's at like 650 and have been getting raped...like i'm losing every race but i think it's because i'm not opening up early enough and just start playing way too tight for too long...i hope that's all that it is because i'm gonna try and fix that tonight...

GIANTS BABY!

2008-02-04T02:06:00.000-05:00

the giants did it...i've been a huge giants fan my whole life...my dad, my dads dad, all my brothers...big fans...it's sad that my grandfather didn't live long enough to see how fucking amazing tonight was...i have never felt so much joy vicariously before...i love that they did it to the pats...they never say "we're the best" but they always imply it with that cockiness that they have...smugness...i'm am going to sleep great tomorrow...
been playing ehhhh...account is bouncing up and down between 680 and 730...i went 0-5 the other night...first time i haven't cashed in a night in like....i don't even know when...a while...flopped a flush and got all in on the flop, but the tpwk hit runner runner for a fullhouse...that was sweet...taking beats better....or not...i dunno...i am calmer but i still kinda play differently after...like playing weaker hands early and doing it because i don't want to get short again and have to jam a flopped flush with 12 bbs...

K For Real

2008-01-08T04:27:00.000-05:00

still playing decent...just lost one on the bubble...a8 jam into ak...but...had a good night again...had a good night last night...when i get rakeback i should have about 460-470 in my account...just riding the wave, trying to build my roll back...my roi is 11 percent overall now on avgprofit1dolla...i regret having all of those mtt sngs on there now i'd prolly have a pretty killer roi in stt's...

dicking around on the forum

2008-01-08T02:08:00.000-05:00

Lynette Chan and a week of BS

2008-01-03T05:33:00.001-05:00

started out my week playing a 50 dollar sng vs Lynette Chan and a bunch of other pretty decent online players...i took all but 300 chips of lynettes stack...she got in good but i flushed on her...ak v a10 dimes...i had 7 bbs at the time and had to jam it of course......after i hit my flush i typed "......ship it?"...she prolly loved that...then i bubbled it...the play wasn't aggressive at all...i was very surprised...actually am hopeful to get to playing 50's someday, as the players i played were 10 percent roi 5k profit players and i feel i held my own...

10's this week have been up and down...i think i lost on aces 3 times this week...tonights was aa vs q2 os...i can't complain...without the 50 bucks i spent on that one game, i'd have made a profit for the week...as it is i lost 10 bucks...oh well it was so worth it...playing out of your roll is a great rush because you KNOW you're not doing what you should be...

Merry Christmas

2007-12-25T04:39:00.000-05:00

been playing pretty good still...tonight i played in the midnighter for the first time in a while...did alright...itm but i got raped and would've gone very deep...kk busted by aq os...all in prf...uggh...then to put me away i jammed aj for a good chunk of change and found the donkey that'd call it with kq dimes...flopped top pair and then they gave the moron a runner runner flush...i donked off 20 bucks in .5/.10 nl playing with another couple forum people...luske and rm21...i was surprised luske railed me...wasn't expecting that someone would be searching my sn on tilt...

last night i was thinking about how horrid my 20 dollar roi is from losing all those 45 person games, so i decided to play ONE 20 dollar sng...after the first 20 hands it was 5 handed...i got ak in the bb...35 percent vp$ip raised 3x from the button, i made it 3x that...he called, the flop came k 2 10...i bet the pot, he called...i jammed the turn...he had 10's...fult tilt sucks...

Strtflsh420

2007-12-19T03:21:00.000-05:00

i don't know what this guys problem is...i've seen him on the forum tons of times, never said anything to him dickheadish from what i can remember...so then i make fun of the new forum punching bag, babyjordan23, and this guy starts bashing me in every post i make...wicked annoying...crude used to do that shit...he posted my blog so i hope he'll read this and maybe give some reasoning as to why he needs to annoy me like he does...maybe it's because i don't like tony romo....

poker still going well...i didn't switch back to 10's yet...i'm mixing them in a few a night...still holding 25 or so percent roi in 5's through this week...4 for 4 last night, 2 for 2 tonight so far...i'm sure strtflsh will say something dumb about how bad i am at poker again

Played Alot Today

2007-12-17T06:43:00.000-05:00

well i dicked around alot today...stayed at the hotel, played online for about 14 hours, and i lost 10 bucks...i was screwing around with brandon for a long time...blew 25 bucks in 10 minutes playing .5/1 HU nl...shouldn't have played...playing .5/1 with 25 bucks is retarded...

sngs went alright...while i was working i think i had 2 hands that were questionable, one, i got a sb limper when i was in the bb...i had 8 bbs...i jammed j3 suited, he called with 88...aka he was a moron...

the other i had kq to a min raise from the button, i had 5 bbs at the time because every person at my table (5 handed) were total sng donkeys...anyway i jammed and he called with 99...

seems like everytime i get busted, some clown wants to comment on how stupid i am for the way that i play...they're usually losing players...lol

Still Running Hot

2007-12-13T05:22:00.000-05:00

sticking to 5 dollar sngs still, even though i can move up...i have been killing them so why not...25 percent roi through about 275 games...not too shabby...played one 10 dollar tonight and finished first...dicked around and gave away some money in .05/.10 6 max nl because sng tables were down for maint....sucked because i was running good tonight too...

i dunno if you can view that or not...the resolution is all fucked up on my laptop...if you can view my photobucket album, then you're psyched i guess...just my scope stats...i started playing 5 dollar stt's at about 250 games in....played one 45 person tonight and got raped...jj vs a3 hearts one time, qq vs aj for the bust...felt good...made me not want to play anymore...

miguel tejada got traded today...don't know if it's good or bad yet...bad because he was good, good because he had a bad attitude...whatever...

Laptops Back, SNG also

2007-12-09T04:00:00.000-05:00

laptop got back last week...i've been playing pretty good...running pretty good...i runn goooood....as is always with an upswing, winning races, playing well on the bubble...staying tight early and not playing gay pairs...it's good to have the laptop back...anyway...fitting in at 67suited i guess....wish the sng section was more active...

Whooops!

2007-11-28T02:12:00.000-05:00

been a while since i posted...laptop is STILL gone getting fixed....retarded...it's been like forever...been playing on this shitty computer at work...one table at a time....i was gonna start two tabling this week, but i got beat up a little yesterday (1 3rd, 3 butsts) but they were all pretty funny hands...2 were aj...derrrrrrrrrrr...

situations i'm having problems with are when there's a short stack with me and i get a hand like 10 10...i'll be a middle stack, and i'll make a raise and get jammed by the big stack and there's always a small stack, like very very small....so i fold and then the small guy doubles, i'll jam or someone will play something stupid, like limping aq with 6 bbs and i had aj in the bb...one hand i didn't bust on but i lost alot of chips on, i had like 1200 chips and the V limped the 120 blind i posted...i jammed aj and he had kk...people have been doing weird things to me lately....

ALSO, the play at the 5 dollar level has gotten better...well better for me i guess...everyones been pretty tight...nobody ever opens up though...i've been getting in alot of games with people that run a forum style...i can pretty much peg them as soon as it gets to 5 people...HUD is awesome...i don't know why i played without it...i have been doing well not playing 45 persons...they're not good for me now...so i can't anymore...i've been playing strictly 5.50 sngs...single table...i'm pretty confident and play pretty decent most of the time...i can't wait to start playing 10's though...i'm gonna hang in at 5's for at least another month i'd think...maybe not...i have 111 bucks right now...when i was up at 150 i started playing 45s back down to about 65 bucks so i'm just grinding these damn 5's...i got invited and voted in to 67suited.com last night...sick...it's like everyone from cp, but without the babies...

i hate paying people to do things

2007-11-11T03:32:00.000-05:00

so i get my laptop back...when it went to the guy i had a internal g card and fully functioning speakers...but it wouldn't turn on...i get it back...it turns on, but my speakers don't work and i have no wireless card...pffff...so it's lame...i dont want to bring it back because who knows how long it'll be gone this time...it was gone for over 2 weeks last time...

i got into dicking around with 45 persons again...i'm such a shmuck...i fool around and donate back to full tilt...i won one of them which got me up to 150 so quick, but i can't stop playing them...it's so much more fun then a sng...sng's are mechanical and short...mtts are more strategic and unpredictable...it's pretty easy to final table them but obviously i can't win when i get there...i'm usually either too short or get a whooping with a bigger hand (jj ak etc) on the final table...last one, on the bubble which is 7 ppl...i'm in the bb with qq...i have like 5 bbs...someone from mid position min raised and i jammed...he had kk...so that was sweet...back to stt this week since my bankroll is 98 dollars now...lol

laptops back finally

2007-11-06T02:37:00.000-05:00

so i can start posting again...been doing alright since the rake put me back in....up to $155 in my bankroll...been blowin money on mtt sngs...won 1 and 4th in a 90 person double stack...which are so awesome but i don't wanna blow anymore money till i have a little more...5 dollar sngs suck...but i'm managing...right now i'm at 8 bbs on the button next hand...sweet...can't wait to see what i get...ace 3 spades...gotta jam right?...a3 vs 99 flop a39...love irony of full tilt...then i get kk next hand...lol...how can i not jam a3 to the bb with as many chips as me?...kk won i'm at 9 bbs again...lol...just folded a2 utg plus 1...jammed a10 utg...folded around...29 os in the bb...check/fold...lol...this is my funniest post yet because it's realtime...hahahaha...i'm listening to dire straits tunnel of love......dire straits has been my shit lately...34 os with 2 limpers in the small folded...button got raised i had 53...now 5 10 in the co...fold...jammed 107s...kk in the bb...who had less chips than me...shocker....oh well...i flopped an oe str8 draw...lol...busto...just got blinded down...

oh yeah how could i forget...poker ranger is sick...free stat tracker....best thing i've ever gotten for poker...

Rakeback FTW

2007-10-23T04:25:00.001-04:00

k so a quick recap...i was busto for exactly 1 day...i got my rakeback, 27 dollars, and started going to work on 5 dollar sngs...i'm at 50 after two days but i should be at about 70...2 places tonight, first and second, and then 3 busts...qq vs ak in one...

Full Tilt Poker Game #3940404202: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (29974697), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:58:42 ET - 2007/10/23Seat 1: CatchingKarma (2,050)Seat 3: Bigdaddyman21 (1,220)Seat 5: wanleg (1,810)Seat 7: todayjunior2 (4,460)Seat 8: achiever one (1,805)Seat 9: avgprofit1dolla (2,155)achiever one posts the small blind of 80avgprofit1dolla posts the big blind of 160The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to avgprofit1dolla [9h 9c]
CatchingKarma folds
Bigdaddyman21 folds
wanleg raises to 320
todayjunior2 folds
achiever one folds
avgprofit1dolla has 15 seconds left to act
avgprofit1dolla raises to 640
wanleg calls 320*** FLOP *** [Td 8s 4d]
avgprofit1dolla bets 640
wanleg raises to 1,170, and is all in
avgprofit1dolla calls 530
wanleg shows [Qs Kd]
avgprofit1dolla shows [9h 9c]
*** TURN *** [Td 8s 4d] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [Td 8s 4d Qh] [5h]
wanleg shows a pair of Queens
avgprofit1dolla shows a pair of Nines
wanleg wins the pot (3,700) with a pair of Queens
avgprofit1dolla: lol

i wonder what some people think...so that turned my winning night into a .60 cent winnings...i'm mad at myself that i couldn't beat this table full of comlete morons...everyone but one other person had roi's worse than -10 percent...3 were at -35 or worse...but i have been playing well...not as aggressive as brandon...i've definitely chilled on the jamming in the endgame...the last few games i've been pretty card dead...but when i finally do get a double up, i play the big stack agg and feel like i'm loosening up just right...

Full Tilt Poker Game #3930096342: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (29899366), Table 1 - 120/240 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:43:54 ET - 2007/10/22Seat 2: vasanth (1,610)Seat 4: thebadDancer (5,010)Seat 5: joblo514 (2,985)Seat 6: avgprofit1dolla (1,540)Seat 7: mnel27 (2,355)thebadDancer posts the small blind of 120joblo514 posts the big blind of 240The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to avgprofit1dolla [Ks Qh]
avgprofit1dolla raises to 1,540, and is all in
mnel27 folds
vasanth folds
thebadDancer folds
joblo514 calls 1,300
avgprofit1dolla shows [Ks Qh]
joblo514 shows [Jh Jd]
*** FLOP *** [2s Tc 6c]
*** TURN *** [2s Tc 6c] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [2s Tc 6c 2d] [2c]
avgprofit1dolla shows three of a kind, Twos
joblo514 shows a full house, Twos full of Jacks

jamming utg = bad news bears....i am unsure of this jam though...i'm thinking an m of 6 here has to be a jam with kq...i don't like it but i think its gotta...

Looking Forward

2007-10-17T02:40:00.000-04:00

well it's gonna happen...i'm going to be busto...i've been very happy with my play this week...i didn't win...but i feel like i'm playing late bubble sngs so much better...but thirds...i'm not getting stacked enough...brandon builds stacks on the bubble, i just maintain or fall off till i jam and lose...i need to learn more...i'm going to dedicate alot of time to sngs when i buy back in....mtts aren't going to even be on my agenda for a long time...maybe someday again but my next bankroll will be strictly sngs till at least 800 dollars...which i don't even know if i'll be winning...who knows...i'm thinking about it positively...1. i get to play 10 dollar sngs again...5 dollar sngs make me so frusterated...2. i'm gonna get poker office which will help i'm sure...3. icm...i need to get sng wiz and just start running hands...i need to learn more about ranges...assigning ranges basically...i feel like i'm giving a good range but don't know how to relate it to stack sizes and people always seem to call me loosely...so yeah i'll take a few weeks off prolly...post on cp...i feel like i give good advice alot but i can't even apply it to my own game apparently...

It's Been a While

2007-10-14T01:55:00.000-04:00

i haven't stopped playing...but i've stopped winning...got screwed by my connection the other night here at work...that cost me 35 bucks...i have 120 dollars...i'm going to go against any bankroll management advice that i've given to anyone on cp and i'm going to go into 4 20 dollar sngs....i played 3 the other night and i placed 2 thirds...but the bubble section of a 20 dollar sng is sooooo much different than in the 5 dollar sngs i was running...i remember seeing a post from sprstoner about if it's possible to crack 5 dollar sngs...which he was playing at the time like 2 or 3 years ago...i don't know...playing straight up poker, not playing icm...maybe...if you play a jam game on the bubble, and give everyone a loose calling range (which most are) there's no room to jam anything...and if you think someone who isn't loose won't call, you get called by a7 when you have a6...i just got totally beat up in these low level sngs...i think it's attributed to the widely available poker info everywhere now...when i first started i was playing 10 dollar sngs, and i wasn't winning them at all, i remember cashing the midnighter for 500 bucks and i was so happy that i didn't have to play 10 dollar and 5 dollar sngs anymore...i can't wait for that again...brandon killed 10 dollar sngs...maybe i'm just bad and i have no point in playing anymore...

My New Plan Continued

2007-10-02T02:39:00.000-04:00

well i was working on my game last week...multi tabling 5 dollar sngs...i am playing better...today when i went to bed, i couldnt wait to play tonight...then i woke up and didn't know if i was feeling it or not...just uneasy...i got here...opened 3 up...busto all of them...2 on the bubble, one before...very loose callers tonight...i made 2 ace jams...one a9...one a7...both were called by one higher kicker respectively...i had a tight image i know that...but then i jam a9 and get cold called by a10 os...the guy was thinking i was a donk i could tell by his after chat...he just said "bye" like he was sick of me...i hate people like him...he's a donkey and he doesn't even know it...he thinks i'm so weak because he had me outkicked...he doesn't understand that calling a10 there for 9 bbs on the bubble with a similar stack size is just ugly...the a7 was on the bubble too...called by a8...he had a larger stack than me but still a horrid call...the other busto i was utg +2...the big stack (3900) 3x'd from utg...i had seen him do that before and cbet the flop...i get 99 and have 7 bbs after his raise...i could've passed...i figured i was against ak or aq...and that's even if i get a call...he had 10 10....people are so eager to call into races...i guess i'm so eager to push into races though...that wasn't on the bubble...6 left i think...i'm trying to decide if i should fire three up right now or just let the night go and cut my loses...i know i'm not feeling it if i'm questioning myself...

My New Plan

2007-09-27T02:10:00.001-04:00

i'm just gonna play 4 at a time...i do much better

oh and a side note, the streak of going in with a stronger ace to be sucked out by a bigger stack with a weaker ace is up to 7 straight...tonight aj in the bb with 10 bbs...3x from the button, sb calls, i jam...sb jackass donkey calls with a4?????...and rivers a flush...i don't get how these idiots come up with ranges...some people just blow so bad that they beat me...

i started off really strong tonight...i decided since i'm gonna be multi tabling i'd run 5 dollar sngs...in those 4 tables here i placed 2 1sts, 1 second, and 1 bust jamming aq SS ran into aa in the cutoff...fired up 3 more after that...busted in every one.....my hands just never hold.....jj vs ak in one...one other bubble situation, i get q7 on the button and jam to a donkey who had just sucked out the very last hand...it was for almost half of his stack and he called with q10os...so stupid of him...i'm pretty sure that q7 is + ev for a jam there...only an idiot would call with q10 there..which he was...so it's right...really that hand might have put me on tilt for the remaining 2 games i had going...i mean really is q10 os in ANYONES calling range for almost half of there stack on the bubble?...

How Many Times?

2007-09-26T01:34:00.000-04:00

how many times can i get in a favorite and get sucked out on?...my poker life has turned into such a joke...online players are so loose and so ignorant...the combination of that and the crap that happens to me online have turned me into a tilted mess...5 times straight i have gone in with a stronger ace only to get sucked out on...the latest was in the midnighter...i have 2000 in chips...bb has 4600...i have made NO plays...i got to this table 25 hands ago and haven't played a thing...i get aj in middle position...with 240 blinds, i open jammed...the donkey asshole in the bb cold calls with a10 os...flop 10 5 5 of course...this puts me now where i'm sitting here going over in my head, ok what the hell made this asshole call ME for half of his stack with a weak holding?...i have shown no reason to think that i could have a weak hand...none at all...and it always happens this way...people call me with weak aces all the time only to suckout on me...constantly...like EVERY OTHER TIME...being a 70 percent favorite to a flop means i should be winning almost 3/4's of the hands...instead i lose about 75 percent of the time...i don't understand it at all...i wish i had a program to insert my HH's and see how often i lose when i'm a huge favorite...

i watched a hand brandon played...he had 55 in the bb...a small stack jammed him and he called...the guy had a7...55 held up...i looked at it and i thought to myself that i can't even remember the last time that i got in with a pair against two overs that actually held up...whether it's qq vs ak, jj vs aq, 77 vs kq...they NEVER hold...and then when i'm on the other end, ak vs 10 10 or aq vs 44, it never hits...there is no justice on full tilt poker for me...at all...

on the upside, poker edge has me listed as a bomb now instead of a calling station...which means i'm playing tighter...i feel like i have been playing better...just getting raped...

ended up tonight but just barely...like 15 bucks or so...played well...multi tabled 4 at a time...it was suprisingly better than just playing one and getting tilted...one of them i lost kk vs jj, ak v jj in another...so that's standard...usually jj sucking out on me would piss me off but i held my composure much better having 3 other games going at the same time...

Reflections

2007-09-24T00:21:00.000-04:00

alright so i've been trying to take everything in lately as far as sngs go...i used to be a winning player...it wasn't short term varience, it was fact...that i know...somewhere between M and ICM i lost my way...brandons been making me realize this lately...he's been saying to me " i'm trying not to learn anything new and just going with it"...my problem was that when i started winning, i didn't think i was good...i needed to learn more...it's taken me off my game...now i get into situations that used to be automatic to me and i analyze it till i make the wrong decision...when i was winning in sngs, i decided that i needed to extend my game to include a stronger mtt game...i learned and read and i think that i did a good job improving my mtts...but it started to take over my roll...i'd start playing only mtts and no sngs and i saw the results immediatly stop...so then i switched it up and started with the sngs again...only to find that the things that i've learned that helped me in mtts, were ruining my sngs...i'd constantly "put my eggs in one basket" always looking for a double up, not feeling the situations out the right way...

tonight i went onto sngplanet and theres an article about M in sngs and if it's useful...it's something i've been wondering for a while now...when i was a winning player, i would never use m as the deciding factors of my decision...i would use bb's...i think this is a big part of the problem for me...

i need to simplify my game...go back to what was making me win...playing tight and aggressive...i went to poker edge the other day and checked my new account and i am labled as a loose player...i couldn't even believe it...i play a tight game, usually 15 to 18 percent of hands played, how can i be considered a calling station?...but then i started to think about it...i push ALOT more hands than i used to...instead of letting things happen i am pushing too many hands...when i get my money in seriously, with a quality hand that's a favorite, i'll get sucked out on alot...but the other times, the times where i'll push hands that should be the favorite but aren't quality hands, i'll get called by a weaker hand and they will win because i didn't get in as strong as i should've...last week i had one night where i placed 6 out of 8...then i get up the next day and lose 5 straight and feel like i'm an idiot or playing bad...really the differences were that the first day i was staying super tight...playing only premiums...playing good poker...the next day, the first hand i get involved in, i had 66, i raised and got jammed early in a sng...i felt he had something like ak and decided to race him *which was retarded* and lost as he flipped up jacks...that decision single handedly set up a losing session for me.....even though after that i got in good 2 out of 4 as a favorite, i still felt like i was a moron and start analyzing...

that being said, i took last night off even though i was here at work...i played one 45 person sng and went out one before the final table...jammed 88 utg with a short stack but not the shortest in the tourny, and ran into jack in the CO...of course that reinstilled the fact that jamming utg, for the most part, is -ev...when i was pushing i said why are you jamming this....i had these thoughts last night and today so i was thinking i might play well tonight...i got into the midnighter...which is what i do when i think i'll play well...breaking my 10 dollar sngs to 1k...but it's still only a 10 dollar buy in so i hope it'll be worth the investment...i'm 60th out of like 700 left so it's still really early...

Hopefully Playing Better

2007-09-19T23:38:00.001-04:00

well i skipped a few days...brandon reminded me tonight...it's been a rocky week...brandon is still killing sngs...at my best, when i started 20 dollar sngs a while ago, i was holding a 25 percent roi for about 150 games...he's gone through almost that many,75, and is holding at around 50 percent...so sick...

i took some bad beats, made some dumb plays, and was down a bit...i'm at about 315 right now and that's after placing 6 out of 8 last night...so you can guess how my week went...it's funny how you can get in to a sng that fits your style so well and then get in one where you have a bunch of donkeys fighting over every pot...those are the best because i get to trap them and then they get to suckout on me...

-non poker related: RIP Colin Mcrae...he was probably the best rally car driver ever...he did so much for that sport and he risked his life every day in those cars...then he gets taken by a stupid helicopter accident...so sad.....when a sport loses it's icon, it seems like it's always so much worse...you play their video games and watch them on tv and see them as invincible, but things like this bring you back to the ground and realize that life is so unpredictable...

10 dollar sngs to 1k

2007-09-13T00:35:00.001-04:00

alright so brandon came up with a brilliant idea of playing ONLY 10 sngs till he has 1k in his bankroll...so i think i'll humor myself and do the same...he's been killing it lately...i remember when i used to just consistently cash sngs...now i don't even have faith in my own skills...i feel like i'm getting in good and then i question myself for the next 2 hours...so yeah sng time...i need this too i think

well 1 1st, 1 3rd 2 busts so far...playing my last two right now...play earlier in the night was better than it was later....

make it 5 busts...posted the last one into cp for an evaluation...

-14

might be running good tonight

2007-09-12T00:34:00.000-04:00

too early to tell if i'll run deep again in the midnighter...i have a good stack early...230 out of 1k left...i think last night i played too tight all around...i didn't play like i was last week...i decided i'd be more agg again tonight...

i'm an idiot...called a raise prf with ak...the player was semi tight but i could see him playing jj or qq...at the time i said i have to see a flop to decide...i should've just jammed pre...so flop came k108 2 clubs...i was out of position and jammed...he called with aq clubs...i dunno what i was thinking...i'm writing this so i remember never to do it again....

took some lame beats tonight...didn't win one race...88 v ak, aa v 66, a9 with flush and oestr8 draw v 96, a5h v a7 os with 2 hearts and an ace, ak v 33...i dunno it's humbling to play online poker...

-50

Bored

2007-09-11T00:22:00.000-04:00

sitting here with no t.v. at work...boring...played the midnighter and took a chance early with ak in the bb...folded to the button, he limped...the sb made a 3x i jammed and the BUTTON limped qq...didn't improve...i'm playing one 45 person 10 dollar sng...then i'm gonna just play sngs for the rest of the night...

taken to the cleaners......hands that stand out were aq v aj, ace on the flop i jam get called and he rivers a jack...last hand of the night, on the bubble, utg i raise 3x w/ a5, button calls he has about 600 more chips than me...flop comes 257 rainbow, i jam for about 8 bb's he calls with a2 and the turn is a 2 and the river is a 2...so sick...everytime i get some money i have a night where i'll take dumb beat after dumb beat to put me back down...shit's rigged...

-60 dollars

Day 1

2007-09-10T00:11:00.001-04:00

well i'm gonna try and be more serious about my play starting today...i feel i have learned alot from the forums and everything that i owe it to myself to start actually winning some money...hahaha...right now it's midnight so i'm running the nightly midnight madness tourny on full tilt...1607 people entered tonight...lately alot of people have been running this...i started running it about a year ago and on a busy night there would be like 950 people in it...now 2300 happens on a busy night...they usually stick a "pro" in there and you can see the numbers start to fly up...ITM is like 280 on avg...first place tonight is $2972...so far i doubled up kk through jj and 89 after a flop of 9 high...so i'm at about 3200 after about 14 hands...haha as i was typing i was dealt 10 10 utg...2 callers after a 3x raise and the flop was 9 high 2 clubs...i was first to act so i bet the pot...first guy calls, the next jams...his stack was about half of mine laying me 2 and change to 1...i called it and he was on the oestr8 draw...so i'm at about 4500 right now...60th out of 1200 left...

First break i've been pretty card dead...again as i'm typing this, hand right before the break...3 limpers i have 76 suited dimes on the button...flop comes 10 high 2 dimes...first to act was a big stack who was super agg...he bets 2/3 the pot and it folds to me...a hand before this he was against a player where he led out the same way and followed it by a pot sized bet on the turn...the player jammed him and he folded it...turn comes 7 but no dime...he leads the pot...i jam...he takes TIME all the way to 1 and calls...he had 10 8...and i sucked out the river...so i'm 79th out of 655...i was 270th before the hand...

Coming up on the second break soon...7 minutes...i'm in 8th right now out of 287...avg stack is 8k i'm right under 23k...i've been playing pretty solid...aggressive...used the rule of 10 to 1 for the first time 63 os in the bb...button small jammed me for about 2k...hit the 6 vs his a10 os

went out in 18th...98 dollars...had a10 off on the button...super agg of the table raised 3x, my m was 3 i jammed...he finally had it...ak...almost got a split out of it...that would've been nice...really just got onto an agg table and didn't have jack for cards...oh well makes me feel good to know i can run alright still...didn't get to play any sngs though, wanted to focus on one thing at a time...i'll prolly skip it tomorrow night and just play sngs...the emotional rollercoaster of an mtt puts a strain on my brain...having to work and deal with decisions in a game is hard on me...lol

+98 dollars

Ready, Set, Go

2007-09-09T04:55:00.000-04:00

well since everyone on cp is doing it, so am i...maybe it'll help me...who knows...i work nights so i have tons of free time everynight...starting bankroll for this is 400...i play mostly 10 dollar sngs and a few mtts mixed in...i play the midnight madness tourny on Full Tilt pretty often...