Hammer Playin Pompous Ass FTW!!!!!

Wow, what a joy it was to look at my dashboard this morning and see my man Hoyazo just chop for 51k. Like, unreal. For all the time that he is in awe over other fellow bloggers just ripping the WSOP, he goes out and SHITS on the Venetian. Like, I've had a big fucking smile on all morning long.

I haven't talked about poker recently, but I've been on quite a killing. Up over 500 already this summer. Not sure when to move up in stakes, but it's amazing what running good does to your head. I feel like I can beat anyone, which obviously is not the case. I still make some big key mistakes.

One for example: It was a 5 dolla 45-man and I had AQ in the hijack pos and raise to 3.5x because of a limper and get min raised by the co. Uh oh. This was as I was 6-tabling so I don't have too much time to either vomit over what he has or think about what decision I have to make. However, obviously an inkling that a donk is playing his KK or AA. Flop comes Q22. Nice. Real Sexy. Pot is 900 and this guy leads out for whole pot. At this time, all my previous thoughts of already being beat go out the window and I rr AI (me being an aggro mofo) and run into AA. This, I feel, could be a situation I could have avoided, arguably. I think his range of hands here definitely includes hands I crush (after the flop), but if I were playing AA on that flop, I would definitely lead out for the pot as well and pray the guy has AQ. I think JJ is definitely in his range, but 99 and 1010 hell no because why would they minraise my ass with a set mining hand? So i think KK AA AK and even AQ are all more likely hhands that this guy is holding. Looking at the actualy hand history, I still had 2200 behind even after the 900. If I was actually thinking coherently for a change, I could have just flatted since I was in position and possibly made the laydown on the turn. This definitely is a sign that 6-tabling still is not bread and butter. This all being said in retrospect.

Lastly, Capital Grille was phucking phenomenal. When I made the reservation, they asked if this was for some special occasion. This dinner celebrated a bunch of different things, but most currently I said my birthday. So when we finally sat down, every waiter that friggin walked by my table said happy birthday as well as our table having those colored happy birthday little metallic thingies all over the place. This place does it big. I got the big-time sirloin (recommended by father OES) and the gf got the filet mignon (as predicted). It was really cool, cutting into a piece of steak and knowing that my skillz at the table provided me the opportunity to live large for a night.

I hope everyone that read this epicly long post didn't die of boredom and makes it through another work week!

Official Poker Rankings

As many of you know, the website Official Poker Rankings is a site that allows players to check up on their own stats as well as their opponents and friends and see what tournaments they play as well as their successes/failures as well as their percentile among the site that they play on. It provides a comprehensive stats program, which I orgasm looking at because it is soooo cool. It shows me that I come in first place in 9-man sng's much more often then second and third. Today, not thinking it was any different day, I went to check up on how my friend did on a tournament. I was absolutely outraged to find that Full Tilt has decided to remove all ties with Offical Poker Rankings because it apparently, "gives players an unfair advantage" and "very similar to how a shared hand history database works." This is total horse shit. Official Poker Rankings is a free site that everyone can use and the only help it gives is letting opponents know how skilled the opposing players are. It also lets me to track the big dogs and see their scores, but now I'm left in the dark.

I learned that through their percentile ratings, that 80% of all online players are LOSING players. This fact might be a reason why Full Tilt wanted to cut ties because this shows that a disproportionate amount of players are giving their money to Full Tilt. This is obviously not a great idea of mine, but anybody else have reasons why Full Tilt really wanted to cut ties with OPR because their reasoning already is pretty bs.

Brag Post

Just made reservations for 730 at The Capital Grille on my birthday (June 24th babyyy). I would think this makes a run at whatever Hoyazo is talking about in his Prime talks.

The bill we be payed for by the lovely donks over at Full Tilt Poker and also may be attributed to my incredible skillz.

I've been looking forward to this night for a long time and pumped that it actually is going to happen. This is a big instance that my girlfriend actually likes when I play =)=).

I Lied.

So in my earlier post, I wrote that I was done for an indefinite time. That time meant... three days apparently. My friend decided not to want the transfer so me, having the poker bug, wanted to give it another go. Of course, crazy shit happens and I promptly get sucked out in my sng's. Another day goes by. I wake up and feel good and tell myself, let's multitable sng's again. I don't understand why I would feel that way, given my results, but proceed to run like a KENYAN GOD. All my flats on the bubble with A6 against his K2 were holding. I won all my 80/20's and even sucked out a few times to TAKE DOWN 6 sng's-- 5 nine-mans and 1 27-man to amass a huge pay day. When I run good, I don't amass second and third place earnings, I fucking annihilate tables.

With this day, it really shows me that you win some/you lose some. I definitely feel like I am an above average player by all means, but results fluctuate so crazily.

One pattern that I wonder if any of you reading this could explain is this interesting downward motion of one's bankroll after they cash out a bit. It's happened to three other people than me who cash out x amount of dollars then proceed to lose a large chunk of their remaining roll. I obviously know Full Tilt isn't rigged, but it's funny to think about if FT does it this way:
Full Tilt Mod: Oh I see this fucker just took out 160 from our system. Let's fuck 'em hard now. (pushes button to lose 10 straight sng's regardless of statistics).

To be honest, I can easily believe that, but no it seems pretty impossible that shit goes on. What goes on in the mindset of players to completely suck ballz after they cash out? I really did not feel any different after I cashed out 1/3 of my roll besides relief.


In other news, congrats to the TOC players. It was awesome to watch, despite feeling completely horrible for Hoyazo making a big testicle call. And congrats to CK! You gots to love her.

Lastly, this badass picture that BJ Nemeth took is rockin' my wallpaper as we speak.

The New York Yankees

Dan Shaugnessy, consistent sports writer of The Boston Globe wrote, "They [The New York Yankees] came to town in first place, winners of 19 of 25 games. They left the Hub early this morning with bags over their heads, reeling from yet another loss, yet another sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox."

0-8 against the BOSTON RED SOX this year.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

Yikes

So. Yeah. Fast forward about a week. I have never seen so many sick things and sick tilts that I am absolutely disgusted. I don't feel like articulating every single thing I've witnessed, but it was bad. I think my online days might be done for an indefinite time. I lost about 120 straight, which definitely chunked into my roll. I'm gonna transfer my remaining roll to a buddy of mine and just enjoy my summer Full Tiltless. Goals? No thank you. I tried remaining positive, and definitely cut down my play, but even when I was single-tabling, Full Tilt was relentless. I am sure that I made a few bad plays along the line, but lately, the same system I was using to build a solid roll completely came up from under me.

Online poker is such a bitter world that after a few days of not playing, I feel the urge to play again. However, I'm gonna bite the bullet and cut my losses. It's so hard since I'm so immersed in everything Full Tilt and everything WSOP, but I got's to. It really isn't worth my time or effort. Sorry for the rant post and repetitiveness, but I gots to. Hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend.