Yes, I have not posted since ever, but anyway....
I am going to Foxwoods for the first time at the end of the month. My dad and his fiancee are going to a concert to see Steely Dan and they asked me if I would like to come along. I plan on playing the $230 deep stack tourney on Friday, July 29th. It's not that simple though! It is more money than I have ever played with before, I have not played in quite awhile, and my confidence could not be lower. All signs point to me picking something different to play or not playing at all, but of course I am obviously very tempted. I have been saving up money for this trip for awhile by saving 20 bucks a week (lame I know), but I have amassed a nice sum of money. With this no online biznass, it is hard to train my game back up to peak performance, but I will hopefully be reading up and playing some heads-up with a super friend and opponent. Good luck me!!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Epic Copyright Story: Somebody Stole A Picture of Me
So I should of written about this long ago, but something crazy crazy CRAZY happened to me around December of last year...
The Back Story
Flashback to freshman year of college (almost three years ago now), I just moved into my dorm and met my roommate Mike. He was an incredible photographer at only 20 years old so one thing led to another and we were doing a mini photoshoot one night. He knew I was a big poker fan so we were doing different things with cards. We decided to do a picture where I would toss two aces and just pray that they were showing face-up to the camera. It took about forty tries, but eventually we got em' to show pretty well. However, we didn't know how GOOD the picture was going to show up. The final product is my profile picture for this blog so look to the top right to seeeee. This picture is also my facebook picture and as of right now, there are 54 comments from people talking about how awesome it is =).
The Incident
A little more backstory, my Sophomore year roommate has a friend who is one of the best MTT tournament players on Full Tilt and Pokerstars. I love to watch him play any chance I get. In the winter, this player was playing in the Aruba. One night, around 2am, I was looking for a site on Google to track his progress. I clicked on the first one and there was MY PROFILE PICTURE as the main picture of the background of that site. At first, I thought I was tripping from fatigue, but once I realized that this was LEGIT. I ran to my suitemates and tried to verbalize what the fuck I just found. Everybody had a good laugh, including my old roommate who took the picture. It was soo amazing to me that I just stumbled upon my picture. At first, I thought somebody took it from my facebook page, but it makes much more sense that somebody actually took it from this here poker blog! Heyyyy, that means people read this! Hehe, anyway, if you're out there dipshit, yeah u, the one who took my picture, I would like a nice talk please.
Everybody exploded when I posted the picture on facebook and a lot of people wanted me to sue their ass off. I will save what Mikey and I for the Part II of this post. Last but not least, here is a screenshot from the site.
The Back Story
Flashback to freshman year of college (almost three years ago now), I just moved into my dorm and met my roommate Mike. He was an incredible photographer at only 20 years old so one thing led to another and we were doing a mini photoshoot one night. He knew I was a big poker fan so we were doing different things with cards. We decided to do a picture where I would toss two aces and just pray that they were showing face-up to the camera. It took about forty tries, but eventually we got em' to show pretty well. However, we didn't know how GOOD the picture was going to show up. The final product is my profile picture for this blog so look to the top right to seeeee. This picture is also my facebook picture and as of right now, there are 54 comments from people talking about how awesome it is =).
The Incident
A little more backstory, my Sophomore year roommate has a friend who is one of the best MTT tournament players on Full Tilt and Pokerstars. I love to watch him play any chance I get. In the winter, this player was playing in the Aruba. One night, around 2am, I was looking for a site on Google to track his progress. I clicked on the first one and there was MY PROFILE PICTURE as the main picture of the background of that site. At first, I thought I was tripping from fatigue, but once I realized that this was LEGIT. I ran to my suitemates and tried to verbalize what the fuck I just found. Everybody had a good laugh, including my old roommate who took the picture. It was soo amazing to me that I just stumbled upon my picture. At first, I thought somebody took it from my facebook page, but it makes much more sense that somebody actually took it from this here poker blog! Heyyyy, that means people read this! Hehe, anyway, if you're out there dipshit, yeah u, the one who took my picture, I would like a nice talk please.
Everybody exploded when I posted the picture on facebook and a lot of people wanted me to sue their ass off. I will save what Mikey and I for the Part II of this post. Last but not least, here is a screenshot from the site.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Holy guacamole
Yes, I knowwww. I haven't posted for awhile. I certainly admire people like Josie and others who post very consistently, but it's hard to have lots to say that don't bore the hell out of me and the few readers who come across this barren excuse of a blog. However, poker and wanting to write are still always present in my melon. I don't have the mulah to play online, nor the desire to, really. I certainly have the urge to play some rebuy tournaments from time to time, but I am definitely a better person when I avoid the online felt. This is because I am not in my boxers till 4pm and actually get some stuff done during the days I don't work in the summer (even though being in my boxers till 4 is good every of often!).
My semester ended very well. I finished my internship at an elementary school and received 19 very cute cards from first graders at the end of it. I have potential (probably jinxing it) to get all four A's this semester. Like poker, definitely part luck and part skill. This one class where I was sure I would get a B, magically turned into an A. I think part of that grade was due in part to the fact that I was the only one in my group that did not rant to the teacher about how she sucked and organized the class totally counterintuitive to reality. This class I researched the "Cohabitation Effect" which pretty much says that couples are more likely to experience marital problems and divorce if they live together before marriage. Sounds crazy, huh? Well it is pretty statistically significant. My dad said, "Bullshittt, Jake!" and my response was, "Well... you're a product of it!" Not so nice, I guess...
Other than that, this summer I will be working at my local hardware store for like the billionth year in a row now. I tried getting a summer camp job, but it seemed like those jobs are very "it's not what you know, it's who you know" type gigs. I will also be working on graduate school stuff and the GRE, which hopefully I will actually get in gear with that. Poker will certainly not help that situation. I would be more than happy to play live any chance I get with friends, but I'm gonna try and stay away from online.
I will also be flying down to FL to help my gf pack up and move back to MA since her internship is done. We will be driving back so if anyone knows of any restaurants right off of 95 that is worth going to, that would be saweeeeetttt.
Lastly, HOW BOUT DEM CELTSSSSSSS.
My semester ended very well. I finished my internship at an elementary school and received 19 very cute cards from first graders at the end of it. I have potential (probably jinxing it) to get all four A's this semester. Like poker, definitely part luck and part skill. This one class where I was sure I would get a B, magically turned into an A. I think part of that grade was due in part to the fact that I was the only one in my group that did not rant to the teacher about how she sucked and organized the class totally counterintuitive to reality. This class I researched the "Cohabitation Effect" which pretty much says that couples are more likely to experience marital problems and divorce if they live together before marriage. Sounds crazy, huh? Well it is pretty statistically significant. My dad said, "Bullshittt, Jake!" and my response was, "Well... you're a product of it!" Not so nice, I guess...
Other than that, this summer I will be working at my local hardware store for like the billionth year in a row now. I tried getting a summer camp job, but it seemed like those jobs are very "it's not what you know, it's who you know" type gigs. I will also be working on graduate school stuff and the GRE, which hopefully I will actually get in gear with that. Poker will certainly not help that situation. I would be more than happy to play live any chance I get with friends, but I'm gonna try and stay away from online.
I will also be flying down to FL to help my gf pack up and move back to MA since her internship is done. We will be driving back so if anyone knows of any restaurants right off of 95 that is worth going to, that would be saweeeeetttt.
Lastly, HOW BOUT DEM CELTSSSSSSS.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Pauly is amazing
I know most of you read his blog as it is, but his newest post about what he does to railbirds that ask for $5 is hilarious.
check Pauly out
check Pauly out
Friday, March 5, 2010
WSOP 2013
So I've always had a goal at playing in Vegas. I have my doubts if I will actually like it compared to the views of so many because I do not like to gamble besides poker. I have read other blogs talking about the people who comes to vegas for strictly poker reasons and it just seems that they do not enjoy it as much as the people willing to donate to casinos. I have been to Turningstone Casino before and I'm not sure if it was getting no sleep or losing 100 dollars in Ferocious Kitty's glove compartment, but I did not have an enjoyable experience.
Late June, I will be turning the famous 21. I do drink from time to time, but I guess I am a huge party pooper since I am slightly excited, but not as much as the avg college boy/girl about going to bahhhhhs. I will not have the money to go to Vegas this year considering my brokeness, but my goal is to go when I am about 23-24 when I am in the work force and making sooooome cash monies. Despite not playing online, I feel my game is pretty strong right now, and feel I would have a good shot against anyone who wants to play live.
On a side note, A blogger who I just started reading, VeryJosie is coming up with some great posts that you all should check out!
Lastly, this week is my spring break and I am going to FL to see the gf who I haven't seen in 2 months. Holyyyyyyy.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Something New
During the school year, I completely ban myself from playing anything called online poker. It started last semester and I was actually 100% successful at sticking to my word. I still play live a few times a week with some college donks, but that's it. This semester is just as successful, but I obviously get help by new semi-addictions. The new thing for me right now is Scrabble. Specifically Facebook Scrabble. It seems like the perfect transition because like poker, scrabble requires immense amount of skill, but definitely luck too. Scrabble is definitely more skillful, but there are a lot amount of mental ties one can make with poker. There is so much strategy behind it and I am just beginning to see a small amount of it. Two bloggers, Ferocious Kitty and Shoving With Air play me all the time and they definitely are getting really good too. I just purchased my first official scrabble strategy book, which apparently is like the Super System of Scrabble. I feel like I'm still really bad. My vocabulary is pretty atrocious (as probably one could tell reading this blog), but I will work hard at improving. So get ready possibly for some boring ass scrabble posts!!!
Other news, this semester marks the second half of my internship working in a local elementary school. I help out in a first grade class as well as hold two lunch groups for some awesome kids. However, after working in the school, I am completely drained of any mental capabilities. I have begun to watch the amazing show The Wire and it is the best time waster of all time. Like woah. Highly recommend it to anyone who needs to unwind.
Anywayyyyy, let's power through this weeeeek! =)
Other news, this semester marks the second half of my internship working in a local elementary school. I help out in a first grade class as well as hold two lunch groups for some awesome kids. However, after working in the school, I am completely drained of any mental capabilities. I have begun to watch the amazing show The Wire and it is the best time waster of all time. Like woah. Highly recommend it to anyone who needs to unwind.
Anywayyyyy, let's power through this weeeeek! =)
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Softest Game Ever (long post ahead)
So I know I don't blog very often, but I feel like I'm almost obligated to share a cash game I was lucky to take part in last night. The back story is whenever I'm home from college, I play basketball with my dad every sunday with all the other 45-50 year olds who play with him. I've been playing with these same guys since I've been in like sixth grade so I know most of these sweaty and awkward guys pretty well. Little did I know that since I started college two years ago, they started a cash game with one of the players and his business friends. My dad has gossiped about me to them about how I play quite frequently and I'm an alright player. So last night, they held a game specifically for yours truly. I felt somewhat like Phil Hellmuth almost because everyone was gunning for me and going nuts WHENEVER I would lose a pot.
The night started around 7:30 and was a $20 cash game, which was a bit more than I'm used to, but it did not affect my play at all. 11 guys showed up and at first, they all wanted to play at the same table. I nicely proposed to divide it into two tables because 11 is simply ridiculous and instead of hands per hour with these nice fish, it might turn into hours per hand. Luckily, they decided to split us up and my table draw was really loose and passive. There was a family pot about 3/5 of the time. All of the guys at my table were really nice and the atmosphere was good, but NONE of them had any game. I'm not sure if my game has gotten much better where I feel completely in control, but last night was a dream. Here's how the table went down:
Seat 1: Me - the shark obviously
Seat 2: Aeric - local bartender who was hitting his share of cards, but a calling station nonetheless.
Seat 3: Rich - The player who was the most cognizant, but extremely tight
Seat 4: Rob - athletic and competitive guy who limped in every unopened pot (which was almost every pot). had interest in the game.
Seat 5: Fat Dave: prototypical calling station. The guy who you hope just deposits every week on Full Tilt.
The other table that my dad was at was even more fishy. They minraised every single hand so I was somewhat jealous that there was more action, but knew that I would get a piece of them later in the night.
I'm actually not too great at remembering that many specific hands, but the first hand of note was when little dave moved to our table. He was the host and probably the biggest proponent of watching me lose. I hadn't played a pot in awhile so for some reason I was impelled to raise with K7o in the co. Little and Fat Dave called. Little Dave was a pretty cognizant player, who was pretty tight, but liked to raise large preflop when he was involved. The flop came pretty dry with the board 862 rainbow. It was checked to me. I've been taking my time with my decisions and was obviously going to cont bet. I decided on 3.25, which I thought would put people to the test. Dave instaraised me to 6 (which was kosher at this game) and Fat Dave folded. Here, it was very clear to me that Dave was just trying to push me out because he wanted to be the guy that can bluff me. So I took my time even though I was pretty sold at 4betting him here with K high. I'm silly like that. I'm also a young gun who thinks he's the shit obv. I had about 18 dollars behind, and made it to 13.50. This was my big hand and I knew it would probably dictate the rest of the night, which would obviously suck if he called. He took a long time and folded. It probably was a pretty reckless play and most of my friends know I'm known for pulling some crazy shit. It worked here and I showed the bluff because I'm not going to let Little Dave think he can outplay me.
Other than that, simple cont bets helped. 2/3 of the way through the night, we combined tables to play 9-handed. It messed up my feng shui because i was very happy with the hands per hour and now it just hit a concrete wall. I had to like do push ups in between hands because everyone and their grandmother was limping and min raising and I almost wanted to find a gun or just run home or something. I finally picked up AKss on the button and just took down a pot. After that, I decided to step my aggression up and took a few more pots down uncontested.
Anyway, I obviously lost pots as well with an overflush and when i didnt notice a flush on board when i had two pair.
Dream game all around.
The night started around 7:30 and was a $20 cash game, which was a bit more than I'm used to, but it did not affect my play at all. 11 guys showed up and at first, they all wanted to play at the same table. I nicely proposed to divide it into two tables because 11 is simply ridiculous and instead of hands per hour with these nice fish, it might turn into hours per hand. Luckily, they decided to split us up and my table draw was really loose and passive. There was a family pot about 3/5 of the time. All of the guys at my table were really nice and the atmosphere was good, but NONE of them had any game. I'm not sure if my game has gotten much better where I feel completely in control, but last night was a dream. Here's how the table went down:
Seat 1: Me - the shark obviously
Seat 2: Aeric - local bartender who was hitting his share of cards, but a calling station nonetheless.
Seat 3: Rich - The player who was the most cognizant, but extremely tight
Seat 4: Rob - athletic and competitive guy who limped in every unopened pot (which was almost every pot). had interest in the game.
Seat 5: Fat Dave: prototypical calling station. The guy who you hope just deposits every week on Full Tilt.
The other table that my dad was at was even more fishy. They minraised every single hand so I was somewhat jealous that there was more action, but knew that I would get a piece of them later in the night.
I'm actually not too great at remembering that many specific hands, but the first hand of note was when little dave moved to our table. He was the host and probably the biggest proponent of watching me lose. I hadn't played a pot in awhile so for some reason I was impelled to raise with K7o in the co. Little and Fat Dave called. Little Dave was a pretty cognizant player, who was pretty tight, but liked to raise large preflop when he was involved. The flop came pretty dry with the board 862 rainbow. It was checked to me. I've been taking my time with my decisions and was obviously going to cont bet. I decided on 3.25, which I thought would put people to the test. Dave instaraised me to 6 (which was kosher at this game) and Fat Dave folded. Here, it was very clear to me that Dave was just trying to push me out because he wanted to be the guy that can bluff me. So I took my time even though I was pretty sold at 4betting him here with K high. I'm silly like that. I'm also a young gun who thinks he's the shit obv. I had about 18 dollars behind, and made it to 13.50. This was my big hand and I knew it would probably dictate the rest of the night, which would obviously suck if he called. He took a long time and folded. It probably was a pretty reckless play and most of my friends know I'm known for pulling some crazy shit. It worked here and I showed the bluff because I'm not going to let Little Dave think he can outplay me.
Other than that, simple cont bets helped. 2/3 of the way through the night, we combined tables to play 9-handed. It messed up my feng shui because i was very happy with the hands per hour and now it just hit a concrete wall. I had to like do push ups in between hands because everyone and their grandmother was limping and min raising and I almost wanted to find a gun or just run home or something. I finally picked up AKss on the button and just took down a pot. After that, I decided to step my aggression up and took a few more pots down uncontested.
Anyway, I obviously lost pots as well with an overflush and when i didnt notice a flush on board when i had two pair.
Dream game all around.
Friday, January 1, 2010
WHOOO AHHHHH
Hey All. Quick Update. So far, pokering has been predominantly what I have done for this winter break. I'm really cool, I know. I only got about 250 to show for it so far, but not too bad for the stakes I've been playing. Interestingly enough, I really haven't even come into my groove until the last ten or twelve sessions. Oh and yeah, I have completely 180'ed what I had originally wanted to do and listened to my old high school friend and just grinded 9 man sng's again. I'm not sure if having a blog is beneficial for a boring grinder like me, but I'm more than welcome to let you in on my system since I doubt most people read what I have to say =). My main goal now is to make enough money for books, which I already think I have done with my total roll now, but my new goal is to make it to the 700 mark. That would be a MAJOR victory for me.
So my strategy?
Be a HUGE.......
MOTHA FUCKIN........
NIT
in a few days, I hope to recap on my goals from last year and see if I actually accomplished anything!
So my strategy?
Be a HUGE.......
MOTHA FUCKIN........
NIT
in a few days, I hope to recap on my goals from last year and see if I actually accomplished anything!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Restlessss
So I realize I have not posted on here since like seventeen years ago. One of the only reasons is because I don't play online during the school year. That's been a move I decided to make since the beginning of the semester because playing online definitely hinders my ability to start long term work. hehe. I have been very honest about not playing, though I sure watch ISilDur1 quite a lot and it's given me a closet desire to learn omaha. Howeverrrr, I don't think I have the bankroll or time to start any time soon.
I have about six more days of this semester till I can play again! Definitely feeling really restless to play because looming finals and papers are just crazy. So, in a nutshell, this post is to further procrastinate. At the end of the summer, I cashed out most of my winnings. My goal was to be able to afford for books and I actually did that. Just realized that now. I left myself about ten bucks in case I had any free time before I made my little semester long choice. I got sick early on in the semester and decided to play a few MTT sng's on a friday afternoon where I ran really well and now have about 127 to mess with when I am able to play again.
My goal is to just gain more confidence with the later stages of MTT's. I will have okay bankroll management when I play again, but I don't give a shiiiiat if I just lose my bankroll on this go around. I expressed my opinion on Hoyazo's blog about what MTT's feel like, but I plan on just running over competition.
Writing this, I am quite hung over, but expect to hear from me definitely more consistently. =)
I have about six more days of this semester till I can play again! Definitely feeling really restless to play because looming finals and papers are just crazy. So, in a nutshell, this post is to further procrastinate. At the end of the summer, I cashed out most of my winnings. My goal was to be able to afford for books and I actually did that. Just realized that now. I left myself about ten bucks in case I had any free time before I made my little semester long choice. I got sick early on in the semester and decided to play a few MTT sng's on a friday afternoon where I ran really well and now have about 127 to mess with when I am able to play again.
My goal is to just gain more confidence with the later stages of MTT's. I will have okay bankroll management when I play again, but I don't give a shiiiiat if I just lose my bankroll on this go around. I expressed my opinion on Hoyazo's blog about what MTT's feel like, but I plan on just running over competition.
Writing this, I am quite hung over, but expect to hear from me definitely more consistently. =)
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
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!
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!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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.
Monday, June 22, 2009
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 =)=).
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 =)=).
Friday, June 12, 2009
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.
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.
0-8 against the BOSTON RED SOX this year.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
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.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Where I'm At
The past few weeks have been pretty sweet. My back is finally better so I can start running and bballing again, which is definitely missed. First and foremost though, one of my poker buddies, Toots just launched a great blog, which he already left an incredibly chock-full post of poker content in his Odyssey of heads up cash. Definitely a must-read.
With poker, I go in phases. Lately, I have become a sng reg. It's been definitely a profitable journey thus far. I seem to change my mind with my direction, but I'm open to change. During the last week of finals, I went on a crazy tilt. Obviously my mind was not in the optimal mindset and I steamrolled my bankroll down into the 200's when I was at around 400. It was mostly tournaments, but sixty dollars of cash to that I lost quicker than Hellmuth playing that crazy Chinese Poker.
SNG's
My new thing, which I've played about 100-150 sng's in a week and a half span is to 4-5 table the 6.50 turbo's On Full Tilt. I usually play three 9-man's and one 18-27man. This allows me to get more experience in the 18-man format where I definitely lack skill and experience compared to my 9-man takedowns. Lately, I have taken down two 18 man's and came in 2nd in a 27-man, which definitely gives me confidence in my game as well as a boost in ROI. I got up to as high as 340 in my roll and cashed out a bit to treat the gf for our two year anniversary. Kinda crazy to think it's been that long already, but pretty sweet too =).
My Goal
I think a very attainable goal by the end of the summer is to make enough money to pay off my books for next semester. I am certainly not working as much as I was last summer, so some extra income would be great. Other news, I got another final table under my belt cming in fourth out of 244 people for a nice cash as well. These past few weeks has definitely been a profitable one,raking in about $265 from mostly just $6.50 buy-ins, but also showing me that this MOFO has a bit of skilllzz!!! But also, this situation doesn't hurt either.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Being grateful
So despite this lovely economy, yours truly has a summer job. However, I'm not sure if this is how the business world works, but does every job require connections? My first job in High School I worked at the local ACE hardware. I got the job because I knew the bosses son. Second job, worked for Kelloggs cereal. Got the job because my dad's girlfriend works for Kelloggs. This new job, my best friend's sister works for the deli that I will start working at now. Don't get me wrong, I work my ass off when I'm working, but it seems that the business world that I've been a part of is all about "It's not what you know, it's who you know." I'm also very grateful that I've obtained these jobs and I seem to be at the right place at the right time.
I've always had the careless mindset that I will get a job with little trouble (before any of the connections listed above have come arise). It's kind of the luck I attract when everyone around me is talking about their bad beats and here I am with AA on the button. I certainly have had my fucking share of bad beats, but I am not one to dwell on my shit, which I think works in my favor in a spiritual way. I sway where the wind blows me. When I was little, I led my soccer team in scoring while my dad was the assistant coach. He told me (and it was true) that I just got garbage goals. I somehow ended up exactly where the ball was going to be. I never had the skillz, the speed, but I had the crazy skillz for opportunity
Poker works the same way for most scenarios, but opposite when I play large MTT's. I will be in my flow for around two hours, but immediately when I start to think about the payouts, my game detiorates and my mind gets hazy. This has obvious effects on my game, but also completely changes my mental strategy of swaying where the wind blows me. Instead, I am constantly on guard and concerned about my hand rather than other peoples. I think this mindset has my friends plagued with the need to find a summer job. I'm sure there's a logical explanation to everything, but fuck it, this metaphor I'm crafting at 1am is workin'.
Anyway, I'm kinda stopping on the whole MTT's for awhile and just focus on cash since that's where my big-time success is. I'm gonna try to only limit my play to off days because I know that I will just steam-tilt my br away if I play after work. Plus, I my aggro-exploiting self when I my mind is thinking efficiently (John Madden comment). Hope everybody has a good weekend!
I've always had the careless mindset that I will get a job with little trouble (before any of the connections listed above have come arise). It's kind of the luck I attract when everyone around me is talking about their bad beats and here I am with AA on the button. I certainly have had my fucking share of bad beats, but I am not one to dwell on my shit, which I think works in my favor in a spiritual way. I sway where the wind blows me. When I was little, I led my soccer team in scoring while my dad was the assistant coach. He told me (and it was true) that I just got garbage goals. I somehow ended up exactly where the ball was going to be. I never had the skillz, the speed, but I had the crazy skillz for opportunity
Poker works the same way for most scenarios, but opposite when I play large MTT's. I will be in my flow for around two hours, but immediately when I start to think about the payouts, my game detiorates and my mind gets hazy. This has obvious effects on my game, but also completely changes my mental strategy of swaying where the wind blows me. Instead, I am constantly on guard and concerned about my hand rather than other peoples. I think this mindset has my friends plagued with the need to find a summer job. I'm sure there's a logical explanation to everything, but fuck it, this metaphor I'm crafting at 1am is workin'.
Anyway, I'm kinda stopping on the whole MTT's for awhile and just focus on cash since that's where my big-time success is. I'm gonna try to only limit my play to off days because I know that I will just steam-tilt my br away if I play after work. Plus, I my aggro-exploiting self when I my mind is thinking efficiently (John Madden comment). Hope everybody has a good weekend!
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