One week into cash games.

Well, im one week into this full ring stuff and everything is going well. I made a nice $2000 at 25/50 while waiting to get in 5/10, which is nice. Im not sure how many hands I played today, so I will just give the total numbers for the whole week...I have played 15613 hands for $21695 profit, which is 6.95ptbb/100. I am very happy with the results but i am not happy that I only got 15k hands in in a week. I was hoping the number would be somewhere around 20k but I am just too lazy. I did get in 3000 today and was going to do more but I just got stupidly beat as soon as I started up some games so I decided to take the night off. It was kinda funny. I had 88 on a 862 board. I checkraised the flop and the guy calls, the turn is a T, I check push this and the guy thinks and calls with QJ so I lose when the 9 comes. Ohhh well. I did make $300 in that short sitting and $700 from 25/50 on stars, so its all good, I guess. Also, my won $ at showdown is starting to climb from 45% to around 49%, which is in the right direction. Ive basically stopped paying people off with iffy hands and I think it is improving my results. All in all, im happy.

Tomorrow I am going to Tuscaloosa Alabama to hang out with Shannon Shorr. We are going to see some football game. I also dont know if I am going to go to any live tournies in the next month or if I am going to sit at home and grind. I want to go play big live mtts but I feel as if I need to work, especially since ive been doing well lately. Im considering going to Borgata, the EPTs in Barcelona and London, Aruba, and also Tunica. I dont know what im going to do. I'll figure it out soon enough.

good day despite running bad

I should have been down a lot today but I ended being up $1400ish, for a total of $16,018 over 12553 hands in the last 6 days. I had planned on playing more tonight but I got super rigged playing 3 handed against this lag maniac who had AA on a AJJxx board when I had AJ. I guess riggedness happens sometimes. I started the day off getting down a nice $3000 mainly due to stupid stuff as well. Im getting better at keeping my cool and playing through the rough times, I think. I just plain dont feel like playing now, as I have a few new poker books I need to read.

Nice easy work day

Today was nice. I stacked people a lot. I got stacked a few times. I guess it was about a typical day...I might have been running a little hot though. Playing cash is kinda funny because I usually have no clue how much I am up or down...I just know if I am up or down. So...in the last 5 days, ive gotten in 9987 hands running at 7.31ptbb/100 for a nice $14605 profit. All in all, im happy with the results. Hopefully I can keep them up for another 10k hands or so. If that happens, ill probably move up to 10/20 and see how that goes. Im going ot try to get in a bunch of hands tomorrow, but for some reason, I just dont like putting in long sessions of cash. Maybe ill learn to do that some day.

long -ev day

Im tired so this is going to be short. I would up around 10 am and me, my dad, and one of my friends went to the casino in biloxi. My dad won $200 from 4/8 limit, which made me happy for him. I lost $4500, which I didnt really care about. Its kinda weird that seeing my dad win $200 makes me happy but seeing myself lose $4500 doesnt bother me. Maybe its a good thing. I came home and 9 tables 5/10 for 30 minutes before getting tired. I made $1200, so thats nice...nothing went wrong in that session at all. Hopefully I can get a nice long night of sleep and pwn the 5/10 tomorrow.

nice short day

Well, I didnt get in many hands today but the results were nice. I have now played 8000 hands of 5/10nl and am up $8705. While 8k hands is nothing, it is still nice to have a decent win rate. Also, when i tried to get in the games this morning, they all had 10+ person wait lists...so I decided to gambool a little and play 25/50 on stars, as I have money in there that I cant really cash out right now...so if i lose it, its no big deal and if i win, thats nice too. I ended up winning $6000 while i was waiting to get in 5/10. Some guy just potted every street with nothing and I called him down with trips. Easy game. I also played a $1000 hu sng while I was watching ufc at my parents tonight, which I lost due to poor play. All in all, it was a nice day. Tomorrow, I am going with my parents and one of my friends to the casino in biloxi to gambooool. Hopefully i can win 5k or something nice from degening it up. I guess ill post again when I play some more.

blah

I dont think I hit a single hand today. I basically just hung around all day 9 and 12 tabling 5/10nl. I tried to go back to 6 tabling but it just seemed retarded when I have the ability to 12 table. 9 seems like a nice relaxing fit right now. I honestly think I am horrible though. I dont think im betting enough and making enough plays...but every time I bluff, I get called. MAybe im just bad. Anyways, ive played 7399 hands for $6673 profit. That isnt bad at all, but I am kinda discouraged by losing $2500 today. Tomorrow is going to be a short day because I have a bunch of stuff to do.

5/10nl is going well

I think im finding my leaks! YAY. There is one thing I dont like about cash...it is that I want to quit as soon as I get stacked. I thought about why this is, as it doesnt really bother me when I lose a $2000 sng, but if I lose basically any medium or big hand on the river, it pisses me off. I figured out that it must be because im not sure if I am making the correct plays or if I am playing like a moron. Ive also noticed that when I raise with something like Axs from late position and a guy with 20 or so bbs from the bb calls and I flop an A, I always donate to them. Ive learned to stop that. I dont really know what else besides the fact that top pair sucks in cash games, whereas its the nuts in sngs. In sngs, it seems that it is much more important to get full value out of any semidecent hand you get...this is odd though because in sngs, the typical bet postflop is 1/2 - 2/3 the pot whereas it seems like it is 2/3 - 1/1 the pot in cash. Very odd, as it seems to go against what I just said. Maybe ill figure out this game someday.

Anyways, ive played 4260 hands, 9 tabling, in the last 2 days running at 9.48bb/100 and $8079 profit, which is great....hopefully I can keep it up. I feel like I am running fairly hot, although I did have 500 hands or so where I just plain got pwned hard. Every hand I made was the 2nd nuts and someone else had the nuts. I guess that happens though. I just have to learn to push through it and not feel like I need to take a break. Hopefully I can get in some more hands tomorrow.

hmm

Odd things are happening in my mind. Ive been working a lot for the past few days. Ive also been running very bad. Every time I get all in, I know I will usually have the best hand...I also know that when I dont have the best hand, ive stolen anough blinds to make it +ev anyways. As soon as I get called, I fully expect to lose...probably because thats what has been happening for the last few days. Also, I have noticed that none of the food in my fridge looks tasty...so i havent been eating much. Im throughly pissed off right now as well. I guess I just dont like losing when I play perfect. Ohhhh well. Also, I cant play with 4 regulars in the $215s, which also puts me on megatilt. There is nothing worse than getting in 4 games and then having to compete with 2 other people to get in the games. It almost makes them not worth playing....actually, it does make them not worth playing. So...im probably going to attempt to play some nl cash tonight. I went 8/4/6/48 in $215s and 1/4/1/14 in $530s for -$2490. All in all, I despise poker...thats pretty much it.

blah day

Last night/today sucked....really bad. Ill make it short and get to the results...I took 5th in a step 4 higher for -$1650, 11/9/7/73 in $215s for -$2300 and 6/5/3/41 in $530s for -$3650 for a nice -$7600 day. All in all, it isnt so bad. I had a -7k day on 8/9 and still had a +$8000 week. So far, since ive been playing sngs again hardcore, I have yet to have a losing week, which is quite nice. One is bound to come along eventually. Ive been thinking about if I should play $530s or not and I really havent decided on anything. As soon as I decide to write them off, I win 2 or 3 in a row...Oh well. i'll probably play the games in a 2:1 ratio or so, as it seems to work well with the speed that the games fill. Im going to watch a little tv then probably work some more, as 150 games just doesnt feel like enough to make it worth waking up anymore.

worst otm streak of my life

I finished up my early session tonight at 11pmish, so I still hae lots of time to do whatever tonight. I had only gotten in 110 games earlier today, so I felt like i havent played enough today. Every time I have one of these late night sessions I do horrible. Tonught was special though. Tonight was one of those nights that make for losing months. Its probably a good thing the games stopped filling, otherwise id still be in there working. I had a nice 30 game otm streak, 18 $215s and 12 $530s. Basically, im done with $530s unless I am somehow forced to play them. There is no way im a winning player in them. Everyone obviously lied to me whne they told me i was good. All in all, I despise poker and all the lucksacking fish that god smiles down on. Hopefully soon they will run bad in life and get aids. -$10,000... ship the dough to the lucksacking retards.

NY is over, plus a nice long day today.

I basically learned in NY that I have no patience anymore. In both of the live mtts I played, I couldnt wait to lose. I was constantly thinking "please god let me get bad beat so I can get out of here." I despise live mtts. That being said, I might end up going to barcelona and london for some ept events. I dont know why. Maybe I just like to chill with poker players or maybe im hoping that eventually I wont be unlucky. Who knows. I will probably go if I make $30000 or so online in the next 2 weeks. As for sngs, I have basically become convinced by my peers that I am damn good at sngs...good enough that I should be playing every $530 that runs. I guess thats going to be the plan for the next week, at least. I felt a little rushed while 12 tabling today, which isnt good. Hopefully that will fix itself once I get back in the swing of things. As for results, I went 3/0/0/7 in $530s while in ny but I ran like crap today, so I will just group them all together to make them look pretty. I went 9/9/10/50 in $215s for $1630 profit and 6/2/5/26 in $530s for $2330 profit. All in all, im disappointed.

chilling in ny

Everything is going well here I guess. Im sitting here basically 4 tabling $530s cause z32fanatic is playing 215s and he keeps losing so he never gets in 12....so im just getting in every 530....all 4 of them that run at a time. I lost the $1000 mtt yesterday in about 3 hours which sucked. I was really tired though, so I was almost begging to lose. Deuce2high took 7th but I think he got kinda screwed at the final table. Party finally got their speeds fixed, which is the best news I could have heard. So far, im up $12000 fro flipping coins and $4600 from blackjack. Im just running good I guess. There are also 2 super hot turndown service girls, so I have to make sure im off the computer by 6:30 so I can hit on them. ;-) I think Shannon wants to go play retard bingo or some crap tonight at 7. Tomorrow is the $5000 mtt at 10 am...which is super early. Im going to try to be asleep tonight by 11 pm or so, which probably isnt going to happen. Ill probably just post again when I get home.

Another fairly lazy day

I had to wake up early, around noon, for the maids to clean my house. They got it done pretty fast, which was nice. I dont kno how I didnt get in very many games today. I guess because its still early. I have to be up around 8 am tomorrow for the alarm people to put in the system. I will be leaving for the airport after that for what will hopefully be a nice relaxing trip. I went 7/1/3/26 in $215s for a small +$846 profit. Anyways...total stats since I might not update for a few days....

$215s: 380/375/396/2119 for 3270 games played, $61610 profit and 8.8% roi.

530s: 31/30/33/163 for 257 games played, $19290 profit and 14.2% roi.

I probably wont play many $530s for a while so I will usut leave them out of the updates from here on out.

laziness

Well..I woke up around 1 and chilled around the house until the alarm guy came over. I thought they were going to install it today but it was just the sales guy. It cost like $700...REDIC. Anyways, I played a few sngs after that then I played some more mario64. I was supposed to go eat with one of my friends at 5 but it ended up being 6, so I played more 64 than I really wanted. Anyways, I came home, played a few more sngs til I got bored, and just finished up mario64, getting all the stars. woohoo. Tomorrow a maid ot comming sometime between 12 and 3, so im going to have to be up for that. The next day, the alarm people are comming at 8:30 am...That is going to be rough. Im flying out later that day for Turning Stone for the mtts. It seems like almost everyone I now is going to be there. I dont really know why, but it should be a fun trip. Anyways, I went 4/3/1/14 in $215s for a nice +$1470.

taking it easy

I didnt do all that much today. Im trying to get myself unburnt out. I went 3/7/4/18 in $215s for +$1920...thats it. I bought a N64 and all the good games...all 6 or 7 of them...so ill probably be playing that for the next month or so til i beat them all. I was thinking about how few really good games there are for most video game systems. I can only think of like 10 on ps2 and very few for xbox...I guess the old ones really are the good ones. Id probably say super nintendo has the most...I also had a few small screw ups in my stats for the last few times I posted them. I basically left out all the losses for a week, which was like 300 of them. My profit was still correct but my roi will be slightly lower. It doesnt really matter to me as long as im up what I think im up. I'll just fix it next time I post the stats. I'll probably take tomorrow fairly easy too. Im supposed to go eat with a friend at 5, so ill play a little before that and see how it goes. Also, I am for sure going to Turning Stone for their $5000 mtt this weekend. Im going to be rooming with Shannon Shorr and Chip, z32 fanatic. It seems like there are going to be a bunch of sng players there, so it should be a pretty fun, relazing trip. I guess ill post again tomorrow.

First off day in a while

I decided that I would take a break from poker for a day. I took my brother to see some movie this morning then I decided to call up some old poker buddies and we decided to go play some Magic just to goof off. I used to be damn good at the game...now im horrible. I was almost ashamed at how bad i played. Ohh well. I didnt win the $30 prize. I was also looking over my results and I havent lost over a 6 day streatch of $215s since I started playing them hardcore again...thats kinda comforting.I guess ill get back to work tomorrow and 5 table the $215s all day. Im also planning on going to New York for the $5000 turning stone mtt this weekend with a bunch of fellow sng players. Im going to try to make it a nice, relaxing trip.

super bad runnings

I have seemed to get in the pattern lately of pwning the fish hard in the afternoon then losing it all back at night. I need to figure out how to stop this. I had a nice 0/0/0/19 streak in $215s today which made for a small losing day. I think I think I am running worse than I actually am because I am able to sit here and watch myself get 3 outered every time I lose. I never realized that I rarely get in with the worst hand. I figured I got in with the worst like 40% of the time or something. Anyways...1/1/3/12 in $530s for -$2010 and 6/3/5/34 in 215s for -305. Im getting burnt out playing 8+ hours a day. Party...PLEASE fix your site so I dont despise poker more than I despise my life. Thank you.

god i run bad

If I ran normal today, I would have been up $20,000...instead I ran like total crap and lost to almost every 2 outer i got all in against. I also was up $8000 at one point today...then I lost every hand I played. Its very annoying. I guess I should be used to it. People are always going to call my pushes with 2 outers and always draw out on me cause god doesnt like me. Maybe ill learn to accept it one day. Anyways...8/5/3/31 in 215s for +$3170 and 4/4/3/22 in $530s for +$1510...Maybe tomorrow will be kind.

Also, congrats to Shannon Shorr for taking down a nice $650,000 in the $10,000 bellagio tourney.

getting pwned nicely

Its still early, so it might turn around, but im getting pwned hard. Actually...it isnt so bad. I only down like $3500. It just sucks to lose to 2 outers every time on the bubble, which has happened 6 times in 23 games so far. Ohh well. I just had to whine a little.

Ok...the day didnt get better...it got much worse. yay. I basically went 0/0/0/x in my last sitting, almost all to 3 outers, which is always fun. Anyways, 1/1/1/14 in 215s for -1665 and 0/1/2/14 in 530s for -5510. Im probably going to quit for tonight and just play some stupid mtts here and there. I might just play 215s tomorrow to give myself a rest...or I might just sit around and watch tv all day. I also might go on a vacation somewhere. Who knows.

Total results:
215s: 352/356/380/1677 for 2765 games, $54510 profit and 9.2% roi

530s: 26/25/27/129 for 207 games, $19790 profit and 18% roi

I really really wish party would get their act together so I could just 12 table again. I dont like the swinginess of playing only 50 games a day. I also dont like -5k days but I guess thats going to happen in 530s, especially if you can only get in 25 per day. I just have to remember that i bet 5k on a hands of blackjack...to lose $5000 in a day is nothing.

rough day

I ran horrible today. Simple as that. I lost so soooooo many 2 outers it was redic. There were 2 huge losing players playing most of the night tonight so I put in a lot of games even though I didnt really want to play. It also didnt help that I wasnt winning any coin flips heads up. I went 2/4/1/13 in $215s for $500 profit and 3/3/9/32 in $530s for $3910 loss. Really though, if -7 buyins is the typical "bad" day, these $530s are going to be easy.

Tomorrow some carpet cleaning people are going to be here so I have to get all the stuff off my floors, which is going to suck. There also seems to be water from under my floor causing my carpet in one room to be damp, so im probably going to have to be up early...like 8 am early to take care of that. I hate when the games are perfect but I still get pwned. Oh well...tomorrow will be better.

pretty good day

Im starting to expect too much. I was up $8000 today but ended up pissing $4000 of it away and that makes me sad...but I shouldnt be sad cause im up 4k. $4000 a year ago would have made me estatic...now its almost expected. Its amazing to me the way my outlook on most everything in life has changed in the last 2 years. Two years ago, if you asked me what a successful person is, I would have said someone who goes to college and finds a job and has a family. Now i see that person as someone who doesnt need school to make a crappy 40k a year. I also would have said a "good" poker player was someone who sat around and was very patient waiting for good cards. Now, a good poker player, in my eyes, is a LAG maniac like Phil Ivey. I also was basically content working a $10/hr job, bringing in $1500/month. Now $1000 days are a must and $2500 is almost expected. That probably isnt good. I really need to learn to be happy with nothing, although that seems hard when you are pwning the fish and raking in the dough. Anyways...enough rambling.

I went 3/1/2/8 in $215s for $1390 profit and 4/4/0/17 in $530s for $2750 profit. I noticed that there were a lot more regulars in the $530s tonight in my last 2 sessions, where I basically went 0/0/0/x. I might have to jump back to $215s if the games start fulling up with winning players instead of the total idiots that have been playing. It also seems like the games are filling rather quickly tonight. Im not too sure why this is...It might just be because the wsop is almost over or maybe because people need to get their party fix. Oh well. I guess im going to watch some tv then go to sleep.

blah day

I woke up early, around 11:30 to have lunch with my parents. I had left my cell phone charger in vegas, so I used their to charge my phone. I called to check my messages and party told me to call them about some cash out...great. I tried to log into my other party account that had $1100 in it and I was told my password was wrong as well as my email address to retrieve my password was wrong. Eventually someone from paypro told me that someone had hacked my account and cashed out the $1100. They said they are going to investigate and let me know what they find in the next day or two. They claimed that they would help me prosecute whoever they find it to be and that the typical jail time for wire fraud is 10 years. 10 years for $1100 would be rough.
Anyways, I came home and went 3/0/0/1 in my 4 first sngs but then the day went downhill from there...as i was typing this blog out, I was in 2 $530s with like 1000 chips each. There was no way I should have gotten itm in either of these games but these guys just decided to let me take a 2nd and a 3rd, making for a decent day. I went 2/1/1/6 in $215s for $850 profit and 2/3/4/13 in $530s for $1840 profit. It was kinda short day but im tired and want to sit and watch tv.

Crazy day

I woke up early, like I planned, and played 2 ept qualifiers, a $320 mtt on stars, and a bunch of $530s. Nothing went right in any of the mtts. I got 2 outered in 2 of them and 3 outered in the other. As for the 530s, I went 0/0/0/14...great. I really wasnt all that concerned though, as I knew a downswing was comming. When you are almost expecting to lose, it isnt so bad when it happens. Maybe I should always expect to win but not care if I lose. I guess thats where I need to strive to get. Anyways, since I was down $8000ish, I decided to take a break...then 2 minutes later, I decided that was dumb and that I was going to play all day. I ended up going 2/4/3/20 in $215s for -$635 and 8/2/5/23 in $530s for +$7860. 70 games in a day, 5 tabling is rough. Ive basically been playing all day with one one hour break. I dont like it, but it seems to make money. Tomorrow I will probably play the mtts on stars and party. I guess im going to go to walmart to buy food and then chill for the rest of the night.

another nice day

My mother came over around 10 am to help make my house look nicer. She painted some of the cabinets and did some stuff to the tile floors. My mother is so kind. Anyways, I helped her with that stuff until about noon then I went back to sleep. I woke up around 3 pm and had a normal day from there. I went 2/2/1/7 in the 215s for $1020 profit and 3/4/1/12 in the 530s for $3900 profit. Its nice to run good. Its also nice to have very few regulars in the games. I was talking to another sng player and he asked who to look out for in the 215s...I scanned the 2 games I was in and there was one semidecent regular out of the 18 other people seated. I couldnt ask for softer games. There were also 2 well known big cash game players playing the 530s tonight and they obviously didnt know how to play sngs. I guess thats good for me. Anyways, tomorrow there are 2 ept qualifiers early in the morning with the first one starting at 11:30. I am going to try my hardest to wake up and play them even though im not good at waking up early. Im planning on going to Barcelona in 6 weeks so winning the seat would help for sure. Hopefully I do well in that. Also, to the best of my knowledge, Shannon Shorr and Alan Sass are still in the main event. Hopefully they can both get fairly deep and bring home a nice amount of money.

good day

Every day after I have a really good day I have a weird anxiety about playing the next day, I guess because I fear getting pwned hard. I did get pwned nicely in my first set but I managed to do well for the rest of the day. I would play for like an hour and a half then take an hour break...I really need to break that habit. anyways, I went 2/2/8(!!)/17 in $215s for $165 profit and 3/4/2/12 in $530s for $4370 profit....ok...heres total numbers.

215s: 340/343/371/1609 for $53040 profit, 9.2% roi and 39.5% itm

As for the $530s, I guess I am going to start playing them fairly full time, at least until I start running bad in them. Heres the few results I have so far...

530s: 6/8/6/18 for $12860 profit, 64% roi and 52% itm.

Obviously these results mean nothing except for that I have been winning coin flips a lot in the last 2 days. I hope I can force myself to want to play more in the upcomming days. I really feel bad about sitting around and putting in only 6-8 hours of 5 tabling. I guess I just like to get in 100 games a day and that simply doesnt happen while 5 tabling. Hopefully party will get their act together soon.

sitting here being bored

Since I cant 12 table, I figured id try to learn to play better. Basically, im 5 tabling the $530 and $215 speed sngs on party. Ive had no problem with their software except when I open up 6 games, which im not going to do any more until the tech guy tells me party is fixed. If I dont know what to do in a spot, im putting it in sng power tools and seeing what the right play is. Its amazing how much free time I have when i only 5 table. Ive already bought $500 worth of random stuff off ebay. I also ordered some nike shoes that say shipit on one shoe and holla on the other. Ive been having pretty decent results so far, as I have been making very few mistakes...like 0 so far, plus im running good. Its also 100% impossible for me to go on tilt while 5 tabling. There just arent enough stupid beaqts to piss me off. Ive figured it out that it usually takes about 20 3 outers or worse in a short period of time to make me tilty.
Well....im sitting here finishing up 3 games so I guess ill type whatever comes to my mind. Ok..I am tired of seeing these little girls profiles on myspace and facebook that say that they arent afraid to speak their mind, like this is some sort of uncommon thing. I guess it just pisses me off because the worst thing that goes through their minds is "i dont like you" whereas when I say the things that go through my mind, it scares people. Its like people cant understand why I want people to die sometimes or something.I dont get it. Sometimes I wish I was a normal person working a normal job. I also get pissed that people, mainly stupid american people, think their way is always the best way. also, I think that whoever makes the thai chicken that I eat all the time has stopped making it. I was forced to buy a bunch of random crap at the store today that I might not like. Ohhh well.
In the $530s, ive noticed that the good players play much better than the good players in the 215s...but the bad players play much worse than the bad players at the 215s. Im very confidant that 530s could be beat for a good amount if you just find games with a few horrible people and beat their head in. Also, it seems like the 530s end up being 4 handed earlier than 215s on average. Maybe this is just due to my small sample size, but I would think it would be different. I also dont like how I only get in like 8 games per hour 5 tabling compared to my usual 18 per hour. I get really really bored sitting here doing nothing. I guess I better get used to it. At least I am getting a ton of good notes on people.

Anyways, I went 1/1/3/8 in the $215s for a huge $5 profit and 3/4/4/6 in the $530s for a tiny $8490 profit. All in all, it was a nice day...but it is still early. I might go chill for a bit and come back and play. The good thing about 5 tabling is that you can basically do it any time whereas you can only 12 table in prime time.

fairly disgusted with poker

Ive been running super bad since I got back home. First of all, as everyone knows, you cant 12 table on party anymore cause their program breaks. Thats fine...I decided to play some 20/40 limit and about 100 hands into my session, I get AA on a AK92K boardm capped on every street against KK. Yay. I ended that little session -$1400. Im obviously a huge loser in limit, so im not going to play any more of that for a while, I dont think. I then decided to play some sngs on stars. Honestly, their software is shit. I dont see how anyone 9+ tables on their site. On top of that, I got 2 and 3 outered left and right. I probably have -50% roi on that site. Also, when you lose, it doesnt even tell you what game you lost, making it impossible to manually keep track of your results. So...now im sitting here finishing up one last game, which I just got 2 outered in on the bubble. I have no clue what im going to do today. I really despise poker. I wish I could find a job that paid $200/hr. Id jump to that in a heartbeat. Maybe ill go on a vacation and not play any poker or something. I dont know.