Studying like I was back in college

Well...I got pwned for a nice $4000 yesterday...since then, I have decided to review most of the relevant hands out of this 200k hand history database I bought...I am basically going to go through all the hands and figure out what this guy does in every spot and just do what he does...So far, ive noticed that he plays very very different than the way I was playing...that is a good thing though...id rather to be ignorant than unlucky. I got through the As and Ks today...tomorrow will be the Qs Js and Ts and then the next day will hopefully be the sooted connectors...after that, my plan is to jump into 5/10 6 max on stars where no one knows me and hopefully pwn it nicely. I will probably give myself $15,000 -$20,000 to "gamble" with and hope for the best.
Due to my friend Dalimans success at betting sports, I have decided to do what he suggests and read sharp sports betting by Stanford Wong so that I can talk to him intelligently about the subject. I went 1-1-1 on the wong teasers last week. Right now, I have $5000 in play for this week on 10 teasers and will probably have a little more before Sunday. Also, UFC is this weekend. I follow a guy named Performify when it comes to UFC. This guy wins on almost every ufc card, which is just sick. Hopefully that will all go well...
I have also been trying to monitor what I eat, as I dont want to get fat. Ive been trying to pick stuff that is basically low fat and cals. Did you know that a $0.60 chicken pot pie has 24+ grams of fat?!?! Thats redic. Chicken teriyaki by lean cuisine has a whopping 2 grams of fat...their spaghetti has 3.5...Anyways, im going to try to not get fat like most old poker players...but being fat does make you lucky...so maybe I should eat those chicken pot pies.


Ok...I am going to make this as clear as I can...I am NOT going to be posting here anymore...This is my link to my new blog site...Z32fanatic, BigJoe2003 and Noodleman are all pretty good sng players and will also be keeping their blogs there...Please register and leave comments so I actually know if people are reading it or not. I appreciate it...

http://www.sngicons.com/geeklog.php?topic=FieryJustice

pretty long day

The last 2 days I have gotten super tured around 7 pm or so...I haven taken a 2 hour nap both days that, I imagine, is verrrry -----ev. I am going to make sure that doesnt happen tomorrow. I played quite a bit of 3/6 today. I decided to play heads up with this that seemed to know what he was doing, mainly for experience playing with a backwards button. He was pwning me pretty good and eventually got up $600 on me from me basically never hitting a hand. I eventually hit a hand and and got back to even plus a little so that was nice. As for the rest of the session, I ran pretty awful, but that happens from time to time, I guess. I was going to call it a night around 2 am but Z32fanatic IMed me to tell me that JohnnyBax was at the final table of some mtt on stars. I started talking crap to him but he said it was a bad time, as they were playing for like 60k or so, so I left him alone. I was sitting here playing diablo2 when I got the bright idea to nut peddle cash games instead. I ended up getting almost even for the day, which is nice. Hopefully tomorrow will be more productive.

total cash game numbers over the last week or so...

9786 hands of 2/4 6 max nl for $9332.90 profit at 11.92ptbb/100 (shiiip)
6256 hands of 3/6 6 max nl for $1108.45 profit at 1.48ptbb/100 (please god let me run normal for just one day)

been fairly busy

Well, I havent posted for the last few days mianly because I havent been playing much and have been doing lots of nonpoker related stuff. I have played just a few sngs (like 30 or less) and lost like $3000 or something mainly due to running sickly bad, but it happens over 30 games all the time. I just dont really have the desire to sit and grind at sngs right now, especially since I have have $50,000 in my account that I would like to have before I start playing every $1100 that runs. I havent really been playing much cash games either but today, I got a strong desire to learn to play...so I bought a guys pokertracker database and studied his hands pretty much all day. This guy was/is a pretty solid winner from 3/6 up to 10/20 and is now playing 25/50 on full tilt, so hopefully I can put some of what I am learning to practice. I played like 500 hands tonight and made $1500 or so, which was nice. I was planning on playing more but I kept getting in spots where I would ask myself "what would that guy do" so I am going to study some more then go to sleep.

Also, I am most likely going to be moving my blog to a new site. It is bigjoe2003s and z32fanatics ( 2 of the best sng players around right now) site, which will most likely become the training ground for sng players looking to inprove. You can go to my blog site directly be going to http://www.sngicons.com/geeklog.php?topic=FieryJustice and clicking on the "First post here" link, and the next ones as soon as I post more. The people that run the site thought more people would know me as "fieryjustice" than "jcardshark" so we went with FJ. Let me know what you think. I will most likely be discontinuing this blog within a week or so. give me some feedback and let me know what you want.

blah day

I played just a few sngs and lost $1000. I was up $3000 earlier but then pushed into AA twice and got 4 outered 4 times in my last 6 games...all in all, pretty typical. I am looking foreward to the day where I run normal.

blah

I was up $2000 from 3/6 and $2000 from sngs...then I lost it. Yay. I have to do family stuff tomorrow at 6 am so im going to bed.

bad good day

Today was kinda crappy. I decided to play 3/6 and got stacked twice by one of my friends and once by another one, which pissed me off and put me on super tilt. I ended up a huge $200, which I guess I am ok with, even though I was up $2400 at one point. I guess it happens. I also played 5 $1100 sngs and went 1/0/2/2 for $3500ish profit...although for some reason, that $3500 doesnt seem to count in my mind...I dont know why. I guess I just focus on the negative things, like going from +$2400 to +$200 in 6 max, which is what I am trying to do well at. I think I am going to try to be a bit tighter tomorrow, as I am getting no respect at all. I need the people to fold sometimes!. I will post again tomorrow i guess.

fairly crappy day

Not much went right today. I got outdrawn a many many times, which usually makes for losing days. Totals so far...

9784 hands for $9332.90 profit at 11.92ptbb/100

Im not so sad with -$1400...it happens sometimes, I guess. I was planning on either jumping to 3/6 or going back to sngs after 10,000 hands...I guess I am going to try some 3/6, as I think the people are starting to figure out how I play at 2/4, believe it or not. I am considering, if I actually get good at this 6 max stuff, to jump limits every few days so people dont have time to figure out how I play....or maybe its a dumb idea...I guess ill figure that out when the time comes. Hopefully tomorrow goes well...I have been feeling kinda down...hopefully a nice solid day can change that.

swingy day

Today was fairly crazy. I got stacked like 15 times today...I miiiight have been stacked 10 times in the first 7000 hands. Ohh well. Despite that, I somehow managed to win a nice biring $200. I pretty much lost every time I got all in with a draw...actually, I lost every time. Good thing people are trying to let me win, otherwise I would have been down like $4000 today. Anyways...total numbers for 2/4 nl...

8346 hands for $10708.50 profit at 16.04ptbb/100. Solid.

Ive kinds been in the pattern of playing 1 hour, doing something else for 1 hour. It seems to be working and it also helps keep me unbored/untilted. I will probably try it again tomorrow.

fame vs fortune

I was thinking about this today, as I didnt feel like playing much and it was horrible weather outside. I know a few people that play poker only for money and some only for fame...First off, I dont think there is much fame outside the poker world to be gained by playing poker. I dont think the general public has any clue who many of the great poker players are, like they know other great sports people or politicians..I had to choose those categories because poker doesnt really fit in with any specific group, at least not im my opinion. Sure, the public knows the top few in the world at most things, but if you asked me to name 20 good basketball players, i couldnt. So...I dont think there is all that much fame to be gained...that being said, in poker, you can win everything, become fameous within the poker world and still not have all that much money. Most of the "name" pros on the circut are broke or backed so they dont go broke. You simply have to win fairly consistently to make a good living...there arent many people who can do this, and if they are, they probably are just running hot or normal...it will be intresting to see how they do when they run very poor, which will happen eventually...

As for fortune, you can make a killing playing poker and no one will have any clue who you are. There are quite a few millionaires who are younger than 21, that if they went to play in a local card room, you would think they are some random 20 year old idiots. Also, you can easily grind out $200,000/year playing $100 sngs or $2/$4 n cash games. Its just a matter of putting in the hours.

I guess what I am saying that it is much easier to get rich by the worlds standards than to become fameous. If I had to choose, I for sure play for the money. I dont care at all what a bunch of poker players think about me...I do, however, care a lot about what my poker playing friends think about me. I dont really know what I posted this..I guess I just hate to see kids chasing a dream of becomming the worlds best poker player when they will most likely fail...and when they actually make it to the top, they realize that they are still seen as a degenerate gambler by the general (uneducated) public.

As for my day, i made a nice $3200 over 1000 hands of 2/4 nl. I was hitting hands and people were just giving it away. It was nice. I guess ill just post again tomorrow.

happy day

Today was nice. I dont think I did much...but I really dont remember very much from today. The days are kinda blending in together. Ok...I remember now...all I did was work today...but thats fine with me, as I am trying my hardest to learn cash games and I think I am starting to get it. My dad and one of my friends were supposed to come over today for me to teach them sngs, but they both cancelled for various reasons. I havent played any big sngs in the last few days, which makes me happy. Sngs make me sad. Anyways, heres totals for the last 3 days of 2/4 nl 6 max...

5128 hands played for $7333.50 profit, which is 17.88ptbb/100....which is pretty sick. Hopefully I can do 1/2 as well in the long run.

im done with the sleeping thing

well..not totally done with it. I realized today just how impractical having to sleep every 4 hours is. I went to my aunts house warming party thing and then to a movie...before all of that though, I was wondering when I was going to get to sleep...so I decided to take like a 5 hour nap earlier in the day...it was great. I also am going to play in a $2000 2+2 sng in a month or so and im sure I would have had to get off the schedule for that as well. I think I have decided that I am going to just sleep for like 2 or 3 hours at a time whenever I get tired for the next few days and see how that goes. I imagine ill be taking 2-3 naps per day. Like right now, its 5 am and I would normally be getting ready to go to bed, but im not tired...so im going to stay up. I guess ill see how this works out.

As for poker, I lost like $100 playing 2/4 today. I didnt hit near as many hands as the past few days and for checkraised a lot...getting checkraised a lot is fine when you are hitting but not when you miss 100% of the time. Thats ok though...-$100 is a great "bad" day. My dad is going to come over sometime tomorrow and im going to try to make him a winning sng player. I think he pretty much has the bare basics down from about 2 hours of teaching, so hopefully tomorrow I get start teaching him some specifics. I am probably going to watch a little tv then I might put in another little session. Ill post again tomorrow.

more sleep stuff

So im sitting here watching a video being bored, so i figured id let you all know that I actually had my first 20 minutes of good solid sleep. At 7 pm tonight, I was suuuuppper tired...like falling asleep playing poker tired, which never happens. After that, I went out to eat with a friend then to help me parents learn sngs a little better. I basically played 3 $3.40 sngs for them and won $15 in 4 games, which is good for them. I have been playing a little 2/4 nl and am up $4500 over like 1700 hands so far, which is great. If I can run 1/3 as well as the last 2 days, ill be happy. Right now, im supposed to take my nap in 2 hours but im wide awake. Im starting to feel much better, which is fairly exciting. Ive figured out that if I watch tv for 30 or so minutes before the nap, I go to sleep much faster than if I played videogames or poker. As for the guy that asked why im doing this, its because I want to get more hours out of my day. I mean, it makes sense...even if it takes a few years off my life, those years it will be taking are those where I would be in a nursing home. This sleep schedule basically gains me 1 extra week worth of time per month. Also, it will give me more time to goof off, which in turn will give me more time to work, which is the real goal of all this. If you have any more questions, let me know. I'll probably just post some more after I put in some more hours working.

lalala

Well, I havent had more than 20 minutes of sleep at a time for the last 36 hours and im about to die. Im so so so tired. I have no clue how I drug myself out of the bed 20 minutes ago. I have been sticking to taking 20 minute naps at 3-7-11. Those seem to be fairly decent times for me for some reason. Im sitting here trying to think of stuff to type but I cant think of anything...its rather sad. Ok ok...I have noticed a huge loss of hand eye coordination. Like when I come fomr from shopping with bags in both hands, I can usually fiddle with my keys and open the door...not so anymore. I dropped the keys twice today, which makes me kinda sad. Hopefully this corrects itself soon. I have been told that the first 3-4 days are the roughest and im almost though those, so hopefully good things are in the near future. Also, waking up from my 7 am nap is by far the most difficult. I guess this is because when I am normally fairly into deep sleep. I guess I just have to get it through my brain that 7 am isnt sleep time anymore....I dont have a sleep time anymore.

As for poker, I simply cant 20 table sngs at this point. My brain isnt working fast enough and I tend to make one or two misclicks per hour, which is one or two too many for me to be happy playing those games. That being said, I didnt play sng sngs yesterday. I played an hour of 2/4 nl on stars and made $1200, which is nice. I was 4 tabling that, which takes 0 brain power, so I think I can handle that. Hopefully I keep running hot in that.

Im going to see the Borat movie tomorrow at noon. Im really looking foreward to it. I also bought the ali g dvds and penn and teller bullshit season 3 dvd. Ive been playing a decent amount of diablo 2, as it takes no thought at all and it keeps me awake. Im tired of being tired. I dont know if I am going to be able to keep up the uberman schedule if it persists. I will most likely quit after 4-5 more days of this if it doesnt get any better. Ill post again when something happens.