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[Jul. 16th, 2006|04:53 pm] |
I am playing the Party Poker Million right now... I allready doubled up within the first half hour because of this hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?413070
Hopefully the rest of the tourney plays itself like that hand. First prize is almost 200k.
I've played like 3000 hands of 5/10 since I last posted and I'll play more today and then post a review/PT screen shot later. |
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[Jul. 14th, 2006|04:22 am] |
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| | Mirah - The Struggle | ] |
So today sucked:
It started out good, I shot up about 70 BB's but then ran like shit and got drawn out on a million times. I am very happy with the way I have been playing but I knew that this was coming and that it would make my stats look like a dead dog's dick. This always happens to me and I always get frustrated and can't maintain a solid winrate. I'm going to keep going at it, but unfortunately I am probably going to be riding bikes for the next week straight so I won't be able to keep playing. That might actually be for the best though, I don't give a shit about poker enough to let this get me down. It's just annoying.
Here's a few bad beats, since lord knows that these are hard to come by and are never posted on the internet:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?409729
http://www.pokerhand.org/?409753
Very annoying though. I want to hurry up and do some buisness deals so I can have a source of income that does not have a variance factor for once. Oh also I have made like 1000 in rakeback, so that's pretty cool.
FUCK YA. |
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[Jul. 13th, 2006|04:47 am] |
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| | Cat Power - I Don't Blame You | ] |
So today, it rained most of the day. And I, played poker most of the day.
I ran very well today, up about 100 BB's but then plummeted down 100 BB's leaving me just about even. Running break even for 4000 hands kind of sucks, but what can you do. My bb/100 is looking a tad measley, although it was looking very good prior to dropping 100 BB's and I am worried about what it will look like once I hit a "real" downswing ( 200 BB's ore more ). The main reason I started this blog, aside from keeping track of my move down from 15/30 to 5/10 is to keep an accurate log of what my bb/100 is, to judge wether I am ready to move up once I have played a signifigant number of hands. Since I played without poker tracker from .25/.50 up to 5/10 I never really had any idea what my bb/100 was ( although I'm assuming it wasn't too bad since all this bankroll had to have come from somewhere ).
In other new:
1) I got a 2000 dollar rakeback payment. That felt good, given that my last few have been more in the area of 1300-1500.
2) I checked out a condo I am thinking of buying in Nashua while I was back. Dietrech is hopefully going to hook me up with this lady who helped him get his place no money down tomorrow and we'll see if my credit is up to par, which I think it is.
3) Liz, my graphic design chick, says she is almost done my first T shirt design for my hip hop clothing company ( which remains nameless ) that I am trying to get started. I have another couple designs I want to get done too before I really start pushing them online though, I'm just waiting on this first design that I have her working on.
4) I have like a million BMX kids visiting from Friday night til Wednesday night or later next week. I will presumably play very little poker during that time since I'll be out riding with them the whole time, which should be fun. After that I will hopefully be flying out to Chicago to visit a girl I like ( that I met online, obviously ).
Hopefully I'll run a little bit better tomorrow. |
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[Jul. 9th, 2006|08:27 am] |
I figure I should update now while my trip to Foxwoods is still fresh in my mind.
So I went there with my friends Sean, Dietrech, Matt and John. At first I entered some gay 120 dollar SNG with Sean, Matt and John. I was blown away at how few chips they give you in that shit. I was thinking to myself that Turbo SNG's take like an hour online, so I couldn't imagine how they could play a live SNG in an hour and a half. Apparently they do it by giving you so few chips that you can barely bet your way through one hand properly without stacking yourself. Anyway I got third and probably would have won it if Aubrey didn't feel the need to call my short-stacked all in on the button with 86o vs my A2o, and catch a six. I won 80 bucks profit.
Next I sat down at 2/5 NL and played for a few hours. The main hand which stands out goes like this:
Loose cannon on my left raises to 25, I reraise to 75 with AKo, he calls. Flop is 347 rainbow, he gay-bets 100 at it. I didn't believe it for a second and I saw that he only had 32 dollars in chips sitting in front of him so I said "All in" and assumed he would auto-call for the rest of his chips, and I was 98 percent sure I was going to win too.
Instead he sat and pondered it for a few minutes because I had overlooked that he had an 100 dollar bill sitting behind his stack which was also in play. He even said "I don't have a pair but I think I have you beat" ( and all of a sudden I knew 100 percent that I was winning ) and then proceeded to call my all in with AQo.
I was insanely hungry around that point so I went and got some chinese food with the boys and came back and sat down at another 2/5 NL table.
Pretty early on I raised to 25 with a few limpers with JJ, and got re-raised to 65 by the small blind. I reasoned that I really didn't want to go all in there and decided to call and see a flop. Flop came J43 and I called his bet of 60 on the flop, and then min-raised his bet of 60 on the turn ( leaving him with like 120 left ). There were 3 spades down at that point, but it didn't matter because he had turned his set with TT.
Next hand I won a bunch more flopping a set of sixes out of the small blind. At this point I had something like 800 in front of me ( I bought in for 300 ) and was just about to leave, when I got KK in the cut off. An EP player raised to 35, I re-raised to 75, he re-raised to 215, I went all in, he called. You allready know what he had.
On one hand, I had kings and it's very hard to fold kings pre-flop. On the other hand, I felt pretty confident that he wouldn't have re-raised like that ( his raise screamed "call me" ) with QQ, JJ, AK or any other hand I was ahead of. The two hands he'd do that with are AA and KK and he of course had AA. On one hand, it would have been a monster mistake if I had folded incorrectly, but on the other hand, what can you do, that's a really hard laydown to make. I'm sure I'll continue to contemplate it for months to come since it was the difference between leaving the casino with 1500 and leaving break even ( which I did ) but in reality it doesn't really matter.
Tomorrow I have no idea if I'll be able to get up in time, but hopefully I'll hang out with that girl and go to the show. |
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[Jul. 7th, 2006|06:25 am] |
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| | blink 182 ( no homo ) | ] |
So I woke up today and did a harsh work out that left me feeling like a dead guy ( still do ), came home and slept for a few hours and then put in 2300 or so hands.
As usual, the bad beats haunt me because today's heater could have been much hotter, but I'm still happy with my play and haven't tilted much in this blog's history so far. I also played a 22 dollar 180 person MTT on stars and lost near the bubble with AK vs AT ( he called a massive overbet with AT ). Sigh.
I MIGHT put in some hands tomorrow but more likely, I will just leave soon after I wake up for Nashua ( do you capitalize a city's name? ). Saturday night I am now scheduled to go to Foxwoods with Sean P and this kid Matt so that could be fun, I haven't played live in a few months.
PEACE |
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[Jul. 6th, 2006|04:28 am] |
Another harsh day. As you can see I played close to 3000 hands and basically broke even again. At one point I was up a lot, like 75 big bets but then lost it all. Variance is not my friend lately, I've been getting hit so hard. I feel sort of like I feel when I am in a really bad downswing, except that I am winning enough big pots to compensate for the ones that I am losing.
On the plus side I am playing very well in my opinion and not tilting. Although it hasn't been easy given all the bullshit I've been taking. I think my main leak right now is that I keep playing hard into fish who are liable to call down with anything. You really have to play a lot of these guys straight up and down because they won't fold A4 high no matter how hard you push. I feel lost a lot of the time though because I have to isolate them with KJo or QTs, but then can't figure out how to play the turn and river when I miss.
In other news, I am heading to Nashua either tomorrow or friday to 1) go swimming, 2) hang out with a girl 3) ride my bike with some buddies and 4) go to a show on sunday. Should be a good time.
note: I actually finished today at 9430 hands, $869 because I played the whole time I wrote this entry. Also I almost final tabled in a Stars 55 dollar MTT today but couldn't catch a break for the life of me. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2006|06:08 am] |
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| | Li'l Wayne - This Is What I Call Her | ] |
I put in about 2500 hands of 5/10 6max today and while it went very well at first, shooting up about 75 big bets, I think proceeded to get smacked in the head by the deck and lose all of that and a little bit more back. By the time I had given back that money I was basically calling out the backdoor flushes I was losing to on the flop.
Fuck all that though, because I won a multi-table tournament. I deserved this one:
I was basically on auto-pilot throughout the first half of the tournament and didn't realize I had a monster chip lead until I noticed people talking about me in the chat ( I was playing 5 additional tables of 6max ). I held my lead for much of the tournament and won a few key hands that let me coast into victory.
Tomorrow I've got to work on some art projects and hopefully begin to teach myself photoshop well enough to put together a few designs I've been trying to get done. I'll also probably play at least 2000 hands of 6max, not because I want to but because I am fucking addicted!
Balls deep,
Adam |
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[Jul. 4th, 2006|06:37 am] |
Today I played about 4000 hands of 5/10 limit. To anyone who knows me this may sound strange, as I have been playing 10/20 and 15/30 for 8 months or so, but after a terrifying 250 BB downswing at 15/30 6 max I decided that I don't want to deal with playing for that much money at this point in my life and that I don't feel confident enough in my ability to beat 15/30 and I think that may be effecting my play. I decided I wanted to humble myself and drop all the way down to 5/10 and then log 100-200,000 hands at 1.5+bb/100 before I move back up to 10/20 and then 15/30.
I've allready been enjoying myself a lot more. The money seems quite small in comparison and that makes it a lot easier to focus on just playing well. For my first 4000 hands I seem to have run pretty well although I still feel like I'm getting knocked in the head by 4 outters far more than my share. The fish at 5/10 are largely much worse than the fish at 15/30 and for the most part are more passive and less super-aggro ( playing short handed against someone who constantly fires into the pot with his good hands and his bad hands is a nightmare ). It's a nice change but their willingness to call a cap on the flop with a gutshot has pretty quickly robbed me of a few pots allready too.
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[Jul. 4th, 2006|06:09 am] |
INTRODUCTION:
In late 2004, I decided to quit college and move to New York City. I moved here with no clue as to what I was going to do to pay rent or feed myself. I have always loved riding my BMX bike so I started doing so, every day for many hours. Then I suffered a really bad back injury that would keep me off my bike for a few months. I decided to give online poker a shot. I had read Phil Hellmuth's book and figured I knew enough to make some money doing it. I deposited 250 dollars into www.pokerroom.com and went to town, playing 10 hour days, 2 tabling .25/.50. I was having a great time and although I wasn't making money, I was learning a lot ( I still remember the day my A high flush got beat by a full house and ran into the kitchen screaming because I though Hellmuth's book said that was impossible ).
That was about a year and a half ago and I have come a long way, but I still have a long way to go. I plan on tracking my progress in this blog. Enjoy. |
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