Called them early afternoon, they said they would be there in 90 min. Call back 2.5 hrs later they say we're rescheduled for Monday. Thank god I don't have a job or anything.
Made 200 bucks 2 tabling 33s on FTP today again. Going to start doing 55s really soon, fun games/times.
Connection stable today, go figure.
FTP BR 980+
PS BR 7k+
Friday, October 26, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Neighbor Story and Other Updates
My girlfriend and I live in an old business storefront right near the downtown area of the town. There are two other units in the building, one that is the same size as ours right next door, and a very small one room studio above that. The guy that owns the building owns a ton of real estate and a pretty big sports store that supplies a good amount of the Chicagoland area with team shirts.
When we moved in, we met the guy next door, Jack. He worked for the landlord, maintaining a few of his properties. In exchange for this, he lived next door for free and received 400 dollars a week.
We noticed right away that Jack did not seem to do much work. He's a 55 year old former everything, construction/carpenter/pipe/etc. worker. Sometime in August we called the landlord because the screens Jack was supposed to put up in our place were not up. We found out Jack was fired and would be moving out shortly. Then Jack disappeared for a few weeks. Apparently Jack went on a coke binge and sold all of his stuff and was now in rehab.
A few weeks later he was back and has been back since. The landlord won't return calls and Jack keeps saying he's suing him because he did a lot more work for him than he should have. Whatever.
So last week I see Jack outside, by the unfinished basement that is used for storage for the units. It's about4 decently sized rooms filled with this and that. We don't store much down there.
He tells me he's getting DSL and he's fixing his phone line so he doesn't have to pay extra installation charges. He says Wednesday (yesterday) that ATT is coming to set up his DSL.
He also tells me he's cleaned up some of the random junk that was in the basement (appears to be true).
That night (the tilt night) I lost connection during those last 2 games. The connection has randomly come in and out since then, and I cannot play poker. I looked at our connection wires downstairs, there are 4, 3 on one side of a splitter, 1 on another. 2 of the wires go into our place, the other 2 disappear towards his place. One of these goes towards our electrical box (I'm guessing that's the main connection, I couldn't get all the way back there because I couldn't find the light) and the other goes right up to the side of his place and disappears into the wall. This is right where he "cleaned up" the basement the other night.
So I refrained from questioning a drug addict about this, and we called Comcast, our cable service provider. They said our connection was not stable and they would come out Friday, in between 8am-8pm. Nice window.
My girlfriend also called the real estate business owner who helped us find the place (she set us up with this lady that does rentals for her, nice people). She got in touch with the owner of our place and said that he was very surprised that Jack still lived here and he was going to be getting the police to throw him out soon. This remains to be seen, the guy that lives above Jack is a very nice man, owns a sign business, he talked to the owner of our units off and on in the last month and made him aware that Jack still lives here.
The point of all this bs is that none of this had much to do with me until the internet fiasco. Now it affects me. I'm staying away from that side of the property until Comcast comes tomorrow and I hope that it's just some connection trouble that is easily fixed, and not him stealing our internet. If it is, he owes me 69 dollars, as per those two disconnection losses in the 33s the other night. I'll let him off the hook for me not being able to play for 2 days, I'm a nice guy like that.
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The website guy is MIA again. Just when I email him a proposition, how convenient. I really don't want to have to drive an hour each way to find this guy, but I may have to soon. It's pissing me off more and more each day, a total lack of respect/professionalism on his part. I've called, emailed and waited for his AIM sn to be online, but nothing is doing.
I didn't get to do my daily walking yesterday, but the two days before I walked 2-3 miles each day. I'm going to keep doing this and probably increase it to 4-5 miles soon.
Yesterday my buddy and I made another beer. We didn't start until 1030-11 so we were up until around 3am with it. We changed some ingredients and are going to add a little coffee to the beer in 3-4 days when we start our 2nd ferment.
We're also going to brew another beer Saturday or Sunday and probably use some molasses in it. We have to be careful not to use too much, but one of our favorite beers uses a bit of molasses and tastes delicious. Both of our beers are dark beers, the second being a little lighter in all regards, but nonetheless is also a very solid stout. If we improve upon the last beer we will be very happy, as that beer was very good.
I'm going to go for a walk now, hopefully try to play a few games on Pokerstars later (their disconnection policy favors shitty connections) when one of 2 people I trust on my account are on and can take over for me if I disconnect. The last 24 hours it seems I disconnect about once every 2-3 hours, so it should be ok if somebody is on to take over for me (on Pokerstars though, FTP kills you too quickly).
BR Same
When we moved in, we met the guy next door, Jack. He worked for the landlord, maintaining a few of his properties. In exchange for this, he lived next door for free and received 400 dollars a week.
We noticed right away that Jack did not seem to do much work. He's a 55 year old former everything, construction/carpenter/pipe/etc. worker. Sometime in August we called the landlord because the screens Jack was supposed to put up in our place were not up. We found out Jack was fired and would be moving out shortly. Then Jack disappeared for a few weeks. Apparently Jack went on a coke binge and sold all of his stuff and was now in rehab.
A few weeks later he was back and has been back since. The landlord won't return calls and Jack keeps saying he's suing him because he did a lot more work for him than he should have. Whatever.
So last week I see Jack outside, by the unfinished basement that is used for storage for the units. It's about4 decently sized rooms filled with this and that. We don't store much down there.
He tells me he's getting DSL and he's fixing his phone line so he doesn't have to pay extra installation charges. He says Wednesday (yesterday) that ATT is coming to set up his DSL.
He also tells me he's cleaned up some of the random junk that was in the basement (appears to be true).
That night (the tilt night) I lost connection during those last 2 games. The connection has randomly come in and out since then, and I cannot play poker. I looked at our connection wires downstairs, there are 4, 3 on one side of a splitter, 1 on another. 2 of the wires go into our place, the other 2 disappear towards his place. One of these goes towards our electrical box (I'm guessing that's the main connection, I couldn't get all the way back there because I couldn't find the light) and the other goes right up to the side of his place and disappears into the wall. This is right where he "cleaned up" the basement the other night.
So I refrained from questioning a drug addict about this, and we called Comcast, our cable service provider. They said our connection was not stable and they would come out Friday, in between 8am-8pm. Nice window.
My girlfriend also called the real estate business owner who helped us find the place (she set us up with this lady that does rentals for her, nice people). She got in touch with the owner of our place and said that he was very surprised that Jack still lived here and he was going to be getting the police to throw him out soon. This remains to be seen, the guy that lives above Jack is a very nice man, owns a sign business, he talked to the owner of our units off and on in the last month and made him aware that Jack still lives here.
The point of all this bs is that none of this had much to do with me until the internet fiasco. Now it affects me. I'm staying away from that side of the property until Comcast comes tomorrow and I hope that it's just some connection trouble that is easily fixed, and not him stealing our internet. If it is, he owes me 69 dollars, as per those two disconnection losses in the 33s the other night. I'll let him off the hook for me not being able to play for 2 days, I'm a nice guy like that.
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The website guy is MIA again. Just when I email him a proposition, how convenient. I really don't want to have to drive an hour each way to find this guy, but I may have to soon. It's pissing me off more and more each day, a total lack of respect/professionalism on his part. I've called, emailed and waited for his AIM sn to be online, but nothing is doing.
I didn't get to do my daily walking yesterday, but the two days before I walked 2-3 miles each day. I'm going to keep doing this and probably increase it to 4-5 miles soon.
Yesterday my buddy and I made another beer. We didn't start until 1030-11 so we were up until around 3am with it. We changed some ingredients and are going to add a little coffee to the beer in 3-4 days when we start our 2nd ferment.
We're also going to brew another beer Saturday or Sunday and probably use some molasses in it. We have to be careful not to use too much, but one of our favorite beers uses a bit of molasses and tastes delicious. Both of our beers are dark beers, the second being a little lighter in all regards, but nonetheless is also a very solid stout. If we improve upon the last beer we will be very happy, as that beer was very good.
I'm going to go for a walk now, hopefully try to play a few games on Pokerstars later (their disconnection policy favors shitty connections) when one of 2 people I trust on my account are on and can take over for me if I disconnect. The last 24 hours it seems I disconnect about once every 2-3 hours, so it should be ok if somebody is on to take over for me (on Pokerstars though, FTP kills you too quickly).
BR Same
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Possible Problems
Neighbor might have split our cable so he could get it for free.
Some interesting "coincidences." More on this later, Comcast coming out Friday because our connection is not consistent. Kind of running out the door, but I'll post tonight/tomorrow.
BRs same
Some interesting "coincidences." More on this later, Comcast coming out Friday because our connection is not consistent. Kind of running out the door, but I'll post tonight/tomorrow.
BRs same
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Tilt
So I'm playing FTP, things are going great, start off like 9-0 2 tabling the 33s.
Run into some variance, no big deal, run AKs into AA and a few other beats.
Then I open up two more, flop top boat and disconnect.
I rarely disconnect, 2 times have I lost a game in like 2k games on PS due to disconnection. Fucking Comcast, I could shoot them.
So now I'm up 2 buyins tonight and I can't risk playing anymore. I'd of been up 4 buyins and been able to keep on rolling.
One good thing, I love this structure. It's super fast, I can't really get angry or upset over bad beats because I'm not attached to these games whatsoever. I made one bad river bet that kind of upset me, but other than that this was all fun and games until those disconnections. Ended up playing 27 games, must've went 15-12. Sigh.
PS BR 7k
FTP BR 729 (From 600 deposited)
Run into some variance, no big deal, run AKs into AA and a few other beats.
Then I open up two more, flop top boat and disconnect.
I rarely disconnect, 2 times have I lost a game in like 2k games on PS due to disconnection. Fucking Comcast, I could shoot them.
So now I'm up 2 buyins tonight and I can't risk playing anymore. I'd of been up 4 buyins and been able to keep on rolling.
One good thing, I love this structure. It's super fast, I can't really get angry or upset over bad beats because I'm not attached to these games whatsoever. I made one bad river bet that kind of upset me, but other than that this was all fun and games until those disconnections. Ended up playing 27 games, must've went 15-12. Sigh.
PS BR 7k
FTP BR 729 (From 600 deposited)
Monday, October 22, 2007
Changes
So my goal has always been to continuously move up in the game as my bankroll grew and my game improved.
Funny thing happened, once I knew I was a winning player in the 11 turbos, I move up to the 22s, I may more money. Then I move up to the 33s and make even more money per game. Then I move up to the 55s/110s and... I haven't made more money per game.
I'm kind of torn as to what I need to do, but I feel I have to make a decision soon. I've played over 700 110 turbos, I feel I've ran below expectation for over half of these and close to 75% of these games.
So on one hand I feel as if I should keep playing these, it's not like I'm losing money at them, just not making very much at all. On the other hand, I don't know if I can continue to play more than 5-10 of these a day without positive results. I've been on a downswing/break even swing for like 200-300 games now, and I feel I've played pretty good poker overall.
A few options for me would be:
Move down to the 55s: Positives. Easier level to beat, less variance. Negatives: I never found the 55s that different from the 110s, potentially less profit/vpps.
Play 100 dollar regular speed games. Positives: Higher ROI than turbos, easier overall. Negatives: Much slower speed, I can't stand regular speed games lately, I won't play one unless it's at the $200 stake.
2 table 33 dollar turbos. Positives: Easy level for me, higher ROI, potentially more profit. Negatives: FPP/VPPs, sense of failure if I don't meet my goals and keep my ROI at 20% or higher (I'm 25% single tabling these). Different and weaker opponents means my game won't improve as quickly without attention to study.
Move to FTP. Positives: Probably fishier players, faster games means 50-75% more games per hour which means potentially more profit. Negatives: Haven't had a ton of experience with the structure, possibly higher variance because of faster speeds.
Combo solution:
Grind FTP games starting with 2 tabling 33s, working up my 600 FTP br from there. Game select PS games, 100-200 regular speeds, possibly 500 regular speeds selling 200 of my action.
Positives: Change, possibly more profit, better ROI on PS, more games on FTP. Negatives: Change, playing on 2 sites, possibly improving less as I'm playing different structures.
So there are the feasible options in my mind. I don't want to play another form of poker, I feel I've learned so much about HUSNG already it would be wasteful to learn a new game at this point. When I'm solidly making 75-100 an hour in HUSNG I plan to learn other forms of poker, probably HU varities. Maybe shorthanded cash, I don't know or really care at this point.
I'd like to make a decision by the end of the week. I would like to take a day and try each of these options, but I know I'll end up leaning towards the day that I run the best, it's too hard to stay objective if I try each of these options out for one day.
Now, moving on. Some things in my life I need to change that will help me play more games and keep an even temper. During this recently stretch I had done very well in playing a lot of games, playing through or getting around anger, but the last week or so I haven't really played much. It feels like I ran out of patience. I'd like to change some things in my life to avoid this in the future, or to reduce it.
Sleep
I haven't been sleeping great, basically in the last 2 years. But I can sleep OK if I'm tired. I feel good when I wake up 6-9am. This should be the ideal time for me to get in 60-75% of my games each day. Lately I've been going to sleep at 3-5am and waking up at 12-3pm. This needs to stop, I feel like shit too much of the day when I do this. More on how to change this in other sections.
Health
I'm fairly unhealthy. I smoke a half pack of cigarettes a day, I eat too many fattening foods and I don't exercise enough. Luckily I have a good metabolism and I'm tall. I'm certain a good amount of other people in this world would be very overweight and even worse out of shape if they had the same habits as I do.
Some ways to change this include walking for at least an hour everyday. I'll try to develop some sort of plan, walk x amount of minutes/hours for every x amount of games, have a smoke after x amount of games, slowly reducing cigarettes and slowly increasing walking/games.
Lifting some weights wouldn't be a bad idea, but it is relatively unimportant at the moment. I'm not weak and I'm not big on "toning." Lifting weight is a good way to reduce stress, but I don't have room in the place to put any equipment and I don't want to join a gym at the moment.
Anyways, doing the above should help keep me "tired" at night and going to bed by midnight most of the time.
Productivity
This kind of ties in with the other stuff, but I've been fairly unproductive lately. I find myself very bored when I'm not playing poker, and when I don't feel like playing (aka last week) it's just a shitty feeling.
I need to start planning and doing things outside of poker. Basically the only thing I do now besides play poker is brew/drink beer and watch movies/shows with my girlfriend. Part of the reason I don't really feel like doing other things is because I hardly ever play the amount of games I feel I should be playing. This all goes back with the "50-65% of games in morning" thing, if I have a daily goal and complete it by the evening, I'll almost certainly be in a much better mood, meaning I'll actually want to do other stuff.
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So that's what's been on my mind the last few days. There's some other random stuff I'm sure I forgot, but when I have figured things out a bit more clearly I'll post about it.
As to the website, husng.com, my old roomate finally got in touch with me. He's how I met the webmaster who may or may not be working on the site still. He gave me some advice as to dealing with the situation and I should have an answer within the next few days.
Some other stuff is developing that may or may not be bad for my site, I'm not quite sure yet. Regardless, the site needs to be mostly functional very soon.
br 7100ish
Funny thing happened, once I knew I was a winning player in the 11 turbos, I move up to the 22s, I may more money. Then I move up to the 33s and make even more money per game. Then I move up to the 55s/110s and... I haven't made more money per game.
I'm kind of torn as to what I need to do, but I feel I have to make a decision soon. I've played over 700 110 turbos, I feel I've ran below expectation for over half of these and close to 75% of these games.
So on one hand I feel as if I should keep playing these, it's not like I'm losing money at them, just not making very much at all. On the other hand, I don't know if I can continue to play more than 5-10 of these a day without positive results. I've been on a downswing/break even swing for like 200-300 games now, and I feel I've played pretty good poker overall.
A few options for me would be:
Move down to the 55s: Positives. Easier level to beat, less variance. Negatives: I never found the 55s that different from the 110s, potentially less profit/vpps.
Play 100 dollar regular speed games. Positives: Higher ROI than turbos, easier overall. Negatives: Much slower speed, I can't stand regular speed games lately, I won't play one unless it's at the $200 stake.
2 table 33 dollar turbos. Positives: Easy level for me, higher ROI, potentially more profit. Negatives: FPP/VPPs, sense of failure if I don't meet my goals and keep my ROI at 20% or higher (I'm 25% single tabling these). Different and weaker opponents means my game won't improve as quickly without attention to study.
Move to FTP. Positives: Probably fishier players, faster games means 50-75% more games per hour which means potentially more profit. Negatives: Haven't had a ton of experience with the structure, possibly higher variance because of faster speeds.
Combo solution:
Grind FTP games starting with 2 tabling 33s, working up my 600 FTP br from there. Game select PS games, 100-200 regular speeds, possibly 500 regular speeds selling 200 of my action.
Positives: Change, possibly more profit, better ROI on PS, more games on FTP. Negatives: Change, playing on 2 sites, possibly improving less as I'm playing different structures.
So there are the feasible options in my mind. I don't want to play another form of poker, I feel I've learned so much about HUSNG already it would be wasteful to learn a new game at this point. When I'm solidly making 75-100 an hour in HUSNG I plan to learn other forms of poker, probably HU varities. Maybe shorthanded cash, I don't know or really care at this point.
I'd like to make a decision by the end of the week. I would like to take a day and try each of these options, but I know I'll end up leaning towards the day that I run the best, it's too hard to stay objective if I try each of these options out for one day.
Now, moving on. Some things in my life I need to change that will help me play more games and keep an even temper. During this recently stretch I had done very well in playing a lot of games, playing through or getting around anger, but the last week or so I haven't really played much. It feels like I ran out of patience. I'd like to change some things in my life to avoid this in the future, or to reduce it.
Sleep
I haven't been sleeping great, basically in the last 2 years. But I can sleep OK if I'm tired. I feel good when I wake up 6-9am. This should be the ideal time for me to get in 60-75% of my games each day. Lately I've been going to sleep at 3-5am and waking up at 12-3pm. This needs to stop, I feel like shit too much of the day when I do this. More on how to change this in other sections.
Health
I'm fairly unhealthy. I smoke a half pack of cigarettes a day, I eat too many fattening foods and I don't exercise enough. Luckily I have a good metabolism and I'm tall. I'm certain a good amount of other people in this world would be very overweight and even worse out of shape if they had the same habits as I do.
Some ways to change this include walking for at least an hour everyday. I'll try to develop some sort of plan, walk x amount of minutes/hours for every x amount of games, have a smoke after x amount of games, slowly reducing cigarettes and slowly increasing walking/games.
Lifting some weights wouldn't be a bad idea, but it is relatively unimportant at the moment. I'm not weak and I'm not big on "toning." Lifting weight is a good way to reduce stress, but I don't have room in the place to put any equipment and I don't want to join a gym at the moment.
Anyways, doing the above should help keep me "tired" at night and going to bed by midnight most of the time.
Productivity
This kind of ties in with the other stuff, but I've been fairly unproductive lately. I find myself very bored when I'm not playing poker, and when I don't feel like playing (aka last week) it's just a shitty feeling.
I need to start planning and doing things outside of poker. Basically the only thing I do now besides play poker is brew/drink beer and watch movies/shows with my girlfriend. Part of the reason I don't really feel like doing other things is because I hardly ever play the amount of games I feel I should be playing. This all goes back with the "50-65% of games in morning" thing, if I have a daily goal and complete it by the evening, I'll almost certainly be in a much better mood, meaning I'll actually want to do other stuff.
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So that's what's been on my mind the last few days. There's some other random stuff I'm sure I forgot, but when I have figured things out a bit more clearly I'll post about it.
As to the website, husng.com, my old roomate finally got in touch with me. He's how I met the webmaster who may or may not be working on the site still. He gave me some advice as to dealing with the situation and I should have an answer within the next few days.
Some other stuff is developing that may or may not be bad for my site, I'm not quite sure yet. Regardless, the site needs to be mostly functional very soon.
br 7100ish
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Etc.
Obligatory update, nothing specific to report on.
Ended the day on this hand, down like 150 today:
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2415 in chips)
Seat 2: ! LitlGirl (585 in chips)
! LitlGirl: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kc Ah]
! LitlGirl: raises 90 to 120
RyPac13: raises 2295 to 2415 and is all-in
! LitlGirl: calls 465 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kd Ac Ks]
RyPac13 said, "damn"
RyPac13 said, "gg"
I didn't play enough today, nor have I for the last 5 days or so. Got into a big fight with the g/f yesterday so I hardly played at all.
The stout my buddy and I have been brewing will be ready tonight, he's coming over soon and we're going to try it out. If it is as good as we think we're going to be experimenting with adding coffee and molasses to another two batches. We'll also continue to brew this one and probably mess around with another recipe or two (we're shooting for 5, 5-gallon batches this time, instead of 1, 5-gallon batch.)
Our goal is to brew enough beer so we don't have to purchase beer at all. This probably means we need about 30-50 gallons of beer a month (the process is about a month long). A later goal is to make a "beer meal." This would consist of an appetizing beer, something light, then some sort of nut brown ale or other darker but not super dark beer, then a really good stout for the third beer. The last beer would be the "dessert" beer and probably include a lot of chocolate malt, maybe with coffee or molasses, depending on the third beer's ingredients. Let me know if any of you has any ideas.
Back to poker, if anybody reading this blog hasn't heard, a higher up executive or former executive from Absolute Poker was found to be using that "super user" account. If you haven't even heard about that, basically that means he had access to the hole cards of every player at the table. Yikes. Here's a link with a great summary of what has happened so far: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...part=1&vc=1
That's about it for now, will update soon.
BR 6875
Ended the day on this hand, down like 150 today:
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2415 in chips)
Seat 2: ! LitlGirl (585 in chips)
! LitlGirl: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kc Ah]
! LitlGirl: raises 90 to 120
RyPac13: raises 2295 to 2415 and is all-in
! LitlGirl: calls 465 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kd Ac Ks]
RyPac13 said, "damn"
RyPac13 said, "gg"
I didn't play enough today, nor have I for the last 5 days or so. Got into a big fight with the g/f yesterday so I hardly played at all.
The stout my buddy and I have been brewing will be ready tonight, he's coming over soon and we're going to try it out. If it is as good as we think we're going to be experimenting with adding coffee and molasses to another two batches. We'll also continue to brew this one and probably mess around with another recipe or two (we're shooting for 5, 5-gallon batches this time, instead of 1, 5-gallon batch.)
Our goal is to brew enough beer so we don't have to purchase beer at all. This probably means we need about 30-50 gallons of beer a month (the process is about a month long). A later goal is to make a "beer meal." This would consist of an appetizing beer, something light, then some sort of nut brown ale or other darker but not super dark beer, then a really good stout for the third beer. The last beer would be the "dessert" beer and probably include a lot of chocolate malt, maybe with coffee or molasses, depending on the third beer's ingredients. Let me know if any of you has any ideas.
Back to poker, if anybody reading this blog hasn't heard, a higher up executive or former executive from Absolute Poker was found to be using that "super user" account. If you haven't even heard about that, basically that means he had access to the hole cards of every player at the table. Yikes. Here's a link with a great summary of what has happened so far: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...part=1&vc=1
That's about it for now, will update soon.
BR 6875
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Falling Behind
On VPPs. I'm probably not playing tonight, so I'm back about 700-800 vpps from my 500 a day goal throughout the month. My 6 max buddy was supposed to play this weekend but he's been offline for the last day or two (extremely surprising, our sn's are never offline).
I won a few hundred yesterday, played great and ran good overall, though I got sucked out multiple times in the games I lost. Went like 7-2 in 110s and 0-1 in 200 regulars.
I can't not sit in a 200 regular if I see a fish sitting, it's just too big of an edge to pass up in my opinion, but it does suck to lose those. It should even out and I'm more optimistic about my near future as far as results go. I think I've improved my game and am getting very comfortable with some overall strategy changes I made to my game a week or two ago. I've still ran like shit over the last 7-10 days, but that should change soon. My ROI in 110s and 220s is horrible right now, I'm hardly a winner in the 110s now I think (maybe like 2.5% roi now, so bad) but a little heater should bring that back up to around 5%. My goal for the 220s is going to be higher than my 110s, but I think I'm a much better player than when I started playing 110s. I also only had 250ish 33s and less than 75 55s under my belt when I moved up to 110s, now I have over 600 110s played, so I should be a solid winner in the 220s a lot sooner than when I started playing like a solid winner in the 110s.
Hokie and I might do a little challenge type thing in the 220s soon, more on that if we run decent in the next week.
BR is just above 7k.
I won a few hundred yesterday, played great and ran good overall, though I got sucked out multiple times in the games I lost. Went like 7-2 in 110s and 0-1 in 200 regulars.
I can't not sit in a 200 regular if I see a fish sitting, it's just too big of an edge to pass up in my opinion, but it does suck to lose those. It should even out and I'm more optimistic about my near future as far as results go. I think I've improved my game and am getting very comfortable with some overall strategy changes I made to my game a week or two ago. I've still ran like shit over the last 7-10 days, but that should change soon. My ROI in 110s and 220s is horrible right now, I'm hardly a winner in the 110s now I think (maybe like 2.5% roi now, so bad) but a little heater should bring that back up to around 5%. My goal for the 220s is going to be higher than my 110s, but I think I'm a much better player than when I started playing 110s. I also only had 250ish 33s and less than 75 55s under my belt when I moved up to 110s, now I have over 600 110s played, so I should be a solid winner in the 220s a lot sooner than when I started playing like a solid winner in the 110s.
Hokie and I might do a little challenge type thing in the 220s soon, more on that if we run decent in the next week.
BR is just above 7k.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Poo Bah
Finally posted: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12406612&an=0&page=0#Post12406612
Enjoy.
Kind of a day off, 3-4 in 110s, 2 games I got pretty horrible string of beats in. 1-1 in 200 regular speeds vs a semi-fish.
Gonna get up early and grind w Hokie.
Br $7291
Enjoy.
Kind of a day off, 3-4 in 110s, 2 games I got pretty horrible string of beats in. 1-1 in 200 regular speeds vs a semi-fish.
Gonna get up early and grind w Hokie.
Br $7291
Friday, October 5, 2007
Tired, Agitated
I slept like shit last night, could've seen that coming. I don't think I'd been as upset about poker as I was last night. I read for about an hour and then went to bed at like 4-5am, woke up around noon, did a bunch of errand stuff I had to do. I ended up splitting 4 games against a fish I 2 tabled in 220s late last night, he sucked out a nice 85s he minraised-call shove to my QT or I'd of had him real good, oh well.
Started out today 2-0, won a 100 and 200 regular against two extremely weak, minbet-type opponents. I was super card dead like all game, then sucked out in the 25-50 with a few shoves over raises. Also stacked one on KQ vs Q3o (yea, that's how bad people are, they call PF raises 20bb deep w Q3o).
GF's dad is in town, came in town earlier today. I can't stand the bastard. His girlfriend's birthday is today, she's some drunk bar fly he met down here, lives a few blocks away or something. We're going to a real nice restaurant, yippie. I'd rather eat at a diner in the ghetto with friends, honestly.
Anyways, more games tonight and hopefully a big upswing.
BR 7420
Started out today 2-0, won a 100 and 200 regular against two extremely weak, minbet-type opponents. I was super card dead like all game, then sucked out in the 25-50 with a few shoves over raises. Also stacked one on KQ vs Q3o (yea, that's how bad people are, they call PF raises 20bb deep w Q3o).
GF's dad is in town, came in town earlier today. I can't stand the bastard. His girlfriend's birthday is today, she's some drunk bar fly he met down here, lives a few blocks away or something. We're going to a real nice restaurant, yippie. I'd rather eat at a diner in the ghetto with friends, honestly.
Anyways, more games tonight and hopefully a big upswing.
BR 7420
HokieGreg is a bastard (or bill chen)
Blah, keep losing. Started out 5-0 today, then lost 7 in a row. I've never lost 7 in a row, or if I did it was at the 5s or 11s. Pretty shitty. Overall went like 6-7 110s today and 0-2 200s. Pretty crappy day, pretty crappy week/month so far. Hopefully I can rebound soon. Also lost another 115 from a Hokie 220. I seem cursed lately.
BR 7160
BR 7160
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Downswing
First of all... my Poo Bah post. I've gone through like over a half a dozen edits. I think it's finally done, but now I'm not happy with the video. I've been altering my 25-50 play a little bit, mainly keeping pots smaller and more manageable, but I haven't gotten a full handle on it.
I made a 25-50 only video tonight. I recorded one match, so that's 5 minutes, then I 2 tabled a guy in the 110s and recorded 2 25-50s at once with comments. Camtasia froze when I stopped the recording and I probably lost the video. I'll try to do a few more tomorrow to try to go along with my article.
As far as the post title goes, been experiencing some bad variance lately. Today I kind of got out of it on my own, went 4-0 in 200s and 0-1 in 220s with like 75% of my action, but I lost like 200 bucks taking Hokie's action on 2 200s. He's been doing bad when I buy action off of him, that bastard.
I played 28 games yesterday and like 18-20 today, something seems up with Sharkscope, it's only recording like 75% max of my games and sometimes won't even record them unless I filter specifically for turbos, who knows.
I have 2 jobs or more to do tomorrow for my business, might be the last day of the season, I'm not really pushing any last minute flyers or leads, I'd rather play 20-30 games a day and try to hit a little heater.
Bankroll 7750ish
I made a 25-50 only video tonight. I recorded one match, so that's 5 minutes, then I 2 tabled a guy in the 110s and recorded 2 25-50s at once with comments. Camtasia froze when I stopped the recording and I probably lost the video. I'll try to do a few more tomorrow to try to go along with my article.
As far as the post title goes, been experiencing some bad variance lately. Today I kind of got out of it on my own, went 4-0 in 200s and 0-1 in 220s with like 75% of my action, but I lost like 200 bucks taking Hokie's action on 2 200s. He's been doing bad when I buy action off of him, that bastard.
I played 28 games yesterday and like 18-20 today, something seems up with Sharkscope, it's only recording like 75% max of my games and sometimes won't even record them unless I filter specifically for turbos, who knows.
I have 2 jobs or more to do tomorrow for my business, might be the last day of the season, I'm not really pushing any last minute flyers or leads, I'd rather play 20-30 games a day and try to hit a little heater.
Bankroll 7750ish
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