August

I am super stoked about this month yet I have only got in 3.65 hours so far. I would be grinding like mad but of course if isnt one things its another. This time its my son and daycare. We dont have any for 3 weeks, which means I am running the show. Hopefully I will manage to get in a good 2-4 hours a day while we are without care. Thasnkfully preschool starts soon and we will have a nice solid schedule which will allow me to play the hours I want. My 1st run at 6 tabling on resized tables went well. I played for 3.65 hours without even feeling any fatigue. I used to play on full sized tables on two monitors and decided it was time to suck up and resize so I could watch one monitor rather then two.

The main reason I am writing this post is to inform the masses( so far I have 8 readers which is more then I thought) that I will be returning this blog to its roots. This will now be mainly a place where I post 2-5 hands after my sessions and I would greatly appreciate feedback.

Hand 1: I was being sweat by John during this hand and wasnt to sure what to do when he limp min 3bet. Villain is 58/28/3 (117) and we had yet to tangle. I opted to 4bet more because John said to and less because I felt it was the right thing to do. The thing is I never get a fold and I bloat the pot OOP where I am likely to not connect and be stuck doing what I did, betting and folding. this might have been a spot wher I should c/f. Input is greatly apprecciated.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($400.00)
CO		($400.00)
BTN		($285.55)
SB		($125.30)
Hero		($434.50)

Pre-flop: ($3, 5 players) Hero is BB

2 folds, BTN calls $2, 1 fold, Hero raises to $9, BTN raises to $16, Hero raises to $46, BTN calls $30

Flop: ($93, 2 players)
Hero bets $64, BTN raises to $239.55, Hero folds

Final Pot: $396.55

BTN wins $393.55 ( won +$108 )
Hero lost -$110.00

New outlook.

Time for some fucking hippy shit YO! Please if you read this blog leave a comment so I know. Just want to gain an awareness of how many readers I have. Now back to the hippy shit. My life is poker and when poker is bad my life has been bad. Well my mental state. This doesn't have any positive value or rather in poker terms such thinking is -EV. Though I do love poker and the challenge it provides when it boils down to it I love the money. i love that I found a way to survive financially being my own boss and playing a game I quite enjoy. The honest truth is though the money effects me. 2/4 isn't stable enough for my bankroll,I have a family to take care of. That being said I have devised a new plan of brilliance.

The plan: I am once again moving down to where my roll is proper, 80+ BI's. I will be 6 tabling for 30 hours a week. This alone should provide me with 3-4k of shear rakeback, which alone will be enough to live. I plan on doing this until I have somewhere near 60-80 BI's for 2/4 at which point I will begin slowly moving up. I know I know I swore off 6 tabling but I see no other option. Plus I know in my heart that I am +EV 6 tabling especially if I never auto check anything and take my time with every decision.

The hippy shit: No more results. No more EV. I am just going to play and embrace variance as it comes. Whoever said that thing about you will run worse then you ever thought possible. I believe them though I imagine I could even run worse them I am. The nice thing is August is going to be a crusher.

Life tilt

WOW I suck cock at poker lately. Obviously the cards have not been my friend much lately but I have made some very spewy plays too. Allowing a bad run to lead to playing bad is the worst fucking thing possible. I dont really know where this is headed. I dont want to whine about coolers as we all know its simply part of the game. Basically what is boils down to is making the least amount of mistakes as well as playing in a way which causes your opponents to make their own. I am so tired of thinkling inside this poker box. I have become this fucking robot playing two cards based on their inherent strength and not on the table dynamics and situation at hand.

Again and again

This is poker in a nut shell, we will see the same hands and situations again and again as we play. The strong will create new lines and figure out their opponents lines in order to maximze there equity and minimize loss. I started July ready to rock and came out the gates strong only to make a run at 6 tabling and experience the swingiest poker yet. It wasnt 100% do to variance but more the number of tables and the style I was playing. I will be the 1st to admit it I am a NIT. I like playing tight and I hate swings. Of course they are going to happen but I think I can avoid some of the bigger ones by playing a little less spewy preflop. Unless I finish super strong, which I will try, July might be the 1st losing month of 2008. I know I say it time and time again but this time I mean it. Look for regular blog posts from here on out. Actually I hope to post 1-2 hands a day and hopefully you can leave me commenst.

Mixed emotions.

Chilling out in Vegas as I write this blog. It has been awesome yet I have had to deal with the emotions of being seperated from my family for the 1st tie in a real long time. To add to that we just moved in together and my son was just growin used to seeing me every morning and night. The hardest thing has been knowing how much he is missing me and not being able to do much about it. The only thing keeping me together is knowing that he has the best mom in the world there to keep him together till I get back.

Ok enough emo, how about Vegas? The place sucks. I mean that too. I mean it is awesome under the right cirumstance but at my age(27) with a family back home it isnt the same. I have over indulged in the food department just in time to get fat for my trip to Hawaii. The best part is the house and the housemates. It has been an amazing experiece and I have been fortunate enough to meet some real cool fucking dudes. The best part of the trip and the thing I looked most forward to previous to arriving was meeting Jason and his family( http://blitzpoker.blogspot.com/ ). They were kind enough to take 3 of us to heir home in Lake Havaseu Az and take us on an amazing boating trip. Hands down the sweetest boating experience I have ever had( http://dodgyken.blogspot.com/2008/06/boating-with-luckysob.html ).

In the poker department this month has been decent, 2/4 is going well thus far though it has been over a small sample. I havent been able to grind to much while mout here as I am on my 13 inch lap top whic isnt very good for playing on. I did crush a 2/4 session and had a long boring losing 1/2 session. I dabbled in some PLO today and will most likely continue just to add to my arsenal. Well thats all I got. Not the greatest post but I will try and make some more descriptive posts of the highlights of this trip when I get back from Hawaii.

10K at 1/2

I ran hotter then lava till my -7BI day today to close out the 10K hands. How fucking sweet it is. I am quite disgusted to be honest. The good thing is it will catch back up with me on the move. YEAH. Now for the graphs.


Life time graph.


Since May



10K at 1/2

Quick update and a few hands.

So I have been playing my Laggier style down at 1/2 and fine tuning my leaks which I acquired at 2/4. I am stealing more and generally playing more aggressive with position. I am table selecting like mad obv and am back to 4 tables only(ok sometimes 5). I am looking forward to posting a nice update in 5k hands with some graphs and shit. Hopefully that will be by the end of the week or early next. One last thing I have semi decided is that I wont be playing much weekend poker anymore. Instead I will be hanging with my family and enjoying life. Poker is good to me during the week.

OOPS, we had been battling and I took a stand. I had decent equity anyways.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($227.85)
UTG+1		($251.60)
CO		($431.20)
Hero		($246.10)
SB		($164.00)
BB		($221.25)

Pre-flop: ($3, 6 players) Hero is BTN

UTG calls $2, 1 fold, CO raises to $9, Hero raises to $27, 2 folds, UTG folds, CO raises to $60, Hero goes all-in $246.10, CO calls $186.10

Flop: ($497.20, 2 players)

Turn: ($497.20, 2 players)

River: ($497.20, 2 players)

Final Pot: $497.20
CO shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $494.20 ( won +$248.10 )
UTG lost -$2.00
CO lost -$246.10


It pays to 5bet light. This is verse the same villain. I tanked river and jammed and he snap called.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($83.45)
Hero		($476.65)
CO		($196.80)
BTN		($400.00)
SB		($389.40)
BB		($218.05)

Pre-flop: ($3, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1

UTG calls $2, Hero raises to $9, 1 fold, BTN calls $9, SB calls $8, 1 fold, UTG calls $7

Flop: ($38, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $27, BTN calls $27, SB calls $27, UTG folds

Turn: ($119, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $85, BTN calls $85, SB folds

River: ($289, 2 players)
Hero goes all-in $355.65, BTN calls $279

Final Pot: $847
Hero shows:
BTN shows:

Hero wins $920.65 ( won +$444 )
SB lost -$36.00
UTG lost -$9.00
BTN lost -$400.00