“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” - Tao Te Jing
Preceding blog: Ahead Of The Rake
06-05-2010 03:30 AM
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When Push Comes To Shove“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” - Tao Te Jing |
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06-05-2010 03:33 AM
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It struck me. Tomorrow night I'm playing in the same home game I sat down in two years ago that put me on the path to studying poker. The spontaneity of my desire, and deliberateness of my choices since that day have given way to an overwhelming journey of self-discovery. It's also June; a time which I seem to experience my greatest metamorphoses. In light of all this I'm retiring my old blog, Ahead Of The Rake which loosely chronicled my journey through the micros and learning what playing professional poker entails. |
06-05-2010 09:29 AM
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1kNL by next summer? | |
06-06-2010 11:22 AM
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Home game was fun. We played through a huge thunder storm which set a nice mood. The streets flooded as well so we stuck around for a second game. I took 2nd in both. Came down to my QJs vs A6o and AA vs K3o on 533. |
06-06-2010 07:02 PM
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Redbull Air Race Windsor/Detroit 2010 |
06-07-2010 03:19 PM
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My energy is lowwww today so I don't think I'll play. I suspect it's all the redbull I drank yesterday.. ugh. |
06-15-2010 02:36 PM
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June - Week 2 |
06-21-2010 02:45 PM
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June - Week 3 |
07-05-2010 03:01 PM
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June - Week 4 |
07-09-2010 04:22 PM
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July - Week 1 |
07-26-2010 07:42 PM
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July - Week 2 & 3 |
07-27-2010 03:58 AM
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If I could give any advice it would be to try and specialize in one thing at a time. In your case, it would be to only play (for example) 10nl 6max. Dominate one level, play lots of hands, get the volume in. Once you crush one game - move onto the next. | |
07-27-2010 12:40 PM
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Thx Drew.. advice is appreciated. I did play some Rush poker on a couple occasions but just for fun (usually at night when I'm too tired to actually play but am in the mood). I meant to filter those stats out. As for climbing up the stakes as you suggest, I did it in '09. After taking a shot at 200nl I grinded $200 to nearly 4k, stake by stake implementing strict BR management. Since then I've camped out mostly at 100nl and have experienced several swings that peak at around 1k in either direction but am essentially break-even. |
08-02-2010 12:12 PM
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July - Week 4 |
09-05-2010 06:28 PM
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I'm ready to say a few words about my poker adventure, which until recently left me in such an emotional state that I was unable, or unwilling, to express it. |
10-21-2010 04:19 AM
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i suck @ poker |
10-25-2010 03:17 AM
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if this is going to work i think i have to learn to play every hand of poker likes it's my last, without paying heed to the result. |
10-25-2010 06:07 PM
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11-11-2010 03:06 PM
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After spending an hour debugging a random computer glitch this morning all I'm in the mood for is a long, steady, low variance grind. Six 6max for, hopefully, at least 6 hours. |
11-11-2010 03:38 PM
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Bet the turn there! He either has fuckall that he's not putting money in anyways, or has pair + draw type stuff that calls turn so you're building a pot for the river. | |
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11-11-2010 04:03 PM
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granted I didn't really have a reason for slow-playing... for clarity, under what conditions would we want to check the Turn, if any? |
11-12-2010 04:38 PM
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when : | |
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11-12-2010 05:01 PM
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My impression from reading your posts here is that you've got a good head on your shoulders to have success with the pokerz. | |
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11-12-2010 06:35 PM
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thanks guys. |
11-19-2010 03:32 AM
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11-22-2010 01:16 AM
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11-24-2010 11:09 AM
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Don't know if it's day or night; feeling incredibly burnt out. This yo-yo pattern of sleep is taking its toll. The amount of poker I've played since mid-October makes up 1/3 of all the poker I've played this year (140k hands). Incidentally I am a -2.6bb/100 loser over that sample. More or less b/e over all stakes except 100nl where, over 30k hands, I lost quite a bit. |
11-24-2010 03:32 PM
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gogogogooo | |
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11-26-2010 08:18 AM
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I'm ahead of schedule and will be clearing bonus #1 today. Unfortunately I've hit a nearly 10bi downswing which puts me at just about b/e from the point I started grinding out this bonus. |
11-30-2010 11:17 AM
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Trying to plug some leaks in 10-25bb pots. I'm not exercising the fundamentals!!! |
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11-30-2010 11:42 AM
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11-30-2010 02:11 PM
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maintain your committment to playing and improving and no doubt the monies will continue to flow in your direction | |
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11-30-2010 02:29 PM
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11-30-2010 04:24 PM
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Well that was a kick in the teeth. I rarely play tournaments. I chose to play one today. $5bi, $1000 guaranteed. 1st $490. 60 ppl left, blinds 600/1200 (+100), I'm top 10 with 50k chips. Server crashes. Tourney canceled. |
12-01-2010 10:17 AM
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12-01-2010 01:54 PM
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that is one ugly/sickening graph. good volume at least? | |
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12-01-2010 02:25 PM
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Volume was driven by a $800 bonus. I'm nothing short of relieved that it's over. My game is not up to speed to be profitably mass-tabling (which was necessary to stay on schedule to clear the bonus). |
12-01-2010 06:43 PM
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Geez dude, that's gross. There comes a time when encouragement seems pretty redundant and useless. Let's just hope something happens to turn this around. | |
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01-24-2011 12:11 PM
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This surely isn't of any great concern to anyone but I felt I should mention.. Poker's taken a back seat. Actually, it's on the roadside with its thumb out. Great travel companion; lots of interesting things to say. I'm taking it all with me.. wherever that happens to be. It just won't be at a poker table in any foreseeable future. |
01-24-2011 01:16 PM
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reading your posts I can say with certainty that at the very least you can beat 50nl, however I can also understand taking a break because of the stress that comes with poker when you are running bad over consecutive months. I distinctly remember in July of last year driving home from a casino and I had sworn off playing poker to try and make money (returning to recreational player status) because May+June+1st half of July I was playing bad and losing consistently. | |
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03-06-2013 08:00 PM
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Back from the motherfucking dead. It's been 2 years that I've posted on this blog, and having rediscovered it I thought it might be fun to post an update. Any subscribers/lurkers? |
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