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I won two BI last night at the B&M. Wish I got more than 2 hrs sleep before the 2 hr ride home. Decided to take the day off from poker today and just fuck around with a total of two cheap MTT's : http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ll-t71841.html Turns out I played about 6 hours longer than I wanted to.
Now it's 1:20am and I have to get up in 5 hrs for those fucking RE classes.
This will be my last update for two weeks.
Rounders " You can't trust 'em. You can't trust 'em at all.Quote:
~Melissa still and will probably always hate what I do
I mean, look at you. You domesticated yourself for this girl.
You took yourself out of the life. You walked the fuckin' line for her.
And the minute you want a little of it back, she walks out on you.
It's just like the saying says, you know?
In the poker game of life, women are the rake.
- They are the fuckin' rake. "
Lol..so true.
I said that it would be two more weeks before my next update. Well, it's been one week and here's why:
I hated those classes. I hated being in the class from 8:30 - 3:30. The subject bores me to death. I'd rather be anywhere but there. I know what you're thinking... Why not just tough it out? It's only a two week program. I don't want what they teach, this is why.
If you know me well, you'd know that I'm the type of person that changes their mind quite a bit about what they want to do tomorrow, the next day, or the week after that. I decided that the last thing I want to be is a real estate representative for someone. Don't get me wrong, I want to get into real estate investing, just not sales representing.
I think what I want to do is take a course on RE investments. Maybe not anytime soon, but one day.
Anyways, I booked a hotel near the school so I wouldn't have to get up so early and drive for nearly as long everyday. The problem with this is that my ex lives in the same city. Side note: I chose to book the program further away from home with the intention on going to her house after classes. So, I fucked up and she came over on Thursday night. You could say that I feel like I dropped about 10 feet back down the well again... after trying to climb out for the past 3 weeks. Don't get me wrong, it was great.
So, I played my first session tonight since Friday 10 days ago. Very rusty. I'm surprisingly happy about breaking even after 3k hands. I'll get back into the 'A' game groove by the end of the week.
Stay away from that damn ex. It's nasty, doesn't work, fucks you up, def -ev, and will hurt ur BR. all bad bad shit! If you're bored, come downtown dude, get a hotel downtown and we can chill or something. pizzy night soon? can ur place host a pizzy night? i can round up people like nobodies business.
pizzy? as in pizza? or party?Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetlemon69
Yeah my place is great for that sort of thing. Great size rec. room. The only issue is that I live in Bolton, on the other hand - I don't have a problem traveling that same distance. Kind of pisses me off when people from Oakville tell me I'm too far away for them to play a tournee here. This weekend is not a good idea, next weekend would be ideal... Friday or Saturday night obv.
im down for the count the next 2 weeks, but dude we drive to jesse's freakn out in fergus, im sure bolton isn't THAT much farther. we should plan it for like the first weekend in july, would that work?
First weekend in July sounds great. I think I might be closer to the Tdot than Fergus too... but I could be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetlemon69
Ok. NOW I'm going for a ride... lol
I procrastinate :?
Ok I'll get the ball rolling tomorrow :)
I had my worst session in a m0nth today dropping 5 buy-ins after 5k hands.
I think it's pretty obvious that I have my worst sessions when I run into bad beats/coolers at the beginning of the session. It truly puts me on tilt and wavers me from my 'A' game.
Oh well, I'll try it again tomorrow, the key is clearing my head from the day before and get back to basics.
If thats a pattern, maybe its worthwhile closing the tables for 30 mins or so after you take a couple of beats/coolers?
thxQuote:
Originally Posted by bjsaust
i couldn't agree more
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I am ready to contact Stars and request that they turn the cooler button off. I have been running really bad for the past 10k hands. Three of my sets were out flopped on rainbow boards. -1.5 BI overall
I lost 150bb to this villain later on in the session after this hand when I had 22 all in on a 8c6s2c board. villain flipped 66. comments please
PokerStars Game #18225555352: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2008/06/18 - 17:27:37 (ET)
Table 'Musca' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: HoldNAces ($198 in chips)
Seat 2: asty2 ($184.15 in chips)
Seat 3: BankItDrew ($206.85 in chips)
Seat 4: YourMyATM247 ($212.60 in chips)
Seat 5: carljohnson1 ($140.75 in chips)
Seat 7: eyedirk ($156.50 in chips)
Seat 8: MARC 753 ($275.35 in chips)
Seat 9: jared04 ($424.80 in chips)
jared04: posts small blind $1
HoldNAces: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BankItDrew :Ah: :Kc:
asty2: folds
BankItDrew: raises $6 to $8
YourMyATM247: folds
carljohnson1: folds
eyedirk: calls $8
MARC 753: folds
jared04: folds
HoldNAces: calls $6
*** FLOP *** :Qd: :As: :3s:
HoldNAces: checks
BankItDrew: bets $12
eyedirk: raises $12 to $24
HoldNAces: folds
BankItDrew: calls $12
*** TURN *** :3h:
BankItDrew: checks
eyedirk: bets $28
BankItDrew: calls $28
*** RIVER *** :4d:
BankItDrew: checks
eyedirk: bets $96.50 and is all-in
BankItDrew: calls $96.50
hmm, with the 3 on the turn, him having 33 is very unlikely. so, the hand we are left to worry about is AQ because i don't think worse Aces would shove river. without any read its hard to say if villain would play KQs or QJs this way. but if he flats AQ he probably also flats AK some of the time. i dont feel good about it but i think without any read i call the small turn bet and fold the river.
edit: do you normally cbet half pot?
I like it vs a spewier/aggressive villain, hate it vs a station/nit/tigher tagg.
Vs unknown? *shrug* I've taken these lines in spots like this vs unknowns and come out on top sometimes.
Edit: shorty i guess default to looser so I think this is +EV. AJ/AT/air
Most of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by PapalRage
what are your reasons for this? i tend to always bet 3/4ths unless im trying to manipulate a donk or against a very short stack. i imagine that people call/raise your cbets lighter, but does this counteract giving drawing hands better odds against you? or do you find that cbetting smaller gets about the same amount of folds so no need to risk more than necessary? im curious because i feel i dont give enough thought to how much i cbet.Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
also, in response to dozer. isnt it god awful if villain ever shoves river here with AJ/A10? he would be turning a hand with pretty decent showdown value into a complete bluff, and with him being only 75bb deep as our only indication that he could make such a terrible bet i don't think we can put too much weight on those hands.
update?
I haven't played since Thursday. Going to begin the grind tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetlemon69
Hopefully reel in a fatty or two before the weekend.
HAHAHAHAH This man is a Legand in my books. A soon to be myth amongst the elders of our future... People, this man is going to do great work for society, in ways you probably can't even fathom. Bless your soul Drew.... bless your soul...Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
oh baby i love leather
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/2...ickshp8tx7.jpg
Does anyone want to prop bet me regarding my five fatties in 6 months?
depends on the evidence you're suggesting....Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
I've lowered the requirement to 3 with even money on the odds. $500 is my maximum bet.Quote:
Originally Posted by daven
I'm not sure on the evidence. It's hard to prove this sort of thing without visuals.
I'm dead serious, I got 50 on it.
for evidence we need audio recordings and/or pictures.
Like I mentioned over msn... a picture of a thumbs up while doing the deed will suffice...
oh and 3? That ain't THAT hard. I'll throw $50 down if you're giving 2:1 :x
Pfffft 3 fat chicks in 6 months? The only question is if you're willing to live with yourself.
Fat girls are supereasy dude just the hint that you're into them and they're like, OMG SOMEONE WANTS A PIECE OF THIS!!!!11!!... I better find my panties so I can take them off... now which fat roll are they hiding in, I always forget... fuck, cmon, NO WAIT I CAN DO IT... oh ok there they are - no, FUCK, that's my old gym shirt, I knew I left it somewhere, AHA! YES! FOUND'EM!
Gimme some love, baby.
Also that hand, I take the same line so often and I get raped every time. Only vs known donks would I call that river. It's getting to be so that I'm considering folding the turn vs that action. Maybe we should be bet/folding the turn?
Update
First of all, I haven't banged any fatties yet.
Secondly, I played my first session today since last week. Yeah, it's been a whole 7 days without a solid internet connection. My father began working from home recently and was forced to implement a separate cable line for security purposes (just in case the kids decide to fuck with confidential information). Along the way, I finally decided to move into my bedroom. I took the awesome computer desk (that wasn't being used) from the rec. room and put it in mine. Establishing solid cable line + implementing new security features = 7 days of shitty internet. Now, no longer will I be 'working' from the couch and coffee table. So far so good. +5 Buy-Ins after 5k hands.
Unfortunately, Friday morning I'll be driving up north for a wedding of my cousins. 7+hrs there and back. I should have a session tomorrow, then not until Monday evening.
I almost forgot. I bought a $300 chair to go along with my new 'office.' The chair is more of a throne. I'm so ballin' right now lawl!
I was nearing the end of my session today when along came the following hand (325bb). No reads on villain from the blinds, but I think I played it goot. (Easily the biggest pot for me after the flop action (my biggest pot ever was $920, which I won with 77, ironically) + one of the worst suckouts possible)
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
Button ($97.35)
SB ($335.75)
BB ($197.35)
UTG ($278.95)
UTG+1 ($273.05)
MP1 ($153)
MP2 ($199)
Hero ($418.40)
CO ($196.70)
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif.
3 folds, MP2 raises to $7, Hero calls $7, 2 folds, SB calls $6, 1 fold.
Flop: ($23) 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, 7http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif (3 players)
SB checks, MP2 bets $14, Hero calls $14, SB raises to $52, MP2 folds, Hero raises to $411.4, SB calls $276.75 (All-In).
Turn: ($777.15) Qhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($777.15) 7http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (2 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: $694.50
knecht_poker: shows [7d 7s] (four of a kind, Sevens)
BankItDrew: mucks hand
71%
Discusting. It's been a while since I've been screwed by a 1 outer...and for so many BBs. :barf:
Chubby chasing has not gone too well thus far. Instead, I've been hanging out with my ex quite a bit and having lots of sex with her. wow, no one online really needs to know this. Do you see me editing though? Nope. I don't give a shit.
I got up at 3pm today. What the fuck is wrong with me? Went biking a couple times, little bit of this and that here and there. 3k hands.... finally had a good session for the first time in a week +5BI.
Here's one of the biggest hands I've ever played in that happened tonight:
No reads on villains.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
Hero ($216.90)
CO ($220.20)
Button ($232.85)
SB ($290)
BB ($198.15)
UTG ($156.05)
UTG+1 ($313.80)
MP1 ($228.70)
MP2 ($354.25)
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 6http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif, 6http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif.
3 folds, MP2 raises to $8, Hero calls $8, 1 fold, Button calls $8, SB raises to $34, 1 fold, MP2 calls $26, Hero calls $26, Button calls $26.
Flop: ($138) 7http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif, 5http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif (4 players)
SB bets $30, MP2 calls $30, Hero calls $30, Button calls $30.
Turn: ($258) 9http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (4 players)
SB bets $96, MP2 folds, Hero raises to $152.9, Button calls $152.90, SB calls $56.90.
River: ($716.70) Ahttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif (3 players)
SB bets $73.1 (All-In), Button calls $15.95 (All-In).
Final Pot: $748.60
dDAP: shows [Kd Kh] (a pair of Kings)
Godcili: shows [9d 8d] (two pair, Nines and Eights)
Godcili collected $31.90 from side pot
BankItDrew: shows [6d 6h] (a straight, Five to Nine)
BankItDrew collected $713.70 from main pot
dDAP said, "wow"
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doesn't sound all bad ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
and nice hand...
Going to assume you're ex isn't a chubby here... just throwin it out there... so... if she's not... and you rail that until the end of the year... does that mean J and I win the bet? :o
^^^^
Jesse said he'd throw down $50 is I gave 2:1... which I'm not.
You are legit for $50 though.
Drew you lazy shit, get out there and bang some fatties. I won't even tell you to stop banging yer ex, but throw a little pork in yer feast of beef-curtains ;)
I totally shoulda taken 1:1. Lemon's as good as gold.
I'm glad you didn't post that terrible straddle hand. Actually...do it. I wanna see what you had. As if you flopped da nuts. Nice bluff tho.
I've played a little bit with main villain here. Not too strong of a read other than major donk.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
MP2 ($203.50)
MP3 ($197.55)
CO ($47.55)
Button ($267.25)
SB ($276.90)
BB ($221.50)
UTG ($213.75)
UTG+1 ($200.35)
Hero ($203.10)
Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Qhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, Jhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif.
UTG raises to $4, 1 fold, Hero calls $4, 5 folds, BB calls $2.
Flop: ($13) Thttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif, 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif, 9http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif (3 players)
BB checks, UTG bets $10, Hero raises to $40, BB folds, UTG folds.
Final Pot: $33
You bastard, hax0ring up your hand history to support your lies and mendacity! :x :x :x
I honestly flop the nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by d0zer
Actually, I just figured you for any two cards.
No, seriously, did you have either of those two cards? Think about it.
If I had either of those two cards I woulda insta-fist-pump-shoved so fast... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
And LDO my range was ATC. Even as I was making my c-bet I thought "well yeah obviously drew's gunna put me on ATC, but if he missed this flop, that bot'll have to give up this pot"
I play the player once every 3k hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by d0zer
I will not adjust next time our paths cross :x
*does the +5BI victory dance*
Update
So I played my first session today since Saturday (not including 25nl FTR operation lose my rollaments). Went well, +3BI.
Here's my bread n' butter for the last 125k (mid may):
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1229/up1pi7.jpg
Here's my success vs FTR:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1664/up2yg6.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2216/up3bv9.jpg
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Nice graph & lol @ the 25NL 1. You should start another 25NL FTR game sometime soon. :)
hahhahahahhahahahha
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/eyec4rl/drew.jpg
anytime you wanna play drew, i'm game. same goes for spenda i guess
Still alive there bud?
Update us Mr. Drew. :!:
I tend to hide under a rock when things don't go so well, and then brag like a son of a bitch when things are wonderful.
Update
I was playing great poker online before I took a week off to vacation. I think it was July 24th when I played my last good session, although dropping 2.5 BI.
So, that Saturday I took off on a camping excursion just north of Parry Sound Ontario at a Provincial Park called Killbear. This was my 7th time going and I hope to go every summer for as long as I possibly can. I had a great time. It turned out to be 6 of us, including: myself, Trevor & Cathy, their 1 year old daughter Lillian, Marty and his significant other Tara (ex stripper) (don't know why I added that in there). Anyways, the week was pretty simple: breakfast, snacks, dinner, swimming, biking, and fires. The weather was beautiful up until Wednesday morning when it rained pretty hard. This, along with a build up of frustrations and stress between Trevor and Cathy, accumulated into an early exit from the park. I think it was a very stressful week for them mainly due to bringing their newborn on her first camping trip, doing so meant twice the work for this young married couple. (Side note: I tried buying smokes from a local convenience store. Bastard declines me. I argue politely and maturely, I catch him saying "I don't deny you are 26." WTF ARE YOU RETARDED? Yeah, I'm 26 and can't buy cigarettes in Ontario part of the time. Same thing happened to me at The Beer Store a couple years ago. I have to admit, I can see why they may not think I look like the dude in my ID...)
Mart and Tara (the ex stripper) had already planned on leaving on Wednesday, so we all decided to pack it in at the same time. So, I packed up, drove to Orillia, and booked a hotel for three nights so I can play poker at the Rama B&M until Saturday. Three nights in the Best Western Suite meant $520. (Side note: Jack Johnson was staying at the same hotel and I saw him chatting with a couple of elderly people at the bar after hours on Friday night... kind of odd situation because the place was empty, TV's on mute, so I couldn't help but hear him tell his life story about how his stance on everything he mentioned was completely the opposite of mine. I'm not usually the type to listen in like this but holy fuck it was impossible not to... it was dead silent, they were right behind me, and he wouldn't shut the fuck up.)
I honestly thought I played very well overall for three straight days, but sometimes it just doesn't matter how well you play... -2.5BI overall. This was even after having $900 in front of me the first night, and over $600 in front of me on each of the other two nights. 1/2 200 max BTW.
I drive home Saturday evening and finally sleep in my own bed. This week, I have been the laziest sack of shit I have ever been in my whole life. I played one session for three hours -3BI, was not very physically active, and did not eat very well. To try to turn things around, I decided to purchase a 12 month membership at the local gym -3BI. I think this was a great investment as I bought it along with a good friend of mine (Rick) who will be my partner in crime and a second person to motivate myself, other than yours truly. I really look forward to putting it to work: Basketball, Squash, + all of the standard machines and dead weights you'd expect.
That brings me to today, oh and I also slipped again down that before mentioned 'well' again, but never mind that. It's 2am and I need to get to Oakville for a 10:36 tee off time for a charity tournament, so I need my rest.
Oh and another thing, something happened to me today that has never happened before: My brother tends to brag about my success playing poker, and he did so with a friend of his from out of town this week. Anyways, this friend was throwing a home game tonight. My brother invited me because his friend said "the more the merrier." So I request that he confirms my attendance, he calls his friend, asks "can my brother come?" "No. I don't want somebody here who's just going to take all of our money. I mean, these guys suck anyways so I don't think they'd appreciate him playing here." OMGWTFINYOURASS I was more insulted than complimented.
I plan on coming back Monday with more energy, desire, and want than ever before. I'm very optimistic that things will turn around.... meh, it's only like a 5k hand downswing... wtf am I do depressed about. :wink:
73%
You lazy sack of shit! I play more hands than you and I have a fulltime job :x :lol:
And yeah you got nothing to be depressed about. You know how to kill 200NL. All you have to do is put the hours in. I've had more 5k downswings in the last few months than I ever have. Basically breakeven over some sick amount of hands. 60k? gross.
p.s. I liked the jack johnson story :)
p.p.s. I also hide under a rock when things aren't going well.
Update
Starting to extremely slowly turn things around. Started going to the gym to play squash (awesome sport btw, first time playing it was this week). This was on Tuesday.
Monday I would have began the routine, but I ended up going to a funeral for a young friend of mine named Samir. He was a 28 year old with intestinal cancer. Amazing guy... I think about two hundred people showed up on Monday, very sad day to be sure. He was actually the the first guy to ever turn over a Royal Flush at a live game that I had attended a couple years ago... JTd
Saturday I went golfing for a best ball cancer fund raiser tournament, hosted by the son of a man who passed away last year. The golf sucked - lighting hitting the course by our tenth hole. So we were given rain checks which I plan on using this Monday. Afterwards was a continuation of the fund raiser at the local sports bar. I brought my poker chips, got my ass kicked, played and gambled $$ on the electronic poker machine against a pure newbie (+$100), and purchased a $350 baseball bat signed by Alex Rios via auction.
Monday night after the funeral, I booked a hotel again for my ex and myself. I could have driven home but I didn't feel like it... lol
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Tonight I played online. Three sessions in three days. That's about 6 sessions in the last 3 weeks. Because of this, I strictly played 100nl FR.. 12 tabling. This is half of my normal limit but I thought it'd be a great idea to get myself back towards my 'A' game. I'll probably do the same on Monday or Tuesday (pending golf) and then switch back to my bread n butter the day after that. Over those 3 sessions (10k hands) I came away with about +6 BI.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Today was the worst day of my life, for two reasons(both firsts for me):
1) I got stung by a mother fucking bee while cutting the lawn (at least I know I'm not allergic)
2) My mother fucking bike went over a rubber cutting broken beer bottle, which meant a 15min walk home
Tomorrow it's beer, calamari, and poker with sweetlemon (Dave) & dozer (Jesse). Stoked.
71%
Hey, at least Bell didn't downsize you and you're stuck sitting around jerkin it all day. Oh, and I'm grinding micro's. Wee?
Stoked for the pizzeeehhhh tonight!!
What else is drew doing while not grinding?Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetlemon69
...that's what I'd be doing anyway :oops:
youporn.com FTW
Update
Up and down first two days of the week thus far. This should be expected when gambling though after two days.
I guess I felt like updating my progress tonight due to the success of the day. Yesterday after golf (which was awesome), I played 2k hands of 100nl FR and dropped 6BI. Today I played 3k hands of 200nl FR and won 7BI. Today I also cashed for the first time in one of those $10 re-buy MTT's. I decided that to spice things up, I'd shut down a FR table and open up an MTT. It'll be great for practice and fun factor. It wasn't a deep cash, +$110 (120/2349).
My goal with the MTT's is to play in a couple events next June/July in Vegas for the WSOP circuit. I think it'd be amazing and I never have anything on my wrists.
72%
Update
I've become stagnant again and I know exactly why. The problem is my sleeping habits again. I have zero structure in my life and therefore stay up as late as I want and subsequently sleep in until the late afternoon. This is such a horrible habit, one that I've been struggling with ever since I left MDS 17 months ago. Gaining skill in poker is one thing, but getting into a good routine for me has been the most difficult thing. I have a tee off time at 8:15am on Saturday in Lowville (hour away). When I told my friends this, they laughed their asses off.
First of all, last week was fantastic regarding poker, +18 BI. I took Sunday off because I felt I needed a break. Guess what I did instead? I went to Toby Jugs (local bar) to play two tournaments (4-5hrs), then I went straight to Oakville for a home game. Secondly, I got back on the grind on Monday evening. Right away, I knew that everything wasn't right. I didn't sleep well, I hadn't exercised, I wasn't eating well, I was playing more tables than usual etc. So, I only made $100. Same routine yesterday and I lost $200. This may be such a small win and loss but I find it very significant and relative to the process of my day.
Something else fucked up this week: Monday I was stung by another fucking bee, this time in knee, while cutting the lawn. So, I took the RAID and hose and shoe to those bastards and killed about 30 of them. Side note: Our old fat short terrier is badly sick with something. He hasn't been walking properly at all (falling, walking sideways), it's as if his back end is 50% numb. We think he made have had a bad reaction to a few stings. So he'll be going to the vet shortly. Anyways, I went to the gym yesterday to work on a few things. When I got home, my knee where the bee stung me decided to swell up like a grapefruit! It's been painful and scratchy for the past 24hours.
I was going to say that I'm going to take today off from poker, but that'd be a lie. What I mean to say is: I won't be grinding. Instead, I feel I need a drink (another bad habit?), so I'll be playing at Mainstreet(another local bar) tonight. Hopefully I'll get so wasted that I'll pass out before 2am. This reminds me, the drinking part... I lost my ID somewhere, so yesterday I went to the Ministry of Transportation to get it replaced. I made a joke about how it's a good thing I'm getting a new picture because I keep getting declined everywhere (apparently I do not look like myself, I swear to Jesus this has happened). What does this behind the desk $12/hour old schmuck say to me? "This is a good thing. Drinking even occasionally is a disease. That'll be $10 please." You fucking twat...
On the bright side of things, I decided to pay my parents upfront for the remaining rent balance of 2008 ($2000). I feel like every time I pay like this, they support my gambling addiction more and more lol... so this brought my % to where it is today:
73%
gl with the sleeping habits thing man. I'm working on that one myself. It's tough to change those habits, and you've really got to exercise a lot of conscious effort to break old habits. Takes a few weeks to properly settle into a new groove.
So Ty was brought to the vet today and the news isn't good. There's a slim chance that his problem is that of a reoccurring nerve problem and a high chance that it's a tumor. If it gets worse and he's showing signs of distress or it gets to the point where he needs a catheter - he'll be put down. *sad face* It's been a long time since I've seen my mother cry like today. Hopefully he gets better, but it's not looking that way.
You forgot the part in the rama trip where I ripped ur face with running spades and 85c! ;)
What's the point of posting hands that I played poorly in? Blogs are for bragging and laughing at other peoples bad play.Quote:
Originally Posted by mxiu
Eh, you can't do much in either hand. I was in gambool mode after getting stacked the hand before so when I flatted your AQ after remax called you and a spade dropped on the turn, I'm going nowhere. You can argue a fold on the turn, but you decided to check and completely lose sight of where everyone was in the hand, lol.
85c was just unfortunate that I got a monstrous turn card. Although you still decided to check the turn and let me bet >_>
Moral of the story: mxiu likes to chase runners all night long.
lol @ calling him remax.. that guy was so much funQuote:
Originally Posted by mxiu
In both hands you mentioned, I played passively and poorly. I have a habit of checking the turn oop.
Don't need to play fancy at the casino against these 1/2 donks. Just take them to value town, they will stack off everytime with top pair and say "I had to call".
Here's an example. Villain is sitting with about $300 in front of him, I cover.
I limp in with 56o, 7-8 way to the flop, it comes 56J rainbow.
Villain bets out 15 from UTG, folded to me, I go to 45, he SNAP calls.
Turn is a Q
Villain checks, I absolutely hate this card but I lose out on WAY too much value from Jx against these kind of players.
I bet 75 he SNAP calls.
River 2
He has his chips out ready to shove, and he checks to me, I shove he SNAP calls and shows KJo and claims he had to call.
Sick value imo.
Drew bud,
Why didn't you call Dr. Lemon? I have the cure to what ail's yeah... MOVE DOWNTOWN! I'll be here for a few more years... and dude you'll get out of that rut. Trust meh. BTW, poker, Sept 5th, you better be 100%!
Isn't the idea to get it all in with the worst of it at Trev's??Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetlemon69
LOL it suuurree isss :D Bess still be coming.
That was hilarious when you were like "You gotta get it in bad against nick, so he doesn't have a chance to suck out on you -- you've gotta suck out on HIM".Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
...hey -- it worked for me when I shoved into his aces with my flush draw and runner-runner'd a straight :D
Nick after that hand: "I can't believe you sucked out on me!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by d0zer
:roll:
I really enjoy reading your thread it's been a week or so hows things? What % you at at the moment? And what's the latest with your (ex?)GF?
Also... a while ago you said this
- I'm curious, how did you make the transition from the penny stakes to the 'big time'? How long did it take you and did you exclusively grind, or did you inject cash into your bankroll yourself? What factors did you use to decide when to move up?Quote:
I first started playing online in play money games for a couple months. Then I started playing in the tiniest penny games online. A couple months into this, I couldn't get to sleep one night. I lied in my bed for literally a few hours just day dreaming about my life. I began to think about money and poker and the possibilities. EUREKA! I suddenly had the same experience that you described a couple weeks ago. I came to the realization that this profession is a possibility. I had never been so optimistic than I was that night.
I just thought I'd share this, as your story sparked a memory I've had but yet to share with this community.
What what your chief source of poker education back then?
When you was playing those penny stakes did you have it set in your head then that you'd eventually be playing at the kind of stakes you are now?
Update
First off, my dog is still fucked. We believe he has a tumor growing on the back of his spine. Since he's an older dog, we are going to let it take its course... rather than getting x-rays, surgery etc. Really sucks.
So I threw a keggar (60L) / bar bee / poker party last Friday. Great turn out. I even bought a poker table for $100 and it's so sick. For $100 you'd imagine a standard plain piece of whatever... but no. Here's the history on the table: Brother and I started buying supplies to make our own, spent around $150 on various materials including legs. 6 Months later, X-Mas rolls around and we haven't even started really... so we get one of those octagon $50 table pieces of crap. 10 months later we're looking online for a good table. We find a table top for $100 - blue felt with race track. So we buy it and connect the legs we bought a while back... sick table. Anyways, one of the worst hangovers of my life Saturday. Sleeping by 5:30, doorbell rings at 9am, it's the tradesmen arriving to work on the porch ie. massive drilling into the side of the wall. Shitty deal for the 8 of us still recovering from the few hours before.
Since then, the week has been pretty standard, aside from going to dozer's place to muck around 12 tabling 100nl donkey spewing like monkey retards. I made $1 overall, so I was pretty happy with that.
Went to the gym a few times, grinding tonight, Monday and Tuesday. Totaling about 9k hands. + $1200 during that time I think... frustrating week tbh at the tables. Feels like coolers everywhere.
I'll be fishing this weekend Sat - Mon at some cottage with a few friends of mine. It'll be nothing but fishing, poker, beers, n laughs. I haven't fished for well over a decade, so this should be fun. I actually have a fishing license! Not that it means much... any Joe Blow can walk into Canadian Tire with $20 and get one.
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Becoming more and more non-existent, which is OK by me.Quote:
Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
1) Patience. You can't be successful at this game over night.Quote:
Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
2) If by 'big time,' you mean 200nl - I gave it my first shot in July 2007. Started playing 2nl in November 2005. Finally having success @ 200nl in December of 2007 after a few attempts.
3) I have made three deposits thus far, each being $50 and each taking place late 2005.... when I was still learning BRM and the game itself.
4) Factors include: Comfort level and # of available BI's. This break even point for me was anywhere between 20 and 40 BI's.... I've become stagnant though recently because I am very comfortable with the income. This can be a huge problem however, because complacency is a high cost opportunity loss.
5) Roommates taught me how to play the game and FTR taught me how to win at it. I've opened and began reading a few books on the subject but am yet to finish one of them.
6) re: goals from the start. During that episode I had one night which I described to you in your thread, I knew that it was possible to make money online at this game. If that night I could see myself today, I would say that I have exceeded my expectations... and I owe it all to FTR. This website taught me the importance of bankroll management, comfort levels, controlling tilt, managing expectations, etc...
Everyone can learn how to play well. The hardest part is the discipline.
Update
I'm stoked for this weekend because I rented out two of the Sheraton hotel rooms @ Casino Niagara for my buddy Mark's birthday. The Keg is booked for Saturday. Golf is booked for tomorrow. So excited for this weekend to begin.
The dog is doing much better these days. He still needs to be taken outside in the AM at really weird times so sleep is hard to come by for myself and the rest of the family. We take turns each night.
Poker has been sick recently. If I had to guess, I'd say I'm running well over 7ptbb/100 over the last 25k hands. I played another 5k today and had a fucking $2k swing (finished at my water mark). Hopefully this hot run will continue for as long as possible.
This happened today (my 6th one all time and first in the last year):
limped pot
$6 bet, call
$6 bet, call
$6 bet, min raise, shove, call
villain had AQo LAWLCATPWND
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8853/royalmy0.jpg
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nice and nice and nice. have a fun weekend!Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
wait drew I'm really confused are you saying you dropped 2k yesterday?
Either way nice results of late, keep up the grind and have a good weekend as daven said.
Thanks Daven and Badgers!Quote:
Originally Posted by badgers
Edit: the ptbb/100 has got to be closer to 5 as 7 seems too high FWIW.
To answer your question badgers: no. I had a 2k swing. meaning, if my roll is lets say 5k, it went down to 4.5k then i finished at 6.5k.
Pictures from the fishing trip I had a couple weeks ago with the Armstrong brothers and Todd. It was a weekend full of fishing, golf, poker, and beer. Did I mention I filleted and ate my own fish that weekend for the first time?
first fillet
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4453/fish2ej8.jpg
I'm wearing the red and white
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6688/fish3ls1.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9376/fish5an4.jpg
everyone has a smirk on their face because the camera was set to 10 seconds:
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1993/fish7oj6.jpg
gorgeous:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/5411/fish9ul0.jpg
devo (also a poker pro)
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1329/fish11cw8.jpg
Todd
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1520/fish12lg8.jpg
Jared
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2478/fish13we9.jpg
Cabin which almost blew over one night
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1089/fish15wl4.jpg