I WANNA PLAY SOME POKER

grrawr

so my last post was a overly dramatic huh? I don't plan on quitting school, things could always happen but it's not something I'm gonna do as of now.

To make up for such a boring post, I've got something for you all to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yis7DTXe03M
turn on the sound, it's a freaking hilarious clip!

I've been really busy lately, midterms last week and another one tomorrow as well as an essay. I also had a film shoot this weekend and my feet are sore :( I try not to play cards when I'm tired n such so for tonight, I'm just gonna play some video games...and then nap...and then study??? We'll see :p

I'm pretty happy and confident of my game so far. this month:
3/6: 3300 hands 1.5bb/100. so $9 per table basically.

Here comes some fun math!
If I 4 table 3/6 and make 1.5bb/100, that's 360 hands = 3.6 x $9 = $31.2 per hour I think, too lazy to get a calculator.
If I 6 table 3/6 (which I did a few nights ago w/remarkable ease), that's:
90 hands per table x 6 tables = 540 hands = 5.4 x $9 = $48.6 per hour!!!

Oh, I also forgot about bonuses and rakeback which should easily add another $25 minimum so in total:
4 table + rakeback/bonuses = $56.2 per hour
6 table + rakeback/bonuses = $73.6 per hour

I realized you can make just as much IF NOT MORE THAN a 3/6 SH LHE player if u're good at .50/1 No Limit short handed but w/rakeback and bonuses, LHE puts up a worthy fight.

I like lhe :)

I Wanna Quit School

surely you all have that feeling from time to time. That very dead dreaful feeling where you don't really feel like doing anyting at all. In fact, you feel like a zombie and want to continue being a zombie, i.e. watching movies, eating, playing games, repeat.

no? That's how I feel right now. I don't think I'd be extremely happy if i were to drop out and just play cards but I'd feel better than being IN school :p

I have a film shoot on Sunday and through a "lucky" chain of events, I got moved up to Director of Photography. but...screw it. It takes a lot more balls to live in isolation than it does to take the spot light. What do I mean by that? We're human beings, we're sinful, we're greedy. Attention whore? Hell ya, why else would I have a blog? Well I like to document part of my life as I start up poker seriously... I want to compete with the best but I also want to live peacefully, and if you know me, that's me + peace = oil and water. Maybe I should just relax? But I don't think I'd be me. If I'm quiet, people get agitated, if I'm myself, people still get agitated. rawr I wanna be a zombie.

Bankroll 3k.

I AM SH LHE MASTER

I love sh lhe. Altho right now my friend is 1-0 against me Heads Up, haha.

I didn't hit the 3.5k goal like I wanted to, or in fact the 3k goal. I think my bankroll is around 2.95k. But

so today I lost over 50bbs, like 350? At one point I was def. down at least $500. So what did i do? drop down? nah. I ate dinner, sat back down at my computer and told myself to "fucking concentrate." Two hours later I found myself even :) ya, I won back over 50bbs and man did I feel like I was on fire! I don't really remember any hands. I just played really really well :)

I dunno what to write really. I'm confident of my game, altho my hu game is pretty bad.

The main thing I need to improve in my SH LHE game is my play from the blinds. I think once I touch that up my game will improve tremendously.

*edit* I just beat him. Score tied 1-1. LATERRRRRRRRRR

I predict a 4k score by next week, yes yes.
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hmmm, I'm a little more awake now as I try to write this. Earlier on Sunday while playing, I noticed I wasn't really focusing. I was in automatic robot mode and the problem with it this time was I was having FUN. A little too much fun. As in my vpip #s were like 33-36%. Basically, I was playing 1/3 of my hands and that's WAY too much. So when I sat down again, I told myself to shape up and play smart. I really think a lot of focus on preflop play can really improve your results. I base this on the simple logic that if you play strong hands and they hit, well most of the time you're going to come out ahead right? You don't need to do anything fancy, unlike the other player who will be playing Q10 or 97 we have to try and figure out if we can and how to win that pot with middle pair, haha.

But yes, I am feeling very confident about my game. I shouldn't be putting in many hours this week, at least until thursday, because I have two midterms and a film shoot. But I would like to though...screw school, bleh

Excited Excited

Bankroll at 2664. I'm 3.5 hours away from clearing my $300 bonus! yayyyy. The plan is to get 3k and start playign 3/6 sh lhe again! I'm hoping that w/bonuses n such I can make $70 an hour.

I was actually planning on clearing the bonus tonight but this one hand pissed me off so I had to stop, that and I wasn't able to focus. Just no energy :( But..I still crushed the game easily for $100 in 30 mins. My confidence? Yeah, it's not in question anymore. I'm confident that I'm a winning player, yup yup. This weekend I should be at 3k, next mon. i should be at 3.5 or 4k :) Tis the plan.

Yay

My SH LHE results have been pretty nice. It hasn't been very swingy. I've been pulling consecutive profits in my last couple of sessions. Just now I played for an hour and crushed the games for 40big bets, approx. $160 at 2/4.

Bankroll 2476. I really wanted to clear the $300 bonus today but I noticed I started to get the urge to just gamble rather than win money so I stopped. I'm just not capable of playing great poker when i'm in that mood, too much gamble gamble rather than really smart bets. Haha, I tried to get really fancy on a AK10 flop w/Q10 by raising flop and turn, I knew I was beat and realized I just have to stop playing.

So I'm playing pretty good poker now and am confident in 4 tabling 2/4 sh lhe. When I hit 3/6, I'm going to start 2 tabling and once the confidence is there, I'll go back to 4 tabling. If I ever hit a 100bb downswing, then back to 2 tables etc. Sometimes it's all about your mentality ya? I still have some holes but for the most part I'm happy about how I'm playing :)


p.s.
Something I forgot to post about...my friend won the 1k bet. He hit 10,000. Congratulations to him =( I'm sorry I didn't make it exciting/post updates etc. I plan on making some more bets with him, so next time I'll make sure he posts more often etc. It'll be fun!

A Semi-Nice Day

I say Semi-Nice because I didn't final table, and even if I did, if I didn't win I'd still be unhappy.

RECAP:
I played 2 hours of 2/4 sh lhe. I'm getting the groove I feel. I started to lose focus and found myself in "auto-bot" mode where I just played on instinct w/out much thought. $76 win for 2/4. THere's this huge douchebag on the pokerroom networks who trash talks EVERYONE. Tells you that you played your hand poorly, you're a fish, and that he has lots of money. So I'm basically sitting at his tables and taking as much money as I can away from him :D

I decided to play a tournament today, actually two. That's really rare. I hate tournaments because of time invested, but mainly, because of emotions invested. If you're competitive like me, it doesn't matter what stakes, losing DOES BOTHER YOU. Anything less than #1 is heartbreaking. It just is, sorry, it's not something some of us can change nor want to change. Losing makes me hungry for more, to do better. I'm definitely a little rusty, as I made quite a few mistakes but overall , my game is pretty fearless and it works for me. haha, it was a $10,000 guaranteed pool with a $5 rebuy, unlimited rebuys for the 1st hour. I rebought 8 times! at one point, I was so annoyed I pushed all in 5 hands in a row, one of which featured KK vs 10,10 and lost to a gutshot straight draw, yuck, but I was actually really amused. I finally doubled up with AA and decided it was time to play a good game, and I did. 16th/1330 people for $150

And although i don't have a 1,000 sample size of Multi-Table Tournaments I've played, I entered a $10 pl omaha tournament for fun. Out of 130ish people, I bubbled out in 11th with a set vs a higher set. Uh, I don't know how to play omaha except that A2s is a really good hand. This is how you play a tournament: instill fear into your opponent. Sense weakness? crush him, MAKE HIM FOLD. You can never lose if you never get called. get it? good.

I'm tired, although still feeling a little hyped up. Goodnight everyone, I hope to make my bankroll bigger this weekend.

night

Return to my "Roots"

I want to play limit hold'em again. I once again feel invigorated. NL was nice, and I definitely plan on playing more no limit hold'em in the future but as of right now, I feel like really learning short handed LHE. I enjoy it. As much as it pisses me off, and I still believe that you have to be somewhat of a masochist/suicidal person to really play it, it's addicting. It's such a great puzzle.

Bet, raise, check-raised? Is he on a draw? Is my middle pair good? He's playing weird, I think my Ace high is best, I'll call him down.

It's just so interesting. It's such a fun complex puzzle, much harder than .50/1nl, at least. And yes, I think you can def. make money faster in NL but like I keep repeating, I do love this game; so it is important that I beat it convincingly at 2/4, 3/6, 5/10, and 10/20. I'm still currently 2tabling. I feel like I have some major holes in my game, for instance I get tempted to call down w/A high too often, and some plays I pull really don't work too well - either they're too creative/fancy for the stakes I'm playing or they are just bad plays in general. Nevertheless, I'm happy and I think for now I'm going to be playing a lot more sh lhe.

My bankroll is at $2172. Um, while that SEEMS like an improvement, I actually lost about $150 of that today, so technically I'm down (I cleared a $300 bonus today). Oh well, I look forward to this weekend of SHORT HANDED LIMIT HOLD'EM. I'm feeling pretty optimistic about all this :)

Cheers

Yayaaaa

Bankroll: $2040

erm, either I'm really bad at NL or the .50/1nl games at fcp are pretty tough. I feel like I get floated a lot "i.e. ppl call my flop bets to bluff turn/river"

anyhow, I basically played two sessions for 1hr each today and did well in both of them :)

Alright, I'm extremely tempted to move up and do stupid stuff. Gotta keep grinding away and in no time i'll be at 4k+ right? Right.

I'm not playing my best game right now. Funny, basically as soon as I get pissed off, not tilt pissed off, but just like frustrated, I kick it into aggro gear and make more money. come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. I really wanna play limit and nl.

Grinding Grinding

total profit: $55
I did mostly sh lhe today.

I'm doing the best I can to grind it up, focusing on small profits each day to build up my roll. It's hard but I am trying.

So I decided to 4 table! I miss the action and I'm pretty confident in my sh lhe play. I really think i cost myself a lot of money beforehand because I played too many hands preflop and tried to force people to fold, rather than think about value.

So this morning I 4tabled 1/2 and I felt I played well. It was pretty automatic for me and I busted out a $56 profit.

Later on I played some nl, felt pretty comfortable, only 2 tables! It was a little swingy due to the fact that this one guy kept going all in and sucked out on me. But I made an $82 profit here.

Then...I wanted to play some more sh lhe. So back to 4 tabling 1/2. I really want to put in lots of hands in 1/2 and 2/4 to prove to myself that I am a winning player. But anyhow, big problem, I wasn't focusing as hard. Instead I was losing my temper and played too aggressive. Bad. So I dropped 50bbs at 1/2. Very annoyed.

I kicked the 4 tables, loaded up 2 2/4 sh lhe tables and focused hard. I learned something about playing LAG on one of them. There was this guy who literally played 80% of his hands, and he was busting out a huge profit (I think partly because he was on a rush). But I learned something from his dumbass self, and I also had such a good read on him he ended up leaving because I bombed his ass down.

1) FORCE people to hit a hand. Even if they raised preflop, it doesn't matter. Betting your draws is extremely powerful, especially when your image is a winning one, doesn't matter how loose, if they think you have a pair, they won't call.

2) donkbetting the turn is a very powerful tool, in fact it works with Ace high as well. I saw him take down a pot doing so.

Postflop play is so important. I need to keep working on it. That's it for now
bankroll: 1848

Furiated

Yes. I'm losing patience. So I'm writing this post to remind myself not to blow up and lose more money.

Bankroll is sitting aorund $1540. I played pretty well in the nl game this morning. I thought I made a brilliant play w/trips, til he turned over the boat D: Oh well. I then decided to play some 2/4 sh lhe.

I'm fucking sick of the game. I was up 40bbs pretty quickly, hitting quads brought in a 25bb pot, and then by the end of the hour, all gone! Sound familiar? I did a similar thing in 3/6 where i was up $300 fast and then lost it all in the next .5 hours. Ugh. Am I really that bad of a sh lhe player? I don't think I am...who knows, my confidence is not high in the game. Very frustrated.

But most importantly, I MUST NOT PLAY OUT OF MY BANKROLL. I have very important things that I want to do. It's very important to keep this money. I have a project coming up and most importantly, I really want to go home for a weekend. I need to get to the point where $300 isn't even 5% of my bankroll. Come on sir, put in the hours and fucking make money.

quick update

I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. It's nice having an honest open conversation but you know what? There really aren't that many people you can have one with without stupid consequences.

bankroll 1646

slowly climbing my way back. By tuesday I'd like to be around 2500, and from there, I'd like to explode :)

I feel really sick btw. Headache and a little nausea, no idea why. Maybe it's the new medication i'm on. I had a bad allergic reaction last week to hydrocortisone cream - ANTI ITCH CREAM - ?!?!?! ya.

Uh Ohs

I'm not doing very well in cards. Bankroll is about 1360, kind of a big drop! Confidence is shot. I'm shaky and having trouble focusing. But I still have hope, especially for this weekend. I plan to put in lots of hours, hopefully we'll see that sexy $4,000 broll next week.

Change up

I'm going to practice short handed nl instead. I played for 2hours today, experimenting and basically I feel like I played decent. I'm down $60 but I'm not too worried, mainly because I started out like down $200+ heh, but I slowly recovered, and then this butt check-raised me all in when I had 2 overs and a nut flush draw, he had a straight draw and made it. whattttttttttttttttttttttttt.

But ya, I'm enjoying short handed nl much more than 10 tables of full ring. Eventually I want to work up to 8 tables of short handed nl. And when I have 4k, move back to 3/6. I'm excited, here's the new gameplan:

1) Learn .50/1nl. Make $2,000.
2) Move back to 3/6 SHLHE.
3) If I ever have a 100bb downswing at SH, take a break and play No Limit!

I was told that when I'm running bad in one game, it's good to take a break and switch to another. So it's time to become competent. Eventually I'd like to learn omaha or maybe razz/stud. Probably better to learn razz or stud as a 3rd since they're so different, i.e. giving me more variety.

I'm excited. I'me xcited. I'm excited. Let us practice great bankroll management and CUSHIONING (I.E. to lessen those huge downswings).

See ya
Mikey Song

Rebuilding

Currently rebuilding the bankroll. It's at $1600ish and I have a $500 pending bonus so soon I'll be over 2k...hopefully.

I may not be playing limit this week. I'm experimenting w/no limit. Playing 10 tables at a time @ .50/1 stakes. Basically, I'm not really playing poker. I'm playing a very mechanical style that wins the majority of the time. In fact, it's so easy, I could teach it to anyone.

Course, I can't really make that claim w/out backing it up. In my 2.5 hour session today, I raked in $350. I should be averaging about $50 an hour doing this soooo, 40hours = 2k. Gotta put my pride aside and grind back up to my glorious self.

Actually, you know what. I may do an experiment this week and try to put in 10,000 hands. I see about 600 hands an hour so that should take me about 18 hours or so. I want to see if I can make 5bb/100. If so, that means I'd be making $60 an hour x 18 = 1048. Alright, let's do it!