Time Factor

I haven't been able to put in as many hands as I would like to be the last 3 days because its the weekend here in Indiana and I have been going out quite a bit and not feeling too well either but I have gotten in 19,000 hands in 6 days. I am about 2000 off pace but I will definitely try to play tomorrow. I will post the graph and the chart tomorrow for the week. I really hope I can get to 25,000 hands tomorrow.

Last 2 days

I wasn't able to play as many hands as i hope i could but i played a decent amount is is on pace for 25k hands per week. Here is my sick sick graph from the last 2 days at 2/4 3/6 and 5/10

Forget what I said

Ok i am going to continue with this quest. Today was shitty but I only ended up losing 5 buy ins. I just have to be in the mood to play.

Playing unfocused

Today I woke up after 6 hours of bad sleep. I didn't feel too good and had allergies but I decided to load up tables. Played pretty poorly and ran into some big hands and lost a few buy in. I decided to go back to sleep but for some reason as soon as i woke up, i decided to play a session. I was running pretty damn bad but towards the end, I stated to tilt and lost 8 buy ins. I now realized playing a lot of hands per day is very very bad goal. I should only play when i am motivated and feeling well to play. Playing tired or sick is just a disaster. I am probably going back to my normal stakes of 5/10 again.

Swings

Pretty Standard after a great day

Heating Up

Last night was the last day of summer. I had a lot of fun but I don't really remember much. So today is the start of the grind. School starts in a week but 25k hands a week shouldn't be too much of a problem with this new motivation method I have. I got a lot of hands in today although I felt like I didn't play my A+ game. Playing 4000 hands a day can be a little straining especially only 6 tables at once. There are a lot of times there would be tilt and bad plays. I am trying to split my sessions into 2-3 sessions so I can be more convenient with time. I really liked how Cole does his blog so I am going to try to analyze hands and show some results. I really would like appreciate comments. Here are today's results and some of the big pots I played,


http://www.pokerhand.org/?1414502
The guy was a huge fish and he called super fast on the flop. So when the turn gave me a great draw, I decided to double barrel and steal the pot. He still called me down and when I made my hand on the river, he still decided to go broke with top pair really bad kicker.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1414505
He squeezed on me about 4-5 times in a row and I decided to make a stand. I am still experimenting with this play since you will have to get caught a few times to be profitable. He timed down and called me. I will do that often with bigger hands also since people love to squeeze way too often.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1414509
This guy was just bitter at me. He is a decent regular but my god. I was timing everything perfect with him and he was just very very frustrated with me. He stacked off very very light here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1414512
He was tilted alright.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1414521
I was pretty suspicious of the flop raise. The guy is a pretty bad aggressive player and tt was too small with all those draws. Unless he was trying to sucker me in hardcore. Once the turn comes, I was about 99% sure my hand is best. I call to let him bluff the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1414526
Some people are just outright terrible.

I have been experimenting with a lot of more higher level thinking play such as check raising bluff river, overbetting as a bluff, and trying to really really improve my hand reading ability. I feel like at the middle stakes level, a lot of people love to pot control and value. To counter those, I am able to throw in a lot of check raises and overbets as bluffs. Its pretty cool and I have been pretty successful so far. Alright I need to head to sleep now. I am planning to play about the same amount tomorrow while my buddies at Indiana are in classes.

Goals

Summer is almost over and school is starting. I had tons of fun this summer and met many wonderful people but as a poker playing student, I wasn't able to achieve poker goals. I truly believe I am one of the best players at my stakes. I don't play that many hands per month or day as many of the regulars. But from today on I have decided, I am going to play at least 25,000 hands per week and 100,000 hands per month. Since I am only taking 3 classes this semester, I should have a lot of free time on my hands. Starting today, I will be updating my blog with daily results and analysis of all the big pots. Please give me support. If I stopped playing hands or stopped updating, just send me a PM on CR or AIM and yell at me.

Hate

I am a pretty peaceful guy. I never take any insult from anyone personally. I usually just laugh it off but one of the insults, I cannot stand. It is when people call me worthless, a waste of space and bad at life. Especially, when kids who grew up in my area. Most of the kids my age in the area are very dependent on their parents. Our town is very financially wealthy. It's all good to depend on parents as long as the efforts are not being wasted but a lot of the kids have alcohol and drugs problems and that usually leads to drop outs and such. I was not able to go to a 4 year college in my first year because of my asylum problems and my family simply could not afford it. I was looked down upon. People would make jokes at me and look down on me for going to a local college. It was the motivation factor for me to play poker. As soon as I started making some money at poker, I was able to help my family out big time. I have given them whatever they need. We could easily move out to a worst area in the state but everything and everyone my family knows are from this area. I make sure my sisters fit in at school. I probably spoiled them but hey they are my family. I want them to have everything other kids have. I want them to go to college and be successful. I don't care if i have to use up my bankroll for it. Whatever. In a few month we are moving into a new house closer to the high school my sisters are going. I am probably paying most of the rent but whatever. It is more convenient for the family. Sure I live with my family in the basement almost the whole year but I could easily move out and live by myself. It is just that during tough times, I have to help my family out. So yea fuck you to whoever call me worthless, waste of space and bad at life. What have you fucking done in your life to help other people than yourselves?

O Poker

Haven't posted about poker in a while. Poker is a game of skills but there are a lot of lk involve. Over time a skillful player will win at the end but there can be stretches of hands where a skillful player will lose. These stretches can be so cruel that a lot of people will quit. Most of the people who are playing poker right now most likely ran good when they first started. Variance can be a sick sick game. Here are a bunch of graphs from PokerEv software. Its a program that calculate your expected and actual. I am pretty sure it's pretty correct. Here are limits from 1/2 to 5/10 last 2 months, FT graph, UB graph, overall graph and an Omaha graph. Apparently only thing I run well is Omaha. The green is the actual winning and the red line is the expected. I agree I haven't been always playing my A+ game but I have been playing pretty well overall and I might have had 1 tilt session where i lost 2 buy ins. I really feel embarrass showing these and sometimes want to kill people after watching these. Enjoy! Can't wait for my heater

1/2 NL 6 max
2/4 NL 6max
3/6 NL 6max
5/10 NL 6max
FTP ( 2/4 - 5/10) 6max
UB (1/2 - 10/25) 6max
FTP/UB

Omaha

Indiana University

Indiana University is one of the funnest university I have probably been to. The girls are very good looking and there are a lot of parties at all time. Little 500 weekend last year was definitely one of my most favorite time. This year, Kapie, James and Nick got a really nice loft style apartment. It is pretty sweet. Last night we went out and it was the first time I have ever been rejected at the bar. It was KillRoys Sports. They decided that they wouldn't let me in. So I decided to go to the police near the bar. Since I have 100% confident in my ID, I wasn't worry. Police called in and confirmed my ID is real. Police decided to walk me into the bar and I somehow got rejected again. WTF? So i decided to just use another entrance and got in pretty easily. But wasted about an hour. As soon as I get there, I decided I am going to ball out a little bit. In Vegas, where everyone get a bottle of goose, I can't stand out but at a college town like Bloomington, it was pretty sweet. I ordered a bottle and a table. First they were like umm we can't guarantee a table and I was like I want bottle of











They instantly treated me nice and got us a table within 5 minutes. They kicked everyone out of the table for me. O how money speaks. Since we got there pretty late, we only got through 2/3 of a bottle of goose. The manager came and told me I got 20 minutes to finish it. I was like alright. I would rather take the alcohol back but a law is a law but then suddenly, since the bar was closing down, all the workers wanted us to leave even though manager said we could stay. I didn't really care and I just want the empty bottle. Suddenly some fucking Mexican employee grabs the bottle of grey goose from me and fucking pour it out and said what you going to do now? I asked him whether he could afford a bottle of goose at a bar and how much he fucking makes per hour and how much shit he just wasted? I basically almost get in a fight. All my friends were all very very pissed as well. At least let me pour it out. Its my fucking alcohol. I am extremely upset at the bar and I probably won't be ordering any more fucking bottle there. Well other than that, everything has been going great. I am having a lot of fun. I really like it here. I just might transfer. I am not sure.

Another Week in NY

So I decided to go back to NY to hang out with a bunch of non poker playing friends. It is fun to hang out with non poker playing friends although I feel like I get them hook on to poker. The drive to NY and drive back is insane. There are so much traffic. I am going to Indiana tomorrow. That drive is going to be very very long but at least there shouldn't be any traffic. So my family have been looking for a house to move to in Bethesda. We found a house in our old neighborhood that is 1900 dollars a month but the problem I am having is it is bigger than my old house and its 600 dollars a month cheaper. I am really worry of getting this house. Is it possible that there is something wrong? There are people from New Zealand living right now but they are moving out in 2 months. Maybe I just got a sweet deal but I am just a little worry.

The Hamptons

It is unreal how rich this area is. The lowest price of a house around this area is 500,000 and there are so many mansions that are worth millions and millions. Gaucho and Julian have been getting massages almost every day at the spa. I wish I enjoyed massages but I just don't. I can't really explain. Krantz and Venessa got here yesterday to stay in the house for a few days. I hope to learn a few things from them. Also I have been losing a lot in credit card roulette. I have lost 2 out of 4 that we had. David lost the other 2 but his ones were smaller than mine. Julian has yet to lose one. Hopefully there will be some variance and i will stop losing.