sundayyyyy

well imma do a frosty012 and supply myself with a drunken blog actually only half drunk. no one reads this so it doesnt matter quite yet. first of all i downloaded hem like i said i was going to god what i f-ing goat rope that was. first of all i purchased it and then downloaded it which was fine and then when i first ran it i was trying to search for my name and nothing came up for my name or anyone elses i was like wtf. im obviously new to the software and being new to any software you dont know how it works exactly i spent about 3 hours trying to figure out why i couldnt find my name, turns out in the pokerstars lobby the option to save hand histories to my hard drive was turned off and holdem manager needs handhistories to be able to process data obv. im not a super patient guy so the whole time i was ahhh wtf this is dummmb i knew it shouldnt be that hard to run because almost every serious poker player uses it so i was like what am i doing wrong i was pretty focused on solving the problem because i wanted to use the software and i didnt want to just throw 90$ away like that. anyway after all said and done 3 hours after purchasing it and and doing research to fix my problem i had it up and running correctly and after that i won my first million ...lol i wish. no it is pretty interesting comparing numbers to peoples actual actions you can customize a lot of things with that program and it does help you identify a lot of things. i can see a lot of use for it especially later on. i only used it for about 4 hours actually ended up losing half a buy in :( but i will be able to fine tune it the more i use it. now for tonight or i should say last night... saturday night to be precise. since im working nights i try to maintain my sleep schedule so im not dragging ass at work when i go in for monday but anyway i went to a car show at like noon saturday and looked at a bunch of clasics and hot rods along with some pretty sweet choppers the two guys i were with were a little young 19 and his bro 16 so they didnt really appreciate a rebuilt classic car but there was some nice stuff there. then dropped them off and wwent to sleep for about 5 hours and got ready to go out for the night. i hadnt been out drinking for about 5 or 6 weeks so i was a little excited to go club/bar hoppin all my drinking associates i knew had other stuff going on so it was me on my lonesome. i started at like 10 pm and sipped a little bit and wasnt really feelin the night itd been so long since i partied i was kinda out of it. but after a couple of bars and when midnight rolled around i was having a bit of fun. i havnt really hit on a chick sober yet lol...... but when im tipsy or stubling haha, i will talk to them ( i keep telling myself once i move and have more free time ill ask girls out to dates outside of bars). i went up to this pretty cute girl that was with a couple friends that seemed like she was out of the loop asked her a couple questions and she wasnt in to me so i was like ok haha. i dont mind getting rejected its part of the game so to speak. then i was hangin in the club movin to the music when i saw a group of cute girls (hot). they were all dancing except one that was kinda texting and being conservative so i waited for an opening and struck like a cobra lol. turns out she was russian ooooomgggg seriously i think if i ever get married i want my wife to be russian, but besides the poin we talked for a bit prolly 30-45 minutes and she said she was going to go with her friends to do somthing but shed be right back. she seemed pretty into me but i also know that thats code for "ill see you around but not really". so i waited for like 10 minutes just to see if she would come back cause she was pretty into me... well 10 minutes came and gone and i was like ok im not gonna wait around the whole night for somone i just met so i went and got another drink and was just enjoying the club i ended back around the same spot she sayed shed come back to about 30 minutes later and she was there. the only problem was another guy was talking to her.... damnittttt i guess i should have waited a little longer. she was hot to. im not much for hooking up with girls straight from bars. i mean i will if there willing but i think im more of a guy that will meet the girl take her on a couple dates then go in for the kill i dont know maybe im classy or maybe not who knows . one thing i do know is that it was too long of a time that i hadnt gone up to a girl and talked to her. that first girl i talked to i was nervous and had to get courage to talk to her and then after being rejectected i was back to normal and was like ok theres the confident me now lets find another girl. if i do make it to vegas or even seattle i plan on dating quite a bit. not any girlfriends but just taking girls out on dates and stuff like that figuring out what i really like. i allready know though i want my wife to be russian hahahah. but yeah this winter i should have plenty of time to date around. ill blog about everything as well. im gonna try and stay up for a bit more before sleepy time i know this post pretty much had nothing to do about poker but gl at the tables and stay tuned

hopefull thaughts/ 2012 thaughts

well ... i think i starty all my blogs with "well" im gonna have to change that... shits all wack crackers. haha ok so today is actually saturday early saturday morning im actually off kinda. i work on the water on a dredge and the water friday was super choppy we usually get pushed around by a tug boat but it got so bad that we were gonna break somthing so another tug came and started towing us instead well halfway through the night cause i work midninght to noon, their tow line broke and we were sailing free for the moment but our tug came and we were able to put another tow line on pretty intense stuff if you were there to witness it. anyways the water is still to crazy to go to work so im kinda on call untill it gets better but they were saying most likely i wont go to work this weeknd. and i plan on getting pretty tossed up tonight so i dont wanna blog hungover in the morning so i thaught why not do it now!!! yeahhhh! haha. so i started the week at 175, moved to full ring. wow the play at 25nl is pretty funny 25nl 6 max is a lot more difficult than full ring and there is a lot more fish at the tables. i was really suprised at some things im seeing i would say 25nl 6max is comparable to 5onl full ring. and 25 nl full ring is comparable to 10nl 6max... if you can make sense of that scramble. well i found a couple things out about playing 25nl full ring. its pretty hard to bluff lol im pretty sure i lose a lot of money trying to bluff bad players so ive pretty much just left myself to a one barrel bluff on the flop but it still seems pretty profitable to semi bluff 2 streets. i even tried bluffing two different regs in two different posts on obv. set/made straights and possible flush boards and they called with over pairs i was like woooooow. so i dont try to bluff that often atleast at 25nl the higher in limits you go the more compitent your players are and the bigger bluffs you can do so ill cool it for now. i was up to like 235$ at one point untill dropping to like 135 before i hit a bankroll saver. ill try and post a clip of it but i ended up catching a full house on the turn with two aces on the flop and the other 2 oponents each had an ace it was like an 85$ pot. and then friday i didnt play cause of getting off work late and running late and everything and i just played about 750 hand the first 250 hands were nuts. i got coolerd 3 times twice on the river and a couple bluffs didnt work which was when i decided ok no more bluffing. i dropped to 125$ and was like well 10nl here i come. but i was able to pull it back a bit and ended up with 176$ before that my friend gave me 10$ to transfer to his account. just a micro stakes guy so i was like ok i can do that but you might have to wait if you want to trade more than that haha, so really i would be at 186$ but whatever. break even this week. from what i saw even though i prolly only played 2500 hands this week so far i can be a winning playe at 25nl pretty easily. the only problem is i still only have 3 buy ins at that level which doesnt leave room for a downswing which im sure is on its way pretty soon. wcoop is going on till tomorow which is the main event i might actually watch it since ill be hungover and prolly wont want to play lol. besides that they arnt gonna do the satalites till after that so i gotta hang on till next weeknd which is when ill mostly try and use all my fpp's (40,000).

on another topic this season for poker is just about up with me since i was planing on moving nov. 1st i planned on being out of my place and on the road to vegas (read my previous posts if you think im an idiot for moving to vegas) well anyway so i gotta be outta here by then. but my work got extended till probablly middle of nov. so ill be homeless jk im going to start paking my stuff up the middle of october and put it in storage and then stay at a friends place so i might only have like 3 weeks left of playing because they dont have internet. ill still try and post even though i wont be playing and by time i get to vegas it will prolly be around dec. 1st and then get internet set up will prolly be middle of dec. so thats like 2 months of no poker online. yikes lol ill play in the casinos before then but yeah lifes making me take a little break haha.

i have so more plans, more so for 2012 then 2011 but i gotta say this first before i get to the next part. ive decided to get hem. pretty much after i post this. ive never been against using it but i jsut never really wanted to because i didnt want to be a statistical player playing soley on numbers and not the actions of the players, but i was reading a blog on a 24 tabling pro at 100nl he actually went through like a 20k down swing and now hes made back 11k like thorught 6 months, but on his blog somone asked whatd he do to turn it around and he sayed he used hem to review his play and find his leaks. i never really looked at hem like that which is the main reason i want to purchase it. im really focused on making my game this year really sound and decent play and hem is a tool where i can review and study. the stats on the other players that come along with it are a bonus i mean i only 4 table and i can pretty much keep concentration on what players are loose and which ones are tight. i dont know the numbers on how many times they raise vs. folding on the flop so it will be interesting to put the numbers with the actions of the players. im not going to be a hem robot though. some player soley rely on using hem for there decion making which can be horribly wrong im just going to use the stats to help direct me towards the right play. plus it graphs your play which is why im really buying it so that i can put that cool graph on my blogs... lol jk hahaha. now i told you that to tell you this. if this season of poker goes decent and i feel like my play is pretty solid even if i end up a slight loser. which my plan is to be a winning player at bare minimum a break even player this year. but if my play looks solid and i have a pretty good idea of if im going to not be working next winter or if im only working 40hrs a week then i think i am going to 24 table on stars at 100nl. pretty big jump i know. theres things that are pushing me towards it though. for the main reason is the vpp bonuses if i 24table 100nl ill become supernova that same month pretty much. and once you get 250,000 fpps wich is about a month of 4ohrs a week at 100nl than you can purchase th 4000$ bonus. so that means even if i lose 3000$ a month ill still be a winner and if i can break even at the tables or be a slight winner ill make 4k plus anything i can make at the tables and thats a really good prospect. i make more than that i my job but still im really thinking about it. im not quiting my job for it or anything like that my job is the main reason id be able to do that but if im only working 40hrs or less a week this winter im really pushing towards the idea. on that same idea i was reading the same 100nl reg that 24tables and he said if your a winning player 50 buy ins should be enough but if not youd be safe with 100 buy ins. so for me since i can affor it i will buy in for 100 buy ins that means ill be dropping 10,000$. it sounds like i have a gambling problem doesnt it lol.the only reason im gonna deposit that much is because the bonuses are there to help you out. and if i do horrible and just see super negative results then ill go back to depositing 2k a year and maybe try it again 3 or 4 years down the road but i am confident i will do good, but its a year a way and plenty of time to think about it and plan it out.

now im gonna try and defend myself from being a bad player haha. on poker table ratings it shows that im down 4800$ but they dont account for tourney winnings. i might actually be down that much at the cash tables maybe. but im really down 3800$ overall. so some skeptics might say well your a losing player and you want to drop 10k yeah thats real smart. but the first 2k was the first time i played real money poker and i was playing against regs which i didnt know i was new at poker. then the next 1k i was learning this last 500 ive been evalutating my play to become a better play thats why im going to see how this next year goes before i make any big decisions. oh yeah i forgot to mention that thats another reason why i was going to get hem was so that i can get use to it for a year before 24tabling with it. it really is a mass tablers tool any.

so those are my thaughts this week im pretty excited for everything coming up in my life just about 6-9 weeks and my life will be pretty suspensfull and exciting and ill try and blog everything i can on the way to the top or to the bottom. either way it will be suspensfull so stay tuned and if you play poker good luck at the table. (shout out to Yaboytizzle who i transfered 10$ to micro grind it up kid)

heres that clip i was talking about its not very good quality im still working on converting hand so yeah. http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/2410839

what a lovely month this has not been so far

well poker has put me into the front seat of the rollercoaster heading down the first hill so to speak. i started this week and the beggining of september with high expectations and big thaughts but i havnt come through. i went on a horrible down swing this week and im down to 175$ i was up to 575 at one point last week so thats a 16 buy in downswing pretty harsh. there were a few thoughts ran through my head one is about under playing my bankroll in order to be able to come back from downswings that happen like this wich they actually occur frequently sometimes, you have to be able to have a big enough roll to be able to take a big hit and still rebound. if you move down then its going to take you twice as long to get back just to even and you could suffer another dowswing in that time. i believe thats one of my biggests leaks that ive discovered since ive really been evalutating my play, i really believe i am a good player not an outstanding great player yet but i believe i am an above normal good player. now that is good and all but if i dont have the amount of leeway to be able to let my skills do the work then ill still lose. what im saying is i went the past couple years going by the 20 buy in rule you allways have 20 buy ins for your bankroll. well realistically you only have 10 because say your playing 50nl well you need 1000$ roll for that well if you lose 10 buyins you have to move down to 25nl to be able to have 20 buyins at 25nl. and thats how ive been playing the past couple years now a 10 buyin downswing is an easy day for a 24 tabler they get hit with that almost everyday or atleast a couple times a week before the varriance comes back on their side. so when i get hit with a 10 buy in downsing id have to move down and like i said it would take twice as long at the next lower level to break even at the next higher level. but also having a 175$ roll doesnt leave that much room but ive got a back up cause i still have 40,000 fpp's for the 215 satalites all i need to do is win at least won and ill be fine for when and if i have to move down to 10nl. now on a side note the wcoop is going on at stars for about another week and inspite of that they arnt doing the 215 satalites till its over, well not the 5400 fpp satalites that are the most profitable. so i need to be able to hang on for another week before i can play those satalites i told myself that if i get down to 100$ then ill drop to 10 nl so that ill still be playing till the satalites are available.

on another note i swtiched from 6max back to full ring for a few reasons, one is for when i move to vegas im going to be playing full ring in the casinos and im trying to get back into the swing of full ring (although theres not mcuh to get used to haha) another reason is cause of varriance. in 6 max varriance is so much more of a factor you have big rises and big falls much more often but in the long run if your a winning player 6 maxis very profitable but for me i have 3 buyins im trying to nurse so i can keep playing 25nl for the time being. and on more reason is kind of why i switched to 6 max more than anything. when i started playing poker i started at 100nl.. the only worst level i think to start at would be 200nl the reason why is cause theres about 7 or 8 players at the table that are regs/pros and even 50 nl has quite a few but only about half the table. so playing 2 years of that and 50nl i was pretty much tilting at the fact that there was so many players that were winning players and any wrong step i did it cost me ( i was a much worse player back then) so halfway through this last year when i got beat back down to 50nl i switched to 6 max cause it seemed there were a lot more bad players per table and i could also play a lot of hands from any position compared to full ring. i think that was a very helpful decision. although there are more swings and more varriance 6 max taught me how to play the situations in poker. i learned how to play hand playing full ring any one can play aces or flop a set but its about edges and situations and a whole lot more that make you a winning player. 6 max makes you play looser and puts you in more situations where you have to asses a lot more. it really really taught me situational poker playing and has greatly increased my play. i didnt play yesterday but today i played a little bit and although i lost just over a buy in so far i can see a lot off bad plays and lot of spots for profitable plays so i think im going to stick to full ring and try out may game this next season.

as for work its going pretty good the only sucky thing but isnt really sucky is that instead of the job being over november first they want us to stay as long into november that we can befor the water starts to ice up or untill december 1st. which is good and bad it moves my moving to vegas one more month later wich is kinda lame, but i get more money the longer i stay so thats good but the rent is up novmeber first at the place im at now so im going to have to put my stuff in storage or somthing and find a place to stay for a month possibly so we'll see how that goes. but other than that it will leave me about 4-5 months in vegas for me time which will still be great unless i get that job offer in washington which would be great but bad for the vegas move lol.\

now i want to talk about a few hands actually im going to try and post them hold on... well i cant seem to do it haha im not trying very hard but i know theres converters to put the hands on your blog so ill learn how to when im not being lazy, but here we go

the first hand was a good spot for me to lay down a big hand had i only put some effort into taking my time to think about things. that is another one of my biggest leaks and i am working on it.

but i was in the sb with 78 of clubs mp opend like 3x button called and i called. ( i coulda 3 bet but thats a profitable call with a good hand)
flow come q 10 blank with 2 clubs i check mp bets about 3/4 pot i think and then button calls and i call. turn was a 9 not of clubs. mp bets half pot and button calls i thaugth at that time that the mp wasnt bluffing he might of had Aq or better but what was wierd was the smooth call by the button if he had kj he should raise there cause i was either on a draw maybe set mining or somthing else and he would have raised had he have a set either on the flop or the turn so somthing was fishy but i was getting exactly 4-1 on the call so i called the river was a flush i checked i was concerned he actually had a flush mp check and button shoved me and the button started the hand with about 120bb and his shove on the river was a little wierd casue it was a pot sized shove i thaught if he had a flush why would he shove like that why not try and extract value well that thaught process took about 5 seconds literally and i called mp folded and he showed kj of clubs. now had i thaught at least 20 more seconds on this obvious big decision i would have been pretty sure i could have folded. i cant remember folding to many flushes unless im pretty sure my opponent had me beat and this was one of those situations. the player was kind of a bad player but he was smart enough to think that i also had a flush and i believe thats why he shoved cause he knew i had a flush and would probablly not lay it down. atleast i hope he was that smart haha i mean i could of had the ace flush idk.

this next hand is just kind of how ive been running this past week but yeah. it was actually from a full ring game today against a decent reg. he raised from utg+2 i believe and i had kj of clubs on the button and called everyone else folded. flop came 8 8 rag i think, 2 clubs. he bet i called turn was a club he bet about half pot i think and i raised giving him 3-1 to call i thaught if he had the ace of clubs he was calling or maybe a big club. turn was an ace of dimonds he checked and i shoved which was a little over 1/2 the pot myabe 2/3 pot so if he had ak for some reason he would call or somthing around there it is also a line that bluffers take so i could easily get payed off there well he turned over aa for a river full house.i dont think his turn call was super horrible. it would have made more sense with the ace of clubs but i could of had a lot of hands that could beat him and on a board like that with a raise with enough behind to be pot comitted i would have thaught a reg like him would have got away from the aces but i guess he got stubborn, fortunitley for him he sucked out and stacked me it was kinda weird that he checked on the river as well which makes me think he thaught i was on a bluff cause if i had a flush or sull house i would call anyway so why not bet to make sure i go all in . the only way i would bet on the river would be if i had an 8 or a bluff ( as well as the full house and flush) but to make sure he would have gotten paid off i think a shove from him is more profitable there but i guess its debateable.

anyways thats how ive been running this week, hopefully the switch to full ring goes good and i can keep playing 25nl ummm other than that i guess ill just wait untill next week so laterrrrs

addition to the last post

ok this is the addition i was going to do, yesterday i was super tired and couldnt hardly think half way through the post so i had to stop lol. all im really going to talk about is expectations and what i expect from moving to vegas. so first ill start with vegas i pretty much summed it up in the last post but ill restate why i moving there. its not to just play poker i actually have a list of "whys", heres some of them though ive lived in ak for about 20 years and i dont want to be here another winter, im fine with the winter but there getting to me more and more. almost all my friends have either moved out of state are off at college or joining the millitary, i have a couple friends that are still here but im pretty sure there gonna get out in the next couple years anyway, im young and single and want to go out and live it up a little, i think i have a good chance of working year round with the company im working for now so this might be the last full winter that i can do what i want, of course poker, its a city where i will never be bored and i can always find things to do, i have a couple friends there already unfortunitley they dont play poker though, i need a change and i need to live on my own. i can think of plenty more reasons but those are just the main ones. so moving to vegas isnt just for poker its also a personal interest . now for the trip and actually living there. im going to be driving from ak to colorado to visit relatives then to vegas so the whole trip will be about 4500 miles ill get the uhaul for 12 days or 20$ extra a day after that but i dont see it taking that long. i think going through canada is like 2000 miles and thats the only part i dred i drove it once before and theres only a couple major towns along the way other than that its pretty desolate so if i were to break down it would be pretty expensive and super disheartining. but im going to take it easy probablly drive 5 hours at a time or so keep my truck working and not over run it i plan on doing about 5-700 miles a day so i should be fine then while im in seattle i might stay a night but i might have that meeting with the vp of operations for the company i work for so if hes like we will call you when somthing comes up or anything like that then im still headed to vegas but if hes like yeah we got work for you right now then thats my end point and ill end up moving to washington instead haha so i guess washington is the check point for me. there are casinos in washington unlike ak but theres only a couple really decent ones and i think its hard to find a nl spread. if i were to be working year round the money would start flowing in for me so instead of buying in every year with a bankroll of 2000$ i might up it to like 10000$ but that would be a couple years down the road, and thats for a different post later down the line. now if i did make it to vegas i will keep my stuff at my exs parents house or a storage unit till i found an apartment, apartments there are super cheap so you can really get a good bang for your buck so im deffinitley not gonna be living in some sleezy joint. it will be my first place living on my own so im excited and im pretty sure its gonna be a bachelor pad lol. rent will be like 650-800 so thats deffinitley not a problem even if i didnt work for 5 years haha. im gonna give myself a 4000$ live bankroll for 200nl, i told myself id only buy in every year for 2000$ but thats not enough for 200nl at thats the lowest limit they offer plus i can easily afford it, its not like im just dropping hundreds and not stopping if i lose that than its back to online play which i am giving myself 600$ on full tilt to take advantage of rake back as well ass the first time deposit bonus so id actually get 1200 online. i think i will be playing 25nl online cause the way things go online you can really take a hit before it starts to go back up even if i lost my live bankroll id still hang out at the casinos and observe and mingle so yeah.

now for the expectations. this past 3 months i have learned so much and have really delved deep into my game and the game itself i have seen a ton of improvment even though i havnt seen great results yet i know i am on the right track. this next year i really do think at minimum i will be break even. im not saying im some junkie betting on races saying all i need to do is win this one time. i am actually taking the time and emersing myself into the poker world and i am becoming an all around good poker player. i still need some work to be a great player but i can tell im on my way. and if i get beat in vegas so be it. thats not going to stop my journey of wining at poker how many pros have either been broke before making a lot of money or were losing players in the begining before making it big. i dont want to be famous or anything i just want to show consitant results and be able to beat the games i play while competing against players in a challanging skillfull game those are my goals. and however much money i end up wining is in the air. while im in vegas i want to try and make a couple poker friends im really sure im going to be playing at the venetian almost every day so ill get pretty recognizable after a couple months and ive seen some younger people there playing so it shouldnt be to hard getting to know some regualrs. also outside of poker i plan on living this winter carefree i really just want to let loose and have fun. not all crazy and throwing hundreds of dollars around i mean i still am a penny pincher lol but i am going to have fun with my life while there. i am going to keep my blog going and report results about poker and life in vegas, i plan on having a decent routine and wake up work out play online poker for a few hours head to the casino for like 8-10 hours then im not sure after that but on the weeknds ill probablly just play in the casinos its to profitable not to. so yeah i have about 7 weeks of work left before i start my journey to where ever it leads me im super excited and cant wait if i can think about anything else about this upcoming winter for me i will post it in future blogs but untill next week laters

my new season of poker/ up coming life changes

ok so i have sooo much to talk about, first ill tell you about poker this week and work and then ill delve into the upcoming season and expectations and i have to talk a little about my personal life for that and then a couple other things so this is the post ive pretty buch been waiting to do since i started this blog so here goes. first off im on a down swing at poker. monday and tuesday went pretty good i think i started the week at like 493 i believe and bywednesday i had it to 575. then thursday i lost a little and friday- sunday i started the downswing. i was really siked going into the weeknd i was ready to take advantage of the fish that play on the weeknds and to be honest i am really pleased with my play actually that isnt cutting it i thaught my play was very good especially saturday i was making great plays and planed out bluffs and thinking of hands and making hero calls and big laydowns i am very very pleased with how i played- why the downsing then cause i hit a bunch of coolers i think i lost one buy in though due to stupiity but everything else i played great but just time for the downswing my bankroll is down to 423 ugghh, but thats alright im sure it will come up. im posting on monday cause we worked on sunday and i really felt like playing the weeknd out instead of posting so i did gues i should have posted instead haha. the downswing doesnt bother me one because i am very sure about my game at 25nl and also based off of big time regs that 24table this is nothing. if you look at thier graphs which is usually somwhere between 150 - 250k hands a month a 10-15 buy in swing isnt uncomon it can actually occur twice in the same month good thing for them that they multi table so much so it cuts down the variance but for me its going to take a lot nonger to see the same results they see in a month. but thats my choice i dont want to multi table that many and thats fine by me. as far as bankroll goes if for some reason i cant get a upswing going i do still have like 40k fpp's left to play the 5400 fpp satalites for 215 a pop my win rate on those is about 2-1 so i am usually winning half of those and if i can ill be well off. im still going to under play my bankroll so for the fact of downsings like this in the past id move up to fast and i believe it really did hurt me it never gave me the chance to be able to take a hit. i dont have a set buy in amount to move up or anything but just when i feel the right time is i will. so going into this week i feel pretty good, work is a lot better the guy i work directley with is doing a lot better hes had a rough year this year and i can tell its affected him and kinda comes out in his work thats why its been hard to work with him lately but things are going better now. i also feel good about poker this week just wish i could play more than a couple hours at max a day but ill be getting to that shortly. another thing about work is i got about 5-7 weeks left and we might be working 7 days a week which is good cause thats where all the money is. and right after the job is done thats pretty much the begging of the new season for my poker every year. which leads me to another topic.

poker. since my regular job usually ends the first of november every year i consider that the begining of the new year for my poker playing. now what im going to say next is somthing im super excited for but i have a lot of detailing to do so hold on. first of imma give a brief description on my relationship history. im 22 almost 23 but when i was going to high school i dated the same girl of and on all the way through and a year out of highschool which is when i started playing fake money poker basically just beginning to learn about it. when i turned 19 i had a new girlfriend and when i was 21 i was still with her and thats when i finally started depositing money online so i consider that the beggining of my poker carreer actually it was my 21st birthday (nov. 10th). but im 22 now and weve been split up for about 5 months now. and let me tell you i have never seen so many improvments in my game in such a short amount of time. specifically the last 3 months i have taken the game and my game really serious and have been improving ever since. im not blaming being in a relationship the reason im not winning at poker right now. but i know i didnt pay as much attention to poker when i was in a relationship. the first year i think i was destined to lose my bankroll. im sorry im not tom dwan or phil galfond and turned 50$ into 5 million or whatever but neither has 99.999% of other players, for me the first year was really the first tim playing a serious game of poker and i started at 100nl one of the nittiest levels to start at and it didnt take long for me to start losing. after this second year it was kind of the same story except for up to about a month or two after our break up thats when i started really seriously delving into my game and making any changes and finding the slightist things i could do to be better. im still working at it and i am far from having a prefect game. now for the big suprise i wanted to say forever. i might be moving to vegas for the winter... before anyone judges let me explain. while me and the last girlfriend were dating we were gonna move there. her parents are in the mitlitary and thats where they are stationed now so we were gonna move there. so it was already in my mind to move there. another thing is that this winter if i dont work i am totally going to emerse myself into the poker world and communtiy and vegas is prolly the best place to do that i really want to make a couple poker friends and be able to talk poker with them i know it would help my game tremendously. another reason for vegas is i want to live life im single young i play poker and i want to be entertained this winter instead of couped up in my house during the winter of alaska sitting on my computer. heres the thing though one of the reasons i chose vegas is cause it would be easy to move there the reason for that is because i would stay at my ex's parents house for the first couple weeks till i found an apartment which is fine my ex and me are now good friends and her mom loves me so everythings fine with that. and no im not going there for her this is totally somthing that i want and need to do for my self. one thing though is about my summer job, the company that i work for up here in alaska is based out of seattle i really want to work for them full time and i have recently mentioned this to the managment. they told me that they might set up a meeting with the main operations guy in seattle to see about work for me with them in the future outside of alaska. so when im driving through alaska on my way to vegas i might stop and have that meeting, and if they say they have full time work for me right then and there then i am going to have to take it and not move to the fun filled vegas. there will be other times in my life for long poker times but if that opportunity with my job comes up i have to take it.

as far as vegas goes this is what i am going to be doing. if i move there i am going to drive there cause i need my stuff and truck for everything. i have relatives in colorado so im going to stop there first then vegas its about 4500 miles which i figure with all the stops and stuff about 10 days. when i arrive ill stay at my ex's parents house till i get an appartment which souldt take long at all then start my life there. im not going there with the hopes of making a living from poker or getting on tv or being a millionaire. for me its more keeping myself entertained with a city i know im going to love and not be bored in. as far as poker goes im pretty sure ill be playing at the venetian most of the time.

before i go any further with the last topic i think i need to talk about my upcoming expectations in poker for this new year. since im going to go to vegas if things go right. i will give myself 4000$ live bankroll and 600$ online bankroll
, the reason for these numbers is for one 4000$ because 200nl is the smallest game in town for nl holdem which will give me 20 buy insand plenty of time for play. and 600$ for online. i plan on switching to full tilt for a coule reasons one for the 1st time deposit bonus so if i deposit 600 ill get 600 and have a roll of 1200 to play with on full tilt i am also deciding to keep the money i have on pokerstars so that i can still play there i really love playing at stars but i need an edge which is another reason im going to swtich to full tilt is to get rake back as well. as far as what i know about 200nl live and from what ive heard and seen, its a super soft game if you compare it to online its comparable to 25nl or even 10nl at times which is very juicy. as for expectations this year i really believe this is going do be a good year with how much my game has improved in the last 3 months im really excited for this new year. i really believe things are gonna go good and at minimum ill be break even. like i said i am going to totally emerse myself in poker this winter if i dont have to work. so im pretty much going to eat sleep and think poker i really cant wait . theres so many thaughts going through my head i know im forgetting a lot of info so anything i miss i will write in other posts. outside of poker if i move to vegas i will also be a great success and fun time. i have a home gym that im taking with me i dont work out in the summer cause i work 12 hours a day but this winter i plan on working out 5-7 days a week and really plan on getting a lot of muscle deffinition going. not so much bulking up but more so just getting super toned and looking good. im not really a diet peson never have been and it doesnt seem to affect me ive got a pretty fast motabolism. so ill have poker in my life woriking out and a city full of entertainment and excitment. i am going to post everything so mainly me haha will be able to look at how things are going. i will be spending a lot of time playing live wich will prlly be about 300-350 hands a day and then plenty of online poker inbetween everything else to me playing 200nl will be a luxury it will feel like playing high stakes because i play 25nl now so i will feel like a high roller in my own shoes. i have a lot of money to live with so moving there isnt hardly going to dent my reall life bankroll also its actually super cheap to live there outside of the actuall city its only about 650-800 for an apartment which i will actually be saving money on how much i pay for rent now. im actually getting pretty tired now i might continue this blog tomorow so i can finish my thaught so stay tuned

short lived

im dissapointed in myself. i could just type that sentence and that would be all i needed to put in this blog. 50nl went horrible. just to start the blog i got beat back down to 25nl. to recap my play at 50nl i think i played about 2 1/2 weeks of it maybe but in the beggining i was taking it slow to see any major changes so i wouldnt take any big hit right off the bat. i reallized there a bit more aggressive and a few other things but all of wich i expected from the next level in stakes. well from there i started playing all four tables of 50nl and it was like the week days with mostly regs playing being pretty aggressive in decent spots. so i up'd my aggression, in a way the level made me play out of my boundaries which was good but more bad than good. then the weeknd rolled around where there was a decent amount of fish. there were really aggressive as well but not smart aggressive just dumb aggresive and i think it tilted me unknowingly. i lost a bit that weeknd and then the whole next week i played like a moron i was totally off my game and i suffered the price. i think one thing was that when i started at 50nl i felt i either deserved to win or i was entitled to but neither happend and i fell fast and hard. i had a couple buy ins left at 50nl but i decided to get a head start on 25nl and jump back down in stakes. i dont have a problem moving down in stakes but i dont like feeling defeated. i played yesterday but wasnt really into it and decided to quit after losing a buy in. i went to the state fair later that day with friends had a blast and almost puked from the rides. it was raining and we were cold and tired but it was a great time i came home and went straight to bed. i was playing today and started off decent won a couple buy ins and it was going fine. then i lost a couple in some bad spots. took forever for me to flop a set like 500 hands and when i finally did the guy had an over set. then i got into another cooler and my last all in i had kk and the guy called all the way down with 66 making a runner runner straigth on the river for the rest of the stack from then i decided i really wouldnt be able to play right and cut my losses and jumped on here im down to 493 i had it up to 515 today before all that happend and when i was playing 50nl i had it up to 1225 at one point so you can tell how im feeling right now. actually i want to play i want to take an hour break and then jump into it again but im not going to im not gonna play the rest of the day or tomorow and just settle down try to get back to me and get back at the games. right now i think im in the middle of a downswing as well as playing bad the past couple weeks but i still believe im a winning player at 25nl. and if i get another shot at 50nl im really gonna take my time and i do believe i can beat 50nl. i do believe in myself and i believe in the end ill be a winning player. i have 38,500 fpps left which will let me play more 5400 fpp satalites for 215 a pop hopefully i get lucky enough 2 win at least 2 and then rebuild from there. ive been thinking about super nova elite pursuit latley. if i ever know that im going to have the time i am going to go for it. say i get fired or like my union kicks me out for some reason or i know im not gonna work for 8-12 months than i will go for it i kinda ran the numbers out and you can do it in 6 months running 24 tables but itll take 12 hours a day for 6 months and thats a hard grind on the body. 8-12 months is a lot more leanient and verry do able. i have plenty of money in my reall bank account so onone point its histarical that i feel so down about loosing 200$ or even going from 1225-500$ is pretty small amount to me considering how much money i have. but that just shows how much winning means to me. its obviously not about the money at this point its about being able to beat the game and not being able to make you hingry for success once you beat the game then you can worry about making money. im really trying though even if it takes me a couple years i really want to win and i plan on keeping this game a part of my life even if i am a loser in the end but i wont get out of control with it lol i know my boundaries and i am very stingy when it comes to money so i dont spend that much lol. but back to sne. to accomplish sne i would 24 table 100nl full ring. ive never 24 tabled before i think the most ive done is 8 but i would invest in table ninja as well as hem just to make it that much easier and so i can record my results. even if i was a losing player if i made sne i would still come out ahead in the money because of the fpp bonuses. ive played with people that are down 40k from cash games but they are sne and are actaully making money because of the bonuses. you make 4k a month from the bonuses and then they give you i think 2 tourney tickes ones like 5200$ for the main event at the wcoop and then another one which you can just turn those to tourney dollars and sell them so even if you lost 20k in cash games youd still come out of the year woth well above that now if you could be a break even player or even just a slight winner you would make a lot of money wich i see now why there are so many regs at 100nl and 200nl 24 tabling. but to me its a pretty far off thaught cause unless somthing goes horribly wrong i probablly wont ever get that shot but i will if iget the chance. back to reality... lol m next post is going to be about my upcoming golas for the next year in poker i get done with my summer season usually around nov. 1st and i think this year there wont be much of a winter season for me which is fine so i will have months to grind if i dont work this winter. i have a lot of details to talk about next week and big plans im super excited to reveal my secret ive been hiding since i started this blog even though no one reads it lol. but ill save it for next week. i gotta get my head right for this next week thoug so laters.


ok so im reveiwied my play for the week and the hands that i have been losing the majority of were either coolers or suckouts. im not complainging im jsut stating. but i also want to state that mainly when the pot gets big or on the river i really need to think hands threw. i do think about the hands but most the times for like 5 seconds then i quick call if i think im ahead and prolly only 50% of the time when that happens i only win half the time. so im jotting it down on the blog cause it makes it easier for me to actually commit to it when i record it but i think one of the biggest leaks to my game is not taking enough time to think the hand threw i really really need to do that but yeah i wanted to post that so that i burn it into my head

oh one more thing i forgot to talk about is my bankroll, more improtantlly my buyins i read a lot of other peoples blogs and a lot of other things and sometimes actually a lot of the time when they are in the middle of a downswing they can loose like 30 buyins ( thats on the extreme side but ive seen it) so what this shows to me is that these guys really under play their bankroll what im saying is for a basic stratagey of bakroll managment they say 20 buyins once you loose 10 you go to the next lower level so that you will always have 20 buy ins. i think that pertains more towards live play cause its a little easier to beat and thus your bad swings arnt as bad as online. so what im getting at is that the reason most of the regs have such a huge bankroll compared to the limits their playing is because they leave theirselfs enough room to go on a downstreak and still recover from it with out having to move down, which is a really good stratagey it gives yourself the same amount of time at the same level to recover vs. having to move down and it taking twice as long to try and just get back to when you started to lose. so im going to go about that stratagey starting now. im not going to have a set buy ins that i need to get to so that i can play at the next level ill just see how the games are and ease into them but if im losing ill move down to the next levels when i have 20 buyins for that next level. so instead of moving up in stake when i have 15 or 20 buy ins for the next higher level ( total bankroll). ill probablly under play my bankroll like the regs and prolly have like 40 buy ins or somthing before i start easing into the next level, but if i lose i at the current stakes i play at then ill drop down when i reash 20 buys ins at the next lower stakes... i know a lot of mumbo jumbo but i wanted to add it in :)

augusts results

well august is finally over had some good times and some bad. so lets start with the good i started the month at 409$ i also had about 85,000fpps that i hadnt used in 2 years of playing and decided to play the 5400 fpp satalites to the sunday million, but just take the tourney dollars instead. ive played 4 i think maybe 5 but ive won 2 and earned 430t$ from that but subtract the tourney money im up 118 dollars this month. with winning those tourney dollars i was able to step up to 50nl the last 2 weeks of august. i slowly played in them the first week and then the second week i played all 4 tables of 50nl. the first week went good and ran my total roll up to 1225 but then the weeknd hit me and i found out that the past couple weeknds of 50nl hey are super aggressive at the tables i got 3bet prolly 20% of my raises i played pretty fast because of it and i suffered this last monday i played the same way before catching myself and going over my play then yesterday i wa able to come back a little bit. the last downswing i am for sure was my fault and not anything to do with varriance. i know i can beat 25nl if varriance doesnt destroy me. but i also think i can beat 50nl. i just need a couple weeks of mediocre play and ill be on my way so hopefully a downswing isnt coming upon me. right now including all the tourney dollars i have a roll of 907$ i feel bad that most of my money came from tourney dollars cause it makes me feel like i cant play but with online poker taking advantage of your fpp's is part of the game plus theres plenty of regs out there that are only fpp pros so that makes me feel a little better. i have 39,000 fpp's left so every weeknd ill play 2 or 3 satalites and try and win some more tounrney dollars. im prolly not going to end up getting that many more hands in this week because im pretty much filling my time up today with this blog and saturday i plan on playing a little then going out and being hungover and at the state fair on sunday then fix my truck window on monday so next week might be better for volume anyway. i feel good about my game. im looking for a lot of improvments all the time and im finding them as i go. on another topic im pretty close to finishing sklansky book fuzzy thinking in poker gaming and life. its deffinitly interesting but not special most of it is him going into details about random thaughts of poker and everything inbetween that i might take a couple things away from reading the book but its not a must buy book. i like theory and practice a lot better and i plan on reading it again after im done with this one. i have some big news that i plan on saying in a couple of weeks but that is for then and not now. i think i have more to talk about but i just cant remember. i think september is going to be a good month and i have high expectations for it ummmm i cant really think of anything else so ill post again sunday. later