january recap

so today was the last day i was going to put in time at the tables so instead of having a new years post and an end of the month post i decided to break them up.

so the last week turned out decent for me and ive come to realize a few things esspecially playing 3/5 nl. to start the month off i was going through what seemed to be pretty standard varriance mixed with me getting back into the hang of things and readjusting to the live poker scene and not have been playing for the previous 6 months. although it felt like i was able to adjust pretty quickly i was having a lot of ups and downs in my sessions and for the first 3 weeks i was breaking even which im pretty certain was just varriance. this last week went more decent than the first and i started to show results and im ending the month exactly 2000$ in profit. when i first started playing this month i stated that 3000 should be a decent monthly average and then after a week went by i gave my self a goal for the month to get 2000 and then the more days that went by the more i just wanted to end the month with just a little profit and then this week happend and i was able to land on my original goal. i still think that 3000 is a decent monthly average but the numbers can be tweaked a bit depending on varriables of course. i think if your running well and putting in decent volume then 5000 would be a verry profitable month and if your running mediocre and still putting in a lot of volume than 4000 should be obtainable and of course if your not running so hot or not putting in that much volume than 3000 or less is probablly the right figure. of course it all depends on the varriables and conditions but thats just my basic thaughts on how the numbers would come out.

now im going to talk about somthing that ive been thinking about for the last week. i put in 24 sessions this month and it came out to 159 hours with 2000 in profit which is right around 5500 hands and turns out to be 12.50$ an hour. of course 5500 hands isnt much of a sample so i wont hesitate on my dollar per hour amount. what i really wanted to get at was through the whole month i only had one huge winning day where i booked a 2100$ win right after a downswing. i also destinctively remembering having a stack of 1200-1500 several times and i would say atleast 7 or 8 sessions ive had a stack of 1200 the thing is almost every single time ive had a stack where
ive had 300bb's on the table i end up losing like half of it before the night was over. it got to the point to where i was saying night after night "i should have just picked up and left when i had 1500". the thing of it was that i was more focused in putting in the hours and was really aiming for 8 hours a night on average so i would usually always leave at midnight. although i do believe poker is one long session, each individual session is different with a different table vibe and varriables. so this next month when i reach 1200-1500 and the next hour after that is a little dull or slow im going to pick up and end the session not even worrying about how much time i put in. if i would have done that this last month i would be sitting with at least 4000$ in profit and not 2000$. i think the only time im going to stay on the table with more money than that is if i know im running hot and the table has a lot of profitable spots. so if this next month turns out either super positive or super bad ill rethink my approach but i have a feeling it will go better than this last month. also taking this approach will give me more time to practice my pick up game. i dont really have anything to input about my pick up becasue i didnt do any and was just focused on poker this last week. tomorrow is new years eve and i plan on going out and running a lot of solid game. i was thinking about going to this big party at the bottom of the space needle but i think it will be sold out so ill probablly just hit the downtown strip area. i guess one thing did happen though. after christmas one of the girls whos numbers i got when i first got here texted me after not talking for a couple weeks. we ended texting for a few more days and i suggested we have a movie night either at her place or mine and she seemed down with it so next week might be fun. this girl was the one who seemed pretty conservative and i dont like the idea of trying to get intimate with a girl if shes really conservative like that but i do need to increase my female social circle and she is cute so she can help me with that. i also got a new 55" flat screen t.v. which is sick and my apartment is pretty much all set the only thing is that i stream netflix onto my t.v. and my laptop is now a little old and laggy so it lags a little which is lame so maybe it will break and force me to buy a new one but we'll see. i made up a graph of my sessions on cardplayer.com but it doesnt allow you to save it as a picture so i cant transfer it on to here the next post i do i might add a graph that i make myself if it turns out looking ok. anyways in a few days ill have a fun post on my newyears and everything to deal with next year and this year and i will also be re-doing my blog design so stay tuned for that cosmonauts.

getting aquainted

alright, so last time i said things werent going so hot in poker and i was breaking even pretty much the whole month and i wasnt putting that much effort into the female attraction part of my life either. well things have improved a little only slightly though for now.

to start i will say merry christmas of course. so poker over the last week was a little bit of a ride the first 3 days i lost like 4 buyins and then the last 4 days have been decent and now im sitting up 800$ for the month. i first wanted to try and make 1500 this month but seeing how its going ill take whatever i get as long as its positive. im not going to play today but i plan on putting in a bit of volume for the remaining days of the month to try and win a little more. now after playing at this specific casino for about a month i have come to like and dislike certain things. one thing i particularly like is playing with a lot of the same people. i never thaught i would like playing with "regs" but what i found is that after playing with a lot of players for a while you figure out how they play and you can play against it which you cant really do so much when your sitting down with somone youve never played. there are still a lot of losing players and losing regs so its just a matter of figuring out there play and countering it. so givin the fact that i had to move into my apartment this month, get everything set up, deal with the holidays, and get readjusted to live poker again im ok with how my results are going. i still do feel like i wasnt running that well for the whole month but ill recap my month next week when i do the monthly review.

the female aspect of my life has been about the same. nothing too exciting as of yet. although i am becoming more involved in improving it. im starting to get more eager to want to improve my results just like i was when i first started playing poker. im putting in a lot of effort understanding how "game" works and really delving into the study of it. just like poker though you can study it all you want but your not going to win at it if you dont go out and use it. this last week i went out to run some day game a couple times i did a couple approaches but they werent anything special. when friday came around i was really hyped to go to seattle and run some night game and try some new things. i went to a couple new clubs which i quickly found out i didnt like so i went to the club that i had been to before and being that it was 2 days before christmas there wasnt a whole lot to choose from i did see a couple girls that i talked to for about 15 minutes but after interacting with them i found out they werent really my type. i was texting a guy i worked with and sayed he was up the street about a mile at an area called bell town. so i drove up there to try and meet up with him. we never did meet up but im glad he told me about the area cause it lookes like a lot better of an area to run night game cause the street is lined with bars and ultra lounges. he was talking about going out for new years so i might do that with him. this next week will probablly be pretty slow in the female department because i really want to put time in on poker to try and get a little more results

and in about a week of course is new years. im actually pretty excited for it. not just new years eve but the whole new year its self ive got some pretty determining new years goals and motivations so next week ill will have some decent content in it untill then stay tuned cosmonauts

in the middle

well now that i have internet set up i should be posting every sunday again if not a couple times a week. i can pretty much sum this week from the last time i posted in one word.. mehhh. ill start with life/pick-up and then poker

so life i suppose is going pretty steady which is the only thing thats showing results at the moment unfortunitly. my workout is going pretty smooth so the first week is over, i dont know how long ill work out for this time but it will probablly be somwhere between 12-16 weeks again with the last like 6 weeks being diet/muscle toning part of the work out. i think i said this last post but i baught a new couch this week and ill be picking it up this thursday so im pretty stoked about that, after i get my couch im going to get a bigscreen tv and then my apartment will be ready to start bringing the girls home... using the chloroform approach of course ;). so spreaking of picking up girls this week has been pretty hit and miss with a lot more misses than hits. the guy that i met here who is also a pua invited me to a going away party for one of his friends on friday night so i went to that. all his friends were rugby players and had some pretty interesting party routines which were pretty histarical and the party was actually pretty intertaining there were probablly about 6 ot 7 girls there and right when i got there i talked to one of them for like 10 minutes and it didnt go anywhere and later i talked to another for about 10 minutes as well but i thaught she was there with a guy so i didnt progress with it. after the party fizzled out me and my friend went to that after hours club again. there wasnt a whole lot of hot girls there but we did dance with these two girls for a bit but after that not a whole lot really happend. while he was dancing with one of the girls i walked the room and saw a group of people together with one of the girls kinda excluded so i approached her and talked for a bit things were going good. she had a protective friend with her though saying that she was getting married soon or somthing like that so i was trying to win her over so i could talk to the girl without interuptions but they left about 30 minutes after i started talking to them. the one girl i was interested in seemed like she was into me and if i had more time with her i think it would have proven some results, but i was able to get a picture with her.
today i went out to try some day game, i was initially just going to go out for a couple hours then go play poker but i didnt really want to be at the casino after midnight and i wanted to put more than 5 hours in at the table so i just made the day for running game, which turned out pretty sad. it seemed like there was a lot of people out, unfortunitley there werent that many hot girls that were approachable. i went to several busy stores and it was all the same which is the main thing i dislike about day game is having to go out and find the hot girls. i only found one spot to apprach a girl after 6 hours and it turned out she was married...fun. im debating wether or not to go out tomorrow for round 2 since monday is pretty slow at the poker room so we'll see

poker poker poker. oh how frustrating you can be at times. so i think the last time i posted i said i was either up lik 250 or down 250. i cant remember anyway i was able to have a decent day at the tables a couple days ago winning 1000 and i was sitting at like +750 for the month and then yesterday happend *wipes tears away* i lost like 600 within the first couple hours of playing and i was like great going to be a day where im fight to try and break even and then this hand happend.

utg raises to 15$ utg+1 calls 15 mp1 calls 15 button calls 15 hero is sb with KK and raises to 80$

utg calls 65 utg+1 calls 65 2 folds
pot:~265
flop K T 6 one dimond hero checks, utg checks, utg+1 checks

turn 8 of dimonds hero bets 100$ utg calls 100 utg+1 folds

pot:465
river is 3 of dimonds hero bets 180$ utg gos all in for 400, hero calss 220 more

utg has AJ of dimonds for the flush

so yeah i check the flop cause i pretty much just put them on pairs if there going to call my big 3 bet like that so i didnt want to make them fold right away and i wanted to disguise my hand, on the turn i bet 100 so that i wouldnt bet them off there pair, the river i actually tanked for a while cause i was trying to think of an amount jacks or queens would call, and if he had a set of 10s then we were getting it in anyway so i settled on the number 180, when he shoves i snap call and didnt even think about the flush and that set me down 1100 for the night so now im down 400$ for the month which isnt a big deal just a whole lot of break even happening. hopefully this is me "running bad" because if it is than when i run good i should be able to make some decent cash, time will tell though. i do feel like im running poorley, not totally horrible but i know im not running good so im just waiting for it to turn around. when i was playing in vegas it seemed like the swings would last on average between 15-25 days and my last session was number 14 so i think some fireworks will happen soon either for the good or bad. so i guess ill report back next week or if somthing dramatic happens ill be sure to fill it in. untill next time stay tuned cosmonauts

settled in back on the grind

ok so its been a couple weeks since i did a post but ive been really busy getting my apartment set up and i didnt get internet set up untill yesterday. a bit has gone on since ive moved to washington so ill recap it by starting with life, girls, then poker.

so life has been going pretty smooth it seems like after getting here it took about 5 or 6 days to find the apartment that i wanted and its about 10 minutes away from the only casino that spreads a 3/5 nl game with a full buyin of 500. well its not true nl. they have a state law in washington saying that the max you can only bet is 500 at a time so they call it "spread limit" meaning you can bet anywhere from 5-500. so it kinda limits your play if your super deep but i havnt seen any instances yet but more on that later. so after finding my apartment i moved in a couple days later and it took me a few hours to do that and then got everything setup. a couple days ago i baught i new black leather couch that ill pick up next week and then im going to by a new flat screen tv and things will be all put together in my place. i also started working out again last week and i think ill keep a routine of 4-5 days a week. i went and talked to my real job a few days ago as well and it looks really slow there so theres a possibility i might be playing poker for the whole winter but if things were to start getting busy there i think it will be in a few months so i should be able to put in some poker time. other than that things have been going smooth so far. in the life section.

so my dating life has been up and down. when i first got here i met two girls during the day and i went on a date with both of them. one date went really good but i just didnt have the attraction for her like i thaught. the next date went alright but it turned out the girl was pretty conservative and i think it would take a lot of commitment to get into her pants and thats no bueno. i went to a night club in seattle which was fun it was a little small but it was cool i talked to a lot of girls in there and one of the sets went really good and it could have went even better if i would have made a couple of key moves but i learned from my mistakes after going home empty handed. i met this kid online at a pick up artist forum and we met up in real life he was only 19 but he still wanted to run game so i guess theres this club that they let 18 and up in from 2am-4am so we went to that hes a pretty cool kid and has got some game his self i met a girl in there and talked and danced for a while i got her number but im not going to call her cause her english was a little off and it was hard to communicate with her. its kind of a turn off whenever im trying to create attraction or say somthing that has meaning and they dont understand what im saying so i guess i just got the number for practice. after that my game fell off i didnt do any approaches for like a week and thats all it took for me to not feel comftorable doing them again. once i started playing poker as well my focused switched like 75% poker and 25% girls. im planing on trying to do more approaches during the day though and really trying to find a fuck buddy but its only going to happen if i put in the time. so thats how my pick up has been going so far.


now poker, so i started playing poker about 11 days ago and since then i have had a bit of swings getting back into the game. the first 2 days i won a total of 1500 and was like alright thats the way to return to the game then the next 3 days lost my ass for a total of almost 2800 then had a really hot day and i took home 2000, that day i had 3k sitting in front of me at my peak but like the last hour i lost 500 so i got up and left then over the last 4 days or so i was able to come out a little ahead. right now im sitting like 350 up. so pretty much break even. i think its a total of like 2500 hands or close to it yippppeeeee. so after about 10 days of playing and getting back into the grove of things i felt like i had a leak when it came to bluffing. not like the little stabs or c-bets or the small bluffs like that but the big tripple barrells for 50-80bbs to me it seems like i was winning half of them and getting called the other half. just a rough estimate. so i did a little studying and went over the type of players im playing and decided to cut that play down a lot. theres a couple of key reasons i decided to. so the player quality at the casino that i play at isnt all that great id say that 20% are actuall winning regulars, 50% losing regulars or breaking even and then the rest are just randoms. another thing is the player callibur. the winning regulars are ok and ocassionally ill run into one that will put me to the test here or there but theres not that many. so after playing in vegas i was able to compare the two. if there was a level inbetween 1/2nl and 2/5nl in vegas than thats where these players would be scaled at. they seem a little better than the average 1/2 player but not better than the vegas 2/5. that being said when i started playing full time in the winter last year grinding 1/2 i remember getting frustrated with my big bluffs as well and i remember at one point just not bluffing at all. i dont totally rmember what my ultimate stratagey was for bluffing big at those stakes but i know it wasnt with a frequent amount. thats how i feel playing at these tables, theres just not enough thinking players to be able to run those deep thaught bluffs to make it profitable. although whenever im in a spot against a player i believe can think deeply i note it and allow myself to run those big bluffs on them. so thats the only real trouble ive had so far, still kinda getting back into the swing of things after not playing for 6 months. like i said im pretty much break even as of now, i dont feel like im running super horrible but i dont feel like im running good either so im just waiting for the big upswing. i kinda gave myself a rough estimate on how much i should be able to win in a 6 month period. i decided that 15k-25k is an appropriate amount. with 15k being the amount where i have ran a little bad or didnt put in that many hours and 25k being the amount where i ran hot and put in a lot of work. i decided i should be able to make about 3k a month on average except for this month. due to me moving and the holidays coming up and me getting use to poker again. ill be happy with taking home 1500 this month. so we'll see how things go. im keeping track of all my sessions so at the end of the months ill make my own little month graph to put up. so thats it for now untill next time cosmonauts stay tuned