final week

the final scores are in for the year but this post will just be about this last week and month.

poker has gone very slowly mostly because of me. i ended up losing a little bit the last couple sessions i played and i also had 2 dates this past week so i didnt play on those days and since it was the end of the month and year i just wanted to finish ahead and since things were already a little rocky i didn't put much volume in.

for the month i am sitting up 1043$ its pretty measly in terms of what i could have achieved but based on how everything turned out, the volume and hours i put in at the tables and the other factors i guess im just happy im in the black for the month but im not really pleased. i know i really have to put more volume in if i want specific results but for the next couple of months im not sure i will be able to but im still going to shoot for at least 120hrs a month.

although poker was kind of a fail for the month. the life and daygame aspects were pretty decent. the activities for the month included going to knotts berry farm, going to six flags, playing laser tag untill exhaustion, going on 3 different dates with girls and probably more that i cant remember. so there has been plenty of fun. which in the last couple years it was kind of the other way around where it was 80% poker and 20% fun so thats another explanation on the poker results.

daygame is probably the more interesting story of this month. i did quite a bit of approaching this month and i think i got probably 8-10 numbers. a few flaked, i lost interest in a couple and the rest i have either took on a date or am still talking to.

 like i said i went on 3 dates this month 1 was with a mature female that we went and played mini golf. the date was fun and at the end of the date i ended up kissing up and down her neck but afterwards i wasnt really feeling the vibe so i told her i just wanted to be friends and weve stayed in contact since.

the next date was with an attractive blonde girl with blue eyes. i took her to an art museum which to me was pretty interesting but im not too sure she was feeling it so much. she had a pretty mellow personality and didnt really seem too outgoing so to speak, i finished that date with a simple kiss. im still a little undecided with her at the moment and im thinking about taking her out again in about a week.

the next girl was a girl that i met when i first got here. shes a low budget film actress and shes hungarian and has an accent. shes the one i like the most so far. we had plans on going to play laser tag but our schedules were contradicting each others so we arranged to get smoothies for a quick chat. we had a pretty good connection and im pretty sure she felt the same way i ended that date with a simple kiss as well. again im going to try and set up another date with her probably next week.

i have a couple other girls im talking too including a girl whos number i just got today who really seems into me so next week i might have a lot of date scheduling to do.

next month the wsopc and lapc start up at the bicycle casino and the commerce casino. i plan on playing a couple events at the wsopc and a few events at the lapc and i have big expectations for those events so i plan on playing really well in them. i plan on doing a yearly recap probably in the next couple of days so that one should be pretty long

tomorrow me and my friend are going to the electronic dance concert called white wonderland for new years eve so that is going to be really fun but ill post pics and stories about it on next sundays post maybe ill get lucky and pull a girl...fingers crossed. anyways untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)

finishing strong

alright this week has got some good stories and results so i feel pretty good about this week.

ill start it off with poker. I finally started to get a little traction at the tables and had a couple decent winning days in the beginning of the week and then the last day i played in the week i won a 3375$ pot with AA in a 3 way pot.

pre flop:
it folds to mp1 who limps, mp2 limps,
im in the hijack and raise to 35$, cutoff calls, bb calls, and mp1 and mp2 calls.

pot:175$
flop: 10 8 4 two spades
bb bets 100$, mp1 calls, mp2 calls, i call, cutoff calls,

pot: 675$
turn: 3 of hearts
bb checks, mp1 bets 400$, mp2 calls, i raise all in 1100$, cutoff folds, bb folds, mp1 calls 700 more, mp2 calls 100 more.

pot: 3375$
river: 3 of clubs

mp1 shows KJ of spades
mp2 shows J9 of suit
i win with AA

so pre flop mp1 is a reg fish, and mp2 was a wild old asian guy who plays baccarat. cutoff is a reg but probablly doesnt even break even. and bb was a businessman who probably plays 3 or 4 times a week.

so we were all pretty deep and i think the shortest stack was 120bb. i just wanted to iso the 2 middle position players and when the other 2 players came along i felt like things could get ugly.

on the flop when the bb lead out i felt like he would most likely have a 10. he had lead out a few times before and when it went to showdown it was top pair. when the mp1 called i felt like he had a really wide range and most of it was draws as well as mp 2

i just flatted there because the pot was getting pretty big compared to our stacks and i didnt want to raise, get called and the turn fill a draw so i just wanted to flat and see the turn and also had 1 more player left to act.  which he just called as well.

on the turn the bb checked and the mp1 instantly pushed out 400$ and mp2 instantly called. now i was pretty certain mp1 didnt have a set of 10s and most likely not 8s. i also felt like if he did have a set or even 2 pair that he would have raised on the flop. i wasnt really scare of mp2 because of the same reasons but if he did have my hand beat he only had 100$ left anyway.

once mp1 bet the 400 i also added 10x hands to his range. but he also has played draws pretty recklessley in the past as well. i also felt like the cutoff didnt have anything big because he would have raised the flop as well so i raised all in

pretty good that i faded the draws and my reads were right, well some what right. turns out the cutoff said he had bottom 2 pair on the flop but when i raised he said he couldnt call so i guess i was lucky in the end.

 so after all that im actually up for the month now by 2k. i actually might only play 2 more times for the month because i have a lot of plans outside of poker before the month ends so maybe i can win a little more.

daygame was pretty good this week. we went out friday and saturday and i probably did close to 25 approaches the first day i only got one number froma pretty cute persian girl. the next day i got a number from a sexy looking brazillian girl and a sexy white girl that turned out to be a dance intructor and she had a really nice ass and set of tits. the best part about it all is that 2 of the girls are texting back and 1 girl from last week texted me back and im in the middle of setting up a date with 2 of them at the moment. the brazillian hasnt texted me back yet so ill text her again after christmas to try one more time and the sexy dancer is in seattle till the 29th but i fill good that she will go on a date as well. also a cute hungarian girl i met when i first got here and got her email weve been talking and when she gets back we will probably go on a date so things are started to progress pretty nicely. there are a couple girls that i am more interested in than the others so if things go good i wouldnt mind getting into a relationship with one of them for the rest of the time im here. (especially the sexy dancer. mmmm)....

these are a couple pics from the weeknd. my friend got a video of me approaching but it came out sideways so i decided not to put it on. next time ill try to get him to get the faces of the girls and a better video.

the life category has also been pretty entertaining. on firday we went to 6 flags and had a lot of fun. met a couple people that told us about some new years rave festival and we just bought our tickets today. its a huge rave that had 24k people go to it last year. its on new years eve and its called white wonderland. the theme to the party is all white so everyone will wear all white which will be cool and theyve got a pretty good lineup of dj's so it should be a lot of fun and ill make sure to post pics of that as well. besides that like i said im trying to set up a few dates and take it from there. also i were trying to plan a trip to vegas in about 3 weeks so we're looking foreward to that as well.

things have been pretty good this month besides a little varriance but it has turned out well. im looking foreward to finishing the year strong and starting a new year and going even stronger. so until next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)

finding the groove

alright so i have good news and not so good news (the bad news is of course poker related).

I'll start with the bad news, i mean poker. well im in a little bit of a downswing/ breakeven stretch but im actually down for the month so far. thats not even the bad part. well its been about 4 weeks since i started playing here and i had my eyes set on the juicy 5/10 games i had heard all about. well since being here i can tell you they arent what they use to be from what everyone says which has made me change my expectations a little bit.

I figured i had a couple options. I could either stick it out in the 5/10 games where they are half reg filled (and those are the good games) and maybe win the 35k i wanted to win this winter but most likely go through some pretty good varriance playing against really decent regs. or i could drop down in stakes where the games are way softer and be a winner for sure just not as much. although i figure i can play in the 5/10 games and be a winner over the long run i really dont want to put that kind of pressure on myself this winter and wait for a better opportunity so ive decided to play the 5/5 games instead. its not all bad i do feel like i can win around 20k in these next 4 months so ill just keep trying to build the bankroll for this winter and then jump into the 5/10 next year in florida where the games are known for being soft.

so yeah thats kinda the bad news of things. like i said im down for the month so far and to be honest i havnt put a whole lot of hours in because of it but im sure i can bring it around before the end of the month. also the wsopc is coming to the bicycle casino in about 2 weeks and i plan on playing atleast 2 events in it so im going to really try and play my A game in the tourneys that i play and hopefully go deep and thats really all for poker this week.

daygame was fun this week. i went out a couple days before playing poker to a mall by my place for a couple hours and found that i was kind of in a rut. it took me a couple days to get out of it but i did and on saturday me and my friend put in a lengthy session i probablly approached 8-10 girls and i got 2 numbers. 1 girl went out of town this week so i havnt texted her yet and the other girl i texted but she hasnt replied so ill text her again tomorrow but shes probably a flake. the 2 numbers i got last week were similar. one girl i was texting for a while but ended up flaking and the other girl is going to be out of town for 2 weeks but she wanted to get back in touch when she came back.

the funny thing about my results so far is that i have about 4 girls that i am trying to keep in contact that are all out of town and im waiting for them to either come back and take out or for them to flake. ive only been on 1 date so far since being here and i wasnt really feeling the girl after the date so i cut off the romantical ties to her. i will be honest though i am getting a little flustered because i thought i wouldve landed something by now but its not a big deal ill keep on pushing im sure my breakthrough is coming soon.

my workout has been going good. besides the first week where i was crazy sore for the whole week things seem to be going smoothly and i have a couple more weeks left in this phase before i really start to try and put on weight so that will be interesting cause ive never tried to put on weight like this before. besides all that we just got back from watching the hobit which was pretty awesome. i love all the lord of the rings movies so it was fun watching another movie. besides that there wasnt really anything else that happend that was too exciting other than the normal routines.

i think this week we are going to go to 6 flags and in a few weeks we might take a trip over to vegas so we'll be looking foreward to that other than that i'll be aiming to bring this month back in to the positive over these next couple weeks so untill next time, stay tuned cosmonauts :)

getting the ball rolling

alright so this week had production in it... somewhat.

we'll start with poker. well at the begining of the week the commerce decided to switch the 5/10 games back over to the normal side and i was pretty happy with it in hopes that the games would return to normal. so far it's still the same. they do get 2-3 tables going but they are pretty reg filled and the regs are pretty solid. i believe i can still be profitable in those games over the long run but i actually think my winrate would be better playing in the 5/5 games. so i decided from here untill the wsopc and lapc i will play 5/5 at the bike cause you can buy in for 1000 there and the time that i played it they had 2 tables and they were both soft with some good money on them. the wsopc comes to the bike in about a few weeks so maybe some 5/10 will sprout up there and if theyre good then ill jump in them but if not ill just wait till the lapc at the commerce goes on and hopefully that will bring some good action to the 5/10 games there. if not then i might just end up grinding the 5/5 games for the rest of the winter.

now i dont mind playing against harder competition or against regs but id rather save that for when i can play higher like 10/20 and above. thats when poker splits into a different game. at that point it no longer becomes you trying to point out the bad players to win money from and it switches to figuring out how the other 8 regs at the table plays so you can out play their plays. so yeah id rather not play that way just yet. next year i have it in my mind that i will move to florida and their action is super soft so i should be able to play 5/10 full time next year for sure so we'll just see how things go by the end of this winter.

 as far as my sessions went they were pretty pathetic. i only played 4 days this week the first day i won 75$ the next day i lost 1500, and the next 2 days i won 475, and 120. so yeah pretty pathetic. the last day i played i was running pretty decent and also ran a pretty sick bluff and i was up about 1100. i knew it was going to be the last day i played for the week and i had a fish to my right that had about 2k in front of him that he was going to lose. well with me staying there a couple more hours i was able to lose about 1k just from how the cards went and i really didnt want to leave being down so i just picked up and finished the night 120$ up.

 life was pretty fun this weeknd actually. on friday we were going to go to six flags but they were closed that day so we went to knotts berry farm instead which was awesome. we went on about 5 rides right when we got there before i started getting dizzy. then we played some games and ate and had some fun and then went on the last ride called the Xcelerator.

it goes from 0-80mph in 2 seconds and finishes the whole coaster ride in about 10 seconds it was pretty fun and exhilerating. after that i was pretty dizzy and we were both pretty drained so we ate and went home. saturday we both just spent the whole day doing day game which turned out decent and today we went up the west coast a little bit and found a surf competition going on and watched that for 30 minutes or so and the went and ran daygame for the rest of the day which turned out horrible.

so that leads to the daygame results. during the week i cant really remember if i did any approaches or not. i did go on my date thursday which turned out good but after thinking about it and everything im really not into that girl and i think ill text her tomorrow and tell her we can just be friends haha. saturday was the best day out of the week. in the beginning i wasnt really feeling it and i was coming down with a cold. i didnt want to just sit around though so i approached about half way through the day and ended up doing about 6-8 approaches i got 3 numbers but 1 doesnt count. 1 of the girls was turkish and i felt like the interaction was ok but wasnt really sure it would produce any results. the next girl was brazillian. she couldt speak english super well but it was ok and she was hot but i felt like that interaction went well. the 3rd number was from a guy that i saw talking to a girl. i totally thought he was doing daygame too so after he went away from her i ran up to him and started to talk to him. it turned out that he was just on a date with her but he use to do a lot of day game and we talked for about 5 minutes and i told him that i would keep in touch if he wanted to come out sometime so i took his number.

i texted both the girls and they both texted back. so far so good. so we'll just see how far it goes. btw i really really want to land this brazillian chick omg.... anyways.

 today was just horrible we went out to do more daygame but my cold got worse and i kinda felt like shit and totally out of the vibe. i did do one approach but it went south and just never recovered after that but besides all that it was decent seeing how i went on a date and got 2 numbers this week.

 so this week was an ok week kind of a bleh week but i have better hopes for this next week and the rest of the month. so until next time cosmonauts stay tuned :)

winter workout and schedule

so i just wanted to make this post about the thoughts and ideas i wanted to do this winter as well as my work out routine ill be doing and any other thoughts i have on my mind.

first i just want to talk about poker. i forgot to mention in my last post that i saw dario minerri at a 5/10 table. im not the type of person to get star struck from anyone who was on t.v. but its cool to see somone who was on tv.

then i started to wonder. he was playing like 300/600 on highstakes poker and he didnt even jump into one of the 10/20nl games... BUSTO  perhaps???? also freddie deeb and barry greenstien are a common face in the high limit section. so yeah just kinda fun seeing people like that.

my last thought on poker that i have and i usually have when im losing. (like this last week) is that i feel like poker is going downhill. i mean every serious grinder knows the games are getting harder. for a professional that means his job is going to start getting harder and his paycheck will be less because theres more players sharing that same paycheck. the thing is that in poker there will always be bad players but now a days there are way more better players and it continues to grow. at what point is poker going to be so difficult because everyone is so solid that it will be considered good to win 5 buyins in a month? from 2007-2012 the games have gotten significantly harder and more solid from online mainly but in live as well. thats only over a 5 year span! just think in 5 more years, is it really going to be possible to make a living from it anymore? like i said im losing at the moment so thats why im thinking like this. hopefully good players can always win a good amount of money but i fear it's a farfetched idea.

now for the main topics that i wanted to talk about. which are the things ill be doing besides poker for the winter. so i have been approaching girls quite a bit since ive been here and things are going pretty decent. i actually have a date on thursday. i am getting better at daygame and starting to see some good results. so that means that im going to have more of a dating life.

it will be fun being able to go on dates with girls and better yet have a sexual life with them so that is one thing that i will be doing besides poker.

since my friend came with me from alaska i actually have an opportunity to have a bit more fun this year compared to the last couple years and we plan on doing a lot of things like go to the amusement parks like 6 flags, knotts berry farm, disneyland, las vegas and other entertainment spots.

so this winter ill actually be able to do the things that you go do with friends which will be more entertaining.

and that leaves my workout routine. for the past 3 years i have been working out in the winter but it hasnt ever been anything serious. i use to do about 4 excersises a day 6-7 days a week and eat semi healthy and that was about it. this year i decided to actually do a program that my friend did last year and got really good results from. its called the abercrombie model workout.http://www.abercrombieworkout.com/ you can make fun of me if you want but its a pretty legit workout and from how my friend looked after he was done im expecting to look pretty damn good as well. over all the work out takes about an hour long a day and it has 3 phases the first phase is 1 month where you build strength, the second phase is 2 months long and its where you build mass and muscle. and the 3rd phase is 2 months long and its a toning and sculpting phase. it goes pretty in depth on everyhting from the workouts to the supplements to use and even a suggested diet routine so its a pretty solid routine and its free.

so those are the main thoughts ive been having the last week. ive been putting a lot of effort in all aspects of my life so its been pretty productive so far. the only problem i see with this year is that since i have so many options this year to do other things besides poker i might not end up putting in a large amount of volume like the last couple years. its ok and its not ok. im fine with actually having a life outside of poker and being able to have fun. its not ok because i love me my monies. thats about all though so untill next time cosmonauts stay tuned :)

november review

november is done and over with but more importantly it was my first month off since being done with the summer season of work.

 we got done with work on the 1st of november. after that i spent 2 days in AK finishing what i needed to take care of and i was off to seattle for a few days. i got to seattle and took a taxi to where my truck was stored. of course the battery was dead from sitting all summer long. after getting it jumped started i got a room at a motel for the next few days and started to enjoy my winter off.

 over last winter i made some friends playing poker in seattle so i spent a couple days playing poker at the casino i played at. met up with one of the guys and got some dinner and talked and stuff like that. talked with a couple of the dealers and that was pretty much most of the meet and greets from poker. one of the guys that i became better friends with went back to canada so it was kinda lame not meeting up with him but its no biggie. also ended up losing 350$ over those 3 days which sucked cause i was up like 1200 before the last day i played there.

 when the weekend came i met up with my daygame wingman that i met there last winter and we decided to have a reuniting day game session and hit downtown seattle and the main mall that we went to for some approaches. over the whole weekend i approached almost 20 girls and got 2 numbers. one of the girls actually came through and we had a date set up. she ended up flaking on the date but came to my hotel room ( which i moved to hotel close to the date site ;) after she got off work. i ended up fucking it up and i could tell she wasnt comftorable and all we did was kiss 3 or 4 times before she left. it wouldve been awesome to have gotten that lay but no biggie shes a sweet girl and we've been keeping in touch since then so maybe on the way back up after the winter is over. after all that i picked up my friend from AK when he flew in and we were on our way to LA

 it took about a day and a half to get to LA because we stopped for a little bit but it was a pretty smooth drive. after making it here we stayed in a motel for about a week while we searched for apartments. it turned out to be a little tricky here cause almost all the apartments really want you to do a 1 year minimum lease and we are only here for 6 months. we were still able to find an apartment that would allow us to stay for 6 months ( after i pursuaded and upped the rent 100$) its exactly where i wanted to live on a really cool street with a lot of entertainment and in a nice neighborhood so it worked out.

 after we got settled in we began to start our cali life. since settling in ive played 7 sessions of cash games and 1 tourney but ill recap those in a minute. i also began to run a bit of daygame since ive been here. so far i got an email address from a low budget actress who hasnt flaked yet but shes gone for a month so we'll see and i got 3 numbers. one from a sales rep from seattle that comes here once a month and the way the interaction went it sounded like she was looking for a fuck buddie and said next time shes in town we might get together so again we'll see.

one number i got was actually from a few days ago from a pretty good looking hispanic looking girl and she said her ex is in the nfl but she hasnt textd back yet so she probably flaked. no biggie i would have had thoughts that theres no way my dick was as big as a nfl stars lol. and the last number i got was from an attractive 39 year old haha. she has been texting back and the whole theme has a little sexual tension behind it so i actually think i will end up banging her.

 poker was interesting since being here. when i first arrived and started playing 5/10 at the commerce i found out that they recently moved it to a different section and all the bad palyers were actually jumping into the 10/20nl games. wierd i know. well it was killing the 5/10 games and some nights the game would die out around 9pm where in the past there was like 4 games running. it turned into a happy ending though because they moved the games back over to the other side a few days ago and the games were looking good. the first 2 days i played ended well. the first day i played i got stuck 900$ before my aces held up in a 3600$ pot 3 ways and i left the night being up around 2600$. the next night went decent and the table i was on had a bad beat and the table share was 750$ so with that i ended the night around 2200$ up over the next few days when the games were still bad i ended up losing a little over 2 buyins. the tourney i played in went decent and i felt really good about how i played. i went out just after the bubble happend when my aces got cracked all in preflop and i won a little more than the minimum pay out. if you want more of a description on the tourney there is more in my last post.

there is one hand i want to post that was really interesting to me. this one was actually from the last night i played and if it wasnt for this hand i would be up about a buyin more than where i am at for the end of the month.

so there are 4 limpers and it gets to me on the button with AQ off suit and i raise it to 80$, the sb calls and the first limper shoves for 280$. it folds to me. the shove was from a fish who had been losing and just lost a big pot within a couple of orbits ago so i was fine calling it here but i didnt want to let the sb in either so i raised to 600$ the sb thinks for a while and shoves all in for 2500 and i had a total of 1800. the sb player was actually a really decent player he was between ABC/TAG but really patient and was all around a decent player. it was just a strange move but i figured he had TT or maybe JJ and didnt want to race for that much so i folded. the board runs out. of course bringing an ace on the river. and the fish shows KK and the sb folds. later i found out the sb recently came in 5th in the la poker open main event. which even more solidifies that hes a solid player.

the hand started to bother me more and more mainly because i put in 60bbs and folded. i thought about it and realized that he made a really advanced play. with me raising to 600$ theres an extra 320$ that i put in trying to isolate the fish. that means if the sb can get me to fold than he auto profits the side pot and pretty much is free rolling to suck out on the fish. so it didnt matter what the sb had as long as he was sure he could get me to fold. it was a tricky play but in the end he obviously decided my range was wider than a premium hand that would stack off 180bbs deep and he was right. a give him props but i now know that knowledge of the play and about him so it made me a little more advanced.

as poker goes i feel like im playing really well. im way focused at the tables and im paying so much attention to a lot of details and reading people for who they are and their playing styles and playing the game based off of all that information so i feel like im playing pretty damn close to my A game. im sitting up 2680$ for the month which im ok with.

my goal for the winter was 35k and now that the games are back to how they were im still going to shoot for it. ill have a better idea over the course of this next month so it will be more details on that on the next month recap. i also start my workout routine tomorrow and im pretty excited for that actually. its a really well planned out routine but im actually going to explain it more in detail in my next post, but thats a bit of details for this post and the month has gone pretty good. im glad im settled in and starting to enjoy my winter. loving life so far. so untill next time cosmonauts. stay tuned :)