I'm a Silverstar !
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 Internet
So I've played cards, just not alot. Not much to blog about since I pretty much just playing World of Warcraft, going out to some movies/dinners while catching up with the latest Las Vegas episodes for tv. I also watched the whole Death Note series which was very good.
Hopefully I'll have some more posts about poker later this week since I'll be playing again.
I'm going to hit Goldstar this month, a fairly attainable goal. I also get rewarded by this since I can then use my FPP for a gift certificate to my local electronic store to buy some video games and accessories. Been wanting to try Burnout Paraside, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Forza Motorsport 2 and Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. Probably be renting these during the next few weeks to see if any are worth buying and have a good replay value. If anyone reads this blog and has played these games, feel free to comment on them! Or leave other games you recommend.
I'm a Silverstar !
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 Internet
So I've played cards, just not alot. Not much to blog about since I pretty much just playing World of Warcraft, going out to some movies/dinners while catching up with the latest Las Vegas episodes for tv. I also watched the whole Death Note series which was very good.
Hopefully I'll have some more posts about poker later this week since I'll be playing again.
I'm going to hit Goldstar this month, a fairly attainable goal. I also get rewarded by this since I can then use my FPP for a gift certificate to my local electronic store to buy some video games and accessories. Been wanting to try Burnout Paraside, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Forza Motorsport 2 and Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. Probably be renting these during the next few weeks to see if any are worth buying and have a good replay value. If anyone reads this blog and has played these games, feel free to comment on them! Or leave other games you recommend.
I'm a Silverstar !
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 Internet
So I've played cards, just not alot. Not much to blog about since I pretty much just playing World of Warcraft, going out to some movies/dinners while catching up with the latest Las Vegas episodes for tv. I also watched the whole Death Note series which was very good.
Hopefully I'll have some more posts about poker later this week since I'll be playing again.
I'm going to hit Goldstar this month, a fairly attainable goal. I also get rewarded by this since I can then use my FPP for a gift certificate to my local electronic store to buy some video games and accessories. Been wanting to try Burnout Paraside, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Forza Motorsport 2 and Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. Probably be renting these during the next few weeks to see if any are worth buying and have a good replay value. If anyone reads this blog and has played these games, feel free to comment on them! Or leave other games you recommend.
I'm a Silverstar !
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 Internet
So I've played cards, just not alot. Not much to blog about since I pretty much just playing World of Warcraft, going out to some movies/dinners while catching up with the latest Las Vegas episodes for tv. I also watched the whole Death Note series which was very good.
Hopefully I'll have some more posts about poker later this week since I'll be playing again.
I'm going to hit Goldstar this month, a fairly attainable goal. I also get rewarded by this since I can then use my FPP for a gift certificate to my local electronic store to buy some video games and accessories. Been wanting to try Burnout Paraside, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Forza Motorsport 2 and Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. Probably be renting these during the next few weeks to see if any are worth buying and have a good replay value. If anyone reads this blog and has played these games, feel free to comment on them! Or leave other games you recommend.
Dust off them books
Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 Internet
So its January the 3rd and how am I doing for my new years goals so far? Not bad.
I'm writing a blog entry, so that's a plus. Haven't played any meaningful poker yet but I have went through all my books and started reading, here is the order I'll be reading.
1) Poker Nation by Andy Bellin
2) Positively Fifth Street by James McManus
3) Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
4) The Biggest Game In Town by A.Alvarez
5) The Professor, The Banker and the Suicide King by Michael Craig
Almost done Poker Nation, should finish it within a week. I'll write a brief review on each book as I finish it.
On the poker side of things, I should be starting to play Sunday with the weekly tournaments and continue on there grinding some hours of NL Hold'em. I was thinking of playing limit hold'em for awhile and see how tough the games are compared to how they used to be. I'll probably dive into it though only if I'm sucking at NL, since that is where the money is.
Dust off them books
Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 Internet
So its January the 3rd and how am I doing for my new years goals so far? Not bad.
I'm writing a blog entry, so that's a plus. Haven't played any meaningful poker yet but I have went through all my books and started reading, here is the order I'll be reading.
1) Poker Nation by Andy Bellin
2) Positively Fifth Street by James McManus
3) Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
4) The Biggest Game In Town by A.Alvarez
5) The Professor, The Banker and the Suicide King by Michael Craig
Almost done Poker Nation, should finish it within a week. I'll write a brief review on each book as I finish it.
On the poker side of things, I should be starting to play Sunday with the weekly tournaments and continue on there grinding some hours of NL Hold'em. I was thinking of playing limit hold'em for awhile and see how tough the games are compared to how they used to be. I'll probably dive into it though only if I'm sucking at NL, since that is where the money is.
Happy New Year, where have I been?
Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2008 Internet
Where have I been?
3 words that sum up that, 'World of Warcraft".
Now, I'm not even sure if anyone reads this anymore but this game is sick. Which I'm sure many people have experienced before it is very addicting. I was in a few end game raiding guilds, had a few level 70 characters I leveled and all had very good gear.
Is it over? No, and I don't plan on quiting anytime soon since I enjoy the game very much. I have quit raiding and sold a few of my characters though and now play more casual over the past few weeks. Hopefully I can keep my hours on the game lowering each week and getting back to poker.
Since its the new year, I thought I'd set some yearly goals and here they are:
Poker Goals
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Play more poker: This past year I've hardly touched the virtual felt, mainly just playing when I was running out of money to pay for bills which is really bad. I'd like to hit at the very least 1500 hours this year and hopefully I can blow out 2000+ if I get into a good schedule.
Get motivated: Now one of the reasons I haven't played much cards is that I just don't care about it anymore. Its not like I grinded 100 hours a week for a year and am tired of it, I just don't have the passion to play. Hopefully I can get rolling on a decent streak and start having some fun again and try to enjoy my "job". If I'm not enjoying poker by the end of next year, I'm not going to continue playing it for a living because I don't want to do a job I hate the rest of my life, especially when I'm still very young.
Money in the bank: I've never really had a problem winning at cards, yet I need to start spending less money outside of cards. The entertainment costs and other thing have been more expensive then my income from poker so I need to spend more reasonable compared to what I'm making and save some money in the bank. One of the reasons I'd like to do this is I'm looking forward to playing live at a casino for a month once my roll reaches around $20,000 , which is a very very long time away, but I'd like to be there within the year and I think I can do it no problem if I can keep motivated.
Supernova on PokerStars: I've jumped around some poker sites and am keeping on Poker Stars this year. I hope to make supernova by the end of the year. I'm probably going to be spending my FPP on some gift ceritificates for electronics and the sunday tournaments.
Personal Goals
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The Blog: Yeah, kinda messed up keeping up with the blog. Hopefully this years better. Be nice to get a decent base of readers again, so dont mind pimpin my blog if your reading this : ).
Read: I've always liked reading things that interest me yet I've never hardly read any books. Especially books besides poker. I'd like to finish off my poker collection of books which I haven't touched and then branch out to many other things. I'm bored of the strategy books since most of its the same shit over and over but I love the books about people making it, or taking their shot and failing.
Writing Skills: Now you can probably tell by reading this blog, I'm not the best writer in the world, so hopefully by posting a few times a week, hopefully daily once I start playing more by the end of the year I can see a good improvement in my writing skills.
Get Fit: Now, this is by far my most important goal. Playing World of Warcraft , Poker and going out drinking and eating at many restaurants is not the healthiest lifestyle. I need to start a daily workout schedule and stick to it. If I fail all of my goals this year but pass this one, I'd still consider the year a success. Being unhealthy is such a problem in today's world with all the health problems happening and being fit is one of the best ways to avoid most of the problems.
Learn French: Now some people will think I've hit my head against a hard wall like object on this one. Yet if the poker is going good this year, I want to concentrate on learning French and if that goes well, maybe some other languages. I always have a weird respect and I guess jealously to people who can speak multiple languages. It just makes many more options in the world open up to you and even if it never helps in a job in my life, at least I can call people names in different languages!
Well that's all for the post, hopefully I'll get another post up in a couple days, by the middle of the month I hope to have the blog going again steady, as well as playing poker again. I've said this before, but hopefully I can keep up with it this time, since I think writing in the blog will help motivate me to play more poker.
Blogger Tournament
Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 Internet
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers. Registration code: 1792052
Back to the bread and butter
Date: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 Internet
I haven't had much time to play lately,yet during that time at the limit tables, I've been getting in the negative almost every session. After all those bad beats and suckouts, it surely cost me to lose a few bets along the way. My limit experience is now over, I'm going to put it behind me and go back to no limit.
Why did I ever leave no limit? Well if you look at all the numbers, limit with playing more tables at a time and making more rakeback, 1/bb an hour is all that is needed to make a fair wage. If I kept playing limit, I am confident I could turn it around, by grinding my way through the slump, yet I lost the main reason why I started playing poker. That main reason is to have fun. Limit just feels like I'm dead in-front of the computer clicking the mouse for hours on hours, having the same situations come up over and over again. Its just not for me, I don't think it ever was. I was just moving to limit because I thought I could make more money at it and progress through the limits faster. Having lost for the past few weeks might be a positive spin on my poker career. If I had won and kept playing, maybe years down the road I would quit poker since I had enough of just playing for the money and not the fun.
The next two weeks are going to be busy with college tests and my 19th birthday coming up, so I will hardly hit 10 hours a week. After that time hopefully I can progress to 20hrs+ a week while attending school and keeping a social life.
I'm going to be dropping down to the $50 no limit games. I've never played this low before so hopefully it all works out. I'm giving myself a $600 bankroll for this limit, if I lose that I'll drop down to the $25 no limit games. Hopefully I never get close to that point. My goal is to reach the 2/4 no limit games by next September, I'm looking forward to start playing. I also ordered a few new books and I'll post some reviews on them once I complete the reading.
On a blog note, I'm sorry for not keeping up to date. I'll try to keep posting more on it in the upcoming weeks. The traffic sure hit rock bottom, that was expected. I went from having 80-90 hits per day and 20 returning visitors to 5 hits per day and 1 returning visitor, I guess it could be worse. I'll be removing most of the traffic generator links soon since I idled myself into commission on those. I guess I'll just have to lure the readers in with my amazing insights and poor results. I have tons of blogs to add to the side, I'll get on that later in the week. I'll start doing more posts on poker in general and some non-poker related topics to try and get the blog active again.
For fun, I've played 10 Party Poker Monster Qualifier SNG's the past few days, sticking to the 11 dollar games. I've had 5 top 3 finishes with 2 1st place. Total im down $57, got to love that rake. I do have myself 2 tickets for the weekly Party Poker games now, come Saturday I'll find myself in a pool of donkeys playing for a dream. I can't wait to play.
I'm not dead
Date: Sun, Sep 17, 2006 Internet
Sorry for not posting for the last month, things have been pretty insane. I haven't played any poker since last month, yet I will be starting to play again once I get my money out from Mansion. I received the email telling me that I was verified to cashout, then I went to cashout and it says I still need to show my licence. I talked to their support and sent in another copy of my licence, I should get the money by the end of next week hopefully. In the mean time I've been playing many video games. Over the past month I've played some World of Warcraft, Half Life: Counterstrike and NHL:07. I can't wait to start playing poker again, I can sure use the money right now. I'll be going back to playing the 3/6 full table games with a bankroll around $3000.
I don't think I'll be blogging until I get back to poker since there isn't that much to talk about. Not only that, yet I'm pretty busy with college so I don't have that much spare time to blog. I'm hoping for 10-15 hours a week of poker while attending school. Not quite sure if I can make that goal, considering some days all I want to do is come home and sleep. I'll probably take Wensday off since that is my heaviest school day and try to play 2 hours every other day except the weekends I will hope to get around 3-4 if I don't go out.
Back on the horse
Date: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 Internet
Tomorrow is a new month and I'm going to start blogging and playing poker again. Going to be playing the 3/6 full tables since I never reached my goal for the amount of hands I wanted. My goal for this month is 80 hours of play and I'm hitting for a profit of $4000. I'd like to hit around the 40-50,000 hand mark also for the month. I'll be doing a month in review in a few days of July. It wasn't a great month and when I started winning I had to take a break, yet with $300 in rakeback and a few hundred in blackjack, the month wasn't that bad.
No poker/blog until end of week
Date: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 Internet
Some things are happening in life right now that doesn't have me in a good state to be playing poker. I won't be blogging or playing poker until Thursday at the earliest.
First winning session
Date: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 Internet
It feels as if its been weeks. Finally won at 3/6 full tables last night for $200. The tables actually notice that I'm playing tight, so I've changed my starting hand requirements slightly. I now raise with any pair, A-K, A-Q, K-Q from any position to open the pot and in late position I'll add any 2 overcards. Lots of people just like seeing flops and check it back to the preflop raiser, so I've been picking up pots just by continuing to show strength. It is also nice to raise UTG with 6-6 and pickup the blinds since your representing a monster. If you hit your set, its very well disguised so raising with pairs from any position seem to have lots of benefits. Although there are some drawbacks when you get re-raised preflop and see the flop heads up. Yet if there is no ace or king on the flop, I'd usually bet out or check-raise to see if he has A-K. Depends mostly on the player here.
I had a few rough beats, yet that is expected. The play is just so horrible I don't know what these players are thinking. I had A-A and the button raised, I re-raised and he called. Flop comes 2-8-Q, betting is capped. Turn comes K and I slow down now since he could easily have K-Q. River is a 8. I bet, he raises, I think I walked into a set of 2s on the flop and he shows a J-8 offsuit. WHAT?! He then became my new friend. I also had A-A again and it capped flop and the guy called turn and river. I know its my pot, yet when he shows king high with no draws, I have another friend. Making many new friends on Party lately.
Tonight I'll hopefully be able to play more then 2 hours. I will probably start playing in the afternoons again and see how the games are compared to the evenings. I know that there is a big difference in the no limit games, yet limit I haven't seen the average pots decrease by much, hopefully the games are just as good.
I'm going to post a hand I played yesterday. Now just looking at this hand, you would think everyone is nuts. Well, I'm trying to get heads up with the player who is going to be all-in. Just so happens the other donkey doesn't want to fold his monster.
***** Hand History for Game 4773205372 *****
$3/$6 Texas Hold'em - Friday, July 21, 01:08:22 ET 2006
Table Mount Hood (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: AAinthehole3 ( $97 )
Seat 10: Burnsbot ( $301.50 )
Seat 4: fistfckr ( $286.88 )
Seat 2: porfie ( $175 )
Seat 6: Neophilius ( $141.50 )
Seat 8: mjch1234 ( $107 )
Seat 1: TunaCasaroll ( $164.38 )
Seat 9: DrHeimlich ( $128 )
Seat 5: philobedo111 ( $23.48 )
Seat 7: BigElmo007 ( $187 )
porfie posts small blind [$1].
fistfckr posts big blind [$3].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Burnsbot [ Jh Jd ]
philobedo111 calls [$3].
Neophilius folds.
BigElmo007 calls [$3].
mjch1234 folds.
DrHeimlich folds.
Burnsbot raises [$6].
TunaCasaroll folds.
porfie folds.
fistfckr calls [$3].
philobedo111 raises [$6].
BigElmo007 folds.
Burnsbot raises [$6].
fistfckr calls [$6].
philobedo111 calls [$3].
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 9s, 3c ]
fistfckr checks.
philobedo111 bets [$3].
Burnsbot raises [$6].
fistfckr calls [$6].
philobedo111 raises [$6].
Burnsbot raises [$6].
fistfckr calls [$6].
philobedo111 is all-In [$2.48]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
fistfckr checks.
Burnsbot checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
fistfckr checks.
Burnsbot checks.
fistfckr shows [ Tc, 3d ] a pair of threes.
philobedo111 doesn't show [ 5h, 6c ] high card ace.
Burnsbot shows [ Jh, Jd ] a pair of jacks.
Burnsbot wins $1.04 from side pot #1 with a pair of jacks.
Burnsbot wins $71.44 from the main pot with a pair of jacks.
Week review
Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 Internet
I was feeling sick last night so I watched a movie and called it a night. Now that this horrible week of poker is over, lets hope next week is much better. Its going to be all 3/6 full this week, hopefully I can play close to 15-20,000 hands. I'm not asking for much, I'd be happy with 1/bb. Now its just up to the cards.
Online Poker
Hours: 10
Hourly Wage: ($100/hr)
Total Won/Lost: ($1000)
Blackjack
Hours: 4.8
Hourly Wage: $62.5
Total Won/Lost: $300
Overall
Hours: 14.8
Hourly Wage: ($47/hr)
Total Won/Lost: ($700)
Thank god for blackjack.