ugh

dropped 9k today. 3k at 25/50, 3k at 5/10 and 1500 at 3/6 and 10/20. lets just say 25/50 is nuts!!


Here's a standard 10k coinflip that i lost:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2318961

Don't fire 3 barrels into the nuts:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2318973


Heres an example of what I always do when playing higher than usual. It happened when i moved up to 2/4 and 5/10 at first as well, I tend to outlevel myself into spewing chips. Here I was about to fold the turn then figured it was a good spot for him to double barrel so I called then on river since I had tanked before calling turn and my hand looks weak/like a missed draw and since in the other hand when he 3barreled and i called him down he showed air i thought that hed think that id think hed be less likely to do it w air again so its actually a good spot to do it with air. lol.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2318977

at 5/10 i was just getting coolered/sucked out on left and right so i was actually happy to only lose 3k. at 10/20 i was doing alright before this hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2318988

oh well rough day i was due to run bad and run bad i did so guess it couldve been worse. if i had only won that 10k flip id actually be up 1k on the day. pokers crazy.

today drops me down to around +5k on the month in like 18k hands. i have not had any motivation to play lately and the only reason i even played at all today was bc there was a big fish sitting at 2 25/50 tables so i (w/ no regard to bankroll mgmt as usual) decided to sit wo even selling any action. hopefully i find some motivation to grind in the coming week and my new goal for the month is to grind back my losses from today playing 3/6 and 5/10 and finish around 15k for the month. im not gonna force myself to play tho bc that usually ends bad so we'll see what happens.

March Week 2

We are about halfway through March and I'm still running pretty well. I've been keeping up with watching some mid-higher stakes vids, lessons with Greg, and discussing certain hands and situations with my fellow rain makers. I'm slacking a bit as far as the number of hands played goes but I feel like I really am getting quality over quantity for the month and have been practicing pretty good table selection. I am not one of those regulars who will sit with 4 other regulars and a SS at a 5/10 table, which I see a lot of people doing. I know a decent 3/6 game or even a 2/4 game will be much more profitable and not as much of a 'grind'.

As far as real life plans, my birthday is this Sunday. I don't plan on doing much at all for it but plan on going out to dinner Saturday night with some drinks afterwards at it's bar. I've been to so many bars from living about a 30 second walk from a main strip at college to being in a fraternity to visiting my gf at college in Buffalo that I really am just bored of the entire bar scene. I would much rather go to a chiller place and drink, play some photo hunt obv., and just shoot the shit nowadays.



Good luck and keep making it rain.

macdaddy is a pimp

About 32 seconds in


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_kJNtKZV4w

Prop bet fish!!!

Well I'm doing what I said I wouldn't do again which is another prop bet. In the past I've done them for most hands and for trying to win $X in a month. Both times I started off on a downswing and lost all motivation to keep trying. This time there is really no time limit set which helps a lot because I'll never feel forced to play. I still want to get it knocked out before June 1 when I go to Vegas for 2 months. The bet is with philipsaurus from 2p2 and it's who has the highest ptbb/100 at 2/4 after 100k hands. I'm pretty confident I can do 5ptbb/100 even if I run a bit below avg. If I run good however I think I could put up something like 6-7, maybe even higher depending on how good I run and how long it lasts. The bet isn't for much and is more of just a friendly wager, his 2k vs my 1.6k. I feel like I have an edge even at even money so w/ odds I like my bet. He's definitely a very good player though and very capable of beating me. That's what makes it more fun and motivating though.

Just got back into town and over being sick. So far so good though for the few hands I've played. I guess I'll post my results here once a week or so w/ updated progress.

Hands: 1012
$$$$$: 2906.65
ptbb/100: 35.90

I hope to get in about 7k more hands by Sunday night and keep running well too 1 time.

dream car

found my dream car. gonna take me awhile but saw it in gas station down in miami and was so ridiculous, this pic doesnt even do it justice. the one i saw was all blacked out. the cars in miami are all just ridiculous, lets just say i stopped even looking at bentleys, aston martins, and maseratis bc i saw so many. and we saw this car pull up next to us and literally everyone started drooling. starts at a cool $194k, heres link to page http://www.mbusa.com/models/main.do?modelCode=S65

theres also vids of it destroying a lamborghini, not bad for a 4door

Robusto March!

I've put in almost 9k hands so far which is decent considering I didn't play at all on the 1st or 2nd of the month. I am definitely running pretty good and can't complain like I was in February when even the baby Jesus was mad at me. I feel like I am playing a ton better due to getting lessons regularly from Greg as well as running a lot better. My confidence is at an all time high right now and all I want to do is play a lot of hands/get a ton of lessons/do sweats sessions this month to really continue to improve my game.

I hope to grind a lot and March and hopefully keep up the pace to have my best month ever but I am predicting a slight drop in the hands played this month due to my gf coming back for spring break 1 week, my brother coming back the next week, along with some of my buddies who will also be back in town. I'm guessing I will mainly try and work the night crew and put in hands that way....hopefully.

I'm headed to Buffalo in about 45 mins to visit my gf for the weekend. I'm not too thrilled about the drive since it isn't snowing here yet and she said it is coming down very hard there, which is going to make for a long and dangerous drive knowing Rochester/Buffalo weather. gamb00l! I'lll be back Sunday afternoon and can hopefully fit into Greg's schedule to get another lesson and grind for the rest of that evening/night.

Here's my results for the first week of March:


Good luck and stay classy.

February Recap

So including $2800 in rakeback I made about 58k in february. My previous best month was about 30k in november but the past two months I had been struggling, with -8k in december and 8k in january. It felt great to have a real breakout month, especially considering before the month my goal was 20k and maybe giving myself a shot at cracking 30. I also played the most hands in a month Ive ever played, with over 60k hands (cant give exact number because im on laptop right now). So I didnt join the $1/hand club for a whole month but was at that mark a few times throughout the month. My goal now for the next few months is 30k/month. This might be a little high but I plan on playing mainly 5/10 w a little 3/6 and some shots at 10/20 when the games are soft. I took a few shots at 10/20 last month and so far this month and am about breakeven there. I had one real bad night that I think I already mentioned where I dropped 11k there so other than than Ive actually done pretty well. The weird thing about 10/20 in my little experience there has been that the games play much more passive preflop than 5/10 and probably even 2/4 just in terms of 3betting preflop. People seem to 3bet much less preflop in position but will just flat your open and make some moves after the flop. They also seem to give less resistance in defending their blinds, I think because it's so much tougher to play a 3bet pot oop. There are probably 2 other factors feeding these observations: 1)Im an unknown to most of the players there so they are probably trying to get a feel for how I play and not playing back at me as much and 2) Most of the times 10/20 runs it is running around a big fish and so most of the players at the table are more focused on playing hands in a way to stack the fish rather than fighting a high variance low ev battle w other regs that playing so aggressively preflop often turns into (and players at 2/4 were especially awful at realizing this in my experience, often isolating the fish out of pots to win 5 big blinds from a reg when they could take the fish's whole stack w a good flop. real smart). Its quite humorous at 10/20 though bc there will be these 5-6 person waiting lists for a table when a fish is playing then when the fish leaves everyone at the table sits out and the ppl from the waiting list start shuffling through the fish's seat until the table breaks.

Im in Miami now, have been since Sunday and leaving on sunday. Havent really played much poker because of that but put in a a +1500 session on monday and a +2500 one this morning so im pretty happy about that bc i only play like 2 tables on my laptop since it tilts me not playing on my desktop. Weathers been great too, and our hotels right on the the beach so ive been going in the ocean and having a relaxing week all around. Only been able to go out one night so far (Wet Willie's on south beach was pretty sweet) but hopefully am hitting up the hard rock hotel/casino tonight to get some gamble in. I hear they have some high stakes sitngoes so i might play one of the m because i heard the cash games are pretty stupid since theres $100 max buyin for 5/10.

Heading home sunday on a redeye which is gonna be brutal but guess i cant complain after a free trip. Katie's coming up next weekend because its her spring break next week so looking forward to that. Other than that just getting real excited for march madness, just got in a $100 pool w my older bro and his friends so should make it interesting. Just really hope the terps can pull off some wins at the end here to make it. My other team now, St. Joes, had a big win last night against #11 Xavier so that should help them (although its gonna hurt UMD). And in other news St. Margaret's/St Joes Prep Alum (represent) John Griffin hit 40 foot 3-pointer at buzzer to lift Bucknell over Navy in double OT. Shot was also #6 today on Sportscenter's Top 10. Thats how we do it baby.

Battles

I was just battling with "jus a bookmaker". UMD pointed him out to me. Here are some hands I had with mr bookmaker

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2215677
-I think I like how I played the flop. I can let him keep betting the turn if he has air in his range. Maybe a raise is better if I know hes not getting away from a flush draw or top pair.
-On the turn, I like a raise better now that I look at it. After watching him play more, his most likely holdings are top pair here and flush draws. And he's not getting away from either, so I shoulda just got it in to avoid any scared cards he could fold on river. But as we later find out, hes prob shoving any river here. Hes a menace.
-The river was obv an ugly spot. Hes never going to have a 4 here. So it was full house or busted draw. 3:1 odds on river. I don't think I can find a fold against this guy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2215724
I'm a sicko winning this hand.
-On the flop I like calling even this deep. I will get away if flush hits on turn, but I think Jus a bookmaker is potting any turn because hes sick like that.
-On turn I called because at the time I wasn't sure if BigEasy was slowplaying trips with better kicker. As Mr. Townsend likes to say. "he was tricky trappy" And hes still not getting the right odds to call for a flush draw.
-River is obv a call, figured we were chopping. He just insta shoved that river, I don't understand. He has to put one of us on a queen.

He was the type of player that would make really bad value bets like that. I guess it widens his range. But you can still play your cards face up against him because he makes so many spewy plays.

A very non MacDaddy River

Is the world coming to an end?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2209491

Sometimes I throw a pillow when I lose a sick pot like this. But I didn't even get mad this time because "THATS POKA"

A New Month

Haven't posted in a bit and just wanted to officially declare March "Robusto Month" after a pretty brutal Feb. I ended up making ~$10k the last few days to cut my losses to a very minimal amount for the month so I'm pretty happy with that. Since becoming pretty serious at poker, February goes down as both my worst monetary month and the month which I have learned and improved the most, as strange as that sounds.

I have high hopes for March and hope that with the combination of my new clown avatar (which is super intimidating), my dueness for the boom switch, and the continued lessons I've been getting from Greg will help me to play a lot better poker and even maybe make some money this month too :P.

The Swings

I've put in a lot of hands the past few days. I have to admit that I started to spew some when I got down. And something I will never try to do again is play more than 6 tables on my laptop. It gets out of control when I have tables 7 and 8 minimized and then they pop up when its my turn to act and block my other tables.

Have fun with this graph

Martathon session

Played a crazy session last night. Ill let the graph speak for itself.




Almost gave back all my money from the big day yesterday but managed to squeak out a small profit instead. Took me a lot of hands to do it, but it still feels good and now I can sleep easy. I actually made 11k at 5/10 in here in 5400 hands there, but I took a 10/20 shot that didnt go so well (-10k in 540 hands). There was huge fish sitting there and I had the golden seat to his left but he took some strange lines and I could not hit a hand once. I was playing 29/24 at that table which is vv loose for me because I was constantly isolating the fish and he would call with some garbage and I couldnt figure out how to take a pot away from him. I finally stacked him at the end but I had already given away a few buyins that had been dispersed amongst the table. Some tourny donk (had a gold jersey) was at the table too and I saw he was 4tabling 10/20 but he has some serious leaks in his game that I couldnt exploit as much because he was directly to my left and running hotter than the sun. I definately tilted away 2 or 3 buyins at 10/20 but other than that Im very happy with how I played tonight. Put in a looong session and was only tilted for about 10 minutes even though I was down almost 14k at one point. And the tilt didnt carry over at all to any 5/10 tables, just played extremely solid there the whole night.

Another interesting thing was that I was at a few tables with giggy and he seemed to be spewing pretty bad. He has a few leaks for sure (that he usually overcomes with just relentless preflop aggression) and I think I finally have a complete gameplan together for playing against him. He was probably just tilting or something last night, but watching the video he posted of himself playing actually helped me to figure him out better. Hes still a great player, dont get me wrong, but I think if he continues 8tabling 5/10 playing the same way he is now hes gonna run into some trouble because Im sure the other guys at 5/10 are gonna figure him out too and will be more focused on it since hes 8 tabling playing that way. I think his relentless aggression at 2/4 allowed him to get away with some stuff that he wont be able to get away with at 5/10 where the regulars are more in tune to the game.
Im actually up more on giggy (5k) than any other player in my PT database which was surprising to me considering he owned me and never lost a coinflip at 2/4.
For the month now Im at 51k in around 57k hands. I would love to finish at $1/hand for the month so thats my goal for the next couple days. At 5/10 im up 42.5k in 21k hands, hope that winrates sustainable ;)

Looking forever

Finally found my favorite picture! (Well looking is kind of an exaggeration, always wanted to find it never actually looked for it and accidentally stumbled across it but beside the point) This cracks me up every time. The old funny cuz its true thing.



This ones pretty funny too







gotya

(saw all these in thread in cardrunners pretty funny)

...

Alright so I almost feel bad continuing to post results because Ive been running so hot and Ive been talking with some people who have just run terrible this month, but I wanted to make a post tonight and I guess Ill include some more poker stuff so when the inevitable doomswitch hits I can look back on this month and feel better about it.

So last night was playing and doing well went up about 5k then was at about 3k and decided to call it a night and was gonna sweat for a little. Then something weird happened w my internet so went and got food then watched the wire (just finished 2nd to last episode of series man that show is sick good and am bummed this is the last season). After that decided to just play a little bit more before going to bed and turned a 3k win into 6k loss for the day so wasnt too happy w myself for even deciding to play because the games at 5/10 were terrible at this point in the night and I was 6 tabling against pretty much all regs, which is something just a week ago I couldnt understand when I looked at some of the 5/10 tables and saw all regs playing each other because I knew there was easier money from fish at 2/4 and 3/6. Man 5/10 is a rush! Addicting too in that sense I guess. I was running real bad (which I was more than overdue to do so cant complain) and wasnt playing well either but uckily I cut my losses.

My good friend bill came over tonight and we went to dinner at an italian place nearby that was very good. we hadnt thought anything of it, though, until we were sitting down at a table in a corner of this dimly lit nice italian restaurant w like a candle on the table just the two of us and actually contemplated leaving because of how we were sure it must have looked. To make it worse not only did we stay but we ended up asking the waiter if we could share one of the salads as an appetizer, good thing we dont care about how we look i guess.

AFter that was chillin on the computer undecided if I wanted to put in a session tonight or not because I was still a little upset about giving back the win last night but haupt motivated me by saying he was gonna put in a robusto session. that got me thinking positive so i opened a few tables started off hot right away and finished up w my new best day. so guess i owe haupt somethin for this.







On another note my bros bball team (carnegie mellen ftw) have big game on saturday against U. of Rochester. I feel a big win comin led by Geoff "his shits legit" Kozak.

Heres last nights graph:





Also wanted to hear peoples thoughts on this scenario:
"Heres the deal. You get two million dollars tax free deposited into your bank account right now, in return the only music you can listen to for the next 5 years is Creed or Nickleback. If your in public around other people listening to different music you will only hear Creed or Nickleback. If your watching a movie or tv and a song is playing, you'll here Creed or Nickleback. If your friend is singing a tune, it will sound like Creed or Nickleback to you.

Do you do it?"

At first I thought it was a tough choice but I wouldn't take it. After thinking about it more its an easy choice and I definately wouldn't take it. I love music sooo much and not being able to listen to all the stuff that I like in addition to having to hear nickelback all the time would irreaparably harm me for life. Not worth $2mill to me. I wouldnt even do it for 2 years. Such a long time. Maybe I would take $10 mil for 2 years. Anyway I found it interesting because this was posted at twoplustwo and so many people were saying they would take it in a heartbeat. I don't know what they're thinking.

Love February

Continue to run super hot and had my biggest winning day by far yesterday. Not gonna lie definately sucked out a few times, but I still think I played even those hands pretty well just a matter of running QQ into AA in 3bet pot and hitting Q on river lol. That being said I ran pretty bad at 3/6 (set under set, full house to quads, KK< AA). But Id rather run well at 5/10 and bad at 3/6 than the opposite. Didnt play that many interesting hands but here are a couple.


http://www.pokerhand.org/?2136890
first orbit at table and had never played with guy before, but apparently 5/10 reg obviously i dont like his play here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2136900
This was a line AE told me works great against fish in our lesson last night. After he just called flop there I was betting turn for value and check-snapcalling river when draws missed. Didn't put him on 66 tho (which makes no sense because that means the hand hes putting me on flop and turn is a king and then he bets the king when it comes even though he has some showdown value). Anyway pulled this same line twice more later on to great results.


http://www.pokerhand.org/?2136925
Note to self: don't try cold 4betting 20buck. Even tho his 3betting range is so wide doesnt mean hes goin anywhere.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2136933
Don't know if I like my play here. Guy was pretty donkish so ordinarily I would like a 3bet or fold on flop but I thought his range was anywhere from A8 to even AA (you never know, and don't think hed raise a set yet hes a donk). So while I could still be ahead if I throw a 3bet in here I think Im folding out the A8-TT and air hands and only getting it in against a better hand. When he chks behind turn im pretty confident he has an 8 but could still have 99-TT so river is obvioulsy not a good card and I bet small planning to fold or squeaking out some value from a hand i have beat.

Placed the order for the aeron chair today so im pretty pumped about that. Figure its worth it to spend the money on a real good chair so i dont mess up my back. Also committed to vegas for a month this summer so im really looking forward to that now. Were gonna have a totally balla house and everybody in its a very good player so definatley gonna get a lot better at poker there. Anyway hope things continue to go well I might start grindin 2/4 again for a couple days because Im so due to start running bad at 5/10. Not looking forward to the inevitable downswing there but we'll see what happens. Alright heres my graph for yesterday. Oh yea link to vegas house I think were getting: http://www.vacationsvegas.net/?action=detaliu&vid=25

Almost a Winning Day

Almost had my first decent winning day in what seems like forever today but managed to lose it all back and a bit more in my night session. I don't think I played too poorly but ran into a lot of coolers/missed a lot of combo draws. I drank a Rockstar and planned on grinding for most of the night but unfortunately hit my stop loss and chose to stop. I was a bit tilty at the end as well but didn't spew at all because of it.

Here's a few hands from the night session, all from 3/6 - 5/10:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126996
The PFR was something along the lines of 57/22 so I 3bet PF here. I think the turn is a good spot for a semi-bluff after the flop gets checked through and the river appeared to be the nuts for me.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126702
Nomed is pretty crazy postflop but I'm pretty sure he's never bluffing here. I was going to take the line of calling the flop, calling the turn, and raising the river in this hand to mix it up and also because I think he likes to continue firing a lot when shown weakness. He should know I'm not going to have a huge hand here a lot of the time and may also think I was floating him on the flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126707
Villain here is pretty fishy and plays 42/17. The river is very bad for me since it completes the straight, BDFD, and also puts QJ ahead of me. But I still think the river is a value bet, albeit thin, since he is a pretty big calling station and will definitely look me up with at least any jack here and possibly less.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126719
This one I'm not sure if I like or not. It's against the same fishy opponent as the hand above. I have seen him make large pot-sized bets postflop as a bluff before but I'm not sure he gets too out of line squeezing. With that being said, this flop and turn are like the nuts for my hand so it's tough to get away from my hand against this opponent. This may be borderline spew though given that I didn't have a huge read on his squeezing/cbet range.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126730
Villain in this hand was very fishy but I haven't played too much on him. He seemed overly loose and that's about all I knew.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126780
I chose to flat PF here even though the isoer has a very wide range when isolating the fishy limper. I had been leaning on him a lot on a few of our tables and didn't want to get 4bet here since he hadn't played back at all yet. When Josh squeezes, his range is very wide and I think AQs is ahead of it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2126879
This is one of the last hands I had played. I had been opening a bit at the table but really didn't get too involved with Josh the entire session, besides the AQs hand. I thought a flop c/r would be good to mix it up since I think he fires with almost his entire range and it looks like I am giving up with an AK/AQ type hand. I really don't like his PF call 100BBs deep...

I'm not sure what to do at this point since this DS is mentally draining me and causing me to not play as many hands as a normal month since I keep hitting stop losses/getting frustrated and taking breaks. I think I'm down about 8.5k this month so far but I'm definitely no stranger to putting a rally cap on for the tail end of a month. In January, I was down a few thousand on the 18th and managed to pull off ~+29k month. Let's hope I can find that cap for February.

Swingy Session

After playing 1995 hands I was down 4k at one point but ended up +1450.
Early on I made some spewy plays and then lost some coin flips. I never went on bad enough tilt to make me stop playing. I did have to take a 5 minute break to cool down, but after that I was fine. If I didn't think the tables were juicy enough to keep playing I def would have ended the session, but I kept playing and won some big pots. I remember Leatherass saying he plays so many hands and tilts very rarely. He plays through the bad downswings so he can get those hands over with.



Here is the MacDaddy flop and luckily my hand held up. I was a 55/45 dog. http://www.pokerhand.org/?2107671

Best week ever

Had another good session to cap my best week ever. Split up of hands is probably 65, 25, 10% 2/4, 3/6, 5/10.I've definately been running very hot, but i also have stopped giving away stacks. I have a little spewmonster in me that I've kept hidden recently, and I think a large part of that is because of talking with the rainmakers and our sweat sessions, as well as the sweat sessions Ive had with fees before this.
Had first lesson with aejones tonight and it was great. Hes definately gonna help me patch up the leaks in my game as I look to start playing primarily 3/6 and a little 5/10. The lesson went for an hr and 40 min tonight too and he only charged me for an hr which is awesome of him. Hopefully I keep running well and Im already looking forward to our next sweat session because definately took away alot from our last.

p.s. probably gonna fail first test of semester tomorrow because instead of studying tonight did the lesson which turned into me continuing to play after. hopefully i can bs my way through it.

Blahhhh

This month has been pretty piss poor so far. I think I've played ~18k hands and am down ~$5k. The fact that I played in the 10/20 NL cap game, ran like absolute garbage, and ended down a little over $6k on the first of the month didn't really help but since then my play has been sub-optimal. Besides not playing my A game all that often, the times that I do I feel like I am definitely on the ass end of coolers/suckouts more so than I am on the better end. But 18k hands isn't really all that many so I am expecting a boom switch sometime soon.

I have been looking to get coaching recently and decided on going with MYNAMEIZGREG, who plays mainly 10/20 and is a co-owner of Leggo Poker. I talked with him a bit on AIM and he seems pretty legit and I also watched one of his sample vids on Leggo (since I don't have a membership there yet). I decided to go with one of his package deals of 10 lessons for $3500. Although this seems like a lot of money, especially for my first time getting coaching, it's really only 3.5 BIs at 5/10 and I think his coaching will propel me to win much more than that in the long run. I start tomorrow so I will post on how things went and hopefully get some new tricks/confidence in my game and, more importantly, plug some leaks.

Running Hot

Continue to run hot this month, although I feel due since I ran so bad in Dec/Jan. Fees just came over and sweated me for about 2 hrs and I swear the few times we've sweated each other the person playing has flopped a set almost every time theyve seen a flop w a pocket pair. Wished I coulda made the rainmakers sweat on saturday but tennis match took forever because they only had 3 courts and we had to play 9 matches, so rigged. Really looking forward to the next one whenever we get a chance to do it (hopefully soon). Talked to aejones today about coaching and I think Im gonna do a lesson with him tomorrow night, so Ill see how I like him as a coach and let everyone know anything I learn.
Heres my graph from tonight Im probably gonna play some more, maybe take some shots at 5/10 if I see a good table. Although Im pretty due to start running bad so maybe Ill just play some 1/2 to waste it there ;)