Just a few things...

So this month so far has been crazy, yet very good for me. Not only am I working 12 hour shifts from 5pm to 5am the last week and a half, but I am also coaching a 7-8 year old soccer team and playing poker, all while trying to be a dad and a husband....whew.

I am really trying to focus on ending this month on a good note as far as poker goes. My confidence is at an all time high and I want to snowball on that to keep moving up in stakes or at least to keep killing the 135 mans and the rush rebuys.

One thing that really sucks, is that I will be leaving sometime in the winter for 6 months, and don't know if I will be able to play when I leave. So not only ma I trying to have a good year due to me possibly missing 6 months of poker, but I will be missing 6 MONTHS OF POKER PEOPLE!!!! This is serious. LOL.

As far as goals for the next 4 months, well, I think I am going to try for once not to make any goals. To play and let things happen without expectations or lost hope. Just to see how it works out for me, and if it is good then I will continue to use this to better my game.

On a good note I have off this weekend so lots of volume and hopefully a big guarantee tourney!

Blog is back!

Finally I am back and more excited than ever about poker! Especially RUSH poker! In the last 4 months combined I've pulled in a cool 22,000$ from rush tournaments on Full Tilt Poker.

I have a very unique and descriptive strategy in the making and plan on doing lots of other things as well. My new You tube page is in the making as well, so look out for that! I'm looking to have video blogs, strategy videos, and sweat sessions on this channel and hope it becomes a useful tool for others.

Update on all the new cool stuff coming soon......

As for the post below, I was talking about the Poker issues and the government, not the Air Force :). At the time I couldn't deposit and was upset. Anyways on to what's going on lately in the life of me....

Currently playing 25nl and killing it. 9/100BB not bad but I am running really well and am prepared for the almighty downswing IF it comes soon. I have changed since reading a recent book that I have about having certain goals. Firstly, I would usually say something like " I want to be at 50nl by the end of July, which technically I am about 1 BI away from being able to play 50nl with 20BIs, BUT I am not making any goals like that. I understand now thta goals like that make you play more or reach out more/chase winnings if you are down so from now on I am going to be having goals like this:

1. Read more poker books- I have both of the Harrington on Cash Books which will take some time.

2. Post more in the HA section of Cards Chat- At least post a hand for every 2-3 sessions I have.

3. Look over HHs, and database stats- look at my actual raw stats and try to find anything that can be improved or taken away.

4. Sweat sessions- self explanatory

I think that by not having set goals I can make correct decisions and not always be results orientated. Wish me Luck!

Government

The US government can fuck off.

That is all.

Fresh Start

This month feels like a fresh start, which is an awesome coincidence seeing that it is May and the beginning of spring. I am still being staked by WVHillbilly(hope you don;t mind me saying :) )
Anyways my confidence is super high after winning an mtt last night. It was a 5$ KO, which KOs are pretty cool, something different. It was one hell of a roller coaster though. I was 4/18 with like 80k chips and a guy raises, I re-raise and he tanks gives the whole table a speech and says good bye to his new friends he made I guess. Long story short my QQ lost JJ(2 OUTTER!!!!!). I was down to like 30k and came back to being in 1st at the final table. So yeah crazy.

Ughh

Shitty day for me today. Not running well, not playing well, eventually going on tilt...Poker, so fun. I think i cashed in one mtt, the 8$ rebuy...basically a min cash and that is about it. Other than running bad I spewed off in the latest 3$ rebuy I wa sin and eventually called a loose all innner with 55 but also 4 others called and 88 beat my set of fives with their set of 8's. Didn't go crazy a spew a lot though. Stopped early so I guess that's a plus.

Going to take a break since I've been putting in so much volume tourney wise and it should help a lot. Always has....Anyways gl to everyone else, I'm just gonna study and take a day or two break...

LOL FLIPAMENTS

Well it came down to another coin flip late tonight in the 3$ rebuy on Poker Stars. I played solid poker the whole tourney and only got lucky once near the end(you have to at least once in these huge fields). I had about 360k at one point but lost some down to about 200k when the hand finally went down.....

Stacks:
MP2 with 345397
MP3 with 423002
CO with 938978
BTN with 483889
SB with 416319
BB with 199531
UTG with 571863
UTG+1 with 354608
MP1 with 939912

Poker Forum


Blinds: 8500/17000
Site: Pokerstars
Dealt to BB:9♦ 9♠
Sklansky group 3
Preflop:
3 players fold.
MP2 raises 21795 to 38795
MP3 raises 97205 to 136000
3 players fold.
Hero raises 61406 to 197406 [ all-in ]
1 players fold.
MP3 calls [61406]
Total folds this street: 7
Potsize: 442107
Flop:
A♦ 6♦ 4♣
Potsize: 442107
Turn:
4♥
Potsize: 442107
River:
2♠
Results:
Hero shows two pair, Nines and Fours:
9♦ 9♠
MP3 shows two pair, Aces and Fours:
J♣ A♣
MP3 collected 461232 from pot

I think my play here is standard. My reads on this guy were basically an idiot lol, but he actually showed up with a decent hand. So I lose the flip and life goes on. The thing is down the road(tomorrow lol) I'll be in that same situation, like always in mTTs and I'll win that race and go on to win it ;)

81/4680 is an awesome field finish imo, and I profited around 70$ so like 9$/hr :)

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