Well the grind called real life starts tomorrow... I finally start my job. I am excited to finally start making some money!! My college life style is officially done, which sucks.. but if nothing else at least my life will start to be more structured. Which brings me to the fact that I am pumped to finance my bankroll again, and actually practice some bankroll managment. The last two bankrolls that I have built up I have busted from playing drunk. I hope this will change due to the fact I can't drink much anymore. Lets see if I keep my word!

I played in a 25$ bi, 10$ rebuy on friday. It was so much fun. There was only 30 people playing (live). The players were so terrible it was unreal, of course I was card dead. I started off by folding my first 20 hands or so. There was one hand where I picked up 55 UTG in the first blind level. I ended up pitching it because some guy raised about 9x from the cutoff and I did not feel it was the right play to play 55 oop that early to that big of a raise. Of course a 5 hits on the flop and 2 people get all in. I guess I can't be results oriented.

I ended up doubling up with AQ vs A7 in early stages, so I was up to over 8k. One of the questionable hands I played was I raised K8 from late postion to about 1300. I got like 4 callers. Flop came Ks5d6h I fire get 2 callers turn comes Jh, chk chk, I knew one of them was on a draw not sure what other had. I elected to chck for some reason and turn comes 10h. chck chk... guy had 74 of h. standard but hurt. I was blinded out with no real hands and put a add on at the end of the first breat to get myself back up to around 8k..

I only had like 4-5 bbs left when break was over, thank god I started to get some hands. I doubled up, won another nice pot got up to about 18k. Blinds started getting rediculous, I was UTG, I raise up with AK. everyone folds and BB comes over top of me for only 4 thousand more than my bet. I snap call and he flips K6. 6 spikes on flop... terrible. I ended up losing another substantial pot and got down to about 6k with levels at 1/2 k. I got in a blind on blind situation when I had A8 and I shoved into BB and he flipped over AK gg tourney..

My buddy who I came with ended up winning it, he ran unreal. On final table he picked up AA KKx2 and QQ 1010x4 and random AQ AJ hands where he could bully and double it up. It was unreal. I need to run good like that sooner or later!. I think I only played 1 -2 hands not optimally. I think i played scared from the start and gained more confidence. Live play is a different adjustment but it was fun. I'll be back there soon. g2g to bed.. new job starts tomm!

I have been really intrigued by my peers at microstakes... some of their dedication with posts, and the content of their blogs. I want to be the best, I want to improve myself.. and I want to be the one of the most respected posters at my current level. Currently as of the last two weeks or so I have seen some dedicated posters... some guys who havent posted a lot in the past but have picked it up previously. One guy that I admire is ECART. this guy has his shit together... I rarley disagree with him.. he answers posts thoughtfully and respectfully and he is really right. One thing I think is a huge leak in my game and a lot of these guys who post more than me is that I don't understand poker tracker, or poker ace hud near close enough as i should have. I am starting to realize how big of an edge this creates... just from post and latley from watching tannen J's videos... tbo i do not even have poker ace and i Need to start utilizing Poker tracker to the best of my abiilities...

I had a great weekend in live poker. For being a town of 5000 i find some sick poker games i think. Every monday i play a 20$ bi with 10$ rebuy. I invite my friends which is think is -ev for me because they are up there in poker intelect and i do not have an edge against them. I think I am about break even in this game.. for a couple of reasons... 1st reason is the blind structure is rediculous. We don't even start with 100 bb and for the first half hour is ok but when it gets up there with 10 min blind increases its serious decision making. I needt to play better in this game.

I found a game out in this farm place that gets 15-20 people and they host it 1 time a month. I do very well in this game, even though the blind structure again is fucking seriuosly sick rediculous. I got to the final table with about 18 bbs.. I got all the way down to 5 compared to the blinds and I worked my way back up to second place to earn 35 dollars net. which is money compared to my college lifestyle

Last night in that game I heard of the vets club.. its a organization where veterans join a club, they have a bar... eats etc.. tonight was their casino night. They had a bunch of blackjack tables going and I stuck around untill a holdem table opened up. They started a 2/5 spread.. which has a 5$ cap and is capped at 3 raises. This game was so rediculous.. everyone was terrible.. everyone limped and limp called all the time. Limit holdem is a fucking mind cramp and I swung up and down up and down and then one 3 huge pots within a half hour to net 70$ after a 40$ bi... i blew a lot of it at the bar but for the weekend it felt good to win 100$

I start my job april 7th so im excited to booost my br.. start working for a living and get my shit together. this is enough for now... holla

Well I had a buddy ship me 25 last night while I was drunk, and I ran that up to about 80 by the end of the night, I would have been up over a 120 but I made a stupid drunk tired plays. So it was nice to win that and then be able to ship the money back right away. Last night my play felt really solid.

So I got to my senses today and decided to two table 25nl for pretty much my whole role. I think I played very well. I started off really slow. I think my play starts to get worse after about 500 hands or so, so i think I am going to start caping my sessions at 500 hands for a while. I really did not make to many mistakes, the only thing im concerned about is all my profit is due to about 4 huge pots today. Generally my c-bets or 3-bet's were not getting any respect which for 1 its 25 nl.. but 2 is I think they were adjusting well. I think I need to table select better. I also think I did not make some plays that I generally would if i was completely rolled for the game.

I think that my time off has helped my poker game a lot, I have done no playing hardly for the last 2 months and all i ahve been doing is watching videos and studying forums. I feel a lot more confident in my play. I think that I am to good for this level but I can't really complain since I drunk donked my roll. what was I thinking. When I get a job I am def going to put about at least 500 in and start playing at 50nl...

here are pt stats for my session today at 25nl.. if you see any leaks please comment .

Me and the old lady went to see Bon Jovi tonight in Omaha. Simply fantastic. My mom loved bon jovi so I basically grew up on it, and aquired an appreciation for it myself. The concert was so awesome, probably the best concert I have ever seen. He is an amazing entertainer, and played all the old stuff as well as the new stuff, also played some stuff I didnt recognize but o well. The concert was fukin sweet I would definately recomment it to any of you..

Poker related stuff... no progress. I deposited another 25$ the other day and blew that. I am going to focus on videos and forums and study my game untill I get a job... which by the way I really need to kick it into gear in the next few weeks. Once I get a job I am planning on financing my roll up to 50nl, and going from there. I have a lot of stuff in mind on how to get more organized etc. I'll keep it updated with the job progress

GOO SEE BON JOVI HOLLA - juice

I said i was going to start blogging more? Lets start things off with the fact that I need to get a fucking job so I can put more money back on full tilt. I had no idea how depressing beng busto is. One of my buddys sent me 25 bucks for free, for free and i ran it up to about 60 and then got donked out like no other back down to 19. I can wait for the day when I am actually a balla... I guarentee you it happns. probably not though.

Life notes... I officially do not think the bible is real... I went to happy hour today and got pretty pissed up and was wondering if the bible was real why do they not talk about dinosaurs.. so i get home and start an arguement with my bible hugging roomate... we look this up and here is a link to what we found..

http://www.creationists.org/dinosaurs.html

So we are in a huge fucking arguement... and heres the quote he finds in the actual bible.. "He moveth his tail like a cedar" and he's like this proves that jesus said there was dinosaurs... bullshit. I am like how does that fucking quote mean there was dinosaurs... and he's like what else in the world has a tail like a cedar tree...

Wtf? I am in a spot in life where i think the bible is a bunch of shit. It's all fucking hear say. I ask my roomate how does that prove there is dinosaurs.. and he's like wheres the fact that it doesnt? I am amazed about all these situations in life that "believers" just think is 100% correct without using any fucking logic. IMO the bible is a bunch of story's said and re said and re wrote and who is to say that this shit is actually true... where is the proof...

To elaborate on this a little more.... god killed two whole towns because of gay sodomy... but he chooses to flood new orleans instead of san fransico? I just dont get it, its all fucked. Feel free to comment but i prob wont even read cuz you are all wrong.

Anyways I officially suck at poker and run worse than a obese diabetic quadropolegic. enough said.

Not much to say... just got back from a fire call, a great dane trailor company in my town started on fire, it was fuking nuts!!

reason for writing the blog, and this is a funny story.. so im sitting in cr chat and lent53 is like i am in a good mood everyone in chat gets 100$... so im like no way, and then lents like sent.. sent... sent.. so i was like thejuice03 lent.. and he goes sent.. sure as shit ub email pops up and i have 100...

Lent's a hell of a nice guy, that was so awesome buddy... mad props... if u do not know how excited I am about this plz look at my last two blog entries. Thanks Lent.. u da man!

Well I am still running like a 600 pound man. I think I have decided to just grind out cash games instead of sngs. I can't handle the swings that I am taking. I would quesstimate that I have gotten donked out of like 85% of my last 40 sngs. I'll save the rest of the bad beat stories (believe me i have them all logged if you don't think so).

In the meantime I need to find a J-O-B... yo. I think not having any money on tilt right now might actually make me more productive. I am going to wait till i find a job to reload. When that happens I am going to set up a non rigged screen name so i can get rakeback.. i think that is definately +ev. Also I am going to properly roll mysellf for 25nl because I do not feel like grinding back up to that level. And no more sngs unless im just fukin around with buddies.

I have been a lot more active on forums. I really love it actually. It really makes me think of a lot of hands, although i dont know if my advice is always right at least its something, i think it helps me learn and i want to get like 5-10 posts in a day. Also i need to watch some more vids.. need to do that

I don't think there is a ton of people who visit microstakes forums.. I would love to see more replys to some of these posts.. here are a couple that I would personally like 10-15 opinions about. I figure if any of you guys read this you could please check it out. Here is a couple that caught my eye tonight..

i guess its time to quit and re evaluate.. like i have been saying countless days in a row. I can not believe how bad i am running it is rediculous. GG bankroll. So depressing.

Every blog entry i have to start with a i have not written forever. ha. Poker sucks. I went from going on a sick heater in sngs to a even sicker downswing that cost me 60 ish percent of my roll. Sngs are so swingy and i inevitably run bad in them. I could post a million bad beats and what not, but fk it. I really do not know why I switched back to sngs, but it easily doubled my roll in a week and then you know the rest.

I have not gotten any better about videos, I need to do that, and My pt is all fked up, I need to make a post about that because I can not look at my hands. Also I am thinking about starting to use pokerhand.org, for some reason cr hh kind of annoys me.

My results in live poker continue to be awesome, I play in a lot of 50nl live cash games and last week i won 150, and last night i played a 20$ rebuy and won another 100.. not bad since i need the stratch. I have an appt to get my resume looked at tomm and then i gotta start looking for a job.

I don't have the PT stats, but i did have a pretty nice session in cash today. Logged 300 hands at 25 nl, three tabling. I really liked it. I ended up winning a buy in, which i don't know if that is below expectation.. I really want to switch back to cash, but for some reason it does not give me the instant gratification of winning a 11$ turbo which would be 42 dollars instead of the 25 i grinded today. but i guess i havent been winning so i dont know.

This downswing is really fking with my head. I got a pook about poker pchycology. I def need to read it and i really need to re evaluate my game. I am def not as determined or work hard enough to get better at online poker. Hopefully i'll change that soon. Right now if i ge tmy shit together my goal for 2008 is to win 10k online in poker. I broke it down and it is less than 30$ a day. I know i can do it, just gotta focus get beter and reap the benefits. -Juice

Well Sorry for the lack of updates... Extremely stressful month for me. I have not been playing to much due to trying to graduate. I actually did though, the last couple weeks have been unreal stress level, but i graduated friday and im glad its over, but for the most part It makes me sad because its all over. Way to many memories and now it's time to grow up i guess. I will be activley looking for a job for the next few months, I will update progress. The fire fighter job that I have been applying for I have not heard back from yet, so I do not know what to think about that.

The few poker that i have snuck in I have been playing 1 table way out of my roll. I have been playing 50nl, which is 1/7 ish of my bankroll. It has been going really well. I almost doulbed my bank roll from it. 50nl though when the variance gets to me I am going to be crushed. Tonight i decided to two table 25 nl. I honestly feel my skill level is beyond 25 and maybe even 50 nl, but my bankroll will not support it. I had a great session tonight for the most part. I was up almost 2 bi in under 300 hands tonight. One table broke and I added a new table. I got put into some spots right away in the new table... one was a cooler flush for about 20$, and the other was a straight vs a flush.. standard. I ended up winning those loses back at that table.. and the other table that i was up, I overplayed AJ vs a set for almost a bi. I ended up tonight only 10$ up in about 400 hands.

There is some def leaks in my game. I am playing so TAG.. running 23/15 ish and below. I have been thinking a lot about my game and here is some points i need to re assess.

First... my basketball coach in high school told me once " Practice does not mean perfect... Perfect practice makes perfect" I can apply this to my game in the sense that I am a better than average player. I learn from mistakes that I make and i see new hands and new positions that will make me better but, I am not fully applying myself to get better. I do not fully utilize the message board and videos, and another point is that I do not utilize poker tracker to the fullest. I am not learning enough basically. I need to learn the flaws in my game (PT).. I need to learn from mistakes and other peoples mistakes (message boards)... and I need to learn new things to develop my game (videos). I am sick of break even poker.. I have been reading verneers blog latley and he makes a point where he needs a platform to develop and learn as a player. I have a platform, but its not organized and i do not utilize it.. this needs to change.

What should i do about this?... I need to get in a routine. Once i get a job.. I will have between 6-8 ours free time (i am a night owl, but if i have to work i dont see myself up past one)... but I will want to spend time with my gf/maybe wife someday.. blah blah.. anyways. Before I start a session I need to watch a video, and analyze or post 5 hands. After this I want to try to play at least 300 hands a night, after each session i have to analyze what hands in what positions I am winning or losing with. this is very important. I want to improve and keep improving and if i do not implement these things into my game i am always going to be break even. Breaking even brings the fun out of the game for me, i want to be better than average.

Another Point i think that i am doing wrong is I need to utilize HUD more. I feel like even 2 tabling I do not even use it. This is because i always surround myself with distractions. I always watch tv/movies when i play, and I think that i need to quit distractions and focus focus. Even though this will be hard. I also want to write more notes and develop more reads and ranges based on these notes. I know I can move up. I just have to make it happen.

Despite what every BR management article tells me I am not going back to 10nl unless i hit a bad stretch at 25 nl. My current roll is 360$ and I am going to allow myself a 4 bi stop then back to 10nl, and a 1 bi loss for each session. Im really dissapointed with how this session turned out as i would have been up to almost 400 tonight. thats poker! i better get to sleep. sorry for lack of updates, I really need to get more adament about blogging, its good for my game, and also if I do what i tell myself im going to do i will start posting stats everyday. - Juice..