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So today I have decided to start a blog to hold myself accountable for my ability to follow through with goals that I have set for myself. Although this is going to primary be a poker blog based on my performance on the tables, I will also be blogging about my travels around the world, my mixed martial arts training, and also just about anything on my mind in general. Today I look back and realize that I have been playing poker for 4.5 years with out working. seems like a long successful run, but the truth is that I have managed my money horrible and been super lazy about building the old nest egg. So it looks like that is infact what I am going to focuss on over the next year or so. In the past poker has never been my the thing that I am primaryly focused on. So now is the best time more than ever to start doing what I need to be doing. So what are some of the things that I need to be doing?
1) I need to put in a fulltime poker month like I have been the last few months. My results go up phenominally when I am focused on playing more hours.
2) I need to continue to learn as much about poker as I can each day. Like most regulars, I have become stagnant in my learning process and have not progressed. With games getting tougher and tougher each day, It makes it that much more necessary to take it to a new level with how I approach the game.
3) Recently I have been talking hands with my friend seth and I feel like that has been helping me expand my game more and in turn just make me think about the game from a different perspective. We both are like the polar opposites with our natural style. I was always the tight nitty one who was affraid to put money in the pot and he has always been the loose aggressive guy. I think if we continue to talk hands we are both going to find a happy medium. So today was a pretty standard day. I ran really hot but my session started out poorly. Mostly running into some bad luck.
Here is a hand early in my session today:
Treble was tilting badly altough is a pretty solid regular. He 3bet very lightly, actually to much so that it becomes to obvious. I feel like I am always one step ahead of him. Masticora is a very loose aggressive bad player with like a 36/22 style. I know he opening range is extremely wide here and even his flat call of the 3bet is extremely wide. masticora had been calling all of my 3bets. I called on the button with AK because I knew treble was going to 3bet given that he just got stacked and was tilting (no thought process going on in his head today). So masticora just happened to wake up with a hand but I think my play is very profitable here long term Free hand converter brought to you by CardRunners
Seat 0: -treble hook- ($200) - 
Seat 2: sirstackems ($484.95) - 
Seat 3: masticora ($210.20)
Seat 4: Hero ($510) - 
PRE-FLOP:
-treble hook- posts small blind $1
sirstackems posts BIG blind $2
Dealt To: Hero
 
RAISE masticora ($7)
CALL Hero ($7)
RAISE -treble hook- ($32)
FOLD sirstackems
CALL masticora ($32)
RAISE Hero ($510)
FOLD -treble hook-
CALL masticora ($210.20)
UNCALLED Hero ($299.80)
FLOP:
Pot: $493.4
  
TURN:
Pot: $493.4
 
RIVER:
Pot: $493.4
SHOWDOWN:
X50outzX:
masticora:
 
masticora collected $452.4 from main pot with two pair, kings and eights
SUMMARY:
Total pot: $454.40 Rake: $2
Final Board:
Seat 4: Ah 2c 8d 8s 2d: two pair, eights and deuces. - Net Gain/Loss: ($-217.2)
Seat 3: Ks Kh 8d 8s 4c: two pair, kings and eights. - Net Gain/Loss: ($-96.6)
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That being said, hands like that happen so I will also include a winning hand that I am proud of. I was playing a pretty aggressive game against another regular value town. We have some history of playing big pots very lightly but I have studied his pt play and made some adjustments. I feel that I am making better adjustments than other regulars lately. I am really proud of that. So in this spot when I am getting 3bet lighly I am 4betting 99 here for value and I snapped called. Free hand converter brought to you by CardRunners
Seat 0: UltimateFelt ($200)
Seat 1: stunna222 ($155.50)
Seat 2: Hero ($319.90)
Seat 3: chas212 ($214.35) -
Seat 4: swissbox ($142.40) -
Seat 5: Value Town ($204.40) -
PRE-FLOP:
swissbox posts small blind $1
Value Town posts BIG blind $2
Dealt To: Hero
 
FOLD UltimateFelt
FOLD stunna222
RAISE Hero ($7)
FOLD chas212
CALL swissbox ($7)
RAISE Value Town ($31)
RAISE Hero ($74)
FOLD swissbox
RAISE Value Town ($204.40)
CALL Hero ($204.40)
FLOP:
Pot: $490.8
  
TURN:
Pot: $490.8
RIVER:
Pot: $490.8
SHOWDOWN:
Value Town:
X50outzX:
Hero collected $412.8 from main pot with a pair of nines
SUMMARY:
Total pot: $415.80 Rake: $3
Final Board:
Seat 5: 8c 8s Jh 6s 7c: a pair of eights. - Net Gain/Loss: ($-235.4)
Seat 2: 9d 9c Jh 6s 7c: a pair of nines. - Net Gain/Loss: ($127.4)
Free hand converter brought to you by CardRunners I think my game has kinda reached a new level where I am ready for the first time to play and beat the 2/4 games. I never had a goal of playing over the 1/2 in the past so I am excited to see what I am going to accomplish in the near future.
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