Gotta change SOMETHING up.... been running bad which as made me play worse. Graph since last summer.



May and start of june with stats.



Gotta start paying that rent. Might start looking for a coach or a stake and a coach. Read the Easy Game book from balugawhale which I thought was a great book. And recently the cts/slow habbits book called let there be range which is good but will kill you if you over apply the concepts at the lower stakes. Also teaching some friends to play. There starting at 10nl and hopefully they can start putting in a ton of hands and move on up.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3142607

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3142620

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3142625

He played 15 hands, feared the repercussions rerun over and peaced.

Finally a good day at 200nl. Feel like I've been playing more under control and letting the hands play them selves rather than trying to win every pot.

Heres a hand 200bbs deep where the villain was awful but managed to luck box his way to a 1.3k stack @ 200nl and I was waiting for like 2 hours to get into a big hand with him and finally. Pretty standard but I had a good laugh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2750292

This was a little earlier in the session. Villain had been playing very aggressive post flop and was stealing a lot of pots being deep in position. Here I didn't think he could take much pressure so I shipped it in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=2749995

Second 1k day but the first one purely at 100nl. Haven't had much time to play this month with my brother graduating high school and my mom phreakin out about house chores. That's what I get for staying at home for the summer. Went camping on a buddy's land and finished off a bottle of captain between deep conversations. Did a lil hunting and chased some turtles around his pond. That was a good change of pace. Took a 3bi shot at 200nl and ran like shit. Up 400 then down 6 so I'm back to grinding 100nl.

I got home from college the 18th and have been able to put in over 2k hands/day. Its helps a ton being able to focus on poker all day and I think this summer is going to be phenomenal for my game. I've been running/lifting almost every day and eating better that's helped me feel and play better. Hopefully I can keep it up and full tilt can fix their bank transfer so I don't have to get a summer job. Shipittydodaday

I won a 34$ super turbo 6 man sng to get into the 6 max $200+15 buy-in nlhe FTOPS #1 event and finished 160th out of 4,158 players for $565.49. I very rarely play tourneys and started off playing pretty scared money. After first break I got my groove back n just played a good 6 max cash game style n build a pretty good chip stack. I was up to like 15th out of 600ish and Id say my good play was mostly due to the can of half pairs I opened up and enjoyed around second break. I'll ship some hands. This is like the first real tourney I've played so some spots might be pretty marginal.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2578909

Pretty active player, he raised the last couple times he was utg and I figured the minbet would put a lot of pressure on him if he didn't make a strong hand. Also there's a ton of great turn cards I could represent hitting. He timed down quite a bit before folding.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2578928

Same player, we've been getting in to it a little and judging by the past action I felt like he was going to 3bet me in this spot a very high percentage of the time. So I figured it would be a great spot for me to resteal with a 4bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579001

Here I couldn't see him hitting the board very hard by the turn and figured a raise represented so many hands that it would make It very hard to call oop. On the river I just hoped he was on some kind of missed strait or spade draw flush draw because I couldn't grow the balls to bet any of my 20k stack into the 20k pot to get him off a hand like TT and his turn call skurrrd me so I checked behind. 44 was goooooot! Lemme know all the places I might have butchered the hands because tournaments are still somewhat of a mystery to me.

And before the knock out hand id like to take some time to vent. Writing shit down and getting it out of the way really does help me not "mull it over" 1000 times in my mind and saves me some sleep. So I got a roommate who thinks he's the center of the universe. Nothing anybody else does is worth a damn. For the most part we have a pretty good understanding and get along alright but sometimes he doesn't know when to quit and cant ever seem to put himself in another persons shoes. The disrespectful prick (we'll call him Steve) came in a little after second break. At first it was kew. Asked how I was doing. I said I'm in the money doing well. 11th / ~550 then he checks the prize structure sees 158k for first and starts with the "It would be kewl but you know your not going to win." Your right Steve, I should just quit right now, fuck it. Let's go play video games. Then he sits on my desk right next to me asking what I'm going to do with every hand I get. Telling me what he would do and letting me know if he likes my play or not. Are you serious? Nothing I said could get him to shut up. Please sit on my bed n don't ask questions if you want to watch. "Why, why cant I sit here? Why can't I tell you what I would do with the hand? what's the big deal?" He had a ridiculous question for every single thing that went on. Sometimes I think he's to fuckn stupid to figure anything out on his own. Finally I'm able to kick him out and lock the door. I do some zen breathing and try to clear my head. He comes back up stairs like 30 minutes later and starts asking why I won't let him. My other roommates in the room watching politely as I'm explaining that I don't want any of his distractions right now. And shutting down all the reasons he should be allowed in the room. I've never been so tilted while playing. As were yelling back and forth thru the door I got into my final hand. AK utg vs mp caller on TT4 flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2579516

I think in my tiled rage I was hoping he would fold a hand like JJ or 99 to my turn shove when the Q came when I probably should have just check folded. Sad to nit it up and not risk a high percentage of chips at any one time early in the tournament and then do a raging tilt shove with 250 players left and a 150k first prize calling me on my cell phone. Petty unfortunate it ended like this. I think tilt was telling me to just shove n make it easy on myself. No more battling with Steve and pokers difficult turn decision at the same time. Just shove all in and it'll work out. And at the time I think it was a win win for me. If I lost I could blame it on Steve. And if I won I had 120k chips I could cool off with.

To "Steves" credit he's usually a pretty smart person. He just has some problems when you get out of his world view bubble. He's better at working with and touching things first hand than he is at abstract thinking and figuring out/understanding reasons things are the way they are and how that might be the best way. Instead he instantly dismisses things as broken and looks for reasons they suck or should be fixed. What's that even mean? Who knows... It makes sense to me that's all that matters.