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was thinking about the blog

2010-01-22T16:19:00.001-08:00

I don't update my blog... I am not sure why i think about it a decent amount. I think that is most likely because i started talking to most people that ever read this on aim. well anyways i will still hop in here and there and give an update.

2009

On a professional level last year i did OK i avged only like 15 hours a week mostly due to taking like 5 months of the summer off.

i ended up playing about 18k sngs and made 65k

4k sngs and 18k of that was in Oct during the epic 9 stuff which i failed to bet the poker brat and got owned in that 50k sng for 0$

all in all 09 was good i ended up making the 60k goal that i had which was fantastic

On a personal note i meet my wife to be last year and will be getting married in early 2011. I have failed at my goals to lose weight however i have not been gaining any so its not all bad.

2010

My money goal is 80k this should be rather easily doable breaking even all year. I made this goal at the start of the year.

My more important goal i made to start the year was +20k in profits from play I'm still not sure how easily i will be able to do this however i am going to work hard to table select this year which will most likely result in a lower avg buy in but hopefully a larger amount of money overall.

As far as the start to my year it has gone insanely well I am having my 2ND 10k month ever 9.5k from play(who woulda thought). I have ran very very well over this time i have about 3k from MTTs and about 6.5k from sngs.

Having this good of a start to my year has made me consider MTTs more obv do to me being a luck box and the fact that the 20k goal is very doable for profits from play.

I also have been avging 40 hours a week so far which i hope to hold around 30-35 hours over the whole year. I also was thinking if i do this make the 20k from play i would like 100k should be rather easy.

Well after bonus and rakeback I'm sitting around +14.5k so far this year more then i ever could hoped for.

new month

2009-11-07T14:59:00.001-08:00

Well figured i would throw a little update had a great day yesterday cashed like 1400 ran amazing +like 1kish in eq which puts me only down about 300 in eq on the month according to hm. All in all im playing fewer tables and concentraiting on playing correct and stuff. We will see hopefully i can pount out a lot of sngs and actually get in good for the month.

O and have the 9 person satty to the 50k with phil today hopefully ill get one of those 2 seats

Oct

2009-10-31T21:40:00.000-07:00

Well figured i would give a little update maybe ill get back to a full one.

Sooooooooo i havent updated because i was actually playing a shit ton of poker.

4565 sngs to be exact.

Was just an insaine month worked 203.8 hours....

All in all there was good things and bad the bad was i made only 352.60 from play lmao. This was mostly due to large volume 10+ tabling ultra tubros that give little time to act and make decisions. However i did have my biggest month ever.

ended up making 17.6k this month... so was pretty fantastic biggest month ever

Most of this was due to the epic 9 promo on ap another reason i didnt make a post most people didnt seem to notice the promo so i took home like 10k in bonus money from this pormo. Plus i am in a tourny with like 8 others for 2 seats into the 50k sng with phil.

anyways money break down went a little like

3.3 rakeback

3k bonus

10410 in bonus and rakerace weekly leaderboards etc

plus350 from play which is LOL

But anyways mostly i didnt get to game select whatsoever which was stupid to do even grinding the promo at first it didnt hurt me but about mid month i slacked some on my play and wasnt game selecting and dropped like 2k in one day.....

This month i had my 4 worst days ever in poker i believe totally around 5k in loses.. about 3k of which was actually supposed to be lost which hurt a lot. But anyways i rallied over my bad play and was supposed to be up for the month.

I hope to work on my game a lil next month and game select a little also and hopefully can get my ev line positive a few K.

New month worst day in forever

2009-10-02T23:18:00.000-07:00

well last month was pretty break even i wasnt playing good and knew it so i sat down this month with a new month and a general focus to play good and i have......

BTW sorry for just no blogging i have had a lot going on in life in general and just not playing poker like i should but anyways since june in about a 7 roi and EV wise around 5 so ive ran very well but gotten in good too even after last month which was horrid i believe i was supposed to have lost like a 1 roi first one of those and first losing month since coaching.

But anyways today was just butal i didnt really tilt and am not which is hard to do when you lose large amounts of money but it was made easier by the fact i was getting in good all day.... Whether i believe truely in using ev as a guildline the simple fact is if i make my little red line go up the green line follows so anyways...

Today i played 62 games and lost 19.5 buy ins... ev wise i lost 30.9 it was so crazy. i ran at a -41.3 roi and got in at a 7.7 roi. Anyways hopefully i can continue to get in that good because the simple fact is over 20k sngs the green line at least follows the red line :).

2009-08-11T19:19:00.000-07:00

Well i haven't been playing nearly as much poker I have pretty much taken the summer off. I have regained a lot of sanity and just relaxed in general and stayed busy.

The last of my vacation will be at the end of august when i take a trip down to jackpot for a golf tourney and then onto Vegas for poker and just being a lame tourist with my friend and girlfriend.

Anyways onto poker since i got coached i have ran very well and finally gotten in good over significant sample. The coaching mainly just showed me that i was not thinking my plays threw more then anything.... The coach showed me a few things here and there but nothing really i didn't know which also gave me the confidence back that i was lacking for sure after my 5k down swing back last Jan.

Well i haven't played a ton of poker obviously like i said but i have played some i will post a graph of my July that i never even made a blog update on and a few others.

This is my July graph i obviously ran very well had downswings upswings but got in very well the red lines are the EV graph. ev 8.0 $ 8,1 roi's

Again i have ran very well since June however this is all according to the ev graph which also shows that i have been playing far better. All in all I'm still working on some things but i believe i have finally righted my head and am back to playing very well. Since june ive ran at 11.4 roi and gottin at 7.6 which is as good as i could have ever hoped for....

June was good a little on july

2009-07-01T14:40:00.000-07:00

So i have taken most of june off going to try and get back into things some in july but will still be slacking a lot playing lots of golf shot a 92 recently i dont get under 100 massivly so was nice usually in the 99-105 range pretty consistantly.

Anyways june when i played which was little was fantastic i ran good and played very well. Even when i was losing a lot of buy ins hm-ev was saying i was getting in good over those runs!! I ran at 8.1 roi getting in at 8.0 which was a massive insainly good relief thanks mostly to my coach showing how bad i was playing when i know as much about sngs as anyone i just wasnt applying it. Also had stoped studying and learning which is never good and way to easy to do. avg buy in was only 44ish but thats more then fine i dont need to be up on the 109s or higher.

Anyways heres a pic of how i ran which was mostly hot till the end. I also only played 622 sngs when i should be playing like min 2k and probably 3500 LOL but o well.

I still pulled in 4500 or so because of the rake 1k from race cards last 2 months which i was happy to get because i put in very very little volume over the race cards

June no real goals

2009-06-04T23:20:00.000-07:00

So my only goal in life in general at the moment is to work out. For the most part I have been doing something either 30min good work out basketball or golf every day.(bowling today only)

As for poker I'm on one of my first true heaters of the year LOL at least one that I have gotten in fairly well also. I've wont 2k here and there but for the most part i was still getting in at like 1-2 roi.

I got some coaching from one of the best 6max players online and realized i know almost everything that i should be doing in poker... Almost he has shown me some things and has me doing a couple little things to fine tune things. For the most part my issue in poker is not taken 5-10 seconds to look at a table before i act. Missing a little easy push here and there or just not seeing something.

For the most part my month has been a small sample only 220 sngs but I am at least back on track and have my confidence back which is half the battle.

I'm obvoiusly running good also but im getting in (according to HM's EV) at near 11 roi.

update

2009-05-27T14:28:00.000-07:00

Well I have basically not played poker this month at all after the first week. Going to be way below any expectations i had this month because of it too which is a little annoying.

However the nice thing is I have been getting outside a lot doing lots of golf and basketball. I also decided that i would rather make sure i work out every day rather then play poker every day. I'm just tired of being over weight and not being able to run because my knees dont like to move 270 pounds.

Also I'm looking into getting some coaching so that hopefully i can improve my game some.

April/may

2009-04-30T20:05:00.001-07:00

Well i really should put in a few hours more poker tonight but im going to be lazy and call it a month.

All in all acomplished nothing that a truely wanted to this month other thing profits which obviously is the only real goal i need....

cashed in about 9.3k this month 3kish form the race cards last month which over last 2 months im +15kish up little over which is fantastic.

However still not playing great and race cards started up again on the 15th this one is going to be a 2 month long one so i haven't been grinding near as hard as last month. Also i can play way less and still get a 3k bonus or so but might crank it up to try for 6k+ which would be bad ass. Basically though if i earn 15k over next 2 months with the race cards ill be hella happy because ill be over my pace of 60k for the year. Which really is plenty of money for me obviously id like to be actually good at poker and make 100k i probably am able to do but im lazy and unmotivated and just lose concentration to much while playing.

As for the month i made 1k or so should have lost like 250 bucks or so according to ev on HM but breaking even is good money so whatever. The negative 250 is all from MTT that i played didnt play many and im not overly good at them however im sure i can have a good win rate because i think any compitent poker player can have a decent roi at those. I did a good job of running into AA when i hit final tables which always is fun.

Still working on actually playing good for the most part i have been playign 20-40s with some 50-65s mixed in no game selecting on 20-40 but i really shouldn't have to.... rarely is there more then one reg besides me and i should be better then them anyways. However i obvoiusly need to work things out. I have consistent massive down swings it seems like every month lately that i drop 1k+ EV in like 100-200 sngs which just needs to stop. I really dont feel like im tilting anymore so im not really sure why I start playing so bad in these streatchs.

Anywas anuff rambling about how bad i play next month my main goal is 5k profits i dont care if that is 5k rakeback or what. I will be playing 3k games mostlikely played around 2.5 this month hoping to pull around 45k fame points this next month too.

But we will see I will be golfing more and playing basketball trying to get in some remote shape other then round and puffy LOL.

running hot!!

2009-04-25T17:15:00.001-07:00

So ive struggled a lot this year been getting in bad all year and grinding rakeback. This month has been same as last although i started super hot and then lost it all.

However i am on an insaine heater last 2 days which has been fantastic. I have been game selecting a ton lately and that has resulted in me playing mostlye 20-30s instead of 50-100s. Anyways I need to start getting more volume in again ive been back to my 20 hours a week again.... at just 90 hours on the month which sucks... hopefully i can start putting in some seroius volume soon and get up there on the ap500 im only like 40th been hovering there for most the time which is pathetic i should be top 20 at least but im so lazy.

Speaking of lazy i got new golf clubs and made it out tuesday shot a 99 ( really suck at golf ) which was good for first round no driving range and brand new set of clubs i had never hit. Will be getting out again sunday so getting another day off of poker too.

Anyways here is a sick pic of my last 2 days.

Vacation/running good

2009-04-07T21:05:00.000-07:00

So running amazingly this month (playing about break even) which is really really nice. Haven't played a whole lot either been pretty much on vacation went to the seattle comicon with a few friends. Which was pretty fun and wierd in general. Saw pretty much every and any type of nerd you could think of LOL.

Anyways will most likely pick up my play here in the next few weeks so hopefully i will continue to run good.

Heres a few pics of some of the good costumes at the comicon.

March/april

2009-03-31T18:22:00.000-07:00

Ah well another negative month another month i should have lost money. I'm starting to wonder how possible it is to be positve on the ultra turbos. For me anyways 109 ut6mans are not positve and a large number of the 55 71s are also negative. However knowing this i made 9k+ this month due to the race cards promo. Obviously the biggest thing to improve my game other then playing better and makeing less negative push/calls is game selection.

Seems like every reg you see that has a blog or you talk to says they are going to game select more and more obvoiusly that is what im planning to do.

For last month i played over 2700 sngs losing 2355 on the month(had a good session after 9 to start out race cards on the last day of last month) for +6259.70 +another 3k/250/and 600ish in rakeback that i will receive here at the start of next month.

I played 177 hours which for me is way way more then i have possibly ever in one month. God im lazy...... Averaged just over 40 hours per week every day this month which is nice getting me back on track for 30 hours a week for the year. It also showed me how its really not all that hard to put an 8 hour day in in poker. That translates into about 52 dollars an hour so very happy about that but could be far better if i could learn to play poker at some point.

Next month I will obviously take it easy get back into golf which i suck at but is very relaxing. I'm not overly sure what i want to do poker wise Grinding SNGs like this is very very profitable but the peace of mind of actually showing profits would be very very nice. I may get back into some cash games it was fun and nice for a change. As for goals my only real goal will be 30k fame points other then that dunno game select may play a mix of 3-5 full ring 50-100s and 3 or so 6max cash tables or may just play 2500 6max UT and try to bang my head against the wall some more.

Variance at 30-100 level

2009-03-22T23:17:00.000-07:00

so all month i have been playing 30-100 buy ins and playing A FUCKING LOT because of the race cards event. Ive been using holdem manager which has the new ev calculations which is very nice to get a grasp on how im playing.

I am supposed to be down like 1500 which i cant decide if this is overly bad or not this month due to large amounts of regs im being forced to play against. For the most part i have been playing 6max and have been trying to keep the games down to 2 regs +me which obviuosly is going to be break even or losing with just that. However i find i get way to many games going with 5-6 regs also which those are negative for all. Usually this happens because i sit with maybe one reg maybe 2 and instead of random people 4 regs join with me lol so retarded.

Well according to HM I have played 138+ hours alreayd which is so fucking much. It has been an eye opener however on how lazy i am when it comes to playing and how easy it really is to get 7-9 hours of poker in a day if you try. I am ahead of my 30 hours a week pace now which is also nice.

As for sngs i have played 2080 already which is fantastic I was going to try for 2k to 2.5k so i should be near the 2.5k which is also great.

Now for the variance part :) -2000 which is killing me I should still make 5k-10k on the month due to volume should be a decent $ per hour after its all said and done.

Its really hard to tell how much of this is bad play varaince and just playing vs to many good players in general. Hm says i should only be down 1500 . But its hard to tell how well the all in ev calculators really work.

for the year now im down 9k and according to the all in ev i should be down 2.8k... Obviously this sucks i havent had back to back losing months ever and to supposed to have had 3 of them is rediculous however im also playing far higher limits these days.....

After this race cards ends im going to most likely reevaluate things debating on stopping playing 6maxUT for the most part just because im obviously losing and at best break even on them. I'm leaning towards a mix of maybe 3 full ring 50-100s and 3 6max cash at a time as i ahve been mostly 6-8 tabling lately. However if they add a new status level on AP i will mostlikely continue grinding 6max ut's for that and lost 2k every month to make 3-5k lol. If i do continue playign ultra turbo 6max im going to do massive game selecting and try to play with no more then one reg.. Most of the other players if the arent a regular sng grinder are a cash grinder or at very least aggressive and running like god.

feb/start of march

2009-03-01T00:44:00.000-08:00

Well i finished down for the 2nd month in a row that hasnt happened often.

However i lost only 1100ish this month so it wasnt a total loss as i played over 1500 sngs and cleared about 5k in rakeback/bonus.

all in all i lost

-1315.5 on sngs ( holdem manager said i shoulda made 843)

So i still didnt do overly well or play overly great and 2kish swing isnt bad at all so wasnt horrid.

I'm still looking over my play for the most part just looking at the mental things trying to figure out why i do stupid thing that i know are bad and trying to remove these things still. It is fairly stupid that i have been playing poker for so long and have developed these types of things. I have to remove them if i want to make more money and move into the 100 ultra turbos consistantly.

On the month i played 1564 sngs not as many as i would have liked but def not bad volume. Ended up running reallly hot tonight so cleared about 4090 profits so deff a decent month.

As for next month racecards have started again so im going to get more volume in. My goal is 30k fame points and 2k+ games should be easily doable but i always get lazy so we shall see.

Poker and break even

2009-02-24T02:50:00.000-08:00

So i have been a break even player forever........ at first it was due to not knowing a lot of things icm ranges etc. Know its mainly due to becoming an insaine nit/pushbot. I have been looking back at myself over hte last few weeks I'm not really sure when this happened. I have always been a 1-3 roi player for a lot of reasons more then just being nitty.

This has kinda become a major focus of mine due to holdem manager adding the EV scale to there sng section. It has really depressed me looking threw all my HH over the months and years. Know a 2-3 roi isnt that horrid for 50+ buy in but for some reason im a 2 roi person at no matter what level lol its really strange.

According to HM im down absured amounts more then i should be however im also playing breakeven/losing....

That is a pic of my EV for the year basically shows me down 6100 and should be down 1000 which is depressing. I did play bad last month and on top of that i dropped about 1k on hu sngs before i figured out how to play them... but i'm almost even on hu sngs for the year now.

That is a pic of my month should be up about 850 and am down almost 900. Which at least im playing better now. However up 850 is under a dollar per sng and i have an avg stake of 47.8 and 1397 sngs played so that is rather pathetic......

In short I am way better at poker then i play and for the most part it is just plain laziness that i dont play more hands now. I have been working on fixing this slowly I know exactly how to play post flop and yet dont do it. Playing my hu sngs kind of lit a fire under my ass at how many chips that i am always giving away so hopefully i will become a lot better at poker because of all of this.

Jan

2009-01-31T16:35:00.000-08:00

So Jan sucked bad ive basically played a ton however not even 30 hours aweek...

i played 117.25 hours not bad for the month but below what i wanted....

I did play 1559 SNG's which was good. More then i have played in a long time.

However i also lost 4600 from play.... worst month ever bye 1600 or so. These months are bound to happen playing 50+ buy in sngs. For the most part i played fairly well not great.

For the month i actually made a tiny bit of money so it wasnt a total loss just really really really hurt.

For at least a while i will most likely be playing 30-40-50 6max ultras just to kidna get some easier compitition and at very least the swings cant be as bad playing for less money. Almost every single day this month i either won or lost +/- 500 with several 1k ups and downs per day.

Overall i am playing fairly well and it will turn around hopefully soon lol.

All in all my monthly goals will be to play over 1500 because that isnt even 30 hours a week.. Tracking my hours has shown me how insainly pathetic my volume has been.

2009

2009-01-19T01:49:00.001-08:00

So I have been putting in tons of volume over 800 sngs already. However ive also had equel to or my worst swing ever -70 buy ins. Which is pretty sick avg buy in of 55 specially when you think the only level im doing good on was my 100s.

However im kinda working my way out of it im only stuck 40 or so buy ins plus im about even know after rakeback and bonus' finnally so im a little happy about that.

Needless to say poker has been a big mind game this month losing so bad but its bound to happen. I've had a few bad swings in the last few years although i hadnt had one for a long time and never at the higher stakes.

Anyways i'm starting to do better and ive been mixing in 6max and HU sngs (got crushed at hu sngs at first but ive deff gotten the hang of them and have been crushing them now).

I'm also behind on my 30 hours a week main goal already LOL however im playing a lot of sngs and am still commited to playign 30 hours a week avg for the year so i need to get some 40 hour weeks in here.

Also on a side note im really hopeing to break at least 1500 sngs maybe even 2k. Its been so long since ive played 1500. So anyways thats a little update ive been sow at updateing and this month has been so hectic with the downswing and all ive been actually studying a lot of poker too.

but anyways hopefully ill get some more updates in.

2009 and more 2008 recap

2009-01-01T22:25:00.000-08:00

Well im pretty lazy so i didnt make any pics of graphs etc on 2008. For the most part it really was a break even year i ran about 3.5 roi on SNGs which isnt insainly bad with avg buy in of 40ish.

Alot of my break even came from 6max sngs i ran 7-10 on 40s and 50s and 15ish on 30s only about 10 on 20s for the year on full ring turbos. On full ring turbos the only level i lost money at or came close to breaking even was the 71$ sngs im down like 50 bucks on the year. O ya i didnt really cash any MTT i played either lol i suck so bad at them also didnt play that many really.

I did however get hte 40k goal

RakeBack $9,076.00 Total Bonus $14,558.49 Win/loss $16,648.50 Total Profit $40,282.99

So Very good year considering i slacked so much i need to find motavation... In the summer 3 months i belive i played under 200 total sngs all in all i worked probaly only a total of like 7-8 months of 40 hour weeks worth of work..... which is depressing becuase i play worse when not playing a lot and my push/call ranges struggle a lot.

Anyways main goals for 09 are obv profits which i will set a 60k goal this year hopefully i shall easily pass it if i can motivate myself. I would have crushed my 08 goal had i put in volume..... as it was i got it taken another 3 weeks off in dec again.

Next primary goal is a life goal of getting in shape. I mean seriously i have no job how hard is it for me to get to the gym for 30 mins a day or an hour.....

So all in all 60k work out/lose weight.

On my actual play i have started playing hu sngs i have not been overly profitable however i have enjoyed them and i can get far more volume in doing those then full ring. Also in 09 i would obviously like to get more into cash again I basically fell off when AP merged with UB because traffic went up so much. (also got abused at my cash play)

So for play i would like to be consistantly playing the 100 range of sngs whether it be 100 hu ones or 100 6man the 100 full ring just dont fill anuff on ap to play them.

2008

2008-12-31T13:19:00.000-08:00

So I played a crap load for about the first 10 days this month. After that i got absolutely no volume lol. I ended up kicking it up a notch after xmas and actaully cleared teh 40k on the year so im pretty stoked about that.

My new(ish) dodge charger just got a scrap on the back bumper not totally sure how it happened pretty pissed about that but overal in a great mood.

Hopefully ill get back and update hte blog with dec results and some yearly pics etc.

O and my stupid dell 30" was stupposed to be here yesterday at the latest still waiting for that.... stupid xmas shipping.

rollercoster

2008-12-07T01:06:00.000-08:00

As one might expect after having the biggest day ever ive been losing :). Its pretty much to be expected. I'm pretty much down to under a buck per sng but thats not to bad considering im playing a lot higher levels then im used to and a lot of ultra turbos.

I have pretty much given up on cash due to sngs filling so much faster. I load up some cash at the start of sets but just really not into it obv because i got owned at it. Cash is still a fun thing to play and ill be doing so here and there but sngs are filling so well now at ap its just not overly worth it.

I'm around 30th on the race cards on ap really just hoping to stay in there at top 50 which should be fiarly easy and net me an extra 750 or so.

I have put in way way more volume then i have been. Basically this is by far the most ive played in one week since maybe one of the last sng madness'. So far profits from play are kinda meh but between bonus rakeback and all the other stuff its going well.

Plus i snuck in at 10th on mid stakes leaderboard i have done very well there cashing in most of the leaderbaords however that will be a lot harder after the merger with ub but the added players is so worth it.

playing a ton

2008-12-03T23:46:00.000-08:00

So ive already got oever 200 sngs on the month and its paying off.

Today had biggest day ever +1720 was crazy ill post more later :)

Novermber is over December is here

2008-12-01T00:17:00.000-08:00

I missed all my goals...

Partly due to being lazy partly due to buying a car got me a 06 dodge charger rt with the hemi having fun with that.

I have was fairly successful on SNGs ran at 8.5ROI avg buy in of 52$ for 2602 profits. I failed on cash this month... -1075 over 11890 hands... dropped 6bb/100. lost a little more somewhere

so
1384 from play
920 rakeback
2543 random bonus' leaderboard points to cash etc.
4848 profits

All in all very decent month I gave up on cash for the most part. I started off the month playing a lot more cash tables then i did all last month and dropped money fast.... So i quickly lowered it back down and broke about even. SNG's went well and the 40-100s are fill much faster now that ub and ap have finnally merged.... Still slow though.

All in all im trying to get some more mtt in but i suck at it and they seem to have removed the 2 50+5's i had been buying into or got rid of them for now.

Need to find someone that knows cash well to talk to so i can improve my game cuz i just suck at it i guess. I will still plug away at it however 1-2 tabling it.

As for Dec im going to be traveling so i will most likely miss my goals again... But here they are

800 sngs and 10000 cash hands

I need 5060 profits to reach 40k on the year so hopefully i can get some volume in grab 1k plus in rakeback some profits and maybe get some tlb wins in or just profits in general.

Up's and downs

2008-11-19T20:59:00.000-08:00

Well I've been very up and down lately i dropped near 4k last week.... was absolutly brutal. This week has started out very well im almost back to up from play thank god for bonus'. Also been looking at cars lately. I have pretty much decided on either the chrysler 300 or dodge charger. I really like the 300 more i think however i also like the bigger engine and it seems easier to find a cheaper charger with the hemi then a 300. But anyways hopefully ill have one of those picked out here by the end of the week.

shit happens

2008-11-09T21:49:00.000-08:00

So i end up dropping like 800 on cash saterday...... had a pretty good day of sngs so didnt really lose much money.

However.... I ended up breaking my phone (pretty much crushed the screen in my hand when i was pissed off losing...... im an idiot) DONT TEXT AND PLAY POKER.

On top of that my 2nd 20inch monitor crapped out on me fucking cheap as samsung's.... So ill probably be buying a dell 3007 30" to go with my other dell 20" I have wanted one for ever but had a hard time justifying it due to already having 2 20" would have basically just wasted at least one of hte 20s for sure. Not overly sure if ill get one used or not you get a 3 year warranty with the used ones so its not to bad will most likely depend on if dell lowers the price down to like 1200 from 1400 again like they do often.

My car is also crapping out but that has been happening forever because im a cheap bastard and havent bought a new one for several years. So ill be looking at new cars a lot of 08s are pretty cheap at the moment and a few decent prices on some 09s too. But ill most likely just get something a little older as i am a cheap bastard.

november

2008-11-01T13:02:00.000-07:00

Well going to set a kinda knew goal since im playing a mix of cash and sngs. My goal will be to earn another 12000 fame points and generate at least 1k rakeback for me. I'm hopeing to get at least around 600 sngs in less because im going to concentrait on teh 40-50-65 level a little more and not fill with as many 20s instead filling with some cash tables. So if i only get around 600 sngs ill be looking to get in 25000 cash hands or so im hoping.

I also am going to try to be playing a lot more often for then 10k garanteed every day 50+5 tourny. It is a pretty good MTT fairly small which i like small on ap's blind structure it is pretty slow.

Obviously my main goal is profits so hopefully I can play good and have that happen :).

On a side note after actually getting back to playing poker and haven a good month I only need to avg 5k next to months which is doable for my 40k on the year,

oct biggest month

2008-10-31T18:11:00.000-07:00

Because of all the bonus money i made this month i had my biggest month ever.

All in all was a nice month put in decent volume nothing amazing or anything. Ended up doing 870 SNGs plus 12700 cash. Ended up about 9 Roi on the month and 5.7 per 100. Ran better on cash then that but basically i only got 500 1-2 hands in and ran kk into aa and kk lost to qq kk/qq hand was all in pf of course. Those where both on 1-2 for about 500-600 total..

overall

+3900 profits

+1180 rakeback

+3100 bonus'

+8266 total

Didnt break my biggest month by much but still a great month. Also should get around 400-500 from rakerace most likely 50 from stupid ap promo also should be 3rd on mid stake leaderboard for anohter 275ish to start out my next month.

running good

2008-10-18T19:34:00.001-07:00

Well im still a touch under pace for 1k sng's im over my pace of 10k cash hands though. running fairly well roi up to 10 around where I hope it to be.

+3k about 800 from cash making 10bb per 100 there so far

cleared about 1.6 in bonus too

also got 4th or 4th-10th on mid stakes leader board so that will be a nice little bonus again.

The leader boards have been going fairly well for me which is helping a lot to make money.

Been playing a decent amount

2008-10-10T22:42:00.000-07:00

Havent played a lot but playing a decent amount of poker. As anyone knows its hard to grind a lot of poker breaking even. Today had my first biggish day in awhile +500-600 was really nice to get one of those in.

I've cleared 366 SNGs not bad on a decent pace nothing massive. Running at a crappy 2.48 roi...

Cash has been going fairly well nothing great mainly due to a few bad calls/plays here and there which are bound to happen specially since its been so long since ive played a lot of cash.

Im just playing .5-1 dollar nl full ring up few 100 about 5k hands in

hopeing to get at least 10k cash hands and 1k sngs in by the end of the month

weekly TLB

2008-10-05T16:39:00.001-07:00

So i cashed 2nd on the middle stakes and 4th on the low stakes leaderbaords last week on ap.

nice 550+110

also got 7th on last months low stakes leaderboard for 110 so already have a lot of bonus money earned this month

oct

2008-10-03T02:44:00.000-07:00

Well i forgot to put a post about oct goals but the good news is im actually playing poker.

Ap has basically a rakerace this month so I'm going to play a lot at least for awhile hopefully full month. If im not in top 100 after a week or 2 I'm sure ill go back to slacking off but we shall see.

Also have the rakerace on TITN so hopefully i can make myself play this month and make some extra cash. Speaking of cash I'm playing some full ring NL probably going to try playing a couple tables of that while im running some SNGs.

Well for actual goals I WILL PLAY 1k sngs this month and i will make dimond level on ap.....

This will happen :) already off to a great start so just need to not slack to hard.

still being lazy

2008-09-30T16:25:00.000-07:00

Well i slacked off almost all month again got 230 sngs in lol + others not tracked probably around 50.

made a couple grand so all in all not bad

Overall was just another lazy month im starting to work out again and i played a lot last 2 days after i noticed how incredably crappy the volume im putting in is.

+2270

ended up getting another set it jacked 500 so

+2748

OK

2008-09-03T13:44:00.000-07:00

Im back to playing poker going to take it easy

Sept goal is to get in a min of 500 games trying to hit 1k should be easy to get into this range could really do it in one week if i tried lol.

so we shall see im not tracking 100% of my tables so the 500 goal is just on tracked.

Haven't been playing

2008-08-13T12:26:00.000-07:00

I haven't been updating my blog because i've just been being lazy enjoying life. I had been grinding poker A LOT for a long time with out doing much else. So I have just not been playing i didnt play much at all last month and have played very little this month. I am starting to play a little again will hopefully get back into the flow of poker.

On a side note I have gotten a decent amount of golf in (still suck) and my friends wedding went fairly well too all though my best man speak sucked.

All in all i have just been anjoying life and ill get back to the flow of poker here soon.

And really i have never needed more then 20-30k a year to live I have always lived fairly poor and I was already approaching that so i figured i would be lazy and stop stressing over poker.

June/July

2008-07-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

Well i had a very crappy month spent the entire month down/break even.

Played 800ish SNGs did well on fulltilt which was wierd got crushed and abused on ap.

ended up about 700 in rb 700 in bonus losing about 1700 from play for

-316 month

Did to a lot of golfing, played hoopfest, and overall had a fun month which is good.

July- Need to get a lot of poker in will most likely be trying to get at near 40 hours a week in like i am always trying to force myself to do lol. I am actually behind pace a little ( only needed to make like 1k last month) for my 40k year. And really I just need to settle down and play good poker not let the early bad beats tilt for a bit.

Anyways got that mid year bonus on full tilt so hopefully i dont get abused playing there like i usually do and hopefully i can make some money on ap.

O ya not sure about the new vip system ap put in seems worse than before although havent reallly looked at it.

same story

2008-06-14T12:18:00.000-07:00

So just like last month i have been down so far for the whole month..... I am running around -15roi on all levels on AP which is really hard to do. I am actually winning on FTP on the regs which i decided to try a little more of to get the mid year bonus. So far that has worked well.

I know that i am playing fairly well I just need to keep putting in the volume.

Anyways off to go golf today and most likely watch the strikeforce card on showtime later.

June

2008-06-02T23:44:00.000-07:00

So pretty much like every month the only goal that matters is profit. My second main goal is the 10k vips for elite. Already off to a bad start because i haven't played yet.

Basically same old same old

1k SNGs at least

I will most likely start to play more MTT on ap instead of some of the 180 and 45 man SNGs on other sites. I'm not a fan of the overly slow set up ap uses for MTT but they are still good MTT's.

Another goal is to start playing a few 100s will most likely start mixing them in a little when i see them filling.

May

2008-05-31T13:00:00.000-07:00

Well i took yesterday off and im going to take today off(most likely). I had a pretty good May although started crappy it ended fairly well. Finally got to playing good poker. Since i decided to take last 2 days off i didnt get my 10k vip's at ap but i did become elite and play a crap load of poker.

i got 164 SNGs in on cake for +782
81 full tilt 45s for -259
51 poker stars 45s for -512
dropped like 400 on bodog from sngs dont know how many i played was brutal though
ap was nice to me

All in all was a solid month first half was still struggling i dropped down to 30-40s for first part of the month. Then the 65-50s where filling very slow so still played a bunch of 30s.

For the most part I am very happy with the month would have liked to have gotten in a slight bit more volume but whatever

mental barrier

2008-05-28T02:17:00.000-07:00

Well i was looking threw my poker roll (haven't really done that much lately). Basically i was about to try playing the 100s when i hit my big down swing/break even point last month. I have basically recovered sill not playing perfect but far far better. I've had a decent month and have been thinking of moving up usually what i always did in the past was when i hit 100buy ins for the next level i moved up.

I have well over 100 buy ins for the 100s and yet for some reason i still have not been playing them. In the past i have always raised my stake very slow its just my nature. (I am a cheap bastard).

Well anyways i will most likely start mixing in a few 100s here and there either this week or in the next few to come. This will make maintaining elite status on ap a lot easier if i can start playing good. Also might look into swapping some HH with some people seeing if i can learn a few things. I have always sucked at studying poker and usually just leach info my friends learn.

poker

2008-05-17T11:25:00.000-07:00

Well im still even for the month.... But i have been playing much better. At the moment Im mostly down due to 45 man down swing which those can obviously be massive because if you arent getting firsts you aren't going to make money.

I have been doing very well on cake losing on ap still but that is getting better too.

AS soon as i correct my 45 mans or ap should be doing good.

My play has slacked off took one day off driving to the portland vancouver area and a little time off just being lazy with my friends down here. Overall i have been still getting in volume but i'm going to be putting in some massive hours starting sunday here need to get back on pace for 10k vip points .

grinding

2008-05-09T17:27:00.000-07:00

Well I'm doing a decent job of putting in the volume that i would like. I am still on pace for over 1k full ring SNG with a bunch of 45 man SNG's and some 6max also.

I'm not in freefall any more just breaking even which is far better lol.

Im also getting far better at guitar hero 3 then i ever wanted.

err

2008-05-03T14:16:00.000-07:00

Well i know im playing a massive amount better... However im still in freefall

At least i feel like ill be out of this soon and back to winning.

So far im on pace to play at least my 1000 full ring SNG so 3 days in and i havent failed there yet lol. Hopefully i wont bust my ap account and have to wait to redeposit because that will hurt my volume lol. My bodog is almost busto but i also had like 10 buy ins in that. Of the 4 i have played today i lost 3 of them bubbling on 3 outters. other i ran qq into aa.

May

2008-05-01T03:05:00.000-07:00

Ah a fresh start

I am going to play a lot of poker i have failed every single month so far to even play 1k SNGs although i played almost 1k counting 45man and 180man SNGs last month.

So

1k full ring 9-10man SNGs This will happen......
150 45 mans should be hella easy if i do 1k full ring SNGs
actually play omaha.......

The only goal that matters is 4k profits to get me back ahead of pace for my 40k this year.

o ya work out the only goal im actually doing somewhat.

So i guess

1 Profit
2 Profit
3 Volume
4 Not be a donk
5 work out
6 play like 5k omaha hands(unlikely)

All in all should be easy and yet i have not been able to play this much.

On a side note I am going to try to get up the 10k points to maintain elite status this month see how much it will actually take to do this.

Of course im going to play a little lower stakes for a few days reset myself 65s have just kicked my ass this last month

O yes and poker gods pls remove my doom switch

april Fuck me

2008-04-30T14:59:00.001-07:00

As the title describes april basically bent me over and made me a whore.

I was playing bad getting that under control basically playing to aggressive pushing from BB way to much over limps for the most part with few other things nothing major.....

As you can see its mostly due to a 45 buy in down swing on the 65's.....

for the month

+1109.89 in rakeback
+767 in bonus
-2849.52 from play...

total -972.63

Basically this sucked hard and really put a hole into makeing my 40 for the year which should still be easily doable......

I am down a little over 4k since the 21st by far the worst down swing i have ever had not in buy ins but in total money. This is basically my first real big down swing since i even moved up to the 40s let alone the 65s.

On top of all this i had just moved about 3k to epass before it pulled out of the gambling market so my ap account is near busto. I will most likely play only 40s here i had planed to not move down off the 65s till after i had busted my account but i might just move down anyways.

The Grind

2008-04-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

Well after Friday i haven't really been playing much poker. Did a bunch of crap with a friend on saterday i hadn't seen forever. Then went golfing and spent time with my parents and brother on sunday was a good relaxing time. Most likely i really needed this because of how bad i have been playing.

Well anyways back to the grind today and hopefully for awhile I have had a very bad month so hopefully i will be playing a ton of poker the following weeks.

poker

2008-04-25T14:40:00.000-07:00

well playing bad again of course and running worse lost liek 300 in -eq on ap

was screwing around on the 180 11+1s on ps that was fun was basically donking around ran into vers a bunch

basically playing bad there too and got one itm and lost like 90k chips with AQ to kq for 4th

Losing

2008-04-24T16:08:00.000-07:00

Well untill yesterday poker had pretty much been break even dropped like 1200 or so yesterday was pretty brutal. So i've been thinking on how bad i've been playing this month and it just pisses me off. Basically i'm playing like utter and total crap and on top of that running like shit too.

Anyways I'm back to up from play so far after today making a nice like .05 per SNG this month or so.

But anyways going to work on not playing poker like a total and complete donk and try and be only a little fish out there and see if i can maybe make some money.

ah poker

2008-04-18T00:24:00.000-07:00

so i spent another day of break even this was pretty much a day of splitting aakkqq to random crappy stuff.

Also went and played a live SNG with some friends basically played 3 hands JJ vs A9 all in on the 89T board and KJ losing to QJ on the JJ river Q board and lost AA to K6ish suited all in pf. But o well it was fun and we where just playing 10 buy in i basically got to practice some dealing lol

massive waste

2008-04-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

So hey i haven't been playing nearly the amount of poker i want to be playing. I've also been busy breaking even over my last 500 or so which always seems to lower the amount i play.

On top of all that im really happy i just got my epassporte card mailed today should be getting that in 2 weeks FAN FUCKING TASTIC.

March results and April goals

2008-04-02T19:04:00.000-07:00

i had a great month missed all my goals though other then profits and go to vegas

+2.7k from play
+670 in bonus
+200ish in rakeback-haven't withdrew my ap rakeback will add that to next month when i get it
+550 in vegas
only about 500 SNGs :(

All in all that was a good month

For april my goal is

1200-1500 SNG
2k cash hands and of course
profit

ah vegas

2008-03-31T02:10:00.000-07:00

Well I am in vegas i won a MTT cashed 760 or so that was nice. So basically took some of that money and got drunk and im doing pretty good at the moment.

Anyways LA was fun but im really enjoying relaxing in vegas.

going to LA and Vegas

2008-03-22T02:41:00.000-07:00

Well my month is pretty much done heading to LA tom. I only got like 500-600 SNGs in at almost 1k cash... Not nearly what i wanted to get in also only made like 3.5-4k but thats not to shabby and anuff money for me.

The 45 mans caught up with me i've lost like 40 in a row lol down to like 15 roi on those so they can basically kiss my ass. Not overly sure how many of those i will keep playing i had been playing them to clear a FTP bonus that i got. Will most likely go back to doing mostly SNGs on AP and probably some cake ones too when i can get those to fill.

Well I'll be back hopefully to own some tables few days into April. Hopefully I wont blow to much money on cash and MTT in vegas.

been taking it easy

2008-03-14T19:54:00.000-07:00

Well i haven't been playing very much lately took several days off was nice.

Basically was on perma tilt for some reason could be im on a 30 day almost break even streak on ap(of course this was following running like 30 roi for 2 weeks so its just evening things out).

The nice thing is that i have been winning on FTP on the 45man SNGs. It really has been a nice change of pace to play these and im still winning fairly well on them.

Ugh

2008-03-05T21:07:00.000-08:00

I am tilting so fucking bad right now don't know why. According to several programs i am getting royally screwed but i'm up for the month and not winning at a bad rate at all.

And yet i want to kill something.

Just like yesterday i only played like 6-7 hours and it felt like i played for 16.

I grinded to much today

2008-03-05T02:39:00.001-08:00

put in 53 SNGs on AP a lot of regulars because i didnt feel like playing with 5 other grinders.

Also got another 16 45 man SNGs in on FTP which those are still going very well still holding over a 65 ROI on those.

All in all had a great day of poker made good money blah blah and am just tired

45man SNG

2008-03-02T16:54:00.000-08:00

So anyways i was reading how vers played 130-180man SNG's on stars and ran like god

So therefor i figured i would try some of the 45 man SNG's on FTP and i have ran like god :)

so far i love them ive played only 11 at a 198 ROI lol +567

This is only a small sample and obviously i am running good but for how long these take to play to make up for the money i can make playing turbos i figure i only need to hold like say a 20 roi because i suck so bad at FTP turbos.

March

2008-03-01T01:31:00.000-08:00

Well for march ill be going to LA and then onto Vegas at the end and start of April.

So with that said im going to work on playing around 1k SNG and 2k omaha might move up to 50pl soon most likely at some point this month.