bump- need another update

Not too much to update imo but here it is

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December is over for me because I'm flying home tomorrow so here's a recap:


Goals for January:


Goals for 2012 (In order of importance):


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Goals and such aside, I'm pretty displeased with poker at the moment. I honestly feel like I don't remember the last time I've won. This month in particular there were at least 3 distinct instances where I was sitting in an absolute GOLD MINE and I would be card dead for 3-5 hours until the mine was "depleted". Incredibly depressing when I have to sit around watching other players take the fish's money.



2 HH's I'd like to share with you that happened in the past week:
H1


H2


Updated graph since start of thread:


Anyway, as I've said already, I'm flying home tomorrow so I won't be updating this for a while. Hope you all have a merry Christmas and New Years!

Glad to see the update. I hope the grind goes awesome in 2012. I still think, that you could turn this story into a book someday. I'm so tired of seeing books by random idiots who get bankrolled by their publisher for a run in donkaments or whatever.

The story of how an unknown online grinder was affected by Black Friday and how you adapted to live play and crushed would open a lot of eyes and be a great read IMO.

GL

Bumpity bump bump

Lots of things to update. Let's do this chronologically...

Had a good-ish time visiting home. I got to see pretty much everyone I wanted to see and had some good fun snowboarding.

Well...I say that and this happened:


I fought Wolverine.



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The trip home was pretty expensive...travel expenses included I probably spent about 1K. My friends and I also like good food and we ended up going to a bunch of expensive restaurants as well.

New Years was fairly uneventful for me however...Ended up just going to bed without partying -_-

The time I spent with my friends from home also put a lot of things in perspective for me. Pretty much all my friends from home have jobs with pretty good salaries, but they all work at a bare minimum of 40 hours and mostly in the 50-60 hours a week range. This gave me a lot of motivation to start working a lot more myself which I have been doing so far.

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This month has gone fairly well in the beginning. The past two days however have been pretty brutal which is why I took today off. The theme of the month has been where I flop a boat and the villain would turn a bigger boat on me. What's more annoying is that said villain was the reason I was at the table in the first place and rather than stacking him, I would double him up.

Yesterday I also played in the deepest 1-2 game I've ever played in (I had 2-2.5K in front of me at all time) due to a few 2-5 players that were at the table. During this session I was pretty card dead and basically all my c-bets got raised or I would catch terrible rivers where villain has sucked out.

I also noticed my poker game has deteriorated a ton because there's so little thinking involved while playing live. This is the biggest problem I'm facing right now because my ability to make it farther in the poker world is about to be crushed. I really miss online poker and clicking buttons.

Until next time

You need to get hungry for poker! I often find myself getting stale, there are ways to get around it though.

Glad to see you back Andy. I think this is going to be a very good year for you. Just keep grinding, save that money and work your way up to 2/5.

I'd also love to see you take a poker road trip somewhere. Vegas, Tunica, Florida, Atlantic City... somewhere like those places where you can play bigger games (for probably the same or smaller buy ins). I think it would be good for your game, and give you a little more motivation.

I feel the same way, going from averaging 1k hands a day to 250 on my longest days playing live. I think we are experiencing poker muscle atrophy. I hypothesize that USA players who haven't played online since BF will be out classed by the rest of the world during this years WSOP.

How have the last 10 days been for you Andy? Any interesting hands?

I love this thread but we need more updates imo ldo.

Update
Life

I've gained a few pounds and the fact that I've been going out to drink a lot these past few weeks certainly hasn't been helping. I first of all gained like 3 pounds during my Christmas vacation and now I have to start going to the gym like crazy again because I'm almost at 160 -_-

I've also started to feel some dull pain in my left knee after my strength-lower-body lifts. Long story short, I won't be squatting any more than probably 245. I'll have to forever retire 315 as my max X.X

Running is still a working progress. The vacation made me revert a bit and I'm getting back to running 2 miles so the 5K will have to be a February goal.

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Pokers

Let's see...First off, some interesting HHs
I don't recall all suits since some of them are from a while ago

H1


H2


H3


I'm sure there are other interesting HHs that I'm missing, but the above are the first three that popped into my head.

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I have also noticed a trend among some of the players I see on a regular basis. They all switch to have position on me.
(Now that I think about it, I've had a lot of people comment to me personally, "I hate having you on my left")

One of the old nits (different from the one above) that I play on a semi-regular basis took this idea to quite great lengths. Literally whenever I move, he moves to get position on me. Yesterday as I was switching to another table, he switched seats to have immediate position on me when I entered his table. Since his old seat was closer to the fish, I then took his former seat, which led him to switch seats AGAIN to have direct position on me.

Here's a picture to illustrate:
When I came to the table, there were 2 open seats as marked (X = seats taken, O = open seats):


I LOL'd inside. It's hilarious because none of them use position to their advantage. They play the same as they would in any other position, and believe they're being clever by taking a seat in position vs. me while it changes literally almost nothing which is really funny (not to mention if they had half a brain they'd know there are also better seats than simply the seat to my direct left).

Oh, and I forgot to mention a few things.
First is that I'll be going on lock down and abstaining from FB for a month.
(Though I'll be posting via twitter every now and then probably)

Second is that I haven't been playing any games this month and I'm planning on continuing this trend until February 24th which is when Wavecon is.

That's pretty sweet that a nit would move to let you have better position on a fish, and go to your direct left where he will continue to nit up. Sounds like the best of both worlds.

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Alright, it's not everyday that I update the very next day, but today is special

There's not a lot of things much better than a 1K day.
What is better is a back-to-back 1K day.
What's even better than a back-to-back 1K day?
How about a back-to-back 1K day followed by a 2K day?

I just shipped my new best day (just shy of 2.2K) right after 2 sessions of 1K days. Feeling pretty awesome

I don't really remember many hands that got me there other than...



Anyway, the most interesting part of today was later in the night.
I switched into a different table, and I walked into something rather amusing.



Tilt-a-saurus continued this open raise to $60 for a while but left the table about half an hour later : /

Next update will be soon since January is coming to a close.
See you next time!

$4k in 3 days? Very nj keep crushing it!