Hello Everybody,

I have been having issues with making money and then quickly blowing it taking shots. In short, I need to be better at bankroll management. After thinking it over a bit, I feel like I can be more disciplined, but there has to be a lot of pressure for it to happen, and that's where you come in. I figure that with hundreds of thousands of people reading my posts everyday (millions possibly? I dunno), I will be less inclined to do something stupid. As things stood previously, if I blew 60% of my bankroll shot taking (like yesterday), nobody would say anything, but now that I am sharing, or maybe confessing is a better word, well, whatever the hell I am doing, my hope is that knowing a dumb move will bring the condemnation of other posters whether in this thread or in furious private messages, will keep me on the righteous path of grinding 10NL until I get to 400 bucks.

With that said, let's jump into the action. I am starting the day out with $263 and opening up three 10NL tables on Global Poker. Buckle your seat belts....

Ok, just played a half hour and I am mentally wiped out, so taking a break here. One hand of note. I am playing 6max on this table and get 22 off suit in UTG+1. UTG folds, I bump it up to .35 and get called by the button and the blinds. Four to a flop, a buck forty in the pot and the cards comes out Jack Ten Ten. I think it was all black cards, I can't remember. What I do remember is the big blind fires a .65 bet in there. The action comes to yours truly and I'm thinking, c'mon man, you expect me to think you have a Jack, you'd be slow playing if that were the case.

Now some players will just call here and hope the villain starts to behave on the turn, but I didn't show up at this rodeo to watch the clowns, I'm here to ride the bulls or steers, whatever they do at rodeos these days. So, I RE-RAISE with my two pairs to two bucks. The villain steps back for a second, I can tell he's ticked that I read him so damn well, and he's stewing over there, the little clock is winding down, he knows he's beat but have I tilted him to the point where he'll do something rash like jam it all in there???? The answer is yes, and of course I have to snap him off like a diseased twig on an dogwood tree, so I do, and low and behold, the bastard's got himself KJ of diamonds.

SAVVY MOVE, MUCHACHO!!

But, old Rhino, that's my screen name by the way, RhinoLewis, old Rhino isn't done yet. There's a few more streets to see, lay them on the felt dealer, three of clubs and a..... two of diamonds on the river!!!

Bing bing bing!!

So that was nice. The other tables I played on were filled with bots, pros, or combinations of both, so I didn't crush there like I did with the JJ222 baby boat. Up $10 to $273 for this session.

Catch you later!!

That hand history was so entartaining i think its gonna make me tone down my furious condemnation of that hand to a light scolding. BAD rhino.... bad

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Subbed, if you don't make it to a 3k BR from this in 2mths, gonna unsub tho', gl

The reason im scolding you is brcause i dont think dueces are an effective bluff catcher if he didnt have top pair hes probably bluffing with a pocket pair. And to make ot all worse even if he has COMPLETE air he still is probably gpnna have two overs that have decent equity vs you.
24% of the time your getting outdrawn by ATC and the rest of the time your already beat.

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Played some more poker and here's an update. The good news, I stuck to the 10NL tables, and didn't try taking any shots. The bad news, I lost $4 and am down to $269 for my Global roll. Is it roll or role? I can never figure that one out. I know that some of you will be upset to hear that despite my extraordinary discipline and dedication that I somehow lost four bucks. Instead of being upset, I would ask you to look at this as a lesson. Consider, if even people who are good enough to have bankroll challenges on 2+2 forums can have losing sessions, than it's ok for you to have losing sessions too. Losing sessions happen to all but the very best players.

One thing I tried out that may have contributed to my being down for the last session was my electing to amp up the volume with regards to action by spinning up FOUR tables at once. I know that I probably threw a lot of people for a loop earlier when they saw that I can play three at a time. It's a lot, I know, but I like to think I know what I am doing. Four tables may be a different story.

Everything was going fine until I started chatting with another player who had what I like to call Global's Sexy Blonde Lady avatar. I dunno why, for some reason I've just always found that avatar to be really cute, and any time I see somebody with it I get extra chatty. Turns out she was from Michigan. I don't really know much about Michigan, but I really wanted to keep the conversation going, so I opened up the wikipedia page on Michigan to quickly learn some things about it so we'd have more to talk about. Like, who started Michigan, and why? Stuff like that.

I end up reading about something called the River Raisin Massacre, and I'm thinking perfect, what a tie in, there's a river in poker too, I'll just connect the two and we'll have a conversation about it, but, wouldn't you know it, after I pick up the information, the sexy avatar lady had left from the table.

Anyhow, the goods...--> started at $263 and now a day and a half later I'm at $269.46

Just finished another grueling 4 table session of 6max 10NL. Didn't need to rebuy at all, here are the totals: 21.78, 8.89, 10.55, 10.01. So, up to 280.69. Can't even begin to describe how great it feels to have this new discipline thing is working out for me. Up $17 so far!!!

One of my new things at the poker table, and I don't know if this happens to you guys, but sometimes I will be on the button or small blind with ace rag, and when it's folded around to me, in the past, I have always thought that from a strategy standpoint, I should always raise and try and steal the blinds with those hands, but I dunno, something about it, I just feel really dishonest , like a bad person.

Then it occurred to me, there's nobody watching me play. Know what I mean? There's nobody sitting over my shoulder saying "a real man would raise here!" So, a lot of the time, I've just been chucking those hands, mainly because I just don't want to deal with the potential consequences.

I just felt I should throw that out there.

Next time you habe that problem just think of my as the angel on your shoulder telling you to raise. You should be stealing the blinds when its folded to you with an ectremely wide range all aces included.

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I didn't get to play much this weekend, but that is probably for the best as during the little time I did play I got my ass whupped harder than anthracite. Things started off pretty good. I took my cue from m0mmy and was very aggressive on the button. Well, I kind of did what m0mmy said, and I kind of didn't. M0mmy said to steal the blinds from the button and small blind with barely marginal holdings. I decided, that this advice could be extended to three betting on the button with ace four suited. Clubs if you were wondering. Both players folded and I thought to myself, I love m0mmy. Yes, I understand now that this was a slightly different application of being aggressive than m0mmy meant, but to be honest, it was late, I was tired and stoned, and I just wasn't too vested in particulars at that time. The early win with the A4cc led to me playing very aggressive and losing 3.5 buyins in around twenty-ish minutes. One hand I lost because I didn't realize until it was too late that a flush draw came in on the river, and in another one I literally thought I had trip 9s with 98 suited, but it turned out no, I had 87 suited. Bummer.

I can admit now that it was kind of lol worthy.

I made a chunk back on Monday morning, but hopped on last night and there were hardly any open tables so I made the genius decision to play Omaha. Anyhow, got it in good there, which of course means I was down a buy in or so. Anyhow, rough weekend.

Stay tuned folks, I might be going broke LIVE ON TWO PLUS TWO FORUMS.

DOWN to 229 from 263

I did something bad and hopped into a 50NL game because I was tilting, but then I did something good by winning a big pot and then pulling a hit and run. That coupled with a semi decent day at 10NL brought me back to almost 290 bucks at the end of yesterday. The 50NL game was such a bad move. There were two players I know well from when I used to play there all the time, and I can assure you, that they are both better than me. Fortunately one of the other three players was not better than me, and we tangoed.

Later in the evening I was at a 10NL table with one of my fave players on Global, DonaldMReed. The guy's hilarious. We were hanging out with a player I hadn't seen before yesterday named something like SaltyPressels. Salty was getting into it earlier with a nasty chat box guy whose name I can't fully remember. Something like, badonka-- can't recall. Anyhow, guy was just firing off nasty messages left and right about how terrible everybody else was. I mentioned that I'd won the WSOP Main Event in 1999, but even that didn't shut him up. Salty won a few big pots off him before I had to go to dinner. When I came back Salty was up like 8 buyins.

Me personally, I made 56 bucks yesterday to bring me to 285.

Sorry, I have been bad about posting in my online poker diary. One of the reasons is that I was really bad about bankroll management. I just got really bored with 10NL and had to jump back up to my natural habitat, 50NL. I've been doing ok there, not mind-blowing. Just up a couple hundred bucks, since my last post.

I have really been enjoying the chat box lately. The other night I was chatting with some players about gambling, different games and stuff. I made up a story about how I used to be a "scratch ticket grinder." At first they were all like, that's ridiculous, Rhino, but then I started making up stories about how you can figure out when a convenience store "is due" by following who had big payouts in the paper, and knowing which tickets have been winning a lot lately.

I also threw in that I didn't make much doing this. That's one of the keys to being a good liar, I've found. Once you get somebody who is about to take the bait, lessen the story a bit, tone it down just enough to allow it to blend in with their sense of reality. Had I said, oh yeah I was a scratchie grinder and made 110k a year, it would immediately set off the liar alarms. Instead, I opt for the, yeah, it's really not worth it for all the work I had to put in, I was only bringing in 12k a year if that. Huh, they think, that sounds vaguely plausible.

The only scratch ticket scam I ever saw pulled off was by my roommate from like 25 years ago. This was back when people got the newspapers delivered. This one Sunday, my roommate wakes up early, grabs the paper, and is like what's this, when a free scratch ticket falls out of it. The lottery was having a promotion, throwing in a free scratch ticket with everybody's Sunday paper.

My roommate thinks for a sec, puts on a pair of running shoes, and goes for a jog. And along the way, he steals the promo scratch tickets in the Sunday papers from every apartment lobby within a mile radius of our place. Maybe I am exaggerating a little, but what I am NOT exaggerating about is, he ended up with a whole lot of free scratch tickets and ultimately netted himself over ten grand.

I wish I had that kind of ingenuity, that go-getter attitude when I was younger. I wouldn't be here grinding 50NL to the tune of like $12 per day, that's for sure.

Anyhow, I am at $578 from $263 on Global if anybody cares about that stuff