I've played a couple sessions without posting, I feel like I've made a couple mistakes, but overall played very well. Working on my donking and x/r on flops and turns as PFR OOP. Going really well. I've realized how powerful the x/r is and I've definitely been missing value in a lot of spots as well as not balancing my checking ranges very well because I've not done this often.

I also cashed out another $1,000 and so my BR is now at $3,605. I'll be staying at 100nl for a while and that's okay with me. I've finally reached a stake where I can make some additional, albeit meager, income and still provide myself with the entertainment and thrill I gain from playing poker.

In other news, I've mentioned before that I've been stressed out without really mentioning why. The reasons are that I've had a multitude of smaller issues that have piled up into something large, and on top of this my car essentially broke down and I spent ~$1,000 fixing it. Even on top of THAT, my car recently (after fixing it) had its check engine light come again, which does not add to the ease of stress. Also, school has been demanding and as an engineer taking difficult classes and having difficult work and work loads, this doesn't help.

On the bright side, however, I'm currently on my spring break and look forward to getting a lot of things done, both poker and life related, and on top of that I'll be having a party out at my place next weekend. It's essentially the anniversary of my brother's bachelor party--- this will be the 4th time we've done it. What it is is basically a **** ton of drinking and partying. I live out in the country and we'll be getting a couple kegs (not pony sized ) as well has hard liquor and tons of food (pizza, ham, munchies, etc.) and a party bus going out to several bars around the area. This is all shared between about a dozen guys over a couple days. It's a weekend of hardcore partying! I'm looking forward to this . Also, I'm in my senior year and will be applying to jobs and setting my eyes on moving on with my life--moving out of my Dad's house and becoming an adult.

As for my poker aspirations, they remain the same--crush, get better, and move up. My poker goals are almost entirely for entertainment value, although I have no doubts in my mind that I possess the capabilities to move and go pro (outside US). But, I admit, this lifestyle is not one that I believe is in the best of my interests and maintaining poker as a (mostly) hobby for entertainment is best.

Thanks, and time to play a session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tdU4SzyOks

Played for 3 hrs, going to take short break. Played good, but none of my bluffs held.

+$126

BR: $3,731

Could have been way better..............

two tables of 100nl reg and two tables 100nl zone for one hour

Ran unimaginably bad at 100nl zone.... KK<AA 3x aipf and AK<KK and AK<QQ aipf...


Only lost $200 though, ran good at my reg tables :/

BR: $3,502

No worries, pre-flop spots are the easiest!

Did you take out a 1k from the br?

Yes.

Just played two tables of 100nl zone again for about 1.5hrs, got raped hard again. Geez, I run bad. I even GII preflop w/ QQ vs AA and won and I still lost a **** ton. I literally ran into the nuts w/ a strong hand like 12 times. Example, I open AA UTG and BB flats. Flop comes AJKr and BB donks into me, I flat, turn 5, he donks again, I raise, then he min 3bets me (okay whatever), we're also 200bb eff. I flat the 3bet and river bricks off and he bets 1/2p again..... Ugh, I call? He has Q10. Had several spots that were 30-50bb pots and lose to river card too. Was pretty ugly today and it was all at zone Lost ~$900 at zone today. WTF?

-$480

BR: $3,018

4-tabled 100nl reg tables for around 3 hours. Played really well I think, but didn't go anywhere.

lose to AK w/ 98 on QJ10xhh board
Lose to K6hh w/ 8x7h on J109hhh board (guy was kinda small stacked, crappy spot)
Lost a couple flips
Lost a lot of small pots to bad turns/rivers

Basically, all my bluffs didn't work, all my value bets either got outdrawn on or were beat. Played well like I said tho, so hope to get more volume in today.

-$250

BR: $2,750

I played 2-tables of 25nl zone late last night for almost 2 hours.

+$90

BR: $2,840

Nice to see you are starting to turn it around.

I believe you started this thread when I started mine & I've since had 6 months away from poker so congrats on sticking to the grind, hopefully I might this time around. GLGL

Yeah! I remember you! If you're back to start grinding, then good luck to you.

Envy your dedication sir! Been back a couple weeks now trying to build up my drive to get better so made my way back here!

Played 1.5hrs, 4-tabling 100nl. Played pretty solid and got into a couple decent spots. Made a couple of big lay downs, and had a couple mediocre coolers.

+$200

BR: $3,000

Remembered that ACR also has all it's cash game tables have bbj/beast rake which at 25NL it was practically unbeatable unless you played full time and placed in the beast race. Not sure about high stakes but I think minimum 25c per pot is taken out just for the bbj/beast not including normal rake.

seeing as the rake on WPN 25 is 7bb~ its very beatable

thats pretty low for 25nl

You're alive!

http://www.twitch.tv/brokenstars1

streaming, no mic or anything im at school, but check it out anyway

Will be following

Dunno how much ill be doing this tho, lol

this is test run #1

show your hud! everyone at bodog who removed their hud lost tons of viewers

I don't know why its not appearing tbh

i think i fixed it, we will see, just downloaded this stuff today

yeah it works

Dat Der 3-4fish per table haha.

gonna deposit on bodog this month.. jebus.. low rake good rakeback and fishiiiies

rake is kinda high