I managed to cash the Mandalay Bay tournament again this morning. Saturday's is a bigger field and I finished in second. While it would have been nice to take it down, I'm pretty happy that I continue to do well in this tournament. Might need to start working a little more on my heads up play.

maybe we hit poker church hour early some week (probably not this week) and knock out some HU play. played a lot HU SnG and $ online back in the day so might still have 'some' chops.

Nice run Jim.

May be you should move the next tournament to MB. Easy way to get your hands on the NUTS.

Ha! Thats funny No - THE NUTS is special, I want to win that fair & square. You can't get a vanity license plate like that just anywhere, you know, it's not like you can find them in any store - you must fight and win it, it's the only way to obtain it

theres plenty of fake NUTZ out there, but when you hold the real thing in your hands...you'll just know it. :P

Sweet how many players? Might have to get up early and try it sometime.

Today was 22 runners. It's a good little tourney, I enjoy it. Come by any time man, it's basically how I start every Saturday & Sunday. I'm pretty dialed into that tournament.

Last minute trip to the final table with Rigel who some of you know from Poker Church

I've had relatively little poker this week. I have an exam for one of my PSU classes this week and I need to get ready for it. The exam runs from Friday to Sunday and I still have to finish the homework for my other class.

On top of that, I have a busy week with clients. I've just been all over the place, with billing, calls from the car, keeping up with friends and still managing to run something that resembles a household

Just a couple of poker things that come to mind:
1 - I hung out with my friend from Canada who is trying to get into the HPT. Unfortunately that schedule conflicts with my exam but I still went down there to support him and I sat in on a satellite. I tried a small satty and I was the bubble boy - so that sucked

2 - I have staked my first horse. I'm always happy to exchange percentages with people I know in the same tourneys. But this is my first time staking someone I don't really know. He's running a package for the WSOP PHO, which I can't do at all, so it will be nice to at least have a horse to root for. It's a new experience for me, but I think that's a natural evolution of being a poker player.

3 - Speaking of stakes, I have decided to start my own stake sale. I want to move up in class with my tournaments. So, I have decided to hold a stake sale for the Bellagio Five Diamonds WPT that's quickly approaching. This is my first time staking myself out, but I think it makes sense for me to move up in class. Naturally there is risk and I'm willing to share that risk. If you'd like to consider me, I'd appreciate it, please see: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...local-1488674/

I've been doing NOTHING BUT my statistics exam over the past two and a half days. I finally handed it in and today will be another POKER DEGEN DAY!!!! w00t!

Trying to get out of the house soon but today will be
-10AM tourney at MB
-I have a horse running in the WSOPC
-Poker Church from 2-5PM - anyone is welcome, we've been getting great turnouts!
-Aria 7PM tourney with another 2p2 member and anyone else from Poker Church that wants to join in

I also know I have some PMs that I have to answer. Sorry about that folks, I've been on total lockdown. Time to leave the house and have some FUN today.

I just had AK cracked with one buy in and QQ cracked with another buy in. Brutal start to the day.

#resultsoriented

I get your point. But seriously, what are the odds I would misplay AK or QQ???
C'mon man . . .

I made it to Aria at 8:15 or so. I saw you and I saw baconmaker sitting at a 2/5 to your left. I was so mad I just went and cashed my Bellagio chips and went home. 1.5 hours in traffic in Vegas is unacceptable.

Sorry to hear that man. Yeah traffic just plain sucked tonight. It was terrible.

Playing the Aria 1pm right now. I'm feeling GREAT! Definitely going to cash today. Baconmaker is also here playing cash and my buddy Sheldon is in the tourney with me. Life is good!

Busted out. Too many speculative hands that didn't work out. But I still feel like my poker is growing. I feel like my reads are getting better and that my comfort with the pace of it all is going pretty good. So it sucked to bust out but I'm very upbeat overall

Where's your next tourney today? Too early to go home

I would normally agree with you. But there's +EV in going home and finishing some homework for grad school so I can free myself up to play later in the week. Plus there's a new business idea I've been working on that I can put some hours to today. As much as I want to play today, there's just enough EV in other things. I'll get them at the Aria again this week

wonder if they are still running the PHO nightly mtts with the circuit going on...

Yes they are

I busted out of the Aria 1PM today. As ironic as it may sound, I'm feeling pretty good about it. Over the past two days I've felt like my "feel" for the game has really come along. It's very hard to describe, but I just feel dialed in to the flow of the game.

It's easier for me to track the pot, I can track people's bets, what they are doing, what they should be doing, and starting to put it together on what it means. I can narrow down when people are on draws, when they are isolating, when they are just playing position, when they hit something good. I'm really starting to basically understand the . . . communication (for the lack of a better word) that happens at a table with the plays, bets (sizes), calls, checks, etc, etc. It's a pretty exciting place to be, I can just feel myself getting better. The bust outs are variance but I'm convinced that I'm getting better at this poker thing.

Of course, all of that doesn't mean that I'm playing flawlessly. I'm still someone that has only been playing NL since April 2014. So I think that I need to spend some time on some fundamentals that I do not have because I was not a big player prior to BF and all that stuff.

One of the items I need to work on is identifying the textures of boards. I need to be better at identifying potential straights, flushes, etc on a flop. I need to get better & faster at this.

If only I had a computer program that could help me with that . . . oh wait, I'm a computer genius IRL . . . I can write one! And that's what I've done over the last few minutes. I spent some time writing myself a little "Flop Trainer" that I can use every morning and look at different flops and use it to quickly identify different flops. No one really pays me to write Mac apps, they all want Windows, so it's cool when I get the chance to write something for OSX



It's very simple right now, of course (this is less than hour of work for me). Eventually I'll add hole cards and play out the board, little features like that. I just need to look at a ton of boards and be able to quickly identify textures.

One of my bucket list items is to release an iPhone app. This might make a cool little app for mobiles. Something you can use while waiting for a tourney to start. Or maybe this is better as an Anki deck. Who knows? Either way, I pledge to use this little app during my free time so that I can get better at board textures.

So, I've lost twice at Aria this week but my confidence remains high!

Sounds like a good project beam

B

Loser!

One of the things that I do, as soon as the flop is dealt is to identify the different possibilities that I might loose this pot. Once
I get that and if my bets are not getting any resistance then I continue with my story of betting. Once I get some resistance in terms of a re raise then reevaluate the board to see if the V hit one of the hands on my short list and proceed carefully.

Also, there is always the basic identifiers, raise pre, CBet flop, check turn and river are always a missed hand or a draw and should be checked out with a bet. So, did you identify any of those on your short stay at the tournament tables?

I was in the process of developing a hand history recorder, both text and voice as a mobile app. Then life took over. Let me know how it comes along, I will be very much interested in a beta test. Also , you can load all the different percentages/possibilities into a table and provide the percentages based on the flop, turn and river.

Coming to the "Loser" part, I lost 5 and 10 out of the money in the last two events with 15BB, I shoved with Q's pre flop. First time V had AQh and the flop was three hearts. Second one V had AJs and the flop was three spades. I was drawing practically dead both times.

GolfPro

Would it be easier to start with a simple webbased app?