name 5 things you love the most and I'll tell you.

Guess which option I chose.

I am a machine... this is the best hand i ever played...

Taking a shot at stakes higher than my usual (so over 40/80)

Table is a bit loose and very aggressive.


Hero is dealt Q10o in MP+3
Hero 2-bets
LAG lady CO calls, SB calls, BB Calls

Flop::
8 8 3

Checks to hero who bets
LAG 2-bets
Hero calls

Turn::
5 so there's like a flush draw now or something

Hero C/C

River::

3

Hero Checks
LAG bets again
Hero calls

MHIG!!! Queen high beats 10 9o
That set her off into more tilt and confused half the table!

Damn bad beats just keep coming. Called casino just now because I am bored and ready for making more gambol and I get told the 75 game broke only an hour ago. I wasted all that time losing 2k in 10/20-15/30 online when I could have played live and lost 10k instead. The game was probably either really good or really bad because I got calls from Rob and Roc trying to get me to come play.

The two biggest pots of the night both featured me flopping a set and having roughly 80% equity and losing. The two pots totaled 66 bets.

Wtf it's "Choose Your Own Adventure" LDO

This is a very boring adventure. Now I'm watching a bunch of CR NL vids. This will probably be followed by me 4 tabling 1/2 or 2/4 NL for a while before quitting out of mind numbing boredom in an hour whether I'm winning or losing. Then I will sit in front of the tv and watch Simpsons until Law and Order comes on. Then I'll watch more Simpsons. Then I'll drive to Oceans if there's a 75 game going, if not I will go straight to Commerce and play all night. Since things seemed to turn around a bit for me last week I was going to play 1/2 but now I got raped my last two sessions so I'm going to just play more 60. If I run good (it is possible and it has happened before) I might play 1/2 but again my confidence is shattered so I must play with droolers to make myself feel better.

someone kill the low-content thread, it's somehow morphed into the self-indulgent whiny how many blog.

I was actually going to suggest this but private joker disappeared

So i have run pretty bad this month and will not meet monetary goals, but in all honesty this is the first month is like 3 years where i have just legitimatley took a lot of days off and felt good about, so i didn't put in enough hands (prolly like 25kish)

Fortunatley i crushed the commerce while i was in LA for a week so i think i am still like +14k on the month which is fine, and it marks 5 straight winning months, my longest stretch in some time (beat) Somehow this summer, after a long time playing poker and a ton hands, i have mastered the arts of both playing my A game at lower limits and scaling back goals and how much i play to a point where i dont ever feel compelled to play. Pretty good valuable stuff there, as i used to SUCK at both those things.

Also i have gotten a bit of money into stars finally, i think my plan will be to camp at 10-20 and 15-30, and play higher when the games are good or when i feel the urge to get unstuck quickly. It's amazing how much less stressful 6 handed 15-30 is than HU 30-60 regardless of how overrolled you are for the game.

I think my goals for the school year are to

1.)play 35-40k hands a month (generally easy for me, but courseload and the gf will make this a bit harder than usual)

2.) Average 20k a month while in school and not have more than 1 losing month in this period... Should def. not be too hard assuming i stick to playing most of my hands at lower limits, but if i play higher more than i want to i might avrage more with a bunch of losing months. Then again once i have 75k hands breakevens my play deteriorates so thats a merit to playing lower with a larger edge.

3.) Get a 3.5 GPA. This is so doable, but it i need to focus on school and make it more of priority. I start my major courses this year, so i can try to do well and report only my major GPA... Just gotta play a bit less poker and give piority to school work, and most importantly attend more classes/pay better attention.

4.) Have fun... drink and smoke a lot, play a lot of FIFA, party hard, keep the gf happy, and dont stress

5.) Get into real estate more, start/continue building a portfolio

6.) Get an internship. I dont really want to do this at all, but not doiung so would negate a large part of the benefit of a 160k or whatever investment college is going to be so i might as well have some options in case i suck at poker and real estate.



If anyone is wondering why this post is so [censored] random, i am in this happy medium of being drunk and high where i can process thoughts and type cohenrently, but cannot seem to keep to one topic or have any sort of flow to how i articulate my crunked thoughts, and also feel this urge to ramble like a [censored] moron. Weird. Usually i cannt type when i a, this [censored] up.

god

can we please keep the blog posts off this thread

livejournal.com

gogogogo

this thread should be about amusing BS that happens to you while playing cards

no one cares about how good or bad you're running

4 handed 75 UTG limps, Crazy Mike calls in sb, I raise AdKd, both call.

Flop 238r
Crazy Mike c/r I call

Turn 5 putting a flush draw possible but not for me
Mike bets I call

River K not the flush draw
He c/c

I say "I missed", he tables J3o. The slowroll is now complete as I table my hand and win the pot.

This is payback for the following hand we played in our last session:
CO limps 4 handed Omaha Hi 75/150, I raise TJKA double sooted on the button, blinds calls. Crazy Mike is SB.

Flop QT9
Check to me I bet, Mike c/r fold to me I call.

Turn: Q
Mike checks and I decide my best option on this ugly card is to bet turn and check river. Mike gives a speech about whether his hand is good here or not.

River: random blank
Mike checks, I check and say "I can beat jack eight". Mike says "I have jack eight". I table my hand. Mike waits a moment to table J8XX

60 at Bellagio, limp limp limp raise. Button and raiser(co) are jawing the whole time and co says "we playing gambling game here!" and grabs six of buttons chips and puts them in the pot. Folks call.

Flop KdKx5d, HJ bets, button looks and raises. One of the early limpers had a 5 and paid off button's AK the whole way :-D

this is one of the few threads I make it a point to read everyday. why nuke it?

to spite you. duh.

Same 75 game. Crazy Mike is UTG 4 handed and talking to a floor guy so when he gets dealt his cards he just limps blind.

After the flop Mike looks at his hand and I'm bored so I look too. Naturally he has AA. However the flop is not really that safe as it's 345 with a couple hearts and he has no heart. Worry not though, the turn is the Ace of hearts and the river another 5 so he makes a full house to beat sb who had a 5.

I can say that this hand was really completely standard for what I've seen from Crazy Mike and I wasn't particularly surprised with the result. He was running bad in this session, which explains why he had to turn the set and river the boat instead of just flopping it like normal.

I defintely get your point but ...

Speaking only for myself - the various I'm running bad posts have been really helpful. You don't get to hear it much in these forums. To know its not all sunny skies and massive wins all the time for otherwise good players was a real boost.

In LC threads it's def. fine to discuss goals and how you are running. You don't have to read it if you dont want to.

I think Im done posting about running bad or running good in this thread, bc Im convinced its a jinx. My new way of dealing with running bad is too accuse fish who are running good of cheating.

I shouldn't play 9/18. Too many semibluff 4bets and river bluff raises happen (by me of course).

Annoying hand of the night:

SB completes I check 93 in the BB. Flop KJ4r, he checks, I bet he call. I decide he's got a 4 and that he'll never fold a 4. Turn and river blanks and it gets checked both times and he rolls Q2o ftw.

How about a Mid-stakes Blog thread to appease those who can't stand all the blogging here?

Anyone with me?

congrats... but you're averaging 20k a month and thinking about getting a "regular job?" Isn't that pretty good?

And +1 on keeping the blog posts, they are entertaining.

In an effort to exorcise the poker demons that have hung around during July and August, I have started a new StatKing database for recording my live sessions. Online it used to work to create a new PT database when I was running bad, so I figure the live equivalent has to work as well.

You'll only hear updates if it works and I start running good.

HAHA. I have 3 PT databases that are named "run good DB1, run good DB2, and run good DB3." Eventually I am hoping that I get to create a new database when I actually have a full one.

damn my system is archaic i guess, i just use excel.