It's All Good In the Hood

I played around 30 something games yesterday and had a good session so I am back positive for the month. Right now after writing that last post I really took what my coach said to heart and started crushing although it could of been a better day if some of my hands hold at the final table. I dunno why but it always seems like I run into a big hand right before the final table all the time. I remember it was a short table before the final table I shove A7s into the chip leader in the BB of course he has QQ. It also amazes me how often people catch hands bvb and when I ship with a wide range I get snapped off by like JJ-AA or AK and just wanna vomit. Oh well at least I feel like I got some confidence in my game. Another recurring theme is that I realize that I don't really have sessions that are baller. It always seems like I am either down or somewhat break even until the end and then at the end of my session I have like two final tables up. I dunno I don't want to make it sound like I am bitching but it just seems like a recurring theme. One of these days I can't wait to have just a huge day shipping a lot of stuff. Oh well @ least my Final Table game is slowly getting better which means my ROI should increase :-D. GO BRONCOS!

wbmustang

History Made and Spazing Out

History was made and Barack Obama becomes the first African American President. Needless to say that I am very happy and feel so proud. I always knew I could be whatever I want to be now he just shows that American Dreams do come true. I feel like I got an extra sense of swagger and bounce in my step today. His speech just motivated me and showed how he will be able to bring the country together. It was so nice to see people of all races, creeds, and colors joining together in the celebration of what is truly a historic event. Even though he is elected, Barack has a lot of work to do and I think he needs to listen to T.I's Ready For Whatever to prep himself for the job he has now.

In terms of poker I was playing alright yesterday and then my coach started ghosting me. He noticed that I was "spazzing" out and he is so right. I dunno what it is but it seems like I have been studying so much and working on my game that I put too much pressure in myself to succeed. I know I should be crushing these 12's and it is all in my head. When I play I am just going to relax and not care about winning or losing anymore. Its hard not but the thing about it is that I don't depend on this money on stars for sh!t so wtf why am I so nervous or whatever. I think I am started to get to the point where I don't really care about money and just need to make the right plays.

Yesterday though my life kind of sucked. The night before yesterday morning my xbox 360 got the red lights of death and my internet was messed up so I had to stay on hold for a half hour and they told me it was an outage in the area. Lastly, if that stuff didn't suck enough my ipod froze on me and I couldn't reset it. I was so pissed and this all happened before I was going to play. Maybe I wasn't in the best state of mind plus some of the beats I was taking was not making it better. I also attribute this to me spazing out in my ghosting session with my coach but hey I can't make excuses I was playing bad. At least my ipod battery drained and then I plugged it back in and it started working again. I plan on putting in a monster session after work today and will play some tomm but after the Broncos win. Yeah I said it the Broncos are going to win I am sick of tired of the bullsh!t they have been on the past weeks. How do you start out 4-1 then drop three straight what a bunch of clowns. Also, Manchester United are playing Celtic today so hopefully they can break through to the last 16. Thats all for now will make a post at the end of the week.

wbmustang

Terrible Weekend, Potential History, Oct Results, and Nov Goals

Entertainment wise this weekend was alright but for the most part it was terrible and I felt like a loser. First on Saturday we had a Flag Football playoff game and our team lost to one of the WACKEST teams in the league. I would like to talk about this more but I will get so pissed off I probably will destroy this keyboard and my cubicle. To makes matters worse, FAMU lost their homecoming game, and FSU proved to be a sham with the #15 ranking they had by losing to Georgia Tech. Oh well @ least there is the Broncos on Sunday ummmm not. The Broncos give me the biggest freaking headache ever. I drove up north to watch the game with my classmate from JK Mullen High School. Well, needless to say the Broncos laid an absolute egg and to make matters worse my boy and I just started to drink shots of Partron and Goldschlagger mixed with beers. Oh yeah at least we got to clown this Seahawks fan who was trying to sweat us. I am usually a mild mannered guy but the drink and the loss just pissed me the fu@! off so I retaliated like an angry black man I am :-p. Sounds like a great weekend doesn't it.

We might be seeing some potential history in the next couple of days. Barack Obama is going to try to become the first African American President of the USA. I really hopes he wins because as a black male he just inspires me. I also really hope he wins because if McCain wins I think it will be apocalyptic and it might spell the end of the USA. I would love to talk about it more but I really don't talk politics with people/friends because feelings get hurt so that is all you will get until after the election.

October kind of sucked for poker. I was doing alright early in the month and was up around $500 and then I went on an absolute downswing. All in all with trying to qualify for the PCA I ended up finishing down $43. Oh well thats poker I guess and my first losing month in three months so I really can't complain and its only $43 and I realize that its an endurance race not a sprint. I will post pics of graphs below to show you guys results.

November I plan on putting in a lot of volume and winning obv. I am going to set some aggressive targets for myself and I want to see if I reach my results. First I want to try to make it to GoldStar on PokerStars. I think I can do it if I put in enough time at the $12's because they seem like they do a lot better building fpp's on the month. I also want my ROI this month to be in between 25-30% which is low but doable. I think I put in enough time effort and energy that I will smash my goals.

Sigh Variance

It seems like PokerStars is racist obv cuz I am still on the doomswitch. Obv I am j/k but it sux when you feel and know that you are playing so well to not get rewarded. Yesterday I played a small little set after flag football practice was left feeling a little bit unsatisfied. So in my brilliant mind I was like hey I will just stay up for the rest of the night and try to grind make money and hopefully shake the variance. Well, that did not go according to plan and variance was slapping me like Ike was slapping Tina Tuner. I can't tell you how many times I got my money in good to get out drawn. Like JT vs AX you flop two pair and you still lose. Or TT vs K8 and someone hits runner runner 8 on you on the Turn and River it just sux. Overall though I feel like my game is getting sooooooo much better and I am just due. I have been putting in time in reviewing my sessions after I have finished and I am missing less and less shoves. I think now I might only miss like maybe like 1 or 2 shoves in SNGWiz. It just really frustrates me that I am running this way. Of course I hate to complain about how bad I am running etc etc but its so the truth. I feel like I wasted time playing games last night being a small loser when I could of went to sleep and been break even. Now I am sitting at work tired as hell with an energy drink trying to figure out wtf I did it for. Oh well ship the fpp's. I will post my results for the end of the month prob tomm. Right now I am up a little bit under $100 and my ROI for this month is like 5% or something ridic. I might even be a slight loser to the fact I was trying to qualify for the PCA so we will see. Thats enough about me running bad, bitching, and moaning I hope everyone else is on a heater.

wbmustang

Sklansky Bux

Played a little bit did a little bit of a coaching/ghosting session and ran absolutely god awful. Even though I am not that big of a winner this month I feel that I am Scrooge McDuck swimming in my Sklansky bucks. I have no doubt in my mind that if I put the effort I need to in studying, playing, and etc. it won't be too long before I start crushing these games. Really don't have anything else just wanted to leave a quick update. I should be putting in more volume towards the end of this week so I will post about a heater (/me prays, crosses fingers, grabs rabbit foot, et all). Hope everyone is doing good.

Weekend

This weekend went good in terms of poker and life so I really won't be ranting on this post. On Friday I did my first session with my coach. We went over my early game play which is alright cuz its kind of easy for me to be a nit early on in tournaments. As the session went on, I was making good reads and got my money in good everytime just to get murked by PokerStars oh well at least I know I am doing something right. I ended up down on the session but felt good about what I did. Saturday started off kind of bad because my work team lost our flag football game. Although I had a pretty baller half which included a couple of big catches and a one handed TD grab we still lost. Oh well we are a bunch of engineers and now I see why we go to work in this cubicle on M-F. I pretty much chilled out the rest of the day on Saturday and ended up taking it easy kicking it with some coworkers. On Sunday, I decided that I was going to start playing some poker again. At first I wasn't running the best but when my coach started ghosting me I did better and ended up having close to a break even session if not down 1 to 2 buy ins. I think when my coach was ghosting me I saw that my mid/late game needs some work which requires some studying in SNGWiz. I was putting myself in positions where I have like 6bb's which is still a lot of FE and I was just shoving wayyyyyyy to light but I think I got it under control. The mini ghosting/coaching session really opened my eyes as to why we shove instead of just shoving just to be shoving. I am really trying to work on figuring out ranges for people so that I can truly use SNGWiz. I did a little bit of studying last night and felt that went alright as well. I will probably do the bulk of my studying on Wed so imma try to at least study 2-3 hrs to make sure that my game is improving. I know this post sucks because I don't know what the meaning of paragraphs is but hey at least I updated the blog.

wbmustang

Live Donkament and Staking Deal

Last night I played in this tournament at the Muckleshoot Casino. The structure is good and you get 10k in starting chips blinds start @ 50/100 and they double after every 15 minutes. With that being said I didn't get off to a great start and really was crippled at the table due to other people raising etc before I was in a pot and not catching any hands. So I hung around and right before break I played a hand at the 200/400 level where I raised to 1200 w/99 from UTG and then the SB ships on me and I fold because I see that I will have what I started with left and no need to race and pick a better spot. He flipped over AK which I would of been in a race but its a good fold I think. After break, I shoved a couple of times and then came the hand that knocked me out. I had two limpers in front of me and in late position I have JJ and I ship for like 10k when the blinds are 750/1500 and I get one caller and he has AQ. Q on the flop gg me. Nothing tilts me to more end that limp callers and it sucked I went out like that because I would of been punishing the rest of the field with my stack. Besides thats the second time AQ has taken me out of a live tournament last time it was 99 vs AQ.

When talking to someone about my tournie play in the 12's I see that I am at best probably around a break even player. I have a smaller sample size >250 but <500 but I still can see where this conclusion can be made. I have been offered a type of staking/coaching deal and I think I will take it. I won't put any names on this blog or the deal structure but the guy is really good and I feel like it will benefit me greatly. I think I am going to go ahead with the deal so I can up my game because I can't stand to be grinding to be break even. I don't even make enough fpp's to make it worthwhile if that was the case so we will see. As things materialize more I will talk about it on the blog. Well till next time!

wbmustang