December was a month of business.
Lots of time at work, with kids, family events, holidays and not too much poker.
I played, I won, I lost and I studied.
I am going to sign up for PokerVT.com for another year starting the 1st week of January.
I may sum up the month better and make some comments about some insights I had in the near future, which also happens to be next year.
I also had another sick amount of 2-3 outs hit on rivers and even as many runner runner hits when I was crushing my opponents on flops.
Most recent movie watched was "Avatar"... I have to say it's a must see.
Cheers and see you all next year, time to have a few drinks and enjoy the evening without any children, they are with my mom!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Home alone with the kids and Poker!?!?!
Well I learned my final lesson the hard way about playing poker at home when I am left alone with my 2 youngest boys, aged 5 and 6.
It started with my 5yr old innocently trying to install and download a game he wanted to play on his own computer... He come up to me and says "I am waiting for my game to finish downloading". I am like, "What game?, on the Wii or your V-tech?" He replies "On my putercore" I run in to find it downloading some Dora game and find out I have to run it over with new installs and updates to do, then the game starts freezing 5 min. into it every time he tries to play. He decides he wants to play another game, he has the shortest attention span of anybody I have ever come across...
Next I notice after about 15 min. of quiet that something must be up! As the last time I had 15 min. of quiet when home alone with my 2 youngest boys I found them in the bathroom making "potions" with all the perfume, cologne, shampoo, bubble bath, baby powder, dog shampoo, toothpaste, etc.. So I find my 5yr old in my bathroom with my electric razor and half of a Mohawk. Yup that's right, and I know I have too look forward to shaving his whole head before bed as I can't let him go to kindergarten with half a Mohawk. OR CAN I??
The rest of the evening was quite uneventful in the fact that they only got into 3 wrestling matches and tried to feed the fish 1 time when I wasn't paying close enough attention and the dog scored triple extra dog treats. Nobody got hurt from the wrestling and I think I made a total of $40 playing online through 12 different games. So all isn't lost, and it was a quick life lesson about not paying close enough attention to the boys.
Also my half a Mohawk youngest, David Jr., has a rash on his bum, awesome, and I can't find the cream that we use for rashes. Of course my wife hid it since the last time he tried to put it on himself and it ended up all over half his body and walls and doorhandles and bathroom counter, etc... This stuff isn't easy to clean and I can't find out where it is since my wife turned her cell phone off, or left it in the car as she usually does when I am home alone with the boys, nice.
The funny part is, I work with Preschool children and families for my full time job, but my own kids always seem to be more than a handful. They must get it from there mother's side of the family... well actually my 14yr old went through the same kind of things and that is with another mother, so maybe, possibly it could be from my side... like my mom or something and it skipped my generation or just me specifically.
Heck who am I kidding, I am tool and burned my hand on the hot stove more times than I can count... The good part of the evening was that I made hot dogs, microwaved, for dinner, the dog scored half of 1 of mine when I turned my head and we "kicked butt" playing Mario Party 8 on the Wii. The poker was just filler for the supposed down times when I thought I had them set up playing on there computer or watching a movie or playing with the abundance of toys we and my parents and in-laws spoil them with.
Feeling a little sick, headache getting worse, going to drug myself with pills and shave my son's head.... Yeah!
The wife, I mean the dutch es, should be home soon... Hooray!
Cheers all, see you at the tables, and if you have never had a bad run for a month of playing then have a look at my shark scope stats for November on Ipoker "falenangel", if you have then guess what... I finally understand what all the pro's have been saying about variance. I am learning, growing, and trying to work on my game more now than ever before.
"It takes a few hours to learn, and a life time to master!"
It started with my 5yr old innocently trying to install and download a game he wanted to play on his own computer... He come up to me and says "I am waiting for my game to finish downloading". I am like, "What game?, on the Wii or your V-tech?" He replies "On my putercore" I run in to find it downloading some Dora game and find out I have to run it over with new installs and updates to do, then the game starts freezing 5 min. into it every time he tries to play. He decides he wants to play another game, he has the shortest attention span of anybody I have ever come across...
Next I notice after about 15 min. of quiet that something must be up! As the last time I had 15 min. of quiet when home alone with my 2 youngest boys I found them in the bathroom making "potions" with all the perfume, cologne, shampoo, bubble bath, baby powder, dog shampoo, toothpaste, etc.. So I find my 5yr old in my bathroom with my electric razor and half of a Mohawk. Yup that's right, and I know I have too look forward to shaving his whole head before bed as I can't let him go to kindergarten with half a Mohawk. OR CAN I??
The rest of the evening was quite uneventful in the fact that they only got into 3 wrestling matches and tried to feed the fish 1 time when I wasn't paying close enough attention and the dog scored triple extra dog treats. Nobody got hurt from the wrestling and I think I made a total of $40 playing online through 12 different games. So all isn't lost, and it was a quick life lesson about not paying close enough attention to the boys.
Also my half a Mohawk youngest, David Jr., has a rash on his bum, awesome, and I can't find the cream that we use for rashes. Of course my wife hid it since the last time he tried to put it on himself and it ended up all over half his body and walls and doorhandles and bathroom counter, etc... This stuff isn't easy to clean and I can't find out where it is since my wife turned her cell phone off, or left it in the car as she usually does when I am home alone with the boys, nice.
The funny part is, I work with Preschool children and families for my full time job, but my own kids always seem to be more than a handful. They must get it from there mother's side of the family... well actually my 14yr old went through the same kind of things and that is with another mother, so maybe, possibly it could be from my side... like my mom or something and it skipped my generation or just me specifically.
Heck who am I kidding, I am tool and burned my hand on the hot stove more times than I can count... The good part of the evening was that I made hot dogs, microwaved, for dinner, the dog scored half of 1 of mine when I turned my head and we "kicked butt" playing Mario Party 8 on the Wii. The poker was just filler for the supposed down times when I thought I had them set up playing on there computer or watching a movie or playing with the abundance of toys we and my parents and in-laws spoil them with.
Feeling a little sick, headache getting worse, going to drug myself with pills and shave my son's head.... Yeah!
The wife, I mean the dutch es, should be home soon... Hooray!
Cheers all, see you at the tables, and if you have never had a bad run for a month of playing then have a look at my shark scope stats for November on Ipoker "falenangel", if you have then guess what... I finally understand what all the pro's have been saying about variance. I am learning, growing, and trying to work on my game more now than ever before.
"It takes a few hours to learn, and a life time to master!"
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Crazy Bubble weekend....
I think I have bubbled so many times recently in tournaments that when I fart, bubbles spray out of my butt... A great novelty for entertaining guests and my kids of course, but my wife doesn't appreciate it so much.
I am down a little on every site I play on for the weekend, almost proportionate to the amount I play on each site. Like about $200 on 1 site, $100 on another and $20 on another. I can blame it all on the "bubble", I mean I would have been up or at least broke even this weekend if not for the dreaded "bubble".
I have even resorted to playing free rolls on Pokerstars while I watch training videos on pokerstrategy and PokerVT to get my "fix" of poker playing and remind myself how BAD players at the free roll level are.
I played a bunch of $3 games on PS to see if it is just variance, and of course when QQ loses to A8o you know it is just pure luck. Yet that is when the anal bubbles started.
I played in the 25K million dollar challenge as well and broke the 1000 player mark out of 31000 entrants and didn't run too hot near the end, 1 hand which would have changed the game;
I shoved AQo w 10BB's from the BB into 3 limpers and they all called. 1 had J10o, another 78o and the last 66. Needless to say I didn't hit and a 237,000 chip pot went to the "Genius" who called with J10o.
I did a lot better in my last attempt in that tournament breaking the top 100 but it only pays the top 10 out of over 30,000 players.... Why do I even bother? It's free for one, and 1st place pays $20,000 soo I guess I'll try again if they keep running it.
The sickest thing about all this "bubble" crap is I played and bubbled like 9 tournaments in a row at 1 point and a total of about 30 times out of 50 some odd tournaments this weekend on just 1 site alone. I stopped counting the bubbles after I made a post on the PokerVT forum and got some advice from 1 of the pros, Derek Williams, and I realized that most of my plays were okay and that I just need to make more notes on some players and shove a little tighter on the bubble against people who will call with medium strength hands.
It's a good thing the kids were with my mother-in-law riding on a float in the Santa Claus Parade, the largest in Canada for a night time parade, and then spent the night, so they didn't have to endure all my cursing and swearing.
The Queen and I went to a Gala dinner for my work Union and then watched some movies. After which I stayed up late and continued my "bubble madness", cursing and swearing was on the entire menu for this weekend from the entrees, double helping of main course, and some desert with me finally realizing I was kind of tilting when I started calling people "tools" in the chat box, which is not even half of the words I was yelling at my computer screen.
I usually get a "bubble" laugh out of busting other people and them calling me names, so I guess in fairness it was my turn to be the tool of tools and swear while sticking up my middle finger at the computer and calling the online site "rigged"... of course that's only when I get beat.
I know it's not rigged, and I know it's variance and bubbling happens to all of us, it just sucks ass when it happens so often and in a row on all the sites I am playing on.
Okay so I think I got out all of the "gas bubbles" and my wife is begging me to stop as she has run out of air freshener, but the kids are having a great laugh anyway now that they are home, who doesn't love the old "pull my finger" line even if they know what is coming.
Plus I am all out of clean underwear and the Queen refuses to do any laundry tonight...
I am down a little on every site I play on for the weekend, almost proportionate to the amount I play on each site. Like about $200 on 1 site, $100 on another and $20 on another. I can blame it all on the "bubble", I mean I would have been up or at least broke even this weekend if not for the dreaded "bubble".
I have even resorted to playing free rolls on Pokerstars while I watch training videos on pokerstrategy and PokerVT to get my "fix" of poker playing and remind myself how BAD players at the free roll level are.
I played a bunch of $3 games on PS to see if it is just variance, and of course when QQ loses to A8o you know it is just pure luck. Yet that is when the anal bubbles started.
I played in the 25K million dollar challenge as well and broke the 1000 player mark out of 31000 entrants and didn't run too hot near the end, 1 hand which would have changed the game;
I shoved AQo w 10BB's from the BB into 3 limpers and they all called. 1 had J10o, another 78o and the last 66. Needless to say I didn't hit and a 237,000 chip pot went to the "Genius" who called with J10o.
I did a lot better in my last attempt in that tournament breaking the top 100 but it only pays the top 10 out of over 30,000 players.... Why do I even bother? It's free for one, and 1st place pays $20,000 soo I guess I'll try again if they keep running it.
The sickest thing about all this "bubble" crap is I played and bubbled like 9 tournaments in a row at 1 point and a total of about 30 times out of 50 some odd tournaments this weekend on just 1 site alone. I stopped counting the bubbles after I made a post on the PokerVT forum and got some advice from 1 of the pros, Derek Williams, and I realized that most of my plays were okay and that I just need to make more notes on some players and shove a little tighter on the bubble against people who will call with medium strength hands.
It's a good thing the kids were with my mother-in-law riding on a float in the Santa Claus Parade, the largest in Canada for a night time parade, and then spent the night, so they didn't have to endure all my cursing and swearing.
The Queen and I went to a Gala dinner for my work Union and then watched some movies. After which I stayed up late and continued my "bubble madness", cursing and swearing was on the entire menu for this weekend from the entrees, double helping of main course, and some desert with me finally realizing I was kind of tilting when I started calling people "tools" in the chat box, which is not even half of the words I was yelling at my computer screen.
I usually get a "bubble" laugh out of busting other people and them calling me names, so I guess in fairness it was my turn to be the tool of tools and swear while sticking up my middle finger at the computer and calling the online site "rigged"... of course that's only when I get beat.
I know it's not rigged, and I know it's variance and bubbling happens to all of us, it just sucks ass when it happens so often and in a row on all the sites I am playing on.
Okay so I think I got out all of the "gas bubbles" and my wife is begging me to stop as she has run out of air freshener, but the kids are having a great laugh anyway now that they are home, who doesn't love the old "pull my finger" line even if they know what is coming.
Plus I am all out of clean underwear and the Queen refuses to do any laundry tonight...
Friday, November 13, 2009
Bad Beat on Cancer Tourney: Play the Full Tilt Poker Pro's for $10 this Sunday
Okay so a fellow PokerVT member has put this post up in the forums and asked anybody who can help out to advertise his event. This is a copy and paste of the post he put up in the forum and hope anybody, if anybody reads my blog and they have the time to participate will get involved with this event on Full Tilt and help to put a Bad Beat on Cancer.
Cheers!
Posted by PokerVT.com forum member "fleapid"
"Hey guys,
I've put together a 2nd Charity Event on Full Tilt Poker this Sunday to Benefit Bad Beat on Cancer. The buy in is $10 ($5+5) with the Rake going to charity.
The touranament ID # is 113220604 and the Password is TPTFORBBOC
Current Full Tilt Pro's Registered are:
Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, Rafe Furst, Lee Watkinson, Joe Beevers, Ross Boatman, Richard Ashby, Marco Liesy, Michael Craig, Amanda 'Mandy B' Baker, and Dave Colclough.
I also have some other pro's that said that they'd join as well (Team Full Tilt guys, Matusow, Cunningham, Lederer and Lindgren have all said that they would join in).
Please help us out by registering and playing in the event. Also, if you could help spread the word about the event if you have a blog or re-post it on any other forums that you're a part of, that'd be awesome. If you need a link, the Twitter Poker Tour Website has the original announcement here: http://twitterpokertour.com/announcements/charity-tournament-to-benefit-bad-beat-on-cancer/
Thanks in advance for your help everyone!"
Cheers!
Posted by PokerVT.com forum member "fleapid"
"Hey guys,
I've put together a 2nd Charity Event on Full Tilt Poker this Sunday to Benefit Bad Beat on Cancer. The buy in is $10 ($5+5) with the Rake going to charity.
The touranament ID # is 113220604 and the Password is TPTFORBBOC
Tournament Details
Place: Full Tilt Poker
Date: November 15th, 2009
Time: 6:15PM EST
Cost: $10 ($5 entry plus $5 donation to BBoC)
Tourney ID#: 113220604
Tourney PW: TPTFORBBOC
Current Full Tilt Pro's Registered are:
Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, Rafe Furst, Lee Watkinson, Joe Beevers, Ross Boatman, Richard Ashby, Marco Liesy, Michael Craig, Amanda 'Mandy B' Baker, and Dave Colclough.
I also have some other pro's that said that they'd join as well (Team Full Tilt guys, Matusow, Cunningham, Lederer and Lindgren have all said that they would join in).
Please help us out by registering and playing in the event. Also, if you could help spread the word about the event if you have a blog or re-post it on any other forums that you're a part of, that'd be awesome. If you need a link, the Twitter Poker Tour Website has the original announcement here: http://twitterpokertour.com/announcements/charity-tournament-to-benefit-bad-beat-on-cancer/
Thanks in advance for your help everyone!"
I love the weekend!
This month started off pretty bad, dropped a little each day... on Mansion and Full tilt and Pokerstars. 
A true downsing, for me, of almost $800, between all sites.
But then today in 12 $11 games on Mansion I am up $192 and in 8 $14 games on Full Tilt I am up $201.
Still down for the month of November so far, but I sure do love playing the weekend donks and taking away there money.
Of course some luck was involved but I'll take it any way I can get it.
For any larger stakes players this will seem like a pathetic brag, for the small stakes players it will seem nicer and not so pathetic.
For somebody like me playing a total of 20 sng's at the $11 and $14 level and making a total profit of $393 it was a sick sick sick 2.5-3hrs invested and an hourly rate of $133/hr a fantastical evening, so I decided to share it with you all.
Now back to watching videos and training more, I re-watched all of Grayson's, Nick's and am halfway through Derk's in the past 4 days....
I know I need to get a life!
Cheers!
A true downsing, for me, of almost $800, between all sites.
But then today in 12 $11 games on Mansion I am up $192 and in 8 $14 games on Full Tilt I am up $201.
Still down for the month of November so far, but I sure do love playing the weekend donks and taking away there money.
Of course some luck was involved but I'll take it any way I can get it.
For any larger stakes players this will seem like a pathetic brag, for the small stakes players it will seem nicer and not so pathetic.
For somebody like me playing a total of 20 sng's at the $11 and $14 level and making a total profit of $393 it was a sick sick sick 2.5-3hrs invested and an hourly rate of $133/hr a fantastical evening, so I decided to share it with you all.
Now back to watching videos and training more, I re-watched all of Grayson's, Nick's and am halfway through Derk's in the past 4 days....
I know I need to get a life!
Cheers!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
November a little slow...
So I have been lucky enough to get another HH review on PVT... one was a while ago with the Don tournaments and I played like crap in both the tournaments PokerDerk reviewed... total shiat, but I did learn a great deal about my play.
I am a visual learner and a complete tool with computers so this gives me a great opportunity to learn better about myself and my play while getting GREAT advice from a pro/trainer on PVT.
In the past I was in a few with Nick Rainey doing the commentary and providing advice and he was great in a lot of ways, but some of the things he would advise were not quite with me and I couldn't wrap my mind around some of the plays, I am a tool and couldn't get it... yet it did improve my game at the time.
I think for me to become better I need to take a little bit from many different pros and adjust my game to what feels comfortable, but to what also can make me a winning player consistently.
So PokerDerk is doing a 25 part review on a Sng I played in with 9 other PVT members, I got 2nd so I know there will be a lot of review on my play and will get a great amount of insight into fixing some leaks and improving my game. Part 1-7 came out this week, the rest to come in the following 2 weeks. I can honestly say that the new additions in pros/trainers at PVT have been great on the forums, awesome with putting out new video content and really helping to improve my game.
There is also another large 12 week contest for big prizes and I expect to at least make the finals and end up ITM in a bunch of the tournaments, as long as I don't shove 55 into AA each week. As well Derk is running a monthly SNG contest that pays cash to the top 4 and an extra HH review for the winner of which I am currently in 3rd with only 6 games played and can get an extra 280 points if I win the last 2 as you can only count 8 games played a month. I got put out early this week with QQ losing to an all in PF vs AKo. The scoreboard of the top 4 looks like this:
morrent 680 8
Torgo1575 620 7
falenangel 550 6
jujube 540 5
NOW, November so far kinda SUCKS, but it's poker and I couldn't expect to keep holding up all the time like in October. I was also playing a little overconfident lately and probably resorting back to some of the things I was doing when I was not so much a winning player but more of a break even player. So I am down a couple hundred or about 13 buy ins at my current play level. Which isn't so bad and I know it's only a short term thing... heck 4 weeks ago my BR was $1500 less than it is right now so over the long haul I am kicking some butt.
Today was fun too... some member got together on PS and played a 9 man and 6 man cash game. I got in on both and made $30 at the .10/.25NL tables which isn't to bad. Especially considering I didn't have any real strong hands. I never hit any sets, I didn't get any flushes or straights, my highest starting PP ever was only JJ and I hardly went to show down. I used some real good timing tells to realize if I could 3 barrel to make some players fold and if I should just give up on the river since they were calling me anyway. I also got away from some hands PF when I was 3bet with super quick timing tell raises. I think when the HH is reviewed by Jon Ettinger, Soccermom5 on FT, and another pro/trainer at PVT it will show that I played really smart. I won a lot of small pots and slowly grinded my way up to the $30 profit over a total of about 150 hands played. Now Jon might say I was spew crazy or he might say good plays but it's okay either way since I hardly play cash and mostly consider myself to be a SNG and MTT player.
In total now that should make about 8 times I have been in different PVT member videos and gotten advice by 3 different pros/trainers and as I go back and watch the videos again and again I can see how my play has changed and which aspects I have totally improved on as well as which leaks I still posses and hopefully change them so I can increase my win rate and cash rate. In turn increasing my ROI.
All in all the month so far has been "blah" but the great thing about it is it's only November 5th so who really cares yet. It's only 13 buy ins on one site, and 10 or so buy ins on another, so just under $250 which is a small dent in the 5K on the 2 sites combined. I look forward to the rest of the month and hopefully being as successful as last month. Mansion even sent me some extra tokens since it's my birthday month and set me up with another bonus for $50 I can play out, which is kinda cool, heck it's for free so I am not complaining.
Cheers and see you at the tables!
I am a visual learner and a complete tool with computers so this gives me a great opportunity to learn better about myself and my play while getting GREAT advice from a pro/trainer on PVT.
In the past I was in a few with Nick Rainey doing the commentary and providing advice and he was great in a lot of ways, but some of the things he would advise were not quite with me and I couldn't wrap my mind around some of the plays, I am a tool and couldn't get it... yet it did improve my game at the time.
I think for me to become better I need to take a little bit from many different pros and adjust my game to what feels comfortable, but to what also can make me a winning player consistently.
So PokerDerk is doing a 25 part review on a Sng I played in with 9 other PVT members, I got 2nd so I know there will be a lot of review on my play and will get a great amount of insight into fixing some leaks and improving my game. Part 1-7 came out this week, the rest to come in the following 2 weeks. I can honestly say that the new additions in pros/trainers at PVT have been great on the forums, awesome with putting out new video content and really helping to improve my game.
There is also another large 12 week contest for big prizes and I expect to at least make the finals and end up ITM in a bunch of the tournaments, as long as I don't shove 55 into AA each week. As well Derk is running a monthly SNG contest that pays cash to the top 4 and an extra HH review for the winner of which I am currently in 3rd with only 6 games played and can get an extra 280 points if I win the last 2 as you can only count 8 games played a month. I got put out early this week with QQ losing to an all in PF vs AKo. The scoreboard of the top 4 looks like this:
morrent 680 8
Torgo1575 620 7
falenangel 550 6
jujube 540 5
NOW, November so far kinda SUCKS, but it's poker and I couldn't expect to keep holding up all the time like in October. I was also playing a little overconfident lately and probably resorting back to some of the things I was doing when I was not so much a winning player but more of a break even player. So I am down a couple hundred or about 13 buy ins at my current play level. Which isn't so bad and I know it's only a short term thing... heck 4 weeks ago my BR was $1500 less than it is right now so over the long haul I am kicking some butt.
Today was fun too... some member got together on PS and played a 9 man and 6 man cash game. I got in on both and made $30 at the .10/.25NL tables which isn't to bad. Especially considering I didn't have any real strong hands. I never hit any sets, I didn't get any flushes or straights, my highest starting PP ever was only JJ and I hardly went to show down. I used some real good timing tells to realize if I could 3 barrel to make some players fold and if I should just give up on the river since they were calling me anyway. I also got away from some hands PF when I was 3bet with super quick timing tell raises. I think when the HH is reviewed by Jon Ettinger, Soccermom5 on FT, and another pro/trainer at PVT it will show that I played really smart. I won a lot of small pots and slowly grinded my way up to the $30 profit over a total of about 150 hands played. Now Jon might say I was spew crazy or he might say good plays but it's okay either way since I hardly play cash and mostly consider myself to be a SNG and MTT player.
In total now that should make about 8 times I have been in different PVT member videos and gotten advice by 3 different pros/trainers and as I go back and watch the videos again and again I can see how my play has changed and which aspects I have totally improved on as well as which leaks I still posses and hopefully change them so I can increase my win rate and cash rate. In turn increasing my ROI.
All in all the month so far has been "blah" but the great thing about it is it's only November 5th so who really cares yet. It's only 13 buy ins on one site, and 10 or so buy ins on another, so just under $250 which is a small dent in the 5K on the 2 sites combined. I look forward to the rest of the month and hopefully being as successful as last month. Mansion even sent me some extra tokens since it's my birthday month and set me up with another bonus for $50 I can play out, which is kinda cool, heck it's for free so I am not complaining.
Cheers and see you at the tables!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Best Month This Year - October
The title says it all.... I have turned $50 on Full Tilt into $1500 prior to October.
With 1 day left in the month I am currently sitting at $3800... It has been great, wonderful, awesome, etc... I can't say the same for all site, but I have broken even on Mansion keeping my $50 start up capital floating around $1300 to $1600 and haven't played much on the other sites.
I have been playing to get silver iron man status for my 2nd month in a row and have been still cracking the satty's and playing $11 turbos and $14 super turbos and running pretty well.
I have used a few $26 tokens and cashed 2/2 tries in limit games and played some 7-game and HORSE games and cashed or won the tournament entry in over 50% of those.
I have also been taking advantage of all the super satty's to the FTOPS events and cashing out the T $'s to use in my SNG games. I wish I could show you some graphs or show you results from Sharkscope on myself but am too putercore ignorant for that kind of thing. Plus my PT3 graph actually shows me as a losing player because it doesn't account for satty's. So I use it primarily for stats on other players and hand reviews.
I have also started playing only 4-6 tables at a time and not trying to push my max of 8-9 tables and focus more on taking notes and colour coding other players on Full Tilt so I know what kind of table I am sitting at when I get moved or start up a SNG in the beginning and can make decisions a little quicker in the games.
I have also made time to fit playing some live poker in my schedule and have been faring well in that as well. This past weekend I chopped 1st in a SNG with friends at a local underground tournament where the "regulars" play a lot of cash games and weekly tournament, not just your average bar league donkfest anyway.
I have been watching lots of videos, practicing on ICM, playing lots of games (for me), reading lots in the forums and finished 2 poker books this month on breaks and lunch at work. My game against better players (PokerVT events) has also improved, making me think when I do start moving up in buy in levels I will stand a good chance against stronger players.
I am hesitant about the upcoming FTOPS events though.... not sure if I am ready or if I should wait for the next mini-FTOPS later this year.
I almost joined a few larger satty's and clicked register to 4 $70 satty's and won 2 of them, I woulda won 3 but I played Q3o in the BB poorly.
It was all limped to me 2 other callers and the flop was 336 with 2 hearts, I probably should of led out but I checked. MP limper bet 300, LP folds, I had 700 left (it was a super turbo) and tank called. I should have either lead out or check raised, but check calling was totally the wrong play in my mind.
Turn: was the 5h and I shoved all in, MP snap called and showed 88 with a heart...
River: Heart, I lose
He was probably calling a flop shove, he was probably calling a check shove on the flop, but by playing it the way I did the random generator gave him the hearts as well as his 8's for the win.
Maybe I am being results oriented, I mean I got it in with the best, he was most likely calling anyway and what happened was poker. But knowing the results is not my thinking, instead could I have played it differently and forced him to fold.
Or by having the cards all in on the flop instead of the turn, does he still call? Does the random generator give 2 different cards not heart, heart.... Maybe he still hits an 8 and I still lose.
Am I over thinking the hand and it's just poker and I am not winning this every time anyway. Not sure, but most hands, most games come and go, but this particular hand has been in my head for the past few days and just wanted to "get it out" and see if anybody had any thoughts.
Anyway, my kids are doing great, wife is great, job is great, not sleeping as much as I could, but there is just too little time in a day to play, study, work, eat, do family stuff, read blogs, do forums, watch videos, T.V. shows I enjoy and still fit in time for sleep. I AM a GLUTTON for punishment and sleep always seems to be the first choice to cut back on.
Okay time to take a dose of sleeping pills and get in my weekly 1 night of 12 hours of sleep and wake up in time to play some poker on Saturday and get my silver iron man status for October, of course I left it for the last minute. That's the best part of being a procrastinator, the same as when I was in school with homework or assignments or studying for test, yet I tend to perform way better under pressure.
With 1 day left in the month I am currently sitting at $3800... It has been great, wonderful, awesome, etc... I can't say the same for all site, but I have broken even on Mansion keeping my $50 start up capital floating around $1300 to $1600 and haven't played much on the other sites.
I have been playing to get silver iron man status for my 2nd month in a row and have been still cracking the satty's and playing $11 turbos and $14 super turbos and running pretty well.
I have used a few $26 tokens and cashed 2/2 tries in limit games and played some 7-game and HORSE games and cashed or won the tournament entry in over 50% of those.
I have also been taking advantage of all the super satty's to the FTOPS events and cashing out the T $'s to use in my SNG games. I wish I could show you some graphs or show you results from Sharkscope on myself but am too putercore ignorant for that kind of thing. Plus my PT3 graph actually shows me as a losing player because it doesn't account for satty's. So I use it primarily for stats on other players and hand reviews.
I have also started playing only 4-6 tables at a time and not trying to push my max of 8-9 tables and focus more on taking notes and colour coding other players on Full Tilt so I know what kind of table I am sitting at when I get moved or start up a SNG in the beginning and can make decisions a little quicker in the games.
I have also made time to fit playing some live poker in my schedule and have been faring well in that as well. This past weekend I chopped 1st in a SNG with friends at a local underground tournament where the "regulars" play a lot of cash games and weekly tournament, not just your average bar league donkfest anyway.
I have been watching lots of videos, practicing on ICM, playing lots of games (for me), reading lots in the forums and finished 2 poker books this month on breaks and lunch at work. My game against better players (PokerVT events) has also improved, making me think when I do start moving up in buy in levels I will stand a good chance against stronger players.
I am hesitant about the upcoming FTOPS events though.... not sure if I am ready or if I should wait for the next mini-FTOPS later this year.
I almost joined a few larger satty's and clicked register to 4 $70 satty's and won 2 of them, I woulda won 3 but I played Q3o in the BB poorly.
It was all limped to me 2 other callers and the flop was 336 with 2 hearts, I probably should of led out but I checked. MP limper bet 300, LP folds, I had 700 left (it was a super turbo) and tank called. I should have either lead out or check raised, but check calling was totally the wrong play in my mind.
Turn: was the 5h and I shoved all in, MP snap called and showed 88 with a heart...
River: Heart, I lose
He was probably calling a flop shove, he was probably calling a check shove on the flop, but by playing it the way I did the random generator gave him the hearts as well as his 8's for the win.
Maybe I am being results oriented, I mean I got it in with the best, he was most likely calling anyway and what happened was poker. But knowing the results is not my thinking, instead could I have played it differently and forced him to fold.
Or by having the cards all in on the flop instead of the turn, does he still call? Does the random generator give 2 different cards not heart, heart.... Maybe he still hits an 8 and I still lose.
Am I over thinking the hand and it's just poker and I am not winning this every time anyway. Not sure, but most hands, most games come and go, but this particular hand has been in my head for the past few days and just wanted to "get it out" and see if anybody had any thoughts.
Anyway, my kids are doing great, wife is great, job is great, not sleeping as much as I could, but there is just too little time in a day to play, study, work, eat, do family stuff, read blogs, do forums, watch videos, T.V. shows I enjoy and still fit in time for sleep. I AM a GLUTTON for punishment and sleep always seems to be the first choice to cut back on.
Okay time to take a dose of sleeping pills and get in my weekly 1 night of 12 hours of sleep and wake up in time to play some poker on Saturday and get my silver iron man status for October, of course I left it for the last minute. That's the best part of being a procrastinator, the same as when I was in school with homework or assignments or studying for test, yet I tend to perform way better under pressure.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Always working on my leaks... and I still have a lot!
Fixing my leaks in a nutshell, on the fly, with a little bit of sarcasm:
Electric shock is almost the same as losing 2 deep stack buy ins in 1 night... lol
Usually the money you lose, the less you gain when you could have value raised, the more you lose when curiosity or getting married to a hand you should fold, going deep in a tourney and losing it all in 1 hand... are all forms of punishment for having big leaks.
I say call a plumber, watch more, study more, put a sign beside your computer screen telling yourself what not to do in big red letters and practice practice practice...
Nothing makes you realize what works best until you do it wrong a few times, in my case about 11 times and then some. Heck I still sometimes touch the burning stove even though I know it will hurt! (But I love that red glow so much, dang stove)
I am sure other people will have ideas but bottom line is you know what you need/want to fix so that's the starting point. After you start to fix those things you'll start to recognize other leaks and work on them too.
Lack of focus, curiosity and stubbornness are born from playing too many hands that look like garbage, if you don't change those leaks you might as well start drinking a lot and raise A3o UTG and tell yourself you have suited connectors.
Just my 2 cents, worth a penny.
Electric shock is almost the same as losing 2 deep stack buy ins in 1 night... lol
Usually the money you lose, the less you gain when you could have value raised, the more you lose when curiosity or getting married to a hand you should fold, going deep in a tourney and losing it all in 1 hand... are all forms of punishment for having big leaks.
I say call a plumber, watch more, study more, put a sign beside your computer screen telling yourself what not to do in big red letters and practice practice practice...
Nothing makes you realize what works best until you do it wrong a few times, in my case about 11 times and then some. Heck I still sometimes touch the burning stove even though I know it will hurt! (But I love that red glow so much, dang stove)
I am sure other people will have ideas but bottom line is you know what you need/want to fix so that's the starting point. After you start to fix those things you'll start to recognize other leaks and work on them too.
Lack of focus, curiosity and stubbornness are born from playing too many hands that look like garbage, if you don't change those leaks you might as well start drinking a lot and raise A3o UTG and tell yourself you have suited connectors.
Just my 2 cents, worth a penny.
Past 5 days some nice profit for me!
I have been slowly growing my Bank Roll since January and very hesitant to move up in stakes.
When I did move up on Mansion a month or so ago I went from $1700 down to $1100 in like no time at all. I quickly realized I needed to improve, change some things up and drop down to the $10 limit again. I wrote myself a note and stuck next to my computer, "No more games over $10 until BR is back above $1500". Well as of this past weekend I had just reached that mark. I decided I won't start higher buy ins again just yet, I AM a BR NIT and will keep on at the $10 level on Mansion.
I made some good money playing in some 18-30 man Sng's and 9 man's, staying away from playing too many Don's. I play about 10 games a day on Mansion, just enough to keep my bonus status in check and at the end of November I will get a bonus 120K member points. Add that to the 120K I already have and the 20K I will earn over the next 5 weeks and it is enough to trade in for a cool $500.
Without rakeback on Mansion I can't complain about it since I have only gotten $120 in rakeback from Full Tilt and I have played double the games on Mansion so it is almost double the amount of rakeback FT offers. I will simply check with support before I do the trade in to make sure it's not a play it out to get the cash bonus and a straight up deposit into my account.
Well the real reason I felt the need to write this "quick", nothing is ever quick from me, blog was my recent success on Full Tilt. 5 days ago I came in 2nd in a MTT with 355 people, it was a $2 buy in, and paid a nice little profit.
On the weekend I won my 1st 45 man super turbo with a buy in of $14 and got $239 for my effort. I have been doing well at both $11- 9 man turbos and $14- 9 man super turbos as well cash a lot and getting lucky to take some down. My bankroll went from hovering around the $1900 mark a week or two ago and shot up to well above 2K during this run of luck.
Tonight I took down another, BLAM SPAM THANK YOU MAAM, for a cool $239 once again. I looked at my BR on FT and saw a pretty little amount of $2996, soooo close to the 3K mark and from playing tournaments no higher than $14+1 buy in.
I mean I play a lot of satty's and then simply un-register and use the tournament dollars to play my daily 10 games on FT.
I have 3 $26 tokens and have used a few in the past and played the $22 Double Deuce as well but haven't cashed in any of the big ones yet. Last mini FTOPS I played 1 event and went deep but busted just before the bubble, thanks for railing me during that one Nik I appreciate it.
I think I am starting to feel more confident in my game and am considering moving up to some bigger events down the road, but I don't want to play scared and my experience with the $20 and $30 tournaments on Mansion gave me either a reality check or made me a little bit "chicken".
I have tried a few satty's to bigger events on FT and won some $50 entries and cashed out, and even tried some $70 satty's too which I did win one and cashed out the $216 just the same as any larger tournament. With a larger BR now I think I can give it a try I just need some confidence and convince myself I am not going to play scared.
I think I will take it slow, but this is what I have been training for and practicing for these past 10 months. I turned $50 into $2996 on FT and $0 into $1570 on Mansion and $50 into $450 on Pokerstars, Betfair is a measly $140 but still a small profit and tiger (which I have played on as much as betfair) is at $380 agian without depositing in years except to earn extra bonuses but in very small amounts that didn't need to be done as my BR was up to $1800 when I joined PVT.
I am a winning player, I am getting better, I can actually have a chance at turning pro and playing poker for a living some day, hopefully sooner rather than later.
I started out winning live, I still do win when I play live, but the internet has opened up my game and helped me improve so much faster than live play ever could. There are a few things I can attribute the success to.
Of course training and PokerVT and all the forum discussions, reading more books, watching training videos and practicing at the tables.
But more importantly the people who took part in "smacking me in the head" with common sense and helping me to not get upset about bad beats, learn to control my emotions, giving me somebody to look up to and wish I could play as good as them.
Those people will forever be in my mind as the greatest part of my poker learning experience and I hope someday to be able to meet them, take them out for dinner, on me of course, and shake there hand and tell them face to face how grateful I am.
The biggest bummer about it all is none of them live in Canada and I will have to do a lot better and climb a lot higher on the "poker ladder" before I can achieve that goal. Yet for now I know and I hope they know how much I appreciate all of the help they provided me even if it was a little and for a short period of time it meant so much to me.
"THANK YOU"
Cheers and best wishes to you all!
All 4 of you that read my blog and don't find it a rambling bumbling waste of time. This blog has been a part of my learning and I hope it can be of some inspiration to any of you that read it.
If any pros actually take the time to read this sucker I would like think that I remind you of yourself when just starting to get serious about the game, even if I am a late bloomer who wishes he found this game 15 years ago, yet we all have our own life lessons and I have had my fair share, but that's another story!
Double Cheers and Shambone!
When I did move up on Mansion a month or so ago I went from $1700 down to $1100 in like no time at all. I quickly realized I needed to improve, change some things up and drop down to the $10 limit again. I wrote myself a note and stuck next to my computer, "No more games over $10 until BR is back above $1500". Well as of this past weekend I had just reached that mark. I decided I won't start higher buy ins again just yet, I AM a BR NIT and will keep on at the $10 level on Mansion.
I made some good money playing in some 18-30 man Sng's and 9 man's, staying away from playing too many Don's. I play about 10 games a day on Mansion, just enough to keep my bonus status in check and at the end of November I will get a bonus 120K member points. Add that to the 120K I already have and the 20K I will earn over the next 5 weeks and it is enough to trade in for a cool $500.
Without rakeback on Mansion I can't complain about it since I have only gotten $120 in rakeback from Full Tilt and I have played double the games on Mansion so it is almost double the amount of rakeback FT offers. I will simply check with support before I do the trade in to make sure it's not a play it out to get the cash bonus and a straight up deposit into my account.
Well the real reason I felt the need to write this "quick", nothing is ever quick from me, blog was my recent success on Full Tilt. 5 days ago I came in 2nd in a MTT with 355 people, it was a $2 buy in, and paid a nice little profit.
On the weekend I won my 1st 45 man super turbo with a buy in of $14 and got $239 for my effort. I have been doing well at both $11- 9 man turbos and $14- 9 man super turbos as well cash a lot and getting lucky to take some down. My bankroll went from hovering around the $1900 mark a week or two ago and shot up to well above 2K during this run of luck.
Tonight I took down another, BLAM SPAM THANK YOU MAAM, for a cool $239 once again. I looked at my BR on FT and saw a pretty little amount of $2996, soooo close to the 3K mark and from playing tournaments no higher than $14+1 buy in.
I mean I play a lot of satty's and then simply un-register and use the tournament dollars to play my daily 10 games on FT.
I have 3 $26 tokens and have used a few in the past and played the $22 Double Deuce as well but haven't cashed in any of the big ones yet. Last mini FTOPS I played 1 event and went deep but busted just before the bubble, thanks for railing me during that one Nik I appreciate it.
I think I am starting to feel more confident in my game and am considering moving up to some bigger events down the road, but I don't want to play scared and my experience with the $20 and $30 tournaments on Mansion gave me either a reality check or made me a little bit "chicken".
I have tried a few satty's to bigger events on FT and won some $50 entries and cashed out, and even tried some $70 satty's too which I did win one and cashed out the $216 just the same as any larger tournament. With a larger BR now I think I can give it a try I just need some confidence and convince myself I am not going to play scared.
I think I will take it slow, but this is what I have been training for and practicing for these past 10 months. I turned $50 into $2996 on FT and $0 into $1570 on Mansion and $50 into $450 on Pokerstars, Betfair is a measly $140 but still a small profit and tiger (which I have played on as much as betfair) is at $380 agian without depositing in years except to earn extra bonuses but in very small amounts that didn't need to be done as my BR was up to $1800 when I joined PVT.
I am a winning player, I am getting better, I can actually have a chance at turning pro and playing poker for a living some day, hopefully sooner rather than later.
I started out winning live, I still do win when I play live, but the internet has opened up my game and helped me improve so much faster than live play ever could. There are a few things I can attribute the success to.
Of course training and PokerVT and all the forum discussions, reading more books, watching training videos and practicing at the tables.
But more importantly the people who took part in "smacking me in the head" with common sense and helping me to not get upset about bad beats, learn to control my emotions, giving me somebody to look up to and wish I could play as good as them.
Those people will forever be in my mind as the greatest part of my poker learning experience and I hope someday to be able to meet them, take them out for dinner, on me of course, and shake there hand and tell them face to face how grateful I am.
The biggest bummer about it all is none of them live in Canada and I will have to do a lot better and climb a lot higher on the "poker ladder" before I can achieve that goal. Yet for now I know and I hope they know how much I appreciate all of the help they provided me even if it was a little and for a short period of time it meant so much to me.
"THANK YOU"
Cheers and best wishes to you all!
All 4 of you that read my blog and don't find it a rambling bumbling waste of time. This blog has been a part of my learning and I hope it can be of some inspiration to any of you that read it.
If any pros actually take the time to read this sucker I would like think that I remind you of yourself when just starting to get serious about the game, even if I am a late bloomer who wishes he found this game 15 years ago, yet we all have our own life lessons and I have had my fair share, but that's another story!
Double Cheers and Shambone!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Playing lLive at a Casino
Just some random thoughts I had about playing live and things one probably should remember if they are just starting out. Don't make the same mistakes I did:
Yeah I was in the BB and was getting food and drink from a waitress, the action came to me I turned around to look at my cards and didn't have any... the dealer had dealt me in and took my cards back before I could even see them from the BB, always protect your cards!
Plus even if you won a pot, don't toss your cards into the dealer or muck until they pass the chips to you that way you shouldn't have any disputes.
Another time I thought after I bet that nobody had called and tossed in my cards waiting for the pot. The dealer turned and gave them to the guy sitting on there right as they had called but didn't say it out loud only pushed in the chips and they were blocked by the dealers arm so I didn't know they had even called. I lost the pot because of that mistake.
If you get nervous and start feeling sick, like at the final table, just ask the floor man to bring a garbage pail over, you don't want to miss any hands at the final table by running off to puke in the bathroom. Then drink some ginger ale it's good for the tummy and nerves...
Don't ever show any cards unless they pay to see them, no matter how proud you are of the hands you hit or was dealt, even bluffs...
Study other players especially when the do certain things out of the ordinary, if you get to see there cards mark it in your head if it was a bluff or a strong hand and if they do it again in a pot vs you, decide accordingly if you can steal the pot or value bet/raise or fold and be happy you made the right choice based on your reads.
Most people are always acting, if they act strong they are weak, if they act weak they are strong... If they talk like a pro, they might just be, if the complain about bad beats they are most likely a fish.
I usually talk so much I put somebody on tilt, usually the people drinking alcohol, and can take advantage of them trying to play back at me or bust me when I have the nuts or super strong hands when they are super marginal and would have folded if it wasn't for the urge to "take me down, felt me"
Cheers!
Yeah I was in the BB and was getting food and drink from a waitress, the action came to me I turned around to look at my cards and didn't have any... the dealer had dealt me in and took my cards back before I could even see them from the BB, always protect your cards!
Plus even if you won a pot, don't toss your cards into the dealer or muck until they pass the chips to you that way you shouldn't have any disputes.
Another time I thought after I bet that nobody had called and tossed in my cards waiting for the pot. The dealer turned and gave them to the guy sitting on there right as they had called but didn't say it out loud only pushed in the chips and they were blocked by the dealers arm so I didn't know they had even called. I lost the pot because of that mistake.
If you get nervous and start feeling sick, like at the final table, just ask the floor man to bring a garbage pail over, you don't want to miss any hands at the final table by running off to puke in the bathroom. Then drink some ginger ale it's good for the tummy and nerves...
Don't ever show any cards unless they pay to see them, no matter how proud you are of the hands you hit or was dealt, even bluffs...
Study other players especially when the do certain things out of the ordinary, if you get to see there cards mark it in your head if it was a bluff or a strong hand and if they do it again in a pot vs you, decide accordingly if you can steal the pot or value bet/raise or fold and be happy you made the right choice based on your reads.
Most people are always acting, if they act strong they are weak, if they act weak they are strong... If they talk like a pro, they might just be, if the complain about bad beats they are most likely a fish.
I usually talk so much I put somebody on tilt, usually the people drinking alcohol, and can take advantage of them trying to play back at me or bust me when I have the nuts or super strong hands when they are super marginal and would have folded if it wasn't for the urge to "take me down, felt me"
Cheers!
This past weekend!
I play the same on the weekend as I do during the week, tight early and looser late when blinds and antes kick in.
I got 4th in $2 355 man MTT yesterday, I cash in sng's about the same as Friday.
I realize that I am getting called looser on the weekend and play smart in position and extra tight out of position.
I let people steal my blinds early and 3 bet them later on.
There is no real secret except to not let the bad beats effect your game, don't start playing looser trying to incorporate for the donkeys, just play solid poker and the game will even out the chips in your favor in the long run.
I do find when I am doing bad, I play worse and usually need to take a break and walk away. Heck even when I am winning I need to take a break to ensure it all doesn't go to my head.
I don't play 1 specific type of game either, I play 9 man turbos, 9 man super turbos, 10 man Don's, 18-90 small MTT/sng's, and large MTT's. All at the same time, I find that this way there is always something going on to keep me interested and focused as I need to watch the style on each type of game in a slightly different manner and play accordingly.
Not sure if that is wise for other people but it seems to work for me, as I try to figure out which game I should focus more on and specialize in towards the future as I begin to increase my buy in levels.
Also I am a super tight bankroll nit and losing a bunch in a row doesn't hurt me too much so it effects me mentally a lot less as well. With a 1,500 BR on one site and a 2,300 BR on another I am still playing $10 buy ins on both.
I am at the $3 buy in with a $400 BR on another site.
I also go back and watch videos done by our trainers here on PVT when I am going through a losing streak of sorts to help me realize where I am going wrong it it's more than just bad beats.
Wow, I find it's exactly the opposite....
During the week, I break even or win small, or lose small. But on the weekends I tend to do very well throughout each month.
Friday night I was up $190, and Saturday up another $180.
However I tend to only play a little on Pokerstars at the moment since I get rake back and bonuses on Full tilt and Mansion. I save Pokerstars for PVT tournaments and when I have met my daily quota on other sites.
GL at the tables, the variance train is coming around for a one-way ticket to "OMG'sville"
Cheers!
Edit: Sunday was the same, only played a few games a bunch of satty's then unregistered took the tournament $'s and played more sng's.
Then played 3 $14 super turbos, 1 was a 45 man and 2-9 man also 3 $11 turbos all 9 man.
Took down the 45 man for $239 and 1 of the $11 for $49.
$78 invested, $278 won = $200 profit.
That's a total of $570 for the weekend.
Cheers! Variance rules when you suck out.
Came in 11th in the bounty tournament on PokerVT and bubbled many sng's this weekend, otherwise it could have been way more profitable weekend.
Cheers!
I got 4th in $2 355 man MTT yesterday, I cash in sng's about the same as Friday.
I realize that I am getting called looser on the weekend and play smart in position and extra tight out of position.
I let people steal my blinds early and 3 bet them later on.
There is no real secret except to not let the bad beats effect your game, don't start playing looser trying to incorporate for the donkeys, just play solid poker and the game will even out the chips in your favor in the long run.
I do find when I am doing bad, I play worse and usually need to take a break and walk away. Heck even when I am winning I need to take a break to ensure it all doesn't go to my head.
I don't play 1 specific type of game either, I play 9 man turbos, 9 man super turbos, 10 man Don's, 18-90 small MTT/sng's, and large MTT's. All at the same time, I find that this way there is always something going on to keep me interested and focused as I need to watch the style on each type of game in a slightly different manner and play accordingly.
Not sure if that is wise for other people but it seems to work for me, as I try to figure out which game I should focus more on and specialize in towards the future as I begin to increase my buy in levels.
Also I am a super tight bankroll nit and losing a bunch in a row doesn't hurt me too much so it effects me mentally a lot less as well. With a 1,500 BR on one site and a 2,300 BR on another I am still playing $10 buy ins on both.
I am at the $3 buy in with a $400 BR on another site.
I also go back and watch videos done by our trainers here on PVT when I am going through a losing streak of sorts to help me realize where I am going wrong it it's more than just bad beats.
Wow, I find it's exactly the opposite....
During the week, I break even or win small, or lose small. But on the weekends I tend to do very well throughout each month.
Friday night I was up $190, and Saturday up another $180.
However I tend to only play a little on Pokerstars at the moment since I get rake back and bonuses on Full tilt and Mansion. I save Pokerstars for PVT tournaments and when I have met my daily quota on other sites.
GL at the tables, the variance train is coming around for a one-way ticket to "OMG'sville"
Cheers!
Edit: Sunday was the same, only played a few games a bunch of satty's then unregistered took the tournament $'s and played more sng's.
Then played 3 $14 super turbos, 1 was a 45 man and 2-9 man also 3 $11 turbos all 9 man.
Took down the 45 man for $239 and 1 of the $11 for $49.
$78 invested, $278 won = $200 profit.
That's a total of $570 for the weekend.
Cheers! Variance rules when you suck out.
Came in 11th in the bounty tournament on PokerVT and bubbled many sng's this weekend, otherwise it could have been way more profitable weekend.
Cheers!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Goals Review
The following were the goals I gave myself back on February 16th, 2009. One month after joining PokerVT.com and Pokerstrategy. I am now going to comment on each goal individually and see where I am and provide the reason, in my mind as to why I have or haven't accomplished them. If not completed is it realistic by year end or was I simply dreaming.
This post is does not have humour in it as I would like but it is a serious look at my poker progress this year, sorry for the boring read.
Cheers!
All input is greatly welcome both positive and negative, I need to be realistic and not a "tool" if I have any chance at becoming a better poker player.
1. to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on FullTilt past $100 and begin $2 sng's, and progressively increase the limit played by $1 per $50 increase to bankroll.
Completed, currently playing $11 turbos and $14 super turbos, with a bankroll of $2,300.00 with a couple tokens and some tournament $'s. Over 1,600 games played.
2. to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on Mansionpoker past $100 and begin $2 sng's.
Completed, currently playing $11 turbos and don's, with a bankroll of $1,500.00. I was up as high as $1,700.00 but was losing at $20 and $30 down to $1,100.00, so I moved back down to the $10 level. Over3,000 games played.
3. to cashout $1000. from my tiger gaming account to get a new computer set up for larger amounts of play and to increase the sites I currently can log into and play on.
Completed, "the old dinasaur" is long gone in the trash and I purchased a new system for myself and my children so they could never use and screw up "Daddy's" computer. I have named her "Bertha".
4. to deposit $50 into and to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on Betfair past $100 and begin $2 sng's,
Completed, I am at $150.00 on Betfair and am playing $3 turbos mostly Don's, but I hardly ever play on that site as there is not much game selection. To be honest I only joined Betfair because of Annette, but am slowly losing my "awe" for her and have only played in one tournament with her. She was not at my table either. 50 games played.
5. to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on Pokerstars past $100 and begin $2 sng's,
Completed, I am at $450.00 and am playing $3 turbos and all PokerVT tournaments that I have time for. Not playing that much only just over 200 games played.
6. a) to play 1-5$ sng's and MTT's to increase my bankroll on Tiger gaming past $500 and begin $10 sng's and MTT's,
Not completed, I have $400.00 in my account and haven't played much at all on the site all year except for member point free rolls. I will be returning to play as the year runs down to build my bankroll a little.
b) I am permitted to transfer funds between poker sites to increase the limit of play on each if I am able to expand my bankroll to over $1000 on any given site, then $500 will be transferred.
Not done or completed, as I have decided that I will not transfer funds between sites because the sites I play little on don't need more money in the accounts and I am debating just playing up to the minimum withdrawal amount and taking out the funds and limiting my play to fewer sites which offer better bonuses.
7. to continue to expand my poker skills and knowledge by broadening my chances to learn.
a) stay with PokerVT for the next 11 months and continue to learn, watch all videos 2x, and 5 times for videos about Sng and MTT's, participate in member tournys. Decide after 1 year if I want to continue.
Completed, I have watched every video on the site, except the math, twice. Some videos I have watched 4-5 times and some videos almost 10 times. I have played in every PVT member tourney I could, and won the leader board in the Sng challenge, won some FNF's and beat a trainer on the site for bonus money. My membership fees are taken care of until January 2010 at the moment. At this point I feel I will be staying for another year.
b) begin learning through PokerStrategy, reading all the articles and materials available to me, taking advantage of rake back programs currently unavailable to me.
Since I already had an existing Full Tilt account I couldn't get rake back, did apply through rake back pros and now receive it through them but I do get rake back on Betfair and will be able to get it on other sites in the future if wanted. I have watched many videos and read many articles. But there are too many videos to watch them all without having playing time and living a life and going to work. They do offer many programs for members to use that assist in improving your game including ICM games which I practice on regularly.
c)to take poker seriously, not just a hobby anymore, expand in as many areas possible and listen to my advisors and follow there advice. To purchase some poker software to expand my ability to play the game. i.e. PT3, Pokerstove, SnG Power tools or SnG wizard, universal player for now.
UMMM, I am a putercore ignorant tool... lol yes I am! I have purchased PT3 and have a great HUD but am not able to use it for all it's other great assets. I got universal player but couldn't get it to work, and out of frustration deleted it from my computer. I didn't bother with SnG Wizard because I was worried it would be the same thing as the universal player. I haven't done table ninja or poker short cuts because I haven't gone past the 6-8 tables at a time and can manage that much on my own without extra programs, for now. I suck with computers and know how to use e-mail and play poker, write this blog, navigate forums and watch videos. Thanks to Derek, PokerDerk, I have recently learned how to send in HH to get reviews.
8. begin expanding into 45 and 90 person sng's as I have done well with MTT's on Tiger gaming which are usually between 30-150 entries.
Completed, I play 45 mans on Pokerstars, 90 mans on Full Tilt, 18-50 mans on Mansion, as well as MTT's on many of the sites when I have time to play for over 3-7 hrs. I also got in a lot of free roll practice as I built my BR
9. to qualify in the top 10 of the SNG 10 wk Contest and play at the final table on PokerVT.
Completed, I came in 1st after the 10 week contest and finished 4th in the final's. I also was only member to win FNF's 2 times and get to play a trainer HU for bonus cash.
10. to not make a fool of myself on the forums or in the chat box on the larger sites now that I have begun playing on them, and hopefully not here on my blog... hehehe.
Not really completed, I am a tool and have made some mistakes, but I call them like I see them. As it turns out I have not been disrespectful and my opinions have been close to accurate about some people as time eventually proved. I also am able to admit when I am wrong, and recognize the need to improve in many areas.
11. to increase at least 1 level of buy in for SnG's and MTT's each 2 months on any of the sites.
Completed, went from $1 - $2 - $3 on 5 of the sites, then to $5 - $6 - $10 on two of the sites, up to $14 on FT.
12. to increase at least 2 level of buy in for MTT's and SNG's for all 5 sites within 12 months.
Completed, as explained above in #11.
14. to reread 4 poker books in my collection and purchase 4 new poker books and read them.
Not completed, I have purchased 3 new books, and read 2 of them. I also purchased "Fooled by Randomness" and "The world is flat" and read 1 of those. I have also started reading more poker articles on line as well as picked up a prescription for 1 year with Bluff magazine.
15. to increase my multi-tabling ability, for now 3 at a time, 30 tournaments a day at the proper bankroll mangement level on any of my given poker rooms, and only go out of the bankroll comfort zone for PokerVT member tournaments or events related to PokerVT.
I guess this one wasn't measurable per say, but I have gotten up to 6-8 tables at a time with comfort and try to get up to 10 at a when the buy in is low. I have played like a super ubber nit when it comes to BR management.
16. when I begin playing larger amounts of money on FullTilt, if possible, look into getting the rake back as I was not aware of it when I signed up a month ago or sign up a new account with a rake back affiliate on a site I have yet to create an account on, rake back is very important.
I get rake back for Betfair through pokerstrategy and Fulltilt through rakebackpros, it took time and patience but it finally went through. I can also get rakeback on any new accounts through pokerstrategy as well.
17. be willing to adjust my goals if suggested by instructers that a different or more realistic approach may be needed, as well as open to criticism.
Didn't get much feedback, but looking back I realize I set my goals very very low and was able to accomplish most or all of them already. Next year I will have to increase the goals I set for myself. I don't know if these goals are appropriate with the long term goal of having a chance at going professional or playing on a professional level in 3-5 years. I would love any and all feedback as pertains to this goal specifically as well as all the rest.
18. at my current account balance level, to also continue to play 10-20 online freerolls per day. At least until all the beginner bonuses for Free tourneys has expired.
Comleted, and after finding out that playing free rolls on Full Tilt actually affect my rakeback I only play free rolls on Pokerstars anymore and have almost completely eliminated my "free roll habit", I do have a very addictive personality.
I hope to become a professional poker player within the next 3-5 years, after building enough bankroll to pay the bills for 2 years and still have enough to play and have a 1 year bad run/loosing streak at the higher levels.
Never to forget that a sound strategy and ability to encompass as much information as possible into my game play will be my ticket to happiness.
I am forever learning and have done a lot to try to improve and work on my game and leaks. I will continue to remember what my main goal is and do everything in my power to achieve the long term goal of going pro in 3-5 years.
Cheers! I do hope to get some input and even suggestions towards other goals that I could give myself to work on in the future and advice where these goals above were pathetic or reasonable and anything else you can think of.
Double Cheers and Thanks in advance!
This post is does not have humour in it as I would like but it is a serious look at my poker progress this year, sorry for the boring read.
Cheers!
All input is greatly welcome both positive and negative, I need to be realistic and not a "tool" if I have any chance at becoming a better poker player.
1. to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on FullTilt past $100 and begin $2 sng's, and progressively increase the limit played by $1 per $50 increase to bankroll.
Completed, currently playing $11 turbos and $14 super turbos, with a bankroll of $2,300.00 with a couple tokens and some tournament $'s. Over 1,600 games played.
2. to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on Mansionpoker past $100 and begin $2 sng's.
Completed, currently playing $11 turbos and don's, with a bankroll of $1,500.00. I was up as high as $1,700.00 but was losing at $20 and $30 down to $1,100.00, so I moved back down to the $10 level. Over3,000 games played.
3. to cashout $1000. from my tiger gaming account to get a new computer set up for larger amounts of play and to increase the sites I currently can log into and play on.
Completed, "the old dinasaur" is long gone in the trash and I purchased a new system for myself and my children so they could never use and screw up "Daddy's" computer. I have named her "Bertha".
4. to deposit $50 into and to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on Betfair past $100 and begin $2 sng's,
Completed, I am at $150.00 on Betfair and am playing $3 turbos mostly Don's, but I hardly ever play on that site as there is not much game selection. To be honest I only joined Betfair because of Annette, but am slowly losing my "awe" for her and have only played in one tournament with her. She was not at my table either. 50 games played.
5. to play 1$ sng's to increase my bankroll on Pokerstars past $100 and begin $2 sng's,
Completed, I am at $450.00 and am playing $3 turbos and all PokerVT tournaments that I have time for. Not playing that much only just over 200 games played.
6. a) to play 1-5$ sng's and MTT's to increase my bankroll on Tiger gaming past $500 and begin $10 sng's and MTT's,
Not completed, I have $400.00 in my account and haven't played much at all on the site all year except for member point free rolls. I will be returning to play as the year runs down to build my bankroll a little.
b) I am permitted to transfer funds between poker sites to increase the limit of play on each if I am able to expand my bankroll to over $1000 on any given site, then $500 will be transferred.
Not done or completed, as I have decided that I will not transfer funds between sites because the sites I play little on don't need more money in the accounts and I am debating just playing up to the minimum withdrawal amount and taking out the funds and limiting my play to fewer sites which offer better bonuses.
7. to continue to expand my poker skills and knowledge by broadening my chances to learn.
a) stay with PokerVT for the next 11 months and continue to learn, watch all videos 2x, and 5 times for videos about Sng and MTT's, participate in member tournys. Decide after 1 year if I want to continue.
Completed, I have watched every video on the site, except the math, twice. Some videos I have watched 4-5 times and some videos almost 10 times. I have played in every PVT member tourney I could, and won the leader board in the Sng challenge, won some FNF's and beat a trainer on the site for bonus money. My membership fees are taken care of until January 2010 at the moment. At this point I feel I will be staying for another year.
b) begin learning through PokerStrategy, reading all the articles and materials available to me, taking advantage of rake back programs currently unavailable to me.
Since I already had an existing Full Tilt account I couldn't get rake back, did apply through rake back pros and now receive it through them but I do get rake back on Betfair and will be able to get it on other sites in the future if wanted. I have watched many videos and read many articles. But there are too many videos to watch them all without having playing time and living a life and going to work. They do offer many programs for members to use that assist in improving your game including ICM games which I practice on regularly.
c)to take poker seriously, not just a hobby anymore, expand in as many areas possible and listen to my advisors and follow there advice. To purchase some poker software to expand my ability to play the game. i.e. PT3, Pokerstove, SnG Power tools or SnG wizard, universal player for now.
UMMM, I am a putercore ignorant tool... lol yes I am! I have purchased PT3 and have a great HUD but am not able to use it for all it's other great assets. I got universal player but couldn't get it to work, and out of frustration deleted it from my computer. I didn't bother with SnG Wizard because I was worried it would be the same thing as the universal player. I haven't done table ninja or poker short cuts because I haven't gone past the 6-8 tables at a time and can manage that much on my own without extra programs, for now. I suck with computers and know how to use e-mail and play poker, write this blog, navigate forums and watch videos. Thanks to Derek, PokerDerk, I have recently learned how to send in HH to get reviews.
8. begin expanding into 45 and 90 person sng's as I have done well with MTT's on Tiger gaming which are usually between 30-150 entries.
Completed, I play 45 mans on Pokerstars, 90 mans on Full Tilt, 18-50 mans on Mansion, as well as MTT's on many of the sites when I have time to play for over 3-7 hrs. I also got in a lot of free roll practice as I built my BR
9. to qualify in the top 10 of the SNG 10 wk Contest and play at the final table on PokerVT.
Completed, I came in 1st after the 10 week contest and finished 4th in the final's. I also was only member to win FNF's 2 times and get to play a trainer HU for bonus cash.
10. to not make a fool of myself on the forums or in the chat box on the larger sites now that I have begun playing on them, and hopefully not here on my blog... hehehe.
Not really completed, I am a tool and have made some mistakes, but I call them like I see them. As it turns out I have not been disrespectful and my opinions have been close to accurate about some people as time eventually proved. I also am able to admit when I am wrong, and recognize the need to improve in many areas.
11. to increase at least 1 level of buy in for SnG's and MTT's each 2 months on any of the sites.
Completed, went from $1 - $2 - $3 on 5 of the sites, then to $5 - $6 - $10 on two of the sites, up to $14 on FT.
12. to increase at least 2 level of buy in for MTT's and SNG's for all 5 sites within 12 months.
Completed, as explained above in #11.
14. to reread 4 poker books in my collection and purchase 4 new poker books and read them.
Not completed, I have purchased 3 new books, and read 2 of them. I also purchased "Fooled by Randomness" and "The world is flat" and read 1 of those. I have also started reading more poker articles on line as well as picked up a prescription for 1 year with Bluff magazine.
15. to increase my multi-tabling ability, for now 3 at a time, 30 tournaments a day at the proper bankroll mangement level on any of my given poker rooms, and only go out of the bankroll comfort zone for PokerVT member tournaments or events related to PokerVT.
I guess this one wasn't measurable per say, but I have gotten up to 6-8 tables at a time with comfort and try to get up to 10 at a when the buy in is low. I have played like a super ubber nit when it comes to BR management.
16. when I begin playing larger amounts of money on FullTilt, if possible, look into getting the rake back as I was not aware of it when I signed up a month ago or sign up a new account with a rake back affiliate on a site I have yet to create an account on, rake back is very important.
I get rake back for Betfair through pokerstrategy and Fulltilt through rakebackpros, it took time and patience but it finally went through. I can also get rakeback on any new accounts through pokerstrategy as well.
17. be willing to adjust my goals if suggested by instructers that a different or more realistic approach may be needed, as well as open to criticism.
Didn't get much feedback, but looking back I realize I set my goals very very low and was able to accomplish most or all of them already. Next year I will have to increase the goals I set for myself. I don't know if these goals are appropriate with the long term goal of having a chance at going professional or playing on a professional level in 3-5 years. I would love any and all feedback as pertains to this goal specifically as well as all the rest.
18. at my current account balance level, to also continue to play 10-20 online freerolls per day. At least until all the beginner bonuses for Free tourneys has expired.
Comleted, and after finding out that playing free rolls on Full Tilt actually affect my rakeback I only play free rolls on Pokerstars anymore and have almost completely eliminated my "free roll habit", I do have a very addictive personality.
I hope to become a professional poker player within the next 3-5 years, after building enough bankroll to pay the bills for 2 years and still have enough to play and have a 1 year bad run/loosing streak at the higher levels.
Never to forget that a sound strategy and ability to encompass as much information as possible into my game play will be my ticket to happiness.
I am forever learning and have done a lot to try to improve and work on my game and leaks. I will continue to remember what my main goal is and do everything in my power to achieve the long term goal of going pro in 3-5 years.
Cheers! I do hope to get some input and even suggestions towards other goals that I could give myself to work on in the future and advice where these goals above were pathetic or reasonable and anything else you can think of.
Double Cheers and Thanks in advance!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Revisiting Goals from January 2009
Well it's about time I revisit the goals I set for myself in January or February, whichever, for this year. I have about 2 1/2 months left to try to accomplish what I had set out for myself just 9 months or so ago. It seems like a lifetime ago in terms of how much better I have gotten playing poker but at the same time I have so much more still to learn.
I set these goals for myself when I was still ignorant to how much improving I really had to do. Remember I thought I was a 7-8 out of 10 on the poker scale, but quickly learned from PVT that I was really at about a 3-4. I might, maybe have moved up the scale to about a 5 out of 10 by now but it will be very interesting to see how I have done with the goals I set for myself back at the beginning of the year.
I have learned a lot about studying, playing, understanding the game. Proper bankroll management, to the point of being a "nit" but at the same time have had to move back down buy in levels on 1 of the sites because I started losing too much money when I moved up and hit a bad run of cards and started playing poorly. A couple of the sites I have ignored and hardly played more than 100 games on, it that much. While 2 of the sites I have played over 2K games on and 4K games respectively, which is a lot for a part time poker player, at least I think so.
Some of the goals I may have forgotten about and it is good to review them and see where I went wrong and possibly where I was a moron for even thinking I could accomplish them.
I am also going to have to get back to my "home site" to have a chance to win another free year of training on PVT... Heck why pay for what you can get for free with a little bit of extra effort!
So to make a long story longer, I am going to post my original goals in the forum on PVT and allow other members to have a chance to laugh at me or offer advice, yet it will force me to focus on completing them by years end and move me one step closer to my 3-5 year plan of having a chance at maybe becoming a professional poker player, if there is ever the chance of such a thing happening for me...
I still am a complete computer moron, ignorant tool, who should be using more programs and software to increase my skill, but at the same time I accept my inability to use such devices and try to focus on the things that I can work on to improve my game. Like reading books, participating in the forums discussing HH's, watching videos on poker, practicing and playing many games at different buy levels along with different variations of games on many different sites. On top of that participating in member tournaments against people with a higher skill level than your average player on line which totally forces me to focus and identify leaks in my game and admit them so I can improve as I play against other players. Having some HH's reviewed in training videos have also showed me where I make mistakes and aid in giving me a chance to work on that as well. I realize I am more aggressive than the average bear which can help at times and crush me at other times. Changing gears is a skill I need to work on more as well.
All in all playing on line with way way less live play has been a great learning tool and given me a chance to play and learn so much more than I could have in a brick and mortar casino.
So here I go, in the next day or so I am going to post my old goals and then respond to where I am on each of them with 2 1/2 months left in the year to accomplish said goals. I am sure some will be out of my reach, some unrealistic, some not complete do to being lazy on my part and some surpassed. But by putting them out there for all of the forum members to see, I force myself to work harder and open myself to criticism both positive and negative.
Cheers all!
I set these goals for myself when I was still ignorant to how much improving I really had to do. Remember I thought I was a 7-8 out of 10 on the poker scale, but quickly learned from PVT that I was really at about a 3-4. I might, maybe have moved up the scale to about a 5 out of 10 by now but it will be very interesting to see how I have done with the goals I set for myself back at the beginning of the year.
I have learned a lot about studying, playing, understanding the game. Proper bankroll management, to the point of being a "nit" but at the same time have had to move back down buy in levels on 1 of the sites because I started losing too much money when I moved up and hit a bad run of cards and started playing poorly. A couple of the sites I have ignored and hardly played more than 100 games on, it that much. While 2 of the sites I have played over 2K games on and 4K games respectively, which is a lot for a part time poker player, at least I think so.
Some of the goals I may have forgotten about and it is good to review them and see where I went wrong and possibly where I was a moron for even thinking I could accomplish them.
I am also going to have to get back to my "home site" to have a chance to win another free year of training on PVT... Heck why pay for what you can get for free with a little bit of extra effort!
So to make a long story longer, I am going to post my original goals in the forum on PVT and allow other members to have a chance to laugh at me or offer advice, yet it will force me to focus on completing them by years end and move me one step closer to my 3-5 year plan of having a chance at maybe becoming a professional poker player, if there is ever the chance of such a thing happening for me...
I still am a complete computer moron, ignorant tool, who should be using more programs and software to increase my skill, but at the same time I accept my inability to use such devices and try to focus on the things that I can work on to improve my game. Like reading books, participating in the forums discussing HH's, watching videos on poker, practicing and playing many games at different buy levels along with different variations of games on many different sites. On top of that participating in member tournaments against people with a higher skill level than your average player on line which totally forces me to focus and identify leaks in my game and admit them so I can improve as I play against other players. Having some HH's reviewed in training videos have also showed me where I make mistakes and aid in giving me a chance to work on that as well. I realize I am more aggressive than the average bear which can help at times and crush me at other times. Changing gears is a skill I need to work on more as well.
All in all playing on line with way way less live play has been a great learning tool and given me a chance to play and learn so much more than I could have in a brick and mortar casino.
So here I go, in the next day or so I am going to post my old goals and then respond to where I am on each of them with 2 1/2 months left in the year to accomplish said goals. I am sure some will be out of my reach, some unrealistic, some not complete do to being lazy on my part and some surpassed. But by putting them out there for all of the forum members to see, I force myself to work harder and open myself to criticism both positive and negative.
Cheers all!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Grinding, Variance and boy do I need to work on my Game!
So I was doing well at the $5 Don's on Ipoker, moved up to the $10 Don's and was also doing well... had my $50 starting capital up as high as $1700... but then I tried moving up to the $20 and $30 Don's, BIG MISTAKE!!! I started losing money like leaves blowing in the wind on a fall day. Maybe variance said NO BUDDY you aren't moving up yet... and decided to slap a black ball on any cards I had. The god of the turn and river, usually great friends, joined in to ensure that my hands wouldn't hold up. Plus any of the suckouts I was providing went away and haven't come back for over 4 weeks. I think my dead cat abandoned me for a feline he saw at the Zoo a month ago when I took my kids.
I got as low as $1000 and decided that I am obviously not ready for the jump in games and my Bankroll was feeling pretty sick about the $700 downsing. Now I am back at the $10 games playing both Sng's and Don's on Ipoker and have rebounded back up to just under $1300. I think this time I will wait until I break $2000 before trying to move back up in the buy in levels.
I also re-watched a lot of training videos and worked on an ICM game which hopefully brought my focus back into effect. I still can't work the re-player so review of my HH's is difficult for me at this time.
Derk, a PVT pro, did a review of 2 of my Don games and boy did I play like a fool, fish, donkey, monkey who was just randomly clicking buttons. I am not sure if it was just the 2 worst HH's I sent him or not but I am sure it made me realize I have a lot of work to do if I plan on still playing the Don's. Lot's of forum searching for answers on PVT, pokerstrategy and 2p2 to see what else I can think about and improve to increase my play at the tables.
I saw a few posts from some people I used to think were "idols" and lost some respect for the comments and life choices they made and are making. Also jumping to conclusions about things they didn't have full facts on was just plain ignorance on a level I have seen too often in this world. We all make mistakes, we all make our own choices and other peoples opinions sometimes makes us do or act in ways we might not of if we had only thought about consequences ahead of time. No need for the long/whole story but I am sure you kind of get what I mean.
I am finally starting to fully accept that my brother is gone, for good, for real and am trying to appreciate the things in life that matter most to me... family, poker, food, poker, love, poker, lol.
My wife and my mother want me to try for a baby girl... yes that's what I said a baby girl. I already have 3 boys am still paying of my college loan (still 1/5 left but almost gone) and there is no guarantee that my female sperm will win the race against my boy sperms this time. I guess I am destined to have a big family not be rich, unless I break through in the poker world and enjoy my family time even more, like for an extra 19 more years minimum. My doctor said my chances of having a girl are like 1-4 but no promises since my male sperm obviously swim faster.
I am almost finished reading another poker book by Sklansky and am moving on to one written by Gus Hansen, the great Dane... hope it makes me open my thoughts to ways of deeper thinking about the game. Reading Bluff magazine in spare time (bathroom breaks) and watching many videos gives me lots of thought about how I have been playing lately.
It's almost year end and I am going to have to go back and give those tourneys a few more tries on my "home" poker site to win another year membership at PokerVt :) ... it's hard to complain about things that are free in life, especially when they have been as inspirational as PVT has.
Haven't played much on tigergaming lately and my BR sits around $400, same for Betfair with a dismal $150 BR, on Full Tilt I just recently passed the $2000 mark and have been playing $11 and $14 Sng's with many satty's taking the shot at a few $70 satty's that pay a $216 seat. On Poker Stars I just recently won the PVT weekly Sunday bounty tournament and have just over $400 on it's BR which is pretty good considering I really only play free rolls and PVT events on that site.
So from $50 X 5 sites $250 total I am up to about $4150 in total BR's playing pretty much only part time at nights and on weekends. I made silver iron man on Full Tilt last month for the 15K free roll and made one a day free roll as well which plays next weekend. I came in 19th in the Pokerstars Fox challenge to be on a show with Daniel N, which is just 9 spots out of making a chance to send in an audition tape (so close yet so far). On tiger I am going to win another free year at PVT, I know I will, by the end of December if I start in the next couple of weeks that will give me 10 chances to come in 1st and earn the membership again, last year I won it on the last week in Dec. Betfair doesn't have much to offer and doesn't run many great events or free rolls or anything so I am not going to put much into that site for a while still. On Mansion I almost have enough points to cash in for a bonus $500, so I'll probably do it around X-mas time as a nice little BR boost gift to myself.
Looking forward to next weekend the kids and I are going to Canada's Wonderland, then it's to the parents house for a nice Turkey feast and Pumpkin Pie for Canadian Thanksgiving. Then my younger brother's birthday the week after, then Halloween the week after, then my birthday for and nice cap to the next month or so. Looking forward to lots of food, family and presents.
I want to send out a quick thanks to my friends in other countries... you all know who you are, I appreciate all your kind words and advice during the past while and I wish you all the best. I am also looking forward to a big score soon in a big MTT and plan on sending you some "bonuses" for all your help when I do, Thanks! You are the Man!
Cheers and see you all at the tables!
Hey I think my cat just came back, he smells a little like Cougar... he must have dipped into my supply of Extenze before he took of with some of those cats at the Zoo!
I got as low as $1000 and decided that I am obviously not ready for the jump in games and my Bankroll was feeling pretty sick about the $700 downsing. Now I am back at the $10 games playing both Sng's and Don's on Ipoker and have rebounded back up to just under $1300. I think this time I will wait until I break $2000 before trying to move back up in the buy in levels.
I also re-watched a lot of training videos and worked on an ICM game which hopefully brought my focus back into effect. I still can't work the re-player so review of my HH's is difficult for me at this time.
Derk, a PVT pro, did a review of 2 of my Don games and boy did I play like a fool, fish, donkey, monkey who was just randomly clicking buttons. I am not sure if it was just the 2 worst HH's I sent him or not but I am sure it made me realize I have a lot of work to do if I plan on still playing the Don's. Lot's of forum searching for answers on PVT, pokerstrategy and 2p2 to see what else I can think about and improve to increase my play at the tables.
I saw a few posts from some people I used to think were "idols" and lost some respect for the comments and life choices they made and are making. Also jumping to conclusions about things they didn't have full facts on was just plain ignorance on a level I have seen too often in this world. We all make mistakes, we all make our own choices and other peoples opinions sometimes makes us do or act in ways we might not of if we had only thought about consequences ahead of time. No need for the long/whole story but I am sure you kind of get what I mean.
I am finally starting to fully accept that my brother is gone, for good, for real and am trying to appreciate the things in life that matter most to me... family, poker, food, poker, love, poker, lol.
My wife and my mother want me to try for a baby girl... yes that's what I said a baby girl. I already have 3 boys am still paying of my college loan (still 1/5 left but almost gone) and there is no guarantee that my female sperm will win the race against my boy sperms this time. I guess I am destined to have a big family not be rich, unless I break through in the poker world and enjoy my family time even more, like for an extra 19 more years minimum. My doctor said my chances of having a girl are like 1-4 but no promises since my male sperm obviously swim faster.
I am almost finished reading another poker book by Sklansky and am moving on to one written by Gus Hansen, the great Dane... hope it makes me open my thoughts to ways of deeper thinking about the game. Reading Bluff magazine in spare time (bathroom breaks) and watching many videos gives me lots of thought about how I have been playing lately.
It's almost year end and I am going to have to go back and give those tourneys a few more tries on my "home" poker site to win another year membership at PokerVt :) ... it's hard to complain about things that are free in life, especially when they have been as inspirational as PVT has.
Haven't played much on tigergaming lately and my BR sits around $400, same for Betfair with a dismal $150 BR, on Full Tilt I just recently passed the $2000 mark and have been playing $11 and $14 Sng's with many satty's taking the shot at a few $70 satty's that pay a $216 seat. On Poker Stars I just recently won the PVT weekly Sunday bounty tournament and have just over $400 on it's BR which is pretty good considering I really only play free rolls and PVT events on that site.
So from $50 X 5 sites $250 total I am up to about $4150 in total BR's playing pretty much only part time at nights and on weekends. I made silver iron man on Full Tilt last month for the 15K free roll and made one a day free roll as well which plays next weekend. I came in 19th in the Pokerstars Fox challenge to be on a show with Daniel N, which is just 9 spots out of making a chance to send in an audition tape (so close yet so far). On tiger I am going to win another free year at PVT, I know I will, by the end of December if I start in the next couple of weeks that will give me 10 chances to come in 1st and earn the membership again, last year I won it on the last week in Dec. Betfair doesn't have much to offer and doesn't run many great events or free rolls or anything so I am not going to put much into that site for a while still. On Mansion I almost have enough points to cash in for a bonus $500, so I'll probably do it around X-mas time as a nice little BR boost gift to myself.
Looking forward to next weekend the kids and I are going to Canada's Wonderland, then it's to the parents house for a nice Turkey feast and Pumpkin Pie for Canadian Thanksgiving. Then my younger brother's birthday the week after, then Halloween the week after, then my birthday for and nice cap to the next month or so. Looking forward to lots of food, family and presents.
I want to send out a quick thanks to my friends in other countries... you all know who you are, I appreciate all your kind words and advice during the past while and I wish you all the best. I am also looking forward to a big score soon in a big MTT and plan on sending you some "bonuses" for all your help when I do, Thanks! You are the Man!
Cheers and see you all at the tables!
Hey I think my cat just came back, he smells a little like Cougar... he must have dipped into my supply of Extenze before he took of with some of those cats at the Zoo!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Same old, Same OLD!
So I have been working full time and playing poker each night for over a month or so now. My Bankrolls are slowly moving up on some sites and slowly moving down on others, not moving at all on a couple sites. Each day seems to be a repetition of the day before...
I finished playing out all bonuses on Mansion and am working on some on Full Tilt now. Playing anywhere from 20-30 games each evening. Watching training videos and trying to play my best. Loving when I suck out and hating when I am coollered. Yet it all seems to happen over and over again. I am around $1600. on both Mansion and Full Tilt, $400 on Tiger, $240 on Poker stars and $150 on Betfair, not sure if I am going to do my regular updates as per the past or just write a simple few paragraphs once or twice a week.
I am going to review my goals around November and try to ensure I meet most of the "realistic" ones that I set for myself back in January. I am playing many different games on all the sites and not really sticking to one type for now, at buy in levels ranging from $2-$14 depending on which site I happen to be playing on.
I am reading Theory of Poker right now and really trying to get a "grip" on ICM and push fold ranges. Not to mention still trying to break my free roll habit, I suck like that. Spending hours and hours playing for such little reward is starting to bother me when if it was a real cash buy in I would be making it to the money so much more since free roll payouts are the worst % for any online poker tournament there is.
My baseball men's 19+ team is out and done for the season. My mixed 35+ team is playing in the Championship game next week. I am also spending a lot of time re-watching lost seasons 1 through 4 in my extra spare time.
Not much more to say except same old, same old...
Cheers Everybody and best of luck at the tables!
I finished playing out all bonuses on Mansion and am working on some on Full Tilt now. Playing anywhere from 20-30 games each evening. Watching training videos and trying to play my best. Loving when I suck out and hating when I am coollered. Yet it all seems to happen over and over again. I am around $1600. on both Mansion and Full Tilt, $400 on Tiger, $240 on Poker stars and $150 on Betfair, not sure if I am going to do my regular updates as per the past or just write a simple few paragraphs once or twice a week.
I am going to review my goals around November and try to ensure I meet most of the "realistic" ones that I set for myself back in January. I am playing many different games on all the sites and not really sticking to one type for now, at buy in levels ranging from $2-$14 depending on which site I happen to be playing on.
I am reading Theory of Poker right now and really trying to get a "grip" on ICM and push fold ranges. Not to mention still trying to break my free roll habit, I suck like that. Spending hours and hours playing for such little reward is starting to bother me when if it was a real cash buy in I would be making it to the money so much more since free roll payouts are the worst % for any online poker tournament there is.
My baseball men's 19+ team is out and done for the season. My mixed 35+ team is playing in the Championship game next week. I am also spending a lot of time re-watching lost seasons 1 through 4 in my extra spare time.
Not much more to say except same old, same old...
Cheers Everybody and best of luck at the tables!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Training and PokerVT
Finding your leaks and working on them is one of the largest assets in becoming a better player that has helped to improve my own personal game.
I used to play 1 table at a time, without any software and just for fun, not caring about bankroll management and thought that I could play as a pro some day from that alone. On a scale of 10 I considered myself a 7-8 and felt I was far superior to anybody I sat down against in live ring games and tournaments.
PVT has shown me how wrong I was, I was actually a 3 out of 10.
I now watch videos weekly, use tracking programs, ICM programs, poker stove, try to work on my leaks as best I can with my limited putercore knowledge.
I follow proper super nitty bankroll management, read the forums a lot and am comfortably up to 6 tables at a time.
Before PVT I played maybe 300 games online in 3 years, since joining in January I have played just over 3500 games online and try to get in at least 100 games per week, along with training and finding and fixing my leaks.
I too work full time and take a few days off for personal entertainment outside of the "poker world" I think my chances of some day becoming a pro are way more realistic than they were prior to joining PVT and the kick ass training it provides.
Also learning from other venues doesn't hurt, training via pokerstrategy and reading poker magazines like Bluff also adds to how much I think and try to increase my level of play. Full Tilt Academy is another place I have recently started to explore. Of course reading more and different books on poker from many authors perspectives was all I used to have, I still do this as well.
Cheers!
I used to play 1 table at a time, without any software and just for fun, not caring about bankroll management and thought that I could play as a pro some day from that alone. On a scale of 10 I considered myself a 7-8 and felt I was far superior to anybody I sat down against in live ring games and tournaments.
PVT has shown me how wrong I was, I was actually a 3 out of 10.
I now watch videos weekly, use tracking programs, ICM programs, poker stove, try to work on my leaks as best I can with my limited putercore knowledge.
I follow proper super nitty bankroll management, read the forums a lot and am comfortably up to 6 tables at a time.
Before PVT I played maybe 300 games online in 3 years, since joining in January I have played just over 3500 games online and try to get in at least 100 games per week, along with training and finding and fixing my leaks.
I too work full time and take a few days off for personal entertainment outside of the "poker world" I think my chances of some day becoming a pro are way more realistic than they were prior to joining PVT and the kick ass training it provides.
Also learning from other venues doesn't hurt, training via pokerstrategy and reading poker magazines like Bluff also adds to how much I think and try to increase my level of play. Full Tilt Academy is another place I have recently started to explore. Of course reading more and different books on poker from many authors perspectives was all I used to have, I still do this as well.
Cheers!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
13th Update
Well a bunch of the same old same old, playing out bonuses on Mansion and Full Tilt at the moment. Learning that variance is a fickle biatch, played won and lost, played some more, trained, played, trained, played, lost and won and lost some more.
Dealing with the death of my brother and back at work so poker is going slow only able to play in my spare time. A few more weeks left of soccer and baseball and then I will be able to play more during the week on my SnG game. Haven't played many multi-tables as of late and still seem to have a strong addiction to free rolls.
Almost totally quit smoking... NOT, I put off quitting for a few weeks until I can get a grip on life. I played a bunch of Sng's in the Full Tilt madness promotion and found one of the new sng pros from PokerVT at my table, abarone68, dang he is solid and I now I have soo much more to learn and will find that having many different instructors to be very helpful.
Also PokerDerk is starting a new Sng contest for the members and I look forward to playing in some of the games and taking my shot at making it into the top of the members.
Along with the weekly Bounty tournament I believe PokerVT to be a great asset to learning and training while working on my game.
Pokerstrategy.com has also been a great help with the many many videos available and the live coaching that goes on daily. I have also been playing around with some ICM trainer programs they have available to members and feel all of it will totally help to improve my game.
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1581.30, now at $1557.81 with 3 $26 tokens
Tournaments played: Buy in of $8 games or less.
#- 145 (approx.)
$- 55 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 892
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $269.94, currently at $281.12 with 1 Rd two ticket to Free roll.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 50
$- 8
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 192, I don't think they count free rolls
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $163.55, currently at $166.10
Tournaments played: Buy in of $11 or less.
#- 5
$- 3
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 55
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-26
Mansion: falenangel, last update $1187.32, currently at $1303.04,
Buy in of $5 or less.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 450 (approx.)
$- 210 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 2440
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $329.74, currently at $416.75
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-4
$- 3
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 115- 165. Over 555 lifetime.
Cheers!
Shark Scope is still not at the top of there tracking games.
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 1/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last 4 weeks
Hours spent playing: 2/day average, if you count the weekend all nighters'! :)
Days off: Wednesday and Thursday.
Still enjoying the junk food of take out and not cooking at home so much. Healing from my pulled leg muscles, as I seem to re-pull them every time I am running to first base or am chasing down fly balls. Looking forward to play offs and my mixed league team has a strong chance of winning it all. My all guy team, well that's another story.
Don't forget if you haven't checked it out to go to Poker strategy, the link is on the right of the blog. They have "free" training and videos, live coaching, programs, rake back, $5o free starting capital as well as many monthly promotions. All of which can only help you progress as a poker player and improve your game.
PokerVT is also a great place to check out as it is continually adding new pros with lots of different insight to playing and improving your game.
My old favorite coach has also started a new training site for free.
Cheers! See you at the tables and best of luck, just not against me!
Dealing with the death of my brother and back at work so poker is going slow only able to play in my spare time. A few more weeks left of soccer and baseball and then I will be able to play more during the week on my SnG game. Haven't played many multi-tables as of late and still seem to have a strong addiction to free rolls.
Almost totally quit smoking... NOT, I put off quitting for a few weeks until I can get a grip on life. I played a bunch of Sng's in the Full Tilt madness promotion and found one of the new sng pros from PokerVT at my table, abarone68, dang he is solid and I now I have soo much more to learn and will find that having many different instructors to be very helpful.
Also PokerDerk is starting a new Sng contest for the members and I look forward to playing in some of the games and taking my shot at making it into the top of the members.
Along with the weekly Bounty tournament I believe PokerVT to be a great asset to learning and training while working on my game.
Pokerstrategy.com has also been a great help with the many many videos available and the live coaching that goes on daily. I have also been playing around with some ICM trainer programs they have available to members and feel all of it will totally help to improve my game.
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1581.30, now at $1557.81 with 3 $26 tokens
Tournaments played: Buy in of $8 games or less.
#- 145 (approx.)
$- 55 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 892
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $269.94, currently at $281.12 with 1 Rd two ticket to Free roll.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 50
$- 8
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 192, I don't think they count free rolls
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $163.55, currently at $166.10
Tournaments played: Buy in of $11 or less.
#- 5
$- 3
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 55
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-26
Mansion: falenangel, last update $1187.32, currently at $1303.04,
Buy in of $5 or less.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 450 (approx.)
$- 210 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 2440
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $329.74, currently at $416.75
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-4
$- 3
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 115- 165. Over 555 lifetime.
Cheers!
Shark Scope is still not at the top of there tracking games.
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 1/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last 4 weeks
Hours spent playing: 2/day average, if you count the weekend all nighters'! :)
Days off: Wednesday and Thursday.
Still enjoying the junk food of take out and not cooking at home so much. Healing from my pulled leg muscles, as I seem to re-pull them every time I am running to first base or am chasing down fly balls. Looking forward to play offs and my mixed league team has a strong chance of winning it all. My all guy team, well that's another story.
Don't forget if you haven't checked it out to go to Poker strategy, the link is on the right of the blog. They have "free" training and videos, live coaching, programs, rake back, $5o free starting capital as well as many monthly promotions. All of which can only help you progress as a poker player and improve your game.
PokerVT is also a great place to check out as it is continually adding new pros with lots of different insight to playing and improving your game.
My old favorite coach has also started a new training site for free.
Cheers! See you at the tables and best of luck, just not against me!
Friday, August 7, 2009
Only 38 years old.
I was going to do an update today, but instead I am simply going to do a short blog saying how I am feeling and why.
I am confused, upset, sad, frustrated, disoriented, flustered, in shock, sick to my stomach, unfocused, spaced out and extremely sorry.
I got a phone call from my parents a few hours ago, at around 11:00pm... my older brother went to sleep last night, Friday August 7th, 2009, and did not wake up.
Jonathan,
I want you to know, wherever you are, that I love you and I miss you.
My kids are going to miss there Uncle Jon a lot and I my brother.
You were a wonderful person, a great older brother who taught me a lot about life during some difficult times. We had a lot of fun and memorable experiences that I will keep with me forever.
I would never have become the person I am today if not for having you to be there for me so many, many times.
I know you are in a special place and I will see you again someday.
Goodbye Jon, my brother my friend.
I am confused, upset, sad, frustrated, disoriented, flustered, in shock, sick to my stomach, unfocused, spaced out and extremely sorry.
I got a phone call from my parents a few hours ago, at around 11:00pm... my older brother went to sleep last night, Friday August 7th, 2009, and did not wake up.
Jonathan,
I want you to know, wherever you are, that I love you and I miss you.
My kids are going to miss there Uncle Jon a lot and I my brother.
You were a wonderful person, a great older brother who taught me a lot about life during some difficult times. We had a lot of fun and memorable experiences that I will keep with me forever.
I would never have become the person I am today if not for having you to be there for me so many, many times.
I know you are in a special place and I will see you again someday.
Goodbye Jon, my brother my friend.
Friday, July 24, 2009
12th Update
Well not too much to say as of late, played won and lost, played some more, trained, played, trained, played, lost and won.
The hangover was a very funny movie and glad I had a chance to see it at the movies.
Baseball was great this week I played solid and won and went 4 for 4. My legs are feeling better. Kids are away for a week with the parents, thank you for the parents and weekly summer visits, they are having lots of fun at the lake riding the jet ski and playing up at the cottage roasting marshmallows each night.
Almost totally quit smoking, starting back to work full time as of tomorrow, and my brother is still not talking to me re: an argument we had during a home game. Also haven't been invited to that home game in over 5 weeks since the "heated discussion"... lol, I apologized for my part and now he simply needs to take some ownership of his own.
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1258.29, now at $1581.30 with $51.65 in tournament $'s, 2 $26 tokens
Tournaments played: Buy in of $8 games or less.
#- 60
$- 20
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 650
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $263.40, currently at $269.94 with 1 Rd two ticket to Free roll.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 14
$- 3
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 184
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $156.64, currently at $163.55
Tournaments played: Buy in of $11 or less.
#- 5
$- 2
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 50
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-25
Mansion: falenangel, last update $1066.94, currently at $1187.32,
Buy in of $5 or less.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 150 (approx.)
$- 65 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 1944
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $323.94, currently at $329.74
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-6
$- 6
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 110- 160. Over 550 lifetime.
Cheers!
Shark Scope is not at the top of there tracking games as it does not show my 2nd place in the $2 MTT for a $240 win, or my razz $1 MTT 4th place for $48 but all is good my bankrolls are still slowly moving up and I am working on my game at a few different levels and trying to get all of my bankrolls above 1K on each site, though it will be hard in the short term on bet fair and tiger since I have been playing very little on them and I will have to select certain larger MTT buy in and hope to score and get a big cash as playing mult table sng's on those 2 sites will be hard as the low amount of members playing on the sites.
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last two weeks
Hours spent playing: 4-5/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching, rented movies and trips outdoors.
Gained some weight recently eating a lot of take out and portions that are big enough for a tiger, but such is life and I am loving it!
Cheers! See you all around.
The hangover was a very funny movie and glad I had a chance to see it at the movies.
Baseball was great this week I played solid and won and went 4 for 4. My legs are feeling better. Kids are away for a week with the parents, thank you for the parents and weekly summer visits, they are having lots of fun at the lake riding the jet ski and playing up at the cottage roasting marshmallows each night.
Almost totally quit smoking, starting back to work full time as of tomorrow, and my brother is still not talking to me re: an argument we had during a home game. Also haven't been invited to that home game in over 5 weeks since the "heated discussion"... lol, I apologized for my part and now he simply needs to take some ownership of his own.
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1258.29, now at $1581.30 with $51.65 in tournament $'s, 2 $26 tokens
Tournaments played: Buy in of $8 games or less.
#- 60
$- 20
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 650
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $263.40, currently at $269.94 with 1 Rd two ticket to Free roll.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 14
$- 3
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 184
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $156.64, currently at $163.55
Tournaments played: Buy in of $11 or less.
#- 5
$- 2
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 50
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-25
Mansion: falenangel, last update $1066.94, currently at $1187.32,
Buy in of $5 or less.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 150 (approx.)
$- 65 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 1944
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $323.94, currently at $329.74
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-6
$- 6
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 110- 160. Over 550 lifetime.
Cheers!
Shark Scope is not at the top of there tracking games as it does not show my 2nd place in the $2 MTT for a $240 win, or my razz $1 MTT 4th place for $48 but all is good my bankrolls are still slowly moving up and I am working on my game at a few different levels and trying to get all of my bankrolls above 1K on each site, though it will be hard in the short term on bet fair and tiger since I have been playing very little on them and I will have to select certain larger MTT buy in and hope to score and get a big cash as playing mult table sng's on those 2 sites will be hard as the low amount of members playing on the sites.
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last two weeks
Hours spent playing: 4-5/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching, rented movies and trips outdoors.
Gained some weight recently eating a lot of take out and portions that are big enough for a tiger, but such is life and I am loving it!
Cheers! See you all around.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Bonuses and Training!... Love it!
Well I have received 44, $5 tournament tokens from Mansion on top of the $400 cash on top of the $200 points bonus for a total of almost $800 in the past 3 weeks... of course this is all on top of the original $50 start up capital deposit from pokerstrategy and never having had to put a single penny into this online poker platform myself!!! Check out the link to pokerstrategy just on the right of my blog, it is "sick" worth the time and effort, I mean $50 free USD cash put into a poker room of your choice, rakeback available at many other sites they are linked up with, monthly promotions and leader boards at all of the different poker rooms, free strategy training articles and videos and live coaching sessions, a monsterous forum, great support to get help, free training software programs and much much more, just check out the link on the right hand side of my blog. YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH TRAINING AND LEARNING... ESPECIALLY FOR FREE!!! It's a win win situation and worth the time to investigate a little further.
This month they also have a leader board for members at 3 different poker rooms on top of the regular member leader board. I wouldn't have believed it but at Mansion poker alone I am up to over $1,100. in my current playing bankroll without ever having to deposit a penny of my own money, plus I get rakeback from a few other sites thanks to them.
PokerVT is also the greatest single inspirational training tool I have ever come accross!!! It is totally worth all the money for a year membership and have top notch pros providing videos, forum support, and weekly tournament promotions for all it's members. Without PokerVT I would not have ever considered the fact that I have a chance at actually someday becoming a pro poker player, I would never have started this blog, I would never have given myself goals, I would never have chosen a 3-5 year plan to becoming a poker pro, I would still be playing as if poker was just a fun hobby and withdrawling my winnings on a monthly basis and spending it on having fun in life. Now my chance to have fun in life playing poker is beyond my original expectations and I can place the sole thanks to Daniel, Jason, Jon, Josh, Adam, Nick, Grayson, Bryan, etc, etc... The staff are great, funny and friendly especially Gary, Matt and Lyell which make navigating the forum one of the most enlightening experiences on my journey. Let alone the many members who have tremendous insight into poker theory and continue to enlighten me on a weekly basis. Cheers and good luck to all of them who played well at the WSOP this year, especially Mike Jansen who is going on to Day 5 with over 700K in chips, has made the money and a regular contributing member to the PokerVT forum!!! Go ulitimatemike Go!!!
I went to see Ice Age 3 with my youngest boy and many of his friends for his 5th birthday this week had a great time, also took them to Wild Water Kingdom on Friday which was a great fun time for the family.
I recomend seeing the movie "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage that just came out on DVD this week and think it was a very well thought out movie in the way it was presented to the viewer.
Pulled my hamstring again... LOL at baseball this past week, but had fun, so cheers!
My younger brother is still mad at me for an argument we had 3 weeks ago but whatever... I said sorry and he needs to take ownership for his part too.
As of yesterday I have my current online poker room totals of all my bankrolls, which lest we forget started at $50 for most sites and $100 at betfair, witht he $5o at Mansion coming from pokerstrategy and not my own pocket so here they are!
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1226.74, now at $1258.29 with $63.55 in tournament $'s, 1 $26 token
Tournaments played: Buy in of $6 games or less.
#- 25
$- 5
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 613
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $268.90, currently at $263.40 with 1 Rd two ticket to Free roll.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 8
$- 1
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 180
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $153.85, currently at $156.64
Tournaments played: Buy in of $3 or less.
#- 1
$- 1
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 45
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-20
Mansion: falenangel, last update $324.82, currently at $1066.94, 44-$5 tokens.
Buy in of $5 or less.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 240 (approx.)
$- 130 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 1603
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $317.74, currently at $323.94
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-8
$- 8
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 100- 150. Over 540 lifetime.
Cheers!
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2/day
Hours spent watching WSOP live stream: 1/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last two weeks
Hours spent playing: 4-5/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching, rented movies and trips outdoors. Didn't go to the batting cage at all in the past few weeks. Also whole bunch of late night poker viewing..., Poker After Dark, live PKR stream on the WSOP! In the past few weeks Jason (Jcarver) and Juan Carlos both PVT pros placed very high in WSOP events both claiming just under 200K for there efforts, Cheers and well done guys. Repeated this stuff as I felt it very important to say congrats to the pros at PokerVT.
See you all at the tables and best of luck, just not against me!
Cheers and Shambone!
This month they also have a leader board for members at 3 different poker rooms on top of the regular member leader board. I wouldn't have believed it but at Mansion poker alone I am up to over $1,100. in my current playing bankroll without ever having to deposit a penny of my own money, plus I get rakeback from a few other sites thanks to them.
PokerVT is also the greatest single inspirational training tool I have ever come accross!!! It is totally worth all the money for a year membership and have top notch pros providing videos, forum support, and weekly tournament promotions for all it's members. Without PokerVT I would not have ever considered the fact that I have a chance at actually someday becoming a pro poker player, I would never have started this blog, I would never have given myself goals, I would never have chosen a 3-5 year plan to becoming a poker pro, I would still be playing as if poker was just a fun hobby and withdrawling my winnings on a monthly basis and spending it on having fun in life. Now my chance to have fun in life playing poker is beyond my original expectations and I can place the sole thanks to Daniel, Jason, Jon, Josh, Adam, Nick, Grayson, Bryan, etc, etc... The staff are great, funny and friendly especially Gary, Matt and Lyell which make navigating the forum one of the most enlightening experiences on my journey. Let alone the many members who have tremendous insight into poker theory and continue to enlighten me on a weekly basis. Cheers and good luck to all of them who played well at the WSOP this year, especially Mike Jansen who is going on to Day 5 with over 700K in chips, has made the money and a regular contributing member to the PokerVT forum!!! Go ulitimatemike Go!!!
I went to see Ice Age 3 with my youngest boy and many of his friends for his 5th birthday this week had a great time, also took them to Wild Water Kingdom on Friday which was a great fun time for the family.
I recomend seeing the movie "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage that just came out on DVD this week and think it was a very well thought out movie in the way it was presented to the viewer.
Pulled my hamstring again... LOL at baseball this past week, but had fun, so cheers!
My younger brother is still mad at me for an argument we had 3 weeks ago but whatever... I said sorry and he needs to take ownership for his part too.
As of yesterday I have my current online poker room totals of all my bankrolls, which lest we forget started at $50 for most sites and $100 at betfair, witht he $5o at Mansion coming from pokerstrategy and not my own pocket so here they are!
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1226.74, now at $1258.29 with $63.55 in tournament $'s, 1 $26 token
Tournaments played: Buy in of $6 games or less.
#- 25
$- 5
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 613
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $268.90, currently at $263.40 with 1 Rd two ticket to Free roll.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 8
$- 1
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 180
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $153.85, currently at $156.64
Tournaments played: Buy in of $3 or less.
#- 1
$- 1
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 45
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-20
Mansion: falenangel, last update $324.82, currently at $1066.94, 44-$5 tokens.
Buy in of $5 or less.
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 240 (approx.)
$- 130 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 1603
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $317.74, currently at $323.94
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-8
$- 8
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 100- 150. Over 540 lifetime.
Cheers!
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2/day
Hours spent watching WSOP live stream: 1/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last two weeks
Hours spent playing: 4-5/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching, rented movies and trips outdoors. Didn't go to the batting cage at all in the past few weeks. Also whole bunch of late night poker viewing..., Poker After Dark, live PKR stream on the WSOP! In the past few weeks Jason (Jcarver) and Juan Carlos both PVT pros placed very high in WSOP events both claiming just under 200K for there efforts, Cheers and well done guys. Repeated this stuff as I felt it very important to say congrats to the pros at PokerVT.
See you all at the tables and best of luck, just not against me!
Cheers and Shambone!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Bankroll Nit
I have been trying real hard to take care of my bankrolls on all the sites I play. I have kept at lower limits and have started learning all of the games of poker a little better. I cashed in a razz free roll on Full tilt, almost cashed in a Omaha hi free roll and Omaha high low split free roll on Tilt as well. I got a round 2 ticket in Omaha high low on Poker stars and am reading up on all the games once again.
Bryan (Devo) from PokerVT has been doing a lot of videos as of late on the different games and it has improved my learning and thinking about those games. If you are going to be a successful poker player you need to learn and become skilled at all the different games in poker.
I am finished playing the Double Up leader board on Mansion for the past 4 weeks and earned a bonus of 35 $5 Double Up tokens which I am waiting to be credited into my account. I started playing normal sit and goes again today and was down at first coming back to win my final 3 games and ending the day a little up. Mansion also credited my bankroll with $400 for getting 2nd on the low stakes tournament leader board in June!!
My legs are feeling a lot better and I look forward to playing baseball this week, along with the 3 more Fulltilt fantasy free rolls I earned placing into via my fantasy picks in the player pool. I ended up the WSOP with 1216th place and feel it was pretty good for not knowing half of the people available. I will be better prepared next year as I pick more and learn more about all the players out there.
I watched transformers at the theatre this week, it was good but not great, I am pretty picky about films and feel it could have been done a lot better with most of the fight scenes being a little fast and blurry in details. My son David Jr. turns 5 next week and we'll be taking him and a group of his friends to a movie theatre party to see Ice Age 3-D, which is what he chose to do over going to Chuckie cheese or any other venue available.
Played some sattys on full tilt and came out $20 tourney dollars ahead of my last weeks total and have decided to keep playing some free rolls as I learn the new games and continue playng my final bonus on Mansion poker.
I will give an update on all my bankrolls later on and decided to do it only 1 time per month instead of weekly or bi-weekly since it takes away from my playing time. In the short I have 2 sites over 1K and 2 sites close to or just over $300 and betfair... well betfair doesn't offer enough variety and tournaments to make it worth playing too much at the moment and took 2 extra weeks just to give me a promotional bonus on there casino. I played Deal or no Deal and made a bonus $8... lol, mostly I have played 6 man sng's and a few tournaments and basically broke even with a small profit.
I am not looking forward to returning to work, period! Not much more to say about that, I have enjoyed all the extra time for training and improving my poker game and was just about ready to start playing a lot more and build my bankrolls.
Looking forward to the new videos on PokerVT especially since all three authors this week are people I enjoy watching, Jason, Tanatloc and Bryan (Devo). On Pokerstrategy I have watched all the beginner and bronze level SnG videos, read all the artilces at the same level and watched a lot of live coaching with certain pros on no limit and limit cash games and tournaments. I am starting into the silver and will soon be downloading the ICM software to pracitce and learn push shove ranges that are correct based on the table image and chip stacks. I almost wish I was still a little sick so I could continue training and playing full time, but I am not and work will be an experience and a half that I will have to get used to all over again. Then play at night and on weekends while squeezing in time for training and giving sleep up for the chance to continue my 3-5 year plan.
Cheers to all and see you at the tables where I wish you all the luck... except against me!
Bryan (Devo) from PokerVT has been doing a lot of videos as of late on the different games and it has improved my learning and thinking about those games. If you are going to be a successful poker player you need to learn and become skilled at all the different games in poker.
I am finished playing the Double Up leader board on Mansion for the past 4 weeks and earned a bonus of 35 $5 Double Up tokens which I am waiting to be credited into my account. I started playing normal sit and goes again today and was down at first coming back to win my final 3 games and ending the day a little up. Mansion also credited my bankroll with $400 for getting 2nd on the low stakes tournament leader board in June!!
My legs are feeling a lot better and I look forward to playing baseball this week, along with the 3 more Fulltilt fantasy free rolls I earned placing into via my fantasy picks in the player pool. I ended up the WSOP with 1216th place and feel it was pretty good for not knowing half of the people available. I will be better prepared next year as I pick more and learn more about all the players out there.
I watched transformers at the theatre this week, it was good but not great, I am pretty picky about films and feel it could have been done a lot better with most of the fight scenes being a little fast and blurry in details. My son David Jr. turns 5 next week and we'll be taking him and a group of his friends to a movie theatre party to see Ice Age 3-D, which is what he chose to do over going to Chuckie cheese or any other venue available.
Played some sattys on full tilt and came out $20 tourney dollars ahead of my last weeks total and have decided to keep playing some free rolls as I learn the new games and continue playng my final bonus on Mansion poker.
I will give an update on all my bankrolls later on and decided to do it only 1 time per month instead of weekly or bi-weekly since it takes away from my playing time. In the short I have 2 sites over 1K and 2 sites close to or just over $300 and betfair... well betfair doesn't offer enough variety and tournaments to make it worth playing too much at the moment and took 2 extra weeks just to give me a promotional bonus on there casino. I played Deal or no Deal and made a bonus $8... lol, mostly I have played 6 man sng's and a few tournaments and basically broke even with a small profit.
I am not looking forward to returning to work, period! Not much more to say about that, I have enjoyed all the extra time for training and improving my poker game and was just about ready to start playing a lot more and build my bankrolls.
Looking forward to the new videos on PokerVT especially since all three authors this week are people I enjoy watching, Jason, Tanatloc and Bryan (Devo). On Pokerstrategy I have watched all the beginner and bronze level SnG videos, read all the artilces at the same level and watched a lot of live coaching with certain pros on no limit and limit cash games and tournaments. I am starting into the silver and will soon be downloading the ICM software to pracitce and learn push shove ranges that are correct based on the table image and chip stacks. I almost wish I was still a little sick so I could continue training and playing full time, but I am not and work will be an experience and a half that I will have to get used to all over again. Then play at night and on weekends while squeezing in time for training and giving sleep up for the chance to continue my 3-5 year plan.
Cheers to all and see you at the tables where I wish you all the luck... except against me!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
10th Update, moving slowly along...
Okay the last few weeks have been a blurr... I am sleeping not so well, eating way too much and getting ready to go back to work full time! Watching lots of movies, too much T.V., as many training videos as I can, playing some sports but not much due to my leg injuries and viewing a lot of live streams on the WSOP (especially if it has any of the pros from PVT or Pokerstrategy or pro players that I enjoy watching.
Played in a charity poker event this past weekend $40 rebuy with add on and had 170 entrants, I placed 15th and felt I got "ripped off" by a complaining idiot who waited until the river to claim "false deal" after he saw he had lost. The table then gave him a new burn and turn with a new burn and river his 99 still lost to my 10 10 and I should have gotten all of his chips. This guy just kept complaining and complaining until the table gave in and let him have a split pot. I swear I will never play a cheap, unregulated charity tournament ever again as long as crap like that can go on. In a real casino he would have been bust, sending all of his chips to me and I would have had a comanding chip lead with 23 players left in the event. The same guy bet out of turn later in the event and via the rules the table declared that he was forced to check when it came to him since he played out of turn, he shoves all in on the river and gets called by AQ with the Q hitting the river, the board was 246JQ and he shows K2... then he complains that it was the tables fault for declaring that he had to check the turn and stormed off the table cursing and pointing at me... LOL suck my asss you moronic fool who obviously sucked at poker!
My oldest boy graduated grade 8 and had his ceremony this past week, lots of fun and I am proud of my growing "giant" of a boy. He received an award for his athletic contributions on many different teams and with a 99.9995% in math, which he gets from his father, barely missed the award for mathmatecs.
My younger boys finished a session of swimming, start another this coming weekend and played well during soccer. The coach puts them on at different times to make sure they don't compete with each other and are able to better focus on brining the ball up the field. For some other reason they both want to play goalie and see it as a very important position, however I try to give them both "props" for simply trying there best. They have yet to lose a game this season and I try to have them practice in the park vs each other 4-5 times a week.
School is out now and the family has plans to go on many trips this summer at amusement parks, water parks, camping and the movie theatre. At least one trip per week including soccer and swimming.
I watched a few comedy at the theatre and thought they were all "blah" nothing worth mentioning, and many "blah" rented movies.
My legs are slowly healing and it makes me feel "old" to not have already fully healed. Canada Day is this Wednesday and going to have a lot of fireworks with the kids. Mansion June leader board is coming to an end and I am currently in 2nd, fingers crossed as it's a $400 bonus to stay there.
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
BB- Bubble Boy. I have stopped counting bubble boy placings, it isn't worth the time or effort.
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1226.74, now at $1226.74 with $51.15 in tournament $'s, 1 $26 token
Tournaments played: I have not played on Full Tilt in the past few weeks.
#- 1
$- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 586
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $262.40, currently at $268.90
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 1
$- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 180
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $155.39, currently at $153.85
Tournaments played: Buy in of $3 or less.
#- 9
$- 4
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 45
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-19
Mansion: falenangel, last update $320.82, currently at $324.82
It was a tuff week and a bit with a lot of variance hitting me in the face, but not the kind I like!
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 590 (approx.)
$- 280 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 1361
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $295.09, currently at $317.74
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-21
$- 11
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 90- 140. Over 530 lifetime.
Between all sites I was Bubble Boy a total of ? times in the past week. I have decided to stop paying attention to bubble boy stats... I mean it's basically meaningless. Cheers!
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2/day
Hours spent watching WSOP live stream: 1.5/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last two weeks
Hours spent playing: 4-7/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching, rented movies and trips outdoors. Didn't go to the batting cage much the past few weeks. Also whole bunck of late night poker viewing..., Poker After Dark, live PKR stream on the WSOP! In the past few weeks Jason (Jcarver) and Juan Carlos both PVT pros placed very high in WSOP events both claiming just under 200K for there efforts, Cheers and well done guys.
Still following Nick Rainey's blog and notice he is doing exceptionally well as of late as well are all of his students. I am happy to see they are improving and proud to have been able to benefit from his coaching skills at one point in my poker experience. I miss Nick's teaching but realize that he is a busy man and we were simply moving in different directions. Cheers to all he does and best wishes in all future edeavors. I am also happy for Jotagran who recently placed 3rd in a large MTT for close to 3K, let alone the success of all the students including Ted and Allan... Super Cheers!
Quitting smoking is what it is, I am on the gum, the inhaller and on my last few days of the patch. It is mostily "mental" and I know when I put my mind to something I can do what I attempt. Hell I quit the "bong" and haven't had a drink in over 7 months simply because I wanted to better focus on playing better poker and felt that it was like training for a sports team. I will not "celebrate" until I have attained my goal of becoming a pro poker player, which is withing 3-5 years from this past January.
Favorite movie watched this week "Land of the Lost" and the Jack Black movie "Year One" (I think that's what it was called), wanting to see the Hangover next time out. I am a celebrity get me the hell outta here was kinda interesting, I totally expected Lou Diamond to win and of course he did... I sure know how to pick the winners!
Cheers and best wishes to all especially if you took the time to read my crappy asss blog...
Shambone to my luck on Mansion, I realize I can still get "tilted" if I lose like 5 bad beats in a row and notice I begin to play stupid cards in stupid position and make stupid plays which add to the losing streaks! Time to take advantage of the "target on the wall" and watch more training videos to help remind me how to play properly and smart. The coolers are the coolers and they don't bother me as much as losing to 2-3 outters on the river!
LOL... New download of PT3 .... AGAIN! It's funny how often they come out with an upgrade, funny and rediculous!
Played in a charity poker event this past weekend $40 rebuy with add on and had 170 entrants, I placed 15th and felt I got "ripped off" by a complaining idiot who waited until the river to claim "false deal" after he saw he had lost. The table then gave him a new burn and turn with a new burn and river his 99 still lost to my 10 10 and I should have gotten all of his chips. This guy just kept complaining and complaining until the table gave in and let him have a split pot. I swear I will never play a cheap, unregulated charity tournament ever again as long as crap like that can go on. In a real casino he would have been bust, sending all of his chips to me and I would have had a comanding chip lead with 23 players left in the event. The same guy bet out of turn later in the event and via the rules the table declared that he was forced to check when it came to him since he played out of turn, he shoves all in on the river and gets called by AQ with the Q hitting the river, the board was 246JQ and he shows K2... then he complains that it was the tables fault for declaring that he had to check the turn and stormed off the table cursing and pointing at me... LOL suck my asss you moronic fool who obviously sucked at poker!
My oldest boy graduated grade 8 and had his ceremony this past week, lots of fun and I am proud of my growing "giant" of a boy. He received an award for his athletic contributions on many different teams and with a 99.9995% in math, which he gets from his father, barely missed the award for mathmatecs.
My younger boys finished a session of swimming, start another this coming weekend and played well during soccer. The coach puts them on at different times to make sure they don't compete with each other and are able to better focus on brining the ball up the field. For some other reason they both want to play goalie and see it as a very important position, however I try to give them both "props" for simply trying there best. They have yet to lose a game this season and I try to have them practice in the park vs each other 4-5 times a week.
School is out now and the family has plans to go on many trips this summer at amusement parks, water parks, camping and the movie theatre. At least one trip per week including soccer and swimming.
I watched a few comedy at the theatre and thought they were all "blah" nothing worth mentioning, and many "blah" rented movies.
My legs are slowly healing and it makes me feel "old" to not have already fully healed. Canada Day is this Wednesday and going to have a lot of fireworks with the kids. Mansion June leader board is coming to an end and I am currently in 2nd, fingers crossed as it's a $400 bonus to stay there.
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
BB- Bubble Boy. I have stopped counting bubble boy placings, it isn't worth the time or effort.
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1226.74, now at $1226.74 with $51.15 in tournament $'s, 1 $26 token
Tournaments played: I have not played on Full Tilt in the past few weeks.
#- 1
$- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 586
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $262.40, currently at $268.90
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 1
$- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 180
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $155.39, currently at $153.85
Tournaments played: Buy in of $3 or less.
#- 9
$- 4
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 45
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-19
Mansion: falenangel, last update $320.82, currently at $324.82
It was a tuff week and a bit with a lot of variance hitting me in the face, but not the kind I like!
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less.
#- 590 (approx.)
$- 280 (approx.)
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 1361
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $295.09, currently at $317.74
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-21
$- 11
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on shark scope, approx. 90- 140. Over 530 lifetime.
Between all sites I was Bubble Boy a total of ? times in the past week. I have decided to stop paying attention to bubble boy stats... I mean it's basically meaningless. Cheers!
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2/day
Hours spent watching WSOP live stream: 1.5/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 1/day
Hours spent working on blog: 1 hour in the last two weeks
Hours spent playing: 4-7/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching, rented movies and trips outdoors. Didn't go to the batting cage much the past few weeks. Also whole bunck of late night poker viewing..., Poker After Dark, live PKR stream on the WSOP! In the past few weeks Jason (Jcarver) and Juan Carlos both PVT pros placed very high in WSOP events both claiming just under 200K for there efforts, Cheers and well done guys.
Still following Nick Rainey's blog and notice he is doing exceptionally well as of late as well are all of his students. I am happy to see they are improving and proud to have been able to benefit from his coaching skills at one point in my poker experience. I miss Nick's teaching but realize that he is a busy man and we were simply moving in different directions. Cheers to all he does and best wishes in all future edeavors. I am also happy for Jotagran who recently placed 3rd in a large MTT for close to 3K, let alone the success of all the students including Ted and Allan... Super Cheers!
Quitting smoking is what it is, I am on the gum, the inhaller and on my last few days of the patch. It is mostily "mental" and I know when I put my mind to something I can do what I attempt. Hell I quit the "bong" and haven't had a drink in over 7 months simply because I wanted to better focus on playing better poker and felt that it was like training for a sports team. I will not "celebrate" until I have attained my goal of becoming a pro poker player, which is withing 3-5 years from this past January.
Favorite movie watched this week "Land of the Lost" and the Jack Black movie "Year One" (I think that's what it was called), wanting to see the Hangover next time out. I am a celebrity get me the hell outta here was kinda interesting, I totally expected Lou Diamond to win and of course he did... I sure know how to pick the winners!
Cheers and best wishes to all especially if you took the time to read my crappy asss blog...
Shambone to my luck on Mansion, I realize I can still get "tilted" if I lose like 5 bad beats in a row and notice I begin to play stupid cards in stupid position and make stupid plays which add to the losing streaks! Time to take advantage of the "target on the wall" and watch more training videos to help remind me how to play properly and smart. The coolers are the coolers and they don't bother me as much as losing to 2-3 outters on the river!
LOL... New download of PT3 .... AGAIN! It's funny how often they come out with an upgrade, funny and rediculous!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
9th Update... Actually 1 week this time!
Still only posting totals, had a rough week or two with Mansion's bonus playing out and hitting an "all time low" but pulled it back up in the past few days. If you played me this last week and had 2-3 outs you would hit. If I had QQ you had KK, if I had KK you had AA. Yet that is what poker is about, and with all the training I have done this year so far I understand that it happens... next tourney.
Pulled my left hamstring at baseball this week just as my quads on both legs had finally almost healed... all that is next is for me to pull my groin and the season will be full filled. Cheers! It hurts worse than the quads and I have to keep my leg up with a couple tensor bandages tightly wrapped to be able to "hobble" around. I am going to the Dr. to have him look at it tomorrow and set my "return" to full time work date.
No home poker games this week mostly just playing on Mansion late at night when the kids are asleep. Baseball was a "blow out" this week losing all 3 games. The kids had a great time at there first soccer game. Swimming lessons are going strong for them too, my wife read some stuff and saw some stuff on T.V. which made her a little "paranoid" and we signed them up for a summer session as well, but they used to get the summer off and swimming lessons on in the winter. Yes we can go swimming in Canada in the winter, it's due to a revelation called "community centers" with indoor "heated" water... Cheers!
Videos for training on PokerVTand some on Poker strategy, as I have moved up a level, "gold" have also taken a lot of my training time.
Movie night consisted of Star Trek which was really really good. JJ Abrams had a lot to do with the production and I sense that after LOST is over this year that anything he is involved in will be totally amazing. I am going to rent Star Trek and watch it again as soon as it is available. Of course I am going to buy the 5th season of Lost when it come out as I missed a few episodes.
David Jr. is set for an operation in October and we are looking into his eye surgery. I finally got my college loan "crap" figured out and received a 10K reduction of the balance due to my grades when I was in school and paying all payments on time for the last 8 years! Cheers
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
BB- Bubble Boy no money won. I consider bubble boy to be within 1 of the money in a SnG, within 10 of the money in a large MTT, or within 50 of the money in a MTT over 3000 and withing 300 of an MTT with over 13,000 entrants.
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1226.74, now at $1226.74 with $51.15 in tournament $'s, 1 $26 token
Tournaments played: Free rolls played 6 and nothing more this week
#- 6
$- 0
BB- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 585
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $273.40, currently at $262.40
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 2
$- 0
BB- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 179
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $132.00, currently at $155.39
Tournaments played: Buy in of $12 or less.
#- 2
$- 1
BB- 1
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 35
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-10
Mansion: falenangel, last update $231.82, currently at $320.82
It was a tuff week and a bit with a lot of variance hitting me in the face, but not the kind I like!
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less. It was even tougher to record all the tournaments and game success I was having as I barely broke even, if at all, and thanks to bonuses got extra cash to make my bankroll look as if it was doing better than I had thought.
#- 320 (approx.)
$- 200 (approx.)
BB- ?
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 819
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $289.09, currently at $295.09
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-7
$- 7
BB- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on sharkscope, approx. 70- 120. Over 510 lifetime.
Between all sites I was Bubble Boy a total of ? times in the past week. I think I might stop paying attention to bubble boy stats... I mean it's basically meaningless. Cheers!
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2.5/day
Hours spent watching WSOP live stream: 1/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 30 min./day
Hours spent working on blog: 15 min/day
Hours spent playing: 3.5/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching UFC and deadliest warriors as well as some older movies that were on and a whole bunck of late night poker viewing..., Poker After Dark, WPT championsship and HOCKEY! I am totally unhappy that Detroit didn't take it down, but figured that it would go to 7 games when it was tied 2-2.
Quitting smoking is starting to go well, in fact I am almost mentally at the stage where I am accepting the idea to quit as that is needed before I actually try to quit physically. I have set this Friday as my stop date and am telling as many people as possible as to let them all give me "chit" if I am seen smoking after June 19th.
Favorite movie watched this week "Star Trek", I did watch like 2 rented movies and not some T.V., and of course whatever the wife is watching before she prepares for bed each night, I am a celebrity get me the hell outta here was kinda interesting.
Need to finish watching all the new video content on PokerVT, which is rare to take me so long through the week, and catch up on the strategy available to my new level on Poker strategy for tournaments and SnG's, which will probably take me over 3 months to watch it all and fit it into my weekly routine... just an overload of training videos but I am happy to have too much as compared to not enough. I also have 2 new poker books I still need to start reading. I am almost done reading the end of "fooled" and will start the new books when I am.
Best of luck to all at the tables and I wish everyone and there families total success in all your endeavours. I am also including a few families in my prayers at night and wish your mother's all the best in there recovery!
I wish all the PokerVT and Pokerstrategy members and pros all the best at the WSOP in 2009!
Cheers and Shambone!
Pulled my left hamstring at baseball this week just as my quads on both legs had finally almost healed... all that is next is for me to pull my groin and the season will be full filled. Cheers! It hurts worse than the quads and I have to keep my leg up with a couple tensor bandages tightly wrapped to be able to "hobble" around. I am going to the Dr. to have him look at it tomorrow and set my "return" to full time work date.
No home poker games this week mostly just playing on Mansion late at night when the kids are asleep. Baseball was a "blow out" this week losing all 3 games. The kids had a great time at there first soccer game. Swimming lessons are going strong for them too, my wife read some stuff and saw some stuff on T.V. which made her a little "paranoid" and we signed them up for a summer session as well, but they used to get the summer off and swimming lessons on in the winter. Yes we can go swimming in Canada in the winter, it's due to a revelation called "community centers" with indoor "heated" water... Cheers!
Videos for training on PokerVTand some on Poker strategy, as I have moved up a level, "gold" have also taken a lot of my training time.
Movie night consisted of Star Trek which was really really good. JJ Abrams had a lot to do with the production and I sense that after LOST is over this year that anything he is involved in will be totally amazing. I am going to rent Star Trek and watch it again as soon as it is available. Of course I am going to buy the 5th season of Lost when it come out as I missed a few episodes.
David Jr. is set for an operation in October and we are looking into his eye surgery. I finally got my college loan "crap" figured out and received a 10K reduction of the balance due to my grades when I was in school and paying all payments on time for the last 8 years! Cheers
Legend to understand placings:
#- tournaments played
$- times cashed
BB- Bubble Boy no money won. I consider bubble boy to be within 1 of the money in a SnG, within 10 of the money in a large MTT, or within 50 of the money in a MTT over 3000 and withing 300 of an MTT with over 13,000 entrants.
FullTilt: dafalenangel, last update $1226.74, now at $1226.74 with $51.15 in tournament $'s, 1 $26 token
Tournaments played: Free rolls played 6 and nothing more this week
#- 6
$- 0
BB- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 585
Pokerstars: dafalenangel, last update $273.40, currently at $262.40
Tournaments played: Buy in of $5 or less.
#- 2
$- 0
BB- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 179
Betfair: dfalenangel, last update $132.00, currently at $155.39
Tournaments played: Buy in of $12 or less.
#- 2
$- 1
BB- 1
Sharkscope only seems to record SnG results and not MTT's which I have done well at in my very few attempts.
Estimated totals of all games in 2009- 35
SnG total games played in 2009, according to sharkscope-10
Mansion: falenangel, last update $231.82, currently at $320.82
It was a tuff week and a bit with a lot of variance hitting me in the face, but not the kind I like!
Tournaments played: Buy in of $10 or less. It was even tougher to record all the tournaments and game success I was having as I barely broke even, if at all, and thanks to bonuses got extra cash to make my bankroll look as if it was doing better than I had thought.
#- 320 (approx.)
$- 200 (approx.)
BB- ?
Cash games, 0 won - loss hands- o$ loss
Total # of games played in 2009, according to sharkscope- 819
Tigergamming: falenangel, last update $289.09, currently at $295.09
Tournaments played: Free rolls only, member point buy in.
#-7
$- 7
BB- 0
Cash games, 0 hands- $0 profit.
Total # of games played in 2009- Not able to detect on sharkscope, approx. 70- 120. Over 510 lifetime.
Between all sites I was Bubble Boy a total of ? times in the past week. I think I might stop paying attention to bubble boy stats... I mean it's basically meaningless. Cheers!
Hours spent training and improving my poker game: average of 2.5/day
Hours spent watching WSOP live stream: 1/day
Hours spent watching other players at my buy in levels: 30 min./day
Hours spent working on blog: 15 min/day
Hours spent playing: 3.5/day
Day off: Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of T.V watching UFC and deadliest warriors as well as some older movies that were on and a whole bunck of late night poker viewing..., Poker After Dark, WPT championsship and HOCKEY! I am totally unhappy that Detroit didn't take it down, but figured that it would go to 7 games when it was tied 2-2.
Quitting smoking is starting to go well, in fact I am almost mentally at the stage where I am accepting the idea to quit as that is needed before I actually try to quit physically. I have set this Friday as my stop date and am telling as many people as possible as to let them all give me "chit" if I am seen smoking after June 19th.
Favorite movie watched this week "Star Trek", I did watch like 2 rented movies and not some T.V., and of course whatever the wife is watching before she prepares for bed each night, I am a celebrity get me the hell outta here was kinda interesting.
Need to finish watching all the new video content on PokerVT, which is rare to take me so long through the week, and catch up on the strategy available to my new level on Poker strategy for tournaments and SnG's, which will probably take me over 3 months to watch it all and fit it into my weekly routine... just an overload of training videos but I am happy to have too much as compared to not enough. I also have 2 new poker books I still need to start reading. I am almost done reading the end of "fooled" and will start the new books when I am.
Best of luck to all at the tables and I wish everyone and there families total success in all your endeavours. I am also including a few families in my prayers at night and wish your mother's all the best in there recovery!
I wish all the PokerVT and Pokerstrategy members and pros all the best at the WSOP in 2009!
Cheers and Shambone!
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