biggest pot ever!

Poker Stars, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter
Hero (MP): $1,602
CO: $1,445
BTN: $300
SB: $650.90
BB: $1,000
UTG: $1,520
Pre-Flop: Q Q dealt to Hero (MP)
UTG raises to $30, Hero calls $30, CO raises to $160, 4 folds, Hero raises to $572, CO raises to $1,445 and is All-In, Hero calls $873
Flop: ($2,935) 4 8 7 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
Turn: ($2,935) 6 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
River: ($2,935) J (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
Results: $2,935 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed Q Q (a pair of Queens) and LOST (-$1,445 NET)
CO showed A A (a pair of Aces) and WON $2,932 (+$1,487 NET)
sweeeeeeeeet

i wont go into much detail, but BTN is a reg and was overactively squeezing. i was tryign to disguise the strength of my hand, but apparently it ddint matter. pretty awesome to get coolered at 5x my stakes.

if that wasn't enough(from the same session):
Poker Stars, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter
UTG: $871.50
CO: $1,000
Hero (BTN): $1,110
SB: $2,015.75
BB: $1,386
Pre-Flop: 3 3 dealt to Hero (BTN)
UTG raises to $30, CO calls $30, Hero calls $30, 2 folds
Flop: ($105) 3 9 4 (3 Players)
UTG bets $75, CO calls $75, Hero raises to $320, UTG folds, CO raises to $970 and is All-In, Hero calls $650
Turn: ($2,120) 2 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
River: ($2,120) T (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
Results: $2,120 Pot ($2 Rake)
CO showed 4 4 (three of a kind, Fours) and WON $2,118 (+$1,118 NET)
Hero mucked 3 3 and LOST (-$1,000 NET)


what a fucking piss off

i've never dropped much more than $2k in day... and today i dropped like $3.5k in an hour

yay me

same ol'

Nothing much to report here

Month is going great again, so I'm taking shots at higher limits. I've been playing as high as 5/10. My game has improoved a lot and my results are showing.

I'm waiting for my quesidilla to be delivered and it's been like an hour. That's the only reason I'm posting. SO I'll end here b/c I have nothing to say.

BEST BLOG POST EVER.

japanese guitar hero

It was a hard enough time to find guitar hero in korea, but I'm glad I did. That game is so addictive and has probably cost me 1000s of dollars in EV.

I'm not sure what compelled me, but I decided to search for guitar hero videos on youtube. Came up with this, the japanese guitar hero. I wonder how badly this guy would destroy the game?




Anyhoo, I'm slowly gettin back on pace with 153k/169k pts. Had a realllly good day at cash games yesterday and March is off to an awesome start.

february wrap up

Another great month in the books. February was my best month ever. I played 120k hands at a nice 2.5ptbb+ winrate, $3k in bonuses and the $4k tourny score. So you can figure it out more or less with a little math.

Considering its the shortest month of the year, and I was in Hong Kong for a while, I feel great about it.

As for SNE, I have 147,500 points while pace is 166,666, which is ok because I'm slowly making up ground. I'm gonna try to put in an extra hour every day this month and I should be just about caught up.

So in March I should clear my first milestone bonus for $2k, plus the regular $3k in other bonuses. I'm planning on putting in my most hands ever, so hopefully I can top my best month for a third month in a row?? It will be tough, but I'll do my best.

looool

have you seen this show? Moment of truth? You're hooked up to a lie detector, asked some questions, and get money for every one you answer correctly.

this clip is OMG funny.

grrrr

I've been sans internet for about 3 days now. So I'm falling behind my SNE pace, but catching up on my sleep.

Sucks because I was excited to play a lot this weekend, but whatever.

Had a fun weekend instead and got my drank on with some friends. Got a guy coming in the morning to fix it I think, so I can get back to the grind.

Anyways, fun story I read the other day:

Punter wins £1m for 50p horse bet

what not to say at a poker awards ceremony

Nebuchad explaining his nick to Negreanu

SNE app

Here's a little script for those of you going for supernova elite.

It tells you what number you have to be at to be on pace:
http://www.houseofillusion.com/sne.asp

Currently I'm ~15,000 behind pace, at 129,064 VPPs

video documentaries

My buddy 2ez showed me this link, and I thought I'd share it with everyone.

NicheGeeks top 10 google video documentaries. "Some are sad, some are wacky, but they are all very informative and entertaining."

http://nichegeek.com/10_google_documentaries_you_have_to_watch

In other news, this month is unreal. I'm crushing every day and already ahead of last month. So yeah, barring any downswing it's already my best month ever.

VPP count is now 118,442, which is a little behind pace but SNE is still in my sights.

tourney score

Good news!

I decided to fire up a $22/$20k GTND tourny this evening. 7hrs and 21mins later, I finsihed 2nd for $4068.25.

Havn't had a good tourny score for a year, so it feels good.

Thanks to all the guys and gals for the final table sweat... I appreciate it.

Special thanks to 'Calleddownlight' who was with me for the last 3hrs, giving awesome advice and reinforcement.

It's now 9:30am, and I'm off to bed :)

[x] 10%

10% done my race to supernova elite.

So I won my little prop bet race to 100k points for a cool $100.

No signs of burnout as of yet, just hope I can keep up this pace.

HK trip report

All in all, it was a pretty decent trip. But then, any vacation where nothing goes terribly wrong is going to be decent if you enjoy traveling. So yeah, it's really not going to be up there with my greatest trips of all time, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Anyways, I think we just picked the absolute worst time to travel there. The lunar new year resulted in a mass exodus by hong kong residants, and left us with all the tourists. The hong kong airport had more flights leaving the day I arrived than at any other date in history.

This sucked for several reasons. For one, lots of shops and stores were closed because people were on vacation. Secondly, all the touristy places are extra busy and crowded.

Personally, when I'm travelling I want to experience the culture. I want to eat where the locals eat, party where they party, etc. And this was a terrible time of the year to do that. But I digress.

The airport and transportation system in HK is incredible. Cheap and easy to get any and everywhere. We got to our hotel with no problem, and my room was pretty awesome. Gotta love the glass bathroom. I was instantly relieved to have gotten seperate rooms :).

The first night we stayed close to our hotel, in the WanChai district. We started out with dinner at a bar and ordered some sloppy joes. Traditional Hongkongese fare.
Then we headed out to the bars which were... well, interesting.

Every single girl, in every single bar, was a hooker. All of them were either philipino or thai, and all were looking for cash. I guess it depends what your looking for, but I wasn't all that impressed.

It wasn't long before a dude came in all hammered and claimed to be Dennis Hopper's son. It was pretty random, but whatever (I looked it up actually, and his story doesn't seem to check out, but he was funny, buying drinks and lived in HK so had some good info). He made fun of us for being where we were, and took us to a new place. We danced and drank there for the night, and I ended up spending way too much money. I don't really remember it all but apparently I ball harder than Dennis Hopper's son.

The next day we got a lot of shopping done in Tsim Tsa Tsui and had a whole lot of dim sum. We then joined about 400,000 other people for a huge 30min fireworks display.

It was pretty cool, but crowded. People actually showed up around noon to get good position for the 8pm show.

We grabbed some peiking duck afterward which was awesome, dropped off some stuff at the hotel and headed to Lan kwai fong to hit some bars and clubs. I think we checked about 8 different places that night, but spent the majority in this 3level club called "beijing". They played some good music and we actually met some cool local people.

We had planned to go to Macau for a day, but it sort of fell through. We way overslept, and then headed to the ferry terminal. Once we got there, one of my buddy's was like "do you think we'll need our passports?", and I'm like 'yeah were all idiots, lets go back to the hotel". No clue why it never crossed my mind, but I'll blame it on the hangover.

By the time we got back, there was a 2hr wait for the 1hr ferry ride. If it was the same both ways, it would suck because I had to catch a plane the next morning. So instead we just decided to head to victoria peak.

VIctoria peak is the highest point on HK island and has an incredbile view of the island. We took a cab up instead of the tram b/c it was a ~3hr lineup. We managed to get a good look at it in the day, grab some dinner, and then see it again at night from up there.

So I guess we didn't really 'do' much there, but it was a good excuse to party and have some great food. Good little weekend trip, but I don't think I'll be back any time soon, unless it's to Macau.

back

I'm back in Korea, got in last night.

Trip was pretty good, I'll write a little more about it later if the mood strikes me.

For now I'll leave you with a pretty crazy video of some guy 52 tabling.

off to HK

So, I whiffed on all my superbowl squares. 6 squares and not even a sweat, wtf.
I only lost $550 on the game, because I took the giants with the spread as well.

But yeah, I'm out of here in about 8hrs -- heading to hong kong.

Had a great start to the month, so I'm leaving on a good note.

I picked up a membership to leggopoker, and it's helped my game out a bit. Or maybe I'm just running good, whatever :)

Anyways, looking forward to a well deserved vacation after like 300,000hands in the last 2months.

Back in a week.

janurary wrap up

Well, the first month of 2008 is about done and I'm glad to say I'm pretty much on-pace for supernova elite.

I'm currently at 83,777/1,000,000vpps.

I havn't been posting regular updates b/c I have a prop bet with another player for who can reach 100k faster. I didn't want to give him an edge by knowing my pace. Anyways, now I'm pretty confident I'll win so whatever.

I played a sick sick sick amount of hands this month -- 170,000. That's ~50k more than I ever have. My results showed the hard work and I booked my best month by about 50%. If I can keep this pace I might be able to triple my net from last year.

So I'm gonna keep on grinding until the 5th, when I leave for Hong Kong. I'm verrry stoked about this trip, it should be awesome. I'll try to take some pics and give a good report when I get back.

Hopefully I can get to 100k VPPs before I leave.

great headsup match

Pokerstars hosts a $5000 freezeout, with a 'winner takes all' structure.

I'm not sure how many entries this one had, but I guess something like 13-15.

The tournament came down to Barry Greenstien(barryg1) and Apathy (who has won the MSNL headsup championship 2 years in a row).

You can watch the whole matchup right here, WITH hole cards exposed.
note:it's ~90mins long




Oh and in regards to my superbowl squares pool, I pooled my squares with calleddownlight, so I now have 19% of 4squares instead of 1 square. Less variance, yadda yadda.

HS $500 Superbowl Squares Pool

I havn't done any sportsbetting for over a year, so I figured I'd throw down on a pool the high stakes guys have going for the super bowl next week. We have a $50,000 squares pool going, for $500/sq. I grabbed a square and hopefully catch a good draw and get lucky.

If you don't know what that is (cliff notes at bottom):

"Football Squares Rules: Within the grid, the top row of numbers represents the possible points scored of team one and the left column represents team two’s score. (The numbers are not placed in these squares until the players have added their names to the grid.)All the players add their names to the other free squares within the grid. Depending on the number of players, some may choose more than one square. As soon as the players have filled in all of the squares, numbers from 0 to 9 are drawn blindly and filled in across the top row. This is repeated for the left column. When you’re done, you’ll have numbers from 0 to 9 in random order across the top row and down the left column, and names filled in all of the other squares.The object of the game is to “choose” the score of the game by having your name in the square at the intersection of the final points of each team (as you draw an imaginary line down from team one’s score at the top and across from team two’s score). If there is a two-digit number, the second digit is used for the match. For example, if team one has 14 points and team two has 21, the person in the square at the intersection of #4 from the top row and #1 from the left column wins. You will have four winners by selecting the scores at the end of each quarter."

Cliff notes: A squares pool is neutral EV roulette with a good sweat.

Here's the pool... the image will update as numbers are drawn. I'm the_main, obv.

edit 1: I now have 19% action of 4squares... mine and all of calleddownlight's.
edit 2: I have 20% of 2 squares in the mulligan pool as well, under the name 'holdem2000'

Awkward moments in poker: Juice it up

Check out this video.

It's a pro-am event, and Erick Lindgren takes a little jab at Jose Canseco. Happens about 2mins in.

It's pretty LOL and Ivey's reaction is awesome

poker bustouts

I wanted to share a pretty entertaining poker documentary with my readers.

I'm not sure the exact reason why it's entertaining, but it definitley works on a few different levels. I actually think the whole thing might actually be a giant level, but there is no way these guys could act so well.

Anyway, check out the first part here, and follow the link at the end of the post see the other 4 installments.


For the rest:
http://www.pokertube.com/SearchMovies.aspx?FreeText=poker%20bustouts

HighStakes Bathroom propbet

Today, I came across one of the more interesting prop bets that I've seen in a while.
Good2cU, a high stakes cash player offered another midstakes grinder an undisclosed 5 figure bet that would have the latter staying in a bellagio hotel room bathroom for a month.

The guy, Jay I beleive, can't leave the bathroom but has access to a DVD player and TV, plus room service.

The best part is they set up a live feed so you can watch the 'action'
http://www.stickam.com/profile/bellagiojay

lol

There is more info on the bet here:
http://lukekim.blogspot.com/

My month is going really well so far. 13days in, and it's shaping up to be my best month ever AND I'm on pace for supernova elite.

I also planned a short trip to Hong Kong to celebrate chinese new year. What better place to do it than China, amirite?

Life is good.

the times, they are a changing

The games have been so terrible today, I couldn't find much motivation to play. ONly got in about 3,000 hands but managed to grind out a profit.


I had a sweet run at 2/4 and 3/6 on Monday, while chasing a really terrible player. I managed to take about $1000 off him when all was said and done. He was probabaly one of the worst players I've seen in months, and was sitting on a tonne of cash over 2 tables. What I couldn't beleive was that good players kept leaving the game and we struggled to keep a full table. WTF? SInce when do poker players hate money?

But anyways, I'm not complaining.

Month has been ok so far. I've played a lot of hands and am easily on pace to set a record for myself. Possibly for profit, but definitely for hands.

On an unrelated note, I caught wind of this new monitor coming out in a few months:




Sweeeet curved screen. I don't know how it would be for poker, but I want it. No clue what it'll cost, but it will likely be ridiculous b/c it's from alienware.

you can find more on it here:
http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-curved-monitor-looks-like-its-from-another-planet

Cardplayer TV - The mouthpeice

A friend pointed me in this direction earlier today. Apparenlty Mike "the mouth" Matasow has a TV show on cardplayer. It runs about 1/2hr and is pretty funny.

There are 30 episodes. I've seen the first two and they were pretty funny.

You can find them at:
http://www.cardplayer.com/tv

SNE Update:
13,600/1,000,000

First few days +female women

One thing I've noticed right away this year, is the increase of tight players at the table. While this effectively makes the games slightly harder, what I'm more concerned about is the decrease in my VPP accrual.

For supernova elite, I need 1,000,000VPPS. Last year I was earning points at around .57/hand. SO far after my first 20k hands this year, I'm at .47/hand. Yikes. If htings don't pick up, I'm going to need to put in more hours, which sucks.

My hope is that it's just the new year, and lots of players are trying for elite. Most will burnout/fail, and games will get looser. If not, I don't know how I can manage to put in ~2,000,000 hands this year. We'll see how it goes.

Right now though, 9,221/1,000,000 (almost 1%, ship it~!)

On another note, somehow I came across a classic Bill Fillmaff video. I don't know if I've ever mentioned him here before, but it's a great poker parody. Here's my favourite entry, 'female women'. The other episodes can be found on youtube.

Relfections on 07 + Supernova Elite

2007 was OK.
From a financial standpoint, it sort of sucked. I made a lot less than I planned, and played less then I should've.

From a personal standpoint, it was great. I had tonnes of fun, freedom and excitement. And of course I got to travel a lot.

I probably put in about 900hrs of work, which is like 17hrs/week, which is golden. I'm going to try to put in 1700hrs this year, and hopefully double my output ($150k).

So yeah, I guess I'm saying I've decided to make a run at Supernova Elite(SNE).

This is about $100,000 in value, plus whatever I make at the tables.

That said, I want to turn this blog away from my finances and results. It was mainly a statement to family and friends that I could make decent money 'gambling'. I think I've done that. So this year will concentrate on fun things, and my race to SNE.

I don't want people worrying about me, and most people can't fathom that I can lose $3,000 in a day and it's normal. I may post a quarterly, semi-annual, annual update, or none at all. I havn't decided completely, but it's probably the latter.

So yeah, SNE:
After my first 1.5 days of play, I'm at 4,945/1,000,000. I'm aiming for 20,000pts a week, which will leave me with 2 weeks for vacation. I have a bet with a friend as to who can reach 100,000 first. It's only for $100, but its decent motivation.

2007 Results

January - $6,146.28
February - $6,844.20
March - $6,345.11
April - $2,002.50
May- $7,558.51
June -$7,724.71
july- $6,240.57
August- $3,263.55
September - $4,769.20
October - $4,655.25
November - $9,569.70
December -$9,632

Total:
$74,751.58

Breakdown:

Cash Games:
826,604 hands for $34,155.57

Tournaments:
224 for ($1,350)

Bonuses/rakeback:
$41,022.57

Random flipping/other games/unaccounted:
($923.44)


If I had to guess (I don't have my entire database), I'd say my hourly rate was around $80/hr.

december results

Cash Games:
Hold 'em:
126,332 hands for $1632 [$12.95/hr]

Tournaments:
Not sure actually because PT wont import summaries. I made some cash in a VIP freeroll, and only played a few more. I'm just calling it even.

Pokerstar Bonii:
$5000 Milestone bonus
$3000 in VIP bonuses

December Net profit: $9,632
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Year to date: $74,751.58

Not a great month. If it wasnt for the milestones and insane number of hands I played, it would've been terrible. It was a strange month in that it seemed like I dropped ~$500 everyday, and had a few really huge days in between.

great success

Hit the $5k bonus and I'm DONE for the year. Sweet, 1day off!

Also, my move to the phillipines is currently on hold due to some recent developments. Still looking into other oppourtunities though.

I'll prob post a monthly and yearly update tommorow.

$10,000 month!?!? Stay tuned to find out, lol.

figured I would add...

boom, $3k day (well, $2971, but yeah)
+1.5k bonus cleared today, so lets call it a cool $4500 :)

sorry

I'm a bad blogger, I know.
But I have lots going on at the moment, so this has kind of fallen off my priority list.

I'm grinding every day, trying to reach 500,000 vpps, which gets me a $5,000 bonus. I'll make it, I'm like 7200points away.

I'm also moving to the phillipines in a week or so. Kind of random, I know. Should be a fun change up though.

This month sucks, and I may end up being down in cash games at the end. Thankfully bonuses will put be somewhere between $5-7000.

I'll do the numbers next week, and reflect on the year in a later post.

encore

I guess there wass only one way to follow up my biggest hand ever, and it was with my biggest session ever.
Without including bonuses and/or rakeback, I'm 99% sure this was my best session ever:

5.5hrs, 5387hands, $2,381.

This helps my pathetic month tremendously. :)

quick update + biggest hand ever

This month has been a pain. I've been running pretty bad and breaking even for the month not including bonuses. Sucks.

Thus, no recent updates. I'm just waiting for the month/year to end and I'll re-evaluate from there. Grinding has been really annoying, especially while not making any money.

SOoOo, I took a shot at some 600NL and 1000NL and things went... well, check out the hand:

Poker Stars, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

MP: $342.25
Hero (CO): $1,010
BTN: $1,105.50
SB: $990
BB: $460
UTG: $1,000

Pre-Flop: Q Q dealt to Hero (CO)

UTG raises to $35, MP folds, Hero calls $35, BTN calls $35, 2 folds

Flop: ($120) 4 Q A (3 Players)

UTG bets $75, Hero calls $75, BTN folds

Turn: ($270) J (2 Players)

UTG bets $200, Hero raises to $640, UTG raises to $890 and is All-In, Hero calls $250

River: ($2,050) 8 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $2,050 Pot ($3 Rake)

Hero showed Q Q (three of a kind, Queens) and WON $2,047 (+$1,047 NET)

UTG showed A J (two pair, Aces and Jacks) and LOST (-$1,000 NET)

Ship my biggest pot ever. It was my 3rd hand at the table I think and I obv hit and ran. :)

weird day

Today was the weirdest poker session I've ever been a part of.
First, I played 7,000 hands. Which is probably the 2nd most I've ever played in a day.

But every big hand I got all in with,went terribly, and I ran ~$1200 below expectation. Yes, 6 buyins below expectation.



But whatever, I played really aggressively and took down a lot of mid-sized pots without going to showdown. And I mean, A LOT. It was fun.

So somehow, I managed to eek out a profit for the day:



lol. Yeah, I managed to win ~$1600 which is probably in my top 3 best days of the year.

If I ran at expectation today I would've made like $3k, which would've crushed my best day ever in cash games.

Oh well, can't complain. I was even for the month before this, so it feels great.

RIP, Chip

David “Chip” Reese, the three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, longtime cash-game star, and member of the Poker Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.

Link to article

Too bad, he was a great player and seemed like a nice, genuine dude.

24tabling ftw

So I played a bit on sunday and got killed. I was up early and played/busted out of the sunday million after 3hrs. I just didn't feel like grinding and was down about $700 so I quit early. Probably not a good idea b/c I have to play sooo many hands this month.

So today I obviously 24-table 1/2NL. Happy to say that my new laptop can easily hanlde the load. Also equally happy to say that so can I.

It's pretty intense though. You rarley have any time when you arn't acting. I played for 5hours and logged ~6,000 hands. I lost ~$200, but it wasn't from bad play or lack of concentration (2 three outers in 200bb pots, etc. etc). My multi-table ratio was 19.8.

If I can pull out a sessions like these for the next two weeks, I should be able to relax and enjoy the holidays without stressing about logging hours.

Anyways, on a completly unrelated note... have you heard about this 'new' drug called 'jenkem'? Click the image below to see the Collier County Sheriff Office intelligence bulletin from September 26, 2007 which was later leaked to the media:

hahaha. I just think it's hilarious people are actually doing this. Had to share.

November results

Cash Games:
Hold 'em:
80,135 hands for $4,297.70 [$40.07/hr]

Almost every big downswing is from $400NL.

Omahahaha:
some flips for $80

Tournaments:
12 played for a net loss of ($308) --I didn't cash ONCE.

Pokerstar Bonii:
$4000 Milestone bonus
$1500 VIP bonus

November Net profit: $9,569.70

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Year to date: $65,119.58

$10k month? nope.

gay gay gay.

The month started out so promising, with visions of going on a tear. But I've been ice cold for the 2nd half of the month.

I was actually at like $12,000 for the month 3days ago, but have managed to lose an average of $1k/day since. Most of this was playing $400NL, where I've had some bad luck.

I ran really well at $200NL and piss poor at $400NL this month, which is a bad combination IMO.

These results are sort of preliminary. My new laptop should be here any minute, so incase I have anouther database disaster I have my results here at least. I might take tommorow off anyways so whatver.

December should be a grind. I have to play about 40% more hands. Yuck.
But with my new laptop, I should be able to multi table better, and be able to use my buddylist as well. +EV.

Hopefully I can finally crack that $10k mark in december or I should probably quit. lol. Still my best month of the year, but that isn't really saying much. I'm pretty disapointed with my results thus far :(.

random video

One of my buddies here is a pro boxer. Anyways, he's preparing for his next fight and he films all his sparring sessions. So the other day he's sparring and this happens:

He's the one in the white headgear



So yeah, end of the month is upon me, and I'll be back in a few days with my numbers. Barring any unforseen downers, it should be my best month of the year... possibly ever.

unlimited power

There arn't too many places in Korea where you can find good collections of English books.

However, inside the CoEx mall (which is about an hour away from me) is the biggest book store in Korea.

So when we make the trip, me and my friends stock up on a bunch of good books, and then trade them around. I bought a bunch myself, and wanted to discuss one in particular.

I skimmed through the new release section, and picked up "Unlimited Power", by Anthony Robbins. I had always heard good things about him, and I have an interest in psychology, neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis. So I figured I'd check out his newest book.

Turns out it's not new at all. I think it was published in 1986 actually. But regardless, it has been a great read.

I would urge poker players to check it out. It basically teaches you how to run your own brain. How to 'lie' to yourself, and choose the state you wish to be in. It's a great way to eliminate tilt.

Outside of poker, one thing it helped me with immediately were my sleeping habits. I've often had trouble falling asleep, because I can't seem to 'turn my mind off'. I've always been pretty analytical, and sometimes I drive myself nuts. I remember once when I was a kid just lying in my bed, literally thinking about what to to think about. Anyways, nothing has changed.

I'll constantly be thinking about what I did that day, what I have to do tomorrow, poker, relationships, whatever. Sometimes it's really annoying because I need to sleep. Well, this book has taught me how to turn that voice off. Within minutes I'm asleep.

The applications are endless really, and its a good read for anyone interested in improving yourself, your poker game, or simply your life in general.

quick update

Last couple of days have been meh. Break even over last 6k hands. Whatever. I'm still at ~$10k for the month. I made a sexy graph a few days ago before this, and that's what I'm posting :)

(click for a better look)

Anyways, I woke up early and played the sunday million but busted after a few hours. No cash.

Because of the time change (daylights savings), I can now play the million if I get up at 6:30am on Monday. I think I'll start doing this every week, as the tables were really juicy then and for many hours following. Hopefully it results in a big score so I can hit $100k+ for the year.

Oh and I ordered a new laptop. Makes more sense then the desktop at the moment. It's a Dell Inspiron 1720 Notebook. Intel Duo T7700 2.4ghz processor, with 4gigs RAM and a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card. I upgraded the LCD too (17" WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT). Should be hot, and is only costing me ~$2k. Early x-mas christmas present to myself. :)
I think it gets delivered at the start of December.

And finally, a funny video. I saw this a while ago on billrini's blog, but he disabled embedding so I couldn't post it here. I saw it on nation's blog the other day, and just grabbed it from there.

new dog in the nieghbourhood

My buddy Brian just bought a new dog. It peed on me.

OR DID IT!??!

Also, there's a funny movie/documentary a few guys put together of 'team domeski", 4 college kid's who've made millions playing poker.

Here is part 1/4: you can find the other 3parts on youtube (part 4 and 5 are awesome and involved a $10,000 propbet and hilarity):

part2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS29g1o0x3c&

part3:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380do2DhRrw&

part4:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KqmcUKWcjw&

part5:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOP4OJgqC5s&

hi

All is well on the pokerfront.

The month is only 13 days old and I'm already having my best one of the year.

I'm not even running that well to be honest, but at least I'm not running bad.

Not much else is new around here. My girlfriend randomly decided to buy me a new phone which was sweet. The phone I was using was a peice of trash (bought it used when I first got here), so it's a nice step up. It's nothing super balla, but all I use it for is txting anways so whatever. I tried to find a pic oline but failed.

Oh and I think I'll get a new computer next week too. Probably head over to the electronics market and browse some stuff this weekend.

thanks

Time to throw out a few 'thank you's to some random people who've helped my out with shit this week.

Bryan - Thanks for making the new header and fucking around with it until we got it right.

Dan - Thanks for your help with the computer stuff. I've been tweeking my system and the links you hooked up were a great help. It seems like I need more RAM though -- I'll check it out this weekend. If not, I'll probably bug you again soon if I end up getting a new comp. :)

Chris - For hookin me up with the XP disk and listening to me bitch most of the weekend

Hyejin - For helping me out with the chair and shieet, sometimes I don't know how I'd get anything done here without you.

I've been pretty much breakeven since I reinstalled everything. But my $4k bonus clears soon, and then a $1500 right after that. So that will make for a sweet month regardless. I'm gonna grind hard all month and hope for the best.

i'm a retard with a nice chair

Alright, so I'm back online after a weird weekend.

My girlfriend came by late Friday night, and we just decided to have a quiet night in. She was gonna stay over, and then spend Saturday with me. This obviously means no poker.

So I figure this is a great chance to format my hard drive in the hopes of speeding this beast up.

I backed everything important up to my external hard drive, and begin the process.

Long story short, 5 hours later I realize I'm an idiot and who formatted his external hard drive instead. So yeah, everything was gone. All my pictures, all my albums, all my poker stuff... everything... gone. Some of the stuff was irreplaceable like my old sets from when I DJ'd back home.

So I quietly freak out, as to not wake up my girl, frantically trying to think of any way I can recover my data. I must've told myself I was a morAn a million times. I felt so stupid... like I can't even explain. And I'm not clueless with computers -- I've formatted ~5 different comps, so it made me feel even worse.

I couldn't think at that point so I just went to bed.

This story has 80% of a happy ending though. I managed to find a few programs, and was able to salvage ~80% of the data. Most of what was I lost was albums, which unfortunatley included some of my irreplaceable music. My poker database was also corrupted (I think I may have just backed it up improperly), but I requested all my hands from Stars and should get it in a day or two.

I'm still a retard though. This pretty much led to a lot of extra work, and put me in a grumpy mood for the weekend.

Comp is running smoothly though now, and I'm thinking it should be able to handle the extra load (though I havn't tried yet).

If it still doesn't work out I'll use Dan's suggestion and just pick up some more RAM. I just wonder if it'll be difficult to find RAM for an HP laptop in korea? meh

Anyways, so yeah... I'm a retard, but I have a nice chair. Or at least I will soon. I just ordered the DuoBack Chairman DR-130:


It's supposed to be pretty awesome, and I've read a million good reviews about it. Seeing as I'm gonna be plopped in front of my computer all next year, I figure its a good investment in my health.

Finally, Nate asked a question in the comments about my setup. I'll probably take some pics when the new chair gets here. But yeah, I have an additional monitor where I keep the lobby and any other programs running. I play all the tables on my 17" laptop with tonnes of overlap. It's kind of like 4 stacks of tables, but slightly off centered which saves me from a lot of misclicks. No neck problems really, I usually wont even have to move my neck... just dart my eyes around.

I generally just drink water and listen to music. Once you start putting in long sessions, it just sort of gets easier. I've heard from lots of people that 5minute breaks every hour help out. I usually only stop to use the washroom, but then again, I'm a retard.

mass mutlitabling?

Well, I was all geared up to give 18tabling a shot today, but it didn't quite work out how I planned.

While I think I can easily handle the speed, it seems that my computer can not. I was getting crazy amoutns of lag with 18tables, so I cut it down to 15 which was OK. But I had to close down all other programs other than my HUD and winamp, which I simply can't do without.

I managed to play 6hrs w/o a break and got in 5,298hands (booked a nice $800profit too).

So I dunno what to do from here. I think I'm gonna format my computer and see how it reacts. If it's still slow, I mgiht just buy a new desktop.

This last week has been good to me, averaging ~$700/day. Ah, if only I could keep this pace up :)

interesting development

As some of you may know, I play 12tables at a time.
Why 12tables? Well, because it's the maximum allowed at pokerstars.
The cap is in place so people don't slow down the games too much.

Well, as of this morning, the cap has been extended to TWENTY FOUR tables.

wowwaweewa

24 tables is just insane... I don't think I could play well on that many tables. 16-18, I can see myself doing though.

So this development has me questioning what my plans are for next year. I could stay at 1-2NL and grind out 150,000hands a month (If I can comfortably play 18 tables, this is only 30hrs/week) and essentially guarantee myself $100,000 net profit for '08. If I run good it could even be closer to $200,000.

OR do I cut down on tables so I can concentrate, move up, improve, and try to make it to high stakes NL games where I could conceivably be having $50k+ months.

Basically, do I play it safe, or do I shoot for stars?

october results

Cash Games:
Hold 'em:
54,998 hands for $3,141.75 [$40.30/hr]

Omahahaha:
22 hands for $403 [$1,209.00/hr] :)

Tournaments:
7 played for a net loss of ($389.50)

Pokerstar Bonii:
$1500 VIP bonus

October Net profit: $4655.25

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Year to date: $55,549.88

I guess October was a pretty good month overall. I took ~2weeks off, and still managed to book a decent profit. I ran well below expectation, and was on the wrong end of a sick amount of set vs. oversets and other various coolers. But I'm not going to dwell on that. Let's hope those are out of the way and the tables are turned in November.

I'm actually looking forward to the next 2 months, and hoping they're huge for me.
First off, I'll be getting the $4000 and $5000 bonuses from pokerstars. Secondly, I'm mixing in some higher limit games into the mix.

My hope is to put together back to back $10,000 months which should be pretty doable if I put in the hours. Shouldn't be tough as I'll have lots of time to grind. My g/f is busy with work/school and the weather is starting to get cold so I have less desire to get out and party. That doesn't leave much else to do but hibernate and play a tonne of poker. :)

My guess is I'll end the year ~$80,000 profit, which is a little dissapointing in all honesty. But I'll take it. If I can play and run well at $400NL, and other games... I suppose $100k is possible.

My goal growing up in highschool and univeristy was to ONE DAY make $100,000/yr. A nice number that would allow me to live very comfortably. Plus it's just cool to say you make SIX FIGURES! Haha, anways it would be awesome if I could accomplish it my first year out of school.

Here's hoping....

edit:
Oh and happy b-day to my dad, on this happy halloween... have a good one!

back again

Well, I've been back from laos and it was good a time.
Generally the people are super friendly, but there isn't a hell of a lot to do. There are only a few clubs that go past 12pm. We basically ended up relaxing all day and getting cheap massages, and drinking all night.
As far as relaxation goes, it was pretty good.

Pretty sceneic palce as well. Here's an idea of what you could expect:


Also cruised down the nam song river in intertube for a few hours which was really beautiful to see. I don't have my own video, but this will give you some idea.



Alright - I'll be back at the end of the month wiht my pathetic numbers.

peace

AskWiki.com

I came across this new website that was just released called askwiki.com

Basically, it lets you ask questions of Wikipedia and does some natural language processing to find the answer.

It gets most basic questions about poker and some that aren't so basic

"What is poker?"

"When was David Sklansky born?"

"Where was Daniel Negreanu born?"

"When was the World Poker Tour founded?"

"What school did David Sklansky go to?"


It even gets "How big is my dick?"

laos

Hey, I'm taking a mini-vacation and heading to Laos tommorow morning.

Back next wednesday.

probably my best post ever

I went to everland with my girl the other day. It's a great amusement park/zoo in korea.
Fun rides, good times, blah blah blah, masturbating monkeys:




Sorry my video skillz are lacking, but the vid is awesome nonetheless.

Also, I decided to go to Laos on wednesday for no reason other than that I can.

The homestretch

Well, the end of the calender year is drawing closer, and it's time to make a push.

I'm certainly way off the ambitious goal I set for myself at the beginning of the year, which was $200k. lol.

I suppose if I played as much as I had planned (I should end up at ~50%) this might have been possible, but as it stands I should come up pretty short (barring any surprise tournament win or something).

I will probably also come short of the ultimate goal I set at the beginning of my blog, which is to earn $100,000 in one year.

But I'm thinking positively about the next coming months. I have a game plan, and am hoping to pull in about 30-40% of my annual income in the next 82days.

This will be largely in part to the $4,000 and $5,000 bonuses I will be reaching(stars supernova milestones), and the other 5 $1500 bonuses I will get while reaching those. So that's $16,500 right there, plus whatever I make at the tables. I'm hoping to at least match that and grab a cool $33,000 before the year end.

Actually I guess there is nothing cool about the number 33,000, but it's fun to say regardless.

So, this means playing 3000hands/day for the rest of the year -- 246,000hands. Shouldn't be a problem at all.

pretty good movie, imo

There's an interesting poker movie out called "the big blind".
The acting, directing, soundtrack and cinematography are all pretty incredible.

I didn't think anything would be able to top rounders, but this movie definitely has the potential.

Check out this scene and I'm sure you'll agree



Anyways, I'm off to go watch it again.

APPT Trip Report

First things first, I have to give it up to Pokerstars for a sick-good event.
Incredibly well run, and they took really good care of thier players. Being at the event has made me really want to play some more.

That said, I didn't cash in the main event. I've never played any tournament with such a slow structure, and maybe I didn't adjust as well as I could've. But then, maybe I'm just being results oriented.

I lasted about 8hours into day 1.
I got involved in about 4 memorable pots, and didn't take down a single one. I think I played them all out of position too, but I couldn't really help that.

The table was full of unknowns.

The first hand I got involved in was with JJ in the SB. I still had my starting stack, which was 10k. BLinds were 25/50 and the Hijack raised to 150. No real reads yet, but I bumped it up to 550 which he called. The flop came AQx, I fired a continuation bet of $1k which he called. I shut down and check/folded the turn.

Next hand, blinds still 25/50 I think. Same guy as last hand raises to 150 from late position. The small blind calls him, and I squeeze to 650 with AQ. Open raiser folds, and small blind calls. The player was really weak from what I had seen, but was a nice guy Canadian who had qualified for $1. I figured I'd be able to take it away on most flops without resistance.

Flop came 9 high, and I bet 1200. He doesn't think long and calls. The turn pairs the 9, and he donk bets into me for $2k. I pretend to think a bit and fold.

I have about 6500 now, and pick up AK in MP. Blinds are 50/100 now. I raise to 300 and get called by the button.

Flop was Q high, 2 spades. I fire 500 into the flop and get snapped called, which makes me think he has spades. The turn is another spade so I bet again because I'm smart. I bet 1k and he thinks and raises me to 4k. I pretend to think again and FOLD and am now on tilt because I get no respect.

So I have ~half my stack now, but still lots of room to work with. And now I have a laggy/weak image as I had been opening more pots than anyone else at the table.

So naturally, this is the perfect time for the tourney director to come and move me to a new table. sonofahyatctchcuihcicici.

He brings me to my new table, and things perk up as he sits me a few seats away from Joe Hachem. I'm not really concerned or anything, actually I'm pretty excited about the whole thing.

I hung out with Joe a bit the night before at the pokerstars party, and he seemed like a nice enough guy. So obviously I say hi to him as I sit, but he ignores me which puts me on even more tilt. Now not only do I have a shortstack, but I get to find out nobody likes me.

Joe played pretty well, except that he limped a lot of pots. I guess it was because he could get away with it as the table was pretty weak tight. He limped when I was in the big blind a few times, which allowed me to lead at a few pots and slowly build up my stack. I managed to climb back as high as 8k, but no further.

Eventually I dwindled back down to about 4k when blinds were 150/300. Some older asian dude who had been active raised to 900 from MP. I pushed on the button with 66. He thought for like 5 minutes which made me happy and then calls with AKs. WTF DUDE SLOWROLLZZ YOU HAVE 20K IN CHIPS.

Flop KKx, turn A, gg me.

All in all it was fun. Met some cool people and learned a thing or two.

What was more fun was the cash games afterwards. I destroyed 2/5 and 1/2 for the next 3 days for $3,000 and like 1,000,000 gin and tonics.

Anyways, since I've been back at my apartment things have been shitty. A bunch of my friends are in trouble, and some left the country. Plus my Internet has been out for 3days (just came back today) and my fridge is broken.

FRIDGE RANT:
Ok so I come back on monday and open my fridge, which is warm and very smelly. I leave it because I'm lazy and deal with it on Tuesday.
So I call the technician and he comes and says the compressor is shot. $180 to fix. Whatever, it's 5yrs old and these things happen. Plus it's not mine so I get my g/f to get hold of the landlord so she can fix/replace it.

Keep in mind that in 14months, I've never seen/spoken to/asked for anything from my landlord. Also that I had $100+ worth of groceries in there, which I've had to toss out.

SO yeh, the real estate liaison says that the owner will be VERY angry to hear about this problem, and that is my fault for damaging the fridge. Also, in the 5yrs of this building, there has never been a problem with any fridge. OH REALLY? As an employee of an electronics chain for 3years, I can sort of smell the bullshit here.

Anyways. She gets hold of the landlord, and now she wants to come and look at it. Why in the world does she need to see the fridge? Is she a fridge expert? The technician said what the problem was, told her it was not my fault-- so just deal with it please.

It's just really annoying that she doesn't believe me and that everyone assumes its my fault. Isn't it totally standard to have to make repairs to your place? And shes going to come in, and say things I wont understand, and she wont understand me, so it's just going to be a mess.

whatever this post is way too long, eff it im going to sleep.

september results

Cash Games:
52,940 hands for $1,624.70 [$20.18/hr]

Live Games:
~25hrs for $2,941.24

Tournaments:
17 played for a net of ($2921.74) includes APPT buyin+$500 event

Pokerstar Bonii:
$125 Reload bonus
$3000 APPT package

July Net profit: $4769.20
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Year to date: $50,894.63

Thank god I crushed live cash games so hard or the month would've sucked.

There's a slim chance I cash $5500 in bonuses next month. Fingers crossed.