its been awhile

dont worry im not busto

not robusto yet either though sadface


I read up on this old blog and decided I needed to post more again. A lot has happened in the last almost year. I live it Baltimore now! Also, I live with a girl. Well two actually but only one I'm in love with. And I'm mostly writing in sentences with correct grammar and punctuation now, which hopefully will last. Ty, gmat studying. (obvious, short fragments are okay)

I read over some of my old posts and realized that posting more will be good for me. It's great to be able to just write openly and see what happens. Seeing what you've written in the past is also fun and interesting.

Measuring poker talent is quite difficult, near impossible directly. But intuitively I realize that I've gotten aprox 300 times better at poker since my last writing. It's a bit sad to know if I was this good at poker 2 years ago I'd be a millionaire, hands down. However I am very fortunate to be in the place I am now. I am extremly confident in 99.95% of the plays I make and know now that I have the tools to become an even better player.

I don't have much else to say, but I do plan on writing again soon. I g2g as there is this massive fire in Bmore that I want to check out in the interwebs tomorrow. I smells quite profusely of the wood from an old townhouse in here, which from the view of the helicopters looks like it is about a half mile away. Its like a campfire smell but in my office.

ran good on election picks

made $1360 on elections, ty indiana democrats for coming through.



unfortunately thats it for good news.

list of things currently pissing me off:

insanely high taxes
regs in every game
inflation, inevitable crash of the dollar, etc.
im getting super bored with poker
its cold outside and there isnt snow



on a more seriously note i have gotten exponentially better at poker since going 100% pro jan 1st. unfortunately i still cannot crush 5/10+ nlhe or plo sigh (althought im pretty sure im good enough to beat the 5/10 of like 1-2 years ago). yet it makes me respect and apprecitate players and hands like thsi even more:


just kidding i dont have a hand but i think nvg has some good ones

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i have been pretty bored with poker lately so i havent been talking too much about it. its been going okay, i had expected it to be a little better, but mainly i should be playing more overall.

i havent played really in the last 10 days. one of my very best friends died 9 days ago. it has been pretty rough. ive been thinking a lot lately and trying to put things in perspective since then.

PokerEv graphs or it didnt happen!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaapok45a4g ay5wphe o5 i6 rirn6 hwpp4n` <-- that, is what the title would look like typed on the wrong keys. also, i believe my 'a' key was broken. anyways, ive totally forgotten about this blog for awhile. sept ended up bad, down 4.5k. I made up for it this month though. up 6.3k ish. yes to cash games.

ok now the reason for this post. no more complaining about poker. dont tell me bad beats or any of that crap. just run the last session you had in pokerEV. as long as red line is okay you should be happy. and if pokerev says you are a losing player, then you probably are.

busted gf again

In another home game. But to be fair she did bust me first and then i re bought. We ended up heads up and I won.

Poker has been terrible. I haven't played much this month, less than 600 games but im down over $3800. My worst month before was down about $25. Its pretty frustrating because I know im playing well but the variance is just sick huge. I just can't imagine playing mtts for a living. ok im sick of talking about poker and about playing. ill probably be doing hw all weekend and wont get much chance to play. hpefully i can still get supernova * 2 by the end of the year.

busted my gf in a home game

$10 buyin. I staked her getting 50% of her winnings, pretty good deal for her considering she has no idea how to play. She doesnt know hand rankings or what her options are when its her turn to act.

Here is the hand:

BB t30 i have about 900 chips and limp Jd9d in the Co+1 after 3 other limpers. ave stack is like 700. button limps too and SB completes so 7 handed we see a flop of Qd2d8h (or something like that.) Everyone checks around, which is very impressive in a live donkey game. Turn is a 2 and it checks around again. River is Kd checked around to my gf who is to my right who pushes for about 300 into a pot of 210.

Now her being a n00b she likely has a big hand. maybe a 2, a flush, or a king, and possible a boat but she probably would have bet the turn. I finaly decide i beat most flushes and she could have KJ or something and i push. In retrospect i should have just called but it is fun going all in live plus i had a few beers in me. Especially since the girl on the button folded top pair. She might have called had i not pushed. I thought it was close but a call, now im not so sure. Jman was on my left and he says he would have folded so it was probably a fold. Oops.


edit: almost forgot the best part. she had As3s. which is a sick bluff for her. Its a decent bluffing spot but its even better for her since everyone knows she "must" have a had. Ok but the best thing is she thought she had a straight. AKQ, ya know? She thought it was a straight because it is in cribbage. And whats hilarious about that is that it isnt a straight in cribbage. A 3 card straight cant wrap around (Ace is low only)


Poker hasnt been going too well. Im down like $1200 this month but I havent play a whole lot. School is going ok but I just know writing a billion papers is going to suck.

The good thing about poker is ive gotten much better at not caring about results. I can usually just look at the hands that are all in and say to myself what my equity is and be done with caring. But obviously im not perfect at it yet because losing big pots still pisses me off.

didnt play for 5 days

oops. brewer games, weddings, partys, drinking at noon for badgers games all seemed to get in teh way this week. i played sunday for the first time since monday. i also was on a sick tear of drinking 8 out of the last 10 days. heading to bed now because we are tailgating early tomorrow for the brewers game. im gonna try and catch up and play a lot this week but it might be tough with school starting.