Summer Is Already Half Over

And what have I done? Nothing. Blatantly, nothing.

I've grinded SNG's, which, at first was sweeeet but yesterday literally drove me so s00icide, so I'm taking a day or two off. I also interviewed for a marketing consulting job, which would last the next few months til I peace to Vegas, just to supplement my non-existant income, because apparently my bank thinks I'm a drug dealer / money launderer.

Oh yeah, to that. So I cashed out two checks on Stars, deposited both of them in my local bank (Huntington) over Memorial weekend, and received a nice little phone call once I got back to school that "I may or may not be an international drug lord," in their opinion. Apparently they aren't too fond of checks coming from foreign islands, but somehow I have never EVER had a problem with other sites like PokerRoom and FTP. Another reason I FUCKING HATE STARS. First reason, search for Inni's "This is not a random site, by any means," talk about their RNG, as it DOES NOT FUCKING EXIST. I'm starting to feel the same way about FTP. I mean, honestly, how many times can KK < AK? Within the last 100 games I've kept track of the beats (yes, I'm a tool,) it's happened 27 times. This is WAYYYYYYYYYYY fucking beyond expectation. You mean to tell me that, in 100 games AK will win over a lower pair 27 times? Sure, I'll buy it, easily. You mean to tell me that within a 100 game span, where KK is up against AK in maybe Maybe MAYBE MAYYYBEEEEEEEEE EVERRRRRRRRRR 40 times, AK will win 27 times? I don't fucking think so. I hate online poker.

Find someone that can play better at any level less than the $100's, and I bet I run worse, yet still make fundamentally more sound push/fold/calls. Flat out, I've had the very best in the SNG world look at my HH's and it just comes down to "gg, ul." FUCK VARIENCE, because, at some point, that dumb shit turns around. When you continually get it in with TT or AQ on the bubble, and constantly get called by Q3 and 89dd, and can't hold a SINGLE hand, you have to wonder about the sites. Sorry, I'm not new money, PS or FTP. Please stop punishing me.

/rant


As much as I've hated poker lately, it's still brought me some really good friends, and some really good times. I hate my bank cause now I'm flat-out unable to get out to Vegas for the 4th of July, but it might be for the better, as that could absolutely wreck any money I have and will have in the future, just cause that happens in Vegas. I'll know within 2ish weeks though whether or not I'll be living with Clay, which I fully hope to be, and anticipate on doing.


Big congrats to Chris for chopping a $1k Venetian for $30k. Who ever said live tourneys are rigged? Oh, wait....they still are. Cash a WSOP for the love of God.

Onward with life...

So I finished school. I decided it'd be a sweet idea to drive back on Friday around 9 PM in an INSANE monsoon (yes, monsoon) and it sucked ass. Everyone was driving like 20 mph for about 45 minutes which tilted me beyond belief. Once I finally got back towards civlization it was a lot better, as the rain was slowing and people who drive on a regular basis knew how to drive. Thank God.

Being home from school obv. has it's positive and negatives. Negatives in that I will never be living that life again. Postitives in that I am moving on, and clearly no one can party forever. I love my new house, and I'm really glad I moved into it. I have some random ass job interviews for just a summer position until I move to Vegas, and I successfully missed the first one due to SNGs until 10:30 am yesterday. I'm really good at life. I made up some BS excuse to the company, but hopefully I won't even have to worry about a job, as I plan on playing about 7-8 hours per day, which will, hopefully, put me at ~80 games a day. If I don't run like hell, which I haven't been lately, should make me more than anyone I know working a real job.

I'm about to go play (And I plan on doing this every night, the Eurodonks are the easiest money to be made,) and I'll stop playing around 9 am. I'm just figuring out the schedule I need to be playing to maximize profits, and this is it. I don't really give a shit about my sleeping pattern if I'm doing this, as long as I still get to see Kelsey, who works stupid ass hours anyway, and my friends every once in a while during the week, cause they all work too.

glglgllllll to Phil Galfond in the $5k PLO rebuy event, he's CL as I'm writing this, and hopefully he can ship a solid $600k. GL to Steve in the $2.5k NLHE event, as he's one of the CLs, but it's only been through two days.


Finally, FUCKING WIN SOME RACES CHRIS, JESUS CHRIST. And glglgllllllllll to you most of all man.


P.S. I just wanna be in Vegas



Edit: I almost forgot. Fuck life, according to Kevin (Kice32). He got HU in the $215 HU matches, only to lose like the 2nd hand AK to K9. The asshole rivered a 9 to take him down to something sick like 200 chips, and it was just SOOOOO brutal. $11k is nothing to scoff at, but $22.3k woulda been a lot nicer, especially when you played the hand perfectly. F life.

So bittersweet

I love being at OU. I love being done with school. I hate being away from Vegas. I hate that almost all of my friends are out there cashing their dreams. I love the fact that, for the next 3 months until I move, I can make me and my backer money playing SNGs finally. I no longer want to shoot myself every time I sit down to play (Thanks site switch.)

I'm officially done with college. Forever. How weird does that sound? Well, it's even weirder to type. I'm about to go home to my new house, help my mom get settled in, and just kick it all summer, it looks like. What's sad about that? I hope to do absolutely nothing but play for about 8 hours a day. I'm planning like 1 PM - 9 PM sessions, and depending on how it goes, wayyyy later into the night. It shouldn't be too hard when all of my best friends are either working their asses off already, or can't go out every night. This is the first summer where that's going to be the case, and it kinda sucks, but at least I'll get to see them for a few last weekends before we all part ways. Real world sucks, right? My friends are going to Chicago, New York, Jacksonville, and Austin. And those are the ones who haven't even left yet. My best friend has already been in LA for about 8 months, but soon enough, I'll be within a few hours of him, so that's not all that bad.

It's so crazy waking up and knowing within days you'll be in the real world. I envy some of you, and I know some of you can't wait to get out of what you're doing now. Just enjoy what you have, for sure, and keep doing what you love to do.

BTW, Spain ftw in the next few hours. I <3 soccer now that I follow what Clay says (Minus yesterday, which he told me I wasn't able to be enough on to drop a bomb)

Here's some examples of how awesome I run

Only two because they just happened, but I have to bitch somewhere. Earlier in the day before either of these I literally got one outted again in the first freaking level. JJ < AA < AJ. Go figure, right? Onto the fun stuff, my favorite one is first, only because again I got one outted by TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE!


PokerStars Game #17879822650: Tournament #90685082, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2008/06/03 - 00:42:33 (ET)
Table '90685082 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MAXINE420 (1395 in chips)
Seat 2: The_Venetian (1445 in chips)
Seat 3: SLeibin (1470 in chips)
Seat 4: tysmith37 (1270 in chips)
Seat 5: thethreat9 (1150 in chips)
Seat 6: co2895 (2485 in chips)
Seat 7: azharsx (685 in chips)
Seat 8: NickyC620 (2190 in chips)
Seat 9: Eljuni (1410 in chips)
SLeibin: posts small blind 25
tysmith37: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SLeibin [Kd Kh]
thethreat9: raises 50 to 100
co2895: calls 100
azharsx: raises 50 to 150
NickyC620: folds
Eljuni: raises 1260 to 1410 and is all-in
MAXINE420: folds
The_Venetian: folds
SLeibin: raises 60 to 1470 and is all-in
tysmith37: folds
thethreat9: calls 1050 and is all-in
co2895: calls 1370
azharsx: calls 535 and is all-in
SLeibin said, "nice lol"
*** FLOP *** [9h 4h Ac]
*** TURN *** [9h 4h Ac] [9d]
tysmith37 said, "wow"
*** RIVER *** [9h 4h Ac 9d] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SLeibin: shows [Kd Kh] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
co2895: shows [Ah Qd] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
co2895 collected 120 from side pot-3
Eljuni: shows [Jd Js] (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
co2895 collected 780 from side pot-2
thethreat9: shows [Qs Qh] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
co2895 collected 1860 from side pot-1
azharsx: shows [Kc As] (two pair, Aces and Nines - King kicker)
MAXINE420 said, "wow"
azharsx collected 3475 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6235 Main pot 3475. Side pot-1 1860. Side pot-2 780. Side pot-3 120. Rake 0
Board [9h 4h Ac 9d 6s]
Seat 1: MAXINE420 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: The_Venetian (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: SLeibin (small blind) showed [Kd Kh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines
Seat 4: tysmith37 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: thethreat9 showed [Qs Qh] and lost with two pair, Queens and Nines
Seat 6: co2895 showed [Ah Qd] and won (2760) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 7: azharsx showed [Kc As] and won (3475) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 8: NickyC620 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Eljuni showed [Jd Js] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Nines


And then the VERY NEXT FUCKING HAND IN ANOTHER GAME:


PokerStars Game #17879869852: Tournament #90685051, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/06/03 - 00:45:46 (ET)
Table '90685051 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: The_Venetian (1445 in chips)
Seat 2: MARLOU (860 in chips)
Seat 3: cjal (1310 in chips)
Seat 4: Botboy70 (1730 in chips)
Seat 5: Burgerchamp (2250 in chips)
Seat 6: SLeibin (1470 in chips)
Seat 7: 52card1river (1815 in chips)
Seat 8: runvsofme (1090 in chips)
Seat 9: Eljuni (1530 in chips)
Burgerchamp: posts small blind 50
SLeibin: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SLeibin [Ah Kc]
52card1river: folds
runvsofme: calls 100
Eljuni: folds
The_Venetian: folds
MARLOU: raises 760 to 860 and is all-in
cjal: folds
Botboy70: folds
Burgerchamp: folds
SLeibin: raises 610 to 1470 and is all-in
runvsofme: calls 990 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (380) returned to SLeibin
*** FLOP *** [Js 9h Jc]
*** TURN *** [Js 9h Jc] [Qd]
Botboy70 said, "someone's gone"
*** RIVER *** [Js 9h Jc Qd] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SLeibin: shows [Ah Kc] (a pair of Jacks)
runvsofme: shows [As 9d] (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
runvsofme collected 460 from side pot
MARLOU: shows [Ad 4d] (a pair of Jacks)
runvsofme collected 2630 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3090 Main pot 2630. Side pot 460. Rake 0
Board [Js 9h Jc Qd 6c]
Seat 1: The_Venetian folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: MARLOU showed [Ad 4d] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 3: cjal folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Botboy70 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Burgerchamp (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: SLeibin (big blind) showed [Ah Kc] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 7: 52card1river folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: runvsofme showed [As 9d] and won (3090) with two pair, Jacks and Nines
Seat 9: Eljuni folded before Flop (didn't bet)



I run g00t.

Wow it's been a while

So I'm laying here, hungover as all hell, doing everything in my power to avoid finishing a paper that was due at 5 pm last Friday. I also skipped a group meeting, just from general all-around laziness. Soooo, here we are.

This weekend was entertaining, to say the least. Gooch came for his birthday (like he needed a reason,) and Cait came just to party. That's mainly why I didn't get my paper done Friday. I meant to take a 10 minute break around 4 pm and go over to Spressers. That turned out into me being blacked out at the bar by 9 pm. Saturday was a whole lot of the same. I intentionally didn't go to Millfest so I could play the 100k freeroll for Goldstar+ at 3 pm. Well I played 2 sets of SNGs before that and managed to non-cash every single one of them except for the last one, which I won, but who gives a shit? Going 1/12 is atrocious, to say the least. I honestly run every key hand through an ICM calculator after I bust and guess what? I'm making the right moves every single time, and getting terirble outcomes every single time. Such is life. The 100k was pretty super-duper ghey, too. I hate MTTs to begin with, so that didn't help. I basically stuck around the starting stack until the first break, and busted the first hand back. I had T7 in the BB, folds to button, flats, SB folds, I check. Flop 89T rainbow, check to me, I shove, he calls, tables KJ. Obv. turn K and if that wasn't a big enough fuck you, river 7 for the straight.

After that debocle I was more than in the mood to drink, even though nearly everyone was blacked out or passed out at this point from Millfest. I ended up just killing half a 12 at Spressers while throwing waterballoons (tiny NEEPLE balloons) at unsuspecting O'Bettys patrons below. Then it turned into everyone waking up and going to the bar, and just general blacking out.

And I absolutely just got an email from another group saying we aren't meeting tomorrow (which means we aren't going to class,) so I'm done til Tuesday. On that note, it's time to go to the bar and further put this paper off.

Pz kids.

Oh, P.S. glglglgl to Mike Sowers in the $10k Pot-Limit HE event #1 at WSOP. He's at the FT sitting 2nd in chips. Take this one down bud. glgl to AMAK who also FT'ed, but obv Sowers is winning it.

New record?

So this is the 2nd night this week I haven't gone out at all or had even a beer. This is honestly a personal best for the last 5-ish years of my life. At least as long as I have been at college. That's pretty sad, but who would have ever thought poker would be a healthy life choice?

One of the reasons I didn't go out was that it's Palmerfest tomorrow. Most of you probably don't know what that is, but there's a street at my school (Palmer, obv.) that basically gets blocked off and every house on the street has insane amounts of kegs. See below picture for our house's stash last year. There's probably about 40-ish houses and apartments on the street and it's an all-out riot. This year I think Playboy and Four alcohol/energy drink are sponsoring my friend's house, which I'll be at promptly at 9 am to begin the day-long black out.





Not too much going on poker-wise. All my LAPTs are step 5 tickets now, and it sucks because the games haven't been running much. I was tempted to play in one of the most -ev games I saw just because it's getting close, but the table had Ch0ppy, Jorj, DSavo, Azntracker and P0ker H0 (even though cmoney told me I should take every opportunity to play with him,) so I passed that one up. I did play one earlier however, we got down to 3 handed, me, H0 and some no-name. H0 barely had me covered and was playing like the complete nit he is, so I shoved J5ss from the SB on him and he insta called with 56o. Ship step 6, right? Once again, wrong. Flushed on the river, gg me. So I basically sat reg'ed for another step 5 all day and another game didn't run at all. This is really getting aggrivating because I don't want to have to relegate to playing against good people. If I don't win a seat I'll be SUPER pissed, because I know I'm better than 95% of the people playing those steps. I've also decided to stop going out as often and only play nights, because the games at night are even easier than the day games. That, or the day games hated me today, as I took some horrendous beats. Anyway, here's some stats from the last few days:

5-9-09

Games Played - 27
Total Buy-Ins - 729
Total Cashes - 787.50
Total Profit - 58.50

5-8-09

Games Played - 12
Total Buy-Ins - 324
Total Cashes - 270
Total Profit - -54

Hopefully only playing nights will start to improve these stats. If I can achieve numbers I'm 98% sure I can playing at night, and start cranking out more tables (I'm just starting to get a feel for all the regs,) I should be able to pull off just under $1k a week profit, which I wouldn't mind at all.

Seeing as how I'll be up drinking in 4 1/2 hours, I bid you all farewell.

Decent day

So yeah, I guess I decided to let people know I'm making a blog (and by people I mean P5's,) because hey, why not share my life with 8 million of my favorite strangers? I'll talk about a lot of random shit I'm sure, but it's also a good way to keep track of what I do poker-wise on a consistant basis. FWIW we did work out a whole staking arrangement for SNGs, so we'll see what I can do with that. I'm tired as hell right now, and didn't even go out tonight. I didn't think I was going to start playing til tomorrow but I got bored tonight so I just played a few tables to see how the evening/night games compared to the day games, which are super soft. I'll only be playing the $27 turbos, btw.

The very first game I played who got seated to my right? LadyMaverick herself, Vanessa "I'm SOOO fucking horrible at poker it's funny," Russo. Long story short, we got heads up, I had her covered huge at the start, I got it in good pre, she hit runner runner for a flush to nearly cripple me. I got back up like 7k to 5k effective, she open-shoved, I call with 55, she flops a J, I river a flush and just say "Hosed rly?" and her rail went nuts. Fucking homos. Anyway, stats from the few games today:

5-7-08

Games played: 7
Total buy-ins: 189
Total cashes: 360
Total profit: 171

As I update this more, I'll pull a jhub thing (jhub3000.livejournal.com) and start doing daily as well as weekly and monthly stats.

Turned all my excess cash into LAPT steps so I've got a 5, 2 4's and 2 3's so hopefully I'm blogging from Costa Rica in 2 weeks.

Pz.

Wow, this is a first

So I can't believe I relegated to making a blog. I feel a lot like Hank Moody from Californication and basically never though I could see myself doing this. I guess I see a lot of other people I know blogging about things (mostly poker related, but I'm not yet that balla,) but I figured it's something to do while I sit here between checking PocketFives.com and Facebook all day. I'm not sure how often I'll be updating this, as I'm not even sure I'm going to tell people I'm writing these things yet. I guess I'll make sure I have some level of consistency before I make such a commitment to the intimate world of blogging.

As of right now, there's only a few things going on in life besides getting hammered every night (and I took last night off and it was cinco de mayo zomg!!! It was OK though, got to rail Wretchy deep in the late 109r. GG 4th.) I'm basically coasting my way through the rest of school right now, and that's completely fine by me. I don't really know which is bigger news, the fact that I'm moving in Chagrin or the fact that within a month or two after that I'll be moving to Vegas. My uncle finally took a job out in California after being heavily recruited for about the last like 7 or 8 years, and my mom (and I guess me,) is going to be moving into his old house Memorial weekend so a few years from now, if he wants, he has the option of coming back. It's a sweet house with a shit ton of yard and woods so it'll be a nice change from downtown Chagrin.

Like I mentioned, I'm moving to Vegas sometime in August. Most likely closer to the end of the month, as that's when Mike and Clay's leases are up on their apartments. I've been talking to Mike about living with him for a few months now and he's been looking around at places out there, but then a week or two ago, Clay decided he was going to buy a house in Henderson, and I think we're going to just rent from him for the time being, which would be sweet. The houses he's shown me so far are pretty awesome, and the one he's pretty set on I love, so hopefully that works out.

I've been playing a hell of a lot more poker lately than I was a month ago. I guess I kind of got burnt out on it, and varience in SNGs is the biggest motivation-killer in the world. I could go up a few hundred in a day and drop it right back the next day. I think I let myself get into too much of a robotic rhythm after watching Icons videos over and over again. Monotiny on that level only works when you can 20-table for 8 hours a day, I think. Last week I cashed out what I owed my buddy Chris for paying for my plane ticket to Aruba last fall (room and booze were free, it's nice to know ballers.) I only left myself a few hundred online and didn't even think I was going to play again until school was over and hopefully grind through the summer so I didn't need a real job, but found out Chris was going to LAPT in Costa Rica at the end of May. I decided I'd try to step into it, supplementing steps with $16 and $27 turbos. Needless to say I've been on the heater of my life since I started this little venture a few days ago. I've for sure made more profit over the same time period playing volume, but I've only been playing 1-2 tables at a time (mostly due to br restrictions,) and it's been working out. As of now I've tripled the cash I started with (played 5 regular sngs today, first in all 5, I rule,) and accumulated a decent amount of step tickets, 3-5. I managed to step into 6 last night, and wanted to play it SO bad, but Ch0ppy and DSavo were both registered, and that's just WAYYYY -ev, even though it pays 4 seats.

I played it today, and holy shit do I wish I saved my HH's. 5 players left, I'm in the BB with 2nd short stack. SS is the sb, who I only have covered by maybe ~300 chips. Folds to him in the sb, he shoves, I'm holding KK, snap it off, he shows Q8s. Weeeeee, going to Costa Rica!!!!!! right? Absolutely not. Flop Q8x, turn x, river x to cripple me, and I couldn't even cover a BB, shoved whatever, lost whatever, what the fuck ever. I'm pretty confident I can make my way into it with the remaining tickets I have, and if not, at least play some more steps or satty into the $500 qualifier this Sunday.

The only other poker thing going on is I might possibly get a backer for my SNGs. Weird, right? But yeah, I have no sustainable bankroll as I haven't had a real job in years, and I refuse to attempt to grind out anything less than $13 sngs. It's honestly a crap-shoot from the start. Not even kidding, they're harder to beat than $60's cause no one has any clue what they're doing. So hopefully that works out and I can make myself and my backer some loot. I'm still a little confused on how the situation would work out, seeing as how being backed for SNGs is rare, if not unheard of (I've never heard of it.) But whatever, he's a good friend of mine, so we'll figure it out.

I guess that's it for now. Cavs are playing right now (and playing like shit, might I add,) so I'm going to go get hammered and watch them.

Pz kids, not sure if anyone will ever even see this, but it just kept me entertained.


Edit: Oh, btw, I stole your layout Kice. My bad. It's the only one that doesn't look like shit, imo.