CARDRUNNERS

I feel within the last 2-3 weeks my game has improved a ton. There are a bunch of little things i have realized and applied into my game to make me both tougher to play against and a much bigger winner. Most of the stuff are some little things i have picked up from watching snap and genius play and talking things over with them.

I'm really interested in grinding and taking more shots at bigger games. I was thinking about how ive done so far this year and here are what i think my results are in online cash games (not positive cause ive missed a ton of hands on PT):

-5k at 2/4 nl
+40k at 3/6 nl
+5k at 5/10 nl
+15k at 10/20 nl (somehow erased all of the debt and won some, have been killing this on ftp lately, on like a 45k upswing there)
+110k at 25/50
+5k at 50/100 nl
-30k at 200/400 nl (horrible shot gone wrong, splitting action 3 ways)
-10k in limit holdem
-50k in plo
+0k in mtt/sng combined

overall i estimate im up about 80k in online this year. obviously i could be up a lot more if i hadnt played plo, limit holdem or taken a shot.


The shot at 200/400 was the worst ive ever run short term. Snap, yellowsub and i saw an insanely good game going with noataima, stilltippin, juanda, a shorty and cts (who would be on our right) so we sat and proceeded to lose JJ v AQ, 88 v AQ, top pair+flushdraw vs top pair better kicker and KK v AA to lose 85k overall. I'm convinced that in the softer games i would be a huge winner and im really interested in running up my online br to like 800k and taking shots.


PLO i started off really hot then started running bad and getting run over. I think i was a bit too tight and made some mistakes here and there. After i really cement my NL game im going to pull a brian townsend and play 3/6 and 5/10 plo for like 40k hands until im really confident im killing it and then do the same at 10/20 and 25/50 before moving to higher stakes.


Limit hold em i watched one of schneids video and watched my roommate steve play day in and day out but it still hasnt clicked for me yet. i really feel as if ive been running bad in it and playing a style that should be winning but isnt optimal, but i am going to put this on hold also until i really feel great about my nl game and am beating the higher games.


online MTT im really disappointed in myself. i really feel as if there arent 15 better online mtt players than myself but i have the worst db of all time. Im down 31k in mtt on stars and im probably about even on ftp. I am going to work really hard on my mtt game in the next few months for the wcoop and to get my profits in the black. i think what ill try and do is really work on my abc tournament game and when i get my desktop working ill 4 table cash on one screen and 4 table mtt mindlessly on the other screen.


in live mtt this summer i feel as if i ran horribly and really performed almost up to the best of my ability at the time, but im positive that i can improve and force better results even through running bad. im going to do a lot of thinking on what happened in the tournaments this summer and ill probably read the read em and reap book by hellmuth and the cia guy on live reads to try and pick up everything and anything i can on that.


im going to restart my PT database from august 1 out and really spend a lot of time studying each day after i play. im so motivated to be one of the best after being in vegas the last 2 months and watching all the big games and watching genius play. he is the most impressive player ive ever played against, talked with and sweated and i really feel as if the things ive seen have had a huge impact on what i can become as a player.


had to vent all this out, have an interesting story from the bank to tell, ill post that in a couple days

This hand happened in a home game we played a few weeks ago. I never got a chance to blog about it, but now i have internet so its about time i put this up in a post.

This post was inspired by captzeebo's post about the biggest pot he ever won. If youve never seen it, i highly suggest checking it out here: http://captzeebo.supok.net/ Click the link from 2006-10-27 titled the biggest pot of my life. Without a doubt the single greatest poker blog post in the history of the internet.




We were playing 7 handed for most of the night in a 1/2 NL game with a 1 dollar ante and 600 buyin. The players were me, chris/genius28, steve/xtbcx on full tilt/youngguyy on stars (hes a 100/200+ limit player), clint/beatifulman, martine23, josh/reddog133, and lyric.


The game was playing very aggressively and a little maniacally, but everyone is playing very well. There is often a straddle and restraddle and sometimes a 3rd straddle forcing even more action than there already was. There had already been a few extremely impressive plays, i.e. josh called 300 all in on the turn with A high and it was good, genius called 2 streets with KQ high on an A high flop and it was good, etc.

We were drinking a bit and having a good time, and the song of the summer, the way i are came on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWg3IMN_rhU

we all go a little crazy and decide for this hand we are going to play with a 5 dollar ante instead of 1 dollar. Here is how the hand went down in picture form. the green numbers beside our names is how much money we started the hand with.



























So basically even though i rule at poker i still got destroyed by the master.

Havent updated in a while, my stupid computer wont connect to webpages, only poker sites and aim. its really awful, i cant even connect to FTP anymore because there is an update and i cant get to the webpage to dl it. sick beat. so right now im posting this on clint's (beatifulman) computer

oh well, here is a quick list of what has happened so far this summer.


-I've done pretty shitty during the series. so far ive played 15 events and have only cashed in 2 for small cashes. ive bubbled 2 and busted out in the money with aces in another. basically running really bad in them cause ive played very well in 13 of the 15 events (played bad in the plo rebuy and the stud8). but thats ok because...

-the guys im backing are doing really well. from the last post, everyone knows mig won a bracelet, and i bought a percentage of online mtt player brett favre for the series, and he just got 2nd in a 2k limit event. kind of funny, i havent met him yet, but im really happy for him and me of course

-the first house i moved into was across the street from a bunch of degenerate white trash meth dealers. not joking. nancy martin (martine23's mom) is my hero though, she found us this awesome new house. its called a mini castle. heres a link to it:
http://www.luxuryrealestate.com/662782

some pictures of the place:



we have a knight:







as you can see, nancy martin rules.

-this guy named thenut21 got 2nd in the 1k sunday for 158k, but lost hu with KK v AA and first place got 310k. i guess he went on lifetilt after that, cause he lost his mind and started playing 4 5k hus at a time. i managed to sneak a game in vs him and won. check out our sharkscopes, mine looks pretty baller with the straight line up now and his looks so hilariously sad:

mine:


his:


-i am doing the online broadcast of the 2k nl final table today. ill be doing the poker commentary and there is a guy who will chime in with jokes and ads and other commentary type things while im babbling. you can watch the feed on www.worldseriesofpoker.com it costs 50 bucks to sign up for all the broadcasts for the series, but there are a few really good ones to watch, like dirksens final table with zeejustin commentating and the one brian and taylor did.



thats about it. hopefully internet starts working again.