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Taylor Caby: Poker Blog

March 19, 2008

Ok, so this post will be about a variety of topics. I'll get the non poker/CR stuff out of the way first.

-This is the first time since 99 that Illinois hasn't been in the NCAA tourney, and it's pissing me off. This is our worst season I can ever remember, and it was extremely disheartening. To top it off, I didn't even get to watch most of the games this year because of the f'ing Big Ten Network not being picked up by Comcast. I'm getting DirectTV if that is the case next year. I'm really looking forward to March Madness, though, and I'll probably be watching 8-10 hours a day of basketball Thur-Sun this weekend.

-I'm going to U of I next week to give a speech to a group of 100-150 kids in an entrepeurship class. I took the class my last semester at school, and it was one of my favorite classes in college. This weekend I have to figure out what I am going to say, and practice it a little bit. I honestly don't know what I'm going to talk about, I feel like I know a lot about being an entrepreneur, but it's hard to organize information in a logical and interesting manner. It's kind of like, most winning poker players know a lot about poker, but a lot of them can't talk eloquently about it. Hopefully I'm not one of those donks. This should be a good test run of my speaking skills for an NYU speaking gig Ezra got for me in a couple weeks.

-Onto poker. I made a heads up video with annette_15 this week. She was kind enough to send her HH's in so we'll have those added to the video. We played 3-6nl and I was beating her up pretty good for awhile until she nearly came all the way back at the end. I think it will make for a good video.

-You guys are going to be pissed, but cts' video for Friday didn't properly record the sound. He's traveling now, so his next video will be up a week from Friday. I'm going to fill in, which leads me to my next point.

-Until the last day or so, I've been been crushing, hard. I'm up 50k+ on my Red Name in 8 days. I'm down 21k playing above 25/50 (in a very small sample), and up about 70k in 25/50 and below, over about 7500 hands. It's a small sample size obviously, but i'm sure my 6max game has DRASTICALLY improved over the past month or so. I'm doing a much better job mixing up my play, not being so damned robotic, which is easy to do when you are playing 4-6+ tables. Talking poker with Stinger, peachy, and cts in Santa Barbara also really helped me think about the game from a new perspective. I'm going to make a 5-10 or 10-20 6max video, playing 4 tables. My last video of 6max got great reviews, and I think it might have been my best video ever.

Good luck at the tables,

Entry Tags: the, and, this, for, poker, video

Mar 19, 08 18:03:45

when is the dual HU vid with CTS coming out? Is this the CTS vid u r referring to?

Markuisis

Mar 19, 08 18:37:34

"Talking poker with Stinger, peachy, and cts in Santa Barbara also really helped me think about the game from a new perspective."

I would be greatly interested in hearing you go deeper into that specifically. After all, we subscribe to your site to open our poker minds and change our poker thought, if you have had some realization that is helping your game, tell us further about it.

Ty Tay

Acemanhattan

Mar 19, 08 18:48:08

I like what acemanhattans said, but i wanted to see if u would just release the CTS vid anyhow as a bonus

C.R.E.A.M

Mar 19, 08 20:31:00

ur lucky march madness starts this weekend or I'd be pissed about the cts video!

Stinger885

Mar 19, 08 21:48:39

Congrats on all the speaking gigs - if you wanna grab a drink or something when you're speaking at NYU, I'm an NYU Law student and would love to meet up with you guys.

DonkE

Mar 20, 08 00:16:02

Taylor,

let me know when/where you speak to the class and i'll gladly attend. probably the first class i've looked forward to in...well ever

durk86

Mar 20, 08 00:16:28

btw, our basketball team will be a lot better next year. i'll play for rolls on that one

durk86

Mar 20, 08 00:25:50

UI Basketball

Well, if Sampson hadn't lured away Gordon Illinois woulda been right up there at the top. Bruce Weber is a great coach and I'm sure he'll have them right back in it next year.

Until then, feel free to root for Michigan State :).

msuduster

Mar 20, 08 00:36:25

good call on 4 tables ure last video was my favourite ive ever seen!

rillar

Mar 20, 08 07:15:56

Wow...didn't know Anette played cash at all. If you guys are gonna keep up with the other poker training websites you have to get more tourney specialists to do vids. Cardrunners is BY FAR the best training site for cash game players imo, but your losing half the market by not catering to the MTT and SNGers on a serious level. Anette could be just the big tournament name you need to get people talking about cardrunners as a serious tournament training site.(not to take away from menlo or jeff or anything but annette will get all the Pocket 5ers interested). She already puts alot of time in to 'training' for free by posting her thoughtprocesses of hands on forums and posting HHs etc. I don't even play tounaments but id certainly watch all of her vids.

cormacbuzz

Mar 20, 08 09:31:08

joining...

been reading your blog and am interested in joining card runners, played liked an addict a year ago for about 3 months had some success but at low limits .10-.25 with hours of waiting for pocket aces and such(no understanding of the game). Seems like a lot of information on the site but really its where to begin. Id like to re learn from scratch because i would imagine i have terrible habbits so is there any suggestion on where exactly to start with all this

dankphilly

Mar 20, 08 12:15:33

Thanks, Taylor. The value for the \$\$ has gone up exponentially in recent months.

Stylite

Mar 21, 08 13:42:15

Good to hear that!
I would love to see you doing a new six max vid at low stakes ( 1-2 or something).

Regards from Germany,

Hoobee

Hoobee