CARDRUNNERS

 Hey guys!

So I've been playing a ton and making a ton of very deep runs.  I'm having a blast.  Winning at least a little bit feels really good and I feel like something big has got to be coming.  It's kind of amazing what a little confidence can do for your game.  

Today I got 4th in the 75k guarantee on Full Tilt for almost 7k!  I was def. disappointed to only get 4th but you gotta win flips to win tournaments.  My play was great and I'm pretty stoked to go over the hand history.  I downloaded this replayer called Universal Replayer.  It works alright but doesn't always work and has been a little buggy lately.  I'm hoping the CR one will get updated soon so I can just use that.

 I have so many hands to go over...it's insane.


This is a real picture of my hands after a rock-climbing trip close to San Diego a couple months ago.  Nasty but sorta hardcore...LOL.  

Sam, me and Vladimir living it up after the Little Red Hen!



What?  We don't give a F**k.



Me, my brother and cousin at the Fremont troll here in Seattle. 



This is my brother and cousin sacrificing up little Peyton to the troll...LOL.  



Lake Union from the top of the Space Needle.



There are a bunch of draw bridges around here.  This one went up the other day on my way home so I took advantage and got out an took some photos!



Another Lake Union shot from the bridge this time. 






Tomorrow I'm gonna play.  I might try to end early if something is going on but it'll just depend on how I'm feeling.  I've been really stoked to play lately.  Even on my days off if I look at the lobbies and see tournaments about to start I totally have to fight off the urge to play them.  I'm determined to beat this shit and can't wait to keep improving and making something big happen.  

Hopefully I will have some good updates to come for you guys.  

There has been talk in OT and on Facebook about looking up your name on Urban Dictionary so I did.  This is what it said...

Desirae...

A girl with a alot of sexuality, but is the most professional person in the world. 2. A fine girl with a great booty that teases all the guys but secretly wants them all. 3. An attractive girl with a nice body that gets along with anyone and everyone, and is usually the life of the party. 
4. A hot nerd that thinks shes not good enough for anyone so she secludes herself from everyone else, even though they really like her.

I'm not a fan of #4...obviously. Not good enough....ppppssssshhhhhhh....come on now!  :)


a Beautiful girl. name means desire and hope.

1) A REALLY fine girl. 2)A girl who has big boobs and only dates mexicans 3)a really hot girl, with big tits, a hot boyfriend, hot mom, and nice ass. typically has good hair, is well dressed, and black.


Hilarious.  I encourage everyone to check themselves out...cuz why not?  it's fun and funny.  

Have a good weekend everyone.  

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!  

Sorry I haven't updated more.  I've been playing poker non-stop this week.  These double guarantees on Full Tilt are really making me want to play more.  I'm also playing so well right now, I feel like I've been playing some of the best poker than I've playing in a long time.  My confidence is back!   I've been making it very deep in some of the Stars tournaments actually but 11th place was my best....so just teasers.  On Wednesday the 11th place was in the Nightly 70k guarantee and I should have gotten much much deeper.  I just ran really really bad to get knocked out in the end.  I reshipped in the SB with AJ for 25ish BBs and the dude called me with A10 and hit.  It was the most crushing beat ever just because I was SO close to good money.  The thing is if I keep it up and keep playing like this something is bound to happen.  

I'm going to play today during the day but try to quit earlier than I have been the last couple days.  I'll take Saturday off because I have a bunch of family stuff then friend stuff at night.  We have a friend's birthday party and then also one of our friends took a month off of drinking so this is her "coming back" night LOL.  Lately I haven't been playing Sunday because I'd rather hang out and do fun stuff.  But this Sunday is just going to be too good to be true so I'm gonna do it up.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars coming my way...ship it!  :)

It's really weird just sitting in front of a computer all day long.  I have been going running in the morning usually before I play which has been great.  But shoot siting there for that long can really make you crazy by the end of the night.  I get very stir-crazy if I'm doing the same thing for too long.  But still I am about to start playing in a couple hours and I cannot even wait.   I've really been loving this game and I can't wait to crush the shit outta fools!

I'll keep you guys updated on the awesomeness.  Have great weekends.

Love!  Love!  

Hey guys!  

So I finally figured out a way to go over my hands.  It's called Universal Re-player and I don't think it is as good as the old CardRunners re player was but it works.  So I went through the hand history of my 2nd place finish in the nightly 30k guarantee 6max tournament on Full Tilt.   As I was going over it tonight I was thinking it might make for a good leak finder video.  I don't know how people get chosen to do this sort of thing but I would be interested for sure.   Here are a few of the interesting hands. 

 I was new to the table, didn't know the dude and we were deep.  Giving up after the flop is another line LOL.  He obviously had a monster. 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118525
Another weird hand where I just do not want to believe.  I misclicked preflop and was trying to make it a normal 2.5ish raise but min-raised instead.  Flop I should have folded but that flop bet got me good.  I'm obviously gonna cbet that board so often so I don't understand his donk....I don't know.  

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118789
This hand was just straight ownage.  I just didn't think he had anything and was almost positive he would fold to heavy action with the timing and bet on the river.  Clearly my favorite hand of the tournament...I love it when moves work.  Yes sir!  :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118794
In this one I figured I had to try for it on the river since it was a very good card for my flop checking back range and I had no showdown value.  Whatev...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118836
I think this was the right play but at the time I remember questioning it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118856
This move was super questionable.  But I figured 4 handed, these guys probably had a lot of history of RRing each other, etc.  But I'm not sure what was best here.  I probably could have easily just folded and waited to get involved when I knew these players more.  Not getting involved in high variance situations before you know the players is one of the things I need to work on.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118858

The reason for posting this hand is because it gives some history for the next hand coming up.  

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118997
This hand was HU and I think given the action that I could have folded the river, I'm not sure.  I don't think this was a huge, huge mistake considering folding TP heads up is very tough but in this situation I think I could have folded it with bet-sizing, flow of the match type tells and the previous hand.  This might have lost me the tournament.  :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118895
This isn't really that interesting because it is totally standard for both players but it was the 2nd to last hand. 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118900
And this was the last hand.


http://www.pokerhand.org/?5118908
Overall I felt like I played pretty good.  There were some mistakes and interesting hands as well.  I would love to hear feedback from you guys.  Thanks so much for reading this super pokery blog post.  

I hope your weekend was fun!  Tomorrow I'm hitting up the tables again.   In my next post I will have more wins to talk about (hopefully), life updates and fun pictures too.  Holler.  :)

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!

Well I'm actually sick as hell over here.  I pretty much slept all day on and off.  It was even my brother's birthday today and I had to miss it because I didn't want to get anyone sick.  

At around 5:30pm I was super bored and we don't have TV so I popped some DayQuil and decided to just take it easy and play a couple tournaments while laying down in my bed.  The tournaments I registered for were a $30rebuy, a 5k guar PLO, a 28k guar and the 30k guar 6max all on Full Tilt.  I had 3 tables going at the most but mostly only 2.  I learned a ton tonight about my game.  Playing less tables is really really helpfull for me in so many ways.  I focus more, I get such better reads and when these things are happening it makes my confidence high.  Tournament players are so bad especially in these low stakes ones that I've been playing lately and it's SO much easier to see when you are watching every hand that goes down.  

Anyhow I ended up getting 14th in the $30 rebuy which was total robbery because I ran so bad at the end.  There was a 4 way all in pot where I had AA and didn't hold up against 1010, KK or 99.  I trapped the 1010 dude so good too.  He raised with a bunch of short stacks behind, I flatted, the KK dude shipped, the 99 dude shipped in BB, then the 1010 dude reshipped for 38ish BB and obviously I was stoked and called.  That was pretty crushing then my AK lost a decent portion of my stack against KJ, then I lost a flip and then I was out.  :(

But the good news is I did get 2nd in the 30k guarantee for $4650.  I felt like I played really well in this tournament.  There was one hand at the final table that I felt I misplayed a little.  I'll post it and see what people think.  It was HU for awhile and I ended up splitting a pot when I got it in with 1010 vs. A10s.  Then at the end the player shoved into me with Q10off and my A9 didn't hold.  I have a ton of hands to go over.  I'm really pumped to go over this one specifically.  

Awwww I am so happy even though physically I feel like shit.  Now I have at least a little money to play with and can pay a few bills!  YES YES YES!!!  

Ok I just took some NyQuil so I'm about to pass out.  :)

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!

Random old You Tube video that is hilarious.  Dude falls off the ladder he's trying to sell in the middle of a commercial!  

 Seattle is a crazy place I'm not gonna lie.  Moving back after so long and experiencing so many other places to live really makes you realize how different places are.  Seattle is so different.  The rain first of all has been sorta insane.  Saturday was a pretty nice day, it wasn't raining and I was so pumped.  I celebrated with a run OUTSIDE which sounds crazy but was so awesome because I haven't been able to do it much at all since I've been back home.  Living here really makes you appreciate any semi-good weather day.   I've been hearing that it's been a little worse than normal so that is good.  

Something else Seattle is filled with is  hipsters.   Examples of Hipsters....



These are random "hipster" items....a ton of these are actually really fun.





More random hipster guys. 

Clearly there are varying degrees of hipsters.  Lately I'm finding myself wanting to wear crazy tights with fun skirts and maybe put a fun streak in my hair.  I have never dyed it and I think it's time to try it out just a little!  Don't worry nothing too crazy is gonna happen I will probably never look like these people in the pictures.  

Quote of the night on Saturday

             "Hipsters are just nerds who are now cool" -Vladimir

I made up my own version from his that says...

              "Hipsters are just nerds who are now cool in a weird way." -Desirae

Tomorrow I'm gonna wake up early-ish, get an outdoor run in regardless of the weather then start up a session.  I've been very bad about sticking to my plan of cash games and I'm not going to stick to it tomorrow either LOL.   The thought of playing tournaments tomorrow literally makes me so pumped.  I can't even wait....I am weird as ever I know but whatever hopefully this is a good thing.  

I hope your weekend was good and fun.  I'll let you know how the day tomorrow turns out.  :)

Love!  Love!  

 Hey guys.

Well classic scenario for me here.  Life is awesome but poker is making me very sad and is terrible.  Yesterday I started my new plan with playing cash and it was terrible.  I've really enjoyed not having a boss for so long but it's times like this when I really wish I had one so that he/she could just tell me what to do.  Tournaments are not working out, cash games aren't working out either and my money is just dwindling at a high speed.  It's pretty soul crushing to not be able to beat 1/2 NL when I used to crush at 10/20NL.  Granted I haven't put in very many hands but every time I play I seem to lose and it's really freaking me out.  

Today I received a facebook message from a friend with a link that I stupidly clicked on and proceeded to get a crazy virus on my Windows part of my Mac.  So thank god Vladimir knows all kinds of shit about computers and could help me with it.  I had to just scratch that Windows and create a new virtual machine with an upgrade to Windows 7.  I obviously couldn't get the hold-em manager to work and a few other things but wanted to play so I fired up a couple late night tournaments on Full Tilt.  LOL....talk about classic.  What can i say I just enjoy tournaments so much more.  Nothing big happened but I do feel like I'm playing well and the key thing is that I'm happy while I'm playing.  Clearly results are the big thing but who knows.  I'm at a serious loss of what to do with my poker situation.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated  besides go get a job as a stripper or some dumb shit....LOL.  

As far as exercise goes it's been really hard to run here with all the rain which is pretty sad.  I've been contemplating joining a gym but it seems silly to join one just for the treadmill and I'm already paying for my rock climbing gym membership.  So in the meantime I've been rock climbing and doing hot yoga a good amount.  Tomorrow I'm going to do Hot Yoga at noon and then rock climb with a girlfriend of mine at night.  It should be some hot sauce!  

Hope all is well with you guys.  Once I get my hold-em manager to work again I'm going to go over my hands and see what the hell I'm doing wrong.   

Love!  Love!