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ezmogee's Poker Blog

June 03, 2009

The past few days of the trip have gone much better than the first week. I got myself stuck about $15k in the first couple of days out here, but have turned it around pretty nicely and am now up for the trip! yay :)

I think a large part of this has to do with finally being situated in the CardRunners house (pics to follow), surrounded by brilliant poker minds, and in a comfortable atmosphere. Earlier in the trip, I'd been staying alone or crashing in people's spare beds at Bellagio, and I just don't think it was very good for my stability. It left me feeling somewhat in limbo all of the time, and I don't think that helped my poker game.

Overall, I just wasn't making many hands, so I was getting way too aggressive in a lot of spots. For example, if I raised 76 and flopped 753, I'd be playing for stacks against aggressive players. This is a pretty tragic mistake against good players, but I think I was just a bit frusterated at never flopping anything decent, and was just going all-in anytime I picked up a decent piece. Now that I'm starting to find my groove again, I'm playing much more confidently and smarter. For example, against tricky, tough players, I'm doing things like checking back overpairs on flopped coordinated boards, for example: 78T, with a flush draw - to reduce variance and also make me more difficult to play against. I always get creative when I'm playing well, but when I'm losing, I'm bet/shipping queens on that some board (which isn't horrible) but increases variance for sure, since you're rarely better than 50/50.

I played the $1k WSOP event on Monday, quickly ran up a big stack, and then ran into aces twice, and AK once to go out. I would love to play more events, but couldn't this week, because I'm flying to NYC for the weekend for my grandmother's memorial service, so it wouldn't make sense to start an event that I couldn't finish :)

I've also been playing the $5/$10 live cash games at the Rio. They are pretty good overall, but I think there's just so much more value to playing online. Now that I'm on a bit of a heater, I might start playing the $10/$25 games and see how I fare. My issue is that just can't imagine that I can make more than $250/hr in the live $5/$10 games. It's probably closer to $125-150/hour. Yes, there are some huge droolers playing live poker, but there are also generally 3-4 tough internet kids who typically steal a lot of pots - it's just tough because you need to play a lot looser in live games to get in as many pots with the poor players as possible. But because the other tough players are doing the same, it makes it basically impossible to pick up these pots when you miss. Meh.

I decided that since the $1k event was just a total scene, I was going to add to the excitement by busting out some sunglasses. I stole these glasses from Nutedawg on St Patricks Day - I bet he's been wondering where they went :)

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Jun 3, 09 12:35:52

photo posting n00b

allreds26

Jun 4, 09 03:50:58

i think i speak for everyone, wats ur ftp name!!! pm me :) ill tell u mine! see u in vegas (if a CR party is being organised that is?)

just wanna say ur last post was awesome too

jcl

Jun 4, 09 14:24:02

amazing shades

verneer