CARDRUNNERS

Today I lost about 6500. That's more than my stop loss limit. That occured thanks to being down and then losing 3k at the same time on two other tables...sweet. Here are some highlights.

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First big pot of the day.

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I like how I played this hand. I actually won it.

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Pretty standard stacking. Not much I can do.

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I gues it was a pretty bad raise on river. The player is terrible and it sure looked like a blocking bet to me. Stupid to raise though I guess.

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I probably should have just folded on the turn. ack.

The last two happened at the same time and thats when I called it quits.

I think I played pretty decent. What can ya do. This 85k is probably going to be pretty hard unless I run well most of the month. I can't have too many more sessions like this one and the one the other day.

I'm kind of pissed that the stars, ftp and ub games have been terrible lately. The party games seem to play with a pretty high variance for some reason. That vaelosis dude is ruining the stars games and nothing has been running on ftp or ub.

I'm going to go get high and watch V for Vendetta. I love not being 21. I would have been out getting wasted and not playing tonight if I could get into a bar.

Oh yea, I did win about 1k playing PLO for a video earlier.

I don't think I'm going to have much time to play tomorrow because I am going to go see the MLS all stars play Chelsea. That'll be a good time.

Today: -6538.35
Overall: 1889.89

9110.11 behind pace

It seems like gambler is throwing in the towel. I think he's mostly going to play MTTs now and that wasn't what our bet was. I had hoped it would last the entire month, but what can you do. I just can't seem to get much going on the poker front. I seem to win a little and then lose a little. I have been trying out some higher games (3/6nl and 5/10nl). I feel my game is coming around quite a bit and that I just need to hit a better run to really make some real cash.

I'm sitting at around +3k for the month. My hope is to make at least 20k. I'd really love to be able to cover my buyins for the WSOP. After playing my first event, I've decided I probably won't play as many as I once thought. There is just so much luck involved. I'm going to play the 3k on Sunday, the 5k HU on tuesday. After that I think I'll play the 5k 6 man and then the main event. Of course, if I do well in one of these, I might play more. That's what I'm thinking for now though. That adds up to about 25k total in buyins. My hope is that I can play some 10k satellites and win my ME seat. Otherwise, I might sell some of myself. I think putting up 10k is a lot and I'm not crazy about doing that.

I'm gonna head to the gym in a few minutes and then probably put in a long session tonight. I might even go play some live poker.

Sopranos - I personally liked the finale. The more I think about it, the more I liked it. Everyone wanted a big blood bath, but I had a feeling that wasn't what was going to happen. That's just not in the style of the show. I liked how Chase left it all up to the imagination about what was going to happen. I'll be honest, I grew attached to the Sopranos family (as shitty people as they were) and I didn't want to see any of them die. My guess is that maybe Meadow was pregnant and she was excited/uptight about that. I'm downloading the show now so that I can watch it a few more times. This final season really reminded me of how good the show can be. I think I might sit down and watch the entire series again. It's been a really long time since I've seen the first few seasons.

It's been very frustrating to see all the backlash against us the past week. It has made me want to avoid forums on both Cardrunners and 2p2. That's probably one of the main reasons I haven't made a blog post. It's really amazing how much people can hate. 2p2 can be so negative. I can understand some of the complaints, but I just wouldn't expect it on the scale it's been on. I really make a conscious effort to keep negativity out of my life. That's one of the reasons I stopped posting about bad poker sessions (another reason I haven't posted in awhile). I think life is a lot more enjoyable when you focus on the good things and try to avoid the bad things. Lord knows there are plenty of negative things in our world today. Maybe I'm just naive, but that's the way I like to approach life.

I spent a ton of time playing this week. I've been playing 5/10 and 10/20 plo with mixed results. The results are mixed in that I did horrible when I first moved up. I played a very fearless and aggressive style at 2/4 and I think that's why I did so well down there. I wasn't in my comfort zone at first at the higher PLO games and I played too timid. I feel very comfortable up there now and my results are really coming around. I made about 12k yesterday which felt really nice.

I haven't seen a ton of an effect of being red yet. I think I would see more if I were playing NLHE. I'm sure it can't hurt though as far as getting action. I know Taylor has been getting great action in the NLHE games.

I'm sitting in the airport now. I'm going to Hawaii with my family. I don't think there could be a better time to get away from the online world and just relax for a week. I've never been to Hawaii before and I've always wanted to do. I have a lot of things I want to do while I'm there. I'm planning on golfing a few times, scuba diving, snorkeling and trying out surfting. I've always wanted to try surfting, but I've never had the chance. I hear it's pretty hard, so I hope I'm not completely terrible.

Hopefully I'll get some cool pictures and just have some good/relaxing times.

I'll leave you with this Phil Hellmuth vid that Taylor came across the other day. Can you believe that people pay for this "system" of his?

I don't care how lucky you have been in the past, you stil have to beat Phil Hellmuth's pocket queens.