CARDRUNNERS

So being the 24 year old kid straight outta college that i am...

I went out to an awesome all day/night bar. It was the rich and bennett charlotte st. patty's day crawl. So i start drinking at 1 and get housed by around 3. Meanwhile its pouring down rain but we say fuck it we are gonna do this crawl, so of course we are soaking by the time. anyways we had an awesome time and at about 8pm i start realizing that i'm not in college anymore and all day drinking festivals are not within my capabilities anymore. So i end up being so drunk and just ducking out of the bar and hoping in a cab by myselfa nd heading home.

So this is where it gets really fun... i get home and of course what's the first thing my drunk ass does? opens full tilt.

I was too drunk to sit and hang with my friends in the bar, but i wasn't too drunk to play online... weird.

So usually this is a bad decision, not today tho. Someone must have been doing the same thing i did cause the guy who sits on the other end of the 100plo hu match is clearly shitfaced (and i know this being about 14 beers deep). So i stack him once and i actually ended up sucking out on him slightly but it was a prety marginal omaha situation where his range was certainly wide enough for me to merit calling with a wrap/flush draw on the turn. So i stack him there... he insta rebuys. From this point on, he proceeds to get all his money in about every 3rd hand. I heat up and start just litereally stacking him back to the stone age and every time he stacks off he says 'fu bitch' and reloads. My avatar is a girl so at this point i decide to start using this to my advantage and i start pretending like i'm a girl taking all his money saying stuff like 'the way you stack off there was cute, you must be hot'. So i have him FIRED up that he's losing, and losing to a 'girl'.

All said and done when the dust settles, i've taken $1060 off of him. He types 'FUCK YOU SLUT' and just leaves. At this point, i'm in shock that i've just taken over 10 buyins off of one player in the matter of about 50 minutes. Awesome... Playing on St. Patrick's Day = +EV.

Anyways, i'll have my march graph soon... and it will prolly look very different from my last few months graphs. But it looks like it's still going to be a winning month.

I meant to put this blog entry in last week, but forgot about it, so I'm tossing it in now.

A lot of players have leaks in their games and these leaks can come in all forms. Some play the game badly, some have no bankroll management, other play table games like blackjack or craps. All of these things decrease their winnings and cut into the old bankroll. For me, I have one real leak, and it's playing drunk. I'm not sure why I do it, but for some reason after throwing back a few captain and cokes I get the urge to jump in a few cash games and proceed to play like a complete asshole. It's weird that I do this because in all other facets regarding poker I think I'm extrememly nitty. I've been describied as having Nazi like bankroll management and never play above what I can afford and feel comfortable with.

Playing drunk though is like my kryptonite. I have a good friend who actually caught me playing drunk one night and absolutely ripped into me the next day. He hopped online and watched me play late one night and saw me spewing and playing like a complete retard. I honestly don't think I've been scolded that bad since I was a teenager living with my parents. Anyways, his "lecture" as he called it really had a profound affect on me, not because what he said wasn't the honest to god truth, but because I'd never expect him to berate me like he did.

That day I went home and told my fiancee that if I played drunk again I'd pay her a hundred bucks. No arguments, no questions asked, just whip out the wallet and give her a hundy for my stupidity. Well since then I've been pretty good about monitoring myself, until last Thursday. I went over to my friend's place and got in a night of Halo 3 and drinking and then came home after. My fiancee was on the couch watching Gray's Anatomy or some shit, so I of course hopped on the comp. I actually realized I was too drunk to play, so I just fired up a couple 5 dollar SNG's and started playing. After about 35 mins I became bored of this and saw that the cash games were calling to me. So naturally I fired up 6 tables of 1/2NL and over the course of the next hour and a half dropped 2 buy ins. It was after I dropped my 2nd buy in I realized what a complete asshole I'd been and hadn't sobered up nearly enough to play. At that point I was pissed, had just dropped 2 buy ins and realized I broke the rule I set out for myself. So, I walked over to my checkbook and promptly cut a check for $100 for my fiancee.

It's funny because she actually felt pretty bad about taking the check from me, but after I told her not to feel bad about it she said, "well, when you play drunk you're basically just giving money away, so you might as well give it to me."  Haha. Having a supportive woman really is great. I even asked if she wouldn't mind using the money to buy dinner the next night to which she replied "sorry, I can't do that or else you won't learn your lesson."

My buddy Sameer, the one who scolded me, told me the next time I play drunk I owe my fiancee $200, and it'll go up from there, so yeah, playing drunk is definitely -EV.

In other related news, this month's been going pretty well poker wise, I started off hot and got up to +1k right off the bat, but actually proceeded to blow all of that plus a buy in (400 of that was when i was drunk), so I wasn't happy about being down after I started off the month so well. Luckily, i ran great the other day and had my first ever +1k session, and followed that up with a +175 session last night when I was checking out the Poker Stars software. Overall I'm up about $1500 on the month which feels great considering how last month went. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going.