11/30: hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving!

I had a pretty chill Thanksgiving. I went over to J Walks house to eat some turkey and stuffing. The funny thing is I dont' even really like turkey all that much. I still ate some because I doused it in delious gravey. Walks and I played some pool and I owned him. Then we played some Monkey Ball which was fun. Now I'm back at my apartment. I played tournaments all day and lost some cash monies. Pretty normal Sunday. If I look at it, I bet I've never had a winning Sunday. Nah, I lied. I had a 14k score one Sunday.

I think I'm going to eat some stuffing right now while listening to "Where's your head at."

Swinging baby. The graph shows the last 10 days of play. Its more like 7 days of actual play and as you can see, I’ve been putting in the hands and just not getting the results. Everybody always talks about red, green and blue lines but I’m not sure what any of them mean really. It’s just pretty clear to me that even when 12 tabling 8 hours a day, variance can still kick your ass. I really am trying to save up to buy a house and want to have enough by March 09 to do so POKER GODS LISTEN UP: Please boomswitch switch me ASAP. I’d like to dominate $200 NL for like 20k hands, move up to $400 NL and crush for like ~$60k. This would allow me to buy a sick house in March and generally rock at life. I’m going to take a bath in lavender oil right now to appease the poker gods.

Losing money:



Nice cooler:

PokerStars Game #22348703787: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2008/11/25 8:14:46 ET
Table 'Lena' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: rolonrolon ($554.30 in chips)
Seat 2: Kobrakai27 ($201 in chips)
Seat 3: DonKaleone ($225 in chips)
Seat 4: Starbuck2802 ($359 in chips)
Seat 5: Luciferian ($56 in chips)
Seat 6: jamsax333833 ($480.10 in chips)
Kobrakai27: posts small blind $1
DonKaleone: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to rolonrolon [3c 3h]
Starbuck2802: folds
Luciferian: folds
jamsax333833: calls $2
rolonrolon: raises $6 to $8
Kobrakai27: folds
DonKaleone: folds
jamsax333833: calls $6
*** FLOP *** [3s 5s As]
jamsax333833: checks
rolonrolon: bets $18
jamsax333833: calls $18
*** TURN *** [3s 5s As] [Js]
jamsax333833: checks
rolonrolon: checks
*** RIVER *** [3s 5s As Js] [5c]
jamsax333833: bets $38
rolonrolon: raises $200 to $238
jamsax333833: raises $216.10 to $454.10 and is all-in
rolonrolon: calls $216.10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jamsax333833: shows [Ac 5d] (a full house, Fives full of Aces)
rolonrolon: mucks hand
jamsax333833 collected $960.20 from pot
rolonrolon said, "so sick"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $963.20 | Rake $3
Board [3s 5s As Js 5c]
Seat 1: rolonrolon (button) mucked [3c 3h]
Seat 2: Kobrakai27 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: DonKaleone (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Starbuck2802 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Luciferian folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: jamsax333833 showed [Ac 5d] and won ($960.20) with a full house, Fives full of Aces


I obv. can't just call on the river but MAYBE I can fold when reships as I have the nut low FH BUT he was really bad and has the Ks at least 25% of the time here. Oh well, once I start coolering other people my graph is going to be so sexy.

Nov 18th: 12 tabling ftw

I've actually been putting in hands. And I got PT3 so now I can throw up some pretty graphs once I start winning. Yesterday was pretty sick....I put in 4k hands and ran KK into AA 4 times. wohooo, thats pretty unlikely. Its ok though, I still only lost 800ish on the day which is pretty sick good considering. I like 6max and think I am decent at it. I can definitely put in a lot longer hours than I do at HU because you don't have to constantly find new oppenents, etc. My goal today is to get in 6k hands. We'll see what happens.

Nov 17th- some poker, life, etc

This weekend was pretty boring. I think I left the house once. I got addicted to DOTA for a bit and that was all I wanted to do. Aaron finally convinced me to quit- which I'm very thankful for.

Last night Aaron talked me into going to an AMSA club meeting where we learned how and practiced stictching on a pigs leg. The instructer was some big name plastic surgeon which was cool, I guess. Is was definitely weird to be back in school. The one thing I hated above all else was stupid people not grasping things quickly and this was no exception. We spent a good portion of the lab learning to tie a square knot which being the upstanding boyscot I am, already knew perfectly. Maybe not perfectly but I don't want to spend 30 freaking minutes tying a knot over and over.

Anywho, poker is going good. I paused my quest to become PLO world champ and instead am 16 tabling $1/2 6max. I took out a big portion of my roll because I'm not sure whats going to happen with the new UIGA and am not in the mood to lose more money because of the US Gov't (re: stocks!). But its fun to have to really grind it out again...something I haven't done in awhile.

Nov 12th- Wall complete!

My indoor wall is complete!



Poker is going good. I'm trying to learn PLO. I jumped right into $2/4 and I think I'm down a little right now. I'm not spewing money which is good but I think, and I know this sounds crazy, I'm playing too tight. I have to play HU so I don't go busto. I think I'm up a bit.

Vegas TR!

Ah, Las Vegas. As I sit in the airport and reflect on my trip I wonder whether this will be my one and only trip to Vegas. I wonder if perhaps I didn’t lose quite so much I would have had more fun. Maybe…but there a plenty of things I don’t like about Vegas, least of all losing much. (I mean, shoot, I lose a lot more online on a day to day basis. Wow. As I write this, it feels good to type at a computer again. I haven’t done so in about 8 days and just being able to type fast feels good. Scary?)
I arrived on Saturday and took a shuttle to the Stratosphere. The tower itself is quite impressive but the Stratosphere is one of the older casinos, a fact that is quite obvious the minute you enter the casino. The carpets remind me of the 70’s and the décor is drab. I’m pleased with my room, nothing too flashy, but I have a good view of the strip and the tub is deep (which comes in handy after those long 12 hour losing sessions. Nothing like a long hot bath.)
Before even opening my suitcase I head down, grab a cab and head to the Venetian. The driver is a Thai guy and we chat about Thailand and how much he wants to go back but he is stuck in Vegas because of debt. I can’t even compare the Venetian to the Stratosphere—it is unlike anything I’ve seen before. They really have recrated an Itailian feel right here in the middle of the desert. With Phantom of the Opera music playing and the Gondolas in full swing, I enter the large doors into the Venetian and the head straight to the hell that awaits me- the poker room. For the next 8 days I will toil away playing poker.
My only winning day was my first. I entered a $540 deepstack tournament and finished 24th for a $900 payday. Not bad, I thought- maybe tomorrow I’ll final table. HAHAHA. The next day I entered another $540 at Ceasers and busted quickly. I played well, chipping up early and getting an above average stack. Then I lost. I forget how- I think it was 1010 v A10 on a 23J bored. I head back to the Venetian and play some 2/5 cash. I think I lose. I forget a lot of the next 8 days but I’ll give you my typical schedule.
Wake up at noon-2 PM, slightly hung over from drunken ½ and craps at Stratosphere. Regret that. Walk the solid 2 miles as punishment for sucking so bad at life. Feel a bit more refreshed and optimistic. Either play a tourney and bust quickly and then play cash or just jump straight into cash. Play for about 10 hours and get dominated. The first 2 days I really didn’t play great. I wasn’t able to fold big hands. But then I learned most of the people were just HUGE FUCKING NITS. I FUCKING HATES NITS BTW. And I learned to adjust and would own them Ricky style. But wait, KsKh v As4h on a 247sss bored for like 2.4k isn’t for me. AK v AQ v QK AIPF for 3.6k isn’t for me. At 2/5! Those two pots alone cost me my whole trip pretty much. I ended up down 3k total (probably more like 2.2k from poker, craps is not good). And when I think about it…I lost in a $540, 2 $340s and 2 $120s. So really only down like 1.1k from cash games which is ONE BUY IN. That makes me feel better, a little.