Monday, January 26, 2009

Swingaments

This week marks my first losing week at 200NL..and it sux =(

I think a simple graph will show how my week went... i could not get anything going all week and despite my greatest attempts to finally break even i still got raped at the end. I am actually playing very disciplined and patient poker despite running pretty awful this week. I didn't tilt or spew chips (except one time) which is good I guess. Hopefully things turn around soon. Thats all for now


Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Writing this blog to break a curse!

A couple months ago, I remember writing about how I kept busting out in the 20-30th place and couldnt seem to get past that. Well after I wrote a blog about it, I broke the curse and final tabled 2-3 times!

So i'm writing this blog to break my newest curse...

Everytime i final table, I always seem to bust out 4th place.
Last week I final tabled the UB 8K gaurenteed, and busted out 4th for 700$
Just today I busted out the FTP 10+1 tournament in 4th place again for 590$ :|
And the list goes on.. :|

I would like to see this curse broken because its quite frusterating when players at these final table luckbox against me WHEN THEIR SO BAD! Especially at the smaller buyin MTT's like the UB 8k Gaurenteed and FTP 10+1.

So.. I hope this blog breaks my curse. That way next time I final table a MTT, I can rake in the dolla bills!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Orlando + My first big tournament cash

Well, I officially made my first withdrawal from my online poker funds! I have never made a withdrawal before, because my poker funds tend to be a 'seperate' entity from my every day life. But recently I have been doing quite well and I wanted to reward myself my first (of many hopefully right?) purchases.

Amy and I had wanted to go to Orlando for a while now, She had never been to Disney World before and I have not in like 8yrs so we decided to check out any deals/packages to Orlando! We started our search in Dec, but never really got anything going beyond just looking at hotels, prices etc. When January rolled around we began hunting for a good package more aggresively and we ended up finally finding a package we liked!

We got a 6 day trip staying at the Sheraton Vistana Resort, which is supposed to be like a nice little townhouse type hotel room i think. These are the pictures we got from the website, so i hope our rooms look like that otherwise we totally got shafted!



Thats the main living space area..its got its own kitchen and stuff, its kind of like a little townhouse I guess for the two of us. I highly doubt we are ever staying home and cooking, but its always an option right!



Bedroom... nuff said




This is the overview of the whole resort, its got a realy nice pool (i think even two?) in the centre, and the hotel rooms surrounding it is like townhouse-like... the resort actually looks very nice imo!





This is just a nice picture of the pool area!



Another picture of the outside of the resort.

Anyways, our trip is booked from April 27th to May 2nd and the price of airfare + hotel is like 700$. That is quite a steal of a price because the prices of hotels+airfare to places within Disney World is approximately 1K-1.2K! Even the places that were outside the resort which were at least 4 star hotels cost around 900$ (can't settle for less than 4 stars for ballers like us!).

In addition to hotel+airfare, we also ended up getting daily passes to Magic Kingdom, Epcott and Hollywood Studios which cost about 300$ per person. So in total the trip so far is looking to cost about 1K, which ain't bad at all. Of course there is still alot of other expenses still unaccounted for such as food and shopping (obv), but I estimate the whole trip will probably cost me around 1.5Kish. It should be a very good time and I am totally excited! I think those 6 days will be the only 6 days in my life where I dont have grind on my mind!!

Anyways, onto the poker related content. Last night I ended up playing the FTP daily doubles just for fun, and I ended up going ridiculously deep in one of them. I played until 2:30am and after a very long battle i finished 3rd for 1K! It was such a rollercoaster ride - and a lot of fun! I still really suck at tournaments, but its just a nice change of pace from cash games. As I said before, one of my goals this year is to work on my tournament game and a nice cash like this definately helps me build my confidence and skillz. That is basically it for now! This week I havn't been playing too much, but I anticipate once the weekend comes around things will pick up and grind will come back into my mind!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Crazy Week at 200NL

I think a simple graph at 200NL simply states how my week was. I ran very good in the beginning (as you will see.. +1Kish), then i ran like TOTAL GARBAGE (middle -1.8Kish) then I ran more on the average side of things + Played solid poker (End).
However, more importantly played a very very discplined game when I was running like total shit. I did not tilt when I lost over 1.1K in one single day! Biggest losing session i've ever had!! I was getting coolered and put into such tough spots all day long, but eventually my patience and inability to tilt finally paid off. I ended the week +1.5K which is always sexy to see.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Stoked about gettin Staked!

I have great news!! A couple days ago I saw a thread on 2p2 where Doug (WCGRider) was looking for some people to stake from 25nl-100nl. After reading it i saw some pretty retarded players looking to get staked (like this one dude that plays 2NL lol), so naturally I was thinking of giving it a shot! I AIM'd Doug and sent him my graphs from 50nl and 100nl, as well as other pt3 stats and we ended up working something out!

What we worked out was he's gonna stake me for playing 200NL, and we are going to be splitting profits 50/50. That's really nice and all, but I think the real benefit for me is not the fact that I'm getting staked (because honestly I actually have enough $$ to play 200nl myself), but its the fact that I get coaching and sweat sessions with Doug. I think being given the chance to learn and talk to a player like him is so valuable to anyone's poker career. I really believe he is gonna bring my game to a new level. I said it in my last post, but I really think this year is going to be my break-out year for poker... so hopefully we see some incredible things happen!

So starting this week, I will officially be playing 200NL 100% of the time! I am so pumped!

So anyways, last night I played my first session of 200nl which turned out to be a major success! I was running really hot, and ended the night with my biggest winning day of online poker so far, +1K!!! It feels so good to win that much money, because coming from the stakes that I've played a +1K profit is such a long grind, but at 200nl not so much haha... Anyways I plan on hitting the tables again tonight so stay tuned for more updates on my venture to conquer 200NL!!!