My New Plan

Well November turned out to be a pretty good month. One of my most exciting and stressful months of poker in a while. Massive swings, huge sessions and days I wanted to cry myself to sleep. Overall I'm up about 3.5k in everything this month, with most of my profits coming from HU PLO. I dropped about $600 buying shares of people for the month (not one person turned a profit for me) but also got my foot in the door getting staked myself. I have been able to play a lot of the bigger tourneys that I was under rolled for before by selling some of my action.

FTOPS was disappointing, not a single cash. But was able to get some semi deep runs in Sunday Majors this month, but nothing really worth noting on the tourney front.

I've been trying to figure out my plan for next month and have come up with an idea of what I want to be doing.

Here's my two option
1) Deticate all of my time to HU PLO
- Probably my most profitable game
- Very swingy and stressful
2) Split my time between HU PLO and MTTS
- MTTs have been BE for me as of late
- Being able to play MTTs will make some days less stressful and also I can get staked for some of my tourneys to decrease varience

I decided to go with option #2. I feel if I played strictly PLO I would have the ability to make much more money but with Mini FTOPS coming up and my growing ability to get staked for the majority of my tourneys I play I have decided that splitting my action for now will be best.

So I'm ready to go. Thankgiving was a nice break but I wanna get back to the pokers. I have a fun touney schedule picked out for this evening. So hopefully I can bink one off, sooner rather than later.

Weekend Pokers

Well I'm posting again from work so I don't have any graphs to put up but let me tell you it was one hell of a weekend. I'm pretty sure I'm down a good chunk of money but I haven't had the time to actually sit down and think about where I'm at bankroll wise. Let me just say that PLO HU Deep is a hell of a game.

I had my second 2k downswing in PLO this month. OMG its such an aggravating game. I guess I'm just not used to the swings but they are brutal. It's not so much me flipping bad its just getting into brutal spots or running terrible in 3bet/4bet pots. I feel like my game is pretty solid and I'll be able to work my way out of the hole once again.

I'm still up on the month but it just so annoying when you pull yourself back out of a downswing. Just breakeven, then dump in the next couple session.

Also I've been playing a lot of the weekend tourneys lately. Got a couple deep finishes this Sunday but they were basically just teasers barely breaking even on tourneys for the weekend. I'm just glad I was able to get my backers some money back after getting crushed in the first 4/5 tourneys I was backed for this weekend.

Here's by bust out hand in the 750k for 119th
Also busted AT v 22 for 100ish in the 150k ($163) on FTP

Also if anyone is interested I'm selling pieces of Mini FTOPS on 2p2. Check out this link if your interested or you can AIM me at SeanN042: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/135/staking/miniftops-15-event-package-640420/

Tourneys

After Playing a bunch of the FTOPS tourneys I got the urge to grind out MTTs for a little bit (or a least try to fit a couple into my schedule). I played the following little baby tourneys yesterday to so I could help get the feel for MTTs once again:

18:00 $26 NLHE 27,500gar
18:10 $44 Sat to 75k
18:15 $26 HA PLHE 5k gar
18:25 $26 sat to Sunday Brawl
18:30 $26 NLHE HU 4k gar
18:35 $5.5 NLHE Rebuy ($45 total with rebuys)
19:40 $26 Sat to the 750k
20:00 $26 NLHE 35k gar
21:00 $12 Daily Double A
21:02 $12 Daily Double B
21:15 $26 PLO 5k gar

Here's a couple cool hands/or busto hands from the tourneys:

Busto 5 Re - http://weaktight.com/1709571
- Good Call, Bad Result

I seriously accidently misclicked this one. It was so perfect (note, did not ship pot) http://weaktight.com/1709574

Hand against solid reg in the 35k. Leveled myself into calling the river http://weaktight.com/1709577]

I cashed both daily doubles for:
Daily Double B - 131 of 1200
http://weaktight.com/1709580

Daily Double A - 25 of 1400+
http://weaktight.com/1709582
http://weaktight.com/1709585


Stayed up later than I wanted to and didn't make any money....fucking poker.

Blog Update

Hello everyone,

I haven't been able to update my blog at all lately just because of lack of time. I've been working a "free" internship 30-40 hours a week along while playing poker almost every day to pay my bills and maintain my lifestyle. Basically I will be graduating from college finally this December so I'm going to finally have that monkey of my chest and can move on to bigger and better things.

I've been playing a lot of poker later. I'll post a graph when I get home. Basically I've been running decent. I'm really not going to complain about anything. I've been playing a bit of everything CAP NLHE, 6 max NLHE, HU NLHE and most recently HE PLO. I'm up quite a bit but not really what I'm accustomed because i've been playing lower stakes and haven't been able to put in my usual volume.

I also got a couple stakes for the FTOPS recently which I blanked on :-( Just ran terrible. Busted out of all my tournies rather quickly and didn't come close to the money in anything. Although I did manage to eek out 2/3 FTOPS ME sat wins so that was nice.

So I guess that's that. I'll try to keep this blog updated once or twice a week.

Well I'm back

Well I took a long break from poker basically trying to get my life on track. It's been a nice well deserved break but I've cashed out and spent over half of my poker roll to support my degenerate habits and excessive spending. So I've decided to get back to the grind and try to make a couple bucks this month.
I've decided to return to the game I enjoy the most, shorthanded CAP NLH, but due to bankroll deficiencies I've had to move down to 1/2 and OMG there are so many terrible players here. Its just been a huge mess of shit. Outplaying bitches, scooping tons of pots. I've ran ok, I think I'm 200 below EV on the month and have been coolered a bunch. My first 10k hands was just a terrible grind but I've definately got something going in the last 5k.

I've also recently decided to not check my results while I'm playing. I've had a terrible habit of consitantly checking how I'm doing and how I'm running that it destracts from my game and inhibits me from playing my A game. I really want to check my results only once or twice a week but I'm not sure if I have to will power not to pop up my HEM graph at the end of the day.

I'm hoping to start mixing in some 2/4 tables pretty soon. I should have my rackback soon which is going to be a nice boost. Hopefully I can keep this up.

My return to 100BB poker.

Over the last week I've decided that I got lazy playing NLHE CAP and my biggest profits in the past was on 100BB cash tables. So I decided to make the move back and WOW. That's all I can say. Right after I cash out 5k I go on a huge downswing. Let's just destroy my roll :-(

Run Downs, Coolers, Flipping Bad and Suckouts!


I started my return a little rusty and lost of couple BIs but was able to get it going again for a bit. Then I hit this wall. I didn't play too much last week so I decided to put in a huge session today and it really couldn't have went any worse. I'm pretty sure I lost every flip. I am down $674 with AKs and another 350 with AKo. Here's a couple fun hands this session. A couple winners and a bunch of brutallity.

http://weaktight.com/1319237 - Really thin move by me here. But I end up ahead and can't fade the flush
http://weaktight.com/1319217 - Pretty much the only hand that he could have that owns me when I go for value on the river.
http://weaktight.com/1319222 - Flop a set and villian floats and spanks the nuts.
http://weaktight.com/1319224 - UTG was folding to a lot of 3 bets and I felt like he'd give my raise a lot of respect. I get flatted by the SB and hit a set. I was kind of weary that the villain could have had JJ or QQ, but also thought he could have AA, KK or one of the many draws that were on the board. So I felt like I had to get it in against him.
http://weaktight.com/1319239 - Cooleeeeeeeerrrrrr
http://weaktight.com/1319234 - Well at least I split it...
http://weaktight.com/1319240 - Felt I looked really strong with my river shove. But I overestimate people's ability to fold hands.
http://weaktight.com/1319228 - Coolered in a massive 3 way pot.
http://weaktight.com/1319229 - This one was just sick. Villain was a massive fish and I got him to call off his stack on the turn with 2 outs.
http://weaktight.com/1319231 - The way I played this I had to stack off here. I felt my raise looked really wierd and villian would definately stack off any Q or possiblely even less. I also gave him room to shove draws over me but he had the top of his range.
http://weaktight.com/1319233 - Flop 2 pair in limped pot out of BB and get ran down.

Sunday Donkaments

OMG so I got really deep in a bunch of Sunday donkaments today. Unfortunately I couldn't help but get MONKEY FUCKED everywhere.

Tourney Highlights:
Sunday Warm Up - 264 out of 3884
http://weaktight.com/1299036 - This hand played pretty weird. Looking over it a shove on the flop or turn would have been the best play. But the board ran really stupid for me here.
http://weaktight.com/1299039 - I mean this is a pretty easy call but it was on the exact bubble and making the money cashing in $200 tournaments mean a little to me. Nice to hold here though
http://weaktight.com/1299041 - Sigh. OK that's just wonderful

109 40k (had over 130k in prize pool)
http://weaktight.com/1299043 - Busto early flush v set. Mmmmm run down them quads

50cubed - 20th of 495
http://weaktight.com/1299044 - Huge flip
http://weaktight.com/1299046 - Dominated...sigh
http://weaktight.com/1299047 - GOD DAMN, JUST FUCKING HOLD A DOMINATING HAND. Busto, had a huge prizepool too

163 70k
http://weaktight.com/1299051 - Thats right bitch, gotta love that flop check. I was like WTF on the river raise though. Guess he had me on AK
http://weaktight.com/1299050 - SNAP Call....Busto

Sunday Million - 231 of 7712
http://weaktight.com/1299052 - OK tight top set...left me with 1400 chips
http://weaktight.com/1299053 - Fuck ya. Back to a starting stack
http://weaktight.com/1299054 - Sigh....aces.
http://weaktight.com/1299055 - Now this one felt good. Same guy that just sucked out on me with those fours. But I mean, how do you call here with AT. He snapped me off too...odds? I guess...
http://weaktight.com/1299056 - KOed the 44 guy. And won a huge flip
http://weaktight.com/1299057 - This is a WTF hand. I mean, what was this guy planning on doing here. I looked him up and he seemed like a pretty solid player. So what was his plan to try and outplay me with 5 high, OOP without the intiative. NICE
http://weaktight.com/1299061 - Had a pretty good read on this guy and made an awesome call...so that means I have to be punished right. My demise GODDAMMIT I would have been top 25
http://weaktight.com/1299062 - GG me, gotta lose the flip in the shittist way ever. I mean just give him trips on the flop plzzzz

Well, I'm only down $381.20 over $2016 in BIs. Not to bad for me for a Sunday. The last couple Sundays I've played I've been down over a grand.

So I feel like this expression pretty much represents how I feel right now FUUUUCK. O well gg me, I played very well at least.

Also I've moved most of my bankroll over to pokerstars. Without having rakeback on FTP I just don't see the reason to continue to have my primary roll on the site. I'm going to miss the CAP games on FTP but Pokerstars has a lot to offer and really cool VIP/FPP program. Plus their tourneys are the shit.