Chips....or GTFO

Live heater continues. Up another ~$2200 in a few more hours of Borgata 2/5. Apparently that game is a lot more ridiculous than Caeser's at tournament time, as I lost 2 buyins there in a couple hours. No more Caeser's obv. We can also add the +700 from $10 blackjack at Ballys to the run good. They have some silly side bet that I was just crushing. Probably going back Sunday.

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Live heater, which made it more fun. Up 3 BI in about 8 hours of 2/5NL at the Borgata last night/this morning. Tilted the hell out of one guy check/shoving J9hh on a 67Thh board and cracking his KK. Another guy told me I always made perfect bet sizes and he's never seen anyone do it better, and that me and my friend were the 'new era of poker players.' lol. And I got teriyaki. A fine night.

I'm pretty behind on hands/gold star this month, but I'll catch up, it's still early. Everything else is looking good.

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Poker goals for March:
[] Gold Star (which should be easier now)
[] Playing NL50 regularly
[] Playing 40k hands
[] Mastering O8 and Stud8 to beat the soft 10/20 2-way at the Borgata
[] Not playing NL100+ or PLO50+ when I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything at these lower limits

Life goals for March:
[] Not spewing on anything unnecessary other than going out to eat/get drunk

Those last 2 should be the tough ones, lol.

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So I've been pretty much crushing NL2 in the past week and had myself up to a little under $200, so I decided I'd take a shot at NL10. Decided to skip 5 because I didn't feel like it added anything last time I was moving through stakes. Anyway, NL10 is an entirely different ballgame from the robot-like 16-tabling that is NL2.

I feel like I'm playing pretty well, but being down 7BIs doesn't really show it. I definitely think NL10 can be real profitable, especially since more than half of my losses have come in huge hands. Examples:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326818
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326820
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326825 - Note, I don't like the way I played this hand, but this guy turned out to be a real bad player anyway, so I'll put it in this group. I put him on AXcc or a smaller pair like 77-99. It was a bad check on the turn, though.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326822
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326826
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326827
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326829

This guy has a bunch of my money too. He's one of the regulars who is there multi-tabling with me, so I've been trying to treat him like a real player who's capable of realizing my betting patterns and raising my c-bets with air. So far that hasn't been the case:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326821
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326823

I've also made my share of bad plays, so I don't want to shed all of the blame:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326819 - I've been just 4-bet shoving in situations like this when I have QQ-AA or AK, but I'm not sure if that's the best play. At the very least I don't think QQ should be a shove in this situation, even though I'm OOP. Thoughts?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/326824 - I'm a bad player. I don't think there's a hand that flats the flop, open-shoves the turn that I'm ahead of.

There's a few more like that, but its the same basic ideas - bad shoves or over-valuing TPTK.

So I've dropped back down to NL2 and continue to run at 20+ PTBB/100. It's like candy from a baby. Except its money. I think I'm just going to spend all of December 16-tabling NL2, or playing until I have 20+ buy-ins for NL10. Hopefully it won't be that long.

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So after my last post I decided to take a break from playing poker seriously, but that lasted all of 2 weeks. I got $50 onto Full Tilt and was playing $2 SNGs and doing fairly well, but after awhile of playing the same thing I get real bored. So even though I had a decent ROI%, I managed to donk it all away on MTTs and the like.

While that was going on, I deposited $50 to ePassporte to put it back on Stars. Well that finally cleared on Friday, so I resolved to play more dedicated and disciplined poker, and so far it's working out. Now before I donked away the original Stars roll, I was running at about 14PTBB/100 at NL2. So I was pretty confident going in, and had it up to $60 in the first night. Then I decided to try 12-tabling:



So that was a pretty sweet ~4 hour session where I nitted it up. But I guess that will happen when you triple the tables you play at. Hopefully in the coming days I can have a few more of these.

As an aside, I was planning on moving up to 2c/5c at $125, is that too soon/late? Either way, I think by then I should be at least taking a shot.

New goals:
~At least to NL10 by the new year.
~At least 30k hands by the new year (should be easy with 9+ tables)
~No playing out of my roll. No playing drunk.
~Enough FPPs for something silly like a shirt.

GL all.

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So I realized that I didn't make an October post, and since I have nothing to do (see below) I decided I would.

I didn't get to play much in October, partly because of school, and partly because of the gf. And partly because I discovered I could get to AC in under an hour. So instead of doing the smart thing and putting the "college spending money" online and playing within my roll, I decided to play in AC far under-rolled.

AC went fairly well. The Hilton and Tropicana are soft games for 1/2, but I did manage to donk away $125 in tournaments at the Borgata and Taj. Overall I think I ended up about +$200 for my trips to AC (after gas and parking). I had some long-standing debts to pay off, so I got most of those taken care of, as well as a birthday present for the gf.

When I cam back and went to play Stars however, I decided that I wasn't making enough at the micro-stakes and decided to take the whole roll and move up, which wasn't isn't a good idea in theory, but turned out ok in practice. But then it didn't. But then it did again! But then it didn't. Here's the graph:


And that doesn't even include the $200 I lost heads-up. The second fairly-large drop represents a drop to $8 in my roll. I managed to take that $8 and grind it back into about $60 or 70, I don't remember exactly how high it got, but that last drop was back at NL 50, and it was a fairly ridiculous hand too:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/304632

My own fault for playing out of my roll anyway.

Final starts for October, without the $200 lost at NL100 HU:


Anyway, I consider myself a decent winner at 1c/2c (13.84 PTBB/100 over 14k hands) so I will be re-depositing $200 and starting again at NL5 (where I'm not doing so hot yet). Just waiting on the bank to clear the deposit. Lesson learned, moving on. GL all.

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Posted above my computer now; thanks MiPwnYa.

Though I didn't run it that low, I'm rebuilding from $12. Back to 1c/2c until ePassporte money clears.

Onwards.

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So I was all ready to make a post about how bad I ran tonight (-4 buyins), but when I went over the session in PT, all the hands where I lost a big amount of money I was crushed. Things like AQ v AK (3 times), QQ v AA, TT v AA, etc. Anyway, I had already started to post and everything, so I guess I'll give you the graph anyway:




And this is yours for stopping by:




Anyways, I've got a day to myself tomorrow, so I guess I'll be playing a bunch of hands, as well as the WBCOOP. GL all.

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