A winning day. Should have been bigger but I made several mistakes. But overall I'm happy.
I started today by playing 6 tables of NL200 and quickly got double coolered and was down 2 buyins. So I decided to play NL100 instead and just mass grind. Got about 20 tables of NL100 going and was running hot. So I closed all the tighter tables, kept the fishy ones, and started adding NL200 tables into the mix. Played for about 6 hours straight and logged 8k hands and about 3k VPP. Profit wasn't huge but still nice @ $1,100. Crazy day and probably my longest session ever.
When I started running good I decided I'd just keep playing till I either got tired or started running horribly bad. This is totally opposite of how I used to be where I would always quit after winning 1-3 buyins while running good. This was quite fun and much more profitable imo. Sadly I've had lots of short losing sessions for pretty much this entire month, so this 1 good run didn't make up for all the other loses. But hopefully I can get a few more sessions like this before the month ends and if that happens I definitely could get into the green, plus make a LOT of VPP.
Oh poker gods of yonder, for what reason must I suffer thine wrath?
I either run way worse than most people or I suck at poker, cause I swear I run bad much more often than I run good. I usually go about 1 month of downswing and then 1 week of upswing. So that means the vast majority of the time I'm playing poker I'm being coolered, sucked out on, set up, and generally shit upon. It can make this game very very NOT fun.
wow I keep ending my sessions on deepstacked bad beats. Today I get to flop a set while deep on a 9 high board vs KK, get it all-in on the turn and river brings a K. I keep winning a bunch of small / medium pots and then lost most of it back in 1 huge bad beat.
hahahahaha
That's life. Overall things are fine though cause I think I'm winning (still in the no BR checking mode) but this probably coulda been like a 10 buyin heater or better if these deep stacked hands went my way!
I've had a pretty nice weekend though. Went out to dave and busters with friends on Friday night. Pokered saturday and then hung with my GF and one of our friends last night. Then today has been more poker and more laziness. I've been playing much better and that has been very enjoyable. Poker was starting to make me feel like shit earlier this week so taking off till the weekend worked out very well. I've gotta focus on work right now anyway so I will be spending much less time on poker. The fact that I didn't run like total shit this weekend has me wanting to play more though, hehe.
Of course I'm waiting for a call from my GF to see if I should head out to meet her yet, and I decide I'll play a few more hands while waiting. I actually had sat out on all tables and was thinking of ending the session, but no, I'm playing well and deep on a 2 tables with deep fish, so might as well play a few more hands till the call comes. And then I get setup for a nice 150bb pot with AK vs QQ on an AQ7 flop.
And right as the chips get pushed into his stack the phone starts ringing... obviously. It's like the universe just wants to fuck with us sometimes. I bet you have all had similar experiences where if the phone call had come 1 minute earlier you would have sat out and missed that one painful hand. Or if you'd just quit instead of staying till the big blind, or if you hadn't come back to play after taking that break... Sometimes it feels like the poker gods or lee know that we're getting ready to quit so they hit us with a painful cooler or beat to tilt us into chasing a loss. Or maybe to just tilt us so we can't enjoy the fun thing we were quitting the game to go do and punish us for leaving the tables.
I know none of that is true, but god, does it ever feel that way sometimes!
Another hilarious development of the right wing...
Don't know what I'm talking about? Not your fault, you're probably not a government-hating Fox-News watcher. Weeks back when CNBC's Rick Santelli went nuts on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he called for a Chicago "Tea Party" to protest the government "rewarding bad behavior" with bank bailouts and mortgage relief.
People were psyched at the prospect of reenacting the centuries-old technique first used to protest unjust taxation, and have planned "Tea Party" or "Tea Bag" protests across the country for tax day, April 15.
If the news stories popping up every ten minutes from local outlets across the country are any indication -- stories about tea parties planned in places like Palm Beach and Allentown and Reno and Missoula -- there are going to be a hell of a lot of tea parties on tax day, with tens of thousands of people participating. But just as Rick Santelli seemed not to have thought out his impassioned rant against government bailouts -- the rant that got the whole movement started -- there seems to be a bit of a struggle within the tea party movement to control its message.
Anti-immigration activists have reportedly been rebuffed by one of the groups helping coordinate tea parties nationwide. The tea party in Burleson, Texas might wind up sodden with Texas secessionists. Newt Gingrich has thrown his support behind the tea party movement, saying in a press release that the "American people are fed up with Washington's irresponsible spending spree." Nevermind that Gingrich supported the financial industry bailout.
Of course Fox News has jumped on the bandwagon HARDCORE, with Hannity, Beck, Cavuto and Van Sustren signing up for live full day coverage of the events and encouraging everyone to take part...
Fox News is making a mockery of its famous slogan, Media Matters says:
Despite its repeated insistence that its coverage is "fair and balanced" and its invitation to viewers to "say 'no' to biased media," Fox News has frequently aired segments encouraging viewers to get involved with "tea party" protests across the country, which the channel has described as primarily a response to President Obama's fiscal policies.
The Media Matters item goes on to beat up Fox for dozens of recent on-air statements it views as too favorable of the tea party movement, such as Glenn Beck's exhortation to "celebrate with Fox News" on tax day.
Of course they've started some fear mongering claiming that the "liberals" are planning to "infiltrate" and "sabotage" their tea parties... all because huffpost has asked for citizen reporters to attend and cover local tea parties. That's right, they will be at the party and then writing down what they see and submitting that to a website - serious sabotage and infiltration!!!
Fox News' Neil Cavuto reported Tuesday that the tax day tea party movement is being "infiltrated" by well-organized liberals out to destroy it.
"Only eight days before a nationwide tea party, some over-caffeinated crashers aiming to lay waste to it," Cavuto said. "Reports of very well-organized infiltrators trying to mix in and rain on this parade. Talk about taxing."
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"How seriously do you take these threats?" Cavuto asked one of the tea party organizers he had on his show.
"Honestly, Neil, we don't take them very seriously at all."
I feel like this all kinda ties back to a previous blog post of mine where John Stewart took on this right wing epidemic of "Baracknophobia"
John Stewart did a hilarious segment on the daily show recently taking on all the nutjobs with their conspiracy theories and "Obama is destroying the USA!" bullshit. It was basically him vs fox news and it looked like another version of the sane LP guys talking to ToTehEastide and TheTank when they post their conspiracy theory movie threads and so on.
It's funny how during Bush's years when we disagreed with the president Fox news and all the right wing nut jobs were quick to call us "un-patriotic" and "un-american", and tell us to leave if we don't like it. But now that Bush is gone, disagreeing with the president is "Patriotic", and people should fight the "tyranny" that Obama is trying to impose. Supporting the president is supporting "fascism". Do these assholes really not realize the double standards they're setting and the hypocrisy of their actions? I doubt it. I bet they know but all they care about is trying to brainwash everyone they can to achieve their own goals, or maybe it's just all about ratings.
Found this funny story on Politico about Obama's TV habits and I thought it was pretty funny that he was like a hardcore entourage fan, so much so that they always tried to organize the campaign season in a way so he and his staff could watch every episode, hahaha. He also watches the wire, ESPN (whenever possible), and some kid shoes with his daughters. Plus he's made a special effort to see slumdog millionaire and the wrestler with his family. Overall I approve of his choices, though I definitely gotta get watching entourage now. Everyone tells me to watch that show but Obama being a fan just sealed the deal for me and it's definitely the next show I will be starting, heh.
President Barack Obama can’t stand to be without his “Entourage.”
Call it a guilty pleasure, or maybe it just rings familiar to him. The HBO series about an aspiring actor features a fast-talking agent named Ari, based on the real-life brother of Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
For less R-rated fare, he tunes into “Hannah Montana” or “SpongeBob SquarePants” in the White House with his daughters. Aides said he would have watched Monday night’s NCAA championship on TiVo on his way home from Iraq Tuesday night.
Jon Stewart’s smackdown of CNBC’s Jim Cramer? Obama was eager to see it. But when it comes to the real news, and not the fake kind, Obama takes a pass — rarely ever tuning into 24-hour cable chatter or replays of his own performances.
“We usually tell him how we think he did,” said longtime friend Valerie Jarrett.
In some ways, it’s a TV diet that doesn’t seem so different than many American men’s, featuring a heavy dose of sports, including that staple of the channel-surfing set, ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
But some of Obama’s choices definitely have an edgier bent — such as the HBO drama “The Wire.” His favorite character is Omar, a gay stickup artist who steals from drug pushers to give to the poor. (“That’s not an endorsement. He’s not my favorite person, but he’s a fascinating character,” Obama said last year.)
“When you hear he likes ‘Entourage,’ you have to go, ‘That figures,’” said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University. “Anything Obama does is cool by definition. He’s the Internet president, he’s the BlackBerry president, and now, I suppose, he could be called the HBO president.” Obama likes “Entourage” so much he even rearranged his campaign schedule not to miss an episode.
“We would talk about ‘Entourage’ all the time,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
“A couple of times during the campaign, we would have these Sunday night calls at the same time as ‘Entourage,’” Gibbs recalled. “I remember one time I e-mailed him because the call was scheduled for the last 15 minutes of ‘Entourage’ and I said, ‘Just be late and we can just watch “Entourage” and still get on and do the call.’”
“And it worked,” Gibbs continued, laughing. “We got to see ‘Entourage.’”
And of course, with Obama, there is basketball — NBA and NCAA games and lots of ESPN.
“Sports, sports and more sports,” Jarrett said of Obama. “On the campaign trail, as soon as we would get on the bus, the first thing he would do is turn the channel to sports channels.”
When he has a few moments, Obama is known to go searching for highlights of basketball games on “SportsCenter,” a show he has watched religiously for years. “I remember sitting in a hotel lobby with him when he was running for the Senate and watching ‘SportsCenter’ in silence,” said Michael Strautmanis, a senior White House aide.
But when you’re the president, you don’t just watch TV — you are TV. ESPN hosted Obama for a show called “Barack-etology,” in which he unveiled his March Madness college basketball picks.
And he’s got the ultimate man-cave — Air Force One. Strautmanis said he and Obama watched an NCAA basketball game on Air Force One last month as they traveled back from California on a late-night flight.
Seated in the office on the plane just hours after taping “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” Obama was focused on the game, analyzing the team’s every move.
“When you hear he likes ‘Entourage,’ you have to go, ‘That figures,’” said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University. “Anything Obama does is cool by definition. He’s the Internet president, he’s the BlackBerry president, and now, I suppose, he could be called the HBO president.” Obama likes “Entourage” so much he even rearranged his campaign schedule not to miss an episode.
“We would talk about ‘Entourage’ all the time,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
“A couple of times during the campaign, we would have these Sunday night calls at the same time as ‘Entourage,’” Gibbs recalled. “I remember one time I e-mailed him because the call was scheduled for the last 15 minutes of ‘Entourage’ and I said, ‘Just be late and we can just watch “Entourage” and still get on and do the call.’”
“And it worked,” Gibbs continued, laughing. “We got to see ‘Entourage.’”
And of course, with Obama, there is basketball — NBA and NCAA games and lots of ESPN.
“Sports, sports and more sports,” Jarrett said of Obama. “On the campaign trail, as soon as we would get on the bus, the first thing he would do is turn the channel to sports channels.”
When he has a few moments, Obama is known to go searching for highlights of basketball games on “SportsCenter,” a show he has watched religiously for years. “I remember sitting in a hotel lobby with him when he was running for the Senate and watching ‘SportsCenter’ in silence,” said Michael Strautmanis, a senior White House aide.
But when you’re the president, you don’t just watch TV — you are TV. ESPN hosted Obama for a show called “Barack-etology,” in which he unveiled his March Madness college basketball picks.
And he’s got the ultimate man-cave — Air Force One. Strautmanis said he and Obama watched an NCAA basketball game on Air Force One last month as they traveled back from California on a late-night flight.
Seated in the office on the plane just hours after taping “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” Obama was focused on the game, analyzing the team’s every move.
Well I've been overall frustrated with poker lately and I'd rather not tilt-spew away my BR because I force myself to play. So I've decided to change my focus around a bit. Right now I work a part time job where I'm helping develop a new website for a non-profit organization. I've been focusing on poker first and then doing the part time job with a kind of half arsed effort. But we're getting closer to a deadline and there's more cool work available to be done now as we've gotten further into the site, so I'm going to flip that around and prioritize my work on the site first and put poker second. And when I do play poker I'm going to focus on NL50 HU and studying/practicing for adjusting to live play so that I can take full advantage of my Vegas trip in June for the WSOP.
I figure I'll allow myself to do NL100 6max during the week if I'm really in the mood for it, and NL200 6max during the weekends if I'm strongly in the mood for it. But mainly I will do NL50 HU while watching prinnyraiding. I started a HU journey but then I began doing really well in 6max and had to ride that wave. It seems to be slowing down right now and a switch of focus on the type of poker seems to be in order.
I've been really stressed the past few weeks and I think it's cause of the frustrations of a lot of breakeven results. I think this will make poker more fun as I'm learning new things. Then I'll still feel like I'm achieving things even if I'm not making a lot of money via poker cause I'll be working hard on this site, and this is a site I'm extremely excited about. So this should be a good formula till the site is done.
Ahh, now I've got that good feeling that comes when you make a solid plan and get ready to put it into action =)
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