Poker in the Rear

First, plz check the blog post below this. It's got epic +EV comics in it.

Finally in the green for the month. Woot. Still have very little desire to play so I figured posting a blog might get me in the mood. Kinda working so far.

All of February:


The last week:


BR = 5.5k

I gotta remember how badly I wanted to hit 6k and play NL200. Gotta remember that feeling and recapture that drive!

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Woke up singing the Zelda theme song and so I went straight downstairs and turned on the Wii. I started Ocarina of Time the other day but I was jones'n for some pure, un-diluted, classic Zelda. I'd been planning to save it for last but shit, I woke up with the theme song in my head. I had no choice.

It was fun re-exploring the map and finding old secrets. I managed to get about 8 hearts before beating the third dungeon. So far I'm cruising through the game and could probably beat it tonight if I put in a few more hours, but I wanna save it for later. It's a million times easier than I remember, but I guess knowing where a lot of the bomb spots and burnable trees are helps things along.

But I AM UP on the money making game old man. He nearly had me one session but I was able to recover. I tend to leave his place up by 20-50 rupees.

Good day poker wise too. Glad I got myself to play. Made 8.5 buyins over about 2.8k hands. Running good! That also put me in the green for the month! I've still got my big EV gap but it's starting to close slowly. But even my EV is skyrocketing up so it's hard to bring the lines together. I'm happy to be up for the month and at a peak BR level ever since my first failed NL200 shot a year ago. I'm sitting on 5.5k now and hope to get up to 6k before doing another NL200 shot. Could be this week! Ya never know!

That's all for now. Was probably a waste to type so much since this blog will probably be bumped off the front page by a bunch of "OMG I DIDN'T WIN THE 25 BILLIONTH HAND" posts before I even wake up.

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And somehow won 5 BI while running below EV. haha. Plus lost a few AK vs KK coolers and a lot of QQ/JJ vs 2 random cards against short stackers who got it AIPF very light. I felt like I was down about 5 BI and then recovered to even. Surprising to see a 5 bi profit.



Lately I'd been doing a lot of 12+ tabling and it wasn't working out very well. Especially after I've learned so much from HU and gotten much better at hand reading, it felt like a waste of time. So I forced myself to cut down to 8 which has been very helpful. I end up with 10-12 when I get a rush of waitlists coming in but I try to thin it down to 6-8 as soon as I see which tables are bad. It has gone quite well and I've been able to make a lot of good plays and reads.

Also heard back from PS about the concierge for my Wii and they're sending me monies. Woot! Final cost is 32,922 FPPs to get:

1 Wii
1 extra remote
1 extra nunchuck
1 nyko charging station
1 COD4 WAW
AND
1 massage =)

I was under $500 so I had to throw in another receipt so I figured a massage on FPP's would be nice. Hell yeah concierge service, much better than 30k FPP for just 1 Wii and none of the other stuff I got.

My birthday is coming up (march 1st) so people have been asking what I want. I've made a bit of a list and it's all pretty geared towards upgrading my grinding set up. I have a 2 bedroom apt with my GF and we set 1 bedroom up as an office. I used to grind in there all the time but then 2 things happened: 1) winter came and we have horrible insulation so that room was freezing and 2) I was missing my GF. So I moved my laptop down to the living room where it's warmest and where she sits to watch TV. For the last 4-5 months I've been sitting on the ground in front of the coffee table and playing poker. It's been fun but this is a horrible set up. It's awkward and really bad for my back/neck/wrist. So yesterday we went and put plastic up on the windows of the office and put a heater in there so I can move back up.

This is where the birthday presents come in. My chair isn't very good in there so I'm gonna try to get once of those ergonomic (sp?) chairs that will help my posture for my bday. Also need a good mouse pad for my wrist. Sadly my favorite mouse has started to crap out on me - it randomly stops working but I can't figure otu what's wrong, and it comes back in a few seconds, but that's horrible while playing poker - so i want to go buy the same one again. It's so hard to find a good comfortable mouse and I've bought about 4 since I got this one and I always stop using those really fast cause they suck.

So any suggestions on Mice/Mousepads/Computer chairs would be appreciated!

Ok, enough babbling for now. Gonna watch some Burn Notice (my new fav show) and eat, then get back online so I'm on PS for the billionth hand. God I hope I win it!

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It's so weird - a week ago I was playing 6k hands a day and felt like it wasn't enough. Now I can barely get myself to play. Not sure wtf is up. Totally lost my desire. Guess I might have burned out a bit.

Part of it is definitely that I've been wanting to spend time with my GF. When we're just lazing around and I could play poker or just sit around with her, I've wanted to sit around with her. A few weeks ago if we were just sitting around I'd be like "fuck this I'm gonna get something done" and grind grind grind. But the last few days I just wanna keep sitting around, watch TV, chat about random shit, and try to get her to play old school nintendo games with me (she tried super mario bros 3 and let's just say she's not a natural... but it took me forever to get any skill back on it and I still suck).

Maybe it's the wii and all the games I have to play. But the thing is - when I cam back from Xmas with a million new games to play I was still grinding like crazy cause I wanted to. Then I went through about a 2-3 week stretch where I never played any games but only poker, and if I did game it was usually cause I was forcing myself to do something other than poker and I wasn't very into it.

Weird. When I have played I played ok but definitely didn't feel like I was playing great. Also keep having short sessions. Meh, I dunno. I really don't want to force it and put out my B game though.

/end rant

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I got it! yeaahhhh!

Set up the internet and DL'd mario 64 and zelda ocarina of time. played a bit of mario and god I love that game.

Also bought COD WAW and played some tonight. It's good but not as good as COD4 MW on computer. Graphics on the wii are definitely worse than my computer or xbox. I was at my cousins house watching him play COD WAW on xbox 360 and it looked great. On wii it looks kind of silly. Still getting used to the controls so it's a bit frustrating but I prefer using the wii over a regular console, it feels closer to a computer with a mouse and keyboard. So, better controls than an xbox 360 but worse graphics. Damn.

But COD isn't why I got a wii - for me it's all about the OLD games. So I'm really happy about the purchase. Plus the deal I'm getting is great thanks to supernova and the concierge. I could have spent 30k FPP to get a $250 wii + 1 remote/nunchuck via the PS store.... instead I'm spending 31k FPP and getting the same $250 wii + 1 remote/nunchuck AND 1 extra remote + 1 extra nunchuck + 1 nyko charging station + COD4 WAW + 6k Wii points which I will use to buy like 6 games. Yeah, that's much better.

Thanks to everyone for suggestions. =)

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I have decided to get a wii now that I've checked their online game store and seen that all the old zelda's and marios are available there. Problem is I have no idea what the best way to go is. Preferably I'd like to just go to a store and buy one - I don't want to wait for it to ship. But I also want the best deal possible. I'd be happy just getting the very basics with the console/basic cords/1 controller since I can plug in my gamecube controller and it will work for all the old nintendo games. Then I can add accessories over time. At the same time, if I can find a deal where I can get some sort of bundle and another control + things like the wii fit or the mariokart wheel or the gun to use for COD then I'd gladly pay a little extra.

I've looked around and it seemed like amazon.com had a pretty good price, the same as what I was finding on ebay, and I trust the products from amazon.com more than what I might get from an ebay seller. I couldn't find any better spot to buy it online, but like I said I'd much rather pick one up in the store cause I'm eager to have it. Thing is, seems a lot of stores don't have wii's in stock. They seem to have it available for online ordering but say specifically that it's not in the store (ie target).

Anyway, thoughts? Suggestions?

(btw I'm thinking of this as a poker investment, cause, what better way to un-tilt than to have a mario 64 or ocarina of time session?)

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Well not EXACTLY but I'm down $2,000 in EV for the month of feb across NL200/NL100/NL50. In terms of buyins I've actually only lost 3 BI @ NL200 and 7.5 BI @ NL100, and won 6.5 BI @ NL50, so in that sense it's not so bad. Here's how it looks:




Luckily I'm still playing quite well and I haven't tilted. That's pretty amazing imo. Not a single time have I gone on monkey tilt. I've only had 1 or 2 times where I went into robot tilt where I just started mindlessly playing. Otherwise I feel great about how I'm playing and then I check my results and all my losing hands end up being good barrells or bluffs that failed but were definitely the right move but I ran into the top of their range, and huge suckouts and lots of coolers. So I review my sessions these days and look at my biggest losing hands and think "Nice nice nice, well played, nice, perfect, couldn't do it better, maybe kinda spewy but that's the top of his range, nice, good one" and so on.

Played a shit load of hands this weekend, about 12k. I'm like a mega grinder all of a sudden and I really enjoy playing a lot. Also good to get those vpp and fpp building up. If I ever run hot I will be able to become a NL200 reg and then those milestone bonuses become very realistic.

still mixing in HU with 6max and I've played a few donkaments here and there which I keep busting in really early. I'm doing mostly those big daily guaranteed tournies since they're very soft and if I ever do win one of em I'll be very fucking happy but they're not that expensive to get into.

I'm excited for the lines to re converge and a heater to come so that I can make some big bank. Maybe this week? Who knows!

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I've never had the doomswitch turned on me, but I think Feb is the month my cherry will be popped. Just played over 3k hands vs friday night donks and ended the session down 6 BI in expectation. I was down about 1 Bi for the session and then I hit 4 ridiculous coolers back to back to back. Here they are (plus 1 that happened about 3 minutes before):

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That puts me 1.7k below expectation for the month. Basically 17 buyins. Watch out maynard, I'm coming after you for the most painful EV graph award!

Today @ NL100:


Feb so far:


I feel like I'm playing great too. I did spew a bit early in my 3k hand session vs donks in probably close to break even EV spots, but otherwise I hit a shit load of coolers and beats. The end of my session was brutal because it was like "yes hands!" and I'm thinking that I'm about to get into the green and then "NO SHIT!" and a 2 buyin loss turns into a 5 buyin loss. lolz.

Must weather the storm! I'll probably do a lot more NL50 HU to feel better about myself and not worry about the money.

Oh, also played 3 donkaments tonight and the bad beats continued there to get me knocked out about 100 from the bubble in all 3. woot! At least I should have more hands played than milkman now.

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Rofl




Crazy fucks:




sick and scary and wtf:




a classic:

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I feel like I've played some pretty awesome poker so far this month but I'm just about break even so far... what's killing me is that I'm now -10 BI on the month in EV. Well, that's not exactly right since I've played NL50 - NL200 so 1k isn't exactly 10 BI, but pretty much.

Feb so far mix of NL50 HU / NL100 HU / NL100 6max / NL200 6max:


Mostly ran bad @ NL200 on super bowl sunday, and then keep running bad everytime I do NL100 HU. Doing well @ NL50 HU though and NL100 6max has been ok, though still down in EV there too. I keep having sessions of 6max where I am about to have a monster win and then I get coolered/sucked out on left and right and come out with a 1 buyin win. Let me run even for a bit and god it will be profitable!

played about 2k hands so far today and gonna break for a bit till things start to get juicier. Think I'll do some donkaments as well mix it up btwn HU and 6max for the rest of the night. Hopefully the bad luck will go away and I'll heater it up. I've been hoping for a heater forever now, lolz. I wonder if it will ever come!

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