Dreams come true

Blahhhhhhh disaster session
Lost 2 flips at the beginning, the rest was getting it in overpair vs 5 outer, straight vs set on turn (rivers a boat), set losing to straight, set of 4s on AK4 getting it in on K turn vs AK, losing more flips and 3 outers, etc
Overall, I liked my play but probably should have had a stop loss
My roll's back down to 800 now, time to regrind some nl25

Although I am taking part in asdf2000 coaching mtt sngs offer so I might just do that instead

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25nl results for the month of January 2010
Nothing much to say except I should have played more hands
My goal for next month is 15-20k hands



Kind of FML for losing my whole month's earnings @ 25plo last night though
Oh well, No more poker until whenever I decide to start in Feb. Going to Six Flags tomorrow, catch up on some studying Sunday.
I hope you were all productive and had positive results in January, GL HF in February

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Hello there LP,

I am a former StarCraft player has been playing poker seriously since last July. I picked up poker mainly to see how well I could do and also as a source of supplementary income as a college student (I actually don't plan on cashing out until I graduate unless I immediately NEED the money). By no means do I consider myself a serious grinder but my passion to improve in the game is genuine. I do not have any personal attachment/need of the money in my poker account so am not afraid to lose it for the purpose of learning. I've lurked on LP for quite some time and I thought I'd start a blog to keep track of my progress as well as have a place to record my thoughts.

About Me:
I attend university at USC(freshman) and through playing for our CSL team have met two awesome members of the liquid community LosingID8 and Day9. I'm majoring in Business Administration and am doing well in my studies right now (huge priority over poker). However, this semester is going to be rather easy and I think I can put in a good amount of hands. I'm very comfortable just 4 tabling normal and 2 tabling rush poker and am not planning to ever mass table/robot.

My poker progress:
Started playing SNGs on FTP starting from $120 roll in November of 2008. FTed some $1-$3 tournaments and proceeded to piss a ton of money at 10nl. My roll at that point ended at about $100 and I decided to quit for a while. About six months later, after getting back from a trip to China, I picked up the game again at 5nl FR in July. In August, I switched to 6max for 10nl and built my roll to about $300. After fall semester began, I took a break from hold'em and played a ton of limit stud8 games starting from .5/.10 up to 2/4 and some thousands of hands at 10/25 plo games. Diving into the different games has helped me build my roll to about $900 and has benefited my overall thought process + approach to online poker. I've been playing 25nl since mid-January and my roll currently stands at 1.1k.

My primitive thoughts on the commonly perceived "games are going to be impossible to beat":
Paralleling any sort of major competitive game, poker has gone through evolutions of game play. If we look at how StarCraft has progressed, there have been many times when a certain person/strategy was dominating the scene and left no hope for other gamers. The first thing that comes to mind is the period of sAviOr's dominance and the claims of ZvP imbalance. He had just destroyed Protoss's last hope Nal_rA in the MSL semifinals and was in a position to ezroll Bisu for the gold. What happened? Bisu took an innovative approach to the game and developed a sair/DT strategy that sAviOr could not possibly have expected/practiced against. The same can apply to poker. No longer are the games as easy as the old party poker days, but that only means that the player pool is shifting towards a different type of player (regs who have a solid foundations of how to play tag/lag). The importance of the redline at the mid-high stakes is becoming ever more important, which means that in order to survive you must adapt and have better redlines than the competition while still balancing the blueline. It is in the hands of each individual player to better themselves and develop plays and strategies that can counter the popularized "standard plays."

This concludes my introduction for the LP community and I hope you all accept me with open arms.
If anyone would like to befriend me/become a poker buddy feel free to PM me so we can exchange messenger info.

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