thewh00sel!

Well I'm really settling into my schedule. Grinding 3 days during the week for 7 hours (5-12), and grinding 8-10 hours on fridays and trying for 8-10 hours on Saturdays and doing Sunday + one random weekday off. Seems like a good work-life balance right now, so hopefully that keeps up. Ok, enough with the scheduling mumbo jumbo...

RESULTS:



I'm still a bit behind pace on hours played, but I should get 180 hours in this month because I've been playing a lot, which will almost cover up my 95 hour January. If I can add a couple extra hours here and there I can bump my monthly average up to 150 hours by May I'm sure.

For other stats, Hands per hour is probably around 30 for live play, so you can derive most things from that. i.e 240*30 = only ~7200 hands played so far.

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Surprisingly found some time for another blog post. Here's how we're looking right now:

That puts me at finishing around 70k after May. And that's assuming a lot. i.e maintaining that hourly, and getting 150 hours in every month, which will be tough enough. I'll either need to find a way to get in closer to 200 hours a month at some point or win more, heh. I'll post another update after this month is over.

On a side note: amazing 10/20/40 has been running at bellagio. Wish I could get a seat in it, worth a 1 buy-in shot. Some fish has been killing it the last few days I heard; up over 90k. I also saw that a guy turned his $800 buy-in into $50,000 yesterday in the game though; i assume off of the fish. Prob worth trying to get into lol.

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Been really busy, and a lot of unexpected annoying time-consuming stuff has come up this year. Brief update is that I only played 150 hours so far this year. Which is well below where I wanted to be at (225hrs), but I played over 50 hours this month already so hopefully I can play more...unlikely though.

Averaging about $110 an hour, mostly thanks to one or two good days this month; and I just got shit on today so that sucked/affected it a bit.

BLOG AT YOU TOMORROW (in another month)

ps: I haven't played any online at all.

pps: If I can get my monthly hours played to average 150/month (750 hours total) I'll need to average $133 per hour to hit 100k profit. Tough road ahead.

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Went to Bellagio yesterday and the games were pretty poor. Was up 700 after 3 hours and came home to spend some time with the wife. I've played 17 hours this month and I should be at 30. Plan on putting in 9 hours today and 12 hours tomorrow to try and catch up a little. Also lost another 200 online, can't seem to run good but at least I'm back into the positive overall.

99,913 to go!

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Didn't manage to get to the casino until ~6 yesterday, and only stayed for 6.5 hours, but made almost all my money back from the day before. Online I only played 300 hands and ran a few buyins under all-in ev.

Live: +3k
Online: -150

$100,450 to go, back where we started.

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Online results: -300, 1500 hands

Puts me at -200 for the month online. Had a good start @ +600 and just didn't win any more hands after that.

Live results: -3.1k, 7.5 hours
Got to the casino at 5pm and had to wait 45 minutes to get into a game so an hour of waiting between the 20min drive and the wait. Played from 1745-0115

lost 900 doubling someone up with AQ on A587K just bet/bet/shoving into their set of 5's when I thought they had a weak A, also doubled up a shorty with KT on TJQ, prob was a fold but he only had 500 so I ran it vs the worst hand to see, KQ.

then played the hand of the night versus a guy I've played with a fair amount. He is really goofy. Prob like 70 years old and prone to spazz out when he doesn't play a hand in a while. That condition had been met as he hadn't played a hand in an hour. Here's the HH:

villain ($5000) limps utg
CO ($1000) limps
Hero ($2200) limps 4c 4d
SB calls
BB checks

Flop (50)
4s Td 8c

sb/bb check
villain bets $140
co folds
hero calls
sb/bb fold

My read here is that he either has a hand like a limped overpair and is scared (25%) or a weak two-pair/top pair type hand (30%) or some complete garbage hand like a gutshot or something (40%) or has me beat (5%).

Turn (330)
4s Td 8c 3s

Villain bets 550
Hero calls

I think I took long enough on the flop to convince him that I had a ten or a draw or something weak, so I think he's gonna keep barreling here if he has nothing. I think he'll also bet if he has a stronger hand but I think raising would be a mistake since it looks really strong and my best bet is to just take a long time and hope he ships it on the river.

River (1430)
4s Td 8c 3s 9d

Villain bets 1200
Hero calls

Pretty lame card and he definitely looked happy to see it but obv I'm pretty under repped and beat all two pairs and spazz outs so I'm not folding.

Villain shows Qd Jc
Hero shows sadface

And that was my day. He proceeded to talk about how 9's always come up in baccarat and how he always bets big when he needs a 9.
103,300 to go!

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Kind of made a general "what I need to do" plan to get myself back on track in 2012 and blogging about it should help keep me updating at least once a week I hope.

I've been playing online a little just trying to keep my game sharp, but still enough to try and make some money off of it (100NL) for when the DOJ unleashes the online poker beast later this year (i hope). I was thinking about moving to Canada for PS/SNE but right now it just doesn't seem cost-effective with everything else I have going on in Vegas + the chance that I spend a bunch of money to move and DOJ says OK USA go ahead.

I've been really tweaking my live game lately and I think I can get out of this breakeven slump I've been in for a while now so I've set an ambitious goal for the first half of 2012.

Overall goal: Make 100k by WSOP
How I am going to achieve it:

1. Make 18,000 per month playing 5/10 live
-Will be tough but I've made some assumptions that hopefully work out
Assumption 1: Estimated live hourly-rate of $100/hr with good game selection
Assumption 2: Play at least 45 hours per week (will have to play 9 hours a day for the next 5 days to catch up to this pace by next week)

2. Make 2000 /month between online + rakeback
-could be tough to even play enough but I'm going to try

3. ship an MTT?

I guess for a normal person this wouldn't be super tough but for me to put in the hours is hard bc we don't have a babysitter. So I'm home all day and then when my wife gets home to watch Alli, we eat dinner at like 4 and then by 445-5pm I'll usually be in a game. So 5pm-1230am (or 5pm-2am for the rest of this week) is tough when I have to wake up at 8am again.

Here's my planned schedule for the next few months

Mondays off

Tue-Thurs schedule
0800-1400: Wake up, fatherly duties, daughter naps at 2pm
1400-1600: online poker while she naps
1600-1630: husbandly duties (eat dinner etc)
1645-0100: Live poker for 8 hours

Friday schedule
0800-1600 the same as above
1600-1800 stay home longer
1845-0300 play later since it's friday and don't have to wake up early

Sat-Sun schedule
0930-1100 wake up, etc
1100-1500 hang out on saturdays, online poker on sundays
1600-0000 Live poker

So that works out to about
-12 hours per week playing online so I'd need to make $41.67/hr after rakeback to get 2k a month
-48 hours of live poker per week so I'd need to make $93.75/hr if I played the full 192 hours each month.

I'll try to update this with weekly results if I can, maybe daily but most likely won't have time until Mondays.

Played an hour online today when I had some free time here's my graph:


cliffs:
1. Make 100k playing 5/10 live and 100nl in 5 months
2. Need ~100 an hour for live and ~40 an hour for online to get it
3. $99,897 to go

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2011 was a stinker, but I'm in an OK spot to have a good 2012 considering how bad the last two years were. Gonna try and update my blog more often this year. GL LP.

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It's been 7 months since my last blog; not to say that my life hasn't been blogworthy in that time, it's just been super hectic and annoying since Black Friday. Ok, where to begin...

I had just started to become a winner in online cash again and was grinding 2/4 and 3/6 with shots at 5/10 from January through April of this year with mediocre success (+20k or so on limited volume); but the point was that I was balancing my poker portfolio a lot better than I had in the past. With a nice mix of MTT's, online cash, and live cash. Anyways, that online income stream got taken away from me obv and I'm lucky (I guess)to be living in Vegas and have live cash to fall back on.

Unfortunately live poker is a beast that makes you think you are a losing player when you're not and vice versa. So now I'm currently grinding 5 days a week about 30 hours a week at 5/10. My results have been less than stellar (breakeven since the wsop) and I can't put in any more hours right now because of family obligations. So life is pretty tough right now with no steady income stream and no tournament scores to help (not to mention a black hole of tournament makeup from being backed for the last year so even a small 6 figure score wouldn't help me).

Also, I sold the GT-R mostly because I wasn't crushing it anymore, but also because (You were right Ket) it wasn't as fun to drive as my Evo was. But I got a white '05 Mazda RX-8 and it's more fun than the Evo was imo(RWD!!!).

Ok enough with the bad and out with the good:

My wife is about to graduate and is finishing up her student teaching in a First grade classroom. She graduates in January and then will go on for her Master's while teaching in an elementary school here next year. When she has her master's after the 2012-2013 school year we will re-evaluate the financial situation and if we are struggling at all or online poker hasn't come back we may look into International Teaching where she would teach at an English-speaking school in Europe and I would play online poker and life would be cool. But until then we are just waiting it out in the states.

Baby stuff:
She's getting bigger



And doing cuter stuff




That's it! Good luck to everyone's future endeavours and I'll try and update this thing more regularly in the future.

-wh00sel

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But I was down to under 1bb @ 1200-2400 and came back to get 2nd in this. Step in the right direction one time?

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