Path to Robusto-ness...2011 Recap

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Joeingram1 United States. Mar 26 2011 07:48. Posts 943

Path To ROBUSTONESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

So after some very smart bankroll decisions the past few months I realized that I am near busto online. Smart bankroll decisions=losing 20BI in a session randomly, shot taking at a higher then my "regular" stakes and playing like a fucking idiot and losing more then I said I would, etc... Basic problems that have plagued me for most of my online poker career but never really had a near busto effect on me because I could always machine it up and grind it back up. This month it actually got to a point where I was a little worried if I still had it in me to be able to go through the moving down process and grinding it out there.

I was 4-6 tabling for a week or two and super game selecting at nl100 and made about 35BI in 6k hands which is pretty amazing results but wasn't being disciplined enough to stick with it and would throw some random PLO sessions in there and win a few BIs most sessions and then go off the deep end for a -25BI session. I have not been running to well but at the same time I certainly wasn't playing well either. A few days ago I was looking at the fact that I basically NEEDED to make a certain amount of money for the rest of the month or I would either need to re-evaluate my current living situation or get a stake.

I have compiled a pretty sick ptr buddy list of small stakes nl100 fish and plo25-400 fish and decided to hunt then when they are playing and not play PLO like a fucking idiot and fold more hands OOP (which was my BIGGEST leak by far x10000).

There is also a WSOP circuit event in town at Harrahs Rincon and another SNE grinder Hodge05 was in town so we decided to go up there and meet some other guys he is talking to about getting a place together out here. There was a few cash tables running and I decided to play some 1/3 for a little while. Was talking to an asian girl at my table for awhile about SNE that turned out to be Kristy Arnett who does all the poker news reporting stuff. Only took me a few hours to figure this out lol. There is one seat open to my right and new player walks into the room, only 4 tables running right now, and gets the seat

Obviously its the CHAMP himself Jerry Yang coming to get light 3bet by me lol. Played for a few hours with him and following my rule of "if i'm ever playing with a wsop main event champ I must make him laugh" I proceeded to talk to him a bunch and threaten his stack by telling him I can't wait to stack the champ! He was a really really nice guy though, super friendly. Played pretty well too and did really well. Iso'd him a few hands and obv lost all of them but only played one pretty big hand towards end of night.

2/5 1k effective I raise 89dd UTG and Sharon (60s woman I had been flirting with the whole night who got hot and bothered when I took off my hoody and told me if I wanted her I could have her lol) flats on BTN and Champ flats BB. Flop 10 6 2 with a backdoor flush draw for me so I cbet 40 into 60 and Champ c/c. Turn 7 (bink) and I talk a little to the champ who is in fatdan mode and bet 100 and he calls pretty quick. River is Q and he checks and I laugh hysterically because I am very excited and bet 300. Champ tanks forever and I keep talking to him and he keeps laughing. I say the champ doesn't want anyone to bluff him ever, and if he calls I will be able to afford to marry his daughter (he told me earlier in the night that if I wanted to ever marry his daughter, in his culture I would have to pay him lol wtf). Eventually he called and I was

Fun live session, I saw the older woman a little closer when I was about to leave and if she was about fiddy pounds less things might have gotten serious. Ended up 1200usd on the session, rounding out a good past few days. I'm not really sure what my poker plan is going forward but going to just keep putting in the hours/hands and hopefully keep winning.

NAPT LA BOUNTY SHOOTOUT

I posted in a previous blog about how I was playing the formerly NAPT bounty shootout in LA. ESPN recoreded it, 10,3k Buy-in 2k for each bounty and 40k for winning the table. 81 people played it total and I sold about 85 percent of my action for it. I got to the casino pretty early and chatted with some of the company that produces/records it and got my picture taken for the bounty chip that you give out to people. SNE grinder George Lind was to my right, John Hennigan was to my left and Dennis Phillips was a few to my right, I ended up chatting with him for most time I was alive and he was a pretty awesome and super nice guy. I was actually playing really well to start but in typical Joe Ingram fucking idiot fashion I donked off a bunch of chips to Hennigan with 22 preflop vs his QQ.

This was my bustout hand

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporti...bounty-shootout/day1b/post.178017.htm

I flatted the opening raise hoping someone would sqz and i could jam. Once the guy who was super short went all in and then the sb foreign doctor thought for few seconds and went all in I figured there was a good chance he wanted to go for the bounty and could have had a hand like 99-jj ajss-ak and then george thought for awhile and finally sighed and called with aqo. At this point I guess I could fold QQ and still have 30-40bbs left but I was kinda on tilt from losing half my stack/wanted the bounty/had a pair.

I will get my 10-30 seconds on ESPN and At least I took this pic with Dennis before I busted out lol

REST OF 2011

The rest of 2011 has gone pretty up and down for me so far. After went on 70k downer in December, I just laid in bed for the start of the year pretty angry at myself for losing that much fucking money. Eventually I got out of bed and started to play some poker but was playing to high of stakes for how I was feeling at that time and didn't pretty meh. I've been in a pretty psychotic relationship for most of this year which I finally ended a few weeks ago and was keeping me super stressed out for most of the year. My poker results at the table have been about breakeven so far because I have just not been playing my A game very often or putting in enough volume. I'm hoping now that I am getting refreshed mentally from all of that, my poker results will continue to be good.

To leave you my blog readers, here is my graph from December when I finally achieved SNE

They added me to the featured blog lists on here too so hopefully this will encourage me to actually blog more. I should probably write up some Trip Reports of recent dates I have been on as well. Has been interesting to say the least lol

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dogmeat Czech Republic. Mar 26 2011 10:28. Posts 6374

sup anthony

ban baal

Zep United States. Mar 26 2011 12:06. Posts 2292

i heard MTV's looking for a replacement for sammi on jersey shore

NeillyJQ: I really wanted to prove to myself I could beat NL200, I did over a small sample, and believe Ill be crushing there in the future.

casinocasino Canada. Mar 26 2011 12:15. Posts 3343

i dont know how your so tanned and still have SNE.

YoMeR United States. Mar 26 2011 14:12. Posts 12438

hahaha kirk ftw.

seems like you have some sick tilt issues.

eZ Life.

Joeingram1 United States. Mar 26 2011 14:41. Posts 943

On March 26 2011 11:15 casinocasino wrote:
i dont know how your so tanned and still have SNE.

well I live in a very warm place and the pool is usually my break between sessions, it is pretty mind boggling though, I will agree

Joeingram1 United States. Mar 26 2011 14:43. Posts 943

On March 26 2011 13:12 YoMeR wrote:
hahaha kirk ftw.

seems like you have some sick tilt issues.

i dont get the kirk reference, slow ftw

maxousek Czech Republic. Mar 26 2011 15:33. Posts 464

Did Jerry say " raise one mirrion" everytime he raised ?

Achoo Canada. Mar 28 2011 04:50. Posts 1454

Flirting with a 60 y/o woman, brag or beat ? Good luck for recovery sir

Odds are exactly 50%: it either happens or not

Joeingram1 United States. Mar 28 2011 07:04. Posts 943

On March 26 2011 14:33 maxousek wrote:
Did Jerry say " raise one mirrion" everytime he raised ?

haha he did not actually but I did say it a few times to him because its pretty impossible not to, one of the great all time wsop sayings

Baalim Mexico. Mar 28 2011 13:58. Posts 34261

On March 26 2011 11:06 Zep wrote:
i heard MTV's looking for a replacement for sammi on jersey shore

lol

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