Yesterday pretty much sucked. Every now and then our router gets fucking nuts and decides to just quit trying or just die altogether. So I go to Best Buy and without much of a fuss, the nice chick gives me a a $99 store credit card. That's perfect cuz all I really need is a router and I had no receipt so I thought it was a good deal.
I go over to the router section and lucky for us, the upgraded "business" model was on sale. Unfortunately, the "ass-kicking business" model was NOT on sale. It's cool, I always liked second place a little bit more than other people.
I should mention that by sign-off time on Friday night, my bankroll had skyrocketed to the $740 region. Granted that's still a ways off from my $1000 baseline, but I was pretty proud of the hard work it took to get it back there.
Anywho, sometime between Saturday and Sunday night, I played on my computer at home and blew off somewhere like 50-60 bucs. I am pretty pissed and for some reason have no real recollection of it. Poker Tracker sucks at keeping records if you have two different computers so I don't have the hand histories for it right now. But I'll have to look thru cuz that is effin ridiculous.
Ok, so I played a little this morning and currently stand at exactly $700. There are 7 days left in January to turn this around and get back to close as and over $1000 as possible. This little investment can thrive and I've seen the glaring errors in my own mistakes. I need to continue to go over them and eliminate them from my game, or else...
I need to pack up this show or start to get ready too, and find another way to earn a few extra bucks.
The way I see it ... I have definitely found a trade which allows me to use my natural talents to extract money for a profit. I have also discovered, in this new trade, how poor decision making can lead to blowing huge amounts of hard-earned capital on simple, controllable, emotional whims.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Mistakes I'm still making
So here we go. Even with these type of mistakes, I somehow broke even yesterday. However, as you will see with the second hand, my luck is still somehow in another dimension taking care of an alternate me on an alternate universe. In two of these hands I am playing against a supposed (according to PTR.com) big winner. Before I knew this, I labeled him as a borderline monkey, making very questionable plays.
Obviously, he got the best of me in this first (and second, and third) hand ... my big mistake was playing the flush here over-aggressively on a paired board. I knew his raise before the flop could have been any hand, but when he re-raised me for the extra $17 or so, I could have found an easy fold and gave up my semi-bluff. Very quickly, and foolishly I figured myself committed to the hand and, well, we all see how that turned out.
The funny thing is, I could have waited to re-raise all in on the Turn when the King came, and although my odds would have been a little worse, he would have at least had to fear the K on the board and not just put me on a pure bluff. I guess I just got so excited to see my two spades on the flop against a player I deemed a retard.
Hand converter-Pokerhand.org 
Button returns $2.66,
Button wins $58.33
The hand had me slightly tilted, until I thought rationally for a second and realized I literally never or as never as possible want to have all my money in that situation. It's so swingy that I assume its a break-even play at best. Especially, on a paired board it's just a bad move.
Now a few hundred hands later I get into this situation with the same guy (or girl). I know my QQ is best pre-flop and if I flop a queen I could have a chance to play with a big pot with him. I thought his hand was either complete trash or a very decent, AK AQ and such. If he had A10, JJ, or KK I was just going to have to pay him off. When I called his all-in, I was not surprised to see the hand and was pretty sick when the river came. This was just gross, and 99% of the time I'm happy to be in this spot. I did indeed trap with him with a huge hand, but just got unlucky in a big pot.
Hand converter-Pokerhand.org 
CO returns $60.57,
CO wins $48.31
I am experimenting with a new way of playing A as top pair when I think my opponent doesn't have an A. I played this pretty perfect, except for the fact his Ace was crushing mine. I completely didn't put him on an A, otherwise I can easily fold this on the Turn. Ugh, I play bad...
Hand converter-Pokerhand.org 
CO wins $57.87
So that borderline monkey pretty much owned me. It should be noted he was one of the big winners early yesterday, with over $100 of my dough. It's pretty sick, but I think I got pretty unlucky in the second hand. It made me feel better to look at my graph and notice that my actual results (the green line) is in the complete opposite direction of my expected results (yellow line), which means I have been getting pretty unlucky and making overall better decisions than other players which is how you make money. If I am getting in my money in with the best hand and get unlucky, well I know that will correct itself in terms of actual results.
Early on my journey my graph was flip flopped and let me tell you, its pretty disgusting (and humbling) when your over-luckiness starts to run out and reality sets in.
Until the next time...
Obviously, he got the best of me in this first (and second, and third) hand ... my big mistake was playing the flush here over-aggressively on a paired board. I knew his raise before the flop could have been any hand, but when he re-raised me for the extra $17 or so, I could have found an easy fold and gave up my semi-bluff. Very quickly, and foolishly I figured myself committed to the hand and, well, we all see how that turned out.
The funny thing is, I could have waited to re-raise all in on the Turn when the King came, and although my odds would have been a little worse, he would have at least had to fear the K on the board and not just put me on a pure bluff. I guess I just got so excited to see my two spades on the flop against a player I deemed a retard.
Full Tilt Poker, $0.10/0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash Games, 6 Players
Board:
Button: $33.15
SB: $33.54
BB: $25
UTG: $25
UTG+1: $58.40
CO: $30.49
Dealt to: CO
Pre-flop:
(2 folds), CO raises to $1, Button raises to $3, (2 folds), CO calls $2,
Flop:($6.35) (2 Players)
CO checks, Button bets $3, CO raises to $15.35, Button raises to $30.15 and is all-in, CO calls $12.14 and is all-in,
Turn: ($61.33) (2 Players) 
River: ($61.33) (2 Players) 
Results:
Button Showed
CO Showed
Button returns $2.66,
Button wins $58.33
The hand had me slightly tilted, until I thought rationally for a second and realized I literally never or as never as possible want to have all my money in that situation. It's so swingy that I assume its a break-even play at best. Especially, on a paired board it's just a bad move.
Now a few hundred hands later I get into this situation with the same guy (or girl). I know my QQ is best pre-flop and if I flop a queen I could have a chance to play with a big pot with him. I thought his hand was either complete trash or a very decent, AK AQ and such. If he had A10, JJ, or KK I was just going to have to pay him off. When I called his all-in, I was not surprised to see the hand and was pretty sick when the river came. This was just gross, and 99% of the time I'm happy to be in this spot. I did indeed trap with him with a huge hand, but just got unlucky in a big pot.
Full Tilt Poker, $0.10/0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash Games, 6 Players
Board:
CO: $85.82
Button: $22.20
SB: $29.03
BB: $28.20
UTG: $51.33
UTG+1: $25.25
Dealt to: UTG+1
Pre-flop:
(1 folds), UTG+1 raises to $1, CO raises to $3, (3 folds), UTG+1 calls $2,
Flop:($6.35) (2 Players)
UTG+1 checks, CO bets $3, UTG+1 raises to $12, CO raises to $82.82 and is all-in, UTG+1 calls $10.25 and is all-in,
Turn: ($50.85) (2 Players) 
River: ($50.85) (2 Players) 
Results:
CO Showed
UTG+1 Showed
CO returns $60.57,
CO wins $48.31
I am experimenting with a new way of playing A as top pair when I think my opponent doesn't have an A. I played this pretty perfect, except for the fact his Ace was crushing mine. I completely didn't put him on an A, otherwise I can easily fold this on the Turn. Ugh, I play bad...
Full Tilt Poker, $0.10/0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash Games, 6 Players
Board:
CO: $57.59
Button: $31.89
SB: $25.10
BB: $26.10
UTG: $59.15
UTG+1: $30.26
Dealt to: UTG+1
Pre-flop:
(1 folds), UTG+1 raises to $1, CO raises to $3, (3 folds), UTG+1 calls $2,
Flop:($6.35) (2 Players) 
UTG+1 checks, CO bets $3.50, UTG+1 calls $3.50,
Turn: ($13.35) (2 Players) UTG+1 checks, CO bets $7.50, UTG+1 calls $7.50,
River: ($28.35) (2 Players) 
UTG+1 bets $16.26 and is all-in, CO calls $16.26,
Results:
UTG+1 Showed
CO Showed
CO wins $57.87
So that borderline monkey pretty much owned me. It should be noted he was one of the big winners early yesterday, with over $100 of my dough. It's pretty sick, but I think I got pretty unlucky in the second hand. It made me feel better to look at my graph and notice that my actual results (the green line) is in the complete opposite direction of my expected results (yellow line), which means I have been getting pretty unlucky and making overall better decisions than other players which is how you make money. If I am getting in my money in with the best hand and get unlucky, well I know that will correct itself in terms of actual results.
Early on my journey my graph was flip flopped and let me tell you, its pretty disgusting (and humbling) when your over-luckiness starts to run out and reality sets in.
Until the next time...
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