One More Week

Well I only have more week until I leave this town and roll back into Plymouth. Its definately going to be a little bit of change but I think thats why I'm going back for a little bit. In the last week I've been playing in the casino everyday after I used my ATM card and its been fun. It's easy to have fun when you're playing a game that you lose at most $100 a night and can drink all night. I've been putting in like 8 hour days and some longer like 13 hours last night. I think after I get a few drinks I can pretty much just sit there forever or until they tell me it'd be a good thing for everyone if I left. It definately makes it easier when you have talkative people at the table otherwise it feels to serious like how it was when I used to play for 12 hours sober as can be. I just figured I'd splash around in some bullshit games and enjoy myself while being out for the last week. Lubach will be here in like 14 hours I guess. I'm not really sure what his family has planned for their trip but I'm sure I'll hook up with them and hang out and do whatever. The day Jordan leaves Nick gets here and we pick up the truck on the 30th. Probably figure on heading out on the 31st or the 1st I guess who knows. We're planning on going down south and through Texas and New Mexico instead of going through Denver because I don't need to be trying to maneuver another UHAUL through a blizzard. Umm.....Not sure what else to write as I haven't been doing to much besides waking up, using my ATM card, and then drinking and playing cards until the sun comes up which I'm started to feel the effects from. I have come up with a few random thoughts while I've been running around the last week. The first thing I need to address is the lack of headlight usage in this city. I can be in a cab on the way home at 3AM and for some reason the cars will be driving by us without headlights on. In WI we can chalk this up to drunk driving I suppose, but out here I see so much of it that there has to be another reason. I can't figure it out one bit. Second thing....smelly old local people. Last night this local guy that sits around in the pokerroom all day took it upon himself to sit in my game 2 seats away and I thought the whole table was going to get up and leave. This guy sits in the room all day and does like chores for other people. He goes and gets people food and drinks and whatever. I've also seen him do man on man massages numerous times and its starting to creep me out. Its crazy how people survive out here and then at like 65 they start doing shit for people for a buck or two here and there throughout the day. It wouldn't be so bad if the dude could talk but I have a firm belief that his odor has eaten half of his toungue at this point. The third thing is that you shouldn't talk crazy in the poker room unless you wanna get ripped on. This young farmer dude from Minnesota said some crazy shit about having $750k to lose. Well, this made the young black dude next to me start taking shots at'em for having on Dickie's, cowboy boots and his purple sweater with yellow writing which was a Vikings Hoody. I swore the kid came right off a farm and plopped down in the cardroom, he had about 4 to many drinks and then just starts talking nuts. He then made a gesture towards this other dudes girlfriend who was gorgeous and she just laughed at the guy. Her boyfriend however felt the need to get up and let him know that if he did it again he'd have to knock'em out. I gotta wrap this up as Jims picking me up to hit up the Seafood Buffet at the RIO. I haven't eaten there for months since we found a cheaper one but whatever...I definately need to get some food in me because this beer isn't helping anything. Umm....I'll have something to say sometime soon i'm sure...

Who Knows

I just got back from playing at the MGM with JP who's in town for the next few days. I've been meeting up with him the last few nights to play while using my ATM to pull out my money. When this all all started the other night I went to the Palms and played 2/4 Limit which is like the worst possible poker game you could ever play unless you truely were there to get drunk and have fun with others. It makes me wanna poke my eyes with a screwdriver but I had some time to kill before the movie started along with being able to use the ATM. I ended up getting half drunk by time the movie started and my ATM card worked so I stayed and drank till like 6AM or something and won $340 which is a pretty big win at a game like this. I think this was Wednesday. So I felt great winning $340 and I knew my ATM card worked. Thursday I met Ace at the Venetian because I needed to eat and I also wanted to use the ATM card again 24 hours later so I played the same piddly ass game again to burn some time because I really didn't feel like sitting down and concentrating on a No Limit game. I sat and drank for about 2 hours until my ATM card could be used again and then Ace left and I was down like $6 but yet again was excited that the government decided they'd be cool enough to let me get some money out yet. I stayed at the Venetian until like 11PM until JP flew in and met him at the MGM and played some 1/2 NL. Its safe to say I was drunk and wasn't thinking about the problems online and was just pumped the ATM card worked. JP left at around 3AM and I was up like $400 but I was drinking and felt good about playing. I left at like 9AM with almost $1200. This was enough for a double fist pump. I've done the same the last 2 nights winning $156 and losing $180ish tonight all while staying sober because the first 2 nights were pretty rough. So all in all....The ATM cards been working and I've been winning. Well I just got back home and tried loading up my ATM card for tomarow and it said something about processer declined transaction. Worst possible news ever....I have no idea what this entails hopefully they figure it out and let me use it for 8 more days because I'd appreciate it. If they do away with the ATM for awhile I'm going to have to send the rest in a wire transfer to the bank which is what I usually day but its so backed up right now with all the paranoia surrounding everything that I wouldn't have a clue how long it'll take to hit the bank. I'd just sit here and check for it every hour and drive myself nuts. Although using the ATM means I'd have more cash then necessary I just would like knowing that I have it I guess. Nothing else really going on....saw Freedom Writers the other day which was alright if you can bear watching a story with a message I guess. The next couple days I should gather some boxes and probably pack some of this shit up but whatever I really dont think I have all that much to do. I gotta make sure to call and confirm the truck reservation just in case some crackhead worker at the Budget truck stop thought it'd be cool to delete it or something. Other then that.....not much. Just been reading about the situation at hand last few days and trying to keep up with whats going on so I have some sort of clue what to expect. Tomarow I plan on watching the football games as I bet the last $49 in my Bodog on a 4 team parlay to win just under $500. I got the Colts and Saints and both Unders which are like 45 and 47 or something. Even if I win who knows if I'll ever get it....wow. Anyways....its approaching 5AM and Im gonna hit the sheets.

Well.....

It's been a crazy week so far. I have no idea how to really get into it but the company I use to transfer money in and out of poker sites online has kind of stopped doing transactions doing to its founders being arrested earlier this week. This is probably the last thing I expected I would have to deal with before moving back and its timing couldn't have been worse. I always figured I'd play live poker in the casinos once online shit went to hell but I guess I'll be doing that in WI for the time being. Right now I can still play online its just that theres no clear cut solution as to how to access and withdraw my money when I win and want to withdraw to the bank. The last 2 days I've just been drinking and playing in the casino trying not to pay to much attention as it will take a little while for things to calm down and settle until I have any sort of an idea of whats going on. I'm still able to use my ATM card from the company though but you can only withdraw $1k off of it a day so I'm going to be going this route for the next week or two until part of the account is empty. When I hopefully get all the money out of that account I'm just left with money on poker sites which I'm not to worried about at this time since I believe there'll be a solution at some point in the near future as to how I can get my money into my pocket and not just have it floating in lalala land on the internet. This all goes back to the government trying to do something. I really have no idea what they're trying to do with any of this actually and kind of can't wait to hear about it. All I know is theres thousands upon thousands of people across the country that are kind of panicked at this time because they have no idea what is going on with there money. There's many of them that withdraw monthly out of poker sites to pay bills and now thats been shutoff. Luckily in the last 2 months I withdrew a nice chunk into the bank....so I still can live, but I also have a nice chunk still sitting online that was needed for my day to day business operations. Just sucks cause I was planning on cutting some of that back once I got home to put into a few investments but now we'll have to see. Either way I'm still moving back and will have to deal with this. I can always go play at whatever casinos back home so it won't be an issue. I really dont know what else to say about the situation and I guess I'll write about it again when theres something worth writing about. I probably won't really play online much until I get back home as I see the next week or so as a vacation before I gotta pack and drive back. It's probably a good 12 days until we start the drive which means I got 11 more days until I have to pack. Until then I'll relax and slum it up around town...

Alpha Dog And More Heads Up

I went down to the Palms before to go see Freedom Writers and get something eat, but I fogot to check the times and by time I got there it was like 90 minutes until it started again so I ended up seeing AlphaDog with Justin Timberlake. I really had no idea what to expect as I forgot what the previews were really about and thought it may be cheesy with Timberlake but at the end I was quite surprised. I didn't know that it was a true story until the end of the movie which makes it all that much more fucked up. The movies filled with getting high, drinking, house parties, and ass and titties. At some points it felt like the could have cut some of it out but whatever. I thought Timberlake was good throughout the movie and was often funny with his clever one liners. I got some Panda Express and got some cash out of the ATM and came home and went back to playing some HU100. I'm almost beginning to not believe its actually going the way it is but whatever. By the end of February I may be ready to battle Patrik Antonius HU at 300/600...not quite but thats how good I'm feeling. I found one guy tonight that I had a perfect read on and I couldn't believe he didn't adjust. He'd basically bet into me anytime he had like top pair after I raised on the button. Anytime he checked I bet. I really thought I was going to take all his money $3 at a time. Now he left my table and I'm trying to get'em to come back so I can take another $400 off of him but whatever. I'm definately going to look for this guy every time I sit down. Ummm....Neteller shit is kind of bouncing off the walls. There's a few sites keeping things updated on them but nothing really to clear yet. Some sites kind of said they may stop using them, along with Neteller stopping there InstaCash deposits coming straight out of your bank account which I don't need to use. I got one withdrawal from them going back to the bank and I'm going to continue pulling cash out of the ATM for the next couple of days. I'll leave some in there in case I need to add it into a site or I'll just put it on a site just in case. Right now I have a tad to much to stick onto anyone site, but I'm not in any hurry as I don't believe that I'd wake up tomarow and it'd just be gone. I think it's a legitimate business thats involved in some shit right now but I can't see them falling off the face of the earth with millions of peoples dollars from across the globe. I think I get to this point mainly because it'd only shutdown to the USA because our government is getting pretty ridiculous these days, but it'd stay open to the rest of the world as it is now and I don't see them risking business outside of the USA. The only thing about the whole thing is it seems like perfect timing to screw me with planning on moving home to play online further. I mean if online would have been shutdown 6 months ago I'd have been in the casinos here daily. As with everything else in the world...I seem to think it all happens for a purpose and I'm sure I'll get through it one way or the other. Lately I've been thinking of how fucked up it is that I should be sitting here feeling like a criminal doing what I'm doing. I'm sitting in a fuckin computer chair half naked for the majority of the day playing poker on the internet. If thats the worse I do in my life I'm sure I'd be just fine with it as would my family and everyone that knows me. I almost feel like I'm being punished for not wanting to bag groceries or for quitting the assembly line that supplies braces to people throughout the world. None of us are really doing anything wrong...if the government would get their head out of their asses and make it clear one way or the other on how we can go about our business in a legal manner that both sides agree on I'd be the happiest half naked dude in a computer chair. Instead I have to log online daily and check my balances and email and make sure everything I've done for the last 2 years isn't a complete wash. I don't worry about it to often but this latest headline has sent a pretty good amount of mass hysteria across all poker websites on the interweb...Ahh well I'll be up again in the morning to see what the latest on it is....

Anyways here's my monthly graph so far.....and also my Heads Up play from last 2 days.

Heads Up

Today I woke up and watched 2 Heads Up videos at Cardrunners after I became curious with playing heads up again. I played a little bit the other week I remember but I felt pretty uncomfortable. Today I must have played like 2-4 decent matches for awhile. It definately went well as I made like $460 in the 412 hands. It makes up for everything I lost the yesterday pretty much. Heads up is definately a lot different due to the aggression difference between HU and say 6 max. I've always thought it'd be something to become well versed in but I never really got around to trying it out. There definately was a player or two that gave me some problems but I felt like I was starting to figure them. This latest one I had stacked twice pretty easily then he came back a 3rd time and I felt like he totally changed his style which threw me for a loop. It seemed all of a sudden he wasn't allowing me to pick up pots in position and was constantly betting into me and I'd raise and he'd reraise pretty big forcing me to fold cause I had nothing. I never got him to do the same type of play when I had something. He ended up getting like $75 back or something before I quit. I don't want to try playing 2 buyins deep quite yet as I think the dynamic of the game changes a bit when you're deeper. I'll probably keep playing some of this every day here and there. I plan on giving it another go tomarow but also will play some regular 6 max after todays break. I got paid like $175 today in rakeback and I've made about that much already this month. Nice little incentive for actually sitting down and playing.

In the real world today I booked my truck through Budget online. The price ended up going up like $200 since the last time I checked. Now if I had the slightest idea that the prices of UHAUL type trucks went up and down like the stock market I would have booked it a month ago already. The Budget truck is still cheaper then a UHAUL so we'll give it a whirl. I don't think Nick or I really care what it says on the side as long as it has 4 wheels and it don't breakdown on the way. Umm.....pretty much sat here...watched the Marquette bball game on ESPN. The new season of High Stakes Poker started which is about the extent of my TV viewing that I try to see on a weekly basis. The founders of Neteller were arrested tonight......the internet world is going to go crazy but I don't believe I have to much reason to get all paranoid yet. The guys weren't directly affiliated with the company besides being shareholders so I don't see it coming down to like ......say they're shutting down and keeping my money. We'll see what happens as it unfolds in the coming days, weeks, and years.

Heres graph from today....nothing to interesting as Heads Up play ends up being for a good portion of a whole stack.....so just some UPDIPS and DOWNDIPS......

WOW!

Goodnight!

Stupid Ass

Yesterday I started playing what I hoped was a marathon session but it didn't go the way I wanted it too. I had a minor relapse of my tilt session the other day after I lost an $800 pot after the guy turned a set on my kings. After that I was just trying to win big pots and only big pots and I tried doing this by just pushing all in no matter whether I knew I was behind or not. I think I just sat there hoping I'd suckout and win a $400 pot. I'm starting to think that I'm getting bored and need to move up to NL$400. Just sit down and play it and get it going...bigger wins and bigger losses maybe it'll wake my ass up. I've been having +400-800 days for to long and I need to step it up. After I did all of this I joined in on some "flipaments" with guys from Two Plus Two. We sat down at a NL$50 table and whoever wants in just pushes all in for $50 with any 2 cards. I lost like my first 3 and was down another $150 along with the like $550 I lost playing earlier so I was like this is real cool. I then won a 4 way flipament so I was +50. After about 15 minutes of it and having my gambling itch taken care of I was up $95. I then played in 2 tournaments and had nothing go my way. I'm not sure if I need to study some tournament stuff since I havent played'em much lately but it seems I keep having a brainfart and do some obnoxious play where its pretty clear to everyone in the world that I'm bluffing or dont have the goods. After I lost that money yesterday I withdrew money out of all my poker accounts. Kind of funny cause its gotta do with my clean slate mentality. I really dont need the money in those accounts and really need to get it stuck into something and let it work for me which is the first thing I figure out when I get home.....as its starting to bother me. Once I get back home I need to figure out some type of weekly/monthly cashout plan from these accounts/Neteller so I have money coming in as a type of payment to myself and I'll have some sort of monthly plan on getting a portion of it into investments. I never really had a bankroll or had to worry about this or that so I've never done shit like this. Most people would be taking shots left and right with the money I have in here but for some reason I feel fine at 200NL trying to make a hundred a day and thats going to change. I think I'm going to move up to 400NL after I make $4k more. No idea if I can do this before I get home or not.....probably not since I'll be packing and stuff but thats the plan. I'll get it figured out and if I lose so much at 400NL, I'll move down and do it the right way and keep track of whats going on. A whole lot of babbling going on in here so far.....

Last night Ace, Mike and I went bowling and Jackie, Jim and his lady friend, and Bruce ended up showing up. After we were done Mike and I got something to eat and came back home. I got the apartment lined up in Plymouth that Bill Cain owns. I really know nothing about it.....not even the address yet I just know that I have a place. Besides that.....kind of feel shitty after drinking all night and its been cold forever and my throats kind fucked up. Umm....I suck at sportsbetting obviously. That'd be about it....tomarow I gotta wake up and catch the bus to go down the street and rent a truck from Budget as it appears to be like $600 cheaper then UHAUL and you get more miles and what not. It'd piss me the hell off if they didn't have one available. I probably should just do it on the internet but I have this feeling of needing to see the truck and talk to someone and make sure they know Imma whoop there ass if it aint there......Alright.....gonna start some poker.....watch this football game. Here's my graph from yesterday......I thought my head was going to explode.

Seafood, Bowling, Porn

Last night I realized it was seafood buffet night around 730 and called Ace and Mike and they both finally woke up like an hour later or some shit. We went and ate there for dinner along with Jackie who just moved out here who we've met through poker shit. After that we went to Caesars so Jackie could check into her room and figure out how to waste time before bowling at midnight. Somehow walking to the Venetian got brought up since the Nerd convention along with the Porn Convention is all in town. The walk was a rather chilly one for a long sleeve shirt but I made it. There were more people in the Venetian then I've seen in like forever I believe. Everyone had a pass for either a convention or a party and it was pretty ridiculous. There were scantily clad women walking all throughout the place. Some should have definately had more clothes on, while others could have used less. I believe we saw at least 1 maybe 2 nipples that had somehow made it out of the uniform but these aren't the type of girls that could give 2 shits about it. They had a big poker game going on in the poker room at the Venetian which doesn't happen to often and it all had to do with the Porn Convention. Larry Flynt himself had gotten a game of $4k/$8k Stud Hi Lo going. Kinda stood and took a gander for a second just to catch a glimpse of Flynts gold plated wheel chair. Due to seeing this I think it'd only be fitting to honor Mr Flynt by having my replacement leg for my little leg gold plated when this one decides to fail. After this we headed to the bowling alley and I definately mopped up all competition. Right before we left 2 ugly 15 year olds declared their love for me to which I replied "Cool".

I woke up coughing and it seems that I've contracted some type of cold. I get this little cough what seems to be every 44 mins. Its definately more annoying then everything but at least its not some coughing attack every 2 minutes. I definately have been walking around in the cold the last 3 weeks with sub-optimal clothing. I played awhile today and made like one buyin. Nothing special but I'll take it. I just seemed to be missing with AK type hands after raising.
I do believe I should have my apartment lined up tomarow afternoon all thanks due to trusty ol' Bill Cain. He's got an opening in the same ones I thought I had earlier in the week that ended up being rented. I gotta go rent that truck too. I finally talked to Lubach today. I think he got my call returned in just under 2 weeks. I guess his familys gonna come out here the 26th. So....I guess I'll have another night maybe 2 out on the town yet....and then the 29th Nick gets here and we gotta pack up a dam uhaul and start driving across the beautiful land of this country, I wont be this positive if I wake up in Denver with a blizzard ahead of me though.

Here's my graph from today......pretty depressing. Only up that little bit, but it was just up and down all day. Hopefully I'll get in a lot of hands tomarow. Think i'll shoot for about 1500 hands.

Bawwwlin!

I woke up this morning and start playing 1 table and after about 30 mins added another one. This seemed to really help things for me as I had a good handle on what was going on on the 1st table and then could kind of put some more attention on the 2nd one. I played about 2.5 hours on 1-3 tables and then got hungry and quit. I'm going to probably write this all up and then start up again. First here's my graph from today so far and the second one is so far this month since I started playing on the 8th, although I still don't have those few hundred hands which include about $4-500 profit.




















I also figured it was about time I posted some hands and I guess from playing the last few days I have some to show. I'll try to get up all the hands I lost or won $100+ in so far this week. This is kind of tedious so maybe I'll do some now and some later on in another post....

Hand 1

FullTiltPoker Game #1571142808: Table Lamb (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 13:55:59 ET - 2007/01/10

Seat 1: dave6318 ($166)
Seat 2: doublewinger ($461.80) is sitting out
Seat 3: Hero ($226.35)
Seat 4: king white ($172.65) is sitting out
Seat 5: primaguy ($114.15)
Seat 6: wtfmissile ($290.05) is sitting out
dave6318 posts the small blind of $1
Hero posts the big blind of $2

The button is in seat #6

Holecards:

Dealt to Hero [ ]
primaguy folds
dave6318 calls $1
Hero raises to $6
dave6318 calls $4

Flop:
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dave6318 bets $12
king white has returned
Hero calls $12

***I'm pretty sure I'm ahead here and wanted to see what happened on the turn. I thought he had a fairly weak holding while also thinking 9/10***

Turn :
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dave6318 bets $36
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
doublewinger stands up
Hero raises to $144
dave6318 raises to $148 and is all in
Hero calls $4

***When he bets pot on the turn I convinced myself that he was in fact on 9/10. I chose to shove in on him here. I just felt there was no way he bets this way with a jack and probably would have seen a checkraise on the flop by one.****


dave6318 shows [ ]

Hero shows [ ]

River :
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dave6318 shows two pair Eights and Fives
Hero shows a pair of Eights
dave6318 wins the pot ($331) with two pair Eights and Fives
Hero adds $139 .65

***Well, I was right on the flop. After looking through it a few times I don't think I would have changed anything as I went with my read and followed through on it. Its unfortunate he caught on the turn, but those things are going to happen.***

Hand 2

FullTiltPoker Game #1575596506: Table Buckhorn (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:24:22 ET - 2007/01/11

Seat 1: Moozh ($237.60)
Seat 2: Hero ($203)
Seat 3: BunHam ($197)
Seat 4: Rob1013 ($84)
Seat 5: cyanide703 ($76)
Seat 6: SlySurprise ($127.55)
SlySurprise posts the small blind of $1
Moozh posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #5

Holecards:

Dealt to Hero [ ]
Hero raises to $7
BunHam calls $7
Rob1013 folds
cyanide703 folds
SlySurprise folds
Moozh folds

***Standard raise UTG....***

Flop:
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Hero bets $12
BunHam raises to $24
Hero calls $12

***Standard continuation bet was minraised.....His play definately pretty much turns his hand over for me as a small pair thats made a full house. I call in hopes of catching one of my overcards and possibly setting up a play.***

Turn:
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Hero checks
BunHam bets $31
Hero raises to $94
BunHam raises to $166, and is all in
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero calls $72

***The opponent bets half the pot. I know exactly what he has and after evaluating his stats I decided to check raise believing that he could in fact fold. I definately should have shoved all in, which is something I also seem to fail to do, but wish I would have after I click the pot button. I think if I would have shoved he may have folded since he took his time to decide what his play should have been. Once he pushes, I'm disgusted and am pretty sure I need to call the remaining $72 in hopes of catching an ace or queen.***

BunHam shows [ ]

Hero shows [ ]


River :
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BunHam shows a full house Fives full of Nines
Hero shows three of a kind Fives
BunHam wins the pot ($394) with a full house Fives full of Nines

***I whiff on the river and am kind of sent on tilt. This was one of the 2 hands last night that made me quit after only playing for a short amount of time. I don't think it was that bad of a play, but I do think I could have done better by shoving all in for $160ish instead of raising the turn to just $94. I think at the time I was hoping it kind of looked like a value raise. It seems I've been getting into these types of spots kind of often where instead of just shoving I have this vision of it looking like a value raise and then I end up being the one that gets shoved on and having to call off $60-$100 in the end.***

Hand 3

FullTiltPoker Game #1578160487: Table Yuma (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:12:57 ET - 2007/01/11
Seat 1: boong429 ($210.30)
Seat 2: Hero ($624.95)
Seat 3: bobbysteels1 ($387.80)
Seat 4: numb3r ($206)
Seat 5: Kemper Boyd ($194)
Seat 6: BenHGibbs ($196.60)
BenHGibbs posts the small blind of $1
boong429 posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #5

Holecards:

Dealt to Hero [ ]
Hero raises to $7
bobbysteels1 folds
numb3rs calls $7
Kemper Boyd folds
BenHGibbs calls $6
boong429 calls $5

***Standard raise for me with any pocket pair. Looking at my chipstack I've been doing pretty well on this table and feel fairly comfortable with how things are going***

Flop:
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BenHGibbs checks
boong429 checks
Hero bets $22
bobbysteels1 is sitting out
numb3rs calls $22
BenHGibbs folds
boong429 raises to $60
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero raises to $230
numb3rs has 15 seconds left to act
numb3rs folds
boong429 calls $143.30 and is all in

***Umm......the player that checkraised me here to $60 I look at as a fairly weak player. I've been just constantly beating on him and having decent success with continuation bets against him. The hand before this I double barrelled him on an 8 hi flop with a turn queen and he called both with a fairly weak 8. I decide to shove thinking he could have many things from a draw to top pair. The other player involved kind of worried me behind me, but I couldn't put him on anything that would also call the shove. If he flat called with a set there which would be crazy so be it, hopefully I hit and win a big pot.***

Hero shows [ ]


***What a fuckin luckbox.........get the fuck outta here***

boong429 shows [ ]

Uncalled bet of $26 .70 returned to Hero



Turn :
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River:
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***I totally miss and realize I'll probably get all of his money shortly........then shortly thereafter he leaves and I'm rather upset. bleh...***

Hero shows two pair Eights and Fives
boong429 shows a straight Seven high
boong429 wins the pot ($453 .60) with a straight Seven high

Wednesday

Today I woke up an put in a little session for an hour or so and nothing happened at all. I lost a few coinflips for like $60 and $80 and tried one move that I thought I had the guy pegged but he turned 2 pair and I couldn't suck out. At the end of the hour I was down like $100 which wasn't so bad since I felt like I really never got situated. Throughout the day I tried getting my poker programs set back up since I had to redo them because they kept screwing up. I think I finally got it figured out and haven't had any errors today. After I got it all done I then found out that my graphing program wasn't going to work with the new setup and I sat here reading about different ways to get it done and finally found a somewhat easy way that I could understand. So I got that back up and running. I just got done playing again and I probably only managed to play for like 30 minutes until I realized I needed to shut it down. The whole day I just felt impatient and was pushing to hard and trying to make things happen. In this last mini session I just felt like I wasn't even playing. My mind was wandering and I was pushing buttons in hope that it'd come out for me at the end and it wasn't at all. This is the direct opposite to the way I was playing the last few days and I need to figure out why. One thing I need to do is start playing like 2 tables at first and getting a grip on them and then add in a 3rd and 4th. It seems like when I open 4 tables I just jump right in and try to get things going and I lose track of everything thats happening on the other tables. Tomarow I'll make sure I start out slow and try to grind this back. I haven't gotten the hand histories I'm missing from the 2 sites I play at yet and the way it sounds is that I shouldn't be counting on getting them anytime soon, if at all. I think there's probably about 500 hands and just under another $500 profit on them as I continued playing for awhile after the program screwed up. Besides poker I sat here and downloaded a shitload of music and movies for the hell of it.

In real world happenings I got an email back from the landlord who runs the apartment I thought I had locked up with a shorter lease and he said they rented it today for some reason. I was quite shocked as it seemed I didn't have to worry about that happening but whatever. Obviously it wasn't meant to be and I'll know why sometime down the road. My mom has an appointment to look at 1 maybe 2 places tomarow, but hopefully by Friday I'll know for sure whats going on. I guess either way I still have a little bit of time. Umm....last night I got to watch the Badgers play OSU which was exciting. I haven't really gotten to see them play yet. I put $50 on it at -5 and lost due to them only winning by 3 points....Then tonight I had a parlay on NBA games which was doing well until the Bucks decided to quit after halftime. It's a good thing the Packers are done or I'd be in trouble. Nothin else I can really think of....think I'm going to sit here and watch Clerks 2 that just finished downloading and then take a siesta.....

Here's a graph of January....didn't start playing till the 8th so whatever and I still gotta come up with those missing hands as they make the graph look better.
*** BLah the dam thing isn't putting pictures up right now, I'll make sure to get one up tomarow****

What it is...

Just bored thought I'd jot down something........Just been sitting here all day trying to fix this program I use while playing all day. It keeps fucking up every 20 mins it seems like and then I lose information about how I'm playing and how much I'm up/down. I sat down and played yesterday and wanted to post something about it but was waiting on a file to get emailed to me and it seems to be taking far longer then expected. Yesterday I must have played 800-1000 hands and made just under $800 although 2 of the big hands are unaccounted for. Today I played a little while and was up like $120 until the program screwed up and now it's taken a good 3 hours for me to fix it. Hopefully I'll get it going soon because I have this wierd feeling of having to play.

Umm.........Last night Ace and I saw "Children of Men." Yet another classic Ace movie pick. It supposedly got good ratings but I dont know. I'm not into Sci-Fi type shit and actually the beginning of it had me intrigued but about halfway through when the first surprise was told to you, you kind of had an idea of what was going to happen. After that I stopped at the bar on the walk home and had 1 lonely beer by myself and went home and probably fell asleep around 1030pm. I've been up since like 8AM trying to play and now this has taken way longer then I ever thought it would......maybe i can get it all working and will be able to see how much I'm really up.

My mom looked at a place yesterday across from the frisbee golf course in plymouth in that little park. Justin Hellmer used to live in there and I remember it being pretty nice. Its like a 2BR 2Bath, W&D, dishwasher....garage, central air....it just doesn't include anything for $650. She has an appt. for tomarow in the ones right before South Hills but the guy that runs the one she looked at yesterday just told me I could get a 6 month lease instead of a year lease so that'll probably where I go since I have no idea what I'll be wanting to do in 6 months much less 2 months. I should know or have an address by the end of the week thats for sure. Then my duties are pretty much done besides shutting off the cable/electric here and packing up....I'll post something later if I end up playing sometime soon shesh....

Back To Normal

Krista and Bridget ended up leaving yesterday morning and I went straight to bed and ended up laying around and sleeping off and on all day. Friday Night we went out and had a nice dinner at Drais and then went to "O" at the Bellagio which is supposed to be one of the best Cirque Du Soleil in town. This was the first show of its kind that I've been to and it was pretty amazing. I think we all enjoyed it a lot. We had a lot of fun and tried to make the most out of each day. A few things we tried to do didn't go through due to it being pretty cold and windy, also one night they weren't feeling well due to being sick the last week or so..

Other then that I did end up putting in my 30 day notice while they were here. I have to be out by February 1st. I plan on moving to Plymouth somewhere and will probably know in the next few days as I make some calls and my mom goes and looks at a few spots. I'll probably start driving the 30th or 31st and depending on the weather who knows which way I'll go as I'd like to not drive through the Rockies again. I'm going to fly Nick Grosskreutz out here again a few days before we leave so we can hang out and what not before we get started on the drive back. The only thing I really need to do yet is rent a UHAUL and call and have my cable and electric shutoff which i have a few weeks to do that yet. Besides just packing and getting a place to stay I guess I'm ready and don't have all that much to do besides try to play everyday and make some money before the move. By time I'm all moved in and settled in Plymouth it'll be time for my birthday which is kind of crazy to think about. I guess I'll have to come up with something to do.

Guess I'm just going to sit around and watch these football games and then try and put some hands in later and get started on 2007.

New Year / Clean Slate

Well I'm finally back from Wisconsin and I got to say I had a lot of fun. It was good to actually have time to see a lot of people I haven't seen for awhile and actually talk instead of only having a day or two like my last few trips. Krista and her friend Bridget should be here within 30 minutes or something and they'll be here until Saturday I guess and then its back to reality. My lease is up at the end of January and I think I'm going to be moving back to WI and take a break from everything out in Vegas. It has nothing to do with playing poker or anything to do with my financial status, but its just what I think I need to do. I think it just has to do with me not really playing in the casino like I was when I first got here and realizing I can play online back home and I would definately not be spending as much money. I'll probably have more thoughts on everything in the upcoming days/weeks, but thats about all I can say for now.
Anyways.....its a new year and that means a clean slate which is something I always like. There's something within me that just likes starting over from the beginning. Ace has given me shit in the past about it. It seemed that everytime I deposited like $4k and started playing and ran bad for a week I'd withdraw the $3k or whatever I was down to and redeposit the $4k like a few days later. I'm not sure why I do it but it seems to be something I need to do in certain situations. So its back to the beginning with new goals and what not pokerwise. I think I'm going to wait to move up to 2/4 for awhile due to not knowing how much playing I'm going to be doing with the move and what not and getting set up again back home. I'm definately going to try and play as much as possible until the end of the month once Krista leaves though. I hope to make enough to at least pay for the UHaul for the drive back. I think thats the worst part of moving is having to pay like $1300 for a UHaul.....makes me sick. Its definately the right move for me though because even if I sell all my shit I'll have to rebuy stuff once I get back and everything I have is just like new. It wouldn't really make sense for me to not even get back half of what I paid for this stuff just so I dont have to drive cross country. Nick Grosskreutz has already said he'd do the drive with me again so I'd imagine I'd fly'em out here for a few days of festivities before I leave. Just going to wrap this up not sure when I'll get back to this probably once the girls leave and i'm not even sure when that is.