Damn Ringer's Poker Blog

Not 30 minutes after I post that blog. FTP sends an e-mail confirming my cashout has been approved. Blogging will get action imo.

Second post of the day I know but figured i’d mention this too.

My last two days have been pretty miserable…

Aside from winning one crucial 3way allin with KK against AA and JJ, KK hasn’t won an allin pre-flop in 5k hands. I get it variance!!! I ran hot in April. Can we just forgive and forget? On the brightside of things, I think its a total miracle I’m winning theoretical money with how badly I’ve been getting coolered these last 2 days. Oh well, its poker after all. The short-term can be nutty. Cheers to the long term!

It would appear I wasn’t as tired as I thought I was when I hopped in bed about an hour ago. So you guys get another case of blogging before I go to bed.

I have found my new config pretty awesome but I didn’t realize quite how many hands I’d really need for “fold to 3b” to converge. I basically can only use the stat on like 2 regs and they are so bad I don’t even need it.

April has been going pretty well. I’ve been playing a pretty high volume this month trying to get to 60k hands by the end of the month. We’ll see if that actually ends up happening. I have been running pretty good this month and above EV again. April looks like it is going to be the highest profit month of this year so far (which honestly wouldn’t be hard since I have put up VERY modest results so far in 2010). I have decided however that I’m no longer going to be posting graphs with dollar amounts on them.

My blog use to be simply read by poker players but I added the feed to my facebook so all my friends in real life are basically able to read the blog if they want. I just don’t like the idea of completely airing out my income. So I will still posts graphs but it will be basically only poker jargon on the graph.

As many of you know April 15th was tax day in the US and I got pretty torn up this year. I won’t go into exactly how much I ended up owing this year but I’ll go ahead and say that I wrote the biggest check I’ve ever written and it was well into the 5 figures category. That was on top of the quarterlies I was paying all year. It’s a complete pain to pay like 35% of your winnings to the gov’t but I guess its what is necessary to live like we do in the US. It was painful, but this year I will be paying bigger quarterlies so hopefully I don’t end up getting torn up as hard in 2011. Oh well, its just money after all.

I’ve starting getting back into golf with the weather getting nice again. I am finally shooting decent score too. I took use to play all the time in high school but in college I pretty much fell off the wagon of golf. As a product, I stopped shooting anything good at all. I use to shoot in the 80’s all the time and now I’m struggling to break 100. It’s slowly coming back though.

I just bought 3 new woods for my bag which was REALLY overdue. I have been playing with the same driver and fairway woods for 10 years. Time to retire the great big bertha. I am really enjoying getting out of the house and playing and found a course around here that I like. I am planning to play alot this summer and spring and hopefully get back to shooting in the 80’s in the process.

Golf will be my escape from poker I think. Its perfect. Gets me outta the house, and gets me outside and slightly active. Its a little expensive to golf as a grown up and pay full greens fees but when I think about it $60 for 5 hours of entertainment really isn’t that bad.

Anyways, I’m gonna try to pass out now as I have illusions of possibly waking up early tomorrow morning refreshed and wanting to drive to tech. Good night ya’ll.

I solved the problem. Thanks to everyone that helped specifically Fozzy and Skelm.

Disclaimer: If you don’t play online poker… this post ain’t for you.

I am usually incredibly good with HEM, but for some reason I can’t seem to figure this one out. I want to slightly adjust my current hud popup to add one line of data. I want add a “fold to 3b” line but instead just the total number, I want it to show me the positional “fold to 3b” stats. Very similar to how there are positional “raise 1st” stats. Here’s the current popup I am using:

I think this is the standard popup, but I’ve seen some people who have standard popups that look a little different.

Essentially my perfect scenario is for someone to do it for me, and me to pay them $20. But I’d settle for someone telling me how I find this popup’s code and I could probably figure out how to add the code myself. I currently only see a “sample” in my available popups as well as all the smaller popups in the “HUD popup configurations”. As seen here:

However, when I go to my appearance settings under “player preferences” I have an option to choose the “DEFAULT Main Popup”. This is what I’ve set my HUD popup to for as long as I’ve used HEM. I’m comfortable with where everything is and all the information provided so I want to simply adjust this popup slightly. Here’s what I see in my players preference popup choices:

As you can see, I can’t seem to find the “DEFAULT Main Popup” in my popup designer window. The option for “sample” is different and quite frankly missing some very important information the popup I use contains. Can you even import a popup as easy as you can do a hud configuration? Is the DEFAULT Main Popup locked for some reason so that players can’t edit it or copy it? All of these questions and more need answering.

Leave a comment if you have the answer and want the $20. I would love to talk to someone who is REALLY good with hem. Thanks ahead of time.

I added a few new blogs on my blogroll on right of the page. Doublefly is taking the cake for the best blog by a poker player in 2010. He is putting me to such shame I feel like I should just quit blogging. The other new names are two six max guys who I feel have rather interesting blogs. Definitely check them out. They all pretty much crush harder than me, and its not close.

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Well, I’m getting drunk now.

Well like clockwork, the middle of the month comes around and I get my drive to play poker again. I have put in about 15k hands in the last week and felt pretty good about my results. I had one of my biggest days ever at 1/2nl yesterday. I made 2.7k in just under 5k hands which was nice. I still thought I could have played better as I stacked off in two spots I ended up regretting but overall I played well. I think the drive will continue for the rest of the month and hopefully I can finish strong.

My plan was to move back to 2/4nl but once again I just can’t seem to get anything started there. I will try to take more shots at the end of this month, but the tables are pretty reg/sser infested. I realize that if I want to move up that this is what I will have to deal with, so I need to just bite the bullet. Oh well i’m not gonna force anything. I’m gonna focus on playing shorthanded FR tables for the time being because i’m finding it to be one of the most profitable things i can do.

So Modern Warfare 2 dropped. I decided not to buy it, because it will really hinder the best usage of my time. Ok, I couldn’t keep that up… of course I bought it. I have played an assload of it. It’s a GREAT game. I haven’t touched the single player yet but i’ve heard good things about it. I have always been a multi-player guy and have been focusing on keeping my kill to death ratio (the winrate of COD) up. I am crushing. To be honest though, its really not that time consuming. I’m still playing just as much poker as usual. Just gives me another option of things to do. Its a damn good time though. If you play on xbox live, let me know and we can play together sometime.

It’s also been one year since I’ve gone professional in poker. Its been a great one year so far. Another post addressing that is on the way.

I prolly cleared this number ages ago, but I finally hit 6 figures in this database. Before 600k hands, I’m a happy camper.

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Easy Game.

Guys,

I’m trying to get 10 guys who are full ring players that i play/talk with on a semi-regular basis to join up for a Fantasy Football league. I know alot of you aren’t American or remotely knowledgeable in football.

If you are interested in hoppin in this league let me know. I already posted on CR and will give spots away on a first come first serve basis. $50/buyin… so everyone can play. Peace.

-DR