Very little poker time
My apologies on the drab topic in the last post. I appreciate everyone commenting and it did make me feel better to know my occupation isn’t the end all be all. After alot of thinking in the last 2 days, I still don’t think I’m going to retake the FE exam. I got a very generous offer to help me study from one of my best friends in charlotte, but I just don’t see myself passing it if i haven’t already. Maybe in the coming weeks I will change my mind but not any time soon. Onto better things!
Poker, where did you go? I haven’t gotten in a serious session in almost 5 days. I played on monday when i was life tilting which turned out to be a huge mistake. I did do one smart thing though, and that was to drop down to 100nl. I only lost $400 while i did that and managed to play just horrically agressive poker. I forgot how stupid 100nl is. I know i shouldn’t have played while i was really pissed off but i did anyways, because i couldn’t sleep that night. I played a 200nl session last night, which was just hilariously bad. I mean I was getting every c-bet called and flopping nothing. I was even c-betting less than normal to compensate for flopping nothing and I had a c-bet success rate over 1200 hands at 7%. This would normally be very good if i could have flopped ANYTHING, or gotten any hands pre-. This was just not the case. I wasn’t even mad though. I was actually laughing by the end because literally every time i would bet out whether i had position or not, I would get raised, or called, and then led into on the turn for like full pot. I did make 2 3-barrel bluffs in the process which actually ended up being the most profitable hands i played in the session. I ended up only down 1.5 buyins which was miraculous considering how badly i was running.
I finally just gave up and figured there would be no way i could run that horribly tomorrow. I have started to coach again, ironically as soon as i get a real job. I have 5 new students in the past 2 weeks, which all seem to be very promising. I have done a session with one student already, who i know found the session rather eye openning. Props to him though. He plays like 100k hands/month. I mean that’s ridiculous. If I fixed 2 leaks, he’ll prolly make 10 more buyins each month at least. I admire the dedication but also made sure i stressed the point that mass-tabling makes it tough to learn from your mistakes. I rose through the ranks playing 8 tables and am starting to think maybe i should give that another try.
My play feels so robotic recently. I even got called a ‘random donk’ on a 2+2 full ring forum! I’m not sure if it was a serious post or not, but it’s motivated me to take down the number of tables i’m playing, and really focus on each situation i’m getting into. I will take this opportunity while i have a job to put my skills back where they were in april 07. I was considered one of the best 1/2 regs and one of the better 2/4 regs on ftp (at least from how i viewed it). I will also probably be going back to full tilt sometime in the near future as i’m starting to get tired of cake already. The games are getting a little suffocated as it seems all that’s left are regulars.
On the job front, I’m already ready for it to be over. I actually have started thinking about going to vegas earlier than i originally planned and trying to find myself out there and really focus on improving my poker game. I think i’ve prolly got another week or 2 on the project i’m doing at work and then i’ll likely tell them i’m going to pursue other things. I would really like to focus on my new students and my own game in the month of february.
I have only played 15k hands so far this month and am down. This is mostly due to a 5/10 cap game stint i had the other night. I actually did pretty well but ran about $800 below expectation in allins so alas I got whipped. I am going to try to put in a session tonight, and get myself back on track for a decent year. I am seeing my 100k goal fade with this real job, and i really don’t like it. Putting this much time into 40k a year is just a waste of money and time i think.
good luck guys. Also, people who want to join the vegas house, please let me know. I would love to have some good 1/2 ftp regs join me and vizer in our vegas pimp house. Peace guys.