Valentines Day, and Updates
I got back around 6 today from DC where I was visiting my GF. I rushed back as I had a poker lesson at 6pm tonight, and Leigh (my gf) doesn’t have internet at her place. The lesson actually ended up being a no-show which actually wasn’t horrible cause I was exhausted when I finally got home. I managed to almost fall asleep at the wheel a few times on the drive. The soothing voice of colin cowherd and scott van pelt kept me awake.
I had a great weekend visiting my GF but it really reminded me that I hate big cities. And being in the middle of DC for 3 days was absolutely exhausted mentally for me not to mention it wasn’t exactly a cheap visit. I kinda came ill prepared for valentines day which sucks. Let me break this down for you though. I think far too analytically to be romantic and so there for I really really suck at coming up with good gifts. Thankfully she didn’t want a gift because she didn’t get me a christmas present yet and felt bad. I did basically pay for her entire trip tho which was nice for her. We went and got food to go from a place called ‘founding farmers’ which was actually REALLY REALLY good. Leigh cooked the food up when we got back and we had a cute little date setup in her apartment. We even dressed up for no good reason. We then proceeded to go hunt for dessert which no place would serve us! It was ridiculous every restruarant was just doing ‘full menu’ which meant we had to order a meal! No thanks. We went back home with no dessert and passed out watching princess bride. Great flick that I hadn’t seen in awhile. INCONCEIVABLE! haha.
I didn’t play one hand of poker over the weekend which was ok, but I was REALLY fiending by the time I got home today. I checked the tables when i first got home, and they were heinous, so I made dinner and screwed around with shooter (my dog). I couldn’t take him this weekend and my roommate watched him which she hates doing. She’s a good roomie though and hopefully I can return the favor at some point. I then came back on and just hopped on some tables. I played from about 10 til 1am. I wasn’t mass tabling but really focusing. I managed to win another 2.1k tonight. I managed to keep my non-showdown winnings right at zero which is something i’ve always tended to struggle with, but have been getting much better at recently. I was happy with the results obviously but I also felt like I really didn’t run that well. Here’s the big hand from the night… (what a beautiful turn card against this calling station)
Hold’em No Limit ($2/$4) – 2009/02/17 – 00:06:29 (ET)
Table ‘Cake_ Bapor Kibra 11453′ Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: rjrj*** ($708.70 in chips)
Seat 2: Down*** ($485.70 in chips)
Seat 4: Olde*** ($388.00 in chips)
Seat 5: Roy Finkle ($811.50 in chips)
Seat 6: Luvt*** ($419.00 in chips)
Seat 7: MrsG*** ($429.90 in chips)
Seat 8: poop*** ($392.50 in chips)
Seat 9: thef*** ($203.80 in chips)
Seat 10: TheC*** ($452.30 in chips)
Olde***: posts small blind $2
Roy Finkle: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Roy Finkle [Td 7s]
Luvt***: folds
MrsG***: folds
poop***: folds
thef***: calls $4.00
TheC***: folds
rjrj***: calls $4.00
Down***: folds
Olde***: calls $2.00
Roy Finkle: checks
*** FLOP *** [7c 7h 6c]
Olde***: checks
Roy Finkle: bets $16.00
thef***: folds
rjrj***: calls $16.00
Olde***: calls $16.00
*** TURN *** [7c 7h 6c] [Tc]
Olde***: checks
Roy Finkle: checks
rjrj***: bets $32.00
Olde***: calls $32.00
Roy Finkle: raises $118.00 to $150.00
rjrj***: calls $118.00
Olde***: folds
*** RIVER *** [7c 7h 6c Tc] [Jd]
Roy Finkle: bets $333.00
rjrj***: calls $333.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Roy Finkle: shows [Td 7s] (Full House, Sevens full of Tens)
rjrj***: mucks hand
Roy Finkle collected $1,059.00 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1,062.00 | Rake $3.00
Board [7c 7h 6c Tc Jd]
Seat 1: rjrj*** mucked [4c Kc]
Seat 2: Down*** folded before Flop
Seat 4: Olde*** (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 5: Roy Finkle (big blind) showed [Td 7s] and won ($1,059.00) with Full House, Sevens full of Tens
Seat 6: Luvt*** folded before Flop
Seat 7: MrsG*** folded before Flop
Seat 8: poop*** folded before Flop
Seat 9: thef*** folded on the Flop
Seat 10: TheC*** folded before Flop
I don’t quite know how I like my line or if i could have stacked him, but I think I played it well enough against the poor player. I needed to ch/r cause he was just going to smooth call my bet on the turn and I also got a little extra value from the other villain. I might have been able to bet bigger on the river, like just open shove or something. I think I did about as well as I could tho. Also, on a side note, I changed my name to ‘roy finkle’ which I soon learned I had remembered wrong from ace ventura as his name was ‘ray finkle’. Well epic fail.
I got commented on about 10 times tonight from everyone and their dog and i can’t change the name til next week! well i suppose i better check my sources before picking a funny movie name again. Whoops.
My month is still on fire. I have only played 16k hands and am up just under 10k. I am running 24bb/100 over 10k hands at 2/4 which is pretty incredible and completely ridiculous. Obviously i’m running well and not getting coolered but also i’m exploiting fish and regulars well. I am going to shoot for 20k this month and if I make really any profit at all the rest of the month, it will be the biggest month yet of my career and it comes on the 3rd real month of being pro. Since getting laid off in the middle of november, I have played just under 100k hands and turned a profit of 22k. Not too bad especially considering I took a month and didn’t have any real poker played in it, as I was doing that contract job the whole time basically.
Poker: Beating the hell out of really working since November! Here’s my graph since going full time professional:
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If she says she doesn’t want a gift, you should definitely get her a gift. Besides, you’re supposed to pay for her anyway, so why does that matter? Haha j/k. The hand was played perfect, not much else you can do. Oh and sick month! I thought I was doing great but now you’ve made me depressed.
well done sir, may you continue to run hot like liquid hot magma!
Sick month so far man! Hopefully we can get the coaching rolling again soon. You and Vizer never cease to make me laugh when it comes to the screen names you pick for cake!! Its hilarious! I’ve kinda taken some time off just playing a little bit here and there but plan on gettin back into it hard again soon!