Damn Ringer's Poker Blog

Alright so my october is off. I’ve played about 4k hands for a whopping $85 profit. However, i have made great mental progress. I found myself slowly beginning to play lower and lower stakes. Its really the risk you run stepping down limits. I played 200nl for 2 months and got use to the swings, and every time i got to $400nl I would play scared. Well wtf i thought. I set my brain into 200nl mode.

I think i finally managed to get it back to 400nl mode. I played about 2k hands of 400nl and 600nl this weekend. I’m going to stick to playing 8 tables this month. I find I can really concentrate when i am playing 8 tables. I am finding my play is better and my note taking is better therefore i can make more read dependent plays, which has been great so far. I can also keep a closer eye on my image at each table. I actually recommend this to anyone who finds their play becoming mundane like mine was for the past month. I moved up the ranks playing 8 tables and then tried to keep increasing that when i got to 400nl. That resulted in poor table selection, poor seat selection, and lack of image control. I hope this makes a significant change in my game this month. I will be playing all 400nl and only 8 tables of it.

I lost some gross pots yesterday, including a $1200 pot. Here’s how the hand played out… ‘Thatsabadcall’ opened from MP for 21 and a fish to my right in the sb called. I popped it to $90 (a pretty standard 3-bet here) with QQ. ‘Thatsabadcall’ folds and the fish thinks and calls. I pretty much put him on small pairs at this point or maybe AK. Flop comes down K7s4s. Not the prettiest but definitely doesn’t slam his range. Fish checks to me, i decide to check behind for 2 reasons. 1) he likely won’t call more than 1 street of value betting with JJ-88 2) my range is already pretty defined so i don’t need to define it further and possibly get bluffed off.

The pot is $197. The turn comes Kd. Perfect card for getting paid off by JJ-88. Out of the blue the fish best $220! Wow, didn’t see this line coming. I go into the tank and finally come out thinking its most likely a flush draw trying to commit itself or some sort of ridiculous bluff. I decide to shove fully expecting to see something like AJss. I get snap called by AKcc. Wow, I got outplayed by a fish with a pretty nice bet given my range. Its rare i feel outplayed but that bet put a move on me in a silly way.

On a sidenote, I managed to pull every hand i had on my computer into my new PT3 database. It makes me feel alot better. I’ve made quite a substantial amount of money since april and i can finally see it all in a graph. I will post it next time i get to make a post from home.

I am once again studying for this Engineering Certification Exam. Its called the FE and last time i missed the cut by one point. I needed a 70 and got a 69. This test is just plain shitty. An 8 hour long test is just about the worst thing you can imagine. Its a headache and a half. So now i’m studying my butt off cause i’m not failing this shit again. After this 3rd time taking it, i will have spent 24 hours taking a test. That’s right, an entire day of my life spent on this shit. Lets pass it this time.

Oh, and i shaved my head. I’ve never had short hair, but i figure its time. Its a combo of me being tired of paying hair cuts and worrying about my hair as well as starting to lose the hair. Its pretty weak going bald by 25 but ya know, play the hand you are dealt. It actually doesn’t look bad and it is maintenance free. I wake up in the morning and can walk out the door. I also have spent the last 2 years of my life trying to not look bald. So i do my hair and then avoid fun things that might mess it up and make me look bald. I haven’t gone swimming and dunked my head under water in awhile and i even avoided putting my window down in my car for fear of the wind. Well its pretty liberating to say ‘fuck it’. Anyways, i’m pretty happy with the buzz cut and i think i’m gonna leave it this way indefinitely. Here’s a myspace style picture with the new doo:

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