Seasoning Micro Steaks

Its 11:06 pm on Tuesday March 16, 2010 and I am sitting here with my girlfriend as she fills out the U.S. Census for us. She is insisting that I am of Hispanic origin because my father is Portuguese and my mother is Italian, it took a few times but she finally marked me as white. I was born in America, I don’t speak Portuguese, I am not tan, I’m white damnit!

This month has been interesting so far, I have had great sessions, I have had BAD sessions, and I have had a number of break even sessions. The last week I have won 1 of my sessions I think. I have been grinding too much and not learning. I purchased “The Poker Blueprint” from Dailyvariance.com. I have only read a little bit of it, but it has been pretty solid so far. What I have read talks about moving up, being a learner not a grinder, stuff like that.

So that’s going to be theme for the rest of this month, “be a learner, not a grinder.” I have a ton to do with Mt. Robusto this month as I am part of a group as well as heading a micro full ring no limit group. I am going to watch a lot of videos, review some leaks, and play more hours with less tables for the rest of the month.

Speaking of that, this afternoon I played in an upcoming “DC Home Game” video with all 6 max No Limit guys headed up by Sugar Nut. I was the only guy who doesn’t play 6 max regularly and I held my own. For most of the session the player to my left was calling all my raises and trying to outplay me (I think, but we get to see hole cards when the video comes out) and we played a hand at the end of the session which I consider a semi cooler. He was super active, although not 3 betting much at all preflop:

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN: $125.65
SB: $57.00
BB: $170.35
UTG: $77.45
MP: $62.85
Hero (CO): $50.75

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is CO with Q Q
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.25, BTN raises to $4, 2 folds, Hero raises to $12.50, BTN raises to $125.65 all in, Hero calls $38.25 all in

Flop: ($102.25) 6 6 3 (2 players – 2 are all in)

Turn: ($102.25) 5 (2 players – 2 are all in)

River: ($102.25) 5 (2 players – 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $102.25
BTN shows A A (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
Hero shows Q Q (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
BTN wins $99.25
(Rake: $3.00)

The only thing that stuck in the back of my mind was that he wasn’t really 3 betting, but I am getting it in there with the way he and everyone else was playing during the video.

For the blogs in the future, I plan on linking cool blogs that I am reading, as well as articles and a list of videos that I watched and plan on watching. Here is the video lineup that I would like to watch next week:

What Would Joe Tall Do?
The Coaching Tree
Math of NLHE (never watched it the last time I said I would)

Gl at the tables

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