January 04, 2011
New Year's Grind and Random Thoughts
Hello All!
Lots more to blog about so let's get it started!
Sooooo I decided to start out the New Year with a bang and woke up New Year's Eve at the crack of 5pm (planned because New Year's Eve is the single best day to play poker shhhh secret wink wink). Ate super healthy, exercised, and studied/got my mind right for a long night of grinding ahead while some of my roommates were hosting a New Year's Eve party at the house. Now ordinarily this would be super distracting, but we recently set up the office to be the poker playing/non partying part of the house and moved the gaming and other stuff to another room. So the environment was good and not too distracting. I ended up playing for 8.7 hours with breaks here and there and played 51 sessions total with 46 of them being heads up matches with a looooot of multitabling (at one point I was 5tabling heads up vs different opponents!) and rejecting the weakest tables (even though they were insanely profitable) for a profit of $3kish. I lost about 1100 at 15/30 6max which made the heads up feel even more special. Especially because it was almost all at $5/$10, $8/$16, and $10/$20 (with like 3 matches at 15/30). I absolutely killed it at heads up and after reviewing all 3117 hands I felt super good about how I played with the heads up and upset/sad at some of the spewy mistakes I made in 6max. Overall a good night though.
Caught a cold though so I'm drinking hot tea and staying away from the tables until I'm back to my normal self! I've been thumbing through my stats from last year in my feverish delirium and I think I've spotted some 6max leaks that I plan on weeding out of my game. Reread some of Let There Be Range and Exploiting the Regs and plan on working a ton on my NL game and mixing that in for when the limit games are shitty. A couple buddies are looking to do the same so I think I'll stay motivated/ have people to chat with in person about poker which I find helps keep me motivated and fired up about both getting better AND quality hours in more. Which is a recipe for success if you're focusing on the right things and mindful of how everything effects everything. So that'll be cool hopefully. Plus I've been watching videos like a madman. Need to work on posting more in the video threads and in the forums in general though. That's gotta be the weakest part of my learning game right now and DC is too good of a resource not to make the best of. Plus there's a lot of videos that I've watched that I like a lot, but haven't commented on. Which is lazy and wasteful imo.
Oh! Also I'm super happy that BBB is a coach here again! Hung out with him in a lil bit in Vegas this past summer during the WSOP and he's a super nice guy and an awesome person imo. I get the feeling that he loves poker and is always trying to improve, which will only make him a better and better coach. A great move DC. I applaud you! :-D
Hmmm what else?... Oh yeah! Got a girl's number the day before New Year's Eve. We hooked up that night and she wants me to call her. I don't know why I run so hot with strippers. I want to see her again though because we had a lot in common and she's super awesome, absolutely gorgeous, and great in bed. I want to get better before seeing her again though. Starting to feel much better and kinda sleepy. Time for bed imo.
Good luck all in 2011. Hope everyone stays happy and healthy!
I'm out!

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