Ain't no such thing as halfway crooks

Just got a new place in Austin and it feels great to get settled in.  I've spent the last month traveling around, visiting family and friends.    Really looking forward to getting back on the grind and making back some of the money I've spent on travel and moving expenses.  I'm also really eager to make some new vids and start coaching again.  I think I've made one vid in the last 4 months, so hopefully I won't be too rusty.

I'm also really excited to sweat the durrrr/jungleman hu match.  I have a bit of action on Tom, and I think it'll be really interesting to see if he can adjust to jungleman in the end.

Over the last 3 days I'm up 2169, bringing my total to 5200 after 9 days.  MTTs sucked pretty bad today, but managed to run like the sun in a small rush mtt for $900ish to recoup some of my buyins.  With 6 days left in my summer, I'm still 9800 short of my goal.  Hopefully I can get motivated enough to grind hard and give myself a chance to reach it.

Put in a ton of volume on day 5 and ended up +1011.  Was up 2k+ but got stuck some in a pretty crazy hu match.  Day 6 I timed my supplements poorly and had a very lazy day, ending up +888 and putting me +3031 after 6 days.  Obviously way behind pace, but I haven't had any big days or deep mtt sweats.   Hopefully I can get my ass in gear and pick up the pace.

I know this blog has been pretty lame so far and lacking any real content, but hopefully that will change soon.  I'm trying to figure out a new, more active note taking process.  When I do, I'll post some about it here.

+200 for day 3 and -781 on day 4, so that leaves me at +1138 so far.  Not going to write much because I really hate writing about running bad or playing bad.  I've been playing way more tournaments than I usually do which will drag shit down, but I'm living with a really good mtt player for the next few weeks so I figure I should take advantage of that (trying to get him to do a vid as well).  I've been a bit unfocused, so hopefully I can lock in and reach my goal which is definitely still attainable. 

 

Got semi-deep in a few things, but no scores really worth talking about.  Didn't get much HU action, which is fine since most of my focus was on the tournaments.  I made a concerted effort to save all of the hands I found tricky or difficult, which is something I always tell my students but I don't do myself very much these days.  Ended up +667.  Back to the grind today.

Day 2- +667

Total- +1719

 

Ended up +1k or so on the day playing hu and a couple of small mtts.  It was a pretty frustrating day of hu where I had a lot of good spots that didn't really work out, but can't really complain.  Playing the AP, stars mil, and ftp rush mil today along with some other stuff along with some heads up, so hopefully I can knock off one of those.  Also went to see David Copperfield, which was underwhelming at best.  I guess I expected some crazy, mind blowing shit but it seemed like pretty basic stuff.  He had a 5 minute montage of every time anyone has ever mentioned him on a TV show, movie, or newscast.  He even included a scene where someone was referencing the Dickens novel.  Gob would admire the shit out of his act.

Day 1- +$1052 

Total- +1052

In an effort to get back in grindmode, I'm gonna put in a bunch of volume for the duration of my vegas stay and try to make 15k.  I'm pretty terrible at grinding towards an arbitrary goal, but now seems like a good time for it and my roommate is doing it as well, so hopefully I can get there and put this summer's disappointments behind me and chip up a bit.  I'll be updating here as well as on a pretty sweet whiteboard that we just purchased.

 

About me- I'm a 30 year old professional poker player/coach, although I don't coach much these days.  I'm currently homeless, but (hopefully) not the type of homeless that ends up giving handjobs in a Burger King bathroom for pocket change.  At the end of the summer I'll be moving to either Austin or back to Pittsburgh, depending on how miserable I want to be over the winter.

I'm wrapping up the worst summer of my poker career, at least financially.  Aside from a small 4k score at the start of the summer, I bricked everything I played including cash games where I played/ran pretty terribly in some big spots.  It's pretty demoralizing since I had a good few months coming into the series and had high hopes.  I ended up semi-bubbling the main event about 80 spots before the money, which was super disappointing but made me realize a few things.  First,there were so many cool, tricky spots that came up, which really rekindled my interest in tournaments and desire to play them.  Second, I realized that I take wayyyy too many hands off, both live and online, and lose focus far too frequently.  That needs to change if I'm ever going to have a better summer and be where I want to be, both financially and as a player.

This blog is my attempt to chronicle my development as a poker player, both technically and psychologically, over the next year and beyond.  I generally think posting a public personal blog is one of the more narcissistic things one can do online, but that's probably fine since I wouldn't argue if someone called me a narcissist to begin with.  Hopefully someone out there can learn through my posts or at least know that someone else is out there on a similar path. 

Casey