May 01, 2010
I WON! Sorta/Kinda/Maybe
I did finish the month with over 25k hands played. It was a struggle. I lost a lot of time early and had to scramble at the end. But it I did it. I ran like absolute rotten vagina over that course of time, and while I know my A game probably suffered some from playing so many tables, I definitely don’t feel like I was playing unprofitably. I’m not one to complain about beats and EV wah wah wah so I’ll just sum it up and say that I don’t remember winning with AK all-in preflop, and I don’t remember flopping a set and winning when all the money went in. End of story morning glory. I am glad for the experience and while I’m taking a couple of days off because my eyes are bleeding Red Bull and my mouth is parched and feels like sandpaper, I am getting used to putting more volume in. I’ll figure out who had the best comment on the original blog and announce/pm who gets the free hour of coaching soon!
I’m a DC coach now! Thanks to everyone at DC and big thanks to Krantz. I really enjoy teaching poker, I may even enjoy it more than playing, and I’m glad to be a part of the team.
I changed my avatar to Crispin Glover as the Wizard of Gore because well, it fits me nicely :D
Harvest Rain, the musical project I’m sometimes involved in has a new CD coming out sometime soon. Check it out here: Harvest Rain Jason Thompkins is the musical genius behind the project and a dear friend.
Thumbs down to the New Jersey Devils for getting ousted in round 1. I guess I still have the Bruins to root for. Hopefully they don’t fuck it up.
Grats to my cash game student/IRL friend/SNG Pro James Whittet for mizing 3rd in the Venetian Deep Stack main event. Keep crushing it sir.
SCARECROW: Someone who shall remain nameless (a reg, a 2p2 cat) called me down in a single raised pot with A high when I bet bet overbet shoved with a flush. Then they said “Oops thought I had a flush†Don’t be that kind of a hero guys. It’s rarely going to work out. We all know you didn’t think you had a flush, you thought you were super cool style guy calling jaggy down with A high to be right and gloat. The same dude 3b me with 72o previous and showed it down. Just thought I’d toss this scarecrow out there, don’t let your ego get the best of you. Respect your opponents no matter how bad or good you think they are. You HAVE to give them some respect or you’re going to end up making emotionally driven mistakes. We often feel that when someone is worse than we are, we are entitled to beating them or just scooping their money up, or when we have something to prove to someone, how good we are and how we’re on their level etc. etc. You get what I’m sprayin’ folks, just stay cool headed and keep yourself in check.
Alright I guess I’m done rambling about a million subjects. 200NL was fun, 9-12 tabling was fun, glad it’s over. HELLO MID/HIGH STAKES I HAVE MISSED YOU SO MUCH!
8 Comments:
FenderJaguar posted on May 01, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Justice88 is going to get the free hour of coaching for his nostalgic use of Masters of the Universe in his comment. So PM me Justice88 and we'll get it set up.
pain sensation posted on May 01, 2010 at 14:15 PM
congrats lol and nice you have nice blog posts,
you are great coach, i'll probably reactivate my dc account b/c of you :))
btw.. our last lesson was sick.. my head exploded
can't wait for next one
peten2toms posted on May 01, 2010 at 14:50 PM
TBH I think you failed. Was the point of the prop to play 25k hands any way possible? I thought it was in fact meant to motivate you to play 25k hands of your stake, your way. Pretty lame to grind out 25k hands mass multitabling simply to not lose a minor amount of money. EV wise you probably lost more hourly playing the 25k hands than if you had just payed everyone and stuck to your stake/game. Hate to sound jaded but I know from experience of making silly props that my A-game suffers and I tend to lose track of the main goal. Seems you did the same.
FenderJaguar posted on May 01, 2010 at 14:55 PM
TBH I 30000% disagree with you. The entire reason why I was playing lower and a stack of tables is because I LOST a ton of time this month due to my computer breaking. I didn't have a way to play for a week and a half, which for a guy 4 tabling is a lot of time to lose. I obviously know the point of why I made the bet, it's not like I was all OH COOL we'll do it at 200NL and JUST WIN THE BET. I didn't make the bet for that reason. I did however, NOT CALL IT OFF or give up. Even though I lost a bunch of time I stuck with it and completed it anyway, so while you may be jaded, I'm super super happy that I pulled it off. I succeeded instead of giving up. As I said in a previous blog it wasn't about the hourly value, it was about accomplishing a challenge that I set for myself and not tossing it aside when something got in its way.
FenderJaguar posted on May 01, 2010 at 14:56 PM
@pain sensation: I don't know which one of my students you are but THANK YOU! :D
peten2toms posted on May 01, 2010 at 18:23 PM
Like I said I am not jaded at all. Congrats on nailing 25k hands. I hope you try the challenge again without any prop. I hope you challenge yourself to nail 25k hands playing 4 tables of your main game in May and crush it.
I look forward to your the graph!!!
FenderJaguar posted on May 01, 2010 at 18:26 PM
Thanks man :)
TecmoSuperBowl posted on May 01, 2010 at 19:54 PM
I appreciated your time at 200NL fwiw ;) Might use that $ to afford your services :)
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