OMGZ THX ALL!

Here is my graph since Novemberish

Biggest pot I’ve been in. My heart was thumping on the river….

Bodog $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

CO: $15.40
Hero (BTN): $56.68
SB: $86.08
BB: $23.10
UTG: $7.42
MP: $8.45

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BTN with J J
3 folds, Hero raises to $1.00, SB calls $0.90, 1 fold

Flop: ($2.25) T J 2 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $2.00, SB raises to $5.75, Hero raises to $14.00, SB calls $8.25

Turn: ($30.25) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $18.00, SB calls $18

River: ($66.25) 8 (2 players)
SB bets $53.08 all in, Hero calls $23.68 all in

Final Pot: $113.61
Hero shows J J
SB shows T 8
Hero wins $110.61
(Rake: $3.00)

Gave 25 NL a shot tonight. No real big hands and no real big losses. Ended 6BB up! woot! 8% showdown so most of it was Cbetting and giving up or cbetting and they fold. I did play 3 tables of 10NL the same time. Got KK in preflop against AA and QQ, no big deal there. I did come across one hand that I think I played badly.

Bodog $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold’em – 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN: $10.30
SB: $5.30
BB: $2.31
Hero (UTG): $12.75
CO: $10.00

CO posts a big blind ($0.10)

Pre Flop: ($0.25) Hero is UTG with Q A
Hero raises to $0.50, CO calls $0.40, 2 folds, BB calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.55) 2 2 7 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($1.55) A (3 players)
BB bets $1.55, Hero calls $1.55, CO calls $1.55

River: ($6.20) 4 (3 players)
BB bets $0.26 all in, Hero raises to $4.55, CO raises to $7.95 all in, Hero calls $3.40

Final Pot: $22.36

Calling the turn I think is fine as is. The river I raised thinking that I could get value out of a worse ace. I think betting less and folding to the raise may have been a better play. On this board though I don’t think I am destroyed by too much of his range. Though I am going for very thin value so betting less probably would of been a good call.

Tonight I take a shot at 25 NL. My plan is to 1 table 25 and 3 table 10NL and then next time 2 table each, then 3/1, then hopefully if all things go well I’ll be 4 tabling 25NL working my way up to 50NL.

Some other updates

-On track with # of hands I need to hit 20k this month. Currently at 8.5k and have surpassed the amount of hands I accomplished last month. Hopefully the last 10k hands will be at 25NL! HOLLA!!!

Sadly I think that’s the only thing I’ve kept up with. FF13 has taken over my life along with other Xbox games. Though I’ve made sure it hasnt prevented me from getting in hands.

BTW, I’m looking for 1-2 people to chat with on aim/skype(mostly aim) about poker. More close knit then the secret ninja groups which seem to grow at a rapid rate. Hit me up at MetalMessiah5 if you have an open mind to discussion and are interested. I’m PST if that helps.

I’ll update tomorrow or Saturday with some 25nl hands.

Hi All,

I’ve decided to create a blog to track my progress so that way when I look back I can see how I got to where I hopefully will be. I thought about using the blog as a way of keeping myself accountable, but knowing myself, it won’t matter. I’ll either do it or I won’t. Luckily, accountability isnt a problem due to the fact that I have the drive and passion to do these things.

Just a quick note about my playing and where I’m at. I’m currently at 10NL(yea funsauce!!) and almost rolled for another shot at 25NL. I have been playing since October/November and I feel that I’m crushing 10nl and am not concerned about the difficulty of 25NL. I just need to get my bank roll up so I can take my shot. I’ve received coaching from two DC coaches, but I’m currently working w/Phoinix. I can’t say enough good things about working with Phoinix. The guy is seriously the nuts when it comes to coachin imo. Though don’t call him ‘sir’ or he’ll spaz out on you.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLS

I’m pretty good at setting goals for myself as to whether I complete those goals within the time I give myself is another thing all together. I usually complete a majority, but I can become flakey at time. Honeslty, I really suck at structure so to be so obsessed with goals and always setting goals is definitely a weird trait for me to have. Anyways, on to the goals of the week and month.

Monthly Goals

-Play 15-20k hands. Last month I only got 8k in, but was in Vegas for 5 days and I also work fulltime and also have an SO

-Complete Mathmatics of NL Holdem series by WOT. 3 episodes remaining

-Complete Busto to Robusto by TS. 1 1/2 videos remaining.

-Quit when tilting

-Stop mentioning how bad I run

-Exercise

-Eat better

-Complete The Poker Blueprint

-Blog 4 times

Weekly Goals

-2.5k-5k hands

-Watch Ep 6 of Math by WOT

-Watch EP 7 of Busto to Robusto

-Read 30 pages of the Poker Blueprint

-Exercise 3 times this week

-Reply to 3 hands and post 3 hands.

Most of these I feel will be easy to accomplish, the replying/posting to 3 hands is the hardest one for me to really follow through with.

Now to see if I can follow through with keeping this updated…..