Back into the thick of things.

i believe this is the biggest amount I have lost 2 date!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6094016

ThePuma

So its been another week that poker has left us. Its hidden in the bushes as we sit around and just wait for it to come out. We all don't know what will come out, we find people we respect and we ask them their opinion, only to give us something to hang on to, because he or she said so., This is the followers option, the leaders are the ones speculating, trying to find reasoning behind their theories, not realizing that there is a  scientific method to making a hypothesis, which involves testing out, you can't test something out thats never been before. So the leader makes hypothesis and looks for his followers, he gathers them in forums, on podcasts, blogs or YouTube. The more he gets the more he feels his theories to be legit. Legit but still no answers. Lets all just face the fact that poker like that old girlfriend we f@$!ing loved so much has run away and now all we can do is sit by the phone hopping the b*tch which makes life so unbearable but the one we can't seem to live without gives us a phone call telling us she missed us and explaining how she is coming back and when.. Lets all just agree that we don't know if when or in what cappacity this phone call will come to us.. Everything else is just bullshit. I guess there are some options. One option, the healthiest option is you go find another bitch (opportunity to make money) You may not like her as much, she may be too demanding, she may have bad breath, might wake u up in the middle of the night, but you know what she still gets you laid (paid). Option two is you continue waiting by the phone..till you feel like its enough. I can't tell you how long is enough.. only you know. Option three is you get the fck up look your self in the mirror and say she wasnt that fucking great to begin with then smash the damn phone to pieces.. She treated you like shit when you most needed her, wouldnt let u leave the house for days, Kept making you deppresed. She isn't worht the time and your ready to go now on your own path, a path of happines...

Will she come back I have no idea. As for me I am getting laid by a btch on the side, and waiting for the one to call back.

-THEPUMA

I live in USA. New York City..
But I am happy about it.. Here is why..
I can still grind on Absolute Poker and am 100% sure I will see my money.. I STILL AM GRINDING ON ABSOLUTE.
Think about it this way it took the government 5 years since UGA to do this, they can not adjust quickly enough (( IT TAKES EM 5 YEARS TO SHUT OUT SITES THAT BE MAKIN MILLIONS - BILLIONS - TRILLIONS )) ..  This goes to prove that poker will always be around, Other sites will spring up and eventually it will be regulated. Soo why fret. I get it if this was ur sole income u is fcked for a while, but being a grown man, maybe it will make one realize not to have all eggs in one basket, spread out, take time to get new interests and buisness opportunites.. GROW away from poker, adjust, put ur self in a situation to HIT IT HARD when poker returns. It Will.. Rather then focusing on poker being gone and talking about black clouds.. Look at it as an opportunity, more free time to research, time to stop bitching about bad beats, time to go out there and enjoy the f'in flowers. "every moment is A CHANCE to change your life".. Adjust, grow and when the b*tch walks back in the door be ready for it grab it and run with it.. Only way to do this is to stop mopping around, get your life in order. Organize. This way when poker comes back u'll have 10 other interests bringing in your money :o)) It wont be life or death..
I wish you luck!

So as written before I decided to climb down the chimney and bumm it out at 50NL. Some observations are that players are pretty Terrible. I think overall there are many more spewtards and there is always some fish you can comfortably find at all tables. Im also just trying to play elimentary poker. Such as was talked in Coaching Kristy. Im trying to learn not to pay off loose passive players. Trying to make good folds or in the habbit of them.. I feel they should be a lot easier to make since its less likely for players to 3B bluff you, when u know they are passive. I will post some hands, which are still tough folds for me but a lot easier to make given the players im up against..

Hand 1: Vs Opponent 20/16 over 30 hands. http://www.pokerhand.org/?6069423

Hand 2: Vs Opponent (New Player)  http://www.pokerhand.org/?6069434 

-THEPUMA

So as written before I decided to climb down the chimney and bumm it out at 50NL. Some observations are that players are pretty Terrible. I think overall there are many more spewtards and there is always some fish you can comfortably find at all tables. Im also just trying to play elimentary poker. Such as was talked in Coaching Kristy. Im trying to learn not to pay off loose passive players. Trying to make good folds or in the habbit of them.. I feel they should be a lot easier to make since its less likely for players to 3B bluff you, when u know they are passive. I will post some hands, which are still tough folds for me but a lot easier to make given the players im up against..

Hand 1: Vs Opponent 20/16 over 30 hands. http://www.pokerhand.org/?6069423

Hand 2: Vs Opponent (New Player)  http://www.pokerhand.org/?6069434 

-THEPUMA

I know I know, kinda late.

I had my April goals in mind from the minute it was april. But never got to post them. First off I just want to say that April will be a very bussy month for me. Therefore I don/t expect to get much volume in this month. So there will be no goal to meet in terms of Volume. After a crazy all over the place 2nd half of March, which I blame Vegas for. I just spun out of control, sure I came out a live, even with a medal perhaps, but it fcking felt like I was on the edge taking shots at 2/4PLO DeepStacked. But I showed a profit, at the expense of NOT LEARNING. This wasn't supposed to be about the money, when I put in the initial 1k I didn't want it to be about the money.. 

Goals: Simple

50NL - 1st half of month. To get my self grounded and making wise decissions.

100NL - 2nd half of month. To get back to playing the stake I want to grind to 100K Hands.

Constantly Learn.. Watch videos. Take notes. Discuss. Post!

ThePUMA 

This weekend was a lot of fun! (NO POKER)

Firday we went to see my girlfriend's best friend Tiffany in NJ for her birthday. We met in a restaurant where we had dinner. Prelude to this is that I had a really hard week all around, at work, with girl (her period all week), with mom, with poker. So during dinner I proceed to down 6 Gin n Tonics. We also brought with us 100$ worth of good weed (that we put in trunk) for her friend and flowers. Both of which we thought would best be given when we got to her place and not in bar/restaurant. On way to her place, we proceed to follow them. They r speeding so I slow down, and take it my own speed since I am drunk from drinking 6GnT's over a span of 1hr. All of a sudden I see the cop lights behind me. So I fucking pull over with a stash of weed in my trunk and 6Gnt's in my system... Time is 11:30pm.. 

Cop comes over to the side my girlfriend is sitting on. "Hello can I please have your license and registration. Where are you guys going". So she takes the flowers out and says that we are coming from NYC to visit her best friend for her birthday. Anyway a lot of blahh blaah blaah.. He says I was swerwing lanes, without signaling. My girl is a good talker so she keeps talking to him I just sit there thinking, can I run any worse. He takes my info goes to his car. The fucking thing is he didnt come to my side at all. So he can't smell my breath. He even appologized during the whole time and says he isn't accusing me of anything but they are trying to keep drunk drivers off the road. Eventually he comes back with a written warning and tells us to have a nice night. We got really high at her friend's and I ended up driving home the whole way in one fucking lane.

Saturday - We took her mom out for birthday and went to a swing dancing place. I swear it was like being stuck in the 50's. Regardless I thought some of the people really fcking danced their asses off so coordinated as a pair. It was like watching Dancing with the Stars, live. Enjoyed getting drunk and got to her place just passed out. 

Sunday - Slept til 2PM.. Went to dinner had huge breakfast, got her flat tire fixed and just fooled around in bed all day :) 

I am ready to start the grind up this week :)

-ThePuma

March goals were as follows :

Play 35k hands of solid poker at 100nl!  FAIL -  16k hands of breakeven.

Have at least two coaching session with my coach linkwood! FAIL - Had only 1 session

Finish watching Coaching Kristy with good note taking for series. - FAIL Have not taken any notes at all on any videos.

TIlt - FAIL - Played every game under the moon, all different stake, I was just lost!

Synopsis:  Overall I am unhappy with the second part of the month. I wish I just stuck to playing 100nl for the whole month. It is easier said then done. I wish I could control this tilt and eventually I will have to get it underwraps. Everyone speaks of winning, but does anyone coach how to lose? This is my problem, I don't know how to lose. This month I also fcked around with PLO! I ran hot and then ran cold. I tilted money away at 100nl for no reason. I stopped reading, taking notes on video's. Posting in blog and posting hands in forums. I NEED TO START BEING ACTIVE. I NEED TO STOP GIVING SHIT ABOUT THE MONEY.

Silver lining: Eventhough I massively F'ED UP! I still made money this month. With Rake back, PLO and all other tilt stuff, Bonuses. Total is at 5.8K

February 1k  - March 4k - April 5.8k

Overall March was a big fail, I did not get better, I got worse.. I missed a half a month of opportunity to learn, evaluate play and put in sessions. :(

-THEPUMA

So last weekend was my first time in Vegas! I already posted all the pre-Vegas thoughts in the entry before, now that I have been home for quite a while, I would like to write a bit about the actual trip, my thoughts on Vegas and perhaps some observations on betting the first two rounds of NCAA tournament.

First of Vegas. I think I would have enjoyed it more had we not stayed in some shitty hotel/casino (Imperial Palace). Our room was a handycap room that was so stunk of cigarette small I probably got lung cancer just for spending three nights in the room. I believe it cost my college buddy only 60$ or something but still, if I ever return to Las Vegas, I am either staying at the Wynn/Encore or The Cosmopolitan.  Both of those where my favorite on the strip. The food in Vegas was good with sooo many choices! I would recomend to go all out there. With so many options why not eat like a king. The night life was a blast as well. Adam used a service in our group that got is in to clubs without a line and that was a HUGE +. The service is VIPNITE.COM. Friday nite we got a bottle in the club PURE and saturday we went to XS. I think I lost 1k playing craps in XS. So with food being good, and Nightlife being amazing, gambling everywhere what is one to complain about. I didnt like that all there was to do was GAMBLE. I must have lost so much money just cause there was nothing else to do but GAMBLE.  I will be honest when I was leaving after 4 days, I just wanted to GTFO of Vegas. I would never live there. 

Second of Losing. I lost like 4K. I could not win at anything. All my Basketball bets I lost. Black Jack I had my first session be a winning one. After that I got creamed for 4 straight days. My friend tried to teach me craps and I must say I have never had a more costly 4day lesson session in my life. Poker was just too boring live. I played 2/5 PLO and didnt run so hot. I am sticking to Online, Do not like the feel of live. I get too bored. Each orbit seems like it takes an hour. The slow pace of the game makes me try to do crazy things, that work once in a while but for the most part get me spewing pretty large.

Third of NCAA betting. I found that the winning strategy would have been to bet all #1 seeds to cover spreads and for the rest bet Underdogs. Will try this next year in the first two rounds. 

Overall I would go to Vegas again. Some things I would do different. 

1. Get a Nice Room.

2. Play more poker/ less table games accepting the slow pace.

3. Run good. Go out and party more :0)

4. Go single or take ur girl with you, kinda sucks to be in a relationship and go with buddies. Sucks not being able to get down in Vegas, I know how they say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas but I just can't have shit weigh on my conciousness.

-ThePuma

I am in the airport waiting on a continental flight back to NewYorkCity. I have spent the last four days in Las Vegas for the first week of the March Madness Tournament. I am too tired to post all my thoughts of my first trip to Las Vegas right now. But I did write a lttle something coming to Vegas on the plane. and since I didnt have access to internet for the last four days, I will post that entry now,. In the next coming days will post my review of Vegas, my opinions of it and overall thoughts on betting NCAA. Soon to come but for now thoughts I had when coming to Las Vegas.

Thursday March 17th, in the sky 

Writing this on a plane, heading for Vegas on thursday morning March 17th 2011.

Meeting college friends who I have not seen for a really long time (5years). A buddy who lived with me my sophomore year of college. One of my best friends in my time at the University of Buffalo a friend I have gotten into most trouble with. A buddy who is always searching for that amazing time, which includes girls drinking and most of all gambling. He is not one to read any forums or discuss ranges. The reason he plays is because you get free alcohol. He also plays limit poker because he a long time ago suffered a bad beat in a big pot in NL and therefore thinks that NL is just a horrible game. All logical thinking we as poker players are always trying to grasp (Just Kidding) Who needs merging hand ranges and balance and all the blaaaaah stuff. Just Run Good!

I have been running good! So far as I write this the plane has not crashed. thats some run good right there :) I also got my taxes done a few days back and it was significantly less then I thought it would be. Run good. Girlfriend is loving me and wants me to go to Vegas and have some male bonding time. Run Good. My venture into PLO has gone really good. I have been 4tabling PLO tables. 

• Monday 1400 hands = $617
• Tuesday 588 hands = $827
• Wednesday 35hands = -$23

I am running so good I even tried to put in hands last night when I was dead tired and had a 7a.m. plane to catch in 6 hours . Run good all over the place.

I have no idea what will happen in Vegas but I am looking forward to playing poker, hopefully some PLO. Splash around in pots over there, really feel good about my PLO game right now even if it is just some Run Good. I am also looking forward to putting money on the basketball games, it is March Madness after all. Catching up with friends. Going to clubs. Eating good food. Beautiful women. Just the experience. It is my first time in Vegas.