The weekend with live poker

Well this weekend was a fun one I'd have to say. On Friday I went out with a bunch of people for a friends bday, we played hand shuffle board in a bar for a little and drank and danced, which is always fun. Saturday I went to my buddy's house to watch the UFC fights and they didnt dissapoint. Most of the fights were pretty incredible, with a lot of good finishes and the fight with aldo was incredible/gross. On Sunday I played poker for about 3 hours. I love playing there while their is sports on. Like the cardinals were playing and I was there for the miami heat game. I was happy the heat won, but the cards lost, booo. So The poker went ok for the day. I was started pretty slow, then got some good pots, but then I did something I hadn't done in a live session yet. I called light, and bled chips until I was back to even. I forced a few plays and made bad choices. Limit poker is all about extracting value when you have it, and folding when you dont and making good reads which is easy live. So I was about 3 down when this hand happens. I have A5DD and call the blind with about 5 people in it, I am under the gun. I prayed for all diamonds and the flop comes K710 all diamonds, I was like sweet. I looked at my cards again like i didnt have it then checked and raised a guy when he bet 3. He then made it nine and I made it 12 and we went to the turn. The next 2 cards were blanks with still having the nuts and betting 6 every time and he would call. He showed K7 for 2 pair. Lol did he really not think I had a flush on the flop to be raising and raising? Well either way I played about 3 more orbits and won one more pot and left. I profited 33 bucks for my 3 hours, but it could have been 80 if I have played better which sucks, but I am learning. So over the last 9 days I have played 3 sessions totaling 8 hours and I have made 183 dollars. I am really pleased with this and my play for the most part. The only thing that sucks is I have been spending the cash when I go out lol. I said I was gonna save the bankroll and build up but I have already spent 110 of it. So I have saved about 70 of it. I will go back tuesday I think so I'll keep people updated.

Thanks Bung

Making progress..bodywise

So, first off I live in st louis aka the midwest and for anyone who doesnt live in USA may not know how many tornadoes have happened here recently. Missouri, luckily has houses with basements and no one was killed in the ones we have had but alabams has had a lot of deaths, which is really sad. I just hope people don't blame obama like people did bush when hurricane katrina happened. Anyways, my point is that its rained here everyday since last tuesday, so like 9 days in a row. So working out in the park for me has been really hard without waders on. So yesterday was supposed to be our first day without rain, but to no avail I get off at 4 and it starts raining again. It's not raining men, just water but it still sucks to workout with wet ass shoes. But when I got home from the workout and did my abs I took a shower and wow my body changes quickly. I havent weighed myself again, but i should have really taken pictures. Its amazing that working out 5 days a week and eating a little bit better how a 24 year old males body can improve so much. I still have a long way to go ab wise to be happy, but I will fail, because I suck. Speaking of sucking I planned on going to rivercity casino last night like did 2 times recently but I failed. I got home from working out and basically slept from 8 P.M. until I had to go to work. I felt like a bum, but kind of refreshed now. I still havent decided if I'm going to put money onto the merge network or bodog or anything online. I will wait to get my 657 dollars back first. I think I'll just keep playing live and keep that money seperate save up to buy a computer and TN, poker tracker, and sng wiz and have money for when poker does make its comeback. That may not be for years so I could either become bored by the process or maybe, just maybe I'll have a sick bankroll to move online and a good set up. This weekend I will be watching the UFC fights, which should be sick, I think randy, aldo, and gsp will be winning their fights, because they are all better than their opponents. I don't know how jake shields hasn't lost in so long but i think its because of lack of competition. I'll be back monday, and someone needs to transfer me 300 fpps so I can get that shirt HURRY!!!

Thanks Bung

Music

When I talk to people that play music I feel like they write me off as someone that doesn't or shouldn't have an opinion about it. I feel like people who play music forget that music is for everyone. The people I always hated were the ones that would try their best to follow bands when they were small just to say they listened to the band before they were popular, or before the "sold out." I call them music elitests because they think they have been graced by God to look down upon the radio listeners and the people who follow bands that have been lucky enough to get air time on a radio station. I think anyone who reads this knows people like this...its fucking annoying. I am someone that likes all different kinds of music. When I was growing up I only got to listen to like KHITS and KSHE aka 70's music. I know a lot of 70's songs now and hearing most of them reminds me of my childhood, and I love that music. It has its own unique sound that no other decade can ever touch. Then in the late 90's I started to obviously not be around my parents nearly as much and listened to bands like limp bizkit, green day, eminem, tupac, sum 41 and bands like that. This was the opposite of what my parents like, which in turn made me love it. I didn't know it at the time, but music was my own little secret rebellion from my parents that allowed me to get away from them. Then when I had my own car, with cd player (baller I know), I got to pick all the kinds of music I liked all the time. It made me really love driving because I got to just listen to any cd I want for however long and however loud. There were no rules of music in my car, I had free reign. This is where I discover my favorite band the used. I listened to their first cd for what had to be 2 years straight. It became me, it made me feal alive. It was more than music, it was a part of me and I loved it. I also listened to Story of the year a lot then and eminem. It was loud and angry and help me not be angry through any destructive way. Instead I would just rock out to some music on the way home from school. Oh shit I have to work again....boooo. Well tonight I am going to work out at the park then go to the casino, oh and I this will be my 4th day in a row, I will take off tomorrow and workout saturday to make it 5 days this week for the second straight week. Summer body u have a month to come it, I have to work hard. I'll post tonights results tomorrow.

Thanks bung

left of fpps

I have like 400 left over fpps and wandered if I could get someone to transfer me like 300 so I could get a shirt, lol I have never bought anything from them but I dont wanna just was the fpps. Thanks lol

Fire and Rain

Something I forgot to mention in my blog about my good friend dying was the song they played at the funeral. "Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone," from the opening line the tears really just poured out from everyone. The crowd was just a chorus of sniffles and people trying to avoid eye contact. When I heard just those first words it made me remember that sick feeling when I found out the news. I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
feeling when I found out the news.
This song is about all the bad and good things in his life, the ups and downs we all have, he's had a lot with being in a pysch ward and being super depressed. But the last line of the chorus, I always thought that I'd see you again. Its just so freaking true, you just never think about something that isn't sick as dying, but we all are and we all could. But the second verse is the best.
Won't you look down upon me, Jesus
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way.
I am someone that grew up catholic and am still religious, I still attend church pretty regularly. Its how I think when times are really tough, I pray. When I feel like i have no chance, no choice and its out of my hands I just call upon God for his help. Simply this post isn't to analyze this song, which is now fully associated to his death for me for the rest of my life, but more the impact of music on life. I will continue this post tomorrow, they actually are going to make me work right now, jerks.


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Live poker blog? hah

So last week I worked out 5 days out of 6 which, imo is pretty healthy. This week I took off sunday from working out because of easter. So I worked out monday and I plan on it tonight wed and thurs, take off friday and workout saturday. So I know I can keep up 5 days a week. My workouts are 2 days a week park workout, its a boxing workout, takes about 50 minutes, and 3 days gym workout. The boxing work out is outside so its a nice change of pace, but its also hard on my knees so the elliptical happens at the gym for cardio. I plan on weighing myself tomorrow night to see where im at weight wise. I am already feeling a lot thinner/muscular. On the poker front I played live on thursday night and yesterday. I plan on playing at least 1 time a week, but more likely twice a week. I am playing 3-6 limit because I like limit more for some reason. The players are horrible, but the rake and tipping make being a big winner kind of hard. I won 60 in 2 hours on thursday and 93 on monday in 3 hours. Its me and a bunch of old men that know each other so its pretty friendly and fun. Its like a home game and they dont care about money. My job is to watch them when they have nothing and value bet. Ive been really good at it thus far. Also i dont raise preflop unless I have 10 10 or better or everyone folded and im on the button. I dont call with overs, and I only play when I absolutely know I am best and then I raise. I don't really check call and I am watching the players closely. I will be a regular winner at this game because I am better than they r. I will continue to grow the bankroll and once I get enough to move up to 4-8 I will and so forth. I will update regularly.
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Improving my health

I said that I would wait until I was 160 pounds to buy and xbox again and since then, last wednesday, I've worked out 4 out of 6 days and have plans to workout today, so 5 of 7 which is good. My groin is a little sore from running 3+ miles a day and doing sprints and jumps, so I plan on taking tomorrow off from that. Last night I was gonna go to the bank then to the casino to play some 3-6 limit or plo if they had it but we had flipping T-storms and tornadoes all over the area so instead I was in my basement for an hour or so and didnt wanna drive in the hail so I waited and went to the gym around 845. It was empty, which made me happy. I watched poker after dark plo version last night in bed and just wanted to play some poker. I wanna play live asap and will on thursday. I'm off friday and monday for easter, So I'll probably go thursday night and monday daytime. I will update either tomorrow or tuesday. I'll let u know how my live play is. lol


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LOL

So I'm sure everyone knows that I made no progress on my poker goals. I guess my new goals for that are to see how long the money can sit there and not just get an email saying no cash for you. Anyways I'm gonna try to play more live games at the local casino. Hopefully I can make a schedule that fits my lifestyle to play once a week or more possibly. It sucks more having all the blogs I read basically going away because of this. Well for all those people who have families that play for a living I guess you may have wanted to have a backup plan before doing something almost illegal for a living.

Til next time BUng

Goals and other things

Ok so I played another session of 6-mans and it went pretty well, I six tabled again. I had two wins and 4 straight up losses. So I made 8 dollars, yay. Umm, I am still trying to figure out how to work the sng wiz, but I did some quizzes and read more about ICM and stuff from it, so I am happy with the way I have played and I havent got tilted about anything yet. My goal is to have sng wiz worked by the end of april, lol. My real goals are make a botp leaderboard, I dont care where or which one, by the end of may. I also hope to move up to 13 dollar instead of the 6 dollar by the end of june. But I have a long way to go. I am having the rule of 100 buyins and if I need to fill in a game because of volume I will go one buy in under. If I ever lose 50 buyins at that level I will move back down until I have 100 again. I just got back to 100 with the 6.50 so I need to win 100 buyins at the level to have 1300 which is what I need to move up. GL me.
Also, I have decided to not buy a new xbox yet. I posted that I weighed 182 like 2 months ago and didnt try to lose it until about 2 weeks ago. I started really working out again and cutting certain habits and foods. I will not buy an xbox until I'm back down to 160 and then I will assess if I really want it. It really just takes me away from poker/working out. I use it as a social device with friends, but maybe I will start bowling again, and get people to go so I see them during the week. Well, wish me luck on the sngwiz so i can get a graph up, also on my playing and weight loss.

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my xbox died, frown

I have had my xbox for over three years (3 year warranty go figure) and I came home last night to find that I have an error E 74. Its fatal. So Xbox says they can fix it for like 120, but I have heard bad things about sending them in for it to be fixed. So tonight I will go to gamestop and see how much I can get for xbox parts and hard drive. I will see how much they will give me for a controller, and how much for the hard drive and power cord and stuff. I will probably sell my hard drive to my friend and controller too, depending on what they want to give me for them. But a new xbox is now 200 bucks, so I'm hoping to get at least 70 bucks back, and then it will be just like I got it for 130, the same price to get a 3 year old one fixed. So I loaded up a set of 6.50 6 man sngs. I have been studying icm and push/fold scenarios and I can honestly say it makes you think about the game much differently. I played all six at the same time, like a set, and I got 2 firsts and a second. I will play again soon, and hopefully I can emulate those results or better. I profited like 20 bucks, which is about 3 buy-ins so I'm happy about that. I will try to get up to 10 tabling by the end of may. Also, I have to download sngwiz to study and get graphs on this bitch.

Thanks Bungbert

no updates because theres been no poker

I went to a really close friend of mines father in laws funeral over the weekend. After which we all went to their house a drank and played washers, 12-0 on the day slight brag lol. So then on Sunday I played xbox most of the day and went to use the computer and whoops I got a flipping virus. Some virus that claims to be a virus protection so idiots will give up their credit card number to get rid of it. It's insane that people actually click on it and think its real, man they are too dumb to use computers. The only thing worse then them is the people making viruses to begin with. It takes a really shitty person to do that. If I found the person that made this virus I would cut off all of their fingers, and I mean it, they would live the rest of their life know what happens to people who make viruses. Anyways I just looked up on my iphone how to remove it and 30 minutes of attempting this frustrating technique and I got it yay. Well tonight its my g/fs moms bday so we are eating with them, then the gym. I have started working out again for the last 2 weeks and dieting because its about 1 and half months away from swimsuit season and i need to look optimal. I'll update thursday after I play tomorrow. thx

More death and some new poker life

My really good friends father in law died Wednesday. He was a good man that I have met and partied with a bunch of times like at least 40 over the last 5 years. He was a fun man that loved his children and grandchild a whole bunch. I am going to his wake this evening and then funeral Saturday. I am not looking forward to this at all.
In other news I couldn't decide if I wanted to get sng wiz and play some more 6-man sngs or get omaha manager, its like holdem manager, and try to my best to move up in my skills and money in that. Realistically I should have bought one of these a long time ago to keep me from treading water, but I'm gonna get a free trial of one this weekend. The one I chose was omaha manager, simply because I like the idea play cash games over sets of games. Also, I feel that so many people have figured out how to play sngs and I think PLO is just more untouched (even though there are obviously tons of regs there too). I will see how far this leak plugging, stat tracking, device can help me. Also, I will have graphs to spice up my blog instead of people just having to take my word, lol.

Have a good weekend and tell a friend u love them, thank Bung

The hardest thing I've had to see

On Friday morning about 10:15 A.M. I get a text message from a good friend of mine saying simply "call me." He is someone that wouldn't bother me unless it was important. His uncle, and one of my best friends father in law is on hospice and we have been kind of waiting for him to pass, so when I called him I expected to hear "Hey Pat, Bob passed away last night." I would have been very sad but he has been sick for a while. Instead I hear, Hey did you hear what happened last night, and I of course hadnt, then he told me something that absolutely shocked me, my 24 year old friend died in a car accident last night. I was in complete shock. About 10 minutes after hearing this I started to cry and was excused from work. I didn't want to be alone, so I went to my g/fs and we did some chores and errands that took my mind off of it. I knew a bunch of my friends were getting together but I didnt wanna see anyone yet. Then I went to the movies with my g/f friday night and saturday we went to the st louis symphony presents lord of the rings fellowship of the ring. Which the band plays all the music while the movie runs on a big screen, it was incredible because we both love these movies. Anyways, this time the movie really meant something to me with some of the things gandolf said. "End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it." Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought." I never realised how much these meant to me until I had a big loss in my life. Gandolf tells us that death is not the end, and we all have difficult decisions in our lives, its just up to us to figure out how to deal with them. It really sank in.
So then came sunday, the day of the wake. This was the first time I had seen my friends since I heard the news and it still didnt sink in. We went to the wake as a group and the line was so long, about 2 hours, and about 1000 people went to the wake in all. There were pictures set up and everything and just a bunch of things to remind u of him but it still hadnt sank in. His mother and father were greeting people at the casket and it still hadnt sank in. Then it happened, I was about 3rd in line and the person in front of me swayed so that I could see danny in the casket and I felt it. The tears started up. His mom (who was extremely visibly upset) tried to say stuff to me but I couldnt respond because words were too hard to find. We all went outside and kind of hugged each other and looked away in silence for a while. It was real, it had happened and now its over, the life of a person was gone. It sank in so fast and made me feel ill. Yesterday was the funeral, and it was even more brutal. One of his 2 sisters gave a really good speech and was somehow able to talk really well and coherenlty which was suprising. His mom was still crying so loud and painfully that I could barely watch. After the chapel ceremony we left for the casket to get placed into the ground. Once again I couldn't watch his mom sway back and forth in her chair screaming and crying because she just lost someone that can never and would never be replaced. Mothers and sons just have a certain connection that can never be replaced of broken. She literally lost a part of her that day and he will just be a memory, a feeling, a sense of what could have been, and someone who changed her life forever. I've heard that people can die of sadness, they just sort of give up, and I would never had believed it until I saw the true sorrow in her eyes. Luckily she has a great family, and husband to help he pull through this tremendous loss. The other person that really got to me is a good friend of mine and his absolute best friend jason. I mean not everyone, including myself, has that one person who is by and large their best friend. I mean we all have really good and close friends and maybe a friend whom which you prefer the company over others, but not that true I would die for you, soulmate type friend. That was them, it just was, I cannot explain it but if you knew them you would understand that family is just blood. They werent friends, they werent brothers, they were a part of each other. A real living breathing part of each other. When I saw his the teary eyed look on his face as they lowered part of him into the ground I saw more than grief and dispair and sadness. I saw a young man losing part of himself. Will things get better? yes of course, but they will never be the same as they were or could have been had this not happened. So instead of yelling at God, why did you take him, or how can you be so cruel. I will once again leave you with a quote from Gandolf. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

50/50

Last night I got home, played madden, ate, had a little alone time with the g/f and then I was extremely tired. Monday after work is so hard because the weekends I tend to stay out until 4, or 4:30 am and I still wake up early from habit. So its hard to sleep sunday and I wake up at 5:30 for work daily. So i looked and I decided I was gonna play a sng and I remembered that I wanted to try the 50/50s so I did. I 1 tabled a 1.08 50/50 lol. The best part was I played 1 hand from the button like 4th level I raised with 5 7 hh and get one caller he checked on an Ace high flop, I bet and won and was up to 1700 in chips. Now these have 3 minute levels so people are going out left and right. I didn't play another single hand and made a 40 cent profit. I'm not saying its a lot but all I did was press fold about 25 or so times. I will do more research on this tonight. I am very interested to see if I could make profit by basically playing nothing but in great position 1 or 2 times a tourney or just playing top hands. I will update.

Thanks Bung

LHE

I played some Limit holdem this weekend a lost a little bit of money. I enjoyed it though its a lot less stressful than plo. I was able to play 6 tables super easy. I have quite a few leaks, but after I work out the kinks I know I can win and play at least 10 tables if not more. p.s. Im playing .50-1 so its not too high. I do earn ok vpp per hour it should be going up with the tables I play. I will update, thanks BUng

Bookshelf construction

I learned something this year on like january 4th. That lesson was that in order to properly assemble something you purchase u must follow the instructions. I am notorius for opening up a box full of shit to put together and instantly being overwhelmed. This January my mom and I assembled my treadmill, and it only took 2 hours. HAHA only I thought it would take like 1 hour tops, but there were 1000 parts when I opened it up. I am someone that likes to rush stuff, like I cant stand playing games with people that dont pay attention or move super slow, I want instant let down or satisfaction. Since then I have assembled a workout machine, a chair, and last night my g/fs bookshelf. There is a certain feeling you get after assembling something, its quiet gratifying. There is that certain feeling you get when you finish somethings its like nothing else in the world.
In other news I played no poker, instead I built the bookshelf and watched jersey shore then watched bball and went to sleep.
Also I read a blog called like baglifepoker its about a live poker player who quit his job like 5-6 months ago to play 1-2 full time and also online a little and move up in stakes. I really liked his blog until recently. I realized how bitter live cash grinders really are, at least he is. If someone has to say "I'm a good person," or "I'm not a bad guy." That usually means you are not the kind of person you want to be. I will never tell someone that I'm a good guy or a bad guy, get to know me and make up your own mind. People saying they are good instead of showing it is a pet peeve of mine and is lame. Ok well I have to go continue teaching the youth of america.

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ugh

Well I did do my taxes, get my hair cut, and get an oil change in the last two days. So I view that as a success. However I played 5 6-mans and lost all of them. I cannot tell you how I ran in those, it was discusting. Like having j10 suited in bb and getting minraised by the dealer I call. I 10j4 rainbow flop I check he bets I reraise a lot he calls. Next comes a 5 and I go all in to his call with AK and gets the gut shot. Next table over I get kings and had around 12 bbs dealer raised I reraised all in he calls with Q10 off suit. I was like sweettt, flop 101010 wtf. So last night I played a little plo .10 and lost again, I just cant seem to focus on that game. I did play 3 275 vpp satties for the sunday storm and managed to win 2 tickets, which is 22 T$. I am not sure what I will play with those, but I will find something I know. Thanks Bung

1 time please

I am going to try to play more poker starting probably a little tonight and more tomorrow, because i have to get a hair cut tonight and get my oil changed. I want to play more because I wanna hit one of the milestone hands. If I could hit a milestone hand and boost my bankroll I would be so happy!!!!!!

I am pathetic

I played like 4 sessions and am down to 692. I had one day of dumb play/tilt where I didnt feel like playing, buy for some dumbass reason did. In other news I havent been eating fast food or drinking soda for 2 weeks now so that good. But during my spring break I enjoyed quite a few adult beverages that im sure didnt help the caloric count for those days. Also, I need a new job. One where I can make money, like actually money. I wish I knew people that could help me get a better job, but all my friends and people I know are like firefights, cops, still in school, or bums. I need to make connections that I havent yet. Any suggestions?

work work work, oh spring break nvm

I had to work 14 hours yesterday and the same today, so poker is not on the menu. However I am off for like 10 days for spring break. That means poker and hopefully lots of it. I am not sure when I'm gonna add a 4th table of plo but it should be soon. I think the max amount of tables I will play is 6 and I will try to always improve my play and move up in stakes. I'd rather play 6 tables to my best then grind out 20 and not fully think about my choices. Also a lot of blogs I read they make a good amount of money at like 1/2 holdem 20+ tables but they never move up. I'd rather not get to like 1/2 or 2/4 plo and just get stuck there because of all of my tables. Thats just how I think. Also I am going to be starting our madden season again tonight. Season 2 hopefully with a better outcome.

Bung

Little bit of poker

I went to the g/fs house last night and hung out with her for a few hours. I went home around 9 and played for around an hour. I played my 3 tables and played pretty ok. It wasnt great, but you dont have to play great to win at this level. Anyways I was almost done before this and happened. I was small blind and up around 12 bucks at this table, the dealer makes it .30 which hes been doing all hour and I was annoyed by him already. I call and the flop comes Q88 and I had Q8 so I bet like 50 he reraises minimum. I was a little suspiscious at first. The turn was a blank so I checked and he bet pot, and I knew he had qq the only hand that could beat me, I could just feel it. I mean I was 100% sure but i flipping move all in, he calls and I lose. Long story short I had almost no big hands I had to steal a lot of pots and only got caught once. I made a few hero calls i think I went 2/3 on those and I won a little over 3 dollars lol. I have a long 13 hour day because of teacher conferences tonight so I wont be playing tonight, well maybe. Anways the roll is at 727 and some change. I started with 500 like 3 weeks ago maybe, so I feel that I am making good progress with my br and it feels good to not be so nervous because I have 70+ buyins.

thanks Bung

It's Fat Tuesday

Today is fat tuesday and its the last day that I will drink a soda or eat fast food for the next 40 days. OMG thats long, I have a love affair with soda and fast food, but workout so much that I stay in good shape. Whenever I give up those things though my body feels fresh and looks so much better that I wonder why I dont give up those things forever? Oh ya im addicted duh. Well enough inner dialogue on to the poker front. I played from about 5 to 6 last night while playing with my sisters 2 and half month old baby, Shes adorable and laughs really cute. In my session I started out calling so light and pushing in such questionable spots that I find myself with 3 outs. Anyways I then tilted a little for like 5 bucks which is half a buyin but then things started changing. I kept plugging away and making big bets and big pots and playing in position (which has to be the most important thing in plo) and it just paid off dearly. So many times in plo people are on a draw so that you have extract that money from them on flop and turn because it may not be there on the river. Anyways long story short I lost a few coin flips where I'd have top set and they would have like super open ended straight draw with flush draw and I'd lose it is pretty typical in plo. I won a few big ones and had a lot of non showdown winnings which is where I would love to be positive. I won 24 bucks and earned like 40 vpp. Most importantly I played really well for the last 40 minutes of my 60 minute session. I will play tonight as well oh and last night I played some mwf2 it just never gets old, I love it.

Thanks Bung

My weekend

I played my longest session of plo on friday night and had fun. When I played the cap games it was so swingy and I was always kind of ready for my session to end and always wanted to quit when I was up so that I couldnt lose it. On Friday night I played plo .10 full buying 3 tables again and it was fun. I played for almost 2 hours while my g/f was getting ready for us to go out. I started out down around 20 maybe a little more, but then I caught stride and played really aggressive post flop and wasnt afraid of losing or getting screwed because I have enough buyins and feel comfortable at my limit. I played around 300 hands a little more actually and my account stands at 700 which was up 20 bucks. That was a nice session and I got almost 50 vpps and played really good poker which is what matters. I felt like I was learning the whole time. Then I went out and Saturday me and like 20 of my friends went to soulard for mardi gras. Its huge in St. louis, like 500k people big, which is pretty sick. I did some boozing and saw some boobing lol. It was a really fun time and is something I look forward to every year. Well I should be playing tonight so I will update tomorrow either way.

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plo .10 fullstacking

Well months ago I used to full stack at .5 and did really well at it but it just got old playing for literally nickels and dimes. I played about 100 hands of plo .10 2 tables last night and loved it. The first 20 hands or so I spewed like 12 bucks because the style is so different from the cap games. Then I started remembering how to play certain hands certain ways and it was fun. My buyin amount was all screwed up on one of the tables and I only bought in 6 bucks and didnt have auto rebuy on it was annoying so I quit messing with it. All of the sudden on that table I caught fire and was playing really aggro when I had a hand and my 6 bucks turned into 42. lol that 4 times the max buy-in its quite a bit for one table of plo .10. Anyways I had some fun and it was pretty easy. I did also play a plo sng heads up and get coolered for like 80% of my chips in the 4th hand. I ended up making like 17 bucks or 1.7 buyins and my BR is at 680 almost exactly. I will try to play with 3 tables this weekend and keep my full buyin with auto rebuy on to make the most of any hand. Also I know that I need to start playing longer sessions and I have made 100 vpps in the first 3 days of march and it will be declining because I earn barely any at my limit, but I'd rather make money and learn than get vpps. I will update again on MONDAY or maybe sunday.

Thanks bung

Pissed off again

No I didn't log on, tilt, and lose money. Instead I get home from work and it was a nice day for a change so the g/f and I go for a nice walk and come back eat dinner, and watch the movie date night. Its with steve carell and its pretty funny if you like him and tina fey. Anyways at about 8:30 i log into pstars and notice that no plo games are running that I have filtered. They got rid of the cap games for plo....WTF didnt they just make those. I mean WTF I did not see that coming at all. So I send pstars a nice email inquired about it. I play 5 3.25 6 man sngs and get a first place but Don't cash in any other ones. So I lost like 5 bucks. I waited but didnt get the response and went home. I turned my laptop back on but no email or anything. I decided to go play some .25/.50 plo hu for fun. I stack this really bad guy 2 times for 20 dollar buyins. It was a 20-50 bb game. Then a new guy comes in we go back and forth and I end up winning like 42 bucks total. I am up to like 665 or something. I dont have the bankroll to cover the swings of plo hu right now so i probably wont play that. I will have to decide to take a shot at becoming good at the 50/50s which are fun, or play some full buyin .10 plo 6 handed until I win 50 buyins then I would move up.

Will update tomorrow thanks bung

The start of March

With Spring break being in march my goal is to achieve goldstar. I have only achieved silverstar once lol so this may be difficult.I started last night by playing 3 tables of plo. I was playing only 2 tables the last week so I'm going to try to keep adding them every week or two. Anyways I played 1 hour and about 195 hands, which is about double the hands I have been playing in a sesh. Lol my first 14 hands I had already been stacked 3 times, cap game is swingy. Then I got more aggressive and didnt get frustrated or tilted and made a nice little come back. I can think of a few spots where I leaked money with a loose call and a spot that I think the fold was the right play usually but this one time it wasn't which was tilting. Anyways I ended up breaking even ha, which is lame but way better than losing, and I'm glad I was able to play 3 tables pretty well. I just wish I could have those first 14 hands back. anyways in those almost 200 hands I only earned 52 vpps which is not the .42 vpps I am supposed to be getting for this limit of plo. Well it was a small sample size, but I am pretty confident that I can achieve gold star even if I only earn 50 vpps per hour, even though I should be playing 4 tables in 2 weeks so I will get at least 70 or more per hour which means about 80 minutes a day for the required 3000 vpps in a month. Will play tonight and update tomorrow.


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Madden update

I didnt play any poker, my g/fs laptop broken so she used mine. I played my madden game in the playoffs, lost by 3 again. The game was too angering to recap, it just felt like I wasnt supposed to win. Anyways I watched the oscars sunday, they were pretty good. I get so sick of watching them with older people aka parents, because most older people always say it wasnt as good as it used to be. How can nothing be improving? Or like last years was better, but I remember them saying that last year, its beyond an annoyance. Then the critics talk shit on franco. He acted the same that he does in movies, did they expect different. Its his style of humor and hers as well. For some reason critics never like to see positive and are always running negative EV. Sucks to live that way. Well I will be alone tonight, so I will be playing. Thanks for reading

Bungbert

I played some poker...kinda

As stated in the title I played a little poker this weekend. I woke up about 10:30 A.M. on saturday morning and my g/f was still asleep so I played some plo. I played 2 tables again (something I will increase probably tonight). I played about 100 or so hands and I was down around 30 bucks, which was sucky. Then I flopped top set on a 234 rainbow flop and daleroxxu bet the pot, like 1.75 so I called, I figured that he has the straight here but if I get a boat I could stack him and start my comeback. Next card gives a heart flush draw, he beats pot, which is like 4 bucks so I call and its a 4 giving me a nice boat to float on and I bet the remaining 3.50 (its a cap game) he called because the pot size and I had bluffed in a similiar situation early like this that he called me on but this time I won. He flopped the straight and had a flush draw, I almost felt bad. Then the next hand I had 7810j double suited the pot was like 2 dollars a person preflop and the flop came 6 9 k and I had 2 back door flush draws and a bunch of straight draws, I checked the original raiser bets pot I go all in he calls with a set of kings, ouch I catch straight on river yes!!! I literally won the next 5 hands in a row 3 of which were max betted and I ran my 10 bucks on the table to 60 and decided to quit and get some food. So i won 30 bucks and am now up to 630 bucks, which means I am up about 120 since last saturday. Its still only 63 buyins which I need to increase before i start playing a bunch of table. Also it was weird playing with a team pstars pro whose blog I read. He plays good, but enough tables to exploit with a little agression in spots where he would normally be agressive to steal an easy pot. This weekend I watched ufc fights with friends and saw the movie hall pass. It was not too good, i suggest seeing the new adam sandler movie instead its much funnier. Also, St. louis has a dog parade every year and that was fun, but it makes me miss my dog that died in december. I need a new one asap, once I get the time to properly train/love it.


Thanks for reading, ill play tonight and update tomorrow bye bye bung

I didnt play again lol

I went to g/fs, but first I stopped by my house to get my laptop to play some poker while I'm over there....it didnt happen. First of all it was raining super hard so my 40 minute commute turned into and hour and 20 minutes which is quite the ass chapper. Then we watched some dvr'ed episodes of boy meets world, dont judge me I loved the show as a kid and it makes you feel a certain way when I watch it. So then I watched jersey show, again dont judge me that and the real world are the only "new" shows I watch. So by the end of that I was tired so I went home and got some sleep. I will play hopefully alot over the weekend, but next month I will be achieving (or attempting to achieve) gold star. I will do this via 4-tabling plo. I will do this some over the weekend to make sure I am comfortable doing so. It should be interesting. At the end of each month I will use my fpps to play to win T$ and I will use that to play either the new 50 50s or 6-man sngs to make real money from them. Some people trade in the T$ for cash but I think Id rather play to see if I can earn more and it is like a free change of scenery to play sngs for a day. Well I will update again Monday
Thanks BUNG

Madden Game and NBA

I played my 16th and final game of the reg season like I said last post. I played someone that was 14-1 and i was 12-3. We played a long back and forth game but with 6 minutes left he had a 21-7 lead and it did not look good. He faced a 4-1 on his 30 so he punted it to me and my comeback began. I through a streak to johnny knox (speed like 97) and his safety had good position on me, but he jumped to early and I caught it for like a 68 yard td, 21-14. With like 4 minutes left and I have all 3 timeouts. I kickoff and stop him three and out and get the ball with 2:02 left on the clock. I mixed up runs and passes beautifully to score with 30 seconds left. Then my D stopped him and we went to ot. I got the ball first drove down to his 40ish and on third collie got open but i threw it too far it crushed my game. He got the ball back I had him 3rd and ten and he threw a screen. I had cover 3 so my guy met him after a nine yard gain but he broke the most redic tackle ever and ran for 50 yards and the win. The game didnt change the seeding and I play him again next, with vengeance in mind. I think played MWF2 and my team won 17 straight games then we lost so I left to go to bed. I played 0 poker.
I have been reading a lot about how these trades in the NBA have ruined the game and the NBA needs to do something about it. Can I please ask why? I don't get it, I rarely watch pro bball until playoffs but if I see a miami, orlando, boston, La, or chicago game on i watch. I mean there is a salary cap and these teams are supposed to be pro. The league has a lot of similiar features to the NFL but u still see different winners of the superbowl basically every year. I mean baseball has been bad or worse then nba because their players move for money at least the basketball players move to win. Not only that but basketball has always been notorius for dynasties, I mean La has had one like 3 times, boston had one insane dynasty and the bulls owned the 90s, I just think now instead of having one powerhouse team we have 5 or 6 and thats good. Sure the bad teams get worse, but the ok teams have gotten really good. It makes the top of the top more competitive which is I think what we all want in the long run. Otherwise should we make a rule that no one that averages double doubles or over 20 points play on a team with another player that does so. How redic. sorry for the rant I have plans for playing more poker tonight will update tomorrow.

Thanks Bung

update

Well last night I had to run a few errands, then played a little call of duty mw2 because black ops sucks, see old post. I played for about 2 hours and I hadn't played in about 3 weeks. I played with 3 friends we played tactical (4v4) and we didnt lose at all. I forgot how good I am at that game especially capture flag and search and destroy. Anyways I played because my girlfriend was over, which means I was free to use the xbox. I played poker for about 45 minutes and realized there a lot of regs in the game already and I was kinda shocked. I played 2 tables, but I was too bored I have to up it to 4 tables tonight to peak my interest. I was bored so I spewed a little too much and lost 10 bucks so Im still up like 88 on the week. Tonight I have to fill out two job aps to school districts. Which fwiw is redic that they are paper apps, most school districts have electronic apps or at least they have me email them the information. But those will take a while and I have to play my madden game for my online season, its the last game, I'm 12-3 with 6 people in the league and the computer is on all-madden which is the hardest difficulty. I play probably the best player tonight and then one of the best the first round of the playoffs because somehow with a 12-4 or 13-3 record im the worst team in the playoffs....stupid tiebreakers. Anyways im gonna play some poker fill out some app then play some madden will update tomorrow, thanks for not reading lol.


Bung

Umm real poker again...yay

As the title says I was able to deposit money into my account and hopefully they dont say in a week there was a processing problem again or I'll be very unhappy about it. So on Saturday I deposited 500 into my account with already having a juicy 9.72 in it I was ready to play some .50 cap plo. I played 2 tables for a total of almost 3 hours this weekend, each session being about an hour and it was fun/profitable. It felt good to have the outcomes of each hand make my heart beat. I earned about 68 vpps during those hours, but way more importantly I won 98 dollars bringing me up to almost 608 dollars. It was a good weekend what can I say, I won 3/4 flips and people would call me down literally drawing dead after the turn. So far I feel like the cap play from these people is awful. I dead see some supernovas and imcastleman which is a bigger stakes sng player usually at my tables. I was at first kind of nervous to play against people who have played so many hand, but then I realized they are playing for the .45 vpps and the 10 dollar cap and playing so many tables they arent focusing too well. I took advantage as best I could of the massive multitablers. Like castle man had 18 tables of plo going and thats ridiculious unless u are the few people who can do that.
Anyways this weekend on fridayI went to a charity rat race thing and then to a bar where I ran into a bunch of old friends, ones I actually like, so that was nice. On Saturday I hung out with a bunch of friends and my girlfriend went out with her friends so I just drank a lot and drinking games til like 4 and slept on a recliner, yuck. Also, I was off yesterday for prez day, and just chilled out and relaxed with my girlfriend. We also went to borders because they were having a closing the store sale which had most books at 20% off, which isnt very much when the books cost 15 its like 3 bucks lame. Then my sister called and said she bought two tvs and needed me to bring them to her condo and set them up. I was happy to do that because I feel I dont often get the chance to really help family and when you do it, it feels really good.
Lastly, (sorry its so long I will update again now that I am playing poker) I had sent in an application to get staked/coached in sngs by the company pocarr, which is run by alex carr, who's blog I love to read when he updates it. Well I sent it in thinking/expecting a no, but I got a yes. I have a few problems now that I should have thought of. #1 I need to buy a new computer to run programs like sngwiz and TN so I am waiting til I do my taxes. #2 I am not sure I'd be able to play over 100 sngs a week at this moment. My current job is a 45 minute drive then im there 8 and a half hours then I drive and hour home (traffic increase). So its over 10 hour days, and if I start dedicating more time to working out which I am not that its almost getting warmer, and continuing having a life I cant play a lot of games. #3 I just started playing plo again and fell in love again (because of the run good im sure).
I feel like I need to say no until june when I work summer school which is half days and get a job that is closer to save me an hour on commute which I could play 10 games or more in. I feel like such an ass for having to say no, and hope I dont miss out on a great opportunity to work with a really good guy.

Thanks bung I will update soon P.S.
If you ever want to see what true grinding is check out this blog
http://theandrewli.blogspot.com/
and type his name into find player, he will be on.

Unhappy

Last week I was pretty happy with poker. I started playing .50 plo 20bb cap game and it was fun, I was winning a little and collecting the vpps. Then I find out the money I had deposited 5 days before never came in because my state no longer excepts echecks. Well the only other option I know of is to get some redic check and send it to some redic adress. I was pissed and said I'll turn my 50 bucks into 500 hundred. lol ya right. I played mad/tilted/got screwed hard. I played a few 45 mans and 90 mans .55c and got screwed so hard. First one of the 45 man I flop and ace with a flush draw he raises on flop I call then turn is blank he raises I go all in, he calls with pocket 8s and catches the miracle not hearted 8, wow. Then I have a good stack on another 45 man im in like 2nd of 17 and a loose player raises from the button I have kk so I reraise he goes all in I call he has aces. He almost had me covered. It was shit like that all night. I need to figure out how to get my 500 back online or I just wish I had stats to be backed so I wouldnt have to go through this depositing bs.

If you have a suggestion email me at pgcxrf@yahoo.com

Thanks bung
Oh ps I have 15 dollars left in my account for the time being, we will see what I can do.

day 1 fail

So I played in the blogger even #2 last night and had two tables of plo .5 going. I played terrible plo, and the stakes were kinda too high for me having 53 dollars, the 5 dollar buy in was rough I lost like 9 dollars in that easy game, bad play/ bad luck on my part. The blogger tourney had like 700 people in it or something and was a complete joke. My table played 21 hands in the first hour, they took forever for preflop no raise folds. I mean maybe they were blogging/ making dinner/ looking at naughty things, whatever it was I was annoyed. I had basically the 3000 chip buy in when this hand happens. I limp in with K10 ss and its me and the blinds. Flop comes two small spades and they checked as did I because I wanted it to seem that I was disinterested. Next card spade, bingo sb raises I reraise he calls, then the spade on river we get all in and he had the Ace of spades, the only card that could beat me. UGh, and I was out like 500th place and a bad night it was. So I played some shortstack (its more fun the deepstack imo) plo .10 with 2 dollar buy ins and won like 2 dollars back, holla. Im thinking about playing some 6-man sngs tonight, I know the minimum is 3.25 but I feel i have such an edge in these I sould be able to give myself a boost. either way bankroll is at 46 and i need a good night tonight.

Thanks bung

A New Challenge

I didnt lose my bankroll, well not really. I had done some withdrawling earlier and then last thursday deposited a certain amount so that I could play the plo .50 with a 20bb cap. Well i got an email this morning telling me that it didnt processes because of some error with e-checks depositing right now or some crap. Either way I have 53 dollars in my account right now and its time to put myself to a challenge. The challenge is to go from 50 dollars to 500 dollars in 50 days. I can play whatever I feel like and if I go bust im gonna play freerolls, im not gonna put more money into the site I decided. Also I have a goal to lose 25 pounds in those same 50 days. I will update the weight challenge either weekly or bi-weekly. Lastly I am going to withdrawal a few hundred from the bank (money I would have spent at pstars) and play live once a week. Probably thursdays, but thats not definite. I will write probably every weekday and not at all on the weekend so look for a bigger update on mondays.

Thanks, Bung

Tying together some loose ends

First of all poker, I played a little this weekend, nothing really to report broke even through like 400 hands. Just getting used to the cap game, its pretty fun. I have 375 vpps this year, I need 750 this month for the stellar 10 dollars (stellar lol) and silver. That means I have 7 days to get to silver. I will get there 100% chance and then next month my goal is to get 3000 vpps. I have never gotten close to it, but its a new game with higher vpps, so I need a loftier goal. The school I work at is doing a biggest loser competition where you weigh in today, 5 weeks from now, and in 10 weeks is the final weigh in. Well I bought and assembled a treadmill 3 weeks ago because Ive noticed I have put on a little wieght after not working out in the park (its a hard workout with a boxing coach) and not going to the gym. I weighed 160 and had a four pack over the summer, I dont work summers teaching rocks, and ever since then my abs have turned into one ab and not in a good way. The scale said I weighed 184 pounds. WTF I have never weighed that ever, I am a muscular short 5"9 dude and have never weighed over 175. So its official Im a fatty. So I am going to take small steps to correct my eating habits, and big steps in working out starting this week. Im actually kinda excited that I weighed so much because I will be so motivated to lose it. I'm a sick person, I will start by no fast food.

Ill give updates on stuff almost everyday.

Thanks bung

Changes

Im gonna be making a few game changes here very soon, febuary to be exact. I am gonna be playing plo .25-.50 10$ cap. Ive already fooled around with it and I like it alot. Obviously variance will be a factor as many hands get to the cap, but the level of play is the same as .5 and also the vpps are way quicker. I will earn around 100 an hour playing 3-4 tables, which means my goals for this year will be different. I will be posting vpp goals instead of money goals, because it will force me to play instead of being a bum. I need to realize that online poker may not be here very long and I need to take advantage of it. I will post more specific goals after this weekend probably, because I have my g/f and mine 5th year annaversary this weekend. With that and football I Will be a busy boy. thanks, bung

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LOL part 2

ugh, im down 50 dollars in 2 days, aka the new year. This blows and makes me once again want to change the type of game I am playing. I have like 1200 fpps, Im gonna play some fpp tourneys to try to win T$. Also, I remember playing some 2 dollar qualifiers for the sunday warm-up that were really soft, like I went 3 for 3 or so in them. I might load some of those up for fun. My goal is to get some T$ and then play some 18 and 45 man tourneys. I wish I was a little better at them, in the past I have been about break even, but maybe I'll get hot just maybe. I feel like most people don't blog when they are swinging downwards, but I kinda like it. I mean yeah I sucked and got sucked out on yesterday, but that makes me wanna play more today to make that money back. Motivate when I run kk into q10 suited and lose to flush. I will play hopefully a lot tonight, I have to workout when I get home.

Thanks bung

ugly night

It's hard to get used to getting up at 530 and working out after work again, so I was tired while I was playing last night. Also, I was distracted and just not playing my a game. I was down like two bucks and I had like 110 bbs going into this hand. I have 810jq double suited and made it .17 to go. I got 3 bet to 35 and I called. I figured he had aces so I planned on cracking then. The flop came 79A rainbow, I checked and he bet pot. I knew he had a set but I was extremely open ended. The turn came jack, so I had the nuts and checked he pots, I go all in he called and river is another 7 for his boat. I should have quit there, but not today instead I went on to lose 3 more buyins and finish down 20 for the worst day of plo for me. Lately I have had a pattern of playing 6-man stts for a day or two while im winning but once I lose I go back to plo and once I have a losing session there I do the same. I like to mix it up to not get burned out. I think I will play some 6mans tonight and try to make some moneys.

Thanks bung

New Year is here

So I had a nice 2 week break from work, and my last day at my second job. During this time I did play a little poker, but not nearly what I wanted. I played a few mttsngs and lost some money, but I made it back via plo and 6-man stts. I ended up making like 5 bucks lol. During this break from work I did work with my dad on rehabing this apartment. A lot of carrying stuff to dumpsters, painting, and removing carpet for me. I made about 700 bucks doing this but I wont get paid for a while from this, which is not a big deal. I did buy a treadmill with funds from christmas, yikes that was not fun putting it together. I also wanted to say that I will be changing my br to 25 buyins to move up and im playing 3 tables. So I am 50 dollars away from going to .10 plo. I will move back down if I lose 5 buyins. So I will try to get there by the end of january. Also, this weekend my friend got shot in the back and elbow leaving a bar in soulard st louis. Its scary to realize what kind of people are out there. Luckily he is going to make a full recovery but its scary still. I plan on playing a couple hundred hands tonight and Ill post results tomorrow.

Thanks Bung