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oh my

that was two hours of sheer frustration.  now i remember how much happier my life is without poker.  and it was all my fault.  which makes it even more clear.  it would take me about 45 hours to clear off the rest of the bonus.  at that rate i’m looking to end up about $1,700 [...]

February 23, 2010   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

what’s my range??

BTIMM:  when you ressurect yourself online as an alter-ego blogger, do let me in on the location.  hitup the “about me” page for an email/msn/skype addy.
CARDS: on the homework front, i’m reviewing hands to see what my range is.  or more specifically, what range of cards do i play profitably. 
probably should’ve been doing monthly recaps [...]

November 26, 2009   Posted in: Cards  One Comment

the joy is in the journey

Long teaching experience has taught me that students say they have read an entire chapter of a book on basic electronics poker, yet cannot remember what they have read.
That’s because getting to the end was the goal, not getting the most out of the reading.
Speed kills. Give your brain time.
this, uh, might describe me a [...]

November 20, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

taking into account . . .

well, i decided that my next post was going to be about cards.  and i’ve written 72 of them that i never pushed publish on, deleting them because they were whines of varying degrees.  the world doesn’t need more of that. 
i had a bundle of frustration over my inability to break through the game and [...]

November 12, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

not quite fifteen

that’s the number of buy-ins that i’m running -EV this month over 15k hands.  i haven’t been able to stop that kind of bleeding, so i’m down for the month.  running even the other day felt like i was walking on water!
for a while on this trip i’d been “trying to play through it”.  because basically, [...]

September 30, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

bonus(es)

well, i haven’t posted because i’ve been busy actually playing cards.  the effects of that 3betting series ran through me, and now i think i’ve digested the proper portion of it, and disposed of the rest.  in the interim i lost a couple bucks during the figuring out stage.  so be it. 
caught a bonus offer [...]

August 15, 2009   Posted in: Cards  2 Comments

friday recap

had a session of cards that started in the early AM of friday (1am) and followed it up with a couple of hours in the afternoon (i know, too long) where i dropped a total of 4BI between them both.  so, before the guys got here to jam i had planned on doing a brief [...]

August 8, 2009   Posted in: Cards  2 Comments

more card removal

last night i got in a session after work (3-4am) and i think it went like this . . . leak, leak, leak, double up, leak, leak, leak, double up, leak, etc.
and the leaks were a mix of “oh, i shouldn’t have done that.  fix that next time” and “i think he’s screwing with me, [...]

August 2, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

do it right or don’t bother to do it

i think i’m still half asleep.  odd one today – i’ve been in and out of sleep a couple of times and now i’d better make a day of it before it all gets away from me.  but first i’m unloading some mental baggage here
i’m playing at Stars $50NL 6 max now.  i [...]

July 29, 2009   Posted in: Cards  One Comment

tale of two sessions

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i played last night for about 80 minutes and at the end of it, here were my thoughts:
i hope to hell it was a case of dropping a little over a buy-in that the poker gods meant to be a 4.5BI loss, but i carved out the fat by dodging bullets. 
in an non-typical night, [...]

July 26, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments