First Blog In A While

There's the current graph, up above $650, we are going pretty well, we are playing only $5's and $6's at the moment due to a pretty bad run just before the 1,000 game mark but we've decided to start mixing in some $10's and $11's when the BR hits around $850, so another $50 or so because it's hanging around the $800 mark at the moment. I've been using my dads computer downstairs a lot lately because his computer doesn't lag at all so I can play upto 12 tables at once, that's a reason why we have gotten through a bucketload of games since my last blog and also because Pete is starting to play 6 tables at once as well. I didn't play today, instead I thought I'd get myself into the poker domination mood by watching Rounders and High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story, both are awesome poker movies in my opinion and probably two of the best in the genre, it was the first time I've watched Rounders in a little over a year and I almost forgot how much of a bad ass movie it is! It is awesome, I could watch it over and over again. Well tomorrow is the APL State Finals, I am pretty excited about it and I hope I do good and finish top 16 so I can get a seat into the next APL $500,000 event but I will have to play really good and I will have to win my fair share of races as States usually attract a field of around 500 players or so. Rego starts at 9:30am, its a 90 min drive.....so therefore I will have to be awake early which is something I'm not used to haha so I am hoping that doesn't effect my performance during the day. Last night I went down to Ourimbah RSL to play poker in the Texas Hold'Em Poker Australia league and it seems like the guy running it must have read my blog about how bad their structure is because he gave us all an extra 2,000 in chips to start with and then another 2,000 at the break which was pretty cool. Nothing to exciting happened, flopped a flush vs the ace high flush draw vs top pair to win a nice sized pot. Then I bluffed a guy with The Bowdich (6-2) on a board of AK1098, was pretty funny because once the river hit he asked me how many chips I had left, I said 9,200, he cut out 9.200 from his stack and thought for about 30 seconds before faking throwing them in, then he laughed and checked....then I shoved and he folded. I made the final table and I busted in 7th when some young maniac shoved UTG for like 40k? I only had 18k with the blinds at 2k/4k and about to be 3k/6k so I called with A-Q, he had K-J off and turned a K to send me out the door. Well tonight I get my last chance of live poker before State at Woy Woy, I'm picking up Robbie and Benny on the way....that should make it a funny car trip haha. I don't want to name names but the worst player I have ever played against plays at Woy Woy.....online or live, he is the worst I've played against, the thing that makes it really bad is that he acts like he knows what he is doing, he even took a swipe at me on Tuesday at Umina when I called his bet on the river after it was checked down to the river, I had 8's, board rolled out 9-7-7-5-2 no flush possible, I checked to him, he bet like 1.2k into a pot of 2.5k and I called, then he said something along the lines of "big call with 8's with an overcard on the board" and rolled his eyes. I found it pretty funny a few hands before, flop came out KQJ all clubs, the BB shoves for about 2.6k into a pot of 400 and the same guy snap calls with 10-6 off suit with the 10 of clubs (after he limped in in early position) anyway he rivered the Ace of clubs for a Royal Flush and then he started jumping and down as if he accomplished something that involved skill....but anyway, he's a really nice guy. Oh and Pete, after re-watching High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story there is no doubt in my mind that if he were alive today, he would bend Tom Dwan over the poker table and take millions off him before Dwan even knew what happened. Hopefully I will have another blog soon re-capping The State Titles and my heroic win :) haha

Wrestlemania! And Variance Is A Whore!

The graph was looking really good until that spike down that just happened about 45 mins ago. Coinflips are supposed to 50/50 right? Or did they change it to 99/1 recently and I wasn't informed? That's the way it seems anyway. So fucking sickening. And then I played a tiny bit of 1/2 limit because me and Pete are trying to get the Take 2 bonus and its only for ring games. Only played maybe 20 hands? Lost like $30 on one hand with AA, capped pre flop, flops A diamonds 5 diamonds 9 of spades, we cap the flop (remember this, we capped the flop), turns a K of spades and we cap the turn, rivers the J of spades, we cap the river and he shows Q-7 of spades (we capped the flop remember) so he capped the flop with me with a backdoor flush draw......right....and I'm the one losing money? How is that possible?

Well Wrestlemania was on today and the HBK/Taker match lived up to the hype, it was one of the greatest matches I've ever seen. Pretty good show from start to finish.

APL at Gosford RSL was fun last night, had Jason on my table, he's a guy I used to play a lot of home games with back in the day when I first started playing and I haven't seen him in like 8 months or some absurd amount of time so it was good to catch up with him. I had Shell on my table as well which was a load of fun until she cold decked me, I had QJ diamonds, she had A-6 diamonds, three diamonds on board, I paid her off a tiny bit, if it was 95% of the ppl in APL I might have re-raised on the river with the 2nd nuts (K of diamonds was on board) but she never bluffs and she would usually just call there with a small flush. Me and Shell got moved to a new table, I tried a steal from the cut off with about 4 BB's, she wakes up with Aces on the button and busts me, she had aces the hand before as well haha, then I went home and played some SNG's on Tilt and got the BR over $700 for the first time.....but that didn't last long, it's back down to like $640 right now, I played a lot today and only cashed in one....It's really sick how bad I am running with my coinflips at the moment, I have not won a coinflip since Friday where I have had the two over cards....and no, I am not exaggerating one bit, it is so sick, I actually thought I was going to win one today, I had AK of spades, got it all in pre flop V's pocket 9's on the bubble of an $11 turbo, flop is K34 with two spades, he has two red nines....rivers the 9 of clubs obviously. The one that hurt the most was on the bubble of a 27 man SNG, had KK, 3rd in chips, I raised it on the button and the chipleader in the BB who was a total maniac shoved all in, I called, I am never folding KK with like 4 BBs unless a bunch of extreme shorties were about to eat the blinds but there weren't, he had AK, he rivered an Ace, I wanted to kill something. I am hating life at the moment, the SNG grind is making me depressed, it just seems like

it doesn't matter how good I play, here is the basic blue print of my SNGs, I double up early from some moron, play well, enter the bubble as chipleader....then lose 2 or 3 flips and I bubble, that's pretty much it. I am expecting a run soon where I don't lose a flip but I am losing hope after every SNG I play. The really scare thing is, when I have the two overs vs the small pair, they just flop their set, AK vs 7's, flops 796 and I'm drawing stone dead to a split. I really can't do anything but shake my head in disbelief. When I had the upswing last night, I had to get my money in as a massive favorite for my hand to hold, if it was A-10 vs KQ, or 66 vs AK or AQ v 22, I'd lose, it didn't matter which one I held. I had to have the guy utterly dominated. I ran my AA into KK once (felt good to be on the right side of this for once, so far I've ran KK into AA 11 times, spiked a K once. And I've had AA vs their KK three times and they've spiked the K once, just doesn't seem fair but hopefully it evens out in the long run) I am over this variance thing, it just keeps biting me in the ass, if my super run of winning every coinflip for 2 weeks straight doesn't happen soon, I'm going to be angry. Pete's coming over tomorrow and we are going to get through a shitload of SNGs hopefully on his laptop. He better bring my book "Kill Everyone" by Lee Nelson, I think I need a re-read of it. But him bringing the book tomorrow is about as likely as Shane Neumann winning the Dally M Medal. He is the worst player I have ever seen, Newcastle had the perfect game plan.....run at Shane Neumann! Every time they did they made a break or scored a tried, it was very frustrating to watch, ah well, Manly gets some players back next week verse the Tigers and if we don't win that match.....I will be a bit scared.