Damn, has been too long. Guess I should update everyone. I am finally home and have been home for almost 2 weeks straight without having to go anywhere (except for those trips to the DRs office to get my broken finger looked at, more on that to come). Anyways, I am back to playing poker, and trying to make this a profitable run (more on that in a bit also). Other than that, I am not planning any more trips until mid-late summer/early fall. So hopefully I can get some games in and maybe we will get the shop finished so that I can start on my personal home poker table.
On to the poker. I am in the middle of another month long BAP/HEEB. The last one didn't go too well but it finished with a bang, so I was hoping that that momentum would carry over, wrong. I had 1 day in the positive then proceeded to go on a downfall. Just seemed that I couldn't get a key/pivotal hand to hold for me, which was resulting in more money going out than coming in. I took a sweat session with Herschelw and learned alot. The hard part was to find a way to put it into my game. One of the things that he said and then I again read in USCphildo's Blog (this was a recommendation by Herschlw) and that was that you should ask yourself what are you trying to accomplish with your actions? I started to question myself in this way, and also opened my game up quite a bit in my EP-MP game. This in turn caused me to be involved in many more hands with cards that I would usually never play but in LP unopened hands, but the advantage was that it also meant that I was involved with more hands that my opponents would not put me on, so I was able to get more chips when I did hit. Another addition to my game is the semi-bluff, this is something that I had not utilized to my advantage in the past, and have been really working on honing my skills in this so that I can better utilize it against my opponents. As with the playing a bigger range of hands, the semi-bluffing has also allowed me to trick my opponents into thinking I am not holding as strong of a hand as I am representing, and has started resulting in me getting stacked, rather than just getting a few chips. As with anything in poker, it is an ever changing game, and you can never learn/know everything. Over the next few months I am going to be really emphasizing on improving my game in any way that I can. Wether it be reading, ghosting, or joining a poker training site (which I probably will be doing pretty soon since Herschelw, USCphildo, and a few others will be joining forces in a new poker training/coaching site that will have the normal poker videos, poker articles, but will have the addition of a few other key things that I will not comment on until they open up for business the first part of June.
Off to my finger, what can I say? I took a bad beat, hit the chair, broke a bone in my hand just beyond the first knuckle on my pinky of my right hand. This happened on a Saturday, 3 hours later was in the ER getting x-Rayed, Tuesday was an appointment with my regular doctor, then Wednesday it was the orthopedic doctor, who said they can't cast it (because of my ring finger being so screwed up because of my arthritis), so the best they could do was buddy tape it and that I need to come back in about 2 weeks. So now I am not able to use my right hand very much, but I am getting by.
This weekend I will be smoking my first brisket and ribs. This is going to be fun for me, and I have already started getting things ready. We had to special order our brisket, but I already have the ribs in the fridge with a home-made dry rub already on it and soaking in (never ever ever dredge your ribs, they should always be dry, even during the cooking process). I am going to be making some homemade potato salad also, and throw some chicken on also at the last minute. Should be a great feast for Sunday for me to watch the Races (both indy and nascar).
Well, I think this has been a good update for everyone. I will do my best to give another update within the next few weeks.
GL to all on the tables,
Merch
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Finally a win, and my 24 hour marathon BAP.
Long time no write because I didn't care to write about the nasty beats that I have been taking. My month long BAP turned into a Month and a half long BAP because I was down at the end of the month. We planed on playing it for 14 more days or until profit was hit. I proceeded to get tortured on the tables and going into the last day I was down close to $300. I hit the tables and managed a min cash in a tourney on PS before I finally hit a FT and won a tourney.
It was a $2.25 180 man on FTP, I got to the FT sitting really low and was sitting 8/8 when I hit my card rush. In 2 hands I moved from being in last to holding a nice chip lead. With me sitting 1/7 I doubled up a shortie when he hit an Ace on the river, but I kept my head in the game and continued to grind it out. When we got down to 4 play because really tight, and there was a lot of raise and win the pot hands. We finally got to 3 handed and I busted 3rd place out when we got our chips in the middle with me holding 99 and him holding K9, he didn't improve and we were HU. Heads-up play was a little slow to start but it picked up quickly. With me sitting on 60k chips and the other guy with 205k I get dealt K8o, the blinds were 2k/4k and I limped into the pot. The flop came Kd5s7s, the other guy min-raises (which he had been doing alot of on flops) so I raised into him making it 20k. He just flat called me. The turn was my bingo card, the 8h, he checks to me and I push it in the middle, he calls and flips over 3s2s for a flush draw. He didn't catch on the river and I scoop up a 129k pot. It's a new ball game now.
A few hands later I get dealt 99 in the BB. The other player limps into me for 2.5k and I raise to 20k, he pushes his stack of 157k into the middle and I call with my 100k stack. He flips over AhTh and he doesn't catch and I take over the chip lead and all by cripple my opponent. A few hands later I get 99 again this time in the SB, I raise it up 20k and he shoves his remaining 50k into the pot and I call him. He flips over 4h2h and he doesn't catch and I take the win.
This really made me feel great and get some trust back into my game. And it proved to me that being patient and choosing your time to make your move does work and that my instincts are right most of the time.
Well that is enough for now, I hope to be writing about more of these wins here in the near future.
For anyone interested, check out my 24 hour marathon BAP, this should be a fun one.
My 24 hour Marathon BAP, 61 games starting at noon and finishing the next day at noon.
Until next time,
Merch
It was a $2.25 180 man on FTP, I got to the FT sitting really low and was sitting 8/8 when I hit my card rush. In 2 hands I moved from being in last to holding a nice chip lead. With me sitting 1/7 I doubled up a shortie when he hit an Ace on the river, but I kept my head in the game and continued to grind it out. When we got down to 4 play because really tight, and there was a lot of raise and win the pot hands. We finally got to 3 handed and I busted 3rd place out when we got our chips in the middle with me holding 99 and him holding K9, he didn't improve and we were HU. Heads-up play was a little slow to start but it picked up quickly. With me sitting on 60k chips and the other guy with 205k I get dealt K8o, the blinds were 2k/4k and I limped into the pot. The flop came Kd5s7s, the other guy min-raises (which he had been doing alot of on flops) so I raised into him making it 20k. He just flat called me. The turn was my bingo card, the 8h, he checks to me and I push it in the middle, he calls and flips over 3s2s for a flush draw. He didn't catch on the river and I scoop up a 129k pot. It's a new ball game now.
A few hands later I get dealt 99 in the BB. The other player limps into me for 2.5k and I raise to 20k, he pushes his stack of 157k into the middle and I call with my 100k stack. He flips over AhTh and he doesn't catch and I take over the chip lead and all by cripple my opponent. A few hands later I get 99 again this time in the SB, I raise it up 20k and he shoves his remaining 50k into the pot and I call him. He flips over 4h2h and he doesn't catch and I take the win.
This really made me feel great and get some trust back into my game. And it proved to me that being patient and choosing your time to make your move does work and that my instincts are right most of the time.
Well that is enough for now, I hope to be writing about more of these wins here in the near future.
For anyone interested, check out my 24 hour marathon BAP, this should be a fun one.
My 24 hour Marathon BAP, 61 games starting at noon and finishing the next day at noon.
Until next time,
Merch
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Update time
Quick update on all things on my side. I am still running this month long stake and am up about $30 right now. I am getting semi-deep in some tourneys, just can't crack the middle money mark and get to the FT.
My schedule has been these tourneys lately:
On PS:
$5.50 5k Guar @ 1300
$11.00 2k Guar @ 1900
On FTP:
$6.00 Early Daily Double A
$6.00 Early Daily Double B
$1.00 Re-buy
The 2 tourneys on PS both have 3k starting chips and have 15 min levels, which seems to work rather well for my game.
I have double cashed the Early Daily Doubles twice so far in the last month, and they start with 2k in chips.
I have managed to get semi-deep in the $1 re-buy the last 2 days with a 51st and 40th place finish. Last night I got knocked out in a hand that would have given me a top 10 stack. I was on the button and got dealt JJ with around 30k in chips, it folded to me and I raised to 6500 (the blinds were 1000/2000). SB folded and the BB raised it up (which I expected, since he probably saw my raise on the button as a steal) to 30k, which puts me all in. I call and he flips over AQ. Flop comes 8A8 and I didn't improve from there. I feel that I am going to FT and possibly win this tourney sometime in the near future, even with my first hour tables playing really tight and me only being able to get out of that first hour with around 4k in chips the last 2 nights, I have still managed to get as deep as I have.
Well, that is about it for now. I am still in Texas spending time with my grandmother in her last few days/weeks. I am going to have to get back to Tennessee sometime in the near future to meet up with a lawyer to put in my next appeal for my disability claim, the next step is a hearing. Hopefully things will work out. I also started on a new drug which has started to give me a more better days bad days. But I still am not in any condition to return to work.
GL to all on the felt,
Merch
My schedule has been these tourneys lately:
On PS:
$5.50 5k Guar @ 1300
$11.00 2k Guar @ 1900
On FTP:
$6.00 Early Daily Double A
$6.00 Early Daily Double B
$1.00 Re-buy
The 2 tourneys on PS both have 3k starting chips and have 15 min levels, which seems to work rather well for my game.
I have double cashed the Early Daily Doubles twice so far in the last month, and they start with 2k in chips.
I have managed to get semi-deep in the $1 re-buy the last 2 days with a 51st and 40th place finish. Last night I got knocked out in a hand that would have given me a top 10 stack. I was on the button and got dealt JJ with around 30k in chips, it folded to me and I raised to 6500 (the blinds were 1000/2000). SB folded and the BB raised it up (which I expected, since he probably saw my raise on the button as a steal) to 30k, which puts me all in. I call and he flips over AQ. Flop comes 8A8 and I didn't improve from there. I feel that I am going to FT and possibly win this tourney sometime in the near future, even with my first hour tables playing really tight and me only being able to get out of that first hour with around 4k in chips the last 2 nights, I have still managed to get as deep as I have.
Well, that is about it for now. I am still in Texas spending time with my grandmother in her last few days/weeks. I am going to have to get back to Tennessee sometime in the near future to meet up with a lawyer to put in my next appeal for my disability claim, the next step is a hearing. Hopefully things will work out. I also started on a new drug which has started to give me a more better days bad days. But I still am not in any condition to return to work.
GL to all on the felt,
Merch
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