new blog

Since i signed up with Cardrunners, they have their own blog, and so im using that blog from now on, this blog is pretty much toast. I'll leave it up for a while though, for those of u who read it, there might be 2 or 3 of u lol

anyways here is the link to the new blog.

Treble Hooks Cardrunners Blog

sunday night

i run so bad, im down 1500, and i couldnt catch a break no where, was down 1500 at once, then all i needed to break even was 100 $ and then here comes the bad shiet again, so frustrating im off.

Friday

Im very tired, its late, and I didnt play any cards today, i will probably play tomorrow night, we'll see.

2 Day Break

$1/$2 NL

After Tuesdays long session, and loosing 5 buy ins, i figured it would be best to study the hands that i played along with take a few days off, and so yesterday (weds.) and today ive decided to give it a break, and come back strong probably Friday, with a small chance of playing tonight. Other then that i've just been taking it easy and just doin w/e. Anyways im off here till tomorrow...ttyl.

Tuesday

$1/$2 NL

Longest session i've ever played, 5,500 hands or so, with one intermission, first part of the session i played really well, and ran terrible, I had trouble getting hands to hold up, when the money was all in, and along with that, i got delt QQ to AA for a buy in, all in on flop, i got flush over flushed, w/e u can think of it happen, and it wasn't my day, and i ended up DOWN $1,000, i feel like i been complaining alot, which i shouldn't, but yesterday was just sick, what can i say. Weds (today) i'm not to sure if i am going to play or not, I'm going to review my hands from yesterday and try to figure out what I could have done better, but i started making some calls later in the session, that i normally wouldnt make, and i just need to stay on top of my game no matter what, variance is somethin u just gotta ride out, and thats what im working on, hopefully when i play next, it goes a little better for me, but anyways im off here, might play some soon.

Monday

$1/$2 NL

Typical Monday for work, but it wasn't that bad, and was home by like 4:00 P.M.
Went and ate Chill's with the friends, you just can't beat that place.

I did manage to get in around 800 hands and won about $400 . I'm playing tomorrow for sure, and I'm tired, and its time for bed so I'm out.

blah

today i played cards, 3,800 hands up 50 bux, i couldnt catch a break for nothin, i couldnt seem to get my cards to hold up when all the money was in the pot, and it was very frusrating, im done for the day, i'll play again tomorrow, peace.

"Good Luck Chuck"

$1/$2 NL

Today, I slept in, then got up an around, and headed up to my Uncle Ronnie's shop, to help out my dad and my Uncle Marty, work on an engine swap, for my Uncle Rock hahaha, so many uncles. After that, I went home and cleaned up, and Tyler, I, Hung, and another buddy S kyler went to watch "Good Luck Chuck" , which was a decent movie, and some parts were just hilarious. After that , got home and decided to play some cards.

The Session was like Up $200, down $300, down $400, down $570, then up $110 lol.

I got up nice the first part of the session, a guy had limped and i raised it up with JJ, flop come JJ8, and the guy had j8, took his chips, couldnt have asked for a better flop. Then after that I had a nice stack on that same table, and i flopped top set , i had QQ on a 3 spade flop, and I got it all in verse a flopped flush, and the board didnt pair for a $670 pot. After that happen, i just started loosing a ton of medium sized pots due mainly to bad turn cards, basically ran bad. Pretty soon I have 66, guy limps under the gun, i raise it up, guy in the cutoff calls, small and big blind fold and the utg guy re raises me, it was like $30 total or somethin like that, 21 more ontop of my original raise, and we were both really deep, so i call, and the guy in the cutoff calls as well.. flop comes 662, i flopped quads, utg guy bets pot, $100 somethin, i call, guy in cutoff calls, he has 22, cooler for him, the turn is a 7, utg checks, i bet really small like $55 , so i could get all his chips in the middle and he raised me for like $100 more or somethin, for an $810 pot. AFter that pot I went on like a mini rush, and won a few more hands which got me back up.

I'm tired and I'm off for the night, its 2:45 a.m. in the morning, bed time, i'll play tomorrow.

$110

Friday

$1/$2 NL

Today, got off work early, and basically chilled all night. I decided to play some cards, and got in almost 700 hands, and was up a little bit over a buy in. I had to fight all the donkeys making hands on me, but other then that I can't complain. Anyways I'm off for the night, will probably play tomorrow, peace.

+$220

thursday

fair

no cards

might play tomorrow :]

Butter Fingers

$1/$2 NL

Today we got to work, had an easy day, and was off about 3:00 P.M. We ate lunch at Wendy's today, which is one of my favorite fast food places. I ordered my meal and my dads, was carrying the tray over to the counter to get some napkins/straws/ect. I had ordered a spicy chicken sandwich and 2 of there 99cent chicken nuggets, and dad got like a #2 or something. On my way over to the table to sit down and eat, some one box of my nuggets jumped off my tray and went all over the floor, all 5 or 6 of them hahaha, i justed picked them up and threw them away, and after eating what I had left I was full anyway. I think there was only a couple people who seen it, but if I was them I would have been laughin !

Anyways as far as Poker goes, I played around 1,100 hands, and played well I believe. I check raised all in in a re raise pot with As Qx on a 3 spade flop, and was unfortunate to run into a flopped Q high flush, for a $400 pot. I snapped off a few donkeys here and there, picked up some decent pots, and actually ended up winning $150, and as far as the month goes I'm up $1,700, with 10 days left to go, I can do some damage, if I stay on top of my game. In order to make it to $2/$4 nl, which is my goal, I need to win around $2,200, so we'll see what happens.

I'm off for the night, gunna get some rest, tomorrow I plan on going to the fair for the 2nd time, except this time might ride some rides, who knows. I might not get any hands in tomorrow, maybe. Good nite.

+$150

Tuesday

$1/$2 NL

I'm lazy and I'm tired, but I got in like 1,100 hands or so, and won $400

Ship.

Losing $900 pots :[

$1/$2 NL

Today went great at work, and we were off by 2:00 P.M. Made it home and chilled out for a while, cleaned up the truck, went to wall-mart and a few other places, and fired up the tables to play some cards.

Something I was talking about in a previous blog post, was when I was playing, not to look at poker tracker, the program that logs my hands, and just play and play, until I decided to stop. I did really well today with that, I opened poker tracker, and decided not to look at it until I was done. I started playing around 8:00 and planned to play till 10:00, everything was going great, I was playing good, and then around 9:55 P.M. or so, just when i was getting ready to close up the tables, I lose a $900 + pot, which was just gross, and I should have folded the river, but I just couldn't see him having what he did, after that I shut the tables off and got me something to eat, now I'm writing this blog post.

Before I say how the hand went down, we both had over $440 at the table, and I had notes on this guy, where i had re raised him pre-flop, and he had called my continuation bet on a flop of 10 5 2 with 9's, and the turn and river went check check. So this pot, he raises UTG and I 3 bet him to $26 on the button in this 5 handed game, and the small and big blind fold. The flop is 222, guy checks and I bet $45 into $55, and I get called, turn is a 7, he checks and i bet $100 into $145, thinking he has some pair lower Queens , the guy calls, so I'm thinking now he has to have an over pair, and obviously he isn't folding, the river is an A, and he donk shuvs his last $295 into like $395, I couldn't see how on earth this guy could have an A, i figure if he doesnt go away on the flop with AK, he atleast goes away with the bet i make on the turn, and i think this was definately a good card for him to bluff all in with, especially from his perspective, he is probably thinking theres no way i can call with KK QQ , and he can take the pot away with his pair, is what i was thinking, so I make the call and he turns over AK for $900 + pot, nice hand sir. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1493470

I'll be back in the game tomorrow.

-$350

Above is a picture of the truck after I cleaned it earlier

Fair

$1/$2 NL

First thing today, Tyler and I met up with my cousin Jeff and his wife Terrie to go to the fair around 1:00 P.M. or so. We stayed out there for a while, basically walked around and checked out some of the concept cars they had, and not much of anything else. It was fun I guess, but it was just way to hot and miserable. When we made it back home, decided it was time to eat something good so we went up to Chilli's. Also decided that it would be cool to go see "Mr. Woodcock" , in which we did and it was pretty funny. But after all its finally nice to be back to the house chillin, and rest a little bit before work tomorrow.

As far as poker goes, tonight I didn't play a lot, I got in around 400 hands and won a little over a buy in. I would have played more, but theres one thing I can't stand , and thats being stuck for a session, and it drives me to play better and long hours until I break even, which is a bad habit I have, and is something else I need to work on. So I decided to stop after 400 hands, which gives me time to chill out a bit before bed and do w/e.

Starting this month, Tyler and I had been talking about wanting a sport bike for a while, something like a 2007 yamaha R6 or maybe some Suzuki, but we realized it's basically to late this year to get anything like that and have time to ride. So having that in mind, I set a goal through playing cards, by the time February-March gets here, I can have $10,000 saved up for a sport bike, and pay cash for a new one that I want, and Tyler will get one to. But the deal is, every month including this month, I'm putting $500 back from the rakeback that I earn each month, which will be about $3,000 time that gets here, and for every $4000 that I win, I'm pulling out $1000, so basically 25 % of my profits. So basically I need to make around $28,000 by the time march or so gets here, which is something I look forward to. So having said that, I should be playing quite a bit of cards between now Feb-March.

In the meantime, I'm still trying to work my way up to $2/$4 NL. When I first started playing $1/$2 NL and all the other limits, I made sure I had a solid 25 buy ins for the limit that I was playing, but It's different as you go up in stakes. In order to play $2/$4 NL.... I'd much rather have a more solid bankroll, so I've decided to play $1/$2 NL until I get to around $15,000, which I'm not to far from. Right now I have $12,500 so, $2,500 more and I can take a shot. Another one of my goals for a few weeks back was to be able to play some $2/$4 NL by the 1st of October, and If I can keep playing well this month, It can happen and I look forward to playing in a bigger game. Got to keep my head focused and keep playing well, and stay on top of ways to improve.

Anyways It's time to chill, I'll be playing tomorrow, and I'm OUT.

+210

Saturday

$1/$2 nl

Saturday I got up and around, had lunch with the Uncle and Dad. Got home and got settled in, for one of the longest sessions i've ever played, i played like 4,200 hands, was down like $1,020 at one time, and ended up coming back and winning like $50 bux. I broke even and was ready to go to bed. I'm getting ready to go to the fair though, If I have time i'll play some tonight

Friday

1000 hands= Up $40

Wednesday and Thurs

$1/ $2 NL

Wednesday = UP $250

Thursday = UP $50

playing again tomorrow.

Tues.

$1/$2 NL

Short and sweet. I got in 1,400 hands or so, i was steamed quite a bit, down $600, made a come back, broke even and actually won like $25, on scale from 1-10 i played about an 7, i would have played a 10 but i stacked off with KK on an A highboard to this one guy for a $200 pot, when i didnt see how he could have AK after checking the flop,owell, happens, i'll be back in the game tomorrow after work, im off to bed

+$25

Monday

$1/$2 NL

Absolutely didn't want to get out of bed this morning. Got up and took sis to school, came home and took mom to doctor to get her arm checked on from her surgery, and when I got home it was around 9:30 A.M. or so, and then I was off to work. It wasn't to bad today, didn't have a whole lot going on, just enough to get us done around 2:30 or so, and even though the day was short, still was nice to be home. I went to eat Boomerang with Tyler and Hung, which wasn't to bad, then it was back to the house to play some cards.

I didn't play a lot today, due to the fact I had some other things to take care of but I got close to 900 hands in, which isn't to bad, but nothing to brag about. Session went well and managed to pick up a little over 1.5 buy ins. There was one hand where I tried to run a play on a guy and it goes as follows..... Folds to my button and I raise it up with 99, a regular in the big blind re raised me so i called to see a flop, he bet out like $35 or so into $50, on an A24 flop, I called, intending to make a move on the turn if checked to me......turn was an 8, he checks to me, I made a bet of like $55 into like $120 or so, figuring he folds hands anywhere from 10's to K's, and the only hand I see him proceeding which is AK, and he check raised me all in......I had to fold, but i still stand by my play here. A play that ran bad, but I think I get him to fold enough in this spot to make it profitable. I'm gunna get off here and chill for a while before I go to bed, I'll play some tomorrow, peace.

+$350

EXHAUSTED

$1/$2 NL

Im very very tired right now, its 1:30 A.M. in the morning, gotta get up and take sis to school at 7:30, so I'm off to sleep. I played about 1,800 hands in poker today, ran pretty bad I would say, and played very well, and still ended up about 1.5 buy ins. I would post some hands but I'm lazy and tired, and I plan on playing at minimum 1k hands tonight (Monday). Good night.

+$300