Edit: mean’t to send this out before my trip, but ran out of time. Just deal.
For me anyways. I plan on playing pretty much every event I can under $3k that’s not 2-7 or PLO8 as those games I have very little experience at. I’m getting pretty pumped and while I know I’ve been slacking with only 1-2 blog posts per month so far this year I’ll really try to ramp up the posting when I get out to vegas and start playing some events. My goal is at least one final table. I’m not going to get greedy and say a bracelet or anything like that though obviously this is what I’m gunning for. Gotta take baby steps. Last year was my first wsop cash, and hopefully this year will be my first final table. One thing I’m not sure about is which events to play on days when I want to play both the noon and 5pm tournament. Last year I didn’t have this problem as I had no idea how to play most of the games, but this year for example on June 14th is both the $2.5k 6max nlh and the $1.5k stud8 event. I’m not sure which is better value for me. I’m not baller enough like Ivey to enter both and just get blinded away in one or go play the other one while in breaks from the other one so it will probably be a day of decision for me.
This month has been a rough one for me pokerwise. I’m currently stuck about $31k and feeling pretty good about it actually considering I was stuck almost double this amount at one point. I took a shot at a 250/500 7 game and it went pretty horribly with me losing like $40k in 200 hands or so. In the beginning of the month I was constantly getting hit and ran and running terribly only stuck $10k or so but still playing pretty well, but the tilt just kind of slowly built up over the past month of running bad until finally erupting on that day. I also blame full tilt’s auto top up feature. I highly recommend turning it off when taking a shot at higher stakes than you are used to. I originally went in with a $10k stop loss plan but I nearly hit that after like 10 hands and auto top up makes it hard to keep track of and doesn’t force you to manually reload your stack when you get stacked to give you an opportunity to quit. The first big hand I played and lost was http://weaktight.com/2354167 I’m scooping three way on the turn and on the river I hit one of exactly three 2s left in the deck that leave me getting scooped. Both of my opponents play in this hand is pretty terrible. After this I started tilting and played a bunch of big nlh and plo pots where my opponent made the nuts in big pots and I paid him off and the few times I made big hands or the nuts in the big pots he managed to find a fold on the river. Anyways, I tilted, I played bad, I didn’t keep with my stoploss and I paid for it. I’ve accepted it and am over it.
Since then 7 game has hardly been running so I’ve been kind of lost as to what to grind every day. I feel I’ve always been pretty fearless when taking shots as I always figured I could move down and make it back playing lower but that’s hard to do if games just disappear altogether. I deposited on stars again and busted that account multiple times this month, shocker, (-$4k there) and I’ve been playing some 30/60 stud games and o8, some 2/4 nlh and plo on full tilt and doing well at that. It’s no wonder that so few fish are playing high stakes these days when it’s just so difficult to get a significant amount of money online quickly. I know full tilt won’t accept wire transfers for deposits and on stars I wanted to deposit like $10k but they increase my deposit limits very slowly and basically I just repeatedly bust the $600 or $1000 they let me deposit that day playing with my whole roll on table. Kinda frustrating but it’s the state of online poker right now and just kinda have to deal with it and roll with it. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer now before online poker’s legalized but who knows.
In more interesting, less whiny non poker related news things have been going pretty well. I’ve bought some new things and have some travel coming up. I bought a new couch and computer.
I’m super happy with the couch as it’s really comfortable and easy on my back unlike the last ghetto couches my gf and I had which we got two of for $150. My new computer runs fast, boots up quickly, has loads of hardrive space which was everything I was looking for but moving over all my files, hand histories and setting everything up on it has been a huge pain in the neck.
Tomorrow I’ll be doing some traveling to Indianapolis for my cousin’s wedding. Should be a good time especially cause I got Indy 500 tix for Sunday. I’ve never been to a race before nor do I really know anything about racing I just hope it’s entertaining with maybe a crash or two and I’m not bored after two laps of seeing cars go really fast. May try and get some pics to bring back who knows. I get back on Sunday, then on Tuesday I fly out to vegas to play my first event on Wednesday. Getting pumped just typing about it. Anyone wants to meet up when I get out there shoot me a comment or an e-mail and I’d be glad to.