A few things that have been on my mind lately
poker: going well so far. 600NL is very swingy, I’ve been down as much as $2k this month up as high as $5k, now I’m at about $4k. One thing I have noticed is that I REALLY have to adjust my play to the players around me at the table. Some players I will 3bet ATo all day long and others I will throw away AJo to their raise.
poker film: if you haven’t watched it yet you can at http://www.thepokerfilm.com/ To be honest I was a little disappointed in it. In part one and the intro there was a lot of poker talk and interviews but parts 2-5 were more about their party and drinking bet. Don’t get me wrong a $10k drinking bet is exciting, I just would have liked more interviews and drunken 200/400 🙂
poker opportunity cost: I looked up my hourly rate in ptracker since October first and it was $188/hr(Only over 26k hands or so). This was kinda sick and all I can think about during boring class where I’m not learning anything, group meetings that are wasting my time, or even people calling me to talk or whatever is “do you know how much my time is worth?” Obv I don’t actually say this(pretty much no one in real life knows how much $$ I gamble with) but it’s what I find myself thinking a lot. Check out law school dropout’s poker blog for a sweet entry on POC. Its pretty good. I spent a whole night reading his blog one time and found the whole thing very intriguing. If anyone knows what he’s up to nowadays I’d be really interested.
my future: I graduate in December and I really have no idea what I’m going to be doing. I interviewed with a trading firm about a week ago and still haven’t heard back. I’m interviewing with Allstate insurance Friday in Northbrook, IL. I don’t even know if I would take a full time position if I were given an offer. Some ppl say, well if you work you can still play poker on the side, but I don’t want to go through my whole life wondering “what if I devoted myself fulltime to poker what could I accomplish?” I’m seriously considering just being bum poker player for a year or so after I graduate and seeing what happens. If you are interested in renting out a place for a year or so and looking for roommates starting in January let me know I might be interested.
Now for some hands and funny vids.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1677241
Sweet bluff pickoff by me. His flop check behind is what gave him away here. I’m pretty confident on the turn he has a draw of some sort and the river he pretty much has to have Axd or 67 for me to be behind. After the hand I LOL’d at his comment
sweaterfee: pair of fives you got the hole card info
Sometimes I run into the nuts here, but I like the call overall.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1677249
Here’s a hand where I after the villain limpcalled PF I was pretty confident he had a small PP. I forget his exact preflop numbers but it gave it away and his timing on the flop call gave it away too. On the turn the bet is by no way standard but I pretty much manipulated him into getting his stack in there and I was pretty confident when I called that I was ahead.
If you don’t read http://www.digg.com you should. It has some really interesting stuff on there and I waste a good 45 mins a day there at least looking at things like pictures of the most loyal dog ever
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1774718
Here’s a video of the absolute best prank I have ever seen. It’s a little old, so you may have already seen it but man is it good. I can’t wait til prank 7 in the prank war, I really don’t see how this can be topped.