$3 into $800+

I finall made a good cash last night....In just over 7 hours I turned my $3+.30 buy-in into $807.25...I feel pretty good about it....The tourney started with a rediculous 3215 people and I outlasted 3211 down to 4th place...I should have done better than 4th though, but I did however make more money in the tourney than anyone else. When we got down to 6, we chopped it by chip count and I was in first with a little more than $1 mil in chips, so I agreed to $807.25 and we left $100 for the winner...I played super aggressive after the deal and went out in 4th...actual 4th place money was only $453, so the deal was pretty damn awesome. And what makes this even better is yest. only had $3.55 left in my account and was going to have to make a deposit, and I almost played a small SNG to burn time, but deicded to try and grind my way through 3200 people. It payed off and is my biggest tournament cash thus far and longest I have ever played str8....So hopefully I can keep this up, these good finishes, and cash big soon...I don't like the variance on Stars tournies, but its unavoidable...So I will continue to grind it out....

When the tournament ended, you were automatically credited with the official 4th place payout of $453.32.The difference between this amount and the amount to which you agreedin the deal is $353.93, and this amount has been credited to your account.You will find this transaction in the cashier history at this time.

I am going to play a lot over the next couple of days, will update soon...Late

One day...

Well, this is just a post, b/c I am a dork and daily I read many,many blogs of the high-rollin cats that are more or less "online pros"....Its just crazy to think that they started out just like I did, most of the ones that have had big results in MTTS and what not, started off with a little bitty bankroll playing SNGs and low-limit cash games...Now they are spending $3-5k a day in tournament buy-ins and playing $10/20NL and $100/$200 limit games with a bankroll I cannot fathom..

But for any of you reading this that care, I found a site this morning that is a "buzz" index of the Top online players...I think this is a ranking system based on results people know about, who they see the most in blogs, and also a Google hit counter, which it shows on the side...Meaning how many times they have been googled in a certain amount of time...I read DoubleAs blog daily and this site came from his...TiltBoy's Online Player Index...this is basically a whos who in the online poker world, I has the majority of the big players...

Also wanted to drop a note for some of the other blogs that I read...Its just cool as hell to get a insight into the High limit online life....And most of them are very accomplished in live tourneys as well...First, will start with Chris Fargis who recently took down the $2k Triple Draw Lowball event at the WSOP Circuit in Tunica...

I am going to try and figure out how to list the good blogs down the sidebar of my site, but I just haven't even tried yet, but I will try to get it soon, and you all can start checkin these out...

But look at ZeeJustin, Matt Matros, Nord's Poker, DNA4ever, StealTheBlinds, N 82 50 24's Blog(Good picture blog with pics of a few of the top online players..)...

New York Hack...this is younger woman Cab-drivers blog about driving a taxi in NYC and all the shit that goes with it...good blog, lots of photos....check it out

So theres more, but I was just really bored a work, and figured that this would be a good post that I should have already made, so check it out...

Maybe after I take down the Sunday on Stars I will be a blog people are reading....I doubt it....Late


Tip of the Day:

"It is in the nature of professional or tough high-stakes poker games that it is mathematically correct to fold a lot of hands right away. If you are playing too many hands (which equates to too many bad hands) in a tough poker game, you will often find yourself “drawing mighty thin”; that is, trying to win by catching particular cards that are in short supply."

Nothing Exciting...

I know it has been a long time since I have reported on here about poker, or about anything...Over a week to be precise...But simply, nothing has really been happening...I have been playing some low buy-in SNGs the last couple of nights b/c bills have really been kickin me in the nuts the last couple of weeks and I am forced to play with only what I currently have on there, which is miniscule...I have had moderate success in my SNGs so far this week though, I am 9 for 12 as far as cashes go, with a few firsts. I am trying to take a break from what used to be my bread and butter online...The Limit cash games...All of the serious money I have made was in these, but they have not bad good lately, and I am trying to re-evaluate my play and figure out whats wrong...B/C back in the early fall, for about 3 months I was dominating them, and was turning a great hourly rate at the tables, but lately it has not been so....So I have been going over hand histories from then and comparing them to recent and tryin to figure out what in the hell I'm screwin up.

Played the $5+.50 Quadruple Shoot-Out w/ Replay on Stars last night...Dominated my first table to get heads-up only to lose on some bad calls and throw it all away. I like this tourney b/c you are playing against your table and thats it...and the Replay would be cool if I ever made the final table..Stars replays the final table with everyone's cards face-up at a later date, which is kinda cool, b/c you get a small insight to what final table poker is about, and get to see how people play....

Will continue grindin it out in the SNGs tonight and probably play a low buy-in MTT and probably the $3+.30 rebuy which is always fun...I'm out...Late

Big Sunday Tourney...

Well, I finally did it...I won a seat in the Big Sunday tourney on Stars through a FPP satellite...It was a 400 FPP + Rebuys Turbo Sat. There were a 158 people with quite a few rebuys and add-ons, and there were 11 total seats at $215 a piece given away and 12th place got 6200 FPPs....I rebought at the very beginning before the tourney even started and began with 2000 chips, b/c you only started with 100, I guess b/c it was a Turbo...Well, I doubled through another 2000 stack on like the 2nd hand, and that propelled me to do good the whole time...I was in the Top 15 for the entire tourney...I got down low one time when it started getting close to the money, but most people were scared and just folded everything and I took advantage of that..But I did finish in 1st place...Techincally, the whole top 11 got 1st, but I have the most chips when it ended, with over 80k....So im glad to have done this, and will prob do this same satellite again...But I don't know if want to play in the Sunday tourney and just spend the whole $215 or unregister and use that $215 for a bunch of other smaller tourneys...I have always wanted to play in the Sunday...i mean thats where dreams come true if you will....We are talking $145 - $170,000 for first place....Some serious money, some life changing shit, So, I don't know what I am going to do, I have until Sunday to make up my mind, so I will get it figured out...Just on Sunday, the fields are so big(3000 +) and most of the "online pros" play in this one on Stars...So I dont know...But I will let you know....Late

FPP and FCP Charter Member Sats.

Well, not much happening...If you read my last blog, I am a little upset with pokerin general...Having a beat put on you that bad, that far-fetched, for your whole bankroll can be a little deameaning to one's character...I realize that I shouldn't have been playing $1/$2 NL with only $171 bankroll, atleast according to "proper bankroll management", but I don't care...I don't use the theories of proper bankroll management, b/c I don't really have a bankroll...I am more than capable of playing 1/2 NL and lots higher...I just get started with what I have, and try to make a move, not grind it out at micro limits...and once I have a "little" padding in my bankroll, then I will start to manage it better, and play more appropriate limits...

Anywayz, last night I played a short while in a FCP charter member freeroll satellite. Top 40 got a seat in the Next round, which eventually leads to someone, a single person, gettin to fly out to Vegas for a week and have private lessons with Daniel Neagreanu and he will stake you in a couple of major tourneys and take you "under his wing" I think is how they put it...Which would have been tight, except for that I went out in 112th place...I also played some FPP satellites on Stars for the $215 Sunday and EPT Monte Carlo tourneys...I didn't ever get anywhere in them either...I think I am going to try to take a small break from online poker before I try and make my next deposit...I need to clear my head a little, and let that beat dissapear from my mind....So until then, look for something from Nate Dogg, I will update as soon as I make a deposit, who knows how long that will be? Prob not very long...LATE

Seriously?!?!?!?

Ok, as I write this update, I am also crying, not crying.....but last night couldn't have went much worse. Not the whole night though, just the ending, the majority or the night I had a nice session and just kept grinding my stack up and up....until.............THE $1/$2 NL TABLE!!! Ok, I will start with what a good night I was having thus far....First of all, Congrats again to my boy Nate for taking down 1st in the $20+2 MTT on stars Sunday night..and thats where this story starts....Nate was kind enough(evidently ignorant enuf) to shoot me $100 out of his 3k to stake me, although it wasn't much out of what he won, it is still $100 and the thought of it...So I spent Monday night grinding in MTTs, SNGs, and mostly limit ring games, and broke pretty much even for the night...to last night....I started off with a big downswing to about $44 at the limit games, so I quit those and decided to slow it down with a couple of MTTs...I hopped in the $3+.30 + Rebuys first and decided to play on a One rebuy and one addon budget...I started off the tourney crazy pushing on the first hand with A10....against KQ, but caught two pair to double up to T6000 and then the very next hand I get AA and push from the Big blind and get one caller and get up to T9000, so in 7 minutes and I jump to 5th out of a trillion....But that went downhill...I was being very pushy, taking down blinds almost every hand, you know, playing big stack poker, and then got my 10 10 called by A7o....and of course he spiked and Ace...

Then I moved to a $5+.50 PL Omaha MTT... I like to play Omaha and bettter my skills at the game, but to make a long story short....lasted til sometime after the 1st break and got busted...so then its back to the Limit ring games...finally some luck, or cards, or perhaps just good playing on my behalf...but I grind my stack up to about $110 over about an hours time....

So I start getting bored with the LHE games and you aren't supposed to play if it feels like a "grind" only, so I decide to give a shot at $1/2 NL....I sit down with my whole stack and play good for about 30 minutes and get it up to precisely $171 when a nightmare of a hand comes along....

AdAs....A guy in EP who has been aggressive all night raises to $6 and I know I have him beat so I make it $12, he calls....Flop comes Js Ah 9s....i flop top set, the only thing I am worried about it the flush draw and maybe the open-ended str8 draw if he held Q10....but he checks to me, and I shoot $20 to see where hes at and semi-protect my hand....He calls....Turn comes the Jc...This is my money card bitches...yeh!...Full boat...Aces over Jacks, and he possibly caught his 3rd Jack which would leave him with one out on the river and just get him to throw his money my way....He immediately shoots $25 at me, and I almost know he has hit a set of jacks, so I think and think....trying to lure him in and b/c I think he will call I push the remainder of my stack, $114....He goes in to the tank...lets his little Time Bank kick in and all, and finally calls at the last second, which I am just like extremly thrilled about, b/c I know I am bout to take down this $350 pot, which means I could pay Nate back and still have plenty to play with....THE RIVER CARD.......

10s.....For s short second I am happy to see he missed his fourth Jack....Did he make a str8, or maybe a flush.....He possibly even made a lower boat holding the J10....I am seriously cheesing b/c I am taking down this big pot and am thirlled about it, UNTIL THE CHIPS SLIDE HIS
WAY....WHAT??!??!!?!....He is holding QsKs for a STRAIGHT FLUSH!!! Seriously? I have been assed out in online poker many many times before folks, but I think this qualifies for the worst! He called $114 into a pot of only aobut $65 with nothing but a gutshot str8 draw and a flush draw....and he hit that one card....he had one out that could beat me....ONE!!!! Thats it, no other cards in the deck except the 10s would let him take it down...I don't understand his call, I think it was one of the worst plays I have seen and its just rediculous....I mean even if he thought I was bluffing, he called $114 with a king high to see if he possibly could make a str8 or a flush...B/c I guarantee you that he had know idea that he had a gutshot Str8Flush Draw....

So enough said...I didn't sleep very well last night as the hand kept running thru my head and is still now....Its almost not believeable...I mean its so far-fetched its SICK...I hate poker right now, but not b/c of my play...b/c of others and b/c you get brutally raped online some times...I am going to try to take a break from it, if I can stand it, b/c I could be susconsiously on tilt for days....So to Nate, sorry bro....I know you, and although you might have played it a little diff. you can't say I made a bad play....

I know bad beat stories can get old, but I think that this one qualifies as a Aggrevated Rape, and not a normal bad beat....but I have to steam as I lost my whole bankroll on Stars and I just hate it....So llok for an update possibly from Nate on his play, and me when I do.....Late

I keep bubblin....

Happy Friday to everyone...I didn't ever report about my Tunica trip last weekend, b/c my last post was the whole year in review thing...Tunica was pretty damn awesome...I thought it was going to be too crowded to walk around, or at least thats what I heard, but it wasn't...Lots od damn people, dont get me wrong, but not standing room only...We got to The Grand at about 10:00pm sat night after having went to Beale St. in Memphis to eat and drink and little...Well, the Grand knows how to party, complimentary champagne, noisemakers, and party hats....The countdown was very loud and I got hammered real quick so of course I was having fun....matter of fact, I was already pretty trashed when I got there...

The only thing that sucked about the casinos that night, was alll the tables games were $25 min. bets...whihc to some of you high-rollers aint shit, but I don't play the table games that serious, so needless to say not much of that was done...We decided to go over to the Gold Strike after midnight and we did, I played a little $3/6 and only had one interesting hand, when i had QJo in the big blind and flop comes 3Q7 rainbow...turn was a blank and so was river...I called bets all the way down, no raises ever...I turn up my hand and guy next to me has QJ also, and I figure we are chopping it until the chic on the end turns up QAo and drags it, ended a little down, but not much....There was a fight in the poker room, which seemed to be the highlight of the night...3-4 people when to jail and some got their asses kicked, so good for the crowd....

When I say I keep bubbling....i'm not not going out on the money bubble every time, just that i have started my last few MTTs, since my second place finish, great....I have built up a nice stack and kept it into the 3rd hour when some donkey makes a horrible call and drops my stack down considerably and I try just to sit back and make the money....Get a good hand, get all-in with the best called by shit and the shit hits...So I finish out of the money by 10-30 spots...just tired of it, thats all...the limit cash games have been feeling to much like a "grind" lately, so I have been mainly stickin to MTTs and a few SNGs...but thats about it, Still set on my goals, so i guess we will see what happens in the first month as it progresses.....Late

Start 2006 of right....

Well...2005 was a hell of a year for me....My first solid year of playing online the majority of the time....I started playing on Stars in Mid 2004 but didn't really take it serious or play much until the end of the year. I have seen ups and downs, ridiculous bad beats, awesome suckouts, a positive earnings year, some nice tourney finishes and some good live play. I want to start 2006 off right, mainly because I want to set a goal of how much I am going to make b/c I don't have an exact number for this year. I have only been 21 since last june so, I could only play live for the latter half of the year, but that leads me to one of my biggest goals....To play more LIVE...in the B&M casinos and local tourneys...I have loved the little I have played in Tunica this year, but have not capitalized on it and went enough, it simply boils down to that, making the plans to go and doin' it...

I have a big goal this year for my online play...I want to make $10,000 playing online this year...yeah, thats what I said...$10,000!!! It may seem a little big and maybe hard to reach, but isn't that what goals are for...I continue to advance my play and feel I have done so a lot this past year and am ready to make a good run in 2006. For those of you that read my blog that personally know me, get your laughs in and call me stupid or whatever...My biggest problem in '05 was inconsistency....I would one day be playing $5/$10 and $10/$20 Limit or $2/$4 NL and then the next I would be back at micro limits trying to grind out a decent bankroll through small ring games and SNGs primarily b/c I had cashed out my stack...That is another thing I don't need to do anymore, cash out my winnings and blow them....Last year, all to often, I would build up a nice bankroll, split it between sites, then feel I needed to cash out and blow it on something....I don't think my wife would take kindly to the fact that me spending my bankroll on our wedding is "blowing money"...I don't mean that...I just need to establish a bankroll and keep it, snowball it in to more and more as the year passes, mabye cash out every now and then if I need extra money, but not so much as to leave myself with $100 that I know I will play to aggressive and lose in a heartbeat....So for those of you that want to hate on my goal, all I really got for you is a 'Go to Hell'. I need some support not any haters tellin me I can't do this...I figure one big tourney win and I can be successful at my goal....

Another of my goals is to become more successful in online MTTs...multi-table tourneys....I have had my best finishes this past year and have done "mediocre" in my MTT play as a whole. i want to get some help with specifically battling the big fields on the online felt and consistently making final tables...

I also want to keep working on my cash game play...this is what has brought me the most success this past year, earnings wise, and have gotten pretty use to playing low and middle Limit poker...I used to hate Limit poker, as recent as the beginning of last year, but turned on to it through the books and blogs I was reading on a daily basis, and as far as cash game play is concerned, esp. Live....It is primarily limit...I would like to be playing $10/$20 and $20/$40 comfortably and well by the end of the year...For now, I will start off with the usual grind on the $2/$4 and $3/$6 tables, but will advance as time goes by...I have only two buddies that take online poker serious as I do, ChiefFoxboro and SupaStarr...both of whom have and continue to play about as much as I do, although Supastarr is kind of in the poker off-season during football season, because he is a self-taught successful footballl handicapper...lol...But they help me a lot wiht my game, mainly b/c they are the only two players I know personally who I feel I have to learn from....wait, Big Phil has taught me a little bit about Semi-bluffs and Aggression at the table, so thanx to him too...I also should give a shout out to DNA4ever for getting me into this whole blog thing...

One more goal I have, is to have a nice finish in a decent-sized live tournament, preferrably a final table appearance....And keep in mind that this goal would most likely, depending on the size of the field and the buy-in, accomplish my overall goal of making $10,000 this year playing poker...So I have a lot of goals and I think I am ready for the 2006 grind, so I've got 361 days left to make a quite a bit a money and maybe learn some shit along the way...

Enjoy the New year and I'm Out!!!!!!