January Results
After having a weekend that left me feeling invinceable....(4 tourneys, 2 firsts, 1 second, and 1 third for $600 in profit), I managed to enter some higher stakes games and finish the month up only $546. Not pretty. Only lost $16 in the online game and was up +700 at one point in the month... Oh well. I suppose complaining puts me on track to pass Phil Helmuth as the biggest whiner in poker history.
My fourth straight month of profitable poker and most profitable so far! Wins have now covered all losses in my 13 month career. Keeping the streak running in February will be tough. I've already started off February in the hole $250 thanks mostly to one -$210 dollar night. My worst one day loss as a player. Hopefully, I'll look back on the date a year from now and laugh at the seemingly inconsequential sum. I HATE losing money about as much as I HATE losing. Feeling good about a loss seems strange but I hope to be playing in larger stakes with larger wins and "acceptable" swings from variance in the future, so you catch what I'm alluding to.
If you want to read about a real player, I suggest checking out pokernerd.blogspot.com.
You can read through the archives and see the whole progression of his play. Pretty impressive.
Feeling in need of more direction, I picked up two more books. The first book Small Stakes Hold 'em by Miller, Sklansky, and Malmuth looks like a sound mathematical explanation and will be the next book I read from front to back. The other Beyond Tells by James McKenna, I hope will satisfy my psychoanalytic obsession. The clerk at Books-A-Million absentmindedly forgot to ring up the first book effectively giving me a $25 discount. I can't begin to imagine the ROI I'll gain from that move! I would have pointed out the clerk's error, but seriously didn't notice it until after I left. The transaction was completed with 2 pieces of plastic, so I've forgiven myself for the lack of honesty.....Sounds funny coming from a poker player, huh?
I had one ridiculously insane night at the Chattanooga Billiards Club where I sat down amongst the fish and really tried to just enjoy the atmosphere and say hello to some old friends. The tourney was a non-payout-win-a-casino-trip 15 week variety so I wasn't too obsessed with playing poker. After catching 82 offsuit about 8 times in the first 40 minutes, I declare to the table if I catch it again, I'm playing it irregardless. About 5 minutes later, a 4BB raise from first position, 2 callers to my right, and I've got the 82o, so I call. Flop is 824 rainbow. Lead out raiser bets 1400, two folds, I'm all in, one call behind me. The table starts laughing asking if I played the 82. With all the betting done, all 3 of us flip over our hands: raiser has pocket jacks, dude behind me has A3 (gutshot draw). The table roars when they see my 82. Turn and River is Ten:Ten. Jacks beats my flopped two pair. Ten minutes later I'm dealt the 82 again, preflop raise in front of me is 1400 (almost 5BB) two callers, and I call. Flop is 944. Preflop raiser goes for another 2000, one caller, and I reluctantly fold and announce "I think this will hold up"..realistically thinking there is no way. Preflop raiser shows KK to caller's AT(??), Turn and River is 2,2. In dig into the discard and show. Crowd goes berserk. KK player looks at me like, "what in the hell are you doing?" and, "I'm so glad he folded". By now the table is just one big crazy party and I'm the ring leader....good time.
Good luck at the tables,
Ed
My fourth straight month of profitable poker and most profitable so far! Wins have now covered all losses in my 13 month career. Keeping the streak running in February will be tough. I've already started off February in the hole $250 thanks mostly to one -$210 dollar night. My worst one day loss as a player. Hopefully, I'll look back on the date a year from now and laugh at the seemingly inconsequential sum. I HATE losing money about as much as I HATE losing. Feeling good about a loss seems strange but I hope to be playing in larger stakes with larger wins and "acceptable" swings from variance in the future, so you catch what I'm alluding to.
If you want to read about a real player, I suggest checking out pokernerd.blogspot.com.
You can read through the archives and see the whole progression of his play. Pretty impressive.
Feeling in need of more direction, I picked up two more books. The first book Small Stakes Hold 'em by Miller, Sklansky, and Malmuth looks like a sound mathematical explanation and will be the next book I read from front to back. The other Beyond Tells by James McKenna, I hope will satisfy my psychoanalytic obsession. The clerk at Books-A-Million absentmindedly forgot to ring up the first book effectively giving me a $25 discount. I can't begin to imagine the ROI I'll gain from that move! I would have pointed out the clerk's error, but seriously didn't notice it until after I left. The transaction was completed with 2 pieces of plastic, so I've forgiven myself for the lack of honesty.....Sounds funny coming from a poker player, huh?
I had one ridiculously insane night at the Chattanooga Billiards Club where I sat down amongst the fish and really tried to just enjoy the atmosphere and say hello to some old friends. The tourney was a non-payout-win-a-casino-trip 15 week variety so I wasn't too obsessed with playing poker. After catching 82 offsuit about 8 times in the first 40 minutes, I declare to the table if I catch it again, I'm playing it irregardless. About 5 minutes later, a 4BB raise from first position, 2 callers to my right, and I've got the 82o, so I call. Flop is 824 rainbow. Lead out raiser bets 1400, two folds, I'm all in, one call behind me. The table starts laughing asking if I played the 82. With all the betting done, all 3 of us flip over our hands: raiser has pocket jacks, dude behind me has A3 (gutshot draw). The table roars when they see my 82. Turn and River is Ten:Ten. Jacks beats my flopped two pair. Ten minutes later I'm dealt the 82 again, preflop raise in front of me is 1400 (almost 5BB) two callers, and I call. Flop is 944. Preflop raiser goes for another 2000, one caller, and I reluctantly fold and announce "I think this will hold up"..realistically thinking there is no way. Preflop raiser shows KK to caller's AT(??), Turn and River is 2,2. In dig into the discard and show. Crowd goes berserk. KK player looks at me like, "what in the hell are you doing?" and, "I'm so glad he folded". By now the table is just one big crazy party and I'm the ring leader....good time.
Good luck at the tables,
Ed
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