Been busy.

I have been super busy with work, and my house. All of this extra stuff is taking a tole on my emotions. I am tired all the time, and getting burnt out on forever doing work.

As you might guess this is not the best frame of mind for playing poker. I have been on a downswing as of late, and i doubt i can blame bad luck. I have been getting some bad beats, but i my play goes south right after i take one little beat.

So i am going to be done with playing any real volume probably until the house is finished. I will still goof around from time to time, but no multi tabling sngs, or anything major.

I also have been thinking a lot about poker. More so in what direction i want to take my game, and the state of my ability now.

I really can't decide what i want to do poker wise. I know i can win at sngs right now, and other than that its going to take some time to turn a profit in other games. Give me a month and i would be a winner in almost any low fixed limit game, or NL cash, but mtts, and PLO are going to take lots of playing and learning before i am decent.

I cannot decide whether i should grind out sngs, or switch to something that i could go higher in. sngs get much tougher with every step in buy in, and eventually you can't go up any more. It seems like the 200+ buy in games are un beatable. So yes, you can make lots of money grinding them out at the lower stakes, but you are limited in your possible money making. NL and PLO cash games have much bigger games. Granted i am not sure if i will ever put in the time to play 300-600 but if i were to become very good at one aspect of poker, i would want to go very high with it. Why spend all the time learning sngs when the most you could ever make is 100-200 dollars a hour, where as cash you can make much more.

ok done rambling.

God bless,
Takeover_inc

Too tired to click a mouse???

I have been so busy with work, yard mowing, and finishing my house that i have played very little as of late. I have to finish up the construction on the house in 5 weeks, so that is going to be my main focus on the weekends. That means little time for poker :-(

I did play some .25-.50 live nl and wrecked. I did run good, but also i think i played pretty well. Also i have been trying to value bet much thinner, which is working out very well. I did get into one tough spot, but other than that i made some money in spots that i usually would of checked down.

I really enjoy playing live, deep stack poker. Yes the pace is slow, there is so much more involved in it compared to push botting sngs.

I also played some 10 max buy in 6 handed nl and lost around 15 dollars. I will re post the two key hands later.

I really want to play 500 sngs this month, but i am not going to play when i am tired, or put off my house to grind. we will see what happens.

God bless,
Takeover_inc

Running good, but playing sub par.

This is a different animal all together than running below expectation. I feel a bit frustrated because i am luck boxing my way into wins, and donking out of sngs due to poor play.

I know this is how it goes with poker. The best player can have poor results, and a total donk can run hot. I am thankful for the good cards, but i am still bumbed a little bit because i am making some bad plays.

Sooooo....i am not going to play anymore today. And start off fresh tomorrow. When i start tomorrow i am going to load half 3.40s and half 6.50s (have over 195 in the account again!) and really buckle down and try to play my best. Also i am going to talk about the plays as i play. This seems odd, but doing commentary as i play often forces me to accept and do the right play. I have a bit of a bad habit of impulse clicking the wrong action when if i thought about it i would of made a better decision.

Also i ran like a king on FTP over 4 sngs. Two 1st and one 2nd. So that pulled the account that was heading down to 30 buy ins range up to a healthy number even with me sending Jester_cky another 20. Really happy about the good run.

I really think a little break is all that is needed. Just relax tonight, and come in fresh tomorrow. Then i will see if i will be able to move up to the 6.50s fully (i am too big of a nit to play all 6.50s with right at 30 buy ins on stars)

21 sngs played...bitter sweat

Played 10 3.40s in town and wrecked.

came home and played 5 more...total wreckage.

over 195 dollars in account...6.50s!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Load up three 6.50s and two 3.40s

Got creamed. ran kings into aces in the first level of a 6.50 so i loaded up another 3.40.

Sparing the bad beats and coolers, i made a third in one 3.40.

So for the day i made around 20 bucks, but it kind of stings beings i was up ~45-50 and had a chance to run it up big time if i hit big on my first round of 6.50s.

But its no biggie. Just play some 3.40s until i get back up to 195 again. Grind Grind Grind. Also the 6.50s look soft as expected. Hope i can make it back up and take another shot tomorrow, then do well where i can play 6.50s all weekend!

i am really happy about getting 21 sngs today. thats a huge number for my lazy self.

God Bless,
Takeover_inc

August Goals

After posting this on 2+2 i am going to put it here.

In august i want to....
1. Play 500 sngs. (mayyybe i played 50 in one month before)
2. Play 100 sngs in one 24 hour period. that is going to be hard, but i want to test my self
3. Move from the 3.40s to the 6.50s. the rake is less and the players are not that great.

I also think i am going to stick with stars for the time being. I am doing better there, and i don't see any reason to move. I also really need to get away from the 3.40 rake trap. Yes the games are gravey but i can make about 40+ cents per sng there. I really want to make about 1 dollar per sng.

So far this month i have played 5 sngs. wheee for coming out of the gate strong. I am going to try and get in around 15-20 tonight, then put in a solid weekend. I would really like to get 30+ each friday, saturday and sunday. If i can do this making the 500 sngs this month easy.

Also if i play 500 i stand to make a couple hundred dollars. If i run jood i could have a 500+ month. would be nice to pay my second morgage payment with poker monies.

God Bless,
Takeover_inc