Been a while, hope all is well.

It was a cloudy sunset.
I watched as They marched toward their own inevitable nonexistence.
Some people take my apathy too personally.
If i don't call you back in three years it's not because i don't care about you, it's that i don't care about anything.

Kinda feel like writing again lately.

hola

los mosquitos

so the bugs in mehico aren't bad during the winter. during the spring, ants, mosquitoes, beetles, moths, and la cucarachas stop popping up. i don't know how it happens, but every other night i find one mosquito in my room.. and they drive me nuts. i'm pretty pacifistic. i use to catch spiders in my old apt., put 'em in the elevator and send 'em to the basement; but i can't stand mosquitoes. i'd like to know how the dalai llama deals with them.

hijo boom

someone threatened to kick me in the nuts if i didn't update this... so.. hijo-boom. updated.

i haven't played too much this month ~80hrs. only something like 55k hands.. BE after two/three consecutive four digit friday night downswings. after last month's absurdity i needed a break... and a change of direction. it was the most hands i've played in a month (260k) along with the most i've ever lost in a month... by far. i've been floundering about between different games and stakes, experimenting with different numbers of tables.. stacked or tiled etc. i've taken an interest in mtts,  living with an mtt'er atm, but i'm yet to bring myself to play any of them. i'm thinking i'm going to continue this searching until feb. when i, most likely, return to 14-18tbln 50/100nl.

this'll be the last month before shit starts to get a lil hazy in mexico. we have 5 cash game beasts moving into our condo and have a few others coming down for spring break. being one of the old guys out here i'll most likely make sure no one does too many rails of baking soda or pisses in the streets. pay off the policia when appropriate or well.. yeah, etc...  malta is still on the agenda, as is thailand... once i figure out how to retrieve the chips i put in the middle... then it's gnocchi in malta and shots of snake blood in thailand.

been playing a lot of guitar lately out here as well.. started learning 'rumbia' by paco de lucia, 'blue drag' by django, and learned bach's first cello suite. every time i play that one though, i can't help but think of that 'zales' commercial. i think it's zale's.. maybe some other jewelry store... commercials ruin such amazing songs. es triste. actually, i should say, i have mixed feelings about that.

  

"Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred..."

... said bob dylan in "it's alright, ma (i'm only bleeding)"...which made his Apple commercial sting that much more... followed by some whiskey commercial with 'where eagles dare' on it.. OTOH, some artists i may have never discovered had it not been for marketing (i'm struggling to think of any beside moby, but i'm sure they're out there).



Nowadays it's probably one of the best mainstream outlets for musicians given the state of the music industry. but, it would still be nice to hear bach without thinking of blood diamonds.

sorry, where was i?
meh.

i'm bit a under the weather at the moment, but i'll try to post some hands later this week.
hope everyone is running like god. gl

HNY

200NL
6m

Hero (BTN): $1543.69

SB: $201.00
BB: $238.13
UTG: $200.00
MP: $1225.90
CO: $761.47

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is BTN with A A
UTG raises to $6, 2 folds, Hero raises to $16, 2 folds, UTG raises to $42,  

Hero raises to $68,
UTG raises to $200 all in,
Hero calls $132

Flop: ($403.00) A 5 K (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: ($403.00) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($403.00) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $403.00
Hero shows A A (a full house, Aces full of Fives)
UTG shows J J (a full house, Jacks full of Fives)
Hero wins $400.20

yep

no BBJ?

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1
No Limit Hold'em Cash,
6 Players

BTN: $115.94 (115.9 bb)
SB: $53.50 (53.5 bb)
BB: $114.93 (114.9 bb)

UTG: $85.44 (85.4 bb)
MP: $156.51 (156.5 bb)
Hero (CO): $130.77 (130.8 bb)


Preflop: Hero is CO with A A
2 folds, Hero raises to $3, 2 folds, BB calls $2

Flop: ($6.50) J 3 T
BB checks, Hero bets $4, BB raises to $12.50,

Hero calls $8.50

Turn: ($31.50) A
BB bets $22.50,
 
Hero calls $22.50

River: ($76.50) A
BB bets $76.93 and is all-in,

Hero calls $76.93

Results: $230.36 pot ($2.80 rake)
Final Board: J 3 T A A
BB showed K Q and won with a Royal Flush
Hero showed A A and lost with Quad Aces

hey-ola

so the year's wrappin' up... here's the brutal numbers.

first million hands of the year:






second mill^
i tried googling 'jack titanic dead', but nothing good. you get the point. here:



that is the sound of my financial plans, hopes, and past coaching prices plummeting. i have a lot of excuses from Ancalagon to Zoom, but overall it is what it is and there's no point in sugar coatin' it. i tried a lot of different games, made adjustments, tweaks, etc etc nothing. shit sucks, i suck, blah blah... that's life. i'm just happy that i'm not busto, have a roof over my head,  food to eat, and had a great time in cabo so far. actually, i figured by now i'd be a starving artist livin' on the streets in europe, so anything above that is a free-roll to me.

it's a new year next week and all i can do is try harder.
less tables, more videos. better table selection, less ispew1225.
 i still have about 11k vpps to go, which is about 10-12k hands per day including NYE.
after that i'm getting a cerveza on the beach and takin' a few days off... or hours.
i've played more hands and hours this month than ever before, i always play the most when i'm stuck, and i'm stuck the most i've ever been as well. shit happens. variance, as someone mentioned to me, happens.

:ɹɐɟ os ɹǝqɯǝɔǝp


nothing much goin' on other than poker. 'twas my bday yesterday and santa wrapped me up a giant  case of food poisoning. perfect fit.

update

i'm stuck like 3.3k. everything is good in life except the poker.
i've played a million hands this months. and i have to play about 180k more hands to hit my milestone, but 'if you do nothing, there will be no results' - gandhi.

fuck it. ain't got shit else to do.




updated update: -3.5k just ran another 4bis under ev. it has no bottom.

post #23479

i took a bad beat and lost a small pot the other day.
At first i was a bit perturbed, but then thought, "meh.. it's not the end of the world...


... that's next week."

where is he going?

instead of talking about bad beats, being stuck, and how there's a giant hole where my soul used to be.. i'd like to the spend the next couple minutes staring at this picture whilst listening to john denver's 1966 classic 'leaving on a jet plane.'

dec.

 hola.. been a while.

results from last month were ok. made a lil over 4k. had an alright comeback after the mordor giraffe. this month started out great. up 10bis first session.. was stoked.. getting coaching from a known beast who will remain nameless. also, i've moved to six max. ya get the fish to yourself, and a lot less ssers.  the only downside is that i'm getting less vpps at a time when i need to get a lot of vpps to hit my last 500k milestone. idk if i will make it. it's going to be close. i was more optimistic before every other session proceeding my first. currently on a 3k downer. poker has ripped out my soul this half of the year. it doesn't look like it has any plans on returning it any time soon either.

run bad is a mix of:
- not getting action when you do have a hand that normally pays the electricity bill.
- bricking all your combo draws/ backdoor draws that you've barreled.
- bluffs gettin' picked off
- making your hand and still not being good
- obv the standard getting sucked out on, set over sets etc.
- situationally running bad i.e. KK<AA in the blinds etc. etc.

... and when all these factors coincide you feel like filling your pockets with the remaining pennies you have left and doin' a swan dive in your local mall fountain.

'MAKE A WISHHH MFERRRRRrrrrrsss.... '

aside from the shit storm that is poker atm, life has been pretty good overall.
met a beautiful aussie chick last week, quit smoking, quit smoking weed, been working out every other day, running, haven't eaten cheese or bread, no alcohol. i always feel like when one thing is good in your life others are not... in this case work is shit and the rest is nice.

i basically have to play around 10k hands a day for the rest of the month to hit this mile. i would have more confidence if i wasn't running like an asshole on National Asshole Day, but i'm still going to try to be on pace whilst hoping for a xmas miracle.

got spotted

halo

the options of things to do around here are limited at times..
go out and party or sit on the computer... at least at night...
ending up breakin' down and scooped an xbox last week with halo4..
i used to grind halo like i grinded poker back in the day..
been on lock down recently, beat it a few times in the last couple days - boomshalakalaka -
we don't have online yet, but when we do this week i'm hopin' it won't lead to the demise of my milestone goal.

...also out of pure aburrimiento: