Good Luck In The Long Run

Book Update

2012-01-25T09:45:00.000-08:00

So I am very hard at work with this book. I'm writing until my fingers swell up. Hopefully, it will end up being decently long. My goal is somewhere near 100 pages, but it is hard to translate microsoft word page length to actual book length.

I am still unsure about some specifics about the book, but pretty soon I will be posting a list of all the chapters along with a short description of each one.

One person asked:
I'm hoping you'll send it to bookdepository.co.uk or some website of that kind so that I can buy it in Europe !
Got any ideas of where/how it'll be sold?

I've never heard of bookdepository, but I'll look into it. My original idea was to go paperback and just mail out copies to any country. But, of course, I'm not sure how shipping works on those. It shouldn't be too outlandish of a price.

What I'm proud of for this book is that nothing is held back. I've spent a lot of time (and still do) compiling the best things to write about and taking pictures of the best hands I see while coaching so I can have the best possible examples in the book.

I'm excited about its release (still unknown date). But I would estimate a couple months.

Writing A Book

2012-01-09T09:45:00.000-08:00

Hey, Everyone. Hope you all are having a great start to the 2012 year!

I'm happy to officially announce that I am writing a poker book. I'm really excited about it. It offers quality information and will be an entertaining read. Most importantly, the book will really help you grow as a player and make you much more profitable no matter what poker-stage you are in.

This is not a book full of charts. This book will teach you how to think NOT how to copy a shove/fold script. Learning the information and understanding it can drastically increase your earnings.

The book is a compilation of the best things that I've learned over the years from playing and from coaching. I've coached somewhere near 150 different players over the years, and heard a lot of different perspectives on playing. I've learned what works and what doesn't work - not only in playing but in teaching. I've found the best ways to explain concepts to players and teach them how to improve. The very best of these are all being nicely organized into this book.

I really look forward to sharing it with you guys.

More details about the release date, price, and chapter titles/content will be available soon.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below or email me at Glitlr@sngprotege.com.

Dodibacsi

2011-12-05T17:10:00.000-08:00

A big congrats to dodibacsi who went from huge wins to start his poker career, to very long breakeven, to slightly winning, to MEGA winning.

His journey carried from $35 180 mans to tons of time in 18 mans. He then transitioned back to 180s, mostly the 2s, 3s, and 8s. But this time, with a new head on his shoulders, he rose to the occasion and triumphed.

Dodi is one of the best students with whom I've worked. And a pretty damn nice guy too.

Here's some of the highlights from working with Dodi...

Dodi: "I just lost 500, should I stop?"
Me: "No."
[4 hours later]
Dodi: "Just won 3 180s"

Dodi: "I'm getting iso'd tonight."

For those of you in the know, you know that iso-shoving means getting drunk.

Also, let's start a new thing on twitter using my favorite thing from Dodi. Any time you think something is dumb, poker or not, you say "wadafuk." This is Dodi's term.

HASH-TAG WADAFUK ON TWITTER (#wadafuk)

Check out this graph.

Congrats sir!

Wedding & Honeymoon (Part I)

2011-11-14T10:41:00.000-08:00

Most blog posts of any poker player are properly poker related. In this blog entry, you will get minimal poker references and mostly nothing but cheesy awesomeness about the wedding and the honeymoon with my wife Breanna.

A brief precursor...
April 15, 2011 Black Friday.
April 15 - May 28 Mega freak out over poker.
May 28, 2011 Move into a new house.
Wow, exact date? ruh roh. Purpose to girlfriend.
November 5, 2011 The wedding.

The wedding was 100% awesome. Unfortunately, it rained. Many, including the lady who helped me rent my Tux, insist that rain represents good luck and fortune in marriage. But coming from a very logical poker philosophy I can't help but assume that sunshine represents bad luck. So to the vast majority of people who get married in beautiful weather, apparently you're SOL. The employee at The Men's Wearhouse (Suit store) didn't find that too amusing. Sorry mang.

The wedding began at 4pm in the afternoon and after dreading the rain, it finally came. The hour by hour forecast did say it would start raining at 4pm (really? the exact hour?!?!) and it actually started to rain at 3:50pm. Sigh. Ty outdoor weddings.

The positive side was that we prepared for the rain and had canopies prepared just in case. It didn't rain too hard until later in the night, but since we moved the reception mostly indoors it was okay after all.

The wedding was fairly small, just family and a few life long friends. Traditionally, the wedding is "supposedly" paid for by the bride's parents. I don't know where this tradition comes from. Sigh #2. lol.

The ceremony was beautiful and went very well. Having tons of family around is really a special thing. Seeing all the people you love sitting in front of you is pretty cool. Even if they are all sitting under a giant canopy.

After the "I do's" we took a bunch of wedding photos with our wonderful photographer Danielle Albini. Who is this? Here's the quick story written in third person.

Matt plays poker
Matt becomes coach
Matt coaches dude named Travis Albini (tbini87)
Travis wins a lot
Matt and Travis find out they live relatively close
Matt and Travis hang out
Travis introduces Matt and Breanna to his wife Danielle
Danielle does baller pictures
Danielle does Matt and Breanna's Engagement Photos
Danielle takes pics at the wedding

Oh, and solid brag, Travis turned his $75 coaching investment into $15,000 which he used to buy his wife a car. Boom.

The pictures are still being worked on, and my wife and I are very excited. Here is one picture we have already that Danielle showed us as a teaser:).

After the photos, we went inside to visit, eat dinner, drink a few beers, eat cake, watch a tear-jerking slide show my dad made (aweeesome), and dance.

I could go on forever and write tons, but this seems like enough for now. Part II coming soon.

Breaking News: Full Tilt Poker

2011-11-01T11:52:00.000-07:00

Please take a look at this breaking news here.

I will add some commentary later.

Pass this link to your friends, this is good news!!

Poker Coaching: World Record

2011-10-27T15:21:00.001-07:00

I think I've firmly established a world record this month in the world of poker coaching. This isn't a brag, this is more of a "dang I have a sore throat."

Before the month is over, I will have logged 60 coaching sessions this month. Even though I can't play poker, you better believe I still know what I'm doing. Heck, in my humble opinion, I am way better now than I ever was when I could play. I owe the majority of this to a lot of the players I have been coaching. I learn from them every day.

I work a 9-5 job doing what I do. In all actuality, it's 830-530ish, but who's counting? But it's not even all the coaching that keeps me going during these hours (minus a lunch break in the middle). I am constantly active all day.

So many people ask, what do you do now that you can't play? Here is what an average day looks like for me.

730am Wake Up
830am Emails & Website Logistics or Coaching #1 on days it applies
1000am Coaching #1 or 2 (or webinar on Fridays)
1130am Coaching #2 or 3
100pm Lunch
200pm Coaching #3 or 4
330pm Coaching #4 or 5
500pm Emails & Website Logistics
530pm Finish I hope

Then my soon-to-be-wife comes home, we eat dinner, perhaps take the dogs on a walk, watch some TV, and do it all over again the next day.

At this point, if online poker was legalized, I don't even think I'd consider playing it.

Well, it's just about 330pm, time for coaching session #4 with my man Paul Chen!!

My Halloween Costume

2011-10-20T19:35:00.000-07:00

Just a question to start with: Do other countries celebrate/dress up/trick or treat for Halloween?

I'm just wondering what to dress up like this year. Maybe something to highlight this year's events. Here are my ideas.

This seems fitting as a body suit.

Or I could go as these:

Representing all the games good players lose cause they can't finish.

Maybe I could go as

for all the players who moved to Canada.

Or maybe as our new favorite player:

You're awesome, Howard. ...gtfo

And finally, which I think is what I will go as

representing the amount of money I lost on FTP. Too bad I need to find more Ks to make this work.

Ok, nvm, maybe I'll just go as something a bit more conventional:

Amazing!

2011-10-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

This is incredible.

how does he do this?

Poker players think 2 outers are the ultimate slap in the face. But this happens 5% of the time. 1 in 20, 1,000,000 of 20,000,000 times.

Doing an alley-oop like this? Has it ever been done?

I remember a play that was the most incredible sports play I've ever seen. But I can't find it.

I challenge you to find this, it would be amazing!

Here is all I know about it...
Horace Grant, Chicago Bulls or Orlando Magic, Basketball, running out of bounds behind the back 3 pointer, was featured as a top 10 play of the decade for the 1990s.

Can someone find it plz!!

Full Tilt Poker? Ruh Roh

2011-10-12T22:50:00.000-07:00

Dear Howard Lederer,
I do not like you.

Dear Chris Ferguson,
I do not like you.

Dear Other People Involved,
I believe I speak on behalf of many when I say, I do not like you.

Recent news seems to be not so great as seen here.

A comment says that perhaps the only players receive money back are players with 10,000 or more owed to them.

Unfortunately, I have 7.8k frozen - dispersed through 5-6 accounts. This money, ironically, was going to be used to pay the government taxes. Now it cannot.

In a world where one player owes me 2.5k, FTP owes me 7.8k, and real life expenses including wedding, honeymoon, taxes, etc are accruing, I look at Chris Ferguson and think one thing...

Sigh.

Now on Sharkscopers!

2011-10-05T18:54:00.000-07:00

Add me on there plz? I'll add you guys too. I like being a part of something new.

Here is the link
http://www.sharkscopers.com/user/glitlr

SNGProtege Webinars + Some Student Stories

2011-09-14T10:01:00.001-07:00

The webinars have been going great so far. The topics completed so far include...

- Invention Value
- Raise/Folding
- <6tBB shoves

Webinars are every Friday, and free to all SNGProtege members.

Sammi-San recently finished his time with SNGProtege and now he is going to begin his journey as a full time poker player. Check out these stats.

He spent the last 10,000 games learning and earning! I'll let you guys do the math on this one:).

Andrew23122 was a great player even before joining SNGProtege. With the help of his coach Bubbleoutcas, videos, forum, and other members, he has nearly duplicated his entire profit in 2.5 months! and in 2.5x less games!

This guy is a beast. Great job Andrew.

Fenman77 is finishing up his contract with SNGProtege. Check out how well he has done. What's even more impressive, is how much he earned playing mostly the $2 180s.

A big congrats to you! You've earned this. Good luck in your long run, man.

As you guys can see, SNGProtege isn't your typical poker training site. Students are earning consistent profit in every type of SNG. You can read about more success stories here.

First Webinar: Invention Value (+iv)

2011-08-30T14:08:00.000-07:00

SNGProtege now does webinars every Friday. Not only do members have great coaching sessions, they can also participate in the free webinars. The first one went great! Check out a sample of it...

SNGProtege Live!!

2011-08-22T14:50:00.000-07:00

I'm very happy to announce the new webinar series that will begin this Friday, August 26th.

The live chat and video will be recorded and put on the site for members to watch.

Members can attend the webinars for absolutely free. Should be fun, entertaining, and educational.

SNGProtege Live debuts in...
(GMT time)

SNGProtege Student Story (Markusvic)

2011-08-12T08:09:00.000-07:00

I thought you guys would be interested in this. The story of a small stakes player who made the change many players want.

Markusvic is a student with SNGProtege, and he works with Grant (Reb3186) playing the 45 man games. Reb and Markusvic spend a lot of time exchanging ideas and strategies, and here is a cool pic showing that hard work pays off! Not only has Markusvic completely turned his results around (as you can see in the Before & After below) but he is also on the Sharkscope Leaderboard for small stake 45 mans.

Well done!

You have questions?

2011-07-18T11:23:00.000-07:00

I need to answer a few questions because tbh I've heard them too often.

Q: Are you moving to Canada to play poker?
A: No, that is impossible.

Q: Why not? Everyone else is.
A: I can't leave the US because I own a home and I am getting married soon (woot! solid brag!). I can't just leave these things and move to Canada.

Q: Are you going to be like Aaron?
A: No, Aaron is awesome. I am boring and stuck.

Q: Do you think poker will be regulated soon in the US?
A: I'm not really sure. I follow www.ppa.org (the poker players alliance) and catch up on the events every once in a while.

Q: What do you do now?
A: Lots and lots of coaching (selling myself here? maybe, yes.)

I'd like to offer coaching for another discount period. $55 for 1 hr and $100 for 2 hrs.

I'd also like to add that I am VERY proud of SNGProtege members. Congrats to everyone who is working hard because results are showing!! Way to go!!

We are in the midst of a friendly contest amongst members and it's fun!! Wish I could join in...

Will I...?

SNGProtege Member ships an MTT!

2011-06-06T15:29:00.000-07:00

Oh you know this is exciting. Member Renningstone, after many deep runs and heartbreak losses, finally ships an MTT! I always told him the feeling of the first one is SO nice. Now he knows...

New Home Update

2011-06-04T15:28:00.001-07:00

Moving is rough. I am settled into my new home (minus half the unpacking left) in Roseville, CA and am very happy to get back to coaching guys. Buying this home was a huge hassle, but everything worked out into the end.

...except for when the internet installer guy drilled four holes into my house INTO MY HOUSE. Through the wall...

Oh, hey, that's fine internet guy, I didn't just buy this home less than a week ago or anything.

Apart from that, everything seems nice. The neighborhood is very calm and the people we've met so far are very nice. (We = me, my gf, and 2 dogs if you didn't know).

There are definitely a lot of expenses with moving in though, man oh man. New blinds, changing locks, pest spray to be safe for dogs, minor household repairs, some new furniture items (ship), and some other rando stuff. It sucks very much as a home owner because reality hits you: responsibility. If something breaks, it's on you. sigh.

**********

SNGProtege is doing good though. I am extremely pleased with some of the effort these guys are putting in. It's so nice to teach and witness others learn. They don't just memorize it, they understand it. It's an awesome feeling.

You can always refer a friend

Also, ok maybe thin brag, but check out what happens when you learn!!
This is the graph of a SNGProtege student...

For the record, he didn't win right away. He lost and broke even. But he kept working. Even though the results weren't there at first, he played fantastic using the new style he was/is learning. His red line was awesome, green line not. Finally, results came. I'm very proud of his success.

SNGProtege Refer a Friend

2011-05-27T12:58:00.001-07:00

I'm happy to announce the launch of our new promotion. For non SNGProtege students as well as current students, we are offering a bonus for referring a friend. For each student you refer, you can earn more and more. Up to $200 per student.

Check out our refer a friend program here.

Also check out our new success page here to learn some cool info about our students and coaches.

SNGProtege Success Stories.

First Post in A While

2011-05-14T07:04:00.000-07:00

At least sngprotege has a new Facebook page and it would be awesome if you could friend/like it on there.

I'm really pleased with how members are doing so far.

However, WHAT I AM EXCITED ABOUT, is that within a very short time there will be a new page added on sngprotege to show some student success. I'm very honored to share some success stories, and I can't wait until the webpage is complete!

The P-blog

2011-05-04T10:50:00.001-07:00

One of my favorite poker players (Puyan) has a new blog. He used to be on sharkscopers, now he is in real blog territory:)! Puyan's Blog

He made some cool posts on stats from sngprotege, SICK side by side looks really nice imo!!

I have two new posts on 2+2: A well and a hand that will lead to a 4k milestone post.

Well
Cool hand for 4k post

Add me on twitter @glitlr_ :)

Coaching + Profit Sharing

2011-04-17T20:43:00.000-07:00

For one week I will be offering coaching at a 15 discount per hour. 60/hr and 250 for a 5 hr package (a 75 dollar savings - 23% off). Hurry while this offer lasts.

In addition to conventional coaching, you can use these hours to...
1) send me a video of you playing a set. I will review it with commentary so you can watch yourself play and hear my advice.
2) send me a group of HHs and I will get through as many as I can in the allotted time and send you my notes and/or we can meet over skype to discuss the key hands.
3) Finally settle once and for all the uncertainties you have about those spots you really hate.
4) Anything your heart desires:)

***********************************************************************************

Hi, everyone. I'd like to extend a new coaching offer for students.

I will be keeping my rate of 75/hr, 105 for 1.5hrs, and 325 for a 5hr package. I'd like to add a new option for those who are interested: extended blocks of time.

10 hr package: 575
Each additional hour on top of the 10 original hours: 50.

For those of you who sign up for 10 hr packages, we will divide up into 2 sessions per week, 2 hours each. The last session will be on the third week. All additional hours, if applicable, will be scheduled thereafter.

I also will be accepting students for profit sharing. If you are interested in this, please send me an email (contact info below) telling me about yourself. The perfect candidates are proven winners who want to take their game to the next level. I am looking for players who are at least up 10k in total profits. Please note that I am unable to stake you for this, you would need to play on your own money due to no possible transfers.

You can email me for both coaching and profit sharing at glitlr@sngprotege.com

House Hunting

2011-04-10T04:27:00.000-07:00

It's about 4:30am right now, and I woke up around 2:30 cause I can't sleep anymore. My girlfriend and I went house hunting with our realtor yesterday in Roseville, CA which is about 30 minutes from Sacramento, CA. It was a pretty big bust imo. I am, as expected, the "bad guy" because there was a clear favorite and I'm the only one who doesn't like it. I feel like a 2+2 post where one person says something different and he's reamed for having a different opinion. Life beat atm.

I've learned a lot about buying a home in the last 24 hrs though. About appreciation value based on certain home specifications that no normal person would ever consider. I mean, things that the realtor told me about home buying strategies completely blew me away. The one thing in particular that mind-f'd me was about aiming at getting a home near a good school because there is more expected value with it than normal. Families who want their children to go to really good schools most likely want this because they have a high education. People with high educations are more likely to have more money. This makes these neighborhoods preferred areas to wealthier well educated people which in turn increases the value of your home. It's basically future ev. We literally had a discussion about +ev homes. It was really interesting.

Unfortunately, however, there is no luck so far. Maybe my one outer will hit.

At least the realtor thought playing online poker is cool:)

sngprotege & nonturbo 9 mans

2011-03-29T15:43:00.001-07:00

sngprotege is now looking for several 9 man non turbo players on PokerStars. We are looking for $10+1 players who can work their way up to the 20s and 30s, or current $20+2 players who want the chance to greatly improve their game and work up to mix 20s and 30s. These players will be working with abarone68. You can find more info on Aaron here and here. The contract length will be 8,000 games compared to the 9 man turbo contract length of 12,000 games.

You can submit your application here.

Bagclip

2011-03-27T20:36:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know, one of the best poker coaches (and friends) I've ever had in poker is Bagclip2005. His name is Jesse, he lives in Ohio USA, and he is a coach at sngprotege, and would own my soul heads up.

This guy just wrecks. I think his leak is 40 tabling lol but that's ok. He doesn't just understand the games he plays, he understands poker on a really deep level. We've been studying together some just recently and it's really awesome how he helps me notice new things/think of things I never thought of. Not to mention, I'm thoroughly impressed with the coaching his guys at sngprotege are getting. He even has a turbo 9 man player from Full Tilt on the Sharkscope boards. Now often does that happen in a world jam pack filled with $16 PokerStars regs?

Last night I got a text at 2:13am (5:13am for him) saying he won a $51 hyper for 2.4k. I mean, can you go to sleep? He just has to ship 2.4k while I'm dreaming (probably of bvb shoves - yes it happens).

This all kind of comes across as a Jesse advertisement campaign, but really it's because I'm realizing how much studying I've been missing out on as of late. And when we have a simple conversation where he says something about hand combinations or ranges, it gets me. He gave me an "ah-hah" moment and I just feel the need to thank him for it. Poker is hard.

In other news, I'm looking to hire a 45 man coach for the site. I can't wait to add more 45 man players.

Hyperments

2011-03-23T02:40:00.001-07:00

Nice way to cap a breakeven day considering in the last 48 hrs I've come very close (final 2 and 4 tables) away from 10k+ cashes which I've never come close to. Some huge (and cliche) losses with AA in key spots etc etc you've heard it all before. On a side note my girlfriend cooks some bad ass enchiladas. Throw on some tabasco and numnumnum.

I loaded up to play a set tonight cause I couldn't sleep. Then with 2 games up realized the server reset was occurring soon and scrambled to get in every game I could. I literally watched as the lobby shriveled down to nothing. I got in a hyper just to add a game. Good choice.

Ty to Aaron for some limit advice.

Please Be A Good Neighbor

2011-03-15T19:17:00.001-07:00

My girlfriend Breanna and I are looking into buying our first home at the moment. I don't actually know if it will work out loan wise, but it's worth a shot. Did you know that if you are self employed you have to prove consistent income for at least two years through tax statements? I sure didn't. I guess taxes are good for something after all.

The first step is the banker running my credit report. Then this doozey popped up. One glaring error. One State Farm Bank payment - the loan on my car. Which, by the way, is sitting in my garage dead because the mechanic couldn't fix it and I haven't done anything about it yet.

Here's the brief cliffs:
- Last January went to pay the bill
- State Farm server was down and I thought "I'll return later"
- I thought I paid it because I remembered going to the site a few days prior, filling out all my info to log in and pay the bill. But I forgot the server was down.
- I've paid 37/38 car payments and 100% other credit bills just fine.

ONE GLARING ERROR WHICH WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE

This mistake, however, drops me into a lower tier of credit score (according to the banker) which makes me not have access to a higher loan amount. I called the State Farm Bank toll free help line and they just passed me off to someone else to help me with it, but their offices are closed until tomorrow.

Can I use my one time on this?

Yay:)

2011-03-07T18:47:00.001-08:00

I'm really excited as I closed out my biggest lifetime win. It's not amazing or anything cause this is pennies compared to what some amazing players do, but I'm very pleased with it. There was tons of post flop play, and tbh I can't even recall being all in at all - at least not for the entire last half of the tournament. During HU play, ironically vs a guy I coached before, I had 100x and he had 50x.

Strangely enough this all occurred while I was out of town for the weekend. I played this tournament in my gf's parents kitchen which was different to say the least. The only reason I played was to add games while playing the first sngprotege home game. And, well, had to lose 215 in the Sunday Mil obv.

Since completing the challenge, my gf and I (and our dogs) can set our sights on moving. We are currently looking for a house in Roseville, CA. Hopefully I'll have some cool pics in the near future when something starts to develop.

The Challenge: All Running Results

2011-02-22T11:47:00.000-08:00

The original post.

The final day.
...results to follow soon

When I posted "Day 7" it was at the beginning of the day, so the "day" also includes the time up until 1:15pm today (1.5hrs from now). It kind of became apparent that this was going to be easy. $214.37 in 36 hrs, ok ship it. I know I had another week according to the original rules, but pride felt at stake here. Low stakes, high pride. As I played, I was getting destroyed. Not beat, raped. Not just normal raped, Law and Order SVU raped. Two outers were falling literally every hand. It was gross. Yes, it happens to everyone. Yes, it was only super low stake games. But the pride, the pride of completing this and helping my girlfriend and making a poker house with Aaron and all these other things...it was about pride. Sure I could pay an extra $214.37, who cares. But I had to win it. I had to. Fucking pride.

So after playing for 4 hours last night, I was down tons. I managed to come back to a deficit of $255.51 for the challenge. And, yes, -30 cause I check raised bluffed river in HU cash lol. So going into this morning, I was furious. I woke up bright and early and started playing at 7:34am. *Yawn*

The game just got worse. Now 1 outers were falling, every 3-1 known to man didn't hold. I actually considered getting a dice out just to keep guessing a number for it not to roll, and be wrong each time. This way at least when I'm 5-1 fav in poker, I'm more due to win now that I've lost it all to a dice. Gambler's fallacy?

So I'm down tons, try to load 16s to scrounge it back. Didn't work. I consented with myself that I wasn't going to load anymore games before the 1:15 deadline. It was over, time to throw in the towel. I get down to several games. They drop. They drop some more. I'm down ~490 from the end goal at this point, and I only have two 3r's left. Then, one. I have to bink this game to win the challenge. Pride, my girlfriend, Aaron, moving, everything. 2nd place wouldn't be enough to seal the deal. I had to win it. I needed over 490, and first was 510. Going into the break I was 1/17. My friend Kevan, who hung out with me and talked on skype the entire 4 hr set yesterday, was getting the commentary on AIM. I broadcasted the whole thing to him, each hand, each stack, each ranking change. It's pretty intense when you understand everything on the line - especially when you are reading it while you are working in a hospital:).

PokerStars had it out for me. I had to battle pocket fours, THREE TIMES. Like, cmon, give them aces. No they have 44. I was 3/3. So many intense spots and some unusual sitations, but I think I played well. And for once, good play was rewarded.

Boom imo.

Day 7: SHIP!
There are officially 26 hrs left in "part 1" of this challenge, but heck now I want to just finish it now. I've had a change of fortune/genius idea that worked out well. I realized I was at 73k fpps and asked Aaron if he'd buy my bonus before hand, and I just ship it to him when I clear it. BOOM! +1.5k instantly thanks buddy! Bigniux also shipped 5% of an mtt finish (8th in 24+2 multi entry on FTP for ~1.3k). Wow man. Impressive. I also realized I had $150 in stellar money (and another $50 very soon) that I can contribute. Here are the new totals going into the start of day 7.

I started off with $500, needing to end at $6,250 total money.
My contribution with starting roll: $2,000
Extra supernova bonus and stellar rewards: $1,650
Contributions from amazing friends: $642.50
Winnings at the tables: $1,743.13
Grand Total: $6,035.63
96.57% complete. $214.37

I'LL BE PLAYING FOR THIS $214.37 NOW WOOOOOO!

Day 6: Half day. 100 games, +4 lol.
Not worth really saying much today as nothing really changed. I did make a deep run in the 3r mtt but got coolered v AA with 99 in an ultra standard spot.

Day 5: ~210 games, +808.69
Totals: +1739.15
Progress: $2,239.15 of *$4,172.50. 53.66% complete.
*Adjusted net goal (ty to foleyfocused and big love to N.Zealand!)
Comments: After 7.5 hrs of play, I'm happy yet kind of disappointed with the results because they could have been much better with a single big 3r finish. I made so many deep runs in 3r's and just got ripped apart when it counted most. I went back to low stake games and with >100% roi on ave. stake $4 for the day, I'll take it.

Day 4: ~230-250ish games, +136
Totals: +930.46
Progress: $1,430.46 of *$4,229.50. 33.82% complete.
*Adjusted net goal (ty friends)
Comments: I decided to stop playing micro stake games. I just couldn't take it anymore. Plus, the results should have been much better - if I didn't lose every key hand. This includes a JJ vs A3o at a 3r final table which easily could have been worth $500 instead of like $40. Oh well. I didn't reach my absurd 400 game goal (dream big, fail bigger), but I will be playing tons over the next few days. I'm finding I am becoming frustrated because it is not my personality to consistently check results. I can feel every "bump in the road" so to speak, instead of just playing and not caring about winning or losing.

Day 3: 216 games, -29.56
Totals: +794.46 of $4,229.50.
Progress: $1,294.46 of *4,330. 28.90% complete.
*Adjusted net goal based on help from friends and 350 amount: $4,330
*Great news! It turns out the amount is $6,250 and not $6,600! So it's like I won $350 today lol.
Bad day at the tables, ty 3r 1st place to salvage a bad day.

Day 2: 210 games, +249.20.
Totals: +824.02
Progress: $1,324.02 of *$4,700. 28.17% complete.
*Adjusted net goal based on help from friends: $4,700
Big thanks to Ben, Elevil, clickys, Roy4l, and Weandago:)

Day 1: 298 games, +574.82

I'd like to thank those of you who have helped out. It means a lot to me.

The Challenge

2011-02-21T12:01:00.001-08:00

It has come to my attention that someone is in trouble. Recently my girlfriend has found herself in a weird situation with her work. To keep an extremely large story short, here are the cliffs.

- She has to pay $6,600 in order to leave her job.
- The only way I can afford this is by putting off engagement/marriage which I don't want to do at all.

It deals with contractual obligations that the company didn't hold their ground on, and now she is majorly screwed if she wants to leave her job. Now, here is where things get dicey. Here are the cliffs on why we should move.

- In addition to the contractual stuff, employees at her work are also getting state mandated pay cuts. She misses out on travel money and has to work longer hours with LESS pay. With no exaggeration, her job just became -EV. She now has to work 10-11ish hour days and gets paid less than what she was making when she worked 8 hours a day.
- My gf can get a new job in the same field of work that pays way better
- If we move (which would be in 2 months), we would move somewhere around the area of Sacramento, CA.
- Abarone68 is soon moving to Sacramento, CA in 2 months.
- If I move, me and Aaron plan on starting a poker house at Aaron's new home where players can fly in and stay for around a week (details are still being sorted out). But in short, there will be a training house in Sacramento, CA with 2 of the best players teaching you live.
- If she doesn't pay $6,600, none of this happens. Period.

So I am proposing this challenge. $500 to $5100.
(side note, as I do this challenge I will still be doing all of my normal work which already consumes my days. You can expect me to lose major sleep during this. You may think, why not play higher? The reason is that I want to minimize $variance during this challenge.)

Rules:
1. 2 parts, 1 week each with a break in between.
2. I am giving $2,000 of my own money towards the $6,600 including the starting $500 bankroll.
3. I need to earn $4,600 in actual profit.
4. Start with $500, finish week 1 with $2,550. Finish week 2 with $5,100.
5. Bankroll management is key. I will start low. A mixture of all sng types.
6. Start date/time: Monday, February 21. 1:15pm pacific standard time.

If anyone wants to help out a bit with this, it would really make my day. Even if it's something small like $5-10 it would make me feel so happy. If anyone decides to do that, please leave a comment below. Any money added will be removed from the $5,100 end amount. For the person who donates the most, a free coaching session on the house.

Please rail if you want, and any time I'm HU in a tourney I'll have chat on. It would help the motivation a lot. I will also post results each day.

New Coaches, New Logo, New Site

2011-02-16T17:20:00.000-08:00

The website is within days of being relaunched, and I'm very excited. We've added bubbleoutcas, imo one of the greatest 180 man players hands down and abarone68 who is one of the best 9 man players on earth. Applications will be accepted for the new coaches starting when the new site launches. You can follow the sngprotege twitter feed to know when!

Check this baby out! The designer of the new website also designed this logo which is pretty bad ass imo. I'm very excited to have this be the official logo and avatar of sngprotege.

Countdown to launch date? <1 week for sure.

The 1 Outer

2011-02-12T13:09:00.000-08:00

The term "1 outer" can be overused. The meaning of it is so extreme in poker. The ultimate loss, the worst of beats, the apocalyptic bitch slap.

Recently, Aaron/Abarone68 got the mega-ist of mega-ist opportunities. Play poker with Daniel Negraneu. Theee Daniel Negraneu. The guy who has half million pots with 1 outers that fall for Gus Hansen, the guy who basically is the skinny and white and canadian Lebron James of poker. Aaron gets to sit with him at a poker table. One word...

But the chances of this happening? Heck, pretty damn rare. This makes getting 1 outted seem commonplace. The odds of getting 1 outed are 2%. People don't realize this is ONE OUT OF FIFTY. That means the odds of winning the lotto must be same odds as running the river over 50 times and hitting the 1 outer every time. Obviously though the process of getting to the situation where a 1 outer is possible is also pretty rare in itself, so the odds must be <2% by a lot. Especially if YOU hit a 1 outer.

[x] wat?

Yes, guys. I hit my 1 outer. Not only that, I think the curse of 44 is finally over after 1.5 years of waiting.

I decided to limp utg, not cause I'm stt set mining noob, but because the last 3 hands I've raised and won none of them.

Full Tilt Poker Game #28113352257: $10,000 Guarantee (Early Antes) (218331269), Table 47 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:48:23 ET - 2011/02/11
Seat 1: duff24 (14,902)
Seat 2: treasurer79 (19,730)
Seat 3: Dreddo (11,411)
Seat 4: RoBeerT94 (6,687)
Seat 5: Tamagaffk (6,644)
Seat 6: Erik45 (23,800)
Seat 7: LOLSANJAYAMENT (11,596)
Seat 8: henrigla (20,586)
Seat 9: playboyalex91 (7,526)
duff24 antes 50
treasurer79 antes 50
Dreddo antes 50
RoBeerT94 antes 50
Tamagaffk antes 50
Erik45 antes 50
LOLSANJAYAMENT antes 50
henrigla antes 50
playboyalex91 antes 50
Tamagaffk posts the small blind of 200
Erik45 posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LOLSANJAYAMENT [4d 4s]
LOLSANJAYAMENT calls 400
henrigla folds
playboyalex91 folds
duff24 folds
treasurer79 folds
Dreddo raises to 1,200
RoBeerT94 folds
Tamagaffk folds
Erik45 calls 800
LOLSANJAYAMENT calls 800
*** FLOP *** [4c As Kd]
Tamagaffk has returned
Erik45 checks
LOLSANJAYAMENT checks
Dreddo has 15 seconds left to act
Dreddo bets 2,800
Erik45 folds
LOLSANJAYAMENT raises to 10,346, and is all in
Dreddo calls 7,361, and is all in
LOLSANJAYAMENT shows [4d 4s]
Dreddo shows [Kc Ks]
Uncalled bet of 185 returned to LOLSANJAYAMENT
*** TURN *** [4c As Kd] [Qs]

*** RIVER ***

PokerStars is on Eastern Standard Time

2011-01-31T21:57:00.000-08:00

So I learned a valuable lesson just now. I loaded up my last set of January to clear 7.5k VPPs. $51 in rake I had to spend. I threw in some 16/27/38 9 mans, some 12 45 and 180s, and 1 27 45. Great $51 in rake, well done. So at about 9:27pm as I have 2 games left I load up my VIP Status section.

7,494.04

What? I had 269 points and some change for February. Wow. Really?

Now my status looks like this.

Apparently Stars is on Eastern Standard Time. I did think about this before the day was over. I am Pacific Standard Time in California which is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. So 9pm is the new midnight. Cinderella must have lived on the East Side.

Obviously the only logical next step is to email Stars and ask politely. I really hope they come around on this one.

Another Forty

2011-01-28T02:07:00.000-08:00

A Formal Forty.

I played 147 games straight tonight. 100 of which (woops 101) were good 'ol 16s. A little mini prop bet vs abarone68 made it fun. Unfortunately due to slow load times late at night, we had to play about 15 games together. Compliments of Aaron's superb artistic technique and creativity, we can awe in amazement over this priceless image.

The bets are for most money won, redline ev, most wins, most cashes, and finally most bubbles over the 100 games. After 101 games, I earned a whopping $48.50 with a redline of $254.
I only got 11 wins and 39 cashes. Throw in only 9 bubbles and it doesn't sound half bad. But it was pretty bad. In fact it's the first time I've been forced to look at results and it tilts me.

I did win some other games including a $12 45 man which was pretty interesting because probably the sickest call I've ever made gave me almost all the chips in play. Bragging isn't cool, but this is a solid brag.

PokerStars Game #56696232436: Tournament #358156711, $11+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (1500/3000) - 2011/01/28 0:15:10 PT [2011/01/28 3:15:10 ET]
Table '358156711 4' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 6: PaulSmiley (25011 in chips)
Seat 9: Glitlr (42489 in chips)
PaulSmiley: posts the ante 150
Glitlr: posts the ante 150
PaulSmiley: posts small blind 1500
Glitlr: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [2d Jc]
PaulSmiley: calls 1500
Glitlr: checks
*** FLOP *** [3c 8h 8s]
Glitlr: checks
PaulSmiley: checks
*** TURN *** [3c 8h 8s] [Qs]
Glitlr: bets 3000
PaulSmiley: calls 3000
*** RIVER *** [3c 8h 8s Qs] [Ad]
Glitlr: checks
PaulSmiley: bets 6000
Glitlr: calls 6000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PaulSmiley: shows [7d 6d] (a pair of Eights)
Glitlr: shows [2d Jc] (a pair of Eights - Ace+Queen+Jack kicker)
Glitlr collected 24300 from pot

Gimmie A Forty

2011-01-27T01:46:00.000-08:00

As the month rolls to a close, it is beginning to become clear that I don't play enough anymore. I was able to slow down my volume after clinching supernova for the 2nd year in 2010 so I could focus more on sngprotege and coaching members. Needless to say, I was never pressured to maintain supernova.

Oh hey-ro 2011, I need to keep supernova with 7500vpps/month. I know what you are thinking. "You can miss a month!" Yes well, it's only a matter a time before I put it off until next month, then the next and then boom too late. My days are consumed with sets/normal coaching/coaching members, and I'm getting to the point where I have to do what I can to keep supernova. I think it's pathetic though because some guys make 5.5kvpps/day (simplicity8) and I have to scrounge 3.5k more before groundhogs day minus one.

So what to do? Have a forty!

...x2.5!

I set out to play 100 games straight tonight. I started at 9:51pm and ended at 1:42am - an elapsed time of 3hrs51m. Wow, I need to piss bad.

I played a mix of 16s/27s/22s/33s/12 45s/12 180s/and a failed 11 and 55 turbo mtt. It went well, but I don't know the results. Not interested in seeing them either.

Closing the night out in a really nice fashion, I managed to bink a 12 180. Now, HU I played really well and picked off a few bluffs and stole some pots that didn't belong to me. But the only reason I got there is because PokerStars managed to return the favor. They basically exchanged my January month for this one hand. Not worth the exchange imo, but I'll take it for now.

Gift from PokerStars VIP Store:

Oh thanks, you've sent me plenty already.

PokerStars Game #56641724733: Tournament #357777283, $11+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII (2000/4000) - 2011/01/27 1:11:40 PT [2011/01/27 4:11:40 ET]
Table '357777283 19' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: b&w,husky (25686 in chips)
Seat 2: makwa22 (43052 in chips)
Seat 3: sadoved555 (16192 in chips)
Seat 4: scheune40 (21402 in chips)
Seat 5: DANIGB77 (65826 in chips)
Seat 6: Draget65 (1926 in chips)
Seat 7: ELYULU25 (15420 in chips)
Seat 9: Glitlr (80496 in chips)
b&w,husky: posts the ante 400
makwa22: posts the ante 400
sadoved555: posts the ante 400
scheune40: posts the ante 400
DANIGB77: posts the ante 400
Draget65: posts the ante 400
ELYULU25: posts the ante 400
Glitlr: posts the ante 400
makwa22: posts small blind 2000
sadoved555: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [Kd Ac]
scheune40: folds
DANIGB77: raises 4000 to 8000
Draget65: folds
ELYULU25: folds
Glitlr: raises 72096 to 80096 and is all-in
b&w,husky: folds
makwa22: folds
sadoved555: folds
DANIGB77: calls 57426 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (14670) returned to Glitlr

DANIGB77: shows [As Ah]

*** FLOP *** [Kc 8h 9h]
*** TURN *** [Kc 8h 9h] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 8h 9h 8c] [Kh] The river letter in BINK is K.

On a much weirder note, I got bot tested. WHAT! This hasn't happened for 2 years! Back then they did it twice, and ok no problem I type in the word that appears in the chat box at all tables. Um, the problem though...this time I had like 30 games up with Table Ninja running. EVERY game started flickering. To make matters even worse, I couldn't type the word in the 30 seconds of allotted time. Oh why? TABLE NINJA AUTO REFRESH TAB IS ON UUUUUUUUGH! So everytime I click to chat, it pops back to info tab. Oh ok, so turn it off in ninja and it will work. It didn't, don't ask, I don't know. In fact TN makes me fold hands before my time bank is gone. wtf? Anybody have this?

So that's that. 40 x 2.5 games, it's 2am, I'm wiped. Tomorrow I will do it again, but this time with abarone68 and bagclip2005. All 16s. Prop bet time. Weee!

Another Cliche (but dope ass) Prop Bet

2011-01-19T18:41:00.001-08:00

Well, I'm winning biggest loser in poker for January. It's to the point where I could just load my games up, walk away, and still earn the same amount of money. But at least now I can focus some attention on something that has no luck involved. My friend and I got a pretty insane prop bet that began Jan 20th at midnight.

Here's the cliffs...

His starting weight is 344. To win, he has to lose 120lbs. That's right. ONE TWENTY. He has something on his side though. He is beginning a 15 week liquid diet that is monitored by the local hospital. It's really legit and really sick actually. I want him to succeed. But at the same time, I have to get ripped ass abs (pretty much the odds of me winning a flip in January). Uh oh. But obv had to spice it up with manies. So here is the bet. The deadline is midnight at new years.

If he wins outright (win = -120lbs), he gets $800.
If I win outright, I get $200.
If I succeed first, and he succeeds as well before the deadline, he wins $400.
If he succeeds first, I have until the deadline to succeed in order to save $400.
If I fail, and he succeeds at the ultimate prize (getting to 200lbs), he gets $1,000.

On your marks, get set, go.

Snap Crackle Pop Call and FULOA

2011-01-12T01:26:00.000-08:00

I'm coining two new phrases. Enjoy.

1,000+ people in a 24+2 turbo on FTP. 22 left, I'm 4th in chips with 186,000 in the CO at blinds 5/10k. Chip leader has 244k. To my left is one guy with 200k on the btn, and the blinds have roughly 80k each. I got AKs (how cliche) and pop it to 22000, and the btn insta jams. I snap crackle pop call.

Aces.

Dear Law of Averages,
It seems that you do not understand the mathematical equilibrium to which you are suppose to adhere. Having AKs makes AA half as likely yet you seem to ignore that statistical certainty. Please stop making this happen in mega pots potentially worth 5.8k.

Yours Truly,
Glitlr

I also had a chip lead super deep in a $33 mtt, obv lost some key races and that didn't pan out. So right now it's 1:40am and I'm 1 tabling the $8 2r1a that is down to 4 tables.

FU LOA.

Website Updates and Two Ideas

2011-01-10T17:08:00.000-08:00

I'm happy to announce that we will be losing our T-card soon. I will be opening up a sngprotege twitter soon so I can update cool stuff when it happens. I'm extremely pleased how the site is going so far. Let me tell you, there are students who are crushing. I don't mean winning, I mean fucking bulldozing. I'm so proud of how hard people are working, it's really a privilege to help. At any rate, I think twitter will be an excellent way to give a pat on the back to these guys as well as keep the community updated with current information.

I also plan on adding a sngprotege facebook page soon, so when it's up I hope even people who aren't involved with the site add it as a friend. I don't know exactly when I'll add it, but it should be soon. Sounds fun too.

Two more things.
1) I really wish $7.70 180 mans could be added to the main mtt lobby on Stars. I emailed Stars once about this, and they told me that it is something that would have to be discussed at an official meeting. Do you guys have any ideas of how to make this happen? Would some type of email petition work? I'm just curious because I think having these run more often then say - oh, once an hour - would be great for everyone.
2) I think everyone's avatar should be them playing in front of a webcam. Live tells in the online world, boom.

Worst Day in A While

2011-01-07T14:51:00.001-08:00

I just finished playing for about 5 hours straight and unfortunately it was pretty crappy. The last 2 days have been bad too but not as bad as today. It's really interesting how you can always feel the bad results creep on you. People slowly begin to peel 2 outers and the pace doesn't seem to get slower. Today I played a bunch of mtts and mttsngs, and I actually did some 9 mans as well. The 9s went well, but the others sigh. It's really frustrating getting KT on a KK8 flop in a 20r mtt and not having the best hand even though it's certainly possible. Couple that with giant pair vs AA over and over again in key spots at final tables of 180 mans and near the money bubble in another 20r for a mega stack, and it's really frustrating. I'd love to post graphs but I tend to ignore results completely. I mean, obviously we all know it went bad but I don't like to put a number on it. Same goes for winning too. I just hate knowing results. But ya, hey, no one cares! So to myself I say...

Also, best license plate eva? Same car as mine, but wayyyyy better license plate. And the heater prob works.

2010 Review and 2011 Dreams

2011-01-03T20:49:00.000-08:00

2010 was a good year overall, but when finding my goals sheet stored away on my computer I noticed some pretty lol stuff.

2010 Goals
1. 300k vpps
2. Defend #1 rank
3. Move to 27/38s
4. Roll around in rakeback

Instead, 2010 brought unexpected things. Here is what I actually did in 2010.

1. 120k vpps
2. Stopped playing 16/27/38s permanently after a blown prop bet that drained my soul
3. Moved to mttsngs and mtts
4. Left rakeback behind and rethought everything
5. Studied
6. Opened a website

Even though I came no where near my goals, who cares. Every year thousands of poker players muster up these elaborate goals of what they want. Me included. I commend you all for it, and I hope you do better than I did at obtaining the goals. Guys who shoot for sne and get there - my hat is off to you. I will never get sne, or 1/2sne, or 1/4sne ever. Ever. I just don't have it in me. So with that said, here are my goals for 2011.

2011 Goals:
1. Play more and maintain supernova
2. One nice mtt score (one time plz)
3. Continue to learn
4. Help some players achieve their goals at sngprotege
5. No poker blackout

Glit2011year

Happy New Year!

2010-12-31T07:48:00.000-08:00

As twenty-ten winds down, it's interesting to think about all the stuff that has happened this year. For us though, we focus on the poker world. This is kind of pathetic (yet we love it) because in the grand scheme of things poker is near the bottom of the food chain of what should be important. People starve, are homeless, are needy, and we just complain about "this sob 3 outs me."

This is our life however, so we must come to enjoy it. Through ups and downs, 2010 has been a cool poker year and life year. Here are some of the more memorable moments.

- Abarone68 shipping the $16 leaderboard and continues to wreck a "solved game." - tic tac toe is a solved game, not sngs
- Meeting a certain player (likes to remain nameless) who ended up ripping 16s this year and changing the course of his poker playing career from breakeven to beast
- Jay Weezey playing 10k games in one month that weren't super turbos lol
- The Giants winning the World Series
- Coaching different guys from around the world
- Losing >25lbs this year (still more work to go)
- Simplicity8 being victimized by the DON scandal, giving up on SNE, and then ripping up 300-400+ games a day to earn SNE (boom)
- Becoming good friends with Bagclip2005
- Retiring from 16s
- The poker blackout not happening

As for person of the year, I have two people I can't decide between. So I'll just mesh them.

No wait, Aaron, not even close to person of the year. Maybe top 68 though. Person of the year, hands down, not even close...

Your Bad Beat Story Sucks, Brah

2010-12-28T17:04:00.000-08:00

If you've ever suffered what you think to be the worst bad beat of your life, wait till you see this. This is from the new game show on Fox called "The Million Dollar Money Drop." All I gotta say is, gtfo Fox.

And here is the article where a Fox rep tries to push it aside.

Let's review what type of money they lost from a poker standpoint.

3,720 Sunday Million Buy Ins
50,000 $16 9 mans
$15,400 in RB with Supernova from those 9 mans
Close to the minimum for final tabling The WSOP Main Event
3.2 Million bb's at 25nl cash
Enough EV to wait for a better spot
20% of Isuldur's upswing rampage
66,666 $12 180 mans
1.6 million KOs in $3 90 mans
Roughly 400,000 bad calls to respite Juandadi and breakeven
Enough rake spent to earn 4.4 million vpps
Enough rake spent to earn 24.2 million fpps (not including SNE boost)
Enough fpps earned to buy 8 porches from the Stars' VIP Store
1 durrrr pot
1,143 Battle of the Planet wins at 16s
1 losing night of Chinese Poker for Phil Hellmuth
4 million bbs at bb20 in 16s
400,000% equity at 16s
1,438,848% equity at 6.50s
The right to never game select ever

Too Late, Can't Sleep

2010-12-27T04:37:00.001-08:00

So I'm just chilling in my friends kitchen at 4:30am while everyone is asleep. I was planning to drive back home from christmas break but it felt too late in the night. I couldn't sleep, so I loaded a long set that lasted 5 hours. I think I'm supposed to be frustrated, but I really don't care right now. I made 2 final tables in mtts but no big cash. I played a weird $10 Fixed Limit Hyper Turbo mtt and got 9th - now that is a weird game. I also played a $33 mtt with about 500ish people and got 7th. It was really kinda just who the f cares when I lost. I raised the CO with QJo about 20x deep. The tightish bb flats and we see a flop of KTx 2 spades. Pot was 37k and I had 100kish behind. I thought about just jamming flop, or like 1.5x'ing the pot, but I ended up checking after he checked from the bb. The turn was an ace. Bink. He led 21500. I decided to raise to exactly 43500 b/c the exact previous hand I bluff raised 34500 and folded to a shove vs another opponent. Maybe no one even noticed. So the bb calls raise. River is 2s. He leads 35000 and I instantly jam in the rest b/c the progression of the hand makes a flush really unlikely. It just looks like a high 2 pair like 99% of the time for him. He turns A9s up, and I just shrug as my room closes out. Oh well, gg, gl next time.

1/2 NL, [x] wat?

2010-12-12T15:05:00.000-08:00

I went to a casino with my friend, and we played some 1/2 nl cash. Bought in for 100bbs and immediately lost 100 bucks straight. Most of it from 2 hands that were really weird. The first was just an all in (sigh). I made chat with this nice guy on my right, and all he could talk about was how today wasn't his day and that he was down to $33 bucks. I literally say, "don't worry you'll double up" as a new hand was being dealt. Ya, he doubled off me within the next 30 seconds with my KK < AQ. That's cool, at least I had to take a 20 mile trip to lose another one of those. -GV, gas value.

Shortly after a weird hand ensued where I chose to limp behind an EP limp with ATc after debating raising or not. It folded to some 30 yr old guy who limped. Imagine Ryan Seacrest if he gained 25lbs and wore a hat. The sb completes, and the bb checks. We see a flop of AhKd3d. I just bet $5 into a pot of 9. 2 callers. Pot is 24 as we see the 9h peel on the turn. I bet 6, and Ryan Seacrest calls, other guy folds. Pot 36 to river. River is Th. He checks. It really feels like he has a missed diamond draw, weak ace, or most likely Kx. I bet 14 for value and he calls. I confidently turn 2 pr up as he shows me K5h. Um...?

I end up getting it back from this same player a little bit later when I have AKc on Ax5c7c and he has a red AQo. We get it all on the flop for like $250ish and I take it, nice.

I proceed to weave a bit and I win 3 pretty nice hands with pure air. One hand in particular was vs. an older guy with slick gray hair. Folds to me utg+3 and I make it 6 with 65o. Btn, nitty shorter stack who loves flops but hates missing lol calls with 40 bucks behind. BB, slick grey guy, calls with $200ish behind. Flop 983, they both check to me and I decided to peel. Turn Q. They both check, I bet 8 into 19 only grey guy calls. On flop I noticed he didn't care as the moment he missed (I assume) he went right back to watching Gus Hansen pwn a wpt on TV. LOL, ty casino TVs. I assume he has a gutter now or a weak Q. River is a 2, complete brick. He checks, and I bet 22. Interestingly, he had raised 22 four different times pf and it became a well known joke that when this particular player bets 22 he has pocket tens. He asks me if I have TT and folds. Ship it 6 high.

I ended up only 50 for the night tx to a pissed off 3b I made over a straddle with 96o and then flopped the nuts. No fun there, just some guy and his gf got mad at me for playing 96o. I wanted to say it's a sex position, maybe you guys should try it when you get home. But I held it in.

The only hand that bugs me is this one. Utg, basically a blinged out slum dog millionaire guy with his gf behind him, min raises. His gf has got like 10 bracelets on, bro. Anyway, I thought it was weird, cause he was always 8/10 raising pf. His image was, however, very tight. He had $350 ish, at this time I had $285. I flatted with K8c. One other guy called in blinds. We see a flop of 872 rainbow, 1 club. Slum dog bets 10, I call. Other folds. Turn 3c, he bets 20. I think crap, he's blinged out nit, he has it. Stacks are like 100+bbs deep, so I roll my eyes inside my skull and call. River is Qh. And this is where it gets weird. Throughout this hand, and the whole night actually, the entire table was just making snap decisions. All night. And here, this guy, starts tanking and counting his chips. I felt this vibe just fall across the table. What is he thinking about now? Why isn't this an easy bet for him. What changed? JJ? He hates the Q? He sat there shuffling his red $5 chips trying to figure out what to do. After about 25-35 seconds, literally, he bets 40. And then, he starts staring at me. He looked petrified. wtf? What is he afraid of? He never looked ever. The entire hand. Now he's staring into my eyes. It felt so awkward. So I asked him, "did you min raise straddle pf or did you raise?" I knew he raised. But wanted to hear what he said. Nothing. He just stared at me so worried. I roll my eyes and say "worst call ever" and call. He flips AA. Huh, how cliche.

Our new 18 man coach is...

2010-12-07T13:16:00.000-08:00

Entim! I'm stoked to welcome Entim to the site. He will be making beasts of some 18 man players for the $6/16 level on Stars. He is a 20 yr old poker pro from Ireland, and I'm pumped about this.

Please send in your 18 man applications to Glitlr@sngprotege.com before spots get filled up.

And in the words of NBA Jam...
boomshakalaka

Accepting 18 man students very soon!

2010-12-05T12:49:00.000-08:00

I'm very pleased to say that we will be accepting new players for 2 table sngs soon. We are in the process of adding an 18 man coach, and I'm very excited about it. Stay tuned for more information.

As for the site, I'm pretty satisfied with it so far. There is a guy, no joke, who has shipped 7 180 mans already. Congrats!

The Fail

2010-12-03T07:40:00.000-08:00

Keeping my abarone trend, I'm stickin with these 'The' titles. I had my first experience in Full Tilt final table deal making. That (not sure how) new deal making thing they have where they bring up ICM or chip count or whatever form of splitting the prize money is kinda interesting. So when we were 5 handed (just a 3r, nuthin fancy) these guys wanted to deal. 5 handed had been going extremely long. I was all in only 2x, winning both, but everyone else kept recycling chips by outdrawing each other left and right. It lasted over 1.5 hrs before they started talking a deal.

Since I had a raise in the pot from utg when they all hit deal (4/5 it displays) I said "if you fold I deal" thinking it was funny. So they did. Awesome. Next hand I posted my BB, and they paused again, asking me if I'd deal. I then noticed that if they walked me I'd get the slight chip lead which means most money at deal, so I said, "walk me and we deal." Woot, free pot.

So we go to the deal page, and this is when I learned how much Full Tilt sucks. The fancy number-filled page (which includes a chat box to discuss the deal) pops up with an additional mini screen that shows who gets what dollar amount and accept/reject button. BUT YOU CAN'T DISCUSS THE DEAL IN CHAT! Everytime you try, it gives you that annoying windows/vista beep sound when you can't access something you are trying to click. So how are you suppose to discuss a deal, if you can't say anything? So I hit reject, to try and type to the other players. I get half a sentence in before the accept/reject window pops up and I'm restricted from typing again! Grrrr, this really pisses me off.

Eventually someone else hit decline and we went back to the game. The only reason I considered dealing was because 5 handed had been going so long it had turned into 10x stacks. And even though clearly that's beneficial for me in terms of knowing what to do, we all know how cruel variance can be. 5th was 1k, first was 4.1k, 2nd was 2.6k, and the deal would have given me 2.5k. So it's like locking up 2nd place for sure. But ldo, 3 hands later I bust in 5th, gg gtfo.

Cliffs:
1. Discussing deals means you should have the option to discuss.
2. Deals are for idiots (unless life changing money).
3. I'm an idiot.
4. Fail.

The Tired

2010-11-18T16:50:00.000-08:00

For the sake of simplicity, I'm using 'The' to start this one out. You like that? I just plugged two blogs at once... gross.

I'm very friggin tired. Work is getting hectic lately although it's fun. So I took a nice break today for a few hours to clean.

[x] wat?

Ya, that's my break. Cleaning. I really wanna get my house clean cause it gets me more in the mood. Although guys like this want it to be that mood, unfortunately it's not. All I've gotten done is the kitchen.

We need more lemon pledge.

Now Accepting New Students and WOF

2010-11-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

Well, title says it all. Please send in your application today!

WTF is WOF?

Wheel of Fortune, home boy home boy.

If you wanna try and figure the puzzle out, pause at :41. But, wtf, are you kidding me?

Introducing the Most Incredible Solve in Wheel of Fortune History

The Site is Officially Open!

2010-11-08T17:45:00.000-08:00

YAY! Happiness as a lot of hard work is over (at least for now). Please check it out! For those of you applying, do so as soon as possible because spots will fill up. We will always be expanding students in the future, but for now there will be a limited spot available.

HAPPINESS!!

www.sngprotege.com

Pumpkins+Giants, Car Repairs, and Website Updates

2010-11-01T14:02:00.001-07:00

ARRRRGH!

Halloween was cool. Esp watching the Giants win 4-zip with and now they have a 3-1 lead in the series. I've been a Giants fan my entire life, and I've been wanting this forever. Quick fact, they have not won the World Series since 1954. Are we clear on this, '54! Do you know what sngs were like back then?!?! People only 3b AA/KK. Oh wait...

I've been to a lotta good Giants games in my day. Was there for Bonds' 71st and 600th so WOOT, but never been to a playoff game cause well they never get there. I feel like a jackass tho cause I'm rooting for them to lose tonight so they can win it at home. At least we made pumpkins to celebrate...

Yayyyy, for car repairs. I literally JUST got a call back from this place. $609 before tax. zomfg. At least I will have ac and heater again. Oh ya, and maybe having my car turn on would be nice. I guess it's better than blowing 50 180 mans.

The website is coming along and should be up soon. I REALLLLY hope within a week. When it's up you can send in an application.

GO GIANTS (but not tonight, sorry)

www.sngprotege.com

2010-10-18T18:57:00.000-07:00

Wow, well it sure has been a long time since I've blogged. I am putting together a new training site with bagclip2005 that I'm happy to call www.sngprotege.com

It's still in its developing phases, but it is coming along nicely. It is a site devoted to backing/coaching. I'm looking to find those hardcore players out there who really want to make it happen. I'm looking for proteges. This will be for low stake turbo 9s/45s/180s on Stars and 45/90 mans on Full Tilt. I can't wait until it's up and running. You can check out the beautiful coming soon page (lol:)) by visiting the site, and it should be up and running soon. I will be looking for people to send in applications in the near future, so if you think you have what it takes to buckle down, get with it, and really crush these games, I'd like to hear from you.

I'll provide more updates here on the blog in the near future, and more details will be available as the site comes closer and closer to opening! I'm excited, pumped, and ready to turn some guys into beasts.

It's Ovah

2010-07-26T18:01:00.000-07:00

Obv. Pretty much threw in the towel a long time ago and took a nice long break. I've paid everyone except for royalplayer cause for the life of me I can't figure out how to spell your name (HELP!). I learned a lesson through this, never force yourself to play x amount everyday. Set goals, don't set requirements. One thing that has helped me in the 2.3ish yrs I've been doing this is always being able to walk away and take some days off when things are just ripping away at my mind. This bet made it so I couldn't, and it tilted the bijeebuz out of me to even load a game. Combine that with run bad, 7 reg games, and I just flat out gave up. But at least we'z all friendz here so weeee. Hope you all are having run good/good days/and happiness.

After Day 10

2010-07-07T09:04:00.001-07:00

It's really bad. I took 4th July off, and I've hit 150 games or more every day. But still, to no avail. I'm getting smashed.

Midway Through Day 3

2010-06-28T17:40:00.000-07:00

Red line - crap.
Green line - more crap.
Giving up - no.

Official time of bet is 10pm June 26th to 10pm July 26th unless I give up or fluke win it - doubt it. I've hit at least 150 games on day 2 and 3 so far (day 1 doesn't really count cause I had 2 hours so I figure that's understandable), and have yet to finish day 3 out. I kinda view it as day 1 is 2hrs....followed by 29 days....followed by the other 22 hours on July 26th. Weird days when you don't start at midnight. Wanna see an ugly graph? EnjoY!

Start Time & Late Registration

2010-06-26T20:18:00.001-07:00

So I will start later tonight. Not sure what time yet. Probably 9pm or 10pm pacific time. I should mention that each "day" to keep it simple will be 12am-12pm but just for today the 150 games won't count for obvious reasons (ie - 3 hour days lol). The dead line will be whatever starting time I begin - that time on July 26th.

As for the betting, I have $192 of my money to bet still. So I will keep a late registration open for about three days to give others a chance to hop in on the easiest money they will ever make lolz.

I'll keep updates going throughout the month. Cheers!

NEW PROP BET!!! Round 2

2010-06-25T10:28:00.001-07:00

So as we all know, I bombed January. And as you all are about to know, I epically bombed June. That's right, I'm like +250 over 1kish games. So what is a guy to do?

Prop bet this mofo.

I. I'd like to start on the 26th or 27th if possible to work around my girlfriend's schedule better. Make it 30 days long. So if I start on the 26th, it will end July 25, etc. I'd like to bet up to a thousand dollars of my money. Again, all small bets are welcome cause some of us (hint: me) are not huge crazy gamblers like (hint) Chuckpalms.:) A minimum bet of $10 would be nice.

II. Stuff to bet on (PLEASE READ *** AT THE BOTTOM *** BEFORE HAND)

a) Total Games and Games/Day.
5,000 games with a minimum of 150 games/day. I will without a doubt have more trouble on wkends since I don't play them too much usually. Also, this only adds to 4500 games. So, I will obviously have to play more. I am allowed 1 failed day (less than 150 games) and 1 day off (zero games) of my choosing if I desperately need it. If I do not succeed in this, the bettor wins. Odds on this bet are 2-1 in my favor. You bet $40 to win my $20.

b) Profit.
$10,000 in the 30 day period. I can play 9 man $16, $27, and $38s. I am also allowed to play some other games (most likely failing at low stake mtts) but these are in no way included in the bet. I am offering 3-1 on this. You're $60 to win my $20.

c)VPPs. ***This bet is now capped and is closed***
50k vpps in these 30 days. Wat? My ave. month is like 9k points lol. You'd be silly not to get against this. AND I'm offering 2-1 odds on it. I mean, wow, I'd bet myself a million on this. You're $40 to win my $20.

d) Fun Stuff.
- Finish Distribution.
I need at least 600 firsts, 600 seconds, and 600 thirds. I am offering 1-1 odds on this with a minimum bet of $5.

- Bubbles.
How many times do you think I'll bubble? Have fun, pick a number. Closest without going over wins $20.**

- Hands Played.
How many hands will all this take? Closest without going over wins $50.**

**You must participate in the betting for at least $20 to have a shot at these.
***IF AT ANY POINT I CROSS $10,000 PROFIT FOR THE 30 DAYS, THE PROFIT BET IS OVER. THE OTHER BETS CONTINUE, BUT IF I DROP BELOW 10,000 I STILL WIN THE PROFIT BET***

Please PM me on 2+2, message me on skype, leave a comment here, or email me to confirm your bets. There will be no escrow or whatever cause this is purely on an honor policy and as those of you who participated before know...ya, I paid up lol. Maybe abarone can hold onto money from people I don't know (and my money too to be fair), but that's just in case. This might turn into a late registration cause I'll probably end up starting soon!

I plan on making a post everyday to update the bet and hopefully post a few cool hands to discuss strategy.

Good Luck In The Next 30 Days.

10 Hour Set

2010-06-18T12:05:00.001-07:00

So this weekend I'm gonna have a lot of free time and I've been slacking with playing. Partly b/c I'm losing but mostly b/c I've been coaching a lot lately. I've been working with a student from Greece who is learning TONS of stuff and he seems really thrilled about it. I'm really happy for him.

I'm gonna set out on a mission to play 10 hrs straight. For breaks, I'm allowed 1 hr of "down" time. Down time consists of having 10+ games up and/or bathroom breaks where a friend can take over and play for me for a minute or whatever. The elapsed time of the down time is capped at 1hr.

I don't know if I'll start this tonight or tomorrow, but feel free to rail and spout cuss words out in the late hours of this.

Personal records...
105 game set ~3hrs
159 game set ~4.5hrs

Is this another one of those "I tell/dream I'm gonna so something" then don't do it?
[x] Most likely:)

Happy wkend/happy father's day everyone/dads.

Anyone wanna bet for fun? Few hundred doesn't sound too shabby. Maybe profit req?

World Idol & 50 States

2010-06-15T10:48:00.000-07:00

So today I played with a guy named Kurt Nielsen. Wait, I know this guy! I took his location (Larvik) or something like that and googled it. It's in Norway. Wow, in fact, that's where he's from. So who is he? This guy won World Idol. Like, you know American Idol...this guy won the "every country's respective winner vs each other" idol.

I mean, ya he could just be some rando who wanted to make that name with his home town. But cmon, if you were gonna do that you'd pick someone MEGA huge. At least more known than a guy from Norway. Also, I scoped him, he's only played like 20 games which just makes me believe it even more.

As for the 50 States challenge, it ended yesterday. Epic Fail. We were left with Delaware, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. Blah.

I got ripped today in my first set, mostly 27 38s sigh. The only win I had was the World Idol game - roflcopter. I really really want more rakeback plz. I've been adding lotza 27 38s to my sets and been playing more continuously too. I really want BagClip to teach me some mtt strat cause that dude just banked 19k. And it was only a THIRD place finish. Sigh. I want that. Congrats, sir!

Off to play some...

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OH FML I JUST SAW HE HAS NO E IN HIS LAST NAME. ........................wocnbowecbuewo

UIGEA, Bets, Misc...

2010-06-03T21:30:00.000-07:00

So apparently people can still deposit the same way afaik. So that's good news. But I'm still unclear on all the details. It got me thinking, wow, how many players do we actually play against? It seems that games are so reg infested all the time (whatever that means) but then how come I have 125,000+ players in my database!?!?!? Where are these people?!

So June 14th at 2pm is the end of the 50 states in 50 days challenge. Atm, there are 6 states remaining. Rhode Island, Delaware, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Georgia, and Kentucky. GL last few days.

As for the weight loss stuff (ya, ya, cliche I know), today is the end of day 18 (a 3lb check point every 9 days). I lost 2.8lbs the first 9 days and only a pound the 2nd 9. It's a successful failure though because I've hit they gym probably 14/18 days and that's immaculate considering I let my membership waste away for a year. Goodbye $300ish bucks. I've also been eating rly healthy too, and I'm proud of that. No gay flag Jonas Brother pics plz!

And one more thing, I might have said this a long time ago but I think they should make rebuy 9 mans. Just saying.

New Weight Loss Bet

2010-05-17T03:23:00.001-07:00

Ya, cliche I know. But this one has a twist. The goal is to basically lose 30 lbs in 3 months. My starting weight is 176.4 lbs. It started 3 hours ago at midnight May 17 and ends August 18th at midnight. Every nine days at midnight I have to do a weigh in checkpoint and must hit 3/6/9 etc lbs respectively on each of those days. Originally there was gonna be some money on it but my friend chickened out on his half of the bet. So now it just looks like self motivation from here on out. Here is the twist though. I've decided that as a punishment for not completing it, I'm basically going to screw myself over. If I lose, I have to change my avatar on PokerStars to one of these two choices decided by you guys. Either of these would really friggin suck.

a) my before pic (before and after photos) of my complete stomach up to my neck (yes, my sexy nips included lolz)
b) the gay pride flag
c) The Jonas Brothers

Time to vote now.

Why No Bad Beat Jackpot, PokerStars?

2010-05-14T18:00:00.000-07:00

fml...

PokerStars Game #44094161196: Tournament #272856049, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2010/05/14 14:36:09 PT [2010/05/14 17:36:09 ET]
Table '272856049 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: RPRSP (940 in chips)
Seat 2: missbashful (3402 in chips)
Seat 3: Efhariso (1555 in chips)
Seat 5: Katzenguruh (1735 in chips)
Seat 6: AbigbangA (2590 in chips)
Seat 7: regular33 (1325 in chips)
Seat 8: S esperanza$ (508 in chips)
Seat 9: Glitlr (1445 in chips)
S esperanza$: posts small blind 25
Glitlr: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [3c 3h]
RPRSP: folds
missbashful: calls 50
Efhariso: folds
Katzenguruh: folds
AbigbangA: folds
regular33: folds
S esperanza$: calls 25
Glitlr: checks
*** FLOP *** [2s 3s 9d]
S esperanza$: bets 150
Glitlr: calls 150
missbashful: folds
*** TURN *** [2s 3s 9d] [3d]
S esperanza$: checks
Glitlr: bets 100
S esperanza$: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [2s 3s 9d 3d] [5s]
S esperanza$: bets 208 and is all-in
Glitlr: calls 208
*** SHOW DOWN ***
S esperanza$: shows [4s As] (a straight flush, Ace to Five)
Glitlr: shows [3c 3h] (four of a kind, Threes)
S esperanza$ collected 1066 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1066 | Rake 0
Board [2s 3s 9d 3d 5s]
Seat 1: RPRSP folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: missbashful folded on the Flop
Seat 3: Efhariso folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Katzenguruh folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: AbigbangA folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: regular33 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: S esperanza$ (small blind) showed [4s As] and won (1066) with a straight flush, Ace to Five
Seat 9: Glitlr (big blind) showed [3c 3h] and lost with four of a kind, Threes

SitnGoGrinders and A Riddle

2010-05-12T18:36:00.001-07:00

Shame on my last riddle which probably no one got cause it's way too hard (I couldn't get it myself). The answer is Brighton, Britain.

Anyway, I'll do more sensible riddles in the future:). Here is a cool one that's easy to wrap your brain around but really kills you when you try and figure it out.

How do you make half of five equal four?

On another note, I am now an affiliated trainer for www.sitngogrinders.com . Feel free to visit the site, sign up, and check out my videos. Darinvg and azntracker's videos are awesome!

Motivating Words and Other Things

2010-05-04T20:23:00.000-07:00

So a friend of a friend got 3rd in the 55r scoop for basically the same amount as the buy in but swap the r for k. Just saying cause it makes me feel involved lol cause I don't really know him but it's majorily awesome - congrats jigga_wigga.

I heard someone say something on TV today in the string of a bunch of sentences, so it wasn't like he was trying to say something profound. But it kinda hit me. He said,

"If you want to have something you've never had, you have to do things you've never done."

These are some pretty startling words if you really think about them. It's so simple yet so powerful at the same time no matter what topic you relate it to. The show was just about weight loss and even though it's so cliche to talk about weight loss in poker blogs because we all sit around so much, it just made me think. If you want something new, you have to do something different.

What he said put me in one of those honest moods, and it got me thinking about how rude I've been in the past to one particular player. I'm almost (I hope) never mean to anyone, but I always seemed to butt heads with one guy cause he always seemed to get the best of me no matter who held what cards. Ya, I've had my huge beats vs. him but no matter what happened he always made the right play no matter what the results were. In all honestly, I actually think this guy is one of the best players out there even though I've never seen his results since he blocks his sharkscope. So, sorry for being rude, cause I respect your game a lot J0ff.

And one more thing while I'm thinking about it. I made a pick for who I thought would come out of no where and crush 16s this year. And so far it's coming true. I think one of the best regs out there who gets overlooked is Roy4lPl4yor. I think he is ridiculously good. Damn, I should have staked him!

Ok, and ONE more thing haha. A riddle. Really hard. Got it from Ken Jennings' blog. For those of you who don't know him just WIKI him because he is the most baller person on the face of the earth. 74 Jeppardy wins in a row for 2.2 million...ARE U KIDDING ME??? His riddle is something like this: take a well known world city. Change the sound of the vowel from it's long sound to it's short sound. (for example, when you say "apple" the a sound is short. If you say a vowel aloud the way you pronounce the letter by itself - like the A in "hate" it is a long vowel. So "hate" becomes "hat" if you change the vowel from long to short). If you make the city name's vowel the short sound, it gives you the name of that city's country.

note: the spelling does not necessarily remain the same for the city/country. You will hear the answer in the SOUND of the word not the spelling. Man, it's hard:).

Test Your Poker IQ roflcopter

2010-04-30T10:21:00.000-07:00

I found this on 2+2 and thought it was pretty corny but kills the boredom while game selecting. At the end you have to give your email to receive your IQ, but I didn't do it haha. I had 1,294 chips when it was over. It probably takes about 20 minutes to complete. Have fun!

http://www.testyourpoker.com/poker/

Internet Disconnections...

2010-04-28T14:58:00.000-07:00

It's happened before. Three times exactly. A full set is up, and crash. ... thanks comcast. Thanks guy who set up my comcast and said it's the best internet and never goes out (ya right). Dude was full of crap. Not like I believed him though. I've had three huge losses in the past and for all of them I cried to Mommy PokerStars and she reimbursed me. In one set I actually made $11 cause I cashed somehow haha. But today, it went out again. 24 unresponsive games for 10-15 minutes. So what to do? Call a friend and have them take over! Well my phone is connected via internet (ty magicjack) and I'm poor so I have no cell phone. So, um, ya, just me and myself...hangiiiin out. I fiddled with all the modem stuff and got it back. I was either out or half stacked in every game. Then, like it should happen, I kept getting 2 outtered everywhere and it was just mega tilting considering the circumstances. One piece of advice I can offer (that I learned the hard way over a year ago) is to NEVER not raise all in if you are going to play the hand (unless it's a normal tiny raise). Never get cute with non-all-in all ins unless you want it to disconnect you and you lose your stack. When it was all over, I feel very fortunate to walk away -$116. Which, is amazing considering the 24 games is $384. -30% roi, not too shabby.

...off to verizon for backup.

Potential Prop Bet or Just for Fun?

2010-04-27T07:27:00.000-07:00

This has nothing to do with poker, and it's WAY cooler! My friend and I wanna make some sort of a mini bet that we can find all 50 state license plates on a car in a certain amount of time (maybe 1 month). We can do 1-1 on money with a max bet of like $50 total for everyone (lol). It just sounds really fun AND I have a head start cause I found one of the impossible two already. Alaska. BOOM! Besides these two, the further east the harder to find. Especially when not driving on the freeway.

[x] Alaska
[x] Arkansas
[x] California (had to be found eventually hahahahhaa)
[x] Idaho

Lesson of The Day: Pay Attention

2010-04-22T19:09:00.000-07:00

One of the most common mistakes of multi-tablers is robotisism. Click click click, shove shove shove, etc etc etc. One thing I pride myself in (the only thing rofl) is that I consistently think while I play and interact with the player types around me. When this hand came up, I was in utter shock, then happy at the flop, then miserable on the turn.

PokerStars Game #43056647139: Tournament #265653847, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2010/04/22 18:50:03 PT [2010/04/22 21:50:03 ET]
Table '265653847 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Glitlr (6320 in chips)
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (7180 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 50
cherrybomb23: posts the ante 50
cherrybomb23: posts small blind 400
Glitlr: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [2c 8s]
cherrybomb23: raises 6330 to 7130 and is all-in
Glitlr: calls 5470 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (860) returned to cherrybomb23
*** FLOP *** [8d 6s 2s]
*** TURN *** [8d 6s 2s] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [8d 6s 2s 6d] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Glitlr: shows [2c 8s] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
cherrybomb23: shows [6h As] (three of a kind, Sixes)
cherrybomb23 collected 12640 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12640 | Rake 0
Board [8d 6s 2s 6d 3h]
Seat 1: Glitlr (big blind) showed [2c 8s] and lost with two pair, Eights and Sixes
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (button) (small blind) showed [6h As] and won (12640) with three of a kind, Sixes

WHY DID YOU CALL YOU IDIOT!??!?!?!

It wasn't a misclick. It was a genuine call. The problem was in the hand prior to this one. In fact, I haven't even looked at the HH yet, but I plan on finding it once I type out the next few sentences. I shoved K8o at bb800 for like 6kish or something and he called K3, WOOT! He missed his 3 and boom I have 12.5kish chips. So when I called this 82o, I thought I was calling like 200ish more chips. Here is the hand...

PokerStars Game #43056631409: Tournament #265653847, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2010/04/22 18:49:33 PT [2010/04/22 21:49:33 ET]
Table '265653847 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Glitlr (6320 in chips)
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (7180 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 50
cherrybomb23: posts the ante 50
Glitlr: posts small blind 400
cherrybomb23: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [8s Kh]
Glitlr: raises 5470 to 6270 and is all-in
cherrybomb23: calls 5470
*** FLOP *** [2h Ac 9s]
*** TURN *** [2h Ac 9s] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [2h Ac 9s Kc] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cherrybomb23: shows [Kd 3d] (a pair of Kings)
Glitlr: shows [8s Kh] (a pair of Kings)
cherrybomb23 collected 6320 from pot
Glitlr collected 6320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12640 | Rake 0
Board [2h Ac 9s Kc Jc]
Seat 1: Glitlr (button) (small blind) showed [8s Kh] and won (6320) with a pair of Kings
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (big blind) showed [Kd 3d] and won (6320) with a pair of Kings

Looking at it again it takes me a couple seconds to realize we split. So, moral of the story, pay attention to everything. Mostly so you don't call 82o for even stacks like me.

Bipolar Tendencies

2010-04-19T15:59:00.001-07:00

Sunday WEEE, Monday awww. I'm basically giving it away now in games. Come get it while you can! I even snap called a supposedly bvb shove from a reg with KQs only to realize I missed the utg limper. I hit my desk. I've never missed that spot ever. Literally. Ever. That's when you know you are playing bad. I thought I'd do some reminiscing about happier times so I pulled up some graphs. I coached clickys, cool dude who plays $6.50s, and helped him out a bit. Nice guy and nice improvement.

You can tell where the fun started:) He's not up millions or anything, but I think it definitely proves that studying pays off. I hope he continues to grow as he thinks critically and analyzes more spots.

What about Travis? Where is he? Tbini87 is a fish who used to flat KQ at bb100 - I'm sorry KQsuiiiiiited - on ABSOLUTE POKER. Screw the talk, show the garfz.

INTERNET!!!

2010-04-14T15:46:00.000-07:00

FIIIINALLLLY! God, I feel like a crack head who couldn't smoke for a week. My place is still REALLY messy but that's ok cause I have my computer omgomgomg finally. I still need to roam the internet a bit just to check connection speeds before I muster up the strength to play again. Does anyone know about any backup internet stuff? Let me know.

As for now, sigh, tax day is tomorrow and I'm shipping out a nice little sum that basically makes me wanna throw up on society. Well, I'm off to clean/unpack/put furniture in places. And then probably off myself cause of taxes lol.

To leave you thinking critically about something, check out this picture. It's a subway sandwich. I realized lately that every sandwich I've ever gotten from there (no matter what the sandwich it is) it always has something in common. What is wrong with this picture?

So Hectic

2010-04-09T08:28:00.000-07:00

So today I am picking up the keys to the place and continue packing. Tomorrow is the actual move itself. It's exciting and exhausting at the same time - and the hard part hasn't even started yet. I won't say too much because I don't really have the time. But I want to share this video I found because I think it has a really good message.

Another 1 month bet?

2010-03-29T15:38:00.000-07:00

Or maybe a 2 wk bet? I dnno. I'm thinking of doing another one after I move, although I don't know when I'll have everything set up. Perhaps around April 20th? But def. not later than May 1st will I start this thing if I end up doing it. I'm thinking of round II on my January attempt. How can you not bet vs. me now? I failed once, it's easy money lol. I've even thought of adding another stipulation that will fare in the bettors favor. Something like, I need to play x games/day without missing more than 1 day of x. If I fail, the bettors' odds change. So say I offer 2-1 odds (maybe 2.5-1 this time, not sure). You bet 200 to win my 100. If I fail more than my one allotted day of missed games, you increase the amount of money you win by (don't know the # yet) 10%. Now you are 200-120. During this bet, I will still coach (hopefully, lol) so it will be even harder to make it. This is just a rough draft of hopefully what turns into be another friendly (un)successful bet.

I'm Homelessless!

2010-03-22T17:40:00.000-07:00

Problem solved! Unless anything weird comes up for whatever reason, things are looking good with the house stuff. I'm finally getting out of this town! You may have seen a movie about it.

The kinda cool, quirky irony is that the house I'm getting is the same house I was gonna get. WAT!?! It's like a track home or whatever. Where they look similar to each other. It's like the same house, in a neighboring neighborhood, but a WAY nicer area. Even nicer than the first one. It hasn't all sank in yet, but I'm sure it will start feeling pretty nice soon enough. I've had packed boxes sitting in my front room for 2 weeks almost lolz. Here is a google earth image of the place.

It looks a little funny on that right portion of the garage and up cause the image is funky haha. Great, now this rando in the pic has a prius and I want it so I can save money on gas, sigh.

On a poker note, I'm surprised no one said anything - well, maybe you thought it - about that 72h hand. Here is a recap of what happened and my explanation for my play.

So first off, all I know about this player is that early game he is a standard nit box playing 9/7, but that he overvalues AKo cause I remember he 4b shoved it on me (and he wasn't even the initial raiser) at bb20. Now, that shouldn't play into my decision here, but it's worth mentioning that he is standard nit box.

So he limps in. This is what I like to call a tell. A name tell. What does a standard 9/7 player named sngwizkid limp here? My guess is he has a huge pair unless he plays a little unconventionally.

I hit something on a dry board. If I check and he bets, I won't know if he has AA or air. So I stab 600 to clarify the matter. He flats the 600. What does he have? I doubt he has anyone of these pairs tbh. Unless its a set of jacks. No one named sngwizkid limps Jx here. And I doubt anyone with that name limps a 2 or 3 that isn't good enough to shove pf.

The turn brings the 5c. Betting serves no purpose but to fold out a 2 or 3 or 5 which he has none of here. I check. He checks as well. DING DING DING. Most overpairs bet here unless you're applying some really smart line.

River makes Ax have a straight. I check. He value bets? Huh? No. You don't have an ace. Anyone with sng wiz, even idiots, shove Ax pf. Do you have a x6o? Well, I don't think you had a pair the whole time. So you have 67? 68? 69? etc. Seems like those are easy shoves pf. (but then again, the air hands on this board are easy shoves pf too, so I just suck at hand reading). Maybe though, you could have a fluke pair of 5s. But why would 5s bet here? Just in case it is a fluke pair, I elected to shove.

Lol just trust me he folded. Haha, I can't get a pic to show it lolz.

Moral of the story is, don't let anyone tell you sngs are solved. I've never made this play ever. I bet I miss spots like this all the time. I'm pretty certain everyone does. But it just goes to show you, that there is stuff EVERYWHERE if you just really buckle down and apply logical reasoning. This whole play was based off of his HUD and screenname. If his name did not contain sngwiz, I would have never made this move.

Why I Should Be A Team PokerStars Pro

2010-03-11T09:58:00.000-08:00

Ok, first off, there is no ego here. As you know (hopefully), I have zero ego in this game. Let me explain why I should be a pro. First off, I'm not moving into that house. ZOMG, WAT? Ya, dude. The day before I was scheduled to sign the lease (I was already told for a fact I was getting this house mind you), I call up the realtor to ask one more question. She answers the phone and says hi followed by an unusual chuckle. Maybe this is when that whole poker reading vibe comes in. That chuckle, is a bad chuckle. WTF is going on you dumbass chuckle? She begins to tell me a lengthy story about this and that. I could ask you if you want the good news or bad news first, but then I'd just have to pretend like any small bit of good news even exists. Here is the gist of it. The owner of the house is having a financial crisis (economy blah blah blah) with her job and in order to save herself she has to sell the house and not rent it. AKA: I can't move in. Oh, ok, that's no problem. Understandable. Here's the kicker though. And this is worse than when that fish's kicker plays and you're just like how the hell did his A4o hold vs my A2o. How did his kicker even play! F that kicker! Well, F this kicker...I already put in the 30 day notice at the house I'm at now. Folks, I am on the verge of becoming homeless. So that's why I should be a Team PokerStars pro. Just one from the homeless sector. Luckily, I'm viewing a home within the hour so maybe my fortunes will turn around very soon. But until then, I have been stressed out of my mind since last Friday when I found this out. It's like a 6 day mental downswing. So, until this stuff gets settled, I can officially say that I am potentially the sickest homeless poker player this world has ever seen. Although, I'm probably only in the same field of comparison as drunks and addicts who play by the fireside with their jumbo sized decks at 2am under the bridge. Hmm, homegame anyone?

I Was Banned From 2+2

2010-03-04T15:22:00.001-08:00

FINALLY! I've been trying to ban myself from this site (block it, at least) because I always end up in the stt forum all the time. Habit draws me there. It lures me, it contolllls me ugh. Apparently, I got ousted for naming names in the game selection *DON'T NAME NAMES* thread. I assumed that this meant "don't name names when CALLING OUT people in a bad way." Guess I was wrong. I just named names of people who actively register around me, and I thought it was interesting that these are all big name guys. These are also all the same people I actively avoid as well. Oh, well. I need to not go to 2+2 anymore. I TRYYYYY to only use it for PMs because I arrange coaching stuff sometimes. But then I get suckered into reading posts. Maybe I should make a prop bet where I can't read 2+2 for a month. Any takers?

Apart from that, I would like to show a pic of the other time I got "in trouble" from 2+2. I got infraction points when I joined because I needed to "stop posting threads of low quality." This is one reason I rly hate 2+2. Like, when you are new to the game, or a new poster, and you have some questions you want answered, everyone gangs up on you like you're the freshman of 2+2 High School. I think I asked people what music they listen to for motivation to grind - insta ban/infraction points. Thanks. So, ya, I'd show you the pic, but...well, I can't get it cause I'm banned. Lolz.

I have a trivia question for you 2+2 junkies. Without looking - don't cheat - what are the suits of the cards in the 2+2 logo? I couldn't answer this myself, but thought it was pretty cool cause we've all seen it (although probably without registering the image) subconsciously.

Oh, and how to play quads...

PokerStars Game #40663903004: Tournament #249249860, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2010/03/04 12:19:51 PT [2010/03/04 15:19:51 ET]
Table '249249860 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: sam11788 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: ReXwoo (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: EvilRaiser (1470 in chips)
Seat 4: Glitlr (1510 in chips)
Seat 5: barro994 (1530 in chips)
Seat 6: MADSEN AA (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: m1003 (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: a7ofspades (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: 77vince (1500 in chips)
Glitlr: posts small blind 10
barro994: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [Js Jh]
MADSEN AA: folds
m1003: raises 20 to 40
a7ofspades: folds
77vince: folds
sam11788: folds
ReXwoo: folds
EvilRaiser: folds
Glitlr: raises 80 to 120
barro994: folds
m1003: calls 80
*** FLOP *** [4h Jc Jd]
Glitlr: bets 20
m1003: raises 20 to 40
Glitlr: raises 20 to 60
m1003: raises 20 to 80
Glitlr: raises 20 to 100
m1003: calls 20
*** TURN *** [4h Jc Jd] [2d]
Glitlr: bets 20
m1003: raises 1260 to 1280 and is all-in
Glitlr: calls 1260
*** RIVER *** [4h Jc Jd 2d] [7h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Glitlr: shows [Js Jh] (four of a kind, Jacks)
m1003: shows [2h 2c] (a full house, Deuces full of Jacks)
Glitlr collected 3020 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3020 | Rake 0
Board [4h Jc Jd 2d 7h]
Seat 1: sam11788 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ReXwoo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: EvilRaiser (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Glitlr (small blind) showed [Js Jh] and won (3020) with four of a kind, Jacks
Seat 5: barro994 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: MADSEN AA folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: m1003 showed [2h 2c] and lost with a full house, Deuces full of Jacks
Seat 8: a7ofspades folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: 77vince folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Feb. Results

2010-02-27T09:06:00.000-08:00

Well, pfff, easily my worst month ever. I actually was +3 in games (total games, not sngs, I'll explain), but just did a -90 set lolz. I found out I needed $177 more in rake to "keep" supernova, but I can't bring myself to do it this weekend. It's ok. I've had supernova since 2008 and it's an important source of income (bonuses/rakeback) so I doubt I'll miss another month of it. This month was just completely lol b/c I lost like 1300 in games outside of the 16s. Bagclip, jeez don't get me started, just makes me collapse mentally because he applies the most mind controlling form of peer pressure I've ever heard! He talked me into playing a 20R mtt with an add on AND the sunday million. -215 lolz. Thanks, buddy:). In the 16s I made somewhere between 12-13ish in the 800ish games I played so I don't feel that bad considering I ran pretty crappy this month anyway. Although I must admit, my redline isn't exactly Januaryesque so I think I played poorly in them - but more so in the beginning of the month. Coaching went well though, and I really hope some people I helped can win some money and prove that I'm not a luckbox. So overall I'm up this month enough to pay bills, but nothing amazing.

HOWEVER, one cool bit of news is that I'm going to be moving into a new house. Now, look, I'm not this baller spacegravy/bfizz player who buys some massive house. I'm renting, lol. But it will be nice, as I've grown tired of where I live now. I'll be living in Fresno (which is no brag at all), but at least I will be living in nice part of it - pretty much 90% of that town is pure crap.

Just for fun I thought I'd share this. I forgot that I gave my gf $10 on pokerstars. Here is her garf. I'm not even kidding you, when she played (was a while ago) she seriously didn't know which hand was better - 2 pr or 3 of a kind. I AM NOT EXAGGERATING! She just knew how to play the nuts early, and I taught her 2 endgame techniques that most people don't know about. Obv ran bad in 6s at the end lolz.

2nd post today - Emergency Post

2010-02-23T19:12:00.000-08:00

So I just had the biggest wtf moment EVER in a sng. This guy hugo ra has been disconnected for like 10 hands now and is long gone from the game. So this comes up...

PokerStars Game #40233628323: Tournament #246291774, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2010/02/23 18:22:46 PT [2010/02/23 21:22:46 ET]
Table '246291774 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Glitlr (1625 in chips)
Seat 3: hugo ra (385 in chips)
Seat 7: cork red (6880 in chips)
Seat 9: carltons11 (4610 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 50
hugo ra: posts the ante 50
cork red: posts the ante 50
carltons11: posts the ante 50
Glitlr: posts small blind 400
hugo ra: posts big blind 335 and is all-in
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [9c 8d]
cork red: folds
carltons11: raises 4160 to 4560 and is all-in
Glitlr: OH NO WHAT DO I DO??!?!!

Oh wait me thinks, I emailed stars about this over a year ago and ZOMG I know how the server behaves under these circumstances. ZOMG I made a post on 2+2 about it.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/36/stt-strategy/when-player-sitting-out-disconnected-362430/

So, now that you've read it, the bottom line is that if there is AN AGGRESSIVE ACTION (ie - raise, not call) to put the guy all in, his hand is FOLDED. So, with that said...

Glitlr: calls 1175 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2985) returned to carltons11
*** FLOP *** [Kc 6c Th]
*** TURN *** [Kc 6c Th] [As]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 6c Th As] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Glitlr: shows [9c 8d] (high card Ace)
carltons11: shows [Qs 9d] (high card Ace - King+Queen kicker)
carltons11 collected 2480 from side pot
hugo ra: shows [Kd 3d] (a pair of Kings)
hugo ra collected 1205 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3685 Main pot 1205. Side pot 2480. | Rake 0
Board [Kc 6c Th As 4h]
Seat 1: Glitlr (small blind) showed [9c 8d] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 3: hugo ra (big blind) showed [Kd 3d] and won (1205) with a pair of Kings
Seat 7: cork red folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: carltons11 (button) showed [Qs 9d] and won (2480) with high card Ace

I've made this call with people sitting out since it's effectively 3 handed. But apparently if he's DISCONNECTED, the PokerStars server behaves differently. I've emailed support and they are "forwarding my message to a poker specialist," **pleeeeease be Negraneu lolz*** and I am still awaiting their response. Clicking fold is instantly worth $27 here, so you can see why I am mad.

Discuss!!!

How can you block your blue star?

2010-02-23T10:33:00.000-08:00

It really just comes across as "he's embarrassed about having a bad month so he blocked it." At least that's how I'd interpret an outside view on it. Although the bad month part is true (although it's turning around thankfully), the real story behind blocking the star is to make Aaron more profitable:). He's had a killer February and I'm really happy for him. If his confidence wasn't already high enough, there is nothing like adding that blue star to make you wanna crush even more. TBH, I think the blue star is overrated. I think when you first get it, it makes you feel like you are king. But after like 2 weeks it really doesn't matter anymore - well, at least to me. For those of you who don't know, Aaron actually had the blue star for 27/38s back in Feb. of 2008 when he passed one of the best players imo (Premier) on the leaderboard. In fact, a lot of misinformed people might think he is a big loser based on his sharkscope graph. How did Premier lose all that money? Well, high stakes ldo. But where did the money come from? What people don't know is this...oh, what's that? WSOP final table...(go to the 8:10 mark)

After you watch this one, you should definitely watch the other 4 parts. Premier is Maros Lechman. Baller imo.

Anyway, I hope Aaron uses the motivation from the blue star to motivate him hard.

February

2010-02-17T08:53:00.000-08:00

February is easily my worst month ever. But it's pathetic really. A country is shattered my an earthquake, people are dying, and we all complain about cards? Card games are so trivial and the more importance we place on it, the more we take away from what's really important in life. But, nonetheless, it is a job. And like any other job you can't just get up and quit, not show up for work, and put a middle finger in the air. That's pretty much the basis for why I'm mad at myself. I've played only about 500 games this month. Yes, I had an excuse to take it easy for the first week after January. What's my excuse now? None, absolutely none. The lack of success on the tables, and the lack of volume is purely laughable. People work 8 hr days and I can't muster up the strength to play 3 lately. Check out my results. Oh, it's not like the red line goes up either...

85 games I base this on lol. Now I know why new players always question results. 85 games is meaningless. 85 games is approx. .21% of the games I've played all time! Yet, I boo hoo about results. (also -192 on FT) For those of you who fall into that category of players who "really wanna win big," or "wanna go for the gold," or "have that dream," or "I run bad and it won't happen but it should happen I work hard"...I leave you with this.

There are only 2 ways to not make money at this game.
1. Be a bad player
2. Be a good player...who gives up

Why 27s own my soul

2010-02-10T07:41:00.000-08:00

I just played a set of half 16s/27s. -250. Nice start for the day. It's the first time I've ever - in 40,000 games - tilt called my stack off. I called with 32o in my final game vs. someone b/c I was so mad. Here are some stupid things that happened to me. I shove 1200 utg 8 handed 75/150 and a "reg" calls me with TT in MP (probably not good) but it's not awful. T comes obv, but I think this is a fundamental fold. People get so caught up in shove/shove/shove that they fail to even get the most fundamental spots down where your calling range is literally like <5 hands. I raised KK 2.5x utg at 100 200 7 handed with 2500 and some guy reshoves utg+2 for 1700 and 77 (nice) and flops 77J so gg nh. Basically every pair on pair action (ie - I have QQ+ and they have 77- lol) got crushed. It's funny though, cause when Fat Afghan beats me (standard bvb shove he has J6 I have AQ) I don't feel bad at all cause I respect him like crazy. I'm like, wow great play sir gg. But this one guy, who was loading a bunch of games. I don't get it. I am, dare I say it, intimidated??? I'm intimidated by 27s? I was intimidated by 16s a year ago and now lol at me being an idiot. But this guy, I look him up, he's not up much at all, I'm like ok let's go so I load a bunch with him. This guy, is a 27 REG? I hate that term reg b/c it's taking on the meaning of "a good player" instead of it's real meaning- um, "a guy who plays REGularly." This guy opens 2.5x at 50/100 on the bubble with 1500 utg (ok, not horrible), and then calls a 3b to 1500 from the 5k stack sb when the next closest stack to him is 2500. What do you think a 3b to 1500 has right here? Certainly a range that obliterates 55. That's ok, 55>JJ. Strangely enough, this is the only 27 I cashed in. A few hands later at 75/150, this happens...

PokerStars Game #39527498845: Tournament #241567534, $25+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2010/02/10 7:15:07 PT [2010/02/10 10:15:07 ET]
Table '241567534 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Glitlr (2350 in chips)
Seat 3: Notsogoodguy (2715 in chips)
Seat 4: Peeeedor (1795 in chips)
Seat 7: girlsmitty (6640 in chips)
Glitlr: posts small blind 75
typical9/5earlygameregwhoiscluelessaboutendgame: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [3h Qc]
Peeeedor: raises 1645 to 1795 and is all-in
girlsmitty: folds
Glitlr: folds
thetermregisoverused: calls 1645
*** FLOP *** [4h As 6c]
*** TURN *** [4h As 6c] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [4h As 6c Ts] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ThisistheguyI'mintimidatedby?: shows [Ad 6s] (two pair, Aces and Tens)
Peeeedor: shows [Ac Tc] (a full house, Tens full of Aces)
Peeeedor collected 3665 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3665 | Rake 0
Board [4h As 6c Ts Th]
Seat 1: Glitlr (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: lolatsngsgettingharder (big blind) showed [Ad 6s] and lost with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 4: Peeeedor showed [Ac Tc] and won (3665) with a full house, Tens full of Aces
Seat 7: girlsmitty (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

A6o! Ok, let's assume some possible ranges. If villain shoves 10%/15%/20% the respective edges are -5.76/-4.57/-3.44. If we remove QQ+AKs from his shoving range, the respective edges are still -5.56/-4.30/-3.14. I'd guess the true range of a 12bb shove here AS DEFAULT for a RANDOM (assuming he's not an habitual limper) is somewhere around 22+AT+KQ+. Enjoy your A6 call sir, if you wonder why you can't make as much money as "you should" or "because jokerstars is rigged," maybe you should just burn your wallet instead. It's the same process but takes about 40 minutes less time on average.

But seriously, why do I get mad at losing? It's not like I can't pay my rent all of a sudden or any other bills. Nothing substantial will alter in my life. It's just an electronic number that drops a bit when things go bad. It's seriously retarded to let poker affect you like this. It's a stupid card game. When it all comes down to it, poker is like on the bottom of my life food chain. I don't give a crap about it. But sadly, I still let it F with me during session. Outside of playing, I really don't give a crap about poker at all. Hey, at least I don't talk about it in public...

I'll leave you with this hand that had me baffled.

PokerStars Game #39526693335: Tournament #241567489, $25+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2010/02/10 6:53:37 PT [2010/02/10 9:53:37 ET]
Table '241567489 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: macbear (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: Fat Afghan (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: wayyner (1410 in chips)
Seat 4: scouserr (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: Glitlr (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: murrkk (1620 in chips)
Seat 7: rvb80 (1470 in chips)
Seat 8: seregabender (1560 in chips)
Seat 9: Hakki (1690 in chips)
Hakki: posts small blind 10
macbear: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [As Ah]
Fat Afghan: folds
wayyner: raises 40 to 60
scouserr: folds
Glitlr: raises 120 to 180
murrkk: folds
rvb80: folds
seregabender: folds
Hakki: folds
macbear: calls 160
wayyner: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [Kh Jc Js]
macbear: checks
wayyner: checks
Glitlr: bets 300
macbear: calls 300
wayyner: calls 300
*** TURN *** [Kh Jc Js] [Tc]
macbear: bets 840 and is all-in
wayyner: raises 90 to 930 and is all-in
Glitlr: uses his blog-a-friend lifeline.

February is sloooow...

2010-02-09T17:15:00.000-08:00

Hi, if I could be anybody in the world right now, it would be loonatwok. Rly! I was just reading how he crushed like 3200 in a couple days, and it makes me wanna play. This month has been so slow. I've played the equivalent of like 1.5 January days (about 300 games) and I've gone no where. I think my red line and green line are both around -300 this month. HA! Good thing last month was like 3 normal working months. I don't feel so bad anymore. Hey, at least coaching is going well. I rly hope some of these guys can prove that I'm not a luckbox afterall:).

Just for fun I started thinking of this. Was wondering, if I could make an all-star 9 man table (or a death table) whatever you wanna call it...here is what I would have...

In no particular order, I'd have spacegravy, loonatwok, sippin_criss, azntracker, rookie62, albatross77, jhub, the_venetian, and someone else I can't decide. What do you think?

New Month, New stuff, No more 9 mans?

2010-02-03T22:09:00.001-08:00

Well it's all done. Thank god. I crossed it by $36, and I'm really happy it's over. Today is the 3rd day of my sng abstinence, but it's probably my last. I'm gonna jump back on it starting tomorrow and play mostly 18 mans to change it up a bit. It's really gross to think that I played 1/6th the amount of hours I put in during 2009. Pretty gross imo. I will be coaching a lot more hopefully, so if you would like to book some times plz feel free to PM me on 2+2. Also, I was asked to do three more videos for www.sitngogrinders.com, so I'm rly pleased that people are enjoying them. If any of you guys are members, it be pretty cool if you guys could post a hand or two or really interesting spots that you have trouble with, and I can include these in a video.

Happy February and Glitlr to ya.

Oooh, also, I've payed everyone off for the bet except for three people. Piratos, I just wanna make sure I send the money to the right place. Wix, hit me up on skype, and Noah whatever you know I'm good for it lolz.

WOWOWOWOW just add this! As I'm typing this the news is on in the background and it says that my town (well, Fresno...close enough) is the drunkest city in the nation. HA! Oh man, and Austin, TX is 5th. So apparently sngs = drunk.

Day 30 - Home Stretch on Failure

2010-01-30T20:30:00.000-08:00

So today I've already played 216 games, and I'm ready to die. Problem is, I'm not sleeping until I finish or until midnight tomorrow night. I still need to fix the missing games in HEM to get an accurate gauge on the red line totals, but for now here is what it looks like.

So, besides those 10 games, I have to subtract $25.09 from the red line from other sessions as mentioned before. And even though last set was awful feeling (-108 so not bad but FELT bad), I had a nice +150ish on the red line woot. So I'm at $9,331.45 on the red line so $688.55 to go.

Oh ya, one more thing. Day 29: +$1,188.50. SAY WAT!

Day 28 - Ya, it's over, but I'm in denial

2010-01-28T13:58:00.001-08:00

Soon enough you will receive your winnings guys:). But until then, I'll just keep trucking along b/c if I can get my redline to 10k I save $250 from abarone woot. I think I said that before, but I can't remember. Either way, there it is (again).

So a couple of other things.

1) How to have your opponent drawing dead when all you have is K hi.

PokerStars Game #38865055796: Tournament #237037577, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2010/01/28 11:04:37 PT [2010/01/28 14:04:37 ET]
Table '237037577 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: Jean-LucKy (1375 in chips)
Seat 3: Jay Weezey (4160 in chips)
Seat 4: ken134679 (1510 in chips)
Seat 5: Glitlr (1835 in chips)
Seat 6: tripleceez3 (4620 in chips)
Glitlr: posts small blind 50
tripleceez3: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [Qh Kh]
Jean-LucKy: folds
Jay Weezey: folds
ken134679: folds
Glitlr: raises 140 to 240
tripleceez3: calls 140
*** FLOP *** [Ad 5h Jh]
Glitlr: checks
tripleceez3: bets 400
Glitlr: raises 1195 to 1595 and is all-in
tripleceez3: calls 1195
*** TURN *** [Ad 5h Jh] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [Ad 5h Jh Td] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Glitlr: shows [Qh Kh] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
tripleceez3: shows [Ts Ks] (a pair of Tens)
Glitlr collected 3670 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3670 | Rake 0
Board [Ad 5h Jh Td 3c]
Seat 2: Jean-LucKy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Jay Weezey folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: ken134679 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Glitlr (small blind) showed [Qh Kh] and won (3670) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 6: tripleceez3 (big blind) showed [Ts Ks] and lost with a pair of Tens

2) I think someone hates me on 2+2.
From the bottom of my heart i just want you to wish everything bad
u ***** lil piece of sht can continue to dwell in your narcistic lil ***** rigged ridiculous graph

just look at the multiple suckouts on single tables you manage and keep believing your ***** more skilled than fellow grinders.

im just ***** sick of running like a nightmare while watching goddamn ***** regulars like you run in godmode forever.

die in a car accident, get cancer, get aids, get shot whil geting your groceries, i jsut wanted to express my deepest disgust of having a fcuking whore like you around.

YOU ALWAYS RUN RIDICULOUSLY GODMODE YOU ***** BITCH and you prob even dont realize it.everything skill, yeah sure.

**** you and go die somehow soon you ***** moron

**** you

-xxxxx

if you didnt get the mnessage: **** you disgusting piece of ****

3. Here is my graph as of midday on the 28th. Yesterday (m***** f*****) I had my first 1k day this month ($1,006.50) only to lose $201 on my last set of the day.

I'm still missing some games, and I'm not sure what sharkscope says. I know for sure that 4,112 is the #games I have as of now**. I know that +72 is missing in HEM from the 10 games without data, and I know that about **44-45 games are not in HEM at all b/c I played them on Aaron's computer.

Have a good end of Jan, and enjoy The Superbowl soon enough!

***Last minute edit***

Maybe this is why I'm so far below EV.

PokerStars Game #38878557274: Tournament #237115748, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2010/01/28 15:14:12 PT [2010/01/28 18:14:12 ET]
Table '237115748 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: Glitlr (6252 in chips)
Seat 9: Gepard1976 (7248 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 50
Gepard1976: posts the ante 50
Glitlr: posts small blind 300
Gepard1976: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [5s Qs]
Glitlr: raises 5602 to 6202 and is all-in
Gepard1976: calls 5602
*** FLOP *** [4s 5d Ac]
*** TURN *** [4s 5d Ac] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [4s 5d Ac 6c] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gepard1976: shows [2s 5c] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
Glitlr: shows [5s Qs] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
Gepard1976 collected 6252 from pot
Glitlr collected 6252 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12504 | Rake 0
Board [4s 5d Ac 6c 6s]
Seat 4: Glitlr (button) (small blind) showed [5s Qs] and won (6252) with two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 9: Gepard1976 (big blind) showed [2s 5c] and won (6252) with two pair, Sixes and Fives

K727QLAXPJs

2010-01-23T17:25:00.000-08:00

If you don't know what that title means, don't worry. You'll get it soon enough.

So my trip to San Diego was fun. Won some monies, lost some, but ended up about 1200ish I think. Doesn't matter, I epically failed my bet this month unless I magically catch up to expectation. Oh well, there is still time I suppose. Woot.

With about three or four hours left to go before I had to get my bus (ya, my car is dead...reverse ship it), I got a call from my GF telling me that my bus/train ride was canceled due to weather. Fml, rly? More on this soon.

I got this call while I was at a card room in SD with abarone. Take off your PokerVT hat bro, stop advertising:). We were playing 2/3 NL which is like HUGE for me lolz cause I never play cash and outside of sngs I'm a huge money nit. He raised utg to 9, got 2 or 3 callers, and I called 6 more from the BB with J7c. We each had about 200 behind. The door card is the 8c OMG SHIP and the others are JdTd. It checks to abarone who fires out (can't remember bet sizes but I can assume it's a normal bet size). One man to his left calls (tightest guy at the table). Everyone else folds. Turn is another 8, and I can't remember if abarone check called all in or bet called the guys raise. Either way, it gets in on the turn. The dealer peals a Qd on the river, and abarone quietly flips up his hand and says, "I got The Royal." Really? THE Royal? He said it like it was supposed to be capitalized in text. I crap myself for a millisecond and the freeze. Holy crap...don't card rooms pay off Royal Flushes? OMG I'm getting a cut of this! And then, no one says a word. The dealer scoops the cards, the old man busto nit gets up and sulks away, and it was like it never happened. [x] WAT?!?!?! Screw you, local SD card room.

I won a few pots too. The best was when I got moved to a new table. I was about 65 bbs deep and raised utg to 9 with KK, both blinds called. Flop K72. Check, check, I bet 20, sb folds, bb calls. Turn 7, bb checks, I bet 45, he calls. River Q, he checks, I bet 80, he calls and tables a K. Biggest pot of my life 317 woot. It is lol funny though cause I lose 317 like it's crap pretty much 4 days a week minimum yet this 317 felt like a a thousand cause I never play cash. The only other highlight of the card room was when I hit on an old lady. Ya, that's right, I hit on an old broad. Too bad it wasn't sexual lolz, I just called with a gutter on the flop playing 3/6 limit and actually hit. She had AA and lost lolz. Wow, come to thing of it, I think that's the first time I've ever actually chased a gut shot. Wow. It's so awesome when you hit too, no wonder people chase it all the time!

So after we left the card room, the next step was to figure out wtf to do about getting home. It was pouring rain, and as we were walking back to the car we cut through an alley. We inched slowly across the curbside so we wouldn't step in the huge flood of water the consumed the alley. I thought I saw an opening I could hop through so I leaped...crap. Good bye clean new shoes. Once I already was soaked I just said F it and trotted along through the water. At least our winnings weren't soaked like my pants and shoes. Abarone walked away with 154, and I raked in a cool 197. Both of us starting with 200. Ship!

When we got back to his place, I called up Amtrak and tried to figure stuff out. No help at all. We then found a plane that could take me home later that night. Since he lives like 10 minutes from the airport, it seemed like a solid idea. Well, solid until the price was found - $260. The bus/train was only 48, omg life is so rigged. So I decided to let the little old lady's cracked aces and top pair no good money go towards the plane. I rushed to pack everything up, packed my computer and monitor in my large bag cause I couldn't carry it on like the bus/train (big mistake), and booked my flight over the phone with someone who sounded like they shouldn't be allowed in an airport (ya, I said it). With only about an hour or so to spare, abarone dropped me off at the WRONG terminal. Neither of us knew it was wrong, but I learned that I was on the other side of the airport when I walked inside to United Airlines (not United Express where I should have been) and an elderly lady pointed me in the right direction. She looked like the kind of lady who runs about 5/3 and she did look vaguely familiar. "Did I spike a T on the turn against you, ma'am?" Ah, if only we said what we thought. She sent me on a shuttle across the airport, and I arrived at United Express. I walked in, and it was eerily quiet. I approached the desk and the man weighed my bag. 48lbs. If it was 50lbs, it would cost $125 more. Whew. As I said goodbye to the last time I would see my monitor without a gash in it, I walked over to the security check point. I basically had to remove 80% of my clothing, ditch my shaving cream b/c it's a threat apparently (aerosol can I guess), and get patted down by a 50 year old security guard wearing blue latex gloves. When everything was taken care of, I waited in the lobby for the plane. It was the first time ever I had to walk TO the plane. Like, actually walking up the steps of the plane. It felt like a scene from 24 (new season now, check it out!) where Jack Bauer does something baller. My flight was a two parter. From San Diego to LA, and LA to Fresno. When I got to LA, I had some time to kill so I went and got a burger. When I was sitting at the bar, the lady next to me started to chat it up. She was in her mid 40s, definitely looked like at one point in her life she was very attractive, but at this present time I think the most fitting term is "no dice." I noticed her left hand ring finger was vacant, so it just made the situation that much more awkward. We chatted for a bit and she left. I finished my Bacon Melt and fries (so good) and walked out to wait for my plane. That's when it hit me. I looked down at my pants. Shit. I was in my PJs. I was in my friggin pajamas at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) at 10 at night. WTF is going on here? It felt so random, so unplanned, so retarded. I heard the announcement for my plane, so I walked back in, took the short flight to Fresno, got picked up, and called it a night. A weird, twisted night.

Cliffnotes:
[x] Had a good time in San Diego.
[x] Won my biggest pot on a K727Q board.
[x] Hit on an old lady.
[x] Missed bus/train home due to weather.
[x] Spontaneously took a plane.
[x] Ended up in my PJs in LA.
[x] Got my monitor F'd up.

Ultra Cliffnotes:
[x] K727QLAXPJs

End of Day 18 - Epic set + BE day = meh

2010-01-18T23:46:00.001-08:00

First set, 24 games, +420. Wat?
[x] ship.

Next 140 games, -50ish. Wat?
[x] oduhvbwouvbk.

Here is the most recent HEM pic. This is not including 2 sets of +120ish that were played on a different computer. Those HHs have not been imported yet. omg ship the red line.

Day 17 - Spontaneity

2010-01-17T21:18:00.001-08:00

So yesterday I only played 1 set. yay, -50. Yay, -700 straight now. But, the good side, went to get a professional massage and omfg it was so nice. On the way back, a little craziness broke out and before I knew it I had made plans to go to San Diego to visit abarone68. For those of you who don't know, dude is legit. PokerVT instructor, sng megastar imho, and the guy who taught me poker from day 1. Apparently I use to raise 10x with small pairs - who knew?

So I started packing my stuff together and got on Expedia (*dooot cooom* in choir voices) to find a plane ticket. I called up Aaron, let him know the ticket was only $330, and it was on. He said he'd call me back in 20 minutes after he finished his set to verify the times for the flight. Well, 20 minutes later the ticket price was $480 so F that no thx. So the next idea was to take a train. Bah, I'll just drive. But I had to fix my car battery, so I packed up to drive to a Pep boys and get it replaced. I jump started my car outside, took off, and, crap...made it to the stop sign down the block before my car went dead. So my girlfriend and I had to jump start the car again, but this time it wouldn't turn on at all. We ended up pushing it down the street back in front of my place. Jeez, and pushing it up a slight slant in the road is SO hard. I drive (or drove :/) a Jeep Grand Cherokee so it's a pretty hefty POS. We ended up getting it done in about 30 minutes and all we traveled was about 300 feet. What a night.

Still inspired to go to San Diego, I bought a train ticket for a 7 hour ride that left last night around 10pm. I arrived in SD at about 5:45am this morning and then walked more than 12 blocks to Aaron's place b/c "[his] car was blocked in" blah blah blah. I had a fat rolling suitcase with my computer inside and a pillow with my monitor shoved in there for protection. Wow, monitors are a pain in the ass to carry uphill.

When I finally got to his place, we set out on a mission. Play, non stop, play. I mean, we took breaks and played some HU every once in a while. Got fat coolered on a board of AQ2x5 where I had AA vs his 43o and got it in on the river. Mother f****r. But hopefully this is the beginning of the turn around. I've made 900 today (woot) and Aaron has made about the same. We've almost raked in 2k combined in <14 hrs of playing. Have I done anything differently? Eh, not really. One huge thing though, I tossed my HUD. At least for now, I'm just not using HUD and I will trust myself (more than normal) and not let stats influence my decisions. I will be playing tons of games while I'm here, and plan on leaving on Wednesday. So until then, I'll be trying really hard to get back on top of this bet.

One more thing...the day before I left - even before thinking "hey, I'm going to SD" - I had some Chinese food. I opened my fortune cookie and thought "plz say 'you will run at expectation,' plz say 'you will run at expectation." Even though most cookie messages are incredibly vague, mine actually made some sense. It says, "The project you have in mind will soon gain momentum." So, one of two things is going to happen very soon. I will make a run at the most epic come from behind victory...or I will officially disprove Chinese culture.

Midway through day 15

2010-01-15T14:30:00.000-08:00

About 24 hrs from now will be the half way mark. But, for now, cue the 25 BI drop. I was up to 3700, now back to 3300. I was/am really hoping to hit 4k by the midway point, but doesn't look like it's gonna happen unless things flip fast.

Midway through Day 13

2010-01-13T18:17:00.000-08:00

Am I on pace? No, but my red line is.
Can I do it? No(t sure).
Will I give up? No(t yet).
Am I watching the new season of American Idol? ldo.

Here is my graph up to now (about 6pm-ish on the 13th). My redline has taken a drop, but is at 12% on the dot. Yesterday it was up to 12.9. 9 games have been missed which total +72.

Ah, yes. I forgot to mention something. I believe I know where my losses are occurring so far in 2010. Check out the 200/400 level. Yes, that's right. I'm +58k chips...out of...LOOK! Oh, and I think it's worth mentioning, I didn't cross the +0 mark at 200/400 until YESTERDAY! Besides 2010, my most profitable blind level is bb400. What a crap shoot:). This is why my finish distribution is skewed towards 2nd/3rd and this is the main reason why I'm so far below the red line. I smell a heater! Wait, no, it's a fart.

Apart from that, I'm just taking a small breather right now. Here are some hands for you guys to huff and puff over. Hmm, note to self, no more 3 little pig references.

Almost done with Day 10 - Hating Life

2010-01-10T22:55:00.000-08:00

As some of you probably noticed by now, it's going crappy. Even guys who read this blog are getting unnecessary hands to rub in my face. QQ vs TT. xxx flop. T...T. One T is fine, k thnx:). Anyway, I was sharing some pics with a friend, so I thought I'd post them on here since they are interesting and don't take too much time. I realized last night - and maybe this is some sort of sign I don't know - that January 31st will mark the last day before I have officially been playing 16s for one year. So maybe it will be fitting that I achieve 10k? Or be fitting that I get my ass handed to me for an anniversary present:).

Anyway, I broke up my results in HEM that mark my milestones as a player. From Feb 1 - Apr 30 is block 1.

Starting in May, I did a 10k bet (but combined profit from coaching, 1 supernova bonus, and BOP, and some videos) and I made just over 10k that month. I had another one a couple months later too with combined profit. Those 1.5k nova bonuses rly help!! So block 2 is May 1 - Sept 30 which ended in a little 5 day bet of 1k games and 2k profit which I achieved for +2.3k in 5 days (WHERE IS THAT NOW?!?!?!?!).

Starting Oct 1, things didn't go right. I started falling big time, and even switched to 18s a lot. Block 3 is Oct 1 - Dec 31.

And, of course, block 4 is 2010 thus far.

Please note that these results aren't completely accurate due to the "not finished" section in HEM. In block 1, I lost 500 (40 games) due to internet connections. And basically all not finished games besides those are due to my idiocy because everytime I closed Stars after a set, it missed the final game. Since most final games are cashes - and usually wins - my results are off. In the block 2 graph alone, my real roi was 12 and I made 24k. HEM missed 4k profit!!! But, that redline, is what gives me hope. Block 2, that greenline somehow always gravitates to that redline whether going up or down. The only thing still giving me a glimmer of hope is that I have the best redline now that I have had ever. It is currently at 12.2% ROI ...and that's the lowest it has gotten this month:(. It has mostly been hovering at 13.

Almost done with Day 7

2010-01-07T23:28:00.001-08:00

I'll prob play a few more tonight as I'm a tad behind on my 200 games/day goal. It's nice that things are starting to semi-turn around. It's also slightly motivating to see the red line be on pace for 10k even though my actual results aren't. I should mention though, that I have noticed some discrepancies on sharkscope from my actual results. Yesterday, I noticed 3 games missing on there and just now found that my HEM missed it's second game (a loss ugh). I know for a fact that my HEM is dead on except for a 2nd place and a no cash. So my actual results, at least as of now, are $8.50 (24.50 2nd place - 16 buy in) above what my HEM says. This bet is killing me. How do people do these things? Sheesh.

Mid way through day 4

2010-01-04T14:27:00.001-08:00

Crushed. That's it. Getting crushed. My high was $1,016 on Day 2 I think. Check out my red line. Plz start running good, kthnx.

Official Numbers for January

2009-12-31T14:25:00.000-08:00

So, nice and brief.

1. I failed my weight loss bet (see, this is why you should be against me). Even though I lost $140, I lost 8lbs (out of the 15). I'm very happy with myself even though I lost money. Sweet!

2. Here are the names of the people who bet against me:
mayuri-sama
entim
ba11sdeep
tomdaddy2
wwe_freak_88
chuckpalms
wixmonster
gyl2009
abarone68
dirty.brasil

It's my $735 vs their $1,470. I have all the names/bet amounts saved and - of course - I promise to pay out when I lose this thing.

3. I will unblock chat so if anybody wants to be the railbird antagonist, I welcome it.

4. Have a Happy New Year, don't drink too hard, and have a great 2010! I should be starting around 8am (pacific time).

So long '09...

January Prop Bet

2009-12-21T20:17:00.000-08:00

I've officially decided I wanna do this. I just need motivation again. I feel stagnant, dull, dry. I mentioned the idea before, but hopefully I'd like to make it more official. $10,000 profit at the 9 man 16s in January. I'm not a crazy/wild bettor like some of these amazing sng players. I'm not looking to hype it up with huge bbv brags either. Just a friendly, innocent bet to motivate me for the new year. I don't bet thousands cause I'm not a freak like Boku lolzz. To sum it up, here is what I'm looking for...

- I will bet up to $1,000 of my money to win $2,000.
- 2-1 odds in my favor (pretty nice odds compared to what I've seen in other bets). Your $20 to win my $10.
- You need to bet a minimum of $20. See...now this is friendly afterall:).
- I'm hoping to have at least $1,000 of bets against me (to win my $500).

If you wanna place a bet, PM me on 2+2 or comment on this page. Since this is a friendly bet, I'm hoping we don't have to "escrow" or whatever word these high stake ballers use. I'm hoping we can just do a simple honesty policy if possible.

New Set Up!

2009-12-16T12:55:00.000-08:00

I've done some upgrading recently to prepare for the new year. Not to mention my old desk was crap. I bought a new monitor to try this dual thing - pretty cool, but hard to get used to. I also got a new chair but it is not comfortable at all. I rather sit in a pink chair if it made my back feel good. What I'm stoked about though is the new desk. But, jeez, it took - count them - FIVE hours to put together. It was ridiculous. Put me on life tilt. Here are some pics though. You can see my rockin a 4 handed 45 man lolz.

Stars Support is Epic

2009-12-12T14:57:00.000-08:00

This post will be brief.
1) I'm down 6.5lbs on day 12 SHIP.
2) This is possibly the greatest thing I've ever read. http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/blang-bloawd-stars-support-655708/#post15294677

Where I Worked Before I Played Poker OMG I'M A PANSY

2009-12-10T18:23:00.000-08:00

So the last few days have been pretty crazy. I've looked my fear straight in the eye and went for it. My fear? New games. I'm always afraid of new games. I think I can't beat them or I'm not good enough. For those of you who don't know, I used to play non turbos. Biggest waste of time ever. I've played, hmmm...maybe 15k of them. YIKES! Like 9k 20s and 3k 30s and then others when I started playing way in the beginning. I was petrified of 9 man turbos. Never had the balls. Every time I dabbled in them, I got my ass handed to me. I remember in January 08 (before even playing seriously) plotting a plan to quit my job WORKING AT AN AFTER SCHOOL DAY CARE OMFG I SAID IT IT'S OUT IN THE OPEN. Why? To play pokahz! I didn't wanna believe it was a day care. I just thought, hey, it's an after school program, that's it. Well, when you graduate from a University (UCDAVIS) and make a whopping $12/hr working in a classroom...it kinda takes a toll on you. It was pathetic. I was in denial. Yes, I worked in a day care. This is actually the first time I'm admitting it to myself. Sheesh.
So on that fateful day in January I remember pulling out a piece of paper and plotting my numbers. 3000 6.50s a month. .60/gm for 10%ish roi. Boom. $1800/mo. I was making $950/mo at this job part time. Ya, I can do it I thought. So I remember loading my first set of 24 6.50s on my 14 inch dell laptop TILED (overlap though) with ZERO hot keys, NO time bank clicker, and NO IDEA what to shove in any spot. Seriously, zero clue. And I wanted to be a "pro." lol, it's laughable. Got crushed ldo. Killed. Eventually though, at the end of April I quit my job after having the best wkend ever of like +800. At this time I was playing $20+2s. After I quit, I made less money in 3 months than I would have from that old job. I was worried. So I started playing harder, practicing non turbos. Started doing 20s/30s. But never turbos. I dreamed of 16s, but was freaked of them. For those who don't know, I never played 16s for real until Feb 1st this yr when I made the switch permanently. I don't think I had a decent grasp on them till May. Woot, overcame my fear of turbos. I worked crazy hard though. Plastered ranges in my room like Michael Scolfield plotting his brother's escape in Prison Break. Seriously, it was that crazy.
So my new fear I'm trying to conquer is the 180s. For the last 3 days I've played them hard. Finally won my first today. I wanna get good at these so bad. Just, randoms galore. It's nice not to be with envision every bubble I ever play. I envision a sng without envision, k thx. But I thought it was worth mentioning, that the final hand of the 180 made me shit myself. It was like beating the Yankees. Unbeatable.
PokerStars Game #36511374889: Tournament #220599401, $11+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIX (3000/6000) - 2009/12/10 13:01:21 PT [2009/12/10 16:01:21 ET]
Table '220599401 4' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 4: Glitlr (192474 in chips)
Seat 5: VinsanityAI3 (77526 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 600
VinsanityAI3: posts the ante 600
VinsanityAI3: posts small blind 3000
Glitlr: posts big blind 6000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [As Kh]
VinsanityAI3: raises 6000 to 12000
Glitlr: raises 179874 to 191874 and is all-in
VinsanityAI3: calls 64926 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (114948) returned to Glitlr
*** FLOP *** [Qd Jh Ad]
VinsanityAI3 said, "gg"
*** TURN *** [Qd Jh Ad] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Jh Ad 8d] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Glitlr: shows [As Kh] (a pair of Aces)
VinsanityAI3: shows [4d 4h] (a pair of Fours)
Glitlr collected 155052 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 155052 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Jh Ad 8d 9h]
Seat 4: Glitlr (big blind) showed [As Kh] and won (155052) with a pair of Aces
Seat 5: VinsanityAI3 (button) (small blind) showed [4d 4h] and lost with a pair of Fours

And one more thing as a side note. I don't know what's up with Stars, but I've been having a lot of misclicks lately. (apparently the KQ one was a call a friend pointed out so haha I suck at 45s). But like, wtf, check this out. Who says you have to play tight early to win in sngs...

PokerStars Game #36503810824: Tournament #220577862, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/12/10 10:16:57 PT [2009/12/10 13:16:57 ET]
Table '220577862 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: evergrey66 (1480 in chips)
Seat 2: Glitlr (1480 in chips)
Seat 3: Gu1Qu1nz (1560 in chips)
Seat 4: krossnight (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: Ai3oW (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: wichta (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: rdes92 (1480 in chips)
Seat 8: Litovchik (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: LaGrange (1500 in chips)
Gu1Qu1nz: posts small blind 10
krossnight: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [4s 2c]
Ai3oW: raises 40 to 60
wichta: folds
rdes92: folds
Litovchik: folds
LaGrange: folds
evergrey66: folds
Glitlr: raises 40 to 100
Gu1Qu1nz: folds
krossnight: calls 80
Ai3oW: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [6s 2s 3d]
krossnight: checks
Ai3oW: checks
Glitlr: checks
*** TURN *** [6s 2s 3d] [9c]
krossnight: checks
Ai3oW: checks
Glitlr: checks
*** RIVER *** [6s 2s 3d 9c] [4c]
krossnight: checks
Ai3oW: checks
Glitlr: bets 42
krossnight: folds
Ai3oW: folds
Uncalled bet (42) returned to Glitlr
Glitlr collected 310 from pot
Glitlr: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 310 | Rake 0
Board [6s 2s 3d 9c 4c]
Seat 1: evergrey66 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Glitlr (button) collected (310)
Seat 3: Gu1Qu1nz (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: krossnight (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 5: Ai3oW folded on the River
Seat 6: wichta folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: rdes92 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Litovchik folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: LaGrange folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Lolmisclickaments

2009-12-02T23:38:00.000-08:00

Just played a weird set. Bunch of $16 18s, some $16 9s, and some $6/12 45s. And, ya, the 180 I busted with 2 pr to runner GS draw but whatever. Obviously in the few 9 mans I was HU vs. sippin and lost both. Shout out to his penis drawings in chat. The best stuff was 45s, I made like 7 cashes - all min. obviously. Except for a few. Since I never play them, they are way more exciting than normal. So obv. when I am HU with 60k chips at 1.5k.3k blinds and the guy has 1.5bbs, it pisses me off when they come back to win it in like 5-6 hands. The best hand of the day, and possibly the year, came with a misclick. I made it and thought "SHIT!" Then I looked who it was and shit myself even more. I've never played against him before, and I don't know if he knows who I am, but this was pretty funny.
PokerStars Game #36176862810: Tournament #218262749, $6.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2009/12/02 23:00:34 PT [2009/12/03 2:00:34 ET]
Table '218262749 5' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Darkside51 (10415 in chips)
Seat 2: Glitlr (6615 in chips)
Seat 3: Zornh0lio (2760 in chips)
Seat 4: Pondus14 (3425 in chips)
Seat 6: CWRIGHT (1270 in chips)
Seat 7: tartanic (1080 in chips)
Seat 8: FaceStealer (2620 in chips)
Seat 9: olddirtymatt (6275 in chips)
Darkside51: posts the ante 25
Glitlr: posts the ante 25
Zornh0lio: posts the ante 25
Pondus14: posts the ante 25
CWRIGHT: posts the ante 25
tartanic: posts the ante 25
FaceStealer: posts the ante 25
olddirtymatt: posts the ante 25
Pondus14: posts small blind 200
CWRIGHT: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [Ks Qc]
tartanic: folds
FaceStealer: raises 2195 to 2595 and is all-in
olddirtymatt: folds
Darkside51: folds
Glitlr: raises 2195 to 4790
Zornh0lio: folds
Pondus14: folds
CWRIGHT: folds
Uncalled bet (2195) returned to Glitlr
*** FLOP *** [Tc 4c 9c]
*** TURN *** [Tc 4c 9c] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [Tc 4c 9c 7c] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FaceStealer: shows [Td Ad] (a pair of Tens)
Glitlr: shows [Ks Qc] (a flush, Queen high)
Glitlr collected 5990 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5990 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 4c 9c 7c Qd]
Seat 1: Darkside51 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Glitlr showed [Ks Qc] and won (5990) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 3: Zornh0lio (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Pondus14 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: CWRIGHT (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: tartanic folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: FaceStealer showed [Td Ad] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 9: olddirtymatt folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Somewhere in Costa Rica, an instructor is teaching a student "don't do what that glitter guy did."

Happy December!

2009-12-01T12:02:00.000-08:00

OMFG I LOVE NEW MONTHS! It's like the refreshing atmosphere of the past feeling like it is actually in the past, and the peacefulness of knowing that run good is more likely to be in the future, holla! I feel better than Peter when he took ecstasy.

With that said, I've played 2 sets so far this month. And quite frankly, I don't give a shit about my results. They might have been good? I dnno. I'm gonna try and go as long as I can without checking, just so I don't think about them. But I guess it's the December peace of mind that keeps me relaxed. Meh, it'll probably wear out in a couple days. Probably cause I'm running bad - JOGGING bad. This December weight loss challenge is officially in swing. 31 days, 15 lbs, 300 bucks, $20/lb. I could lose weight and STILL lose money, ugh. My official starting weight is 183lbs. So hello Mr. 168 here I come. Hopefully. I went on my first jog in a while and lmao I'm way out of shape. Too much sitting in front of my computer. At least it's semi-worth it? I hope so. Hopefully, the exercise will boost my energy level so I can play more.
Also, maybe MAYBE, I'm considering a January Prop Bet. I haven't made this public or anything. Mostly because I'm just not a fan of those big arrogant BBV threads where guys are like "I'm so good bet against me! etc" I'm not a big bettor, so if I do bet it would be like 500-1000 max of my own money and that's a lot for me. Even 1k makes me hurl a little inside. I've been thinking about this from about August/September time, but I'm still not sure. Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with simplicity8's bet in anyway. I've always wanted to make a run at $10k profit from 16s in one month. It's hell. In May I tried 10k overall profit in one month and hit it. But it took 4k games AND I ran pretty good. I hit just under 7k profit in the month from 16s & 6s. I dnno, this sounds exciting, but I'm not sure yet. There has to be a build up to it though if a bet does go down. Cause I have to be amped and not just jump into it. SUGGESTIONS/OPINIONS?

The Curse of Pocket 4s

2009-11-29T13:18:00.001-08:00

I'm not even joking. Not a hint of sarcasm. I am cursed by this hand. It started roughly 1 yr ago when I started with Holdem Manager. I started to notice I couldn't win a a pf all in vs. 44. Whether you call it the Obama, Syracuse, Magnum, Sailboats, Flags, Jackie Robinson + 2, I call it Fuck. I can't beat this hand. 3s, no problem. 5s, whatever I'll river an ace. 4s, no f'ing way I can win. It started off as a little mental joke with myself. Oh, lol, I lost again. But then it just kept happening. Over and over and over. I'm probably in month 12 of this. I need someone to teach me how to filter HEM to verify these stats. This isn't some "oh, I just remember the bad and forget the good." I seriously never win. I should mention that when I say "never" I mean RARELY. It's so rare. I do win on occasion, and when I do it's more meaningful than shipping a 1st place finish. Seriously, that's how bad/friggin hilarious it is. The longer the curse lasts, the more improbable the outcomes get. Outrageous boards you'd never imagine. I had 2 today so far. With one I had 8bbs in the sb at bb150. The btn limped, I made it 450 with aces and both the limper and bb flatted. I shove a flop of 848. You know what the bb had. The other one, which I was fortunate enough to find, shows you that it's not just when I am up against pocket 4s. It also occurs when I can benefit from someone losing with 4s. This guy with 4s, a wannabe reg who clearly has massive leaks, makes this awful reshove. But no problem. 4s are unbeatable.

PokerStars Game #36018292910: Tournament #217163048, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/11/29 11:36:10 PT [2009/11/29 14:36:10 ET]
Table '217163048 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: custom_k (1735 in chips)
Seat 4: Parck (6610 in chips)
Seat 5: Shaft81 (3955 in chips)
Seat 7: Glitlr (1200 in chips)
Glitlr: posts small blind 100
custom_k: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [8h 3d]
Parck: folds
Shaft81: raises 600 to 800
Glitlr: folds
custom_k: raises 935 to 1735 and is all-in
Shaft81: calls 935
*** FLOP *** [Ks Ad Qh]
*** TURN *** [Ks Ad Qh] [Ac]
*** RIVER *** [Ks Ad Qh Ac] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
custom_k: shows [4d 4c] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
Shaft81: shows [Jd Js] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
custom_k collected 1785 from pot
Shaft81 collected 1785 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3570 | Rake 0
Board [Ks Ad Qh Ac Kd]
Seat 2: custom_k (big blind) showed [4d 4c] and won (1785) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 4: Parck folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Shaft81 (button) showed [Jd Js] and won (1785) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 7: Glitlr (small blind) folded before Flop

This tilts me so hard. If he has 5s, I don't care. I still smile at how bad this play is, but nonetheless I don't care. So to you guys I say this. If you have 4s against me, don't fold. If it's bb20 and I 4bet shove, just call. If a guy has 1 chip on the bubble, and I have you covered. Call my shove. You can call any hand where you have about 90-95% equity pf:).

Home for Thanksgiving

2009-11-27T19:03:00.000-08:00

So right now I'm in the Bay Area in California where I grew up. Seeing family and friends is nice cause it makes me forget about cards. I purposely didn't bring my RCA chip so there is absolutely no way of meeting that need that wants me to "omg just play one set." Taking 3 days off is really nice and very relaxing. I've been heavy headed for a while about playing. You know, that feeling where it feels like the game is controlling your thoughts. You can't go 5 minutes without thinking, "Well, I'd shove but ICM makes me fold" or some crap like that. I should be heading back tonight or maybe tomorrow morning. Hopefully, I'll get some good grind time in. I need to get back into the swing of things and get back to a more steady playing routine like I used to have.
Also, I think a big thing that gets overlooked within the lifestyle of a grinder is health. I've let myself pack on some pounds. Getting lazy, sleeping in, and overall feeling very lethargic most of the time while I play. Back in May, I kicked my own ass to lose weight and I lost 10lbs. Maybe it's a coincidence I also made 1k/lb. I lost? I dnno. I felt more engaged while I played, and it was nice. I epically failed to lose weight this November. I started off ok, but then I was like "oh, snap, Taco Bell sounds good," or "Meh, Thanksgiving is around the corner." I'm not fat or anything, probably 180-185, but I definitely wouldn't mind losing like 25lbs total. So without further ado, this leads me to my prop bet for December. Although it's not finalized, the basic premise is that I could lose up to $300 if I don't lose 15lbs. I'm gonna give my GF 15 20 dollar bills. For each pound I lose, I get a bill back. For every pound under 15 I don't lose, she gets to keep $20. So it's either I lose weight, or she gets a Nintendo Wii. Game on.