eating oranges...

It's 2:45am, i just got home... i'm drunk... i'm tired... i don't feel good at all... and i'm eating oranges... lol... i have been drinking since 4:00pm this afternoon at the poker tournament at the casino. i finished 12th place out of 60+ which isn't that bad since it was my first live tourney. i really enjoyed the whole experience... meeting new people and all that, laughing at the sick sick beats(my pocket A's lost to quad 5's LOLOLOL!), and just playing poker with them... but if someone asks me if i prefer live poker over online poker, i'd say i prefer ONLINE POKER! two reasons...

first... i don't like the whole live poker scene here that much... that whole environment revolves around gambling and money... it is not like online poker where the guys who play on the internet are there for the challenge and try to be the best poker player they can be... i saw some people at the casino who looked like they had 9 to 5 jobs, there at the tables GAMBLING... not GRINDING... but actually GAMBLING! i'm not looking down at these people and i know it's none of my business, but c'mon... there is certainly something wrong with that picture... i might be mistaken, but if i'm not... man, they are gambling on a budget... that's just plain wrong... but you can also see the really rich guys gambling, which is cool cos it is their way to relax i guess...

second... there is this HUGE possibility i could go broke if i start playing at the casino often... i find it easy, hypothetically, to blow all my money playing the tables there.. though i didn't actually play at the live cash tables, just watching the people pulling out their wallets for more money after getting bust was so bad to see in my opinion. it's just... i dunno... BAD... picture this... a guy who is a 9 to 5'er pulling out what he made this month after getting bust to gamble at the table, and a really rich guy beside him... nice... it's none of my business, i know... i'm drunk and i'm just typing my thoughts away as they come... so yeah, i could picture myself blowing all the money i saved up at the casino... and i do not want that to happen... i might go broke online, yeah, but that would be a different story...

i wrote this not because i look down at those people... or that i look down at that whole casino scene... it's just... i'm afraid of it...

-choy

... but i will still continue to play live tournaments tho... they are fun :-)

cold run...

I woke up at around 4:30am today and I didn't know what to do... Nice! I was feeling good, so I thought I'd play poker for a couple of hours. The thing is I promised myself to take it easy and step back from playing cos I have been breaking even this week. This is usually a sign of the early stages of a cold run, and today I lost more than 2 buy-ins. I reviewed my poker tracker and saw I have been playing my standard solid TAG(tight aggressive) game... I didn't even play "Jeet Kune Do" poker where I try to break the table down by playing a really reckless, aggressive style vs. certain players who I think I can outplay. This sucks but what can I do? I can think only about the long run, and wait for the cards, the odds or whatever to even out.

So yeah... This is officially the start of a cold run. I don't know how long this will be but usually it'll take a couple of weeks for some and a couple of months for others. Anyway, here are my results for the week...









It's not really that bad, but putting in a lot of time playing and ending up losing can be quite frustrating. So I think I'm gonna withdraw some money and play at another site.

I'm also gonna be joining a live poker tournament this afternoon(my friend got me into it), so I hope I do well on that one...

-choy

P.S. I expect to see Niño there, so fuck you if you can't make it... He hasn't been replying to my IM. It's a sign that he isn't going to show up tonight... lolololol

bored...

Bored! Just reviewing my pokertracker, and I didn't play today. I see to it that I get at least one day of rest a week from playing. Playing a lot really gets you drained mentally. Anyway, I noticed one player while looking at my game logs. "Wakex". There was this one session where we'd come after one another, 3-4 betting all over the place. It was crazy. Here are my stats against him for this week:




We are almost breakeven... I am up $98.45 against him though... So yay! This guy is just crazy, so I was forced to step it up one notch and just play it reckless. Here are a few hands with him... fun:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/217555
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/217549
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/217554
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/217552
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/217551

Enjoy.

-choy

nice run...

I had a decent run this week playing at 200NL. It's funny cos I was struggling on my way up as I was climbing "the poker ladder"(still climbing it). The most struggle I've had was when I was playing at 50NL. I felt I wasn't going anywhere cos of the bad runs, bad plays and a month and a half of break even poker. But when I reached 200NL (my first goal), I found out that the games are much softer. Maybe its because they value the money more up here...(?)

Anyway here are my results for the week:















And here's a reeeeaaalllyyyy sick spot with K K... I'm glad my hand held up... I almost puked watching the board as the cards we're coming...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/216920

Have a nice weekend...

-choy

My First Post....

Ok... So I'll be posting some of my poker results here starting next week. I'm also gonna post some hands, my thought process.. etc... and some rants too... So yeah..