live poker...

meeting my old college buddies was really good... but we didn't really talk that much, cos... i dunno... maybe cos i haven't been hanging out with them for the longest time... but anyway, me and my good friend sani decided to ditch the party and go to the casino and play live poker... i dunno what his problem is, but he seems quiet lately, so i decided to force him to come with me to play poker... he din't play tho... but it was FUN!!! though i lost, i am definitely going back there for networking purposes... AND show them who the REAL poker player is... :-D

-choy


P.S. i am soooooooooooooooo DRUNK right now... 'night...

funny incident...

i went to a hardware store with my cousin this afternoon... then someone behind me called my name... "carlos?" when i turned around it was april (i think she owns the store...), my seatmate at elementary school. we chit-chatted a bit then she asked me the question that i have always dreaded ever since i started playing poker... "so what do you do?"... i go... "for money?"... "uuuuhhh... i invest in the stock market..." wahahahahaha!!! what BULLCRAP!

anyway i saw the car i have always wanted ever since i was in college... i asked how much it was... it is way cheaper than i thought, but i saw the prices on the internet and it is way waaaaaayyy lower than the price they are asking for here... i guess i have to think really hard about it for a couple of months...

-choy

my internet connection sucks...

i quit playing for the day cos my internet connection is sucking right now... i'd rather quit than force the action cos it really puts me in a bad mood when i keep getting these disconnects... So anyway here are my results for the month... i could have squeezed in 2 to 4 more buy-ins, but oh well...



here's my graph for the month...


i made a little over $5000.00 this month... i'm pretty happy with it... :-)

so, i think i'm gonna have some fun tonight... my old college buddy is having a birthday party at his place... so that's another opportunity to get DRUNK!

-choy

P.S. update on my race to 30k by november...

amount needed = $24334.09

amount made = $5655.91

hmmm... din't make that much this month if i really think about it... my target is $8000.00. i hope i can move up at 400NL this august so i can reach my 30k target by november...

one year...

i've been playing poker hardcore for about a year now... i still remember last year, i have to look for a place with an internet connection just to grind the nickle and dime games at pokerstars... i was flat BROKE... every time i went out to play poker i only had a few coins in my pocket for cigarettes, and a sandwich in my bag for lunch... but the funny thing is i was at peace with myself, i was optimistic and i knew that luck was just around the corner...

i know i am still far from my goal... and i'm not even making any serious money atm, but i still feel lucky... and i am grateful... :-)

-choy

buying a gun...

i'm thinking i need a new hobby... so i was with some airsoft guys last night and i was finally convinced to buy a gun... so this is the one i'm gonna buy... a marui M4... it is soooo niiiice...

got my money back...

i got my money back! yes! even tho i run bad this week, i can say i played pretty well... i didn't go on tilt, i played my A game most of the time and didn't let the results bother me. here are my numbers for the week. i lost only $21.++... that is not bad from being down almost $2000 at one point.


here are also a couple of hands from today's session... it's really frustrating when this happens, but what can i do? i'll just have to think about the long run and i know the odds will even out...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/239631

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/239629

tonight i'm gonna go out and get drunk! .... again :-D

have a nice weekend!

-choy

and the bad run continues...

just a few hands to share my frustration...

"wooohooo wtf?"

"i run good!"

"...real good! :-D"

"OMG! you all suck!!!"

enjoy...

-choy

$400 No Limit?

i lost around 1500++ today playing 400NL... thats around 3 and 1/2 buy-ins, so if you think about it, it isn't a big deal. BUT IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT as money, then yeah, it is a big hit on my BR... well not that big and 4 to 5 buy-in swings at these limits are pretty much standard... that is what i say to myself whenever i lose... heh. but there's this part of my brain saying... "YOU LOST $1500 TODAY YOU DONK!" so i guess i will be going back down to 200NL and play there 'til the end of the month.

i am looking at the 400NL games right now and it's really really tempting to play there again... we'll see at the end of july.

-choy

edit: finally got poker grapher working! here's my graph for the month so far...

boring night...

another boring night... i'm just here d/ling songs and data mining the 400NL games and trying to figure out how they play up there. really can't wait to move up, i think i'm gonna try to play a couple of 400NL tables tomorrow...

anyway, here's a funny poker video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aolVYSMRw_0

enjoy...

-choy

moving up...

i finally reached 12k, that's 30 buy-ins for the next level, which should be enough for me to move up. so maybe by the end of the week i will. i'm gonna start data mining at 400nl and log some hands into poker tracker so i'd know what to expect.

wish me luck...

-choy

appt....?

decided not to pursue joining the APPT cos my bankroll isn't sufficient. i decided to save my money and join next year if my BR is good. so i withdrew all the money i had left from pokerstars... anyway had another nice run this week...










-choy

edit: i have the $2500... but right now i just can't blow that kind of money for a tournament... maybe next year

......

i'm just a simple man, all i need is money, fuck the fame, i'm a simple man... -tupac

been listening to tupac a lot lately... lol

-choy

so drunk...

yesterday i started drinking around 1:00pm with my friend, dingboi, at this cafe but he had to go home at 5:00pm so i met up with jip and niño at his (jip's) office then went straight to chinky's office to pick her and a couple of her friends up then we went to a BBQ place, ate and drank some more, then we went to SPE at around 9:00pm and drank again and then we went home at around 2:30am and i was soooooo drunk.

lol

-choy

reckless abandon...

poker is a game of mathematical precision and reckless abandon. in order to win you have to make calculated moves and at the same time make bold aggressive moves to win the pot with or without a hand... but this week, i haven't been playing well... i have a lot of things on my mind lately and i just can't focus enough and beat the game consistently like i used to do. i have been betting/raising when i should be folding and have been folding instead of calling... So because of that i lost around $1600.00. I won't even bother posting my poker tracker stats cos i hate looking at it.

I won't be playing in 2-3 days to clear my mind and hope that i'll be back in shape next week.

-choy

backseat...

I woke up at around 5:00am today and went for a 30 minute jog. It felt great! My thoughts are clear and I think that I'm gonna put everything in the backseat for now and just focus on making money. I'm also gonna try qualify for this... www.appt.com. It's a $2500 buy-in tourney in Manila sponsored by Pokerstars. But getting in is so hard because I have to go through two satellite tournaments online... And paying $2500 just to join the tourney isn't really an option.

I hope I run good in these satellite tournaments and win a seat.

-choy

weekend crossroads...

there are situations in life when you are put to a test... as you come across a fork in the road, you must make a decision that will change the course of your life... i really don't know which path to take because i know both of them will either make me or break me... but i know one thing, one of these COULD definitely BREAK me and i'm afraid i won't be able to recover... it wasn't like when i was 20 when i could say "fuck the consequences!" and make these type of decisions in a heart beat... i am really having a hard time right now... just as things are starting to come around for me, some higher being puts me in a really precarious situation... it's just both these paths COULD take me somewhere so good, i do not know what to do. why do things have to happen in your past that is so hard to forget...?

i think i'm gonna travel a bit around the country as i feel, right now, there isn't anything here for me... though poker is one of the reasons why i am doing this, it is not the main reason... i just need to think for a while and weigh my options a bit... So yeah, i already have a few places to go to in mind and i really hope this feeling lingers so that i can really push through with the plan and really do it.

anyway, i had another decent run last week... i'm really happy about this but i feel i could've made more $$$$... but i can't complain here...



-choy

hair cut...

I had a haircut today... No... More like I got my head buzzed today... lol

-choy

chest pain...

I was jogging this afternoon before dinner and then I felt my chest ache. At first I really didn't pay attention to it that much as I thought it will go away after running a few rounds. But then after my 21st round... lol, j/k... After running 3 rounds around the park I felt this pain, and it was sudden and it was so painful. So i sat down on a bench and it got me thinking... "I should quit smoking or I die of lung cancer." "... or maybe I should switch to Marlboro Lights..."

But then if we are gonna die anyway, why did God even bother for us to be here?

-choy

P.S. Don't get me wrong, I believe in God and I am thankful for being here... Just wondering why and just thinking about it makes me appreciate my life more... And it makes me a lot happier that I am here even if it is too much for me to handle at times... bah... I thought this was gonna be a poker blog... meh.

30k...

Alright. I have been thinking about this a whole lot lately... I wanna make 30,000 dollars or more within 5 months. At the limits I am in now, I know it's possible. So, July 1(that's tomorrow) will be day 1 of my little adventure. I'm gonna play harder than I ever did and I'm gonna post the results here on a monthly basis, and it's gonna end on November 30.

Wish me luck...

Amount needed = $30,000.00
Amount won = $0.00

Next update on this will be on July 31, 2007.

-choy

update: i'm so dumb... july 1 is today... lol... i will be starting on july 2/monday! that's tomorrow... i hope i run good.