Warning! Obv Brag Post Ahead...

I definitely made about 9 1/2 buyins yesterday at 25nl. I played my A game and really nailed the lag game that Ray has been teaching. Some key changes to my game is sometimes calling a raise in position with suited connectors, limping small PPs, and more delayed cotinuation betting when the flop texture is awful or when my cbets get no respect. I still don't back down from my preflop raises though. A big thanks to my GrandMaster Ray who truly inspires me to be the best I can possibly be!



My PT results from yesterday:

I've also been very fortunate to hit two straight flushes in the past two days. One I got paid off on the other not so much, but eh I can't complain.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?947244 Almost hit the Royal here...mmm sexay hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?938716 The only hand that would beat me would be QJ, I thought to myself if he had QJs I'm going to cry lol or maybe laugh manically.

In other news, yes according to most people I am properly BR'd to give 50nl a try...but GrandMaster Ray thinks I should wait till 30 buyins, which isn't much considering I have a $200 I'm clearing and I'm a BR nit anyway.


This has also been a really sweet MTT week for me. I usually don't enter those, but I won a freeroll on Friday in 5th place and won a FTP jersey there were 1781 entrants. Yay! I finally final tabled, which was one of my poker goals for the year! I think I'm going to keep the points because the jerseys are ugly and either use them to satellite or get something from the store much later. I also itm'd in the RTR freeroll for $48 I definitely would have done better I was 4th at one point but my damn wireless kept dropping me...gahhh. I also got 5th and 6th in $3 45 man sngs. 2nd in an ftp satellite, 1st place got to play in the 400k guaranteed. Oh boo, can't win them all...


Oh yes...I must also brag about my new sexay speakers...lol told y'all this is an obv brag post!
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7933748&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat110000050027&id=1152228083992
Yummy Bose speakers! I got to test out all types of speakers at Bestbuy and honestly, the Bose $99 ones even blew away the other brands with subwoofers, so I played with the Bose ones with subwoofers the step above mine sounds like you're in a cinema...but I'm not balla I'm just a microstakes donk so I went with the ones above which I'm totally in love with.


Ugh...school is also coming to a close which means graduation is inching closer! Less than 5 weeks of school left...gag.

This means I have a huge to do list:
1) Prepare and do my trial with my partner this Thurs
2) Fill out and finish my bar app.
3) Sign up for Barbri.
4) Ask landlord for extension in lease (done!)
5) Mail out graduation invites
6) Find a dress for graduation + shoes since I can't wear stiletto heels (wtf! outdoor ceremony)
7) Go to that long ass negotiation mediation thing on Sunday (but at least no final!)
8) Figure out and write up proper damages for the case my judge assigned me...eww 5 million dollar case I feel like if I'm deciding what's fair I should get a cut too haha yeah right!
9) Study for my two finals PR (what a joke) and conflicts...did I mention I hate law school in my blog yet?


Today's todo list:
1) Must clean apartment and if it's still bright out play with the pup outside.

Egos

So this is more of a small rant than anything else (not that I actually care that much...). A certain CR guy was telling someone else that he "owned" me at one table and how he bluffed me out of many pots.

PT shows I lost ONE pot to him and a profit to him of $2.65. The rest were me folding in the small blind preflop...so um...congrats to you and your ego?

I did however stack off to another CR member with absolutely nothing...must NOT bluff at 25nl. Gotta keep reminding myself of that! No hand histories today because I'm in class, pretty lazy and have to work on a dumb closing argument and that class starts at 4.

I will however post what I am getting this weekend!

Samsung 22"
HP Pavilion E6400 Media Center TV

That's hotness.

ETA: During class I also played some .25 PLO with Smaptastic and Olliepower...I left with $125 lolol I totally bombed my closing argument after that but I made $100 in an hour even with Olliepower sucking out on me with a runner runner flush that beat my made straight.

Finally Digging Myself Out of the Hole

Poker is so swingy. You run either super hot and suck out occasionally or everyone else sucks out on you.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?891521 I about had a heart attack and died on this hand...the biggest pot I ever won. GrandMaster (lol) Ray is so right though that I shouldn't be playing deep 6 tables since I play with scared money.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?891535 I wanted to post this hand and shed a few tears :'(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?891619 <3<3<3

In other news, I'm getting a 22" monitor to help in my poker escapades! Woohoo.

Another Day...

So I played an assload of hands yesterday over 2k 4 tabling...gosh I need an awesome poker setup so I can 6 table! Overall a pretty good day, though not running hot by any means, made half my profit at the deep 6 table and the other half grinding 25nl up about 3 buyins.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?879609 LoL full stack off with A2?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?879571 By far, my favorite hand of the day against another CR member that I knew would 3 bet me constantly. I cold called his 3 bet oop planning to check raise on a dry flop, which came. GrandMaster Ray (bahaha!) inspires me try more crazy plays like this.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?881017 My read was off here. I saw villain slowplay and min bet with top set earlier. His $3 looked so weak to me, looking back his min rereraise should have screamed big pp. After I raised him on the flop, and he shoved I knew I was beat.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?881030 I almost didn't make the call here but, the more I thought about it, the more it screamed low-mid pp to nothing, I'm glad I made the right call here. Of course, I was berated by him after hahaha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?881039 Wow! I sucked out and 2 outed someone, I was so happy to know that I can suck out because I never do and it's usually someone sucking out on me! If he had reraised on the flop, I would have thought about folding, but his turn aggression I was pot committed.

Going to try for 1.5k -2k hands tonight, though probably closer to 1.5k hands. Gotta play good, solid poker..my mantra.

Update

I think I need to be more dedicated to playing MTTs too. Sundays will be my MTT day where I can enter in all the donkaments to my heart's content.

Yesterday, I entered into the $3 rebuy into the Sunday Million, $3 shootout to the Sunday Million (I ran into quads 3 times in those two mtts...ouch! 2 out of 3 I had a set...sick.) and Daily Doubles at FTP. I itm'd at Daily Double B in 54th place blah nothing to brag about, but considering I was really cold decked for majority of the tourney, I built up my chips through stealing and solid play.

Even though I didn't do as well in the MTTs and I usually do, I decided to play cash...I figured as unlucky as I was, surely my luck would turn around haha. So interesting session, but rather short because it was rather late already and I have class today..blah.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?877932 Gotta love four outers...what was this dude thinking!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?877938 Villain had been raising me and 3 betting preflop and as I thought about this I couldn't possibly put him on a 5. Maybe I pushed him out of an 8...the only thing I'd change here is probably a bigger reraise. For me, this really took some balls.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?877945 This is what you get for slowplay lol.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?877952 I typically NEVER check raise here...but I was positive villain would bet and I could raise.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?877956 Woohoo stacked the 4 outer guy at another table...at least he didn't suckout again.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?877960 The only hand that I found to be really questionable. Villain was pretty lag and my read was off. This was a dangerous board to do this on and all in all, retarded on my part.

All in all, pretty swingy 500 hand session and pretty break even ish, up $5.60. I think I could have turned it into a nice winning session if hadn't been so late.

Going to put in at least 1k hands tonight and play good, solid poker. :)

You Just Gotta Have Heart

Sick read by GM Ray as he says, "You gotta have heart!"

http://www.pokerhand.org/?870860

The hell of .25nl but I love deep stack tables :)

So ewww I lost $106 playing .25nl. Could not for the life of me win due to mostly suckouts..blah.
Some hands for viewing pleasure:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869430 Cooler really, plus shortie..eh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869436 2 outer hehe..not sure why I was playing .05/.10 I'm such a wuss.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869441 I hate shorties...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869448 2 outer river :/

On the other hand, I recouped about half my losses playing deep stacked...never had so much $$ sitting out on a table of my money scary crap.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869452 Credit goes all to villain here :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869457 I really really liked this villain and was sad to see her go.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869461

http://www.pokerhand.org/?869464 BB Special against villain.

So, I have a lesson today with Ray let's hope I run super hot I'm really proud of myself I did hit 3k hands! I'm really not used to playing long sessions like that even 1k worth of hands a day...so this is quite a challenge for me. I like it though: it forces me to stay more focused and in the end, my mental game is better.