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Poker Articles on 06/2005
Wednesday, Jun 29 2005
Downswing Again Fresh Start Needed - I am getting totally disgusted of late and its starting to affect me. To say Im losing confidence in my poker ability would not be an exageration. The downswing continues and even though I showed a profit of over $50 last week i think I never really broke...
Week 1 Complete - Well the first weekof the new disciplined Road To Pro has ended and I learned that Im not as disciplined as i would like to think. Oh I have it down on every area in my poker life except one, that being Bankroll Management. Anyone who happens to read this...
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Sunday, Jun 26 2005
Final Decision - Arrrrghhhhh. The biggest conflict that I go through without a doubt has to be my bankroll requirements. I never can seem to know what they should be. I ask for advice, get excellent opinions and am more confused than ever. 250bb, 300bb, 500bb, oh what is ...
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Saturday, Jun 25 2005
Part II - Thanks for the continued interest in this bizzare world I inhabit. Poker Update: Treading water. Not losing, but more important, not winning. So it goes. There will be a Phoenix Rising part II. Its going to be a few months. For a while Im just going...
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Thursday, Jun 23 2005
Day 3 Complete. Updated Monetary Plan. 750 Hand Check - Been thinking and daydreaming a lot lately about how life will be when I turn pro. $500/wk will be very very nice. Anything more than that will be added to the bankroll so that I can continually move up limits. Having the ability for my wife Becci, the...
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Wednesday, Jun 22 2005
Day 1 The Downswing Over - Although this is my second day of the new and more disciplined quest on The Road To Pro I wanted to update this morning after I got a few hands played. The downswing appears to be over. Yesterday, while not a great day did show a tiny profit of .70 cent...
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Monday, Jun 20 2005
Let's Start It All Over Again - The time has come. My downswing is really bad as I am down $100 from my high point. The crazy thing is, I dont know where I am going wrong. I am playing my usual style of play, but no matter where I go, what level i try I keep coming up short. I decided t...
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Sunday, Jun 19 2005
Week 6 - Well, week 6 has come to an end and I experimented this week with several forms and limits of poker with mixed reviews and disappointment, I must admit. At the beginning of the week the bankroll was $292. I started the week at .50/$1 limit and experienc...
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Wednesday, Jun 15 2005
.50/$1 - Am now playing the .50/$1 tables full time. My bankroll as of this post is just over $320 so I have 300bb for this level. I would prefer $450 before playing this level full time, but I had decided to spend a buy-in and hit the .25/.50 tables if things di...
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Tuesday, Jun 14 2005
Another Bizzle Finish - 5 way action, im 2nd in chips w/ $3,100, im in the BB w/ J,J. The SB has been raising me all day. This time it comes again, 2 unit raise to 450....I re raise it another 2 units to 750. The SB thinks about it for about 20 secs, decides going all-in is...
When In Doubt - After having an almost disasterous day yesterday 5 tabling I started having doubts about whether I should continue to do the multitabling. This morning I played a little more and in 10 minutes was down nearly 15 big bets. I closed out all tables immediate...
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Monday, Jun 13 2005
The end (?) of Phoenix Rising - This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end Ill never look into your eyes...again Its time for me to step away ...
Bonus (but a cruel way to get it) - I needed 13 FPPs to get my bonus in PS. So I decided I will run a couple quick tourneys to get the bonus in hand. Well the first tourney two hands decide my fate. My K,Q in the SB runs into 9,9 in the BB (he was short stacked) and he flops 8,5,2 all cl...
Negatively thrives - Well I have lost another $120 or so since the last blog, just again, i cant figure it out, is it a bad run of cards? am I not nearly as good of a player as I think I am? Are the other players getting better? I am not too sure what this all means......I ...
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Sunday, Jun 12 2005
Re-calculating - I havent played much this weekend. Actually I havent played at all. Others things have taken up my time. Unfortunately I took a few minutes to re-calculate all my numbers this week (more money = more money to calculate), and realized (after some hours of ...
Week 5 - This was a week of highds and lows..........impatience and level headedness.........and also listening to some words of wisdom that put me on the right track. Ahhh where to begin. The beginning of the week found me down about $50 and either through impat...
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Friday, Jun 10 2005
** Bankroll Rising ** - Re-buy. Sit n go. O8. Limit. I beat them all today, and collected a $120 bonus as well. Win: $535.Bankroll: $5778. !!! Its days like these that make me believe the skys the limit. Sometimes, not too often, I get in a zone where I can almost see the other ...
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Thursday, Jun 09 2005
Up all night. Again. - Its getting light out. The birds are chirping. Why am I not tired? loose cannon no more? said...You are the best poker player I know personally. I will take a container of milk. Loose Cannon wins contest #2. He wins a loaf of bread, and a stick of ...
I think I might leave it - In a complicated world that we live in we all have to make some sort of decisions, I think I am one step closer to saying that while its been fun, I need to re-evaluate my time spent on playing poker. I have been playing for almost 2 years now and while ...
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Wednesday, Jun 08 2005
Stick of butta - I only played one re-buy tournament today, and lost. But, after writing last night I decided I wasnt done playing for the evening and, just to mix it up a bit, ventured into some 3/6 limit. I won the first pot I was in and never looked back on my way to...
In The End Not Bad But Talk About Swingy - Well I logged 2.5 hours of multitabling tonite. Boy oh boy talk about swings. I went from +5BB TO -20Bb to in the end I left the tables +30bb so I will count it as a successful session. I think it is vitally important to set a certain timeframe and stick ...
Let The Multitabling Begin - After talking to someone I play against on occasion and who is a member of another forum i frequent I have decided to start multitabling. He talked me out of withdrawing from PokerStars although I already did but they cancelled that withdraw for me. Wow, ...
Poker: love it or leave it - Well I have done it again, rolled three $15+1 in a row and lost all three of them (6th, 4th, 6th) and the worst part of it is I knew i was beat but just wanted to make sure in a couple of them. The 4th place finish was (lucky) if you will but i had a goo...
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Tuesday, Jun 07 2005
Girly Furly Indian - Loose Cannon is the winner of contest #1: http://members.cox.net/donknotts/knotts11-shakiest.jpg Im only using the head shot. Gotta love Ralphy in that get-up. Kindve an androgynous Ralph. There were a couple others that I liked: 1) Ralph wearing an a...
Bad Start, Good Finish - Well I started the day in fine fashion losing in 2 $15+1 SnGs and one I took a bad beat and the other I just could not get it going, so I start the day down $32 (not good considering the night before I was pretty ticked off about my play and about the bad...
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Monday, Jun 06 2005
Play less, win more - Last week featured some marathon sessions of poker that resulted in very small victories ($7, $11, etc.). OK, one day I did make over $400. Today though I decided I was going to stay completely away from poker. Ive said it before, and Ill say it again, so...
Minus $30 Today Maybe Just What I Needed - Today was a particularly bad day for me. The worst one Ive had since I started at Poker Stars back in early May and yet, in a funny way today may have been just what I needed to get my head out of the clouds and back on track to the ultimate goal that of...
Couple Of Changes - Decided to run my poker week from Sunday to Saturday so this entry is actually finishing off week 4 even though some of it was played this morning, but I will count it for week 4. I went on some serious tilt yesterday, but I have to be the luckiest tilte...
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Sunday, Jun 05 2005
Unlucky 13(th) - The cards turned cruel again today as I suffered some horrible beats in key spots. I was down $146 until me and two buddies went in together on a $50 + 5 multi table tourney (two of us played in it). 358 people entered, I finished 13th. Could have been be...
Saturday Set - I played a set of three games: 2 - $15_1 PL Omaha, finished 2nd and 3rd as the 3rd place was unreal 10 hands into the game we were 4 way with one huge stack. 1 - $25+2 turbo holdem game so far I am up $8.50, so this last tourney i am playing with house ...
A few days worth - I am not sure if i remember everything i have done over the last few days but here is a shot at it. Played in $5_50 cent turbo tourney and busted out 400 out of 1200 or something like that. Played in $10_1 re-buy tournament (so had $31 investment into it)...
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Saturday, Jun 04 2005
F*#K Yeah! - Today started off in similar fashion to many of the days in the past two weeks. Lose, lose, and then lose some more. After four tournaments and an hour of an O8 cash game, I was stuck for --$118.50. Then it was time to get busy. --Three 25 + 2s: two 2nd...
Corn diggity doggin' - Todays story begins where yesterdays left off. After I finished writing I didnt feel like I could sleep yet (I think I mentioned already that I am somewhat of an insomniac). So I decided to play one more sit n go, for $6.50. I didnt want to concentrate th...
Week 4 - Well, Ive said it before and Ill say it again. I am probably the worlds worst tournament player. Freerolls.........$1 MTTs............SNGs............I lose them all. But that was NL. As I looked at the SNGs Poker Stars has to offer I noticed a $5/$0....
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Thursday, Jun 02 2005
Two for Two - Played in two $15+1s and cashed in both. I played very tight games in both as I just wanted to do another experiment on how best to play online poker. I have come to this conclusion: you need to play a tight/aggressive game (sounds like an oxymoron) b...
POKER WARS: - The Stepchild Strikes Back Played five re-buys today, and finished + $116.50. It easily could have been $150 to $200 more. Then after that I (finally) broke the 8 game sit n go losing streak, finishing 2nd in a 25 + 2. Then the icing on the cake was bein...
End Of Month Report May 2005 - May was a great month there can be no doubt. Far better than I could have hoped for. To be quite honest I never would have thought I would have been playing .25/.50 as fast as I did. I admit I entered .25/.50 before I had the proper bankroll, but I mad...
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Wednesday, Jun 01 2005
Red-headed... - step-child. I am him. He is I. I only played two 25 + 2s today, and ran the sit n go losing streak to 8. Right now Im getting beat like a red-headed step-child. This is how bad the cards are running: I played a game of whist with my parents yesterday, a...
Turbo Tuesday - Playing just one today, gotta get up early and the kid is sick, so playing a quick one....4 way action and i was the chip leader but ran into a flush with my straight and lost a good sized pot. Then had the low stack all in with my A,Q vs Q,6.....not onl...
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