A family emergency...

Sorry about the lack of updates but I have not had much time to play poker. You see about 12 days ago I woke up for work and my wife and I noticed my answering machine blinking. For anyone who lives away from their family you know this is seldom a good thing.

Unfortunately it was quite possibly the worst news we could have gotten. My wifes grandmother(whom she was very close) had passed away unexpectedly. That phone call set off a very amazing and chaotic chain of events that ended with me and my whole family traveling for 30 hours from Okinawa to Indianapolis Indiana.

We have made it through the hardest part of the trip and decided to go ahead and stay in the United States for 30 days. I am playing off and on but nothing serious. I have thought about a couple non-pokery posts that should be hitting the inter-web shortly.

well thats all for now...

Ace...

Oh the agony...

Well after starting my day/night off pretty well last I ended up blanking 15 games in a row at levels between $3-$6. I ended my night after about two hours in when I decided that either the Stars RNG, or the poker gods were angry with me.

I am actually convinced the poker gods wrath was brought down upon me because during my session I looked up at the TV and there was a show depicting Dwarves(little people) playing basketball. I am sorry to say I giggled a little. This was obviously unforgivable to the poker gods as runner runner was the theme of the night.

Anyways I noticed that another blogger Donkey Thrasherhas been going through the same thing. So I guess its not the poker gods after all, but is in fact one of three options the pokerstars doomswitch random number generator has went haywire(unlikely), or I actually suck at this game(possible), last of all is just variance kicking me in the balls.

Whatever it was/is I was left longing for something that would make me laugh(no, not dwarves playing basketball... I learned my lesson). I did however find The Shower Project. I for one found it very amusing.

Hopefully I can dig myself out of the hole I dug last night, and come out to day back into the black/green.

Pressing Forward

Well I broke even play a billion hands of LHE, and I broke even playing 150ish games of 18 man SnG's. So I was in a bit of a WTF do I do now kind of mood when I got to talking to EY and he sent me a video made by "lipofund" or something like that. Anyway the guy was talking about playing multi table SnG and explains a lot about the shove shove shove style of play that seems to be right for these. I know the guy made a ton of money playing this way so
he must be doing something right.


I decided after that I was going to make a decent effort at giving this style a try. So far I have played 77 games in total. playing just about anything turbo $12 and under. However, the $12 games are really just me taking a shot and going for a quick boost. My actual BR is right above $500 so as you can see below I am concentrating on the $3.25 and playing $6.50, and the $12's sporadically.

Playing this style is tough and I am having issues figuring out if a spot is correct to shove or not. I have ended up looking quite silly a few times already. I am seeing though that when I do make it to the FT I am usually there with a decent stack. I have suffered a massive amount of very painful bad beats the last couple of days, but I guess it probably comes with the territory.

I did cut down the amount of tables I am playing right now until i get more used to playing these in this style. I am also working on getting used to playing continual instead of in sets. I honestly prefer sets, but would have to play something like 20ish tables to be able to come close to volume I want to end up getting in.

All in all I like playing this style especially as I get more used to it and pass up situations that I would have taken just a couple of days ago. I also need to be careful not to turn down the aggression to much as I have noticed that I have been getting ran over the last few final tables. I think part of it has to do with the bad beats that I suffered over the last few days, but I am not sure.

Well thats all for now ttyl...

Second Guessed

Well I kind of half quit playing LHE, and I am not sure how much if any LHE I am going to play. The problem is if I quit playing entirely I am basically giving up on making supernova this year. However, if I do continue playing ½ LHE enough to make supernova I give up having a life lose a lot of the enjoyment I have gotten in the past by playing poker.
Now I played 7500 hands of LHE and I pretty much broke even. I think in the end I was up $11 total. However, that was not what caused me to second guess what form, or how much I would play that particular form of poker. What caused to rethink my ultimate goals for this year poker is the enjoyment factor. I was not enjoying playing, and after about two days I went and played stupid games above my bankroll just to feel some excitement or fun with poker. In the end that is bad for me and I want to enjoy the time I play online poker, and if I can’t really there is no point.
So I plan on playing some LHE, but just recreationally, and I plan to concentrate on SnG/Mtt’s the latter I will only play when I have a good chunk of time to play. The SnG I am going to playing mainly 18 man games and currently I have been 9 tabling in sets. I would like to get to the point where I am 12 tabling continually, but I will have to get better first.

My rule basically is going to be that I will play anything I have 50-100 buy-ins for if I drop below 50 buy-ins I will move down to the previous level if I get to a 100 buy ins for the next level I will have to reevaluate my level of play and the level of play of my opponents at the next level and make a decision. For example I have read the difference in the level of play for the $6.50 and the $16.00 is quite dramatic and I might actually wait until I have 150-200 buy ins before I would even attempt to move up.

Currently I am playing the $6.50 18 manners, and don’t have a whole lot to report. I have only played 28 so far, and that just is not enough for me to talk about yet. I plan playing at least a hundred (72 more) by Saturday night in the states so I can try to get on the large orbit leader board on stars.