Closing it Down!

December is winding down and the new year is on the horizon. I am in full anticipation for this upcoming year and it will be probably one of the most important in my life. This is mainly because of my goal of achieving Supernova Elite. I never really set goals in my life; sure i do have many goals in my life, but there more futuristic oriented. This goal of Supernova Elite will be in the present and it is entirely in my own hands to achieve. I'll make a later blog post of what other things I want to accomplish this upcoming year.

So, back to the VPP goal of December. I'm currently around 55k vpps, so I'll need 15k more to finish this. I think I'll make it in the next few days and I would of achieved 300k vpps for the year (I know, seems miniscule to the required 1 million vpps for SNE). Still, I will be proud, since I originally set this goal somewhere around summer, not knowing if I will actually of achieved it because I was burnt out of poker at that time and my volume lacked. Hopefully everything goes well these upcoming days!

Happy Holidays!

December Goal Update

Have to catch up!

it's a scary thought

These last few days, I have been waking up at these odd times in the night, technically morning. I wake up depressed for some reason, I guess I can attribute that to waking up to the darkness outside? Being up at this time makes you feel like you're alone and often I think of life matters.

Sometimes, I ask myself what exactly am I doing in my life, along with my future. I'm confident I can make this poker thing work, even if there are doubts I have from time to time, but it's just more than doubts. When I break it down and analyze what it is in becoming a professional poker player, it's a very scary thought for me. Don't get me wrong, I do want to do this, but looking at it, there is just as many negatives as positives when you do become pro. One negative I can immediately think of is in a way, I am isolating myself from society. Aside from traveling around the world to tournaments, most of the time will be spent at home, grinding it online. You are essentially alone, working by yourself.

Another issue stemming right now, is the future of online poker and the recent talks of regulation. Should I be for it? Should I be against it? I have mixed feelings on this, but I am leaning for the bill. I know the 15 month blackout will be terrible, especially for players that do not see poker as a future plan. This will be horrible for me as well if it does pass, but it seems to be so +EV for the future games.

Here's a link to a great interview; the interview summarizes what is currently going on as well as why this bill should/has to pass now.

http://www.leggopoker.com/forums/leggocast-forum/steel-blinds-1-steel108-zbthorton-13860.html

December Goal

70K vpps. Classes are coming to a end this Friday, have some work to complete as well as finals on 17th, but I think I'll be able to do this.

remember, remember

eh, I actually rather not. Poker for this last week has been terrible, I really hate to say it, but I have been "running bad." Yeah, so I'll stop there and spare you my complaining. I started this month, like the previous blog post said, break-even, but I picked it up in the middle of the month and started winning. Then disaster hits, right before the day of Thanksgiving and I'm currently at my 8th losing session in a row. I guess it evens out because last month I did run good and had a pretty long streak of winning sessions.

But, times like these, it's hard to not question your play and your skill level. "Am I just not good enough?" always comes to my head. I'm still confident though, even though I'm a little down;I'm handling this better than expected. I'm actually more upset about my winrate on PTR, I was so close in obtaining 1BB won per 100 hands, but I'm back to somewhere like .50BB won per 100 hands now :(

I hope December really picks up, it's going to be a big month for me because January is when I start the SNE chase. I cannot afford to lose.

Swingy Month So Far

Like the title says, it has been a swingy first week in November. I feel like i'm running normally, even though EV wise, I'm up like 6 BI's or so. Obviously EV can be misleading and it doesn't account for hands like this.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com



Hero (MP2) ($274.30)

CO ($117)

Button ($423.30)

SB ($220)

BB ($146)

UTG ($145.15)

UTG+1 ($263.40)

MP1 ($272.75)



Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J, J

3 folds, Hero bets $6, 1 fold, Button calls $6, 2 folds



Flop: ($15) 7, J, 4 (2 players)

Hero bets $10, Button calls $10



Turn: ($35) 7 (2 players)

Hero checks, Button bets $28, Hero calls $28



River: ($91) 7 (2 players)

Hero checks, Button bets $50, Hero raises to $230.30 (All-In), Button calls $180.30



Total pot: $551.60 | Rake: $3



Results:

Button had 7, 9 (four of a kind, sevens).

Hero had J, J (full house, Jacks over sevens).

Outcome: Button won $548.60


I was actually seriously just thinking of flatting river because of the way he played it, maybe i'm too nitty? But, I decided to take the cooler like a man!

BE so far this month, but fpps put me ahead :)

October

October wasn't bad, i need to put in more volume though. I'm too lazy.