January!!!

So last month ended up being my best month so far as far as cash games go. Even though i didnt get many hands it the heat rock was with me so i didnt need to. I think i finished up with about 14k hands and another 12 hours or so of live play. As for money made, i made 63.5k online playing between 5/10-25/50 mostly 6 max and HU. And for live i played 10/20 and profited around 7.5k. So this leaves me with my best month so far (for cash games).

Not really much else to note except i got a trip to Utah for my friends birthday and we plan on doing a bunch of snowboarding.


God Bless

JP

Decision Made

So it looks as if im not going to be going back to school. I talked around with friends/family and everyone said that they knew school wasnt for me. The good thing about it is i can always come back to it if i need it. School is always going to be there, whereas who knows where the future of online poker is ganna end up. Who knows though i still got a week and something might persuade me to go back but i doubt it. As for life, im loving it. I dont know what it is but i wake up most days real happy and ready to start most days. Its kind of weird cause i do the same thing most days so you would think it would get old. But it doesnt. hahahaha.


As for poker its been kind of swingy. Yesterday i started off up around 4kish and played for a decent amount of time and decide that bluffing was the right way to go. And it wasnt, i ended up dropping around 6.5k yesterday in just bad play, so i just quit for the day. Same kind of thing went down today, as far as swingyness goes. I felt i played really well but just happened to get into some spots that didnt go my way. I think for that session it went something like down 5k up 5k and finally end up like around even for the day. Poker is fun

wells thats all folks (even though there is hardly anyone out there)

God Bless

JP

Hello!!!

Not real sure if anyone reads but i think im going to try to blog it up a little maybe...3-4 times a week with just little life/poker updates...


So '08 ended up being a pretty sick year. My goal was to make 96k for the year and i exceeded that by a pretty big margin. So that makes me pretty happy. I have some pretty big goals for this year that im not going to go into right now but its going to be exciting.


As for life i have a little bit of a dilemma. This spring i was planning on going back to school to get my degree but turns out that there is a lot going on this spring. I have been talking with friends/poker players who have a lot of plans for traveling in the spring and that is something im very much interested in. So i have until monday to make my decision and i guess im going to go to my class and decide before the drop date if i want to finish or travel. A positive if i dont travel this spring is there is always summer.


Well thats it for now

God Bless

JP

BOOOM!!!! 83k in a week

Well since my last post things have been pretty money. I was down about 11k or so in cash games (mostly 5/10) and i managed to get that back to even in about 6k hands or so. I felt i played really well last week as far as cash games. I'm really working hard to not spew and do some do things that do not make sense. I still have some leaks that have carried over from 2/4 and i am just now realizing how far i have to go to become an elite player.

Now for the exciting stuff!!!! So Sunday is basically my tourney day and i am going to try to keep it that way (its a nice change of pace). So i set my alarm early so i can get in all the warm up donkaments and i end up busting in the in the Sunday Brawl with a set vs open ended straight draw and he bangs and i am out. I do not really remember how i busted in the warm up on stars but i did. So i still had one tourney running at it was one of the $100 rebuys on stars with aobut 1000 entrants and i got of to a good start and had a decent stack after the rebuy period. From there i preceeded to play really well. I felt i was changing gears at the right times and just seemed to be on top of things. but once we got down to the final 30 players i ran really well getting it in bad about 3-4 times and owning everytime. Once the final table hit i had my buddy Dodgyken sweat with me and help me with some of the math aspects and prize money stuff. I think i might have busted earlier but he helped me to stay sane and not monkey jam against the chip leader a few times. So we get 4 handed and the chip leader is being a real homo 3 betting a lot and just being a dick in general. But i just needed to wait out the shorty who only had 200k with blinds 20k/40k and finally he busted and it was time to gamble 3 handed. The other two guys loved to battle it out and i just let them do that while trying to pick my spots carefully. The chip leader bust the other guy and we go heads up and first hand we get it all in A2o vs AKo and we both hit our cards but his K holds to take it down. So ship me the 50k and the biggest week of my life.

As for my life things have been really good. This weekend i had a lot of fun my buddy had a costume party and all our friend went down and we had a good time. Costume parties in general set the tone for having a good night. We will see what this weekend holds with Holloween coming up, hopefully its a lot of fun.


God Bless

JP

I'm a bum

As far as blogging goes i am definitely a bum. For whatever reason i can't bring myself to come on here 3-4 times a week a write up a summary of whats been going on. I'm intrigued by the idea of blogging and looking back at in the future but to actually do it is a whole other story. But is something i plan to work and do more often.


Ill try and give a little up date of how things went in the previous months in poker. In August i think i made around 20k but i am not 100% on that. Now September was my weakest month ever as far as putting in hands go. I think a major contributor to that was buying a PS3, which was a great idea and a horrible one all at the same time. I think i managed to make a decent amount around 14k and that was over about 13k hands online and about 7 days of live play in vegas and at the commerce. Now on to the present month. I managed to start this month off with a BOOOOOOM dropping 15k pretty quickly in run bad and play bad style. I fought back and got it down to 7k then the next day bam dropped 4k and i seemed to just rinse and repeat this for about 2 weeks. Then for whatever reason i hop in some sunday donkaments and manage to final table the Sunday Brawl and get 5th for a solid 22k (best tourney cash eva). so that put me in the positive for the month and it feels good. Also after i had that cash i managed in the last 3 days or so do pull my game together a bit and scrap up 10k in my last 5k hands at 3/6-10/20. So my month has really turned around and i just hope i can continue to play well and fill some leaks that i still have.

On a side note i recently got asked to coach a midstakes player and we had our first session. Overall it went pretty good, we managed to find a few leaks in his preflop game that would help his all around game as far as bluffing frequency and getting into marginal spots postflop go. So as far as coaching goes i think i am going to try to pick a few more students. Maybe try to get some that want some on a regular basis and help some lil ones own the souls of many.


Now for the life stuff. Life as been going good i think i found a good balance between playing poker, working out, and hanging out with the friends. Although right now i enjoy playing poker more than any of those things. This weekend and next weekend should be fun because me and all my friends have a lot of things planned for holloween. This thursday we are going to Knotts scary farm which i hope was better than the one time i went but still all in all pretty sick. Then this friday my friend is having a costume party and his place in LA. And then im not even sure what we are doing holloween weekend as there is a bunch of little things that our friends are doing so who knows what we end up doing.

Well thats it for now

God Bless

JP

JULY!!!!

Well sorry its been awhile im kind of a bum with this whole blogging thing but im going to try to get better at it. I think if i can post some stuff 3 times a week that would be sufficient.

Well as for poker this past month it was my best month ever. I made 22k playing a combination of 2/4, 3/6, 5/10 and some 5/10 live also. I felt i played good but not my A game at all times. Another problem is i only managed to play 31k hands and i need to be playing 45k-50k hands a month to really see some truly great months. This is something im going to be working on but being that i live in SoCal i find it hard to put in the volume with so many things going on over here and my friends always going out and such. I think it would be a lot easier if i lived in the middle of the country where all the boring people live. But that is not the case and i need to find a way to do it anyways.

So thats it for now hopefully i can get some life stuff going on in here but for now that is all.

God Bless

JP

Been some time

hey guys hows it going. Its been awhile since i last logged on to this crazy life journal thing. Not a whole lot has gone on since except i made another trip to vegas and had fun hanging out over there. Also stayed at the Newport Dunes for the 4th with my ex girlfriends fam and friends and that was pretty fun. We went kayaking, swam, played some volleyball, and just grilled out food and just relaxed and having fun and the same time.

Well for some poker related info. I have been trying to stay actice working out about 6 days a week trying to get into real good shape and also have a clear mind while playing. Also with working out ive been trying to eat healthier (not going great but dropped 8Ibs.). It seems when i stay active like i am, i am more attentive at the tables and everything seems more clear especially when im attempting to 9 table 400nl-600nl. So thats basically what ive been doing poker wise, I try to 4 table when i play 1000nl and when i want to grind or the games arent good at 1000nl i 7-9 table 400nl-600nl. The results have been surprisingly good when im 9 tabling because i have a hard time 6 tabling but for some reason 9 tabling is doable. So as for this month im up about 10k over 12k hands and hopefully i can reach the 20k mark and also play over 40k hands. Its ganna be a grind but its something i need to get better at and its something i will be working on as months go by.

alright well thats all for now

God Bless

JP