Update

LoveShack is at 300K with 1200 left

Love Shack with $220k at break on day 3

Go RDG. Big Money No Whammies!!!!!!!

Tourneys, Online and Cash-tastic-ness

I wanna go to Biloxi this Sunday or next and play in the tournament but DAMN $20 fee for a $100 tournament! I guess fuck it anyway. Its just the excuse I need to go play the cash game. I love that poker room.

I keep getting rivered in all-in pots online in my $20 HU SnGs. Lucky Im usually ahead in chips and I have more than 40% of the time been able to come back and win. I've been hovering around $400 for a week now. Im ready to push on and maybe expand my game. I have 2GB of RAM coming today so I will be able to multitable should I chose to.

Im also ready to play some cash. My new goal is to minimize my losses. I will concentrate on maximizing my wins later. Not going on tilt is so paramount with half a bankroll. Im proud of myself for leaving early last week and saving $200 I had brought to play with. I have this bad habit of overplaying AK, 10s, and JJ when Im stuck a couple of buyins. Also limping in with any suited or connecting cards and Bad aces. Must become a folding machine again. People used to actually give me credit for having a hand. I'd like to return to that a little.

Send Some Main Event Love to the Love Shacker

Love Shack texted last night that he is sitting with 100k in the Main Event and plays again on Friday. Lets all send some positive thoughts his way. Ommm Ommmm Ommmm Im pretty sure they started with 30k in chips.

Folded the Sucker Straight like a Sucker

Wow. I got a shout out from GulfCoastPoker.net today. I may crack under the pressure to rant about poker and make it relevant to Baton Rouge. I havent been to the damn Belle poker room since they were rockin 3 tables. I hear they have 5 now. I was actually up overall playing there the last time I went regularly for a couple of months. If they would spread a 1/2 Nl game I'd be up there too much. The last time I played up there I had 56 and the 789 flopped out there. I reraised a large amount to the original better and an over caller. The over caller went all-in. I remember thinking in my head that I would raise enough that only J10 could possibly continue. So I had $85 in the pot and would cost me $400 more. I mucked and the all in guy shows Q9. I was so disgusted that I havent been back. I decided that I shoulda called that guy and didnt because I wasnt properly bankrolled to have $500 on that table and even though I was up on that game I said I would play there again till I had $5k set aside for poker. Maybe it was a good lay down and Im beat there enough times versus the random assclown bluff to justify laying it down. People love to play J10 and it was a limpfest preflop.

Going Broke the Loose Passive Way

Well I had someone ask me if this site was mine. I guess that means I had a reader. Still no comments but whatever. I just got from my cash game and Im home 2 hours early. Thats ALWAYS bad. Late is usually bad and early is ALWAYS bad. I dumped. I dumped in a grotesque calling station loose passive retard fashion. My lone reader took many chips from me by playing better. I think 80% of the times I put money in the pot I knew I was behind and 80% of the times I figured I had the best hand I checked. Ummmmmm going broke soon. I dont really have any interesting hands to recall. Just general calling with Ace rag against Ace better or way better. At least I saved $200 I had on me. I know I woulda lost it. I really need to think about this poker game and make some decisions about what I want to do. Do I want to play right and try and maximize my chances of winning or do I want to sit around and laugh and watch tv and throw money into the big hole in the middle of the table. Im down $900 for the last few weeks and I only have $1100 left in my bankroll. I dont even know if I have a bankroll. I have a car in the shop and zero money. I probably play better when I dont have 5 bullets in my pocket any way. But all that aside I really need to make a decision. Pay attentioin and think or just laugh and donk. My bud Dave is playing the main event today. I heard he was up to $70000 chips on day one. For all I know he is out as I write but I hope not. Good luck Dave cause we all know you got the chops. Ok Im goin to go consider whether I can enjoy something more than poker or if I have to get better. Scrapbooking? Heroine?

Beyond Degenerate

I had coffee with a friend of mine who is "off the bet" as they say in Gamblers Anonymous. He is one of those people who lose their minds gambling and steal from anyone they can to keep going. I was pretty sure I was never going to have anything to do with him since I was one of his victims but I had a change of heart and wanted to talk to him and see where he was at. He was doing good. He still owes so many people so much money but I think at this point he is committed to paying it. I think he will have to do it on his own terms which will upset some people. Its sad when you read articles about people who were compulsive gamblers doing things like robbing banks or embezzling money. I think its obviously a mental illness just like drug addiction. I had a dopefiend friend who robbed pharmacies in broad daylight with things like bricks and crow bars. Of coarse he got caught and he shoulda known he would get caught but addicts dont think logically. I let that guy stay on my couch for a while and try and kick drugs. Should I have been surprised had he stolen my TV? No. I was actually expecting it. I guess I will have to use that same attitude when it comes to my gambling addict friend because its so easy to just think he is a bad person who steals. I know bad people who steal. They dont stop and they are much sneakier than compulsive gamblers. They know how to shear the sheep and not skin it. Addicts skin everything including themselves.

I havent been playing much real poker. Looking forward to my Monday night 1/2 game tonight. My AC went out on my last officially sanctioned poker night so I spent all night with the AC repair guy. Ive played a coupla home games with non serious players. I made $100 overall from two friend games and probably shoulda made more since its as easy as betting untill they seem interested or they play back at me. But I did partake in the spirit of the evenings by gambling and donating some. My online stuff is still going well. My roll is up over $400. If I ever get some more RAM Im gonna try some more multi tabling full ring games. Right now my computer just cant run my big new monitor at the same time as my old monitor plus running 4 to 6 games of poker while having Holdem Manager constantly crunching stats.