Im Done

I fucking quit.........

The difference 1 or 2 cards make on someone's mood and bankroll.
Especially when its the last card.

Im sick of losing constantly on a daily basis to.....
1, 2 and 3 outters.
Gutter balls.
Runner runner dogshit
Miracle cards.....

People that are so far behind they havent even showed up to the race yet........

Theres no way to win. The only way your gonna win anything at poker is if your already rich, sponsorships deals, backers, or if you have a purdy mouth.

Poker is a huge waste of time and energy.
Poker is probably as bad as I imagine herpes being.

As we speak............

Right now as we speak I'm trying to patch up our bleeding bankroll. Im playing 6handed sngs. I'm pretty fucking disgusted to say the least. Im on my 3rd table with no cashes in the previous 2. The first table I made a bad read I put the guy on a flush draw when he checked raised me on the turn with a 3rd heart didnt hit. I had 33 and he flopped 2 pair with an all rag board...Loss #1. Moving on to the 2nd one...... I won a few small pots early on. The guy on my right made a min raise from the small blind. I called with 10 9 in the big blind since it wasnt that much , and I'd be able to get away and still have chips. Flop comes J K Q. He put out a pussy sized bet that made me think he had a decent hand or he had shit,,,, either way i didnt care because I knew he didnt have A 10. I reraise his min raise, he then came over the top all in. I insta called of course he tabled AA the turn is a blank and the river is a 10!!!!! what a freakin luck box. Im on the 3rd one as we speak, Im the chip leader with about 5k with 4 left everyone has 1500 or less. I should be able to pull this one off to get back to even...............

It's Been All Me Baby.............

Its true I have been on Tilt lately, but not in the context the Donk uses. Although with the big down turn in the last 2 days it probably seems like I have been tilting off our hard earned money....not the case. Each session started off pretty hot. I played 2 tables at once each of those being pretty soft. I was able to pick up dead pots, steal in position, and get paid off with monsters. 3 seperate occasions I capped the pot PF with AA, KK, and JJ. Each time being called and holding up.......easy breezy. I was running so well I almost cracked the $400 mark............Until everything went downhill. Its the same old story get it in with best and come out with the worst. I did do alot of check raising with semi strong hands that were not called so I was able to chip up that way. When I finally got my opponents to put the money in with the worst of it I got unlucky. One example......I had Q 10 off {Ep} the board came Q 10 x rainbow. I checked raised all in and was called by {MP} holding Q Jo......turn is 9 giving him open ended, and the river was a K. Scenarios like that happened through out the next few days wheather I had top pair top kicker they hit 2 pair on the turn or river, or my 2 pair being counterfited. I laugh to myself when I think of the Donk waking up to do a 20 minute sesh before going into work only to shit his pants when he sees how bad I run. For now I'll leave the cash play up to him and I'll stick to what I like best sng's. We only have 100 points before we qualify for the next WSOP freeroll, also something I'll leave up to the Donk. As for the Rock she never loses..........because she never plays.

Looks Like It's Up to Me to Stop the Bleeding

I woke up around 5pm and was informed by email that we had already busted out. Busted out within the first 15minutes that is. The Donk is running pretty bad these days. So I think its only fair for me to play the next freeroll that we qualify for at the end of the month. The last session I had I managed to get us to $325. Today I checked the account and we were at $312 so it looks like he's running bad in cash games as well. I think he managed to win a few $26 tokens though. I did some low limit multi tabling and got us back to $325 and change. Hopefully when I wake up itll be the same or more, like I said thats what I'm hoping for.
We havent been able to break $350. We came close a few times during my trip but couldnt get anything going. Yesterday was close, I did some multi tabling and managed to get a little over $340, but encounted a plethera of suckouts and lost races. So ended the session at $325 as I mentioned eariler in the post.
The Donk used one of the tokens to play an PLO event. He was doing pretty well fluctuating between 2nd / 3rd in chips. It looked like he was well on his way to the cash but I guess he ran into a combination of bad luck and bad play. Im sure he'll post all his beats he encounted so I'll leave all that for him. So no cash for Team Bankroll in the PLO event.

Back from Aussie

There were 100 empty seats on the flight back from Melbourne to L.A.. 2 of those empty seats happened to be right next to me!!! That made for a nice little nook for the entire flight(3blankets, 3pillows).I think I watched about 3 movies. Also watched an Aussie sitcom called Summer Heights High, which I got hooked on during my incoming flight. Even with all that comfort I still wasnt able to get one ounce of sleep for the entire flight. I did come close at one point, that is until the crew turned on the lights and started serving breaky. All hope of sleep was lost after that.
I arrived in LA around 8am. Customs didnt even search my bags or run them through the ex ray machine. Which is funny because my bags werent searched or ran upon arrival in Aussie. Both times the agents in Aussie and L.A. said, " go straight and the exit is on the left" Easy enough. I guess asians dont rasie suspisions.
My sister picked me up from McCarran around 11am and we grabbed some starbucks. I ended up staying up till around 8pm, meaning I was up for 31hrs straight. Woke up at midnight. The donk and I took turns racking up our points for the WSOP freeroll on Tilt. He finally had to call it quits, so I took over finished the job and registered. The freeroll is scheduled on the 10th and the donk is gonna go ahead and represent.
Overall Im still out of it and havent left the house yet.

Our aim to shoot for

Dave and I have been playing long long hours trying to gain our 300 bonus Full Tilt Points to try to play the WSOP freeroll on Feb 10th. Of course the package includes everything with buy-in, flights and accommodation aswell as some spending cash.

In order to qualify we needed to download Full Tilt from pokernews and earn 300 bonus points from the 25 Jan till the 09 Feb. We are well on our way currently having earned 120 points thus far.

Multi-tabling is what we are doing as we speak and it has been some crazy action. Not too much $$$ involved with us playing the .05 - .10 no limit holdem 6 handed with a cap all in of $3. We have sit on all the tables with $6 every time and have not had a losing session so far - touch wood. Losing session being in total. One table has gone busto and the 2 tables have covered and made a little $$$$ on the side.

Things are getting better - roll at about $330 and a little change

Very quick update..........

Dave has joined me in Melbourne and everything is happening in a way that entirely was not planned. Things have gone smoothly from my end but not so sure about my boy Dave. Im no doubt Dave will update his blog any day soon explaining exactly whats happened with his trip downunder since arriving in Melbourne.

In poker terms things are slowly dropping for the bankroll. Not rapidly and not under our deposit amount. We have our heads just above water and looks like our swings havent been to bad, probably due to the $$$ amount of sit and go games we are playing.

I have sillinging been playing small cash games and have not come out a lot on top. Maybe one session or two but thats about i

Before Dave goes back on the 6th of Feb we in tandem will be trying to make some more money for the bankroll and who knows I might be joining Dave in Las Vegas for his summer during world series of poker.

Giddy Up till next time - hop on board and ride the bankroll train

It's nice here in Melbourne..... no its Melbun......you banana!!!!

After two days of very little sleep, a four hour delay, a near connection miss, and around 15 -16 hrs of flight time I finally arrived to Melbourne. Havent been able to do any sightseeing yet due to the Aussie Millions but Ive been very impressed with what Ive seen so far. I would highly recommend visiting Australia some time in your life time.

The day after I arrived. I went to work straight away for poker news to help in the floor reporting for the Aussie Millions. So its been nothing but writing and watching poker hands go down for the last 5 or so days. Its great to be part of something so big, and working with the Doctor, and Change 100 again. Also my good buddy Slippers a.k.a "The Donkey" is dealing the tournys as well. So far so good in Melbourne........Updates and stories comming very soon....

Sweating the rail on the other side of the world.....

I sweated the donk as he played a sixer. I thought he played well he made some big folds shorthanded that I dont think other ppl would make. Actually I dont know why he coined himself the "Donkey" I got a chance to play live with him over the summer during the WSOP and was impressed with the reads. Im not one for dude on dude compliments cuz thats not how I roll....Anyway zwell played.

I played a HU match a few days ago and got lazy about blogging it. This guy was a total push over. I chipped away at his stack for most of the match raising and betting with nothing. The guy ended up catching a run of good cards and eventually got even. The final hand I have 97 , flop comes 973 rainbow. This is where i messed up cuz i check the flop the turn come Q I check raise he moves AI and I call he shows Q3 and im out. Bummer I havent played on since. As a group were making baby steps. Gotta crawl before you walk, crawl before you walk.

WPBT weekend.....

Last weekend I was very fortunate to be able to attend a fews days of the WPBT, here in Las Vegas. I got outta work around 7pm Thurs. night, and made my way to MGM around 9pm. As I walked through the casino floor to the poker room I was a little nervous / anxious being that this is my first WPBT and Im a newbie to the blogging world. I left a message to Dr. Pauly as I waited for my 1-2 table. 5 minutes after being sat I was excited to see the Doctor spotting me as he walked through the room. From there we strolled over to the bar in the sports book and he introduced me to a slew of well known poker bloggers such as his brother Derek, Maudie, Iggy, Otis, Jen Leo. We had a great time socializing with everyone, I was able to catch up with Change 100, and Mene Gene. A few hours later the Doctor, Change 100, Mene Gene, and my self among other made our way down to the Excalibur where we continued to drink talk about this past years WSOP which we were all a part of, and make o/u bets on the cowboys roping calfs. I finally ended my night busting out at the pai gow table with the same company from the bar. Again big shout out to Dr. Pauly for making an outsider feel welcomed.
I look foward to working with you guys down at the Aussie Millions next month.

Another Tourny Another Loss

Seems like the team as a whole is on a slump lately, (with the exception of The Rock taking down the 45 person sng). My slump can be attributed to just plain old bad play and decision making. I think being stuck in training all day, and dreading going back to work in Vegas is taking away from my concentration when I do get a chance to play. My plan of attack is to just step away and take a break from playing. I'll wait to get back to Vegas let things smooth over at work and try to get into some kind of normal schedule again. Hopefully doing this will result in a turn around.

Peace

2 Hands

I played two hands. 1st hand not worth talking about. I min raise 1caller in front of me. All in after the flop I fold. Last hand blinds are high, I'm shortstacked I move in with QJ on the button BB calls with KQ awesome....... we're at $302.45 peace out.

No Good

It's the weekend again, I decided to go ahead and rent a car to make the 4 hr drive back up to Michigan to escape being couped up in a hotel room all weekend. So it's about midnight I cruised over to a buds house to play a sng. Heres how it went down.

The tables very loose with a ton of all in orgies. I decide to sit back wait and pick my spots.

1st hand I decide to play is Qd 10h in the C.O. Blinds are still small maybe like 25-50 or 50-100?

PF :

CO I min raise

SB calls

Flop : 7d Ad 4s

SB comes out firing a week bet so I smooth call. My thought is hopefully he'll check the turn and I'll steal the pot right there.

Turn: Jd

SB comes out with another weak bet I just go ahead and smooth call for some reason (now that i think about it maybe I should have came over top) I was distracted in a conversation while drinking.

River: 10d -nice!

SB bets out like 320 in a pot that 1k+ I didnt he had the K so i reraise a bit he goes into the tank then folds.

After that hand that was pretty much it. The table went into all in orgy mode and i couldnt pick any good spots. I got blinded down and got put into push fold mode.

My last hand I pick up K8 only to be called by K9 with the flop putting an 8 and then the 9 ball.

(I gotta figure out how to place these screen caps)

The Holdem House

Just like the Donkey I too have been very busy on the other side of the planet. My job has sent me out to Ohio for 3 weeks with 1 day notice while my laptop takes a shit on me....nice. I think I'll hit a Wal Mart and buy a cheap one to hold me over. The training makes me think of a mixture of a bad Dockers commercial and boot camp. Every moring there is around 30 or 40 business casual dudes in the lobby to be shipped off to head quarters for day. I arrived wed. night went to class thurs. and sucked out into having a 3 day weekend. So I did what any normal person would do, I rented a car and escaped 4hrs away back to Flint. I get back into Flint around 630pm by 8pm im at the Holdem House.
The Holdem House is room that many of my friends frequent, although Ive never been there its really close to my house. Comming from vegas i wasnt impressed at all, it was actually kinda gross but they made good attempts to be hospitable (food, drinks, ect.) It wasnt that big maybe 4 tables, it was way way way way too smoky inside with no ventilation, and the dealer had the worst mechanics ever in life or any other life. Ok its a 2-4 nl game ive only made around $40 then i get cold decked for like 2hrs. Finally i limp in lp with Qd 10d 3way ...blinds, me. Flop - Q J rag two spades. Small blind (dead money) is all in not for much, bb (donkey) makes is $34 to go. Putting him on spades I flat call. Turn comes 5h blank. the donkey checks. I study him for like 2seconds knowing he missed, i push all in for $60. The way hes handling his chips i know hes on spades , after like 10sec he calls reluctantly. SB has J 6 , BB has 7 6 Spades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the hell?? and of course my Q 10 doesnt hold up when a spade comes up on the river. My buddy says to the guy .."How do u call that?"

The Pro Is In The Building

Ok so this is my first official post for the Bankroll Experience.
I dont have anything poker related to post just yet. Bare with me though, I have alot on my plate right now. I do promise to have something up by the weekend.