Recovery day

So today started off pretty normal, was up about +165 through 10-15 games. Then I woke up from a nap and started another session...which didn't go so hot. Mix of playing bad and a couple of bad beats and I found myself down 2k. Not so fun. I'm highly motivated by losing (I know worst thing for a poker player). However at this point in my career I know that if I stay focused and grind my stakes (key not to move up) I'll make it all back in due time. Fortunately I made it all back this same night...actually ended up +155 and all the fpps I made. So in the end I'm really happy with how the day turned out.

Whewwww

Definitely could have been a bad day...probably should have been. Started off 1-5 with 6 chops (lots of regs out today) for -500, but was able to rally in a couple of games. Most notably a $210 reg speed vs glazednuts. Pretty good player, had me down around 800 most of the game. Was able to fight back and win 77 against K5 to close it out. Also won A10s vs K's allin pre for a big boost. Finished up on a nice run to go 15-9 with 6 chops for +490.

Run goood

Another shorter session with the month winding down and being about 30-40 games above pace. 11-4 for +695. Feeling pretty good, up 11,325 for the month so far...not counting about 1500+ in FPP's. Pretty nice start to the year.

Pretty relaxed day

went 13-7 with 4 chops for +540 for the day. Puts me up to +10630 for the month, which is pretty awesome. Nothing else exciting really. I'll try and be more interesting tomorrow lol.

+10k for the month!

Hopefully I'm able to continue running pretty well. +890 today, played a shorter session (23 games) went 15-6 with 2 chops. Kind of blew a game which would've put me up over 1k, but can't dwell on those types of things.

Ice Skating in Florida

Obviously not cut out for ice skating, I could barely stand up long enough to take a picture...pretty fun day though. Went out with most of Danni's co-workers. Pretty good group of people. Plus being on skates made me feel like I was 6-4, which would be awesome...I could probably dunk at that height. Oh and it's awesome seeing Kendrick Perkins back playing for the Celtics. Looks like he's been putting in an outrageous amount of hard work. Love Perk and how serious he takes his job as an athlete. Inspires me to work harder as a poker player.

Started off the session today getting slammed with bad beats. This was the very first hand I played of the day:
Seat 1: maxv2 (1500 in chips)

Seat 1: maxv2 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: FerriTheNuts (1500 in chips)
maxv2: posts small blind 10
FerriTheNuts: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to maxv2 [Qh Kh]
maxv2: raises 40 to 60
FerriTheNuts: raises 140 to 200
maxv2: calls 140
*** FLOP *** [Qd 5s 3h]
FerriTheNuts: bets 220
maxv2: calls 220
*** TURN *** [Qd 5s 3h] [9d]
FerriTheNuts: bets 400
maxv2: raises 680 to 1080 and is all-in
FerriTheNuts: calls 680 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Qd 5s 3h 9d] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FerriTheNuts: shows [As Ks] (a pair of Aces)
maxv2: shows [Qh Kh] (a pair of Queens)
FerriTheNuts collected 3000 from pot
maxv2 finished the tournament in 2nd place
FerriTheNuts wins the tournament and receives $220.00 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3000 | Rake 0
Board [Qd 5s 3h 9d Ac]
Seat 1: maxv2 (button) (small blind) showed [Qh Kh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: FerriTheNuts (big blind) showed [As Ks] and won (3000) with a pair of Aces


But then somebody switched on a run good switch and I won about 2-3 all-ins for all the chips overpairs against 1 over + Flush draw. Ended the day 14-9 with 2 chops for 25 games total and a +425 profit. I'll take it.

Yo! I think I'll begin updating this again. At least on a twitter type level (short posts). It's really not that hard, and something I should be doing. Played an astounding number of games today....at least for me lol. Played 65 total (2 were chops) and ended the day at 34-29 for a +350 profit. Made some mistakes throughout, but it's tough to play that much without doing so. So I'm pretty happy about it. I've made about $8700ish thus far this month with only one notable $1500 downswing. I was lucky enough to follow that up with a recovery day were I erased the debt completely which was nice. Hopefully I won't get made fun of for this, but my goal is simply to play 30 games a day. I know it's not much, but my average has been around 20-25 my entire career so there's room for improvement as far as volume goes. I'm jealous of the higher stakes grinders, sadly I don't quite have the balls to do what they do. I bow to you guys, fishenzon/treezer/plauzee/whaassuuppp/Siervos(nice take down at PCA)/BCM11/JMProdigy/IceVenom/HokieGreg HU. If I missed anyone I apologize. GL to you guys this year. I'll be down below in my little comfort zone grinding 115's and sweating 230's.

+820 today, very solid day; officially made back all of the losses that I suffered a few days ago.  Things have been going smoothly, in cards and in coaching.  I feel like PilSuhng is learning some depth, which is all I feel he lacked.  Here's a hand for the day.

PokerStars Game #30499692033: Tournament #179617293, $220+$10 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2009/07/15 17:12:52 ET
Table '179617293 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: THIERRY95 (1570 in chips) 
Seat 2: maxv2 (1430 in chips) 
THIERRY95: posts small blind 10
maxv2: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to maxv2 [Jd 9s]
THIERRY95: raises 60 to 80
maxv2: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Qs 8c 2h]
maxv2: checks 
THIERRY95: bets 80
maxv2: raises 160 to 240
THIERRY95: calls 160
*** TURN *** [Qs 8c 2h] [Ts]
maxv2: bets 250
THIERRY95: calls 250
*** RIVER *** [Qs 8c 2h Ts] [9d]
maxv2: bets 300
THIERRY95: calls 300
*** SHOW DOWN ***
maxv2: shows [Jd 9s] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
THIERRY95: mucks hand 
maxv2 collected 1740 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1740 | Rake 0 
Board [Qs 8c 2h Ts 9d]
Seat 1: THIERRY95 (button) (small blind) mucked [Kh Qh]
Seat 2: maxv2 (big blind) showed [Jd 9s] and won (1740) with a straight, Eight to Queen

Analysis:  This is a move that I generally make on a rare occasion.  Reraise on a gutshot hoping to induce a fold.  Fortunately for me I hit big and was able to suck value out of it the rest of the hand.  An unfortunate 9 on the river handcuffed me, but still was able to get a decent amount.  

Serious life hot streak

So I've decided to get blogging going again.  Partially because I want to, and have always enjoyed it; and also because I have a decent amount of free time these days and would like to take up coaching.  So I'm hoping this helps promote myself.  

Things have been slow this year, my ROI is at an all time low this year.  Only posting a 5% so far, and about 17k earnings with about 7k in bonuses cleared.  So all in all I could still make a hard push the rest of the year and make between 50-60k.  Hopefully the nice whether helps motivate me. 

HH of the Day (I'll also be available to analyze HH's for $10 each email me at maxwell.ludwig@umit.maine.edu) :

Seat 1: PilSuhng (1,060)
Seat 2: AEROg (1,940)
PilSuhng posts the small blind of 60
AEROg posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PilSuhng [Ac Jc]
PilSuhng has 15 seconds left to act
PilSuhng calls 60
AEROg raises to 1,940, and is all in
PilSuhng calls 940, and is all in
AEROg shows [2c Th]
PilSuhng shows [Ac Jc]
Uncalled bet of 880 returned to AEROg
*** FLOP *** [6c Qd 5c]
*** TURN *** [6c Qd 5c] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [6c Qd 5c 3c] [Qh]
AEROg shows a pair of Queens
PilSuhng shows a flush, Ace high
PilSuhng wins the pot (2,120) with a flush, Ace high

Analysis:  PilSuhng is a currect protege` of mine, he was at a high blind stage on full tilt against a guy who was moving in out of position on limps about half the time.  This is definitely worth the gamble of limping in (and potentially missing a flop to waste the value of the hand) to trap and take down a huge pot.  This worked to perfection and the opponent was classically caught with 102o.  Not the most exciting hand I know, but nicely done PilSuhng.  

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3/25 : New Video

Let me know what you think

2/19 : Poker and Life update

So I have some life issues that I've been dealing with.  I handled them just about as poorly as possible and if I have any advice for myself and anyone else, it's to not make things a bigger deal then they are.  It will just lead to your demise (and thus my recent demise).  But it's never too late to change, which is what I'll be doing.  I used to be this way, and will become the person I once was starting today.  Oh and holy crap try not to trust anyone other then your true friends, it's so easy to get stabbed in the back when you put trust in anyone other then those people.   

Poker has been interesting, I lost around 10k total at the beginning of February and have been working back all month.  I've made 7k of it back and am still up about 6-8k for the year, I'm not exactly sure how much because I've been running a lot of 4 man's with Phenom and he wins every flip for the sharkscope stats lol.  

1/2/08 : Vina Del Mar

So I'm thinking of playing in this LAPT event, I like the hotel deal I get as a supernova (or at least what I got on the WSOP trip) So I think it's worth the extra money I'd have to pay to get into the tournament.  Plus I can cover most of the plane cost with my FPP's.  Anyone else going out there?

12/22 : +1310

Big day for me, I've been in 2 accidents in the last 3 weeks and am going to have to fork out at least $1200...so I decided to try and make all of it today, success! Anyways here's the latest video project I've got.  I worked on a team of 6 people, I did the titling, sound and assistant edited.  


Cold from Neil Shelley on Vimeo.

12/12 : +800

Today was a pretty fantastic day.  I needed to get some work done due to my lack of playing, and it came pretty easily.  I needed one break however (which was immediately followed by a bad beat against another play, but this saved a split). 



Seat 1: CaLLitARUSH (1190 in chips) 
Seat 2: maxv2 (1810 in chips) 
maxv2: posts small blind 50
CaLLitARUSH: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to maxv2 [Ad 5c]
maxv2: raises 1710 to 1810 and is all-in
CaLLitARUSH: calls 1090 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (620) returned to maxv2
*** FLOP *** [6h 3c 7d]
*** TURN *** [6h 3c 7d] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [6h 3c 7d Kh] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
CaLLitARUSH: shows [Jc Js] (a pair of Jacks)
maxv2: shows [Ad 5c] (a pair of Aces)
maxv2 said, "gg"
maxv2 collected 2380 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2380 | Rake 0 
Board [6h 3c 7d Kh As]
Seat 1: CaLLitARUSH (big blind) showed [Jc Js] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 2: maxv2 (button) (small blind) showed [Ad 5c] and won (2380) with a pair of Aces

Analasys:  I really don't have much to say about this.  It was 50/100 blinds and I was being aggressive with my chip lead hoping to expand it.  Unfortunately I got caught, it happens to everyone.  It wasn't a bad flop and I was able to get lucky.  

12/10 : +150

Before I start rembling here's my latest piece:



I haven't really played much at all, I've been busy with a lot of things such as lifting, classes, work and finishing up this project.  All I have left for the year is one more group film to finish that I'm the assistant editor and sound technician of.  I have a lot of time over the next few days to play so hopefully I can make some money; although it's not exactly a need at the moment.  I don't have any hand histories tonight, I played at the office but I'll get something together tomorrow.  I will talk about a hand which kind of baffled me in the way my opponent played it.  I had 46s out of position at 10/20 blinds.  He standard raised and I called.  Flop came 26J he led out 80 I called.  Turn 6 he bets 300, and at this point I have no idea of he has a monster like 2's J's or A6 and I generally play these situations cautiously out of position so I just call.  River 7 he moves in for 1k more (we were even stacked going into this hand, forgot to mention that) and I decided that there wasn't enough that could beat me to fold so I called.  He turned over J7 for top 2 and I took it down.  I don't understand why he wouldn't simply check the turn with the scare 6 coming in position and let me do the betting on the river with a good chance that I'd bluff a missed draw and eliminating the risk of losing so much to my 6.  I can understand that he beats a lot of hands there, and there's a lot of value in that hand.  But what else do I call that flop with other then a 6? I know a J with a different kicker is possible, but that's a strange assumption to make in my opinion.  I think a check on the turn is almost automatic if I'm in his shoes.  Ok, I'll check back in soon now that I'm not so busy. -maxv2