Friday, August 05, 2005

I got home from a nice vacation this past Thursday evening. There ended up being 8 of us hanging out at the river from Sunday up through Thursday. It was a great time. The fishing was good. The weather was so-so.

My 2nd go around hasn't faired all that well on the poker front. I was down about $300 prior to yesterday. I had blown a bit on some tournaments and also just had not played well. Yesterday, I dropped back to 4 tabling the $2/4 tables and cut out the -EV tournaments and ended up booking a $115 profit.

It was nice to get a win. I did tighten up just a bit yesterday. I had been cold calling and even re-raising with some questionable hands and it was costing me money. For some reason, I thought I could outplay those guys after the flop. It's pretty pointless to do that in the $2/4 or $3/6 games because it's cheap for these guys to call you down.

One thing I absolutely love Party for these days is the $3/6 short handed tables. I really don't have the bankroll for them right now, but I've had a few winning sessions at them. Short handed is oh so damn fun and profitable.

I've been reading 2+2 more lately. There have been a few posts in the past few weeks of "pros" who are turning "un-pro". It seems like all these stories are the same:

I deposited $50 on Party, ran it up to $10,000, lost it all to bad beats. Read SSHE and deposited again and then turned pro. Bought 4 21" LCD's, a car, $1000/month apartment. And now I'm broke because my $3/6 sessions wouldn't cover my expenses

I had aspirations of becoming a pro. I think I might have eventually ended up in the same boat. I have proven that I can beat the smaller games. However, it is a big time grind having to make a living off the $3/6 games. Let's assume you're a decent player and make 2.00BB/100. I would need to make $80,000/year to live comfortably as a poker pro. That's 13,334 big bets a year I would have to make. On average, 1111 big bets a month. That comes out to 37 big bets per day. OK, now lets say you make 2BB/100. You would need to play 1850 hands per day. OK... now that I work that out, it doesn't seem that bad.

Personally thought, if I'm going to become a pro, I want to do it right. I want to make somewhere above $150,000/year. Playing $15/30, that's only 5000 big bets. Which seems better to you?

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents on becoming a pro.

I'll probably play for an hour or 2 tonight. My bowling league starts tonight directly after work. I'm on 2 leagues this year. A Monday evening at 6:00PM and Wednesday evenings at 6:30PM.

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

I'm stoked. In 2 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes I will officially be on vacation. I need it. I'm just burnt out right now. I've travelled too many miles the past few weeks.

Sunday evening, me and about 7 or 8 close friends will be leaving for Front Royal, VA for a few days relaxing on the Shenandoah River. My friend has a cabin there and we spend the week fishing, drinking, and playing poker. It should be a real hoot.

I haven't played much poker since the last post. So there's not much to report there. I think I might have lost a few bucks playing .50/1.00.

I've been watching the new ESPN WSOP shows. I can't wait until the real WSOP events come on. If anyone knows where to find a schedule of what events they are showing, can you let me know?

I've pretty much spent my time off the poker tables going to baseball games, getting back into bowling (leagues start in 2 weeks. I'm going to be in 2 this year), and playing guitar. My friend and I are recording a CD doing some cover tunes. I'm not going to take any credit for anything on it. Because basically all I have done is hook shit up and show him how to use the software. I might be on a couple songs playing rhythm though. So far the songs we have are Mr. Crowley (Ozzy), Going to California (Led Zeppelin), Keep Away (Godsmack).

All the songs are recorded with backing tracks which seems pretty lame, but the songs actually came out good. Now my friend can play the drums pretty well too, so we are looking for a means to record them and have them sound good. The beauty of multi-track software is that one person can do all the shit and sound like a full band.

Some songs I'd like get on CD are:

Un-plugged:
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
Mr. Big - Be With You

Plugged:
An old school Black Label Song .. probably something Strong Than Death
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (friend did this song at a club one night and people went nuts)

It will be cool to be just a small part of a project like this. It's a fucking blast to work on it too. I just wish I were a better player so I could play more on it. I'm learning though.

Anyway, when we get it to sound halfway decent, I'll post some MP3's on this site.

As for Poker, I'm getting the itch more and more each day. I'm back to reading poker blogs and reading 2+2 forums (even though the 2+2'ers annoy me). I'll probably play some this week. I'm gonna jump back into 4 tabling the $1/2 tables and hopefully get the bankroll back to $2/4 status. Once I get to $2/4, I feel I can make some decent spending money.

Until next time... Peace out.

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Black Label Society - Mafia

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