Moved!

Not that anyone cares about this shit but my newer blog entries will be found here from now on
http://masterhuffy.webs.com/apps/blog/
Don't know if I should copy paste all the previous retarded jargon off here or not.

OCtObrrrrrrrrr

Poker is back for me. Spending a lot more time working on my game. Took a coaching session split from 2+2. And he gave me some awsome pointers that I needed to help plug some of the gushers that I have in my game. And things have been going well.
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My winrate is currently at +4/100 BB's. And hopefully with his help and another couple sessions. I will be able to bring that up some more. I am still playing at NL25. After last months 22 buy in downswing. I withdrew a big portion of my bankroll and decided I should stay at NL25 and work on my game some more. Having to much money online tempted me to much to play higher levels that I may or may not be ready for yet.

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I think I will stay at NL25 until the first of the year. This should be enough time to bring my roll back up to fighting status and shot taking. And will allow me to afford a couple more coaching sessions with Split.

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I have been doing pre/post session reviews, which has been very helpfull and will be easier to just copy and paste here if needed.

Updates?

Ariel view

more pouring

Views of pour

Slab is finished

Havn't really been on the spot w/ updates lately just been playing poker and being sick. Being on a downswing was fun although only 20 buy ins. Did give me a chance to review my game a little which should be an ongoing thing anyway. But often alludes when playing takes priority. Decided to make a withdrawl to help pay with my concrete pour. Which will make me rebuild

my roll at nl25 making me work more on my game rather than having a big enough roll to take shots at levels one or two levels higher than the one I am playing. Before I am ready to beat it.

Updates

Updates

More House pictures

Me and son

My truck

Progress

Karina and Jonas

Mesh and rebar installed

ready for the pour

July not much poker :I

Me wishing I was playing poker

Choping down suckouts

Heater?

Good, bad, im the one with the 410

Starting dirt work

Getting somewhere

Forms and dirtwork done and some foam for slab

Captain?

Underground

Underground done

Another view

Tying in slab heat

Daddy's helper

Slab heat!

Not getting much poker in this month. So little that when I played this weekend I glanced over my hand written notes I take. And it came up in a conversation like I knew the exact date I played last. Kind of made me come acrosss as an addict. Anyways I have been busy on my house. Here is some pictures.

June.... blahhhhh!

NL25

Rest of shity month :(
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Blahh blahh and more blahhh.

58,815 hands $275 profit? :(

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Well decided to pony up and play at NL50 for the first two weeks this month. Ran a little bad, hit a few coolers. Watched the EV line shoot up which gave me some comfort. But rather than be smart I then decided to take a shot at NL200 because that's what bad players do when the run bad and get cooler ed and chase there losses. And 1500 hands later I shut the computer off. In three hands I got set over set, all in preflop as a %60 fave lost and got half of someones chip stack in where they hit there runner runner gutter ball on the river and checked!? allowing me to check behind?.

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Anyway spent the rest of the month back at NL25 to regain and push a little profit for the month. I ran +3.7/100 ptbb/100 for 45K hands. Which led me to think why didn't I just play the whole month at NL25?. Not sure why I sucked so bad at NL50. Of course it didn't help that in three 500 hand sessions I had kings vs Aces four times each. So in the last 30K hands I am only up $100 :(. But anyways moving up has the same effect as NL25 had on me when first taking shots. Bigger money swings causing more emotional drama. The beats only seem worse as the money you lose is more. I think even though I am a bankroll Nit that I might need to play another month or two at NL25 to work on my game some more and bolster the money well.

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Now for game review. I still haven't been able to bring my PFR% up past 9%. So my stats are still 13/9/2.6. For some reason my attempt to steal went down. Seemed like this month I was getting played back or having blinds defended way more. Or I was just getting better table selection and wasn't getting enough hands to value town on people. I found myself playing a lot looser than I normally do which near the end of the month caused me to lose a little of my profit. Don't know where it was coming from but I was trying to cram out platinum star level which I hit in the last 4 days. Felt like I just gave up and stopped taking peoples bullshit which was about 50/50 until 25% of the good 50 drew out on me.

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So for this month focus on bringing my ATs up more and not getting into pots w/ marginal hands unless I know that I can steal the pot vs certain players. Tighten back up a little and think about red line for this month are my focuses. And if at all bringing up my pfr% would be nice.

May 09

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$1200, 40K hands and 14K fpp's later and the month of May is over and,
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Well.... At the end of last month I set forth a couple things I wanted to work on for my game. And looking back I don't think I made a big impact on changing them. I almost made it back to platinum star and found myself playing NL200 trying to cross the finish line. Costing me a few dollars in the process. I don't think it would have been a big deal to reach platinum star but I spend a solid week working on my property when I had a week off from work. My steal percentage actually went down slightly. So did my vpip which was a good thing anyway. My three bet percentage managed to go up even though only slightly. But for some reason I am calling three bets more this month. My agg is going up probably due to the change in my playing in the last two months. Overall though not much seems to have changed from the first month at attempting to tag it up.
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I am rolled for NL50 and at the end of this month I took a couple shots. As well as some shots at NL200? I dunno don't ask, but it is noticeable in the later stages of my graph. But so far in the last two month I have only put in 80K hands in at NL25. And I am running at +3.6/100 ptBB/100. I should probably spend another month at NL25 to work on some leaks I have and to overall hopefully improve my game. That way I could have proof that over a good sample size I am beating NL25 and blah blah blah.
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Things I noticed about NL50 was a massive increase in people 3-Betting raisers. And blind defense has been almost ridiculous. I do like the 50bb minimum tables that you can select although the main type of player on this table seems to be reg after reg. Not that I like short stacker's any better, but at least you get the occasional bad short stacker vs the 7/7 shorty's with 6% 3-bet.
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Although my first small shot at NL50 resulted in break even. I will attempt to mix in a few sessions breaking up NL25 grinding. I still have plenty of problems on the tables but it is getting easier. Again things I think I need to work on for next month will be.

1-Bringing pfr% up mainly based off position.
2-Bring my ATs up to %30 or die trying?
3-Bring down my vs 3-bet call percentage, pushing more to re raise or fold.
4-Continue bringing up my 3-bet%
5-Work on board texture for C-betting and isolating

April Review 09

April 09 40k hands/ $703 profit/ 11,500 fpp's

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A lot happened this month, made platinum star the last day of last month. I didn't make it this month, But that's OK. I did manage to pull my game up a little bit running in the month at +3.3/100 BB/100 at NL25 over 40,000 hands. I managed to bring my stats from %14 vpip and %5 pfr w/ %10 steal pct. To %13 vpip and %9 pfr w/ %25 steal. I had my first two sessions with Nick Phillips. Got hooked up with Camtasia. And realized some important steps to help my game. Not only realizing them but focusing on fixing them.

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Things partially fixed this month was increasing my steal %. And not being afraid to C-bet the shit out of every flop and give up when meeting resistance. "Stealing the blinds like its my job". Was the best quote I heard that when I put in that frame of mind made it easier to attempt. A big relief was finally proving that I could win at NL25 consistently. I know 40K hands is not considered a good enough amount to prove. A good amount being around the 100K range. Which if I set up a good routine this next month is a possible goal. In order to achieve platinum star again next month I think at this level. I would need to play 75K hands.

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Goals for this next month:

1: Continue increasing my pre-flop-raise percentage bringing my stats to more of a 15/12/3 w/%70 C-bet.

2: Increase my steal percentage to at least %35-%40

3: Work on increasing my 3-Bet stat based off my opponents stats.

4: Work on more check raises of my opponents C-Bets

5: Prove that April was not a fluke and my game has evolved to this point

6: Work on raise sizes based of opponents ex. short stacker's

7: Playing against short stacker's better

8: Increase my BB/100 to +4/100 or better.

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I think I need at the very least two more months at nl25 to help solidify my game. And then possibly another month to help focusing on attaining maximum value through some deeper multi level thinking. I will probably be making another appointment or two w/ Nick Phillips after I focus on my game a little more.

Its good to be a gansta!

And it feels good to be on a little heater as well. Or is it? I have a new game plan which should have been my game plan for a while now. Instead I have been relentlessly trying to ram a circle shape into a square opening for some time now. My new game plan should have been and is. Start fresh and play, evaluate, adjust, start over, repeat. I was doing this originally but started to lose focus on the prize as I was winning and stopped adjusting and evaluating. How many times do I see the holes but don't focus on fixing them? Obviously a lot more than I think. One of my main holes I am still working on is raising every pot I'm in. And depending on opponents and flop texture C-betting but keeping my C-bets smaller rather and three barrelling all in. Another big one which has had a strong hold on my emotional aspect of my game is lack of sleep. It makes me sick thinking about the money I have lost looking back making poor choices based of a lack of sleep. Its OK to go to sleep and come back tomorrow. I fall victim of playing as long as I can on weekend nights. Waiting all week to play and then only getting to play 11pm and later doesn't make for good results when I am used to being asleep by 9:30pm. Anyways I'm sure my heater will hit the law of motion for the weekend. But anyways I'll just be OK for the moment.

March 09

Wow march is done and all that I can say is hmmm...... Had a kid, built a kick ass poker table. Scaled back to Eight tables and began doing well at nl25. It helped a little bit playing at nl5 6 max which let me practice loosening up a little bit which is something I really need to work on. Bringing my pfr% up still. This month I seemed to be doing well. I also took a couple shots at nl50 and was up 4-5 buy in's before I started to run below ev. Which in turn started effecting my play. Which with the addition to a couple cooler sessions basically cost me all my hard earned profit for the month. It didn't help that I moved up and ran into a couple coolers. Also for the first time with only playing a little bit a day and without playing for a full week out of the month. Was able to make Platinum star level on stars... Wee.... um OK. I cleared my reload bonus as well as 3 cash back reward bonuses. And if it wouldn't have been for those. There probably wouldn't have been any profit and no point playing all month. I also had my first sweat session and have also signed up for some coaching with a card runner pro. Hopefully this will help my game leaps and bounds.
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This months goals will be to stay solid. Stop playing when I get tired. Stay with 8-12 tables. Try to consistently reach a 14/12/3 stats with a %30 steal. I think If I try to stay with this, work on my C-Betting and not trying to bluff period. And be able to keep making big folds and not let a couple luck sacks get the best of me. That I should have a pretty strong month.

Latest Creation

Here is my latest table I have made. It is almost close to being done short of some restaurant table legs that I got hooked up with. The table is complete with dual drop boxes with home style removable drop boxes. Casino style chip slides. Chip tray, custom suited speed cloth felt. Electroluminescent lighting under the rail. Bullet nail head trim pieces. Anyways thought I would put up some pictures of it.

I am a dad!

I am now a proud father. So in other words my blog will be less updated than it normally has been. We spent the last three days at the hospital and a lot of my free time will be taken to be and help with the baby.

February 4th week 09

20K hands/ -$48profit/ 1,856fpp's
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I am not sure what to think this week. Although having kings vs aces three times. Seriously THREE TIMES A SESSION. Started getting really fucking old. You know the only thing I got to say about this is fuck the books. If you think you are running kings into aces, fold. I said it, FOLD!. I pretty much go on gorilla tilt every time this happens not because I actually think of folding knowing that I am up against Aces. I go on tilt just because I usually call because of all the shit people give other people about folding. And I have been right %95 of the time. Wow imagine that, Aces again. Next time I am just going with my read and Fucking Folding!. Yeah whatever berate me take advantage of me but when you do I will have Aces and will shove them up your ass. "Oh I never run into aces with kings" Well woopty fucking do. Must be nice to be stuck in god mode and have a horseshoe stuck up my ass...
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Anyways I am halfway done with the reload bonus. By the time I am done I will probably have another $100 in cash back bonuses ready. I took part in a group sweat session on Sunday with some FlopTurnRiver guys which was cool. Just made me really happy that I have Hold em Manager over PT3.
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I think by the end of the week my confidence was so shaken that I started making a few bad calls just off the total lost feeling. Which were actually scary good calls although runner runner decided to show me otherwise. I just couldn't win this week. It was demoralizing. I only had two winning sessions. I just couldn't win nothing worked. The cards just kept getting worse and worse.
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The baby should be here any day. So am not sure how much I will be able to play once the kid gets here.

Nl10 results.

February 3rd week 09

No one is going to give you anything. Success in poker isn't something just given, its earned. Its fought for.. Every ounce, every penny, every pot, every buy in. Is scraped from the walls of the game. There is nothing given, every pot is fought for. Dragging them in, tooth and nail, kicking and screaming. Its is a war of attrition. Through randomness in which the slightest edge. Which is pushed and pulled over the reigns of aggression. To squeeze the slightest bit of equity out of the opposition. Is fought for over. Every pot won is another inch up the mountain. While every loss is a massive stumble backwards. Every mistake made is tenfold to every mistake not made. In the words of Roy Cooke "The recurring sum of volume times the net edge equals expectation". If you ever get a free bee be grateful. When some poor soul decides to ship you his stack of chips. Take them and be grateful.
Focus, patience, multi level thinking, mathematical understanding of poker related instances, range, equity. Being able to start fresh in a hand and yet at the same time letting the flow of the match add info that correlates to the current hand through process of elimination. "The metagame", These are all important subjects that are needed for one to be able to understand and be able to win at poker.
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Just finished 100k hands at nl10 but I have not achieved the winrate I think I need to prove I am a solid winning player vs just a winning player. I am not sure what my leak is in my game but I am only running at +2/100 in standard bb's over 100k. This translates to $200 profit not including cash back reward bonuses playing at nl10. This particular week I was almost to $200 profit when I started playing stupid. Took a shot at a limit over my head and then burned off the rest of profit for the week 8 tabling nl100. Either way I am still a ways off from the mark I wanted to hit before I take another shot at nl25. But maybe I need to spend some more time at nl10 trying to figure out what the heck I am doing wrong.
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Depending on when the baby gets here I will probably have in the vicinity of $300 plus in cash back bonuses and deposit bonus by the end of the week after next. I am kinda liking the tune of spending another 100K hands at nl10 just to see if I can figure out WTF! On a positive note I don't really spend much time looking at my balance anymore on a regular basis. Instead I have adopted refreshing my graph on HM.

Happy Valentines

30,037 Hands/ $82 profit/ 2,394

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Don't know how I managed to get so many hands in this week compared to the last month or two. Sunday has been a long session trying to hit some of the bonus milestone hands. This month with the help of a little Tilt assistance I managed a cooler slash -12 buy in streak. Even at the end of the week I was still running about 10 buy in's down. I caught some bad beats this weekend. I lost at least six or seven time alone when something I hadn't seen very often happened. For some reason this weekend people were shoving with small pocket pairs into me. It wouldn't have mattered much other than the fact that every time they were at least a 4-1 dog. But magically hit a set, ever time? Like what the fuck right. Nobody does stupid shit like that. Not only that but in half the situations I pushed all in and was CALLED. I mean to push all in making a move is ok. To call someones all in for 80 big blinds more with pocket sixes or fours. Come the fuck on!

sTOP PUnISHing Me StARS!

Only 9+ buy in's below All In EV in last two days. Stars decides to punish me for taking advantage of there deposit bonus. Sometimes I think stars has it out for me personally.

Still more F.U. Pokerstars

Why haven't I updated my blog in a while? Well other than the above reason I have been working a couple more hours. I have also been going to some kind of baby class. As the days of having a mini me around are potentially numbered in the single digits. And my progress graph looks like its stuck to the front of the Titanic as it plummeted to the ocean floor. I decided to play at Nl10 for a while until I get my roll to 3k. That way I have a 20 buy in shot at Nl25 before I get to the 100 buy in mark. Other than maybe I was having a little tougher time making the transition from 200 bb's to 100 bb's, I suck, or I could have been playing a little off due to the fact that I didn't want to drop below 100 buy in's last shot. I think this was effecting my play a little as well as the standard line. Bad beat, F.U Stars, whine whine whine.

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Also I think I might take whats left of my live roll and deposit it all on my stars account to try and take advantage of there $250 bonus. They have a couple of sucker promos going on right now for there 25 billion hand thingy. In order to get this bonus I need to burn off around 5,000 vpp points. Since the start of this year ive racked up around 9,000ish so this shouldn't be a problem. The only bad thing is I will not have a roll to be playing live with. This probably won't be a problem considering the baby will be here any day. And who knows how much I will get to play period. In the last couple weeks I have been only averaging 12-20 thousand hands a week.

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Some good news is I finally got a hold of the guy I was buying material and parts for my newest poker table. Here is a picture of what the felt will look like. Everything should be here by the end of next week so maybe I will have it put together and have a picture taken of the setup.

FUCK YOU POKERSTARS!!!!!!!!!!

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Here is just a sample of my last session

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FUCK YOU POKERSTARS, FUCK YOUR BULLSHIT COOLER SET OVER SET, SET OVER SET, SET OVER SET, KINGS VS ACES TEN TIMES IN A ROW! RUNNER RUNNER RUNNER RUNNER ASSHOLES. HOW MANY COINFLIPS CAN I LOSE IN A ROW HOW MANY %90 ALL IN FAVORITES CAN I LOSE IN A ROW. IM TAKING A BREAK!!!

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Oh yeah i got my holdem manager graph to be able to post again ending on a positive note.

2nd week jan 09

ERROR CANNOT POST HM GRAPHS ANYMORE!!!!

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17,800 hands/ -$142 profit/ 4,824 FPP's

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I have been defeated. So far 60,000 hands of nl25 and I am a loser. Running at -.2/100 no matter what I do I seem to be losing at nl25. I guess 60k hands isn't a big sample but I would like to think that at least I would be running in the positive rather than the negative. Near the end of the week I really worked on getting my pfr% up and loosened up a little in the calling area. I was also experimenting with running my stats up to around 35/25 ish which seemed to get me a lot more action when I did have a big hand. Which is a change from my super nit status. Halfway through this month I am actually half way to platinum star status. And I think that I could make it by the end of the month. But at this point I don't know whether or not I will continue playing at nl25. My plan at the beginning of the month was to play until I lost 20 buy-in's. But after losing session after losing session at nl25 I got a little down on myself. Almost to the point where maybe I had not played enough working on my game before I made the jump. Also I jumped directly from nl5 which has 200bb stacks to nl25 which is a 100bb stack but for 2 1/2 times the buy in. I mainly made this jump as I was having a little trouble at nl10. I know it sounds a little silly jumping a limit. I played a little there but the general consensus is and was that level was a luck shoot. The only difference was the change from 200 to 100 big blind stacks. I am not sure if this was what was giving me trouble or not or what. I am pretty sure I was not playing to many hands as one of my problems that I am trying to fix is opening up my range vs trying to nit everyone to death. It didn't help that I was constantly on the wrong end of the cooler for the week. And the short stacks were killing me. I think I am 3/60 on coin flips this week with them. Almost to the point that I began tilting. Had to cut a few sessions short. It just seems so strange that I could be beating nl5 for 8/100 over 300K hands only to move up and be running -.2/100. I don't like to blame things on variance vs myself just making bad plays and bad decisions.

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So now I need to make a decision. Continue to play perhaps the rest of the month at nl25 or until I lose another 14.3 buy-in's. Or move back down to nl5 or nl10. Or maybe even play some 6 max to help push my aggressiveness a little. Either way I think there is something wrong with my play that I can not just move to nl25 and at least be able to win 1/100bb's. I know my stats are still not ideal but stats are not the only thing that makes a winning player. Or I could just drop back now and log in some solid winnings sessions to boost my confidence. I mean as I am writing this I am only 300 hands in a nl5 session and am running 80/100. I just don't like logging in losing sessions if there is a problem with my game other than variance. I guess I will just have to finish the rest of the month out to know for sure. Also the amount of hands I have been able to log in has been decreasing due to the extra hours at work. No doubt this will be cut in quarter once the baby gets here.