September was good

September was a great month for me. I got a job, went on many roadtrips, my gf got 2nd in a sit-n-go, and poker wise it was my best month ever. I'll start with my job. I'm starting on October 19th and will be doing work with defense contractors at all their various sites. Basically, performing metric analysis and other efficiency type models. That's all I really know about it and I will be finding out more as the weeks go by. They will eventually be moving me to Maryland but for now I get to stay in Houston.

2 weeks ago I went to New Orleans with a bunch of other hooligans. We nicknamed our group the NOliggans and basically tore the city up (strip club warriors). All the people I was with were all Longhorn fans so we watched that game and a couple stayed with me to watch the Tennessee game. Tennessee looked alright, but until we can get a new QB we will not beat Florida. The highlight of the trip was finding this bar called Jager Haus (2 dots on top of the U). It was basically a coffee shop that served jager as well. Pretty fun place and they even had berry jager. The low point of the trip was my short and unsuccessful trip to Harrah's. I was there for 40 min and managed to lose 2k in blackjack. I literally won 1 hand the entire time I was there and it didn't help that I was super drunk the whole time. O well, fun times. Looking forward to the Knoxville trip in a week for the Tennessee/Georgia game then Dallas the next week for Texas/Oklahoma.

Poker this month has been great. I got a big boost when I came back home one night and played "whitelime" at 10 20 HU. Turned out to be a great decision and managed to make a buy in off of him. Ever since that night, I've been on a huge heater with table selection and playing less tables. Anywhere from 2/4NL to 5/10NL have been my main games, with a couple shots at 10/20 and 25/50. I've really been working on my heads up game, because the win rates are so much better. The only problem is finding the fish to play against. Tourney wise, I did not really play many this month. Had one decent cash in Mini Ftops 1 for around $100 but other than that nothing too exciting. On another note, my gf downloaded FTP and using my wonderful hold em lesson I gave her, started to play sit n gos. Shes played 3 and placed 2nd twice. Shipshape!!! Here's my graph for the month, right at hand 27.5k is where I played "whitelime" HU. Overall made $12.5k, and I've realized to stop playing limit when I'm drunk. The limit games drained my BR by $2k. Note to self: No more limit. Hopefully I can run this good in October as well. Here is the biggest pot of the month. GG. Shipshape.

Big Things?

This past week has been loads of fun. Gf came into town on Thursday and there were plenty of good times. We went out in town center and the next day we went to midtown. Both nights were complete gg'ness along with many friends being there. The weekend was also groundbreaking because I introduced my gf to 24. 24 is probably the best TV series ever and we watched half of season 2 and I think she is officially hooked. At least I hope she is. Even though I have already seen it, the season was still extremely intense because I did not remember many of the events that occurred throughout the 24 hours. Hopefully gf can come back and visit sometime soon before we go to Knoxville for the Tennessee/Georgia game. On job news, I am leaving on Sept. 21st to Maryland for an interview and I have another interview in Houston coming up soon. Things are moving forward and I really need to focus and prepare for these because I don't want to look like a donk when they ask me questions. Might have to cut down on my hands, but I've hit 30k hands for the month so I can slow down a bit.

Let's talk about sports. Only 1 of my teams won this week. The Texas Longhorns, which is expected, but they did not look too good in the first half against Wyoming. Hopefully they can get on track because Texas Tech always plays them tough and that is their next opponent. The Tennessee Volunteers lost to a measly UCLA team. I blame one person for the loss and that is Jonathan Crompton (Crapton). Everyone thought he had turned it around after throwing 5 TDs against a high school like Western Kentucky team, and he didn't dissapoint. Reverting back to his old ways he threw interception after interception. He has some good weapons this year, but just can't seem to throw the ball to the people wearing the same jersey as he is. This is a big problem and I hope he figures something out because Florida is on the slate next week and there's a possibility they win by 100 against us. Lastly, the Houston Texans had the worst game in the history of the franchise. This is supposed to be the year the Texans turn it all around and make a run at the playoffs, but they could not beat the New York Jets and their rookie QB. Sanchez looked like pro-bowl QB and made some great throws. I'm not saying he's going to make the pro-bowl, but he did not look like ur average rookie out there. Kubiak better get his team together or else he's going to be out of a job sooner than later.

Poker wise, I have had my best week in a long long time. I moved up to the 2/4 and 3/6 cap games. I've also mixed in some 2/4 6max no cap as well. The cap games help me to control variance in a monetary aspect because sometimes the big swings take a toll on me. I've also been running real well, and have noticed that there are tons of fish at these games who are playing over 60% of the pots consistently. I've continued to isolate them, and it amazes me to see how bad some of these players are. I know they aren't tilting because the same thing happens day after day, but I'm not complaining. The graph to the right is the past 7 days. I really miss playing live games, so I'm thinking about making a week trip to Vegas and just doing some long hours at the table. It's always good to mix it up a little bit because staring at a computer screen can drive you a little insane.
Tourney wise, I played miniFTOPS event #1 and made a decent run. Got 275/16000+, but I made a dumb move late in the tourney. I was 6/400 at one point and took 2 bad beats in a row and let my emotion take over. I tried to re-steal on a player with A3 and he woke up with AA. This crippled me and I was out 1 orbit later. I guess you learn from your mistakes and I plan on playing some more events this week. Here is my bad beat of the month so far, and this has happend to me 3 times this month as well. Poker is always fun. Lastly, tell me if u like the new color, I had a couple people tell me the font was hurting their eyes, so I randomly started clicking new colors till something looked decent and not girly. GG. Shipshape.

Swongsss

Been a while since I've posted, but I've been hitting the tables like a madman recently. Had a couple sessions of 6k+ hands and been on a big time roller coaster. I took the move up to 200NL and had a 2k heater then a 2k downer and it repeated 1 more time. I decided I needed to refocus because what most people don't realize is that poker is a mental heavyweight fight. In order to calm my nerves I made a simple cash out then dropped back down to 100NL. I have re-established a goal to be back at 40 buy-ins for 200NL by the end of the month. So far it has been going good and I am halfway to that goal and it's only 8 days into the month. I am really itching to play a live game so a quick roadtrip to Lake Charles might be in store sometime soon, but I am going to New Orleans in 2 weeks so there might be a slight chance I play a bit. Mini Ftops is starting in 2 days and I'm excited I will get to play some of the events. Hopefully a final table will be in store and I can run good 1 time please. I'd post some graphs but as usual poker copilot got some update and has started being gay again. Everything is reimporting and putting me on life tilt.

Life wise, I've been getting hammered alot with my family friends. They are all here for a month and it has been a long time since we have all been in Houston at the same time. Ben (texanssoccer07) was in town this past weekend and all I can say is that I don't remember Saturday night except for waking up Sunday morning on the floor in my room near the bathroom. This weekend my girlfriend is coming over from Nashville and it should be a great weekend. My sister and her 2 little kids will be in town also so there should be plenty of fun activities to go around. The highlight of the past 2 weeks was my friend Jason and I getting kicked off the golf course because we only had 1 set of clubs. 2 fat old guys behind us thought we were playing slow when it was really the group of 4 in front of us who we were waiting on. The 2 fat lardy guys decided to complain to the marshall and the marshall decided to enforce the 1 set of clubs per player rule on us. I was angry because I am not the best golfer and I was actually having my best round ever. I was actually winning after the first 5 holes. Hanh.

Got the new iPhone today and it was way faster than the old 2G one i had. Kinda sucks that they didn't have any black cover ones, so I ended up getting the white one. Since I have a case on it I guess it won't really matter. I have a job interview coming on in 2 weeks in Maryland so hopefully that goes well. Got some books I need to read for that so I might need to cut down the poker just a little bit. Finally, P90x is going really well. I had to take a day break between one of the workouts because I was just too sore. When you can't walk/turn your head/get up/raise your arms in the air/move without pain, I think that's a great day to take a little break. I'm out. GG. Shipshape.