Month of May

major downswing at the end

All my loyal followers must have wondered where I have been past two weeks. I have been moving up in stakes to 25NL. I moved up and got a little angry and I lost 4 buy ins which is about 10 buy ins at my previous stake. Now, I am getting the hang of it and making money! For the month of May, I do not think I did as well as I expected; however, I am pleased that I finished with a profit and not negative money.

You might have noticed that my blog now has it's own web domain! My friend Ryan helped me set it up, so I cannot take all the credit to this baller blog.

Last Weekend I went to Anime North with a few friends. I stayed in there hotel room with them. They were very generous. I took lots of pictures, but there were not as many good looking girls. I ate junk food all weekend which makes me fat. Girls do not like fat people.

I am starting to receive complements on my body. The rewards of working out are starting to show and I am feeling better about myself. I need to eat more protein so my arms will get bigger.

That is all on my mind. I will blog more in June. It is June now.

downswong.

7 buy ins. don't want to talk about it. mostly tilt. took a shot at 25nl yesterday and i didn't feel comfortable. I'm going to shower then play Starcraft for the rest of the night.

Edit: I ended up finishing the day above +EV go me!

upswong.

I played a 4 hour session grinding only to be down a buy in below EV. I was pretty disappointed, but I realized towards the end of the session I was just chasing my loss. I took a break and played some starcraft and took a nap. When I woke up I opened up 16 tables of 10NL and towards the end of my session I hit a sick upswing. I kept picking up pocket pairs and winning all the pots. I doubled up on one table then I picked up AA just when I was going to sit out. Villain to my left 3 bets me and person behinds call. I raise it up and they both call. I shove on a TJX board and stack them both. I also sucked out someone when they limp in with 55 and I call with 83 in BB. The board is 835J and some how we get in and I river the full house. I do Angry's crab dance. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm going to go work out now so I can get bigger.

Solid Session

I promised my mom two days ago I would clean my room. I never got to it. What's the point of cleaning my room when it gets messy again. I just put all my dirty clothes on my chair and it keeps falling on the ground. I woke up pretty late today. Woke up around 3 PM and it was raining outside. I decided to play some sc2 and I won all my games. It was a nice confidence boost, but I felt guilty I didn't play any poker. I whipped out my laptop and played a solid 1.5 hours. I went up about 3 buy ins after running my QQ into AA twice. Redonkulous. After I made a toasted bagel with strawberry cream cheese. I call it the victory bagel.

First week of May

I've put in about 11k hands and I've been getting some solid results at 5NL. I ran into a 5 BI downswong towards the end but I managed to grind through it. With my roll around 25BI at 10NL I'm going to move up. People are very nitty there, but I think I can still improve my game and make profit. The good thing about using bankroll management is that bad beats don't really affect me. Running KK into AA preflop is standard every 10k hands and I just move on to the next one like it's no big deal.

downswong.upswong.

I have also been working out at the gym every other day. The first time I went I think I shocked my muscles because I haven't worked out in a while. I like going in the late morning because there is not as much people there. I also started playing tennis with my friend. It is a good work out hitting the ball back and forth and then chasing after the tennis ball. I feel like a dog. I have been also eating healthy and avoiding McDonalds except for the time Long offered to buy me free McDonalds. Free McDonalds is best McDonalds.

This is long. His name is pronounced Lum. He bought me free McDonalds.

I was also walking around the mall with my good friend Edward and we found such a sick deal on sun chips. We did the math after and found out for every 300 bags of chips you would buy, you can save enough for one bag of chips. We ended up walking around getting free samples and then ate sushi. eat and ate use the same letters. mind = blown.

One cent goes a long way.

Month of May

Towards the end of April, my poker sessions have been dealing with some major variance. It is hard to play when you are 1-3 BIs under EV and play the same. Implementing a stop loss would be the result, but It is hard to not play poker when you are down so much to a few suck outs. I guess limping less from the small blind and not calling with 2 junk cards in big blind with 4:1 odds will help save money. I also did a few stupid plays such as calling 2 all ins with AKo. Running into AA with KK is also kinda stanard about every 10,000 hands or so. I'm okay with that, however plays like AK vs 4bet deep I should avoid because my post flop play is no good.

My friend Long also gave me a beta key for Starcraft II. I've been playing once in a while but I don't like it as much as Starcraft because I'm not as good as it. It's hard to get use to the new controls since there are no f2-f4 keys. I need to learn so solid build orders before playing in my placement match. I played a few custom matches and I got wrecked. It feels bad losing.

Here are some of my goals for the month of May.

-Sleep Early and eat Healthy
-Work out every other day
-At least 2 hours poker daily
-10 hours of Starcraft a week

It seems pretty do able If I put my mind to it. I bought a metropass for the month of May so I'll be able to go to the Gym more easily. Everything else should fall in place. I have not been putting as much time into poker as I did before. I'm afraid I will not keep up with the meta and lose my edge. Hopefully I will stick to my goals and complete them by June.