Reading Week

Loyal readers have probably been noticing, I have not been updating my blog as frequent as I did before. I have been busy doing school related things and playing Starcraft 2. Past week I have been stressing with assignments and midterm test, but now I am on reading week break. That is spring break for Canadians. This reading week there are numerous things I want to do.

1. log 20 hours of internet poker this week.


I haven't been playing any poker in the past month and I feel pretty guilty about it because this is a poker blog. Having an alternate source of income next month would be nice on my wallet.

2. Read my Driving book


I still do not have my drivers license, therefore I cannot drive a car legally. However I will be reading my Official Driver's Handbook over reading week. When I do get my license, I will be texting and driving. Just kidding I won't.

3. Clean my room

My room is a mess and my bed is broken. I also need to set up my ps3 so I can watch HD media on my monitor. There are also lots of clothes that need to be folded and wash.

As you can see my reading week will be filled with lots of activities. Hopefully I will end up doing them and no be sidetracked with other things. My friend Kyle just created his new blog. Check it out. Kyle's Blog

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I am still in Hong Kong. I am currently in Tai Po with my elder uncle's house. His family is very generous and I am graceful for there hospitality. I've been roaming around Hong Kong a lot on my own. It sucks going out at like 10 AM because the stores don't usually open till 12PM. So, I walk around the mall like I am an elder. I've taken some pictures around Hong Kong, but none really of the city. I should take more. When I'm done walking around the streets and malls I head back home and play poker.


I've been destorying 25NL with a 20bb/100 win rate. Sometimes I get monkey tilt and I lose a few buy ins. If I can control that I will have a higher win rate. I am also running above EV. I hope I can keep these results up going into July.

I have also been watching the world cup a lot recently. If you buy stuff over 100$ HKD at malls, you are allowed to sit in the middle of the mall with the chairs they provide to watch soccer. It's fun when people score because the whole mall cheers. It's also funny when the favored team hits a post or misses because the whole mall groans. They also hand out thunder sticks for people to cheer. There is always one obnoxious kid that brings a vuvuzela they bought from KFC and blows it randomly during a game. It is like I am in South Africa. It is quite an experience.

That is all for now I have to shower.

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.

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.

internet poker

This session I'm up 1.5 buy-in over 2 hours. I got stacked trying to steal q7 OOP and villain flats with q8. Flop comes Q87 and I ended up getting stacked for about 90bbs. I think I could have avoided it, but it would have been really hard to give the villain credit for a hand in that situation. I have been playing 4 tables instead of my regular 8 tables. I am trying to play better and directly towards the villain instead of auto piloting and set mining.

Solid Poker

Today I played some solid poker and won about 9$ in about 1.5 hour. I spent the rest of my time studying java. I have been lending out a lot of money to my close friends and my roll is getting slowly wilted away. I should be putting more hours into poker instead of lulling around. Oh well.

march

It's been a while since I have blogged. I'm been spending the past 4-5 days grinding final fantasy 13. I have logged about 20 hours playing the game. I feel guilty because this is a poker blog and I am talking more and more about my regular life. It is okay because no one ever reads this. I have played some poker here and there in between classes. I have been playing a lot of break even poker which is bad. My roll is still about 20 BIs which is good. I also gave elwiz 10$ to start off playing poker. I hope he can win internet money with it. I have an accounting test on Thursday. I should study for it now but I am going to play a poker session.

picture related. A typical day of a poker pro

Starcraftu2

I have not been blogging for a while because I was playing Starcraft 2 Beta. I am two of the lucky 10,000 people that blizzard has chosen to test the game. I share accounts with two of my friends so I can pretty much play whenever I want. I have played two poker sessions since my last blog post and I am up 3 buy-ins. I should really play more beat/starcraft/poker, but all I do is talk on IRC. I feel really guilty that I can play sc2 and probably the person reading this cannot. Yet I will do something the person reading this can do while the person reading this cannont play Starcraft 2. The other day my friend and his girlfriend were in an arguement and the girl was crying. It seemed like a very depressing moment, so I opened my laptop and loaded Osu. I enable no-fail mode and auto pilot mode and played the McDonalds song. I made them smurk because Ronald Mcdonald kept falling off the bench. After they made out infront of me furiously, which I then walked away. On Friday I was suppose to have my stats midterm, but my professor fucked up his server so our midterm got pushed one week later. I have two more midterms left: Introduction to Java and Statistics. I am going to close my eyes now. Goodbye.

downswong

I just played a solid two hour session, swang down 4 buy-ins. I started the session off with a set over set which was kind of unfortunate but I lost the minimum. I also flat villains blocker bet on the river when he had quads over my over pair 99 V KK on a 995q7 board. Everyone folded my raises. I only stacked a few shortstackers and sucked out when my Queens ran into Kings. I also lost the minimum on KK with a 4flush on board with a nice blocker bet. I also made a bad play bluffing AK on a river made flush. It was a terrible play but I got horny for chips.

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I have also been listening to Korean Rap. I prefer it over American rap because they do not stress emphasis on having intercourse and obtaining money. To bad I do not know what they are saying. Bone Thugs are in this song. I like them.

Maybe tomorrow I will have a better session.

Poker analysis

The other night I took one shot at a 2.20 180 man turbo and I came 3rd. There was one hand I thought was questionable. I had about 6 M and my hand was 3-4 suited and I limped in the small blind with one person limping in out of position. I totally missed the flop with a runner runner straight or flush draw. I took a stab by betting pot and big blind folded and OOP called. The turn gave me an open ended straight draw. I checked hoping for a free card and he bet little less than half the pot. I shoved with my open ended draw and he folded. I wonder if that was a spewy play.

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At the break, one person asked me what cards I had when I did a standard shove. I didn't know what he was talking about so I just pretended I was stupid and said stuff like I don't know I just click buttons. Later on in the tournament approaching the bubble I am playing about 14/7 and raised on the button with QT suited and the same guy that asked me for my hand shoved me. I thought he was trying to make a move with low pocket pair or suited connectors so I called and he turned over KJo. I think that was a terrible call by me. I double him up. I also hold before the final table when I make a call with J9 vs 55.

I ended up getting knocked out in 3rd place snap calling 4 handed against AK and KQ. I was pleased with my 3rd place finish. I would like to hear people's thoughts on my 3-4 hand. With this 3rd place victory I am about $40 richer!



pic related. Look at that small upswing at the end of the graph going upwards!

Google Buzz is making quite a buzz!

I thought that was pretty clever. But I've been messing around with Google Buzz for quite a bit and I like it better than facebook. However, I doubt all my friends would switch over just for me :3. Now that my reading week has started I'm going to put lots of hours into poker and somehow manage my time for homework and working out. I think I will do 10 pushups everytime I lose a buy-in and take a break at the top of every hour. It will be a flawless plan. I am feeling very apathetic. picture unrelated

The month of Feburary

I haven't been keeping up with my blogs for a while, so I will make a super long entry. Poker hasn't been my main focus on the past few days. It's hard to play poker without a HUD since my trail expired. In the mean time I've been playing and watching a lot of starcraft. Currently in proleague it's the Shinhan Bank Winners League, which is fucking awesome. They play a winner stays on format, where you always see people from each team trying to stay on top. Ocassionaly there would be all kills (where one player destroys the whole team) performed by a player and the starcraft community would go crazy. I usually stay up till 6am everyday watching proleague, but damn it's worth it.

I've also been playing on iccup a lot, trolling the D players and practicing my unorthodox builds. I've been working on my APM alot lately, trying to reach my 300APM average goal. It seems pretty hard to maintain that speed when your fingers aren't warm. Perhaps that's why flash lost his first game in the MSL.

That's 1.5 years of dedication of starcraft right there.

Looking forward, in Feburary I'll probably look towards playing less Starcraft like 1-3 games a day. While putting more time in playing hands in poker. I still got to purchase a HUD asap and I got to start lurking the 2p2 fourms. With tests coming up at the end of the month, I'm sure I can manage.

I'm at school.

Past few days I've been at school 'studying' but I've been spending most of my time playing starcraft and poker. Not really studying as much as I should be. Today I had class for 6 hours straight. It was very long and tiring. I've been grinding my tiny roll that my friend degend away to 28$ now. Feels good crushing 2NL but I should move up once I have a suffecient bankroll. I always wonder how people could always play 2NL so loose and agressive. I wonder where they get there money from. Whatever, more money for me. I'm currently in a delimna, should I get mcdonalds, pizza or wendys? mcdonalds I get a 15% discount, pizza is something new I haven't had in a while and Wendys is really far and I'm kind of craving it. I'll probably end up not having anything because I can't decided the best decision. People have been flooding my school e-mail about buying there text books I already own. This really irritates me because all my school e-mails get forwarded to my regular e-mail. My regular e-mail always gets alot of spam, even though it gets filtered out. It really bothers me. I will be blogging more frequently because it will improve my writing for my communication course.

School

I haven't had much time playing poker lately. I've been busy with school, and by that I mean I'm not playing poker. Today I saw a guy walking in the mall with a Canadian Great Goose jacket and a scarf. I thought those jackets were for -500 degree weather and I found it kind of funny that he wore a thick scarf with it indoors. I'm still debating If I should drop accounting 406, a course I'm suppose to take next year. I took it this year just to get it over with but I'll be missing my first year liberal courses. My friend was playing on my stars account today and he lost about $80 on my account, so that's about 300 he owes me now. I don't mind really, it's just another excuse for me to not play poker and concentrate at school. I have also removed MSN messenger from my startup, so it doesn`t start up when I turn on my computer. No one really talks to me on msn anymore, and if it`s urgent they usually reach me by phone or facebook. I haven`t been keeping up with my new years resolution to sleep at 10pm everyday. I got to do something about that. There is also an earthquake in hatey. All the poker fourms want me to donate money but I`m not going to do it cause I don`t want to give my money to a middle man which will give it to another middle man. I just realized Ctrl + Page Down/Page Up switchs window tabs. Now I don't have to Ctrl+1/2/3 like I'm playing starcraft. Sometimes in class I like to sit in the front and just surf the web but multitasking. With only the keyboard I would Ctrl+1/2/3 between facebook, fourms, youtube. Then I would alt+tab back and forth between msn, irc and firefox just to show off my multitasking skill. I'm such a nerd. When I have a mouse around I like playing 10-24 tables of poker just to show off my amazing multitasking. The world is changing and I think people one day will be expected to multitask as fast as me. Also Xife still hasn't staked me 100e with 50% rakeback. He says he can't be bothered to go to the bank but I'm starting to think he doesn't want my 5% rakeback.

School Books.

I finally bought all my books for this semister. They are so expensive. It totaled up to about $500 total. That's like 50 Buy-ins, but that's okay. I'll win it back one day. I'm taking 406 accounting which is a course I need to talk 2nd year but I'm in first year. I hope I can handle it. I'm going to try to get a prepaid mastercard so I can buy Holdem Manager. Then I can start playing pokers hard core again. Now I'm done writing this blog, I need to get started on my homework.

I waste 5 hours today doing nothing.

I played one hour of poker and broke even then played some BGH. I won all of my games except for one but that doesn't count. I was terran and I walled in and I had one marine behind it. Then 18 lings come and start pounding on my supply depo. My scvs couldn't make it on time to repair it. I quickly made a sim city in my mineral line and i got out a vulture and killed all the lings and then I won. I lied I won all my games today. Then my friend calls me to come over cause he think his girlfriend is going to break up with him. So I go over to his house and make breakfast while he's telling me his troubles. Microwave eggs are so good and convienent. Also toast is pretty easy to make. Also so is orange juice cause you just pour it. It's like a super tier precfast. heh that's kind of clever.So it's been like 3 hours and I'm losing valuable poker and BGH time. Whatever Bros before hoes. So I'm at school and I see people I never really talked to in high school. I spend another 2 hours just waiting for my friend to clear up stuff with his girlfriend. So It's 5 hours I wasted today. On the way home I bought a scratch card hoping I could taking the rest of my friends good luck cause he already used up his bad luck. Too bad I lost; now I have a -$3 tab on him. Man I want to play some BGH but I only have my laptop touch pad. I got another follow today. Hurray I'm on pace for like 80 followers by the end of this year. Ok I have nothing to say.

Weird Dream

I had such a weird dream last night. I was riding a motorcycle and there like like 4-7 people behind me grabing on to me and the person behind me wouldn't hold on to me. I was driving really fast. Then I did a wheelie and everyone behind me fell. Then I woke up. I'm going to play poker now.