Day # 20/Early post

I am posting this now because i don't know if i will be playing anymore today and probably wont get around to posting later. Today was another short session and i actually played on Full tilt for the first time in a while. I haven't played on there since i got really drunk one night and lost like 4k on there. This was around Christmas time so my money has been just sitting on there since then. I was actually thinking about cashing the 3k i have left on there out but since Neteller has been shut down to the U.S. that's not possible now. So i guess i will just keep it on there and hopefully keep building it up or i will keep it on there until it is gone. The neteller shutdown has a lot of people in the online poker community going crazy. By going crazy i mean there are a lot of people who are going into panic mode and withdrawing all their money off the poker sites. But at the same time if i had 80k in my neteller account and was being told by neteller my funds were seized and couldn't withdraw my money i would be going a little crazy too. Neteller shutting down sucks because this is the 1st big step by the government in actually trying to shut down online poker. It also sucks because there will be less dead money putting money on to their accounts, which means the games will become a lot tougher. I am not too worried over the neteller shutdown because it doesn't effect me in anyway but it sucks for the people who left large amounts of money on there. Luckily, most of my online money is on stars and i feel confident that even if online poker did some how shutdown in the future i would still get my money from them. They were one of the only online sites that didn't leave the u.s. market when the online gaming ban was passed and they are by far the best site when it comes to customer support. Well that is a little update on whats going on with neteller and my thoughts on the whole ordeal. Anyways enough about that lets talk about today's session. As i said earlier i played 1 table of 5/10nl on Full tilt and 2 tables on pokerstars a 5/10nl table and some 10/20nl. I only played for a couple of hours but had some ok results on all three tables. I shouldve made a lot more on fulltilt but of course i flop a set and the guy turns a higher set on a 3 way all in hand on the flop. I didn't really play for long enough to get into the groove of the game but was lucky enough to pick up a few big hands today and sometimes that's all it takes. With that being said I'm not sure if i will be playing anymore today so i am posting now but if i do i will make another post of the results. Here are some hands from today and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?789215 -Here i threw out a weak bet on the flop hoping to make it look like i have ak and hopefully will get raised. He does raise but i think i made a mistake here by pushing the flop. I wish i wouldve called the flop,checked the turn, and let him go all in on the turn.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?789225 - this is a perfect example of why i hate Full tilt. I swear every time i get my money all in on the flop i lose every single time. It could be any draw and they will hit or a 2 outer like this one and they hit every time.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?789242 - Here i flop a set and think i play it pretty well. Once he reraises im hoping for ak/aa so i just call the flop. He pushes out 600 then folds to my 900 more which makes me think he didnt have much and was just trying to take it away from me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?789246 - me trying to get sneaky with AA and of course stars doesnt allow that. Sick thing is when the kk comes up and he checks i am pretty sure he has the K so i just call his small bets on the turn and river. Couldve raised preflop but im assuming he wouldve folded and i only make 80 which is better than losing 250 but i was hoping to pick up a nice flop and try to get his whol 800 not 80.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?789254 - pretty standard, flop a set, have it become the losing hand, then river the winner.

Daily total- 1,105.89

Total needed- 29,241.61

-Nechita-

Day # 19

Today i didn't play any poker at all. I had somethings to do and had a raging headache all day so i wasn't able to find any time to play. I did pick up the hd cable for my ps3 and after all of the Sony bashing i have been doing i would have to say these are probably the best games i have ever seen. The tiger woods game, NHL, and Resistance game are amazing in hd and now i have gone from possibly taking my ps3 back to thinking its the best game system ever. Anyways i am going to try and sleep off this headache and hopefully i will be able to get back into the swing of things tomorrow.

-Nechita-

Day # 19/20

This post is for yesterdays play and i will have another post up tonight showing today's results. Today was a pretty bad day for me in poker. I only played for a few hours and i was playing pretty poorly. I was making some bad calls and running into a few big hands which i was at the losing end of. I took a break after 2 hours of play to set up my trip to Vegas in march and eat with plans of playing more afterwards but that didn't happen. I wanted to come back and play more but was introduced to the game Guitar Hero 2. For anyone who hasn't played this game i strongly recommend getting it, its sick. We ended up drinking/playing this game until 5am which left me with no time to play poker and also with a sore left hand. Like i said before i also set up a trip in the middle of march to go back to Vegas to get my money back haha. There is like 6 of us going out there for like 5 days and even though i just got back from there a week ago i already cant wait to go back. We are going to be out there right in the middle of march madness so that will be pretty cool. Last year i went out there during march madness and it was pretty fun just to be around the sports books. Last year i ended up losing like 400 on Michigan State (stomped by George Mason haha) so i hope they aren't still in the tourney while i am out there to tempt me to bet on them. Anyways I am just rambling on now so i have some errands to run and i will be back on later, hopefully with some results in the green. Here are a few hands so check back later and I'm out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?786603
http://www.pokerhand.org/?786609 - played so bad
http://www.pokerhand.org/?786607
http://www.pokerhand.org/?786611 - played this hand so bad on the turn and made such a terrible call on the river i deserved to lose.

Daily total- 1483. 29

Total needed- 30,347.50\

-Nechita-

Day # 18

Today i played for around 5 hours and the session started off pretty bad. I played a few tournaments that started at 9 and 2 tables of 5/10. I played the 150 buy in and the 22+re buys and didn't cash in either of them. I started off pretty good in both and got pretty deep into both but busted out before cashing in either of them so it was pretty much a waste of time. I would've easily cashed in the 150 but of course my qq was no match against 88s all in preflop haha. I really do hate tournaments but i just know that if i would not get so unlucky all the time i could actually do pretty well in them. So i managed to bust out like 200th out of 1100 and that one only paid the top 150 so that sucked. In the 20 re buy i was card dead the whole time and couldn't really get anything going. The cash games i was playing were going pretty slow too and i was about to quit but started getting some cards and played for a few more hours. I was stuck about 1200 after 3 hours of play and then picked up a few nice pots over the last few hours and was able to get out of the red and into the green. I am really glad that i was able to turn it around today because today's session really feels like a losing one. You are going to have days and sometimes weeks like this where you are just card dead and you have to be able to just grind it out and pick good spots to try and pick up pots to stay a float. I don't really recall playing many pots but was somehow able to turn my deficit into a profit which is huge considering i really didn't play many hands and was down 1200 at one point. Anyways with that being said i am calling it a night, here are some hands from today and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?782182 - pretty bad river card here for me and a pretty bad call of his reraise. I figured if i caught a diamond or the straight i would be good but once he reraised i knew i was beat. Thought about it for a while and paid him off anyways, bad call by me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782190 - pretty sick that once he calls the flop and checks the turn i actually have him on 44/33. So i checked the turn planning to just call off his river bet and i manage to get lucky in the process.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782192 - just outflopped here nothing really else to say about it other than the fact i couldnt fold for 120 more on the flop.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782196 - playing aces extremely slow here which is usually not a good idea but this guy was playing tight and once he reraised preflop i have him on a hand like qq/kk. I really hated that A on the flop because i thought for sure i wasnt going to make any money so i check two times to him hoping he does anything. Once he bets out that feeler bet on the turn i know if i just call i make no more money on the hand so i decide to put a big raise in there like i am raising with some type of draw or am trying to steal it from him. The river was a good card because it doesnt complete any drawing hands in his mind. So i thought for like 10 seconds and shoved all in hoping it would look like a bluff with a missed draw and it ended up working out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782203 - This hand i got pretty lucky on the flop here. Everytime i would raise he kept reraising me 80 more so im thinking if i finally come back over the top he will give me credit for a real hand and fold, which did not happen. So once he calls im thinking he has like ak/qq/maybe kk and luckily i hit a very nice flop. I throw out kind of a small bet hoping it looks weak like i have ak and really want him to come over the top here which he does not do. The turn card looked scary but really didnt scare me that much. Once he calls the flop i am putting him on ak and that turn did not help his hand. I thought about checking here and having him push but i really dont want it to go to a river card. So i push and unless he has qq he isnt calling in this spot. He mightve folded kk here but i think he had ak but who knows.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782210 - not really a big pot but it was ok for A high. Im not going to brag haha....... but this was a pretty nice call.

Daily total- 329.34 (doesnt look like much but feels great after how card dead i was)

Total needed- 28,864.21

-Nechita-

Fuck sony/Day 17 if you want to call it that.

Today i didn't really do anything in poker other than lose money. I didn't feel like playing at all but sat down for like an hour, played stupid, and lost money. I didn't want to play because i finally got my PS3 hooked up for online play and of course the piece of shit doesn't work. So i was checking online forums for help all day and finally just gave up on it. You would think by spending 600 on a system that things would run smoothly with it but of course Sony could never pull something like that off. I guess i am supposed to forward my router and change all these ip addresses which is absolutely stupid for Sony to expect someone who isn't a total computer geek how to do. Anyways i would suggest to anyone not to buy a PS3 i have had nothing but problems with this thing or at least wait until they come out with more systems that are updated and problem free. Like i said i didn't really play any poker but managed to hand out some money in the little time i did play. I don't really have any hands to put up and i guess the point of this post was pretty much to tell you that i fucking hate Sony. With that being said I'm out and check back tomorrow to see if i have played any poker and to see if my PS3 is still in 1 piece.

Daily total- 718.33 (stupid of me to even play today)

Total needed- 29,193.55

-Nechita-

Day # 16

Today i really didn't accomplish anything that i wanted to in terms of poker. I did end up making money but i didn't play in any of the Sunday tournaments like i wanted to do. I planned on playing in the 530 buy in but by the time i woke up it was about to start and didn't feel like hopping right onto the computer. I was also going to play in the 215 second chance tourney but had to go out to eat so i missed that as well. Who knows it might have ended up being for the best anyways because i wasn't really in the poker mood at all today. I did play for around 3 hours, 3 tabling the 5/10nl on stars and ended up seeing around 500 hands. I wasn't really playing my A game but was able to pick up a few big hands and take down a few nice pots. I plan on putting together a 6+ hour session tomorrow so check back to see how that goes and I'm out.
Here are some hands from today's play.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?776373 -this was about a half hour into play and i was already down about 500 or else i wouldve probably called. I shouldnt let me being up or down have an effect on my decisions but it really did here. Also he had just had aces the hand before and unless he has a big pair i take the pot down right here on the flop. If i was up or even i would call in this spot but it was just enough to make me not want to gamble in this spot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?776384 - Total idiot who was going all in like everyhand, lucky me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?776381 - Same idiot from the last hand who was just handing out money at the table. He blew through about 4k in about a half hour including about 1700 to me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?776386 -Thought about re raising again here preflop but decided to take a flop instead. I had him on around 10's/ak with his preflop raise and his bet on the flop so i figure i will put him to the test here and throw out a nice semi-bluff. Im assuming he had ak once he folded immediately on the flop or he was just on a total steal.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?776390 - just me having 288494 outs and missing everyone, pretty standard for me.

Daily total- 802.93

Total needed- 28,475.22

-Nechita-

Day # 15

Today was the first day of online play since my trip to Vegas and I'm not going to lie i missed it. Playing live has its advantages but i really like online more than live play. When you play live you can see and talk to your competition which is a huge part of the game but i prefer online play by far. The reason i prefer online play is the fact that there is never any down time. By down time i mean there is never any waiting around for a hand and there is constant action. I cant stand sitting around waiting while some idiot is thinking for like 2 minutes over a 100 dollar pot when everyone at the table knows hes folding. Being able to talk with the other players is fun but I'm so used to the non stop action online that i cant stand how slow the live game is. Anyways with that being said i managed to put together a 6 hour session on a Saturday which is usually pretty hard to do. Today was a real roller coaster in poker terms. I started off up 1k then i was all of a sudden down 1k and then I managed to finish off the session pretty strong and was able to put up some nice results for my 1st day back. I plan on playing at least a few tournaments tomorrow so check back to see how that goes, here are some hands from today and I'm out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773751
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773753
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773754 - pretty standard result when i pick up KK
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773757 - no clue how my aces won here
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773758
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773759 - missed a river bet here
http://www.pokerhand.org/?773760 - love playing with idiots when my hands actually hold up

Daily Total- 2,105.82

Total needed- 29,278.15

-Nechita-