August Goals

[FCP Bob 1,311]

Im not sure I understand what this has to do with it? From what you said, the interest rates are lower here...yet I can get a higher rate on my savings (American) than he is getting in Canada? I believe and someone may need to correct me...but: ING is over seasHSBC is a british company Both of which will get you closer to 5% than the 3.5 he is at

It doesn't matter where the bank is owned but where it's operating. Interest rates are higher in the U.S. then they are in Canada right now.ING Canada currently offers 3.5 % on both $US and $CDN savings accounts for example.It also means that our cost to borrow is lower on things like mortgages and car loans.

[iggymcfly 0]

Well I'm over halfway through my Vegas trip. I wanted to play a little higher than I could really afford with the $2000 I brought, so that probably wasn't the best start to things. I've also been super card-dead and that didn't help either. I started out playing 15/30 LHE and the first session, the only big pair (9s or higher I got) was KK once and I got bluffed off of it by QQ who raised an Ace turn after cold-calling PF and on the flop. Finished down $600 there, then lost another few hundred playing 2/5 NL (over 5 hours or so), then finally moved over to a SH 20/40 Stud game (maybe not a good idea?) and lost another $800. Sometime in the middle, when I was tilting, I played a little blackjack and won a couple hundred so I still wasn't in terrible shape the next day.The next day (today), I go to Paris where they have a $10 min game, actually pay attention to the count and do well and win another $400. Yeah, I know I said I was a -EV blackjack player and I am overall, but if I really focus, I'm slightly +EV. Kinda like NL cash games where I'm too tilt-prone to win long-term but I have an edge when I play my 'A' game. Anyway, I play some more 2/5 tonight, win $150 at Caesar's, leave because the game's bad, go back to Bellagio where the game was even worse, lose a big pot with TPTK to a rivered flush, get in for $350 with AK vs. AA AIPF, and then make a tilty push against an obvious overpair with TP + backdoor draws.So I go to the ATM, get the last $580 I can take out, and go to Bally's to count cards. I wasn't focused or enjoying myself at all though, and pretty soon, I just started jacking my bets up paying no attention to the count at all and lose another $400. Finally, down to my last $180, I start looking for a roulette table and when I can't find any at Bally's, I walk back to Paris (they're connected). I was thinking about putting $100 on 36 on the way, but decided to look for a table that had come one color several times in a row and bet that color instead. So I put $100 on black, win, let it ride, win again, and put $400 down on black again. Then, at the last second, I get a bad feeling about the black and take $100 off the black and put it on 36. Of course, it comes...36! So I win $3500 on that bet and I'm up for the trip now.So the bad news is I'm still a degenerate and I'm completely incapable of staying out of the pit if I'm tilted at all. The good news is I'm a total luckbox and I'm off to the Rhino with my winnings! Well, not all of them. I'm not that stupid. I'll take enough to have fun though. BTW, didn't really post this looking for lectures even though I know that it was stupid, and I'm sure that I'll get plenty of advice telling me things I already know. Just thought it was a good story and wanted to share.

[mikeysong 0]

Well I'm over halfway through my Vegas trip. I wanted to play a little higher than I could really afford with the $2000 I brought, so that probably wasn't the best start to things. I've also been super card-dead and that didn't help either. I started out playing 15/30 LHE and the first session, the only big pair (9s or higher I got) was KK once and I got bluffed off of it by QQ who raised an Ace turn after cold-calling PF and on the flop. Finished down $600 there, then lost another few hundred playing 2/5 NL (over 5 hours or so), then finally moved over to a SH 20/40 Stud game (maybe not a good idea?) and lost another $800. Sometime in the middle, when I was tilting, I played a little blackjack and won a couple hundred so I still wasn't in terrible shape the next day.The next day (today), I go to Paris where they have a $10 min game, actually pay attention to the count and do well and win another $400. Yeah, I know I said I was a -EV blackjack player and I am overall, but if I really focus, I'm slightly +EV. Kinda like NL cash games where I'm too tilt-prone to win long-term but I have an edge when I play my 'A' game. Anyway, I play some more 2/5 tonight, win $150 at Caesar's, leave because the game's bad, go back to Bellagio where the game was even worse, lose a big pot with TPTK to a rivered flush, get in for $350 with AK vs. AA AIPF, and then make a tilty push against an obvious overpair with TP + backdoor draws.So I go to the ATM, get the last $580 I can take out, and go to Bally's to count cards. I wasn't focused or enjoying myself at all though, and pretty soon, I just started jacking my bets up paying no attention to the count at all and lose another $400. Finally, down to my last $180, I start looking for a roulette table and when I can't find any at Bally's, I walk back to Paris (they're connected). I was thinking about putting $100 on 36 on the way, but decided to look for a table that had come one color several times in a row and bet that color instead. So I put $100 on black, win, let it ride, win again, and put $400 down on black again. Then, at the last second, I get a bad feeling about the black and take $100 off the black and put it on 36. Of course, it comes...36! So I win $3500 on that bet and I'm up for the trip now.So the bad news is I'm still a degenerate and I'm completely incapable of staying out of the pit if I'm tilted at all. The good news is I'm a total luckbox and I'm off to the Rhino with my winnings! Well, not all of them. I'm not that stupid. I'll take enough to have fun though. BTW, didn't really post this looking for lectures even though I know that it was stupid, and I'm sure that I'll get plenty of advice telling me things I already know. Just thought it was a good story and wanted to share.

lol @ 36! Ship it one time!now u gotta write about some stories from the Rhino : )

[CobaltBlue 662]

I still have a gambling addiction.

*sigh*

[Zach6668 513]

I also still have a gambling addiction.No details to follow.

[iggymcfly 0]

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[iggymcfly 0]

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[Jordan 1]

back in the black ship it- Jordan

[simo_8ball 0]

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Three posts worth of incriminating stuff. That has to be bad good intriguing.

I'm off to the Rhino with my winnings!

My guess is that the strip club may have something to do with it.

[Mattnxtc 0]

SNGs have turned out to be more profitable than I thought. I have the stats in PT, but I dont agree with what they say. My excel sheet matches up much better with my br than the PT so who knows. For the month I am up 150 after 33 sngs for roughly a profit of 75 bucks at 40% ROI. 34 from a rakeback trade and roughly 20 in a drunk PLO game where I actually hit a hand. Once I play the 100sngs I think I may move to .5/1 limit for a while to get myself back into the learning side of poker. Means ill be rereading SSHE again which generally helps my overall game.

[sennin 0]

New goal for myself is to play 32 $6 9man turbo sngs a day, and move up to the $16 ones when I have enough in my BR. And im actually going to commit to it, I think I can grind out a very good profit

Going well so far..Day 1: 25 SNGs, -$16Day 2: 28 SNGs, +$44 Day 3: 32 SNGs, +$121

[mikeysong 0]

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BULLSH*Tat least pm me the stories : ) I'm curious!

[iggymcfly 0]

Just wanted to say that I still have never paid for sex. That might leave it pretty easy to guess what was incriminating, but I still don't feel like having it up on a public forum.

[Abbaddabba 0]

So your penis fell off from having not used it for so many years.No big deal.I can set you up with a guy who has a wide assortment of prosthetic ones.That IS what you were talking about... right?

[Mattnxtc 0]

So your penis fell off from having not used it for so many years.No big deal.I can set you up with a guy who has a wide assortment of prosthetic ones.That IS what you were talking about... right?

why do you have knowledge of penis replacements/

[homnig 0]

Sng's haven't been going so well this month, but I chopped the $27.5 on stars for 4.6k and got 4th in the $16.5 for 800 at the same time last night. So I'm having a decent month.Also, love this thread:)gla

[timwakefield 68]

Once again decided to donk some $1/2 PLO after losing a couple tourneys, but tonight I actually won something like 3.5 BI in 400 hands. I think I'm really gonna try and keep playing it and get good. I do so well in PLO mtts, I think I can learn ring in not too long.

[timwakefield 68]

Sng's haven't been going so well this month, but I chopped the $27.5 on stars for 4.6k and got 4th in the $16.5 for 800 at the same time last night. So I'm having a decent month.Also, love this thread:)gla

Wow, congrats!Also, iggy.

[iggymcfly 0]

Well, I'm home safe and sound with my finances intact. I went and played 5/10 at the Venetian the last night and ended up losing $1400 due to two really bad hands, one where I flopped a set of eights and managed to let AA fold by playing it badly and then two hands later, I turned a set of twos and called a river push that was going to be a better set about 90% of the time. I know set-over-set situations are supposed to be coolers, but I swear I would have folded if it hadn't come right on the heels of the 88 hand. Won the money back playing blackjack though so I still came out ahead for the trip.

[mikeysong 0]

Well, I'm home safe and sound with my finances intact. I went and played 5/10 at the Venetian the last night and ended up losing $1400 due to two really bad hands, one where I flopped a set of eights and managed to let AA fold by playing it badly and then two hands later, I turned a set of twos and called a river push that was going to be a better set about 90% of the time. I know set-over-set situations are supposed to be coolers, but I swear I would have folded if it hadn't come right on the heels of the 88 hand. Won the money back playing blackjack though so I still came out ahead for the trip.

SHOOT YOURSELF PLEASE

[GabeTheKid 0]

here are 2 graphs...1 of today and one of August.Today... http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=august20oy7.jpgAugust... http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=augustbpn7.jpgGabe.

[iggymcfly 0]

SHOOT YOURSELF PLEASE

Can't tell if this is a "you suck, I'm jealous" post or a "you suck, learn to manage your BR" post. If it's the first one, don't be. I just figured out where I'm at on the year in non-poker gambling for a BBV thread and this trip brought me up to -$15,000.In related news, I got that "bored" feeling sitting at my computer again and started looking at who was sitting at higher HU PLO games. I didn't really feel tempted looking at the 25/50 game but then when I looked at the 3/6 and saw there was someone sitting with $216, I almost sat until I saw he was sitting out. When I felt myself tempted looking at the 5/10 game, I immediately closed Stars for the night. Hopefully, that's just a little leftover gambling adrenaline from Vegas still running through my veins that will work its way out of my system in a few days. I did put in about 1,200 hands at 1/2 today and after an hour or so to get readjusted to PLO again, I felt like I played pretty well. I think I'm definitely on the right track there. Also, being in Vegas reminded me just how much the whole "live poker scene" isn't for me. I'm just too impatient and degenerate to do well in that environment. I'll probably end up taking one more trip down there at the end of September just because my Wynn comps are too nice to throw away ($300/night in food and beverage), but after that I don't think I'll go back to Vegas until next year's WSOP. It's a mix of games I'm not good at at a pace that drives me crazy and a bunch of non-poker activity just begging me to throw my money away in bundles. After the September trip, the next place I go will be for a real vacation with no gambling involved at all.

[CobaltBlue 662]

Can't tell if this is a "you suck, I'm jealous" post or a "you suck, learn to manage your BR" post. If it's the first one, don't be.

It's definitely the latter one.In unrelated news...I have a pretty bad habit of getting "behind" on records when I'm having losing months. It's not that I don't keep them. I write all of my sessions down in safe places...I just generally avoid the depression that comes with summing them up every day. Anyway...I'm stuck about $4.5k on the month now. That brings my yearly total down to +$10k (~$12/hr). Considering my goals at the beginning of the year, that's pretty miserable. I'm not clear about what I've been doing so differently from last year when I made $48k at a rate of $45/hr. In a rather disturbing trend for the year that I just noticed, I'm +$9k in MTTs, +$4k in STTs...if I guess that I've earned about $2k in rakeback, that makes me -$5k in cash games. I'm really torn...cause tournaments are really starting to wear on me. I do "well" with a cash rate of 22%, but more often than not (about 2/3 times), I'm still putting another red mark in my spreadsheet. The past two months, I lose $200 in an "average session". I like the flexibility and consistency of cash, but lately...it just hasn't been there...and I can really "melt down" (lose 10%-40% of my BR) in cash sessions (whereas that's quite difficult playing tournaments).I'm loathe to blame the games as being tougher "lately" with all of the donkishness that I still regularly witness. It's also hard for me to use that excuse when I see so many of you still having good results. I guess I'm struggling a bit with whether I should stick to the TAG game that I developed summer 2004 through fall 2006...or the LAG game that I developed since then. And I know that I should tailor it to the game, but what's the proper "default" for the current climate? People keep saying that with everyone going LAG, TAG's becoming correct again...but I feel like there are a lot of times where I'll get run over in weak-tight manner if I play ABC TAG.

[iggymcfly 0]

It's definitely the latter one.

Yeah, kinda figured after I read it over a couple times. Almost went back and edited my post.

I'm loathe to blame the games as being tougher "lately" with all of the donkishness that I still regularly witness. It's also hard for me to use that excuse when I see so many of you still having good results. I guess I'm struggling a bit with whether I should stick to the TAG game that I developed summer 2004 through fall 2006...or the LAG game that I developed since then. And I know that I should tailor it to the game, but what's the proper "default" for the current climate? People keep saying that with everyone going LAG, TAG's becoming correct again...but I feel like there are a lot of times where I'll get run over in weak-tight manner if I play ABC TAG.

If you keep finding yourself in games where you're not sure how to play and you've been having poor results lately, maybe you should try working on your game selection for a while. Either sit where you know you've got someone who's too loose that you can TAG up against or find some real weak-tights to run over. If nothing else, playing in games where you have a better edge can get your confidence back up a little which will improve your play long-term.And if all else fails, you can always switch games. While online hold'em has gotten noticeably tougher since UIGEA, I'm not so sure that holds true for other games. The PLO is still very soft on pretty much every major site and while I haven't played a lot of HORSE, those games have also seemed very soft when I've played them. If you've got a good "poker brain", it really doesn't take that long to adjust to a new game and can actually help you stay fresh and concentrate better than you would otherwise.