Can I make a living part time playing poker? I am about to be a dad for the first time in December, I am trying to lose 100 lbs, and trying to make a living playing poker part time. Can I do all this and not lose my mind?
Friday, October 15, 2010
getting better
Things seem to be a bit better on the tables. The last two days I have made up the money I lost and am showing a small profit of about $45.00 which is much better then being in the hole. I know my biggest issue is I need to be more aggressive around the bubble and take advantage of the smaller stacks but it seems like I do it 2 or 3 times, collect the blinds, then catch A-K go all in again get called by some douche with Q-8 and they catch an 8 on the river. At least this is what happened Sunday - Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday were good. What I need to do is make a good chart that shows what hands are push hands when you only have about 10-12 Big blinds left. I hate hearing about other peoples bad beats and it seems like that is all people want to talk about the time when they had AA and a guy beat them with a set of 4's...it happens get over it.....for everytime you go all in with AA you will lose 1 out of about 5 times, more if the race is 3 or more people. So my pledge on this blog is to never whine about suck outs...it happens, it's part of poker if you can't live with it, you need to be playing something else. Last month I was cruising along real good in a mini-Ftops event and then blew it because of stupidity...it's been haunting me since. I have already marked my calendar for December's MiniFtop events. I think Pokerstars has better players then Full Tilt...in fact I am always amazed at how bad people on Full Tilt try to bluff people off hands. I also think that the Full Tilt donks tend to hit more of those impossible flushes then the people at Pokerstars. I am using a very disciplined approach to playing on Poker Stars as far as my bankroll. I am only playing 18 man SNG's on Stars because that is what my training is on, 18 man SNG's. I have money over at Fulltilt and am playing a bit more risky there, not in my style of play but my buy-ins, size of tournaments etc...over the last few days I have played in the 10.00 45 man SNG turbo's on FT and placed 6th and 3rd. So I will probably play a few more of those over the weekend. Today is Farmers market prep day. I have to pick up our orders at lunch, then take them home and wrap the tortillas, load the truck, load the car, then I will squeeze in a few games tonight, then tomorrow the market will keep me busy until around 3:00...I will probably squeeze in a few games Saturday afternoon/ evening but then Saturday night is movie night for my wife and me....we have Invictus, Kick Ass and some independent flick with Ben Stiller...can't remember the name but got strong reviews. Sunday is harcore poker until 3:00 then will watch the toilet bowl between the Cowboys and the Vikings. I am pretty sure whoever loses is done for. I wouldn't be suprised to see Favre retire if the Vikings lose and I wouldn't be suprised to see Phillips get fired if the Cowboys lose, especially if they lose because of something stupid like they have the last 3 out of 4 games they have played. Sometimes rooting for the Cowboys is like rooting for your heroin addicted hooker mother. They seem great, clean, sober so your thinking "hey she's turned the corner" you find her in the alley with her panties around her ankles and a syringe in her arm and your like Damnit here we go again."
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