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After many years of going to school and saying no to drugs I graduated with a degree!  Little did I know it would lead me to being beaten into the ground at the hands of a soulless corporation.  After 3 years I quit to play poker professionally.  I've now been full-time over 7 years, yet revenge is still in the air.  It's crazy to look back and realize I started this blog as I was simply 'pumping myself up' to quit the real world and go full time.  Now I also do some writing for fun as a 'day job' (some freelance and paid, but an insignificant sum compared to 5/10 live) and airbnb my place when I don't feel like playing as much.

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Thursday
Mar172011

Updates (3/17/2011)

Decided to post a quick updates on how everything is going. I'm on a bus to Manhattan, so this is being typed from my phone. The quality may not be great but hey I have some time to kill. I decided to give myself a "spring break" and skip town a few days. My head is in need of sone serious clearing. Live poker really can't go much worse right now. I'm on a 170 hour stretch of 2-5 play with about 1k profit. My strategy has been flawed buying in half stack in an attempt to control my bankroll. But not all is lost, I haven't lost money and I have 170 hours of 2-5 experience. I won't go into how bad I'm running. I decided to buy in a full $500 100 bb stack at 2-5 going forward. No more half stacking b.s. From here out its either buy in full at 2-5 or drop to 1-2 if i don't want to play that big. I have a bankroll of about 13k set aside for just poker. This is a stressful time. My roll is massive for 1-2 but I'd like a little more for 2-5. A $20,000 40-buy in roll would be ideal, but not everyone has 20k sitting in a box ready to play. I have 26 buy INS freed up for 2-5 right now. I've decided to play out unless My roll drops below 10k and I feel uncomfortable. I play a very low variance style and it would be mind-blowing to even drop 5 straight buy-INS, but yeah crazier things have happened. Like the girl I was dating that tells me 1.5 months later she's pregnant with a kid from the last guy and she just found out. Now that shit is CRAZY. Like being a corporate slave 3 years before breaking off and moving to AC area on my own. CRAZY! Anyways, sure I could grind out 1-2 for $15-$20 an hour until I get my roll to 20k. But I am burning to establish myself at 2-5. I can beat these stakes and there is more money to be made. I didnt make this massive life change to grind out 1-2 for a year or two, that was not my plan. If I get doomswitched live so be it, but using my roll to grind 1-2 with 65 buy-INS would seem VERY inefficient to me. These next few weeks seem quite important at the moment. Online: I really have improved a lot from where I started. I've been logging sessions and making progress each week. Eventually I might have to choose to be more online or live each week but I like doing both at the moment. Online is where I improve and live is where I earn my living expenses (ok with the exception of the last few weeks). So after my spring break it's back to war on the tables. If youre like me and haven't had a spring break in years or decades, take a few days and give yourself one! That's all for now. I'll keep updated on the 2-5 progress in the upcoming weeks. Or 2-5 failures! Guess we will see. As you can tell I have no confidence things will ever go smoothly again. It can happen after running very badly over 150 hours live. -bag

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