Back to the drawing table

The run I've been on the last few day doesn't help either, I think I might actually have done ok and won a little money in some HU-matches against decent opponents but I've been killed by less solid players both in HU and 6-max. One guy in particular has had the habit to 3bet and call 4bets vs my UTG-range with such monsters as 6522ss, KQJ2sss and overall something like the top20% of hands (might not even be the top, never seen him 3bet AAxx lol) and absolutely crush me by never folding the flop with anything and mostly hitting 2p+.

Now, this sounds a lot like me whining, but I'm actually done with that. I called my dad and bitched about it earlier today but got happy again when we talked about the stock market (some of the stuff I own has done very well lately). Anyway, I decided that I'll move down and play 1/2 and lower for the most partand not force anything really. I'll play some tournaments too since I find those amusing lately and had some decent results but other then that I'll take care of other areas of my life instead. There's a ton of stuff I'm excited about really:

1. My gf's book. First draft is done and I'll probably start proof-reading it soon.
2. My final thesis in law school seems to be on it's way. Got a bunch of good advice from the professor today and he was really positive (much more then I expected) when he talked about what I've produced so far.
3. My work with the Libertarian Party of Sweden is finally going well after a slow start.
4. It's possible to find some really nice houses for less then 100k€ in some places I want to live.
5. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_134]UFC: RIO[/url] will be bad ass. Not super excited about the main event (rooting for Okami, thinking he'll get lolpwned) but Shogun vs Forrest II and the Barboza-fight will be awesome not to mention Paul Harris vs Dan Miller. To bad I'll have to wait until UFC 136 in October before next super bad-ass event will take place. However, I'm calling it now: UFC 137 will be the event of the year.

Right now I hope to go fishing with my dad early next month and possibly stay with the parents for a week or so while writing on my thesis and overall getting away from Uppsala for a while. I feel like I've spent far to little time up there and I'd love to get out in nature more with fresh air and whatnot. Then, when I've put in 30k hands on 1/2 and 0.5/1 I'll re-evaluate. If I've made 5k or so I'll move up, if I haven't I'll just play 30k hands more and see if it works out better. The way to the top is one of two steps forward, one step back. Or possibly a bunch of steps.

Sklansky bux, where art thou?

Last time I dragged my ass to high stakes I ran much better. Next 30k hands I'll play PLO 0.5/1 and 1/2. Need to get some confidence back.

Don't give up til it's over

We had a little party yesterday. I started bad, then I took a walk to calm down and won my money back.




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Here's a couple of (badly played) hands from the end:


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/915885 700bb pot - Ship


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/915953 - Probably slightly bad pre

Yesterday's weird hands

Not going to play anything today because me and my better half have people over. So I'll just leave you with these hands from yesterday.

800bb flipping pf while not really rolled for 5/10:

 

Failshipping 250bbs on the turn.

 

A suckout

About 11k or so under Ev for the month so far, which is slightly annoying, but I'll get it back I guess.

Hooooold!

Played like a retard yesterday. I was tired an unfocused. Ended up breaking even anyway mostly thanks to this, fairly crazy, hold. Notice how I dodge any A, K, 9, 2 diamond or runner runner shenanigans not once but twice.

As for an analysis I guess I make a fairly dumb open pre flop, get raised by some tight dude, hit top2 on a drawy board and decides that I want to just pot and then someone ships and another guy overships and I feel pot committed and call while mostly thinking something along the lines of "oohhh fuck". But I hold, because fuck them, that's why!

Fathers on the crapper

Did your father spend a lot of time on the crapper when you where a child? To me it seemed that anyone who could take a crap for an hour probably had some digestive problems, but for some reasons it seemed like not only mine, but a fair few of my friends, had dads who spent an abnormal amount of time in the men's room. Now, reading a paper while sitting on the throne seems all well and good and overall as time fairly decently spent, but somewhere you'd have to draw the line. Even the few times I've read a paper while doing my dirty deed I seldom have spent more then maybe 15 or 20 minutes of my precious time. This was all a big mystery for me until my fiance moved in with me, quite unexpectedly, a few months back.

I do love my girl a lot and for the most part I enjoy the time we spend together. I feel good, I sleep well except for the times her monster of a cat decides that it's time for breakfast and tries to tell me this by running around on top of me and overall I'm happy with the situation. Yet I find myself spending an increasing amount of time reading a paper while taking a shit. My eating, sleeping and work out habits have not change enough for it to be an explanation.

Instead I believe that everyone needs some time to themselves now and then and when you live with someone, sleep with someone and even try to find out how to ride a horse so you can hang out with someone even more, you do not get enough time for yourself. Now, the toilette is the last fortress of “alone time” in the modern home, unless you have a study (which I won't have until we buy a house) or something. And thus I found out what young men who decides to live with a girl (or a guy, I supposed) have found out time and time again through history; “I you want to have some time by yourself, tell them you need to take a crap”.

Annoying start of the week

Well what can you do. Having one of those really annoying run bad months, even though I know you guys can't imagine me running bad ever. Overall I'm about 9k under equity but it's not that bad because you know what, there's still a lot of time left this month so I'll probably end up running like 10k over EV or something. I can feel it coming.

A very good friend of mine once stated that when I started bitching about poker results (which doesn't happen that often) it'll take a few weeks or maybe a month or two and then I'll pull a couple of really good sessions and suddenly have more money then before the downswing. Havn't done that in a while, but it'll happen.

"Good work pays off" - Tito Ortiz, former UFC Light Heavyweight champion and husband of Jenna Jameson.

Movies I love: Lesbian Vampire killers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020885/

Some of you guys may now me from Liquidpoker.net. Some of you may have played a bit of poker with me. So of you may just have stumbled upon this humble blog by mistake. Either way I'd like to start out by write a little piece about one of my favorite movies of all time, the modern classic; Lesbian Vampire Killers. It's the story of to boys on the run from the failures of everyday city life, one having recently been dumped for the seventh time by his girl friend and the other one having been sacked from his job as a clown after punching a 7 year old in the face. They decide to set of on a hike and ends up in a little village plaged by an ancient curse set upon the town by the Vampire Queen Carmilla. And their bad luck does not end there;

“Yep, lesbian vampires. Just another one of God's cruel tricks to get on my tits. Even dead women had sooner sleep with each other than get with me it would appear. But eatin' me alive, oh no, that's fine. Next time he'll have me bummed by a big gay werewolf I swear. “ - Fletch

Before I'd go any further I'd like to state my biggest concern about this movie. There's not enough boobs. Lesbian Vampires should be expected to show boobs, but the movie is not nearly as filled with boobs as you'd expect. That's ok though, there's still a few and it more then makes up for it in other ways. The story is fairly clean and basic but does what it supposed to do and sets up a nice framework for the characters and themes. It's a story of friendship and the two main male antagonists have a very warm and beautiful friendship built on mutual trust and probably something else. It's also really funny and will make you laugh a fair bit and some of the stuff coming out of the fat guys mouth is instantly quotable.

I'd give it 8/10.