happy B-day to me/ taking a break

Thursday was my birfday which I spent watching the Habs sick comeback against New Jersey and studying all night. In poker world, I've either been running like shit, or some guys are just playing much better at pwning than I am. My last couple sessions have been pretty shitty so since I got 6 finals next week I've obviously decided to take a break till at least next thursday.

WOOT back to square 1

End of Week dirty BR: $514.45

Bot??? Likely...

I was too annoyed to post after my 2nd to last sesh cuz every time i had TT-KK that went to the flop, i lost. Against sets, straights, flushes... I just could seem to do anything right... I think i lost about 35, and thats on 10N freakin L... i have to remember when i see these beats that i'm once again only playing 10NL... The stupid part is that i think i gave 90% of it to the same person (COUGHbotCOUGH)...

In the sesh i played last night, i left a table with $40 and still managed to lose $5 LOOOOOll... Once again donating (apparently) to the bot... so this guy calls raises with any 2, and always seem to hit monster flops when i got a premium... the flop never really helps me though which is awesome, cuz i love spreading my wealth to others, i'm a giving kinda person...

End of Day ShpankRoll: $553.02

Continuation from gross sesh

Nothing too crazy here re-cooped most of my losses until TT<77 on a 7xx flop, fuuuuuuun. Although i get angry when i get TT-AA sucked out on, i have to remember that most of my profit has come from me hitting like a million sets, LOOOOL

Ending BR: $600.01

Bump in the road

Saying of the Day: Humongo Bongo Blinds

Ex: (just use your imagination :D :D :D)

I drove into a ditch. At least thats how I felt during my last 2 sessions. I felt as if I was driving on black ice, swerving and shit, doing 180's and 360's and 2312342354's... ran into AA a couple times... Every time i got TT-KK an over flopped, and/or turned and/or rived...

Hand of the night so far: Folded to me, I got AJs on the boootton, raise it up 3x, SB and BB call. flop A86, SB bets, i re-pop, he flats, turn 2, he checks, I bet $4, he flats, river 7. he checks, I check so board is A8627. He shows mother fuckin 76 fucking offsuit. GOLLY JEEPERS BATMAN, I GUESS I MISSED THE MEMO WHERE IT'S OK TO CALL LIKE 9 STREETS WITH BOTTOM PAIR... WellPlayedUFuckinDonkey

If i win that hand my mediocre sesh turns into a drity sesh, I continue to run like a god... I was down 30ish until I quit right after i got $10 for the lovely free $$$ account...

End of Day BR (but who knows, I might venture back in): $592.91

1 sweet set, 1 SICK SICK SICK RIVER (GFY CAKE)

Connection was retarded again yesterday, so i reset my modem 48 times. I guess the 48th time was the charm cuz then i sat on my 3 boootiful tables and starting working. Nothing crazy at first until i picked up 88 on the BB. Cutoff raises 5x, so up to 50c, Button flats, i call as well. Before i called i asked cake to give me a set about 9 times (I got witnesses!!!). THEN BOOM, 862 flop (giiiiiiin) i check, 5x raiser bets out, button calls, i raaaaaaaaise obv, raiser folds, and button shoves all in?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? Okaaay, WTF can he have??? 66??? 22??? I call (duh) he shows QQ!!!!!! Veeeeery well played QQ, thank you for your patronage.... that was about a $22 pot...

So I'm up about $25 for the sesh which is sweet, I leave 2 tables... (LAST HAND OF THE NIGHT) Last table i get 33 on the button so i decide why not see a flop. flop is 277, Loose at a goose bets, i call, turn 10, he bets, i call... river 3!!! He SHOVES?!?!!?!?!!?!? I WAS LEAVING, WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY DO THIS TO ME??? LOLOLOL

So now i got a fuckin $20 dilemma. Do i fold my full boat and leave with +++$25??? Or make the call and get sick when i either see 77, TT, or the always dangerous T7??? WHAT A FUCKING RIVER!!! So after 20 secs (MY GUT SAID FOLD, BUT WHO EVER LISTENS TO THEIR GUT???) I make the hero call... well... it wasnt really a hero call since i had a fucking BOAT!!! He shows T7, Gee Fucking Gee sesh, woo hoo for $4 profit... fucking guy... its ok though, he's a regular so i'll get my $$$ back tonight!!!

Fugly sesh + Gooder sesh = Not too shabby sesh

Word of the day: Champion

Ex: OMG, he open shoved 20x pre with K3o??? What a champion...

So I started the day playing with a crap connection, played like 15 hand in 5 mins... Left for 2 hours and came back ready to deliver some 10NL pwnage. What ended up happening was the complete opposite though. In one hour I lost $23... AA<66 on a 6xx flop for a $13 pot was a key hand. I think the biggest pot I won was $2 and I felt like nothing was going right. So i decided to take a break and played a little Guitar Hero 2. I was playing GH on hard and was getting even more annoyed than when I was playing poker LoooooooooL!!! So back to poker:

I joined 2, 10NL and 1, 20NL

The 20NL was pretty sick. I went down to $10 right away after chasing with a flush draw and bottom pair... then in 2 hand I got up to 35, KK>JJ for a $26 pot, and 77>AK after I flatted a raise pre with the 77, flop K79... then i played like an idiot and lost the profit in the next hour. Left the table at even steven.

The 10NL tables were where I shined. Didn't start off great when AA<55 after a runner runner straight (what a champion.../puuuuuuuuke) but I figured my luck has to change eventually so I started picked up little pots (lots of continuation bets after raising pre) and got up to like $15 of each table, then started hitting flushes and sets and eventually left one table with 25-ish and one with 30-ish (WOOT :D :D :D)

Ended the night when I got the next $10 out of the juicy Bonus account!!! 165 more fpps till the next $10!!! (seems like forever playing at these stakes...)

I also have 10 gold chips now!!! Only 610 away from an iPod video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

End of Day BR: $610.46

AA Good and Bad

Decided to play a quick sesh b4 i call it quits for saturday, a couple keys hands i'd like to pass on...

I got AA, raise UTG, get 2 callers, flop J55, i c-bet, 1 caller, turn A (umm...NUTS?!?!?!!?), i check (oooooobv) , he checks, riv J, so board is J55AJ, after i raised and he shoved ooooooooobv he had a J, gg sir, he says: "..." Then leaves the table...

AA again, raise, 2 callers, flop all rag 2 spades, guy out of position bets .10c into a .90c, i raise, he calls, turn spade, i got the A of spades, he was pretty short, had $3 left, so i showed him the stack, called, caught his flush, wtg fishy, riv was a brick, he wins...

Overall i was pretty satisfied, didnt play enough hands to get the next $10 from the bonus account, that'll happen tomorrow probably. Any time you finish a sesh in the +++ its always +++EV :D :D :D

End of Sat BR: $588.98

Had a mini sesh, was down right away, AQ < QQ, i raised on the SB, he called on the BB, flop Qxx OOOOOOOOOOOBViously. Managed to work my way back up so i get it was a Quasi +++EV sesh ,lolooooooooool...

New Ending Day BR: $582.74

Piece of Cake / 1k goal

Alright doooooooooooods, (this is not the fuck with your mind post, that one will probably never come LOOOOL)

Word of the day: Chopsticle.

Ex: How could you call with that hand you FUCKING CHOPSTICLE!!! GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!

Taking a massive swing as a micro donk is not fun at all. So I've decided to take a break from Stars because this last month has been fucking horrible. I feel like I can't win a race, obv, I haven't cashed in forever it seems, etc. So I emptied my entire my Bankroll and am moving on to smaller and better things. :D :D :D

Cake Poker offers 33% rakeback. For you non poker people, Rake or the fee, is what the house takes in. Sites take a fee when you join a tournament and when you play cash games. Ex: tournament entry is 10+1 , the $1 is the fee. For cash games they take a certain % for ever pot your in. I get this 33% rakeback for life which is sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!! The sad part is, people are joining the sites and not knowing that they can get rakeback. Not all sites offer it and you usually must go through a different site to get the rakeback sign up code.

So here we go, GO FUCK YOURSELF STARS... Well, for now anyways. The point of this new Journey is to build a Bank roll by sticking to strict STRIIIIIIIICT BR management rules. So these next couple weeks are for sure going to be a grind and a 1/2. With the help of a good friend I was able to abuse Cake Poker for its entire Sing up Bonus.

My first goal is to hit 1k!!!!!! Wish me luck!!!

I'm a little late in posting since I already started playing on cake 4 days ago, so here goes nothin...

Starting Bank Roll: $500.00

Day 1.

This was the feeling out process. I'm new to a site, I know no one. When i play in a cash session i'll be playing on 3 tables (3x the Fpps). I decided to start the cash game grind on 10NL. 5c / 10c blinds (so if you could imagine, the amount of rake that gets taken in is really small which is unfortunate, OBV, lol). For every 160 Fpps ( frequent player points) I obtain, I receive 10$ from the bonus account. I threw in a $1 Sng and finished 5th as well. Nothing really happend that day other than me trying to get reads on people.

Ending day BR: $486.68

Day 2.

I'm already starting to see some names repeating in the 10NL tables since the volume of people on Cake isn't that high. This day was a little more productive. I cleared 10$ from my bonus but at the same time lost 10$ at a table, lol. Apparently i missed the memo where its ok to call a raise with K5o LOoooool.

Ending day BR: $499.91

Day 3.

My first slip up, I was overtired and was playing like a retard, won a couple pot, lost a couple, etc... Cleared another $10 but managed to lose a $12 pot at the same time, lol... Why do i keep doing that?!?!?!! Lost a couple $1 Sng's. I was down about $30 for the night until i saw some guy at a 100NL Heads up cash table with $24.74 which is a really weird # since you can buy up to 100 at first. I figured he lost most of his $$$ to someone else. So i bought in for 60$ (not at all good BR management but the point was to take his 25) and took his $25 in about 5-10 mins. He never saw is coming!!!

Ending day BR: $494.76

Day 4. (Jan 10th)

Hooray for productivity!!! I was a man on a mission last night. The beginning of my session was a little rocky, lost about $17 to the same person. He had my number i guess, KK < 88 on a 982 flop :( :( :(... so i left that table and joined another one. (gotta love cash games, if u don't like your table pick your ass up and leave)

I stayed at the 3 tables for about 5 hours, had a siiiiiiiiick sesh... I left one table with $65 which is incredible since u can only buy in for $10. I had to reload in the other ones at some point but that was fine. I made enough Fpps to grab another $20 from the good ol' bonus account. I treated myself to a $5 Multi Tourney since I was doing well in the cash sesh. 480 entries, I finished 15th for $18 profit (wooot!!!)

Ending day BR: $578.51

I will post regularly from now on, weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Have a good day you CHOPSTICLE!!!