Took down my local home game twice in 2 weeks!  This past Saturday the first 3 times the button came to me I took the pot with a boat!  What are the odds of that?  I'll have to have Tony G. talk about that on Friday night.   Lake and I talked about it and he figured I have to play 53,000 more hands to wind up with 3 boats in a row.  But that doesn't account for a boat only when on the button 3 times in a row. 

 I  don't care if you lick windows,  take  the special bus or occasionally pee on  yourself.  You  hang in there sunshine, you're special.  Every  sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute  of happiness  you'll never get back.  Today's  Message of the Day is:  Life  is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly,  Love truly,    Laugh  uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made  you smile.   

Life  may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here  we should  dance.

Come play in todays HORSE game at FullTilt. It will be a $3 buy-in at 02:01am EST.

The passwrod is

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 Terminated, whatever no more job.  So now I am forced to be a troubador and play for my dinner.

Playing for rent not as much fun as you may think, under rolled for this and bills to play I start with about 10 k. I will have to make 6-7 hundred a week just to stay even. My goal is to move up to 5-10 nl  asap. I wont play many tournaments unless I can sattie. My bankroll just won't permit a 100+ buy in.  So far I have made my goal and I am just 2 good wins from taking a shot at to 2-5

I have already gained about 10lbs and I am not sleeping good because of  playing diffrent hours on diffrent days. Got to play when the  recreational players are there. best time to play for me seems to be Mon- Thurs 2pm till about 12am and  Fri 5pm thru  Sunday  10pm. I already know the local sharks, but honestly many of then are inconsistent at best but a few are true players there to make money.

My goal this month is to grow my bankroll 3k. If I accomplish this I am going to WSOP and take a shot at the cash game, these should be huge. Then at least if I have to get a JOB I will have had a nice vacation.  I will play at least 50-60 hours a week till  mid June , I am averaging 15-25 an hour so far (4 weeks in) . I have not been playing alot of hours though, Because I try to leave once I am up 200. The next 20 days I will be playing 12 hour shifts .  

I am not playing much on line but I may play a few tourny's whenI have time.

Ill try to update as I can

 

  Once again, today's appointment was absolutely amazing!!  The ultrasound lasted over 30 minutes & we got to see every part of our baby.   His little hands were moving like crazy the whole time ~ one second, he'd have them folded in front of him, then they'd be up over his head, & a for a while, he sucked his little thumb.  One of my favorites was seeing his little feet...how adorable!!  He was extremely shy for most of the time, but we managed to get him to move his legs enough to tell that he's a boy (for positive)!!  So, we can finally get the room ready (& return the pink outfit from Nancy  ;-)...hehehe).
We also got to watch his heart beating & the blood pumping through it...how awesome!!  His little mouth was going a hundred miles an hour & it looks like he's smiling at us in a couple of the ultrasound pictures.  What an incredible day!!
She said my placenta looked great & his heart rate was 150 bpm, which is also perfect!  She got to see about 95% of his anatomy & said everything looked perfect...His brain seemed a little bigger than normal, but what else would you expect with Chris & me?!  Hehehe...He was 9 1/2 inches long & weighs 12 ounces, so it looks like he's going to be a big baby.
A part of me is a little depressed because on Sunday, I'll be 20 weeks & it's so sad to think that it's already half way over.  The other half of me is so excited to meet our baby, I can't stand it.  The ultrasounds are absolutely great, but they just make you want to see him even more!!  What an experience!!  So, in answer to everyone's question, the room will be blue & his name will be Brendan Christopher McMahan...& I think he's ready for bed now...     :-)

Well here we are 2 days after setting the goal to become a pro player(everyone laugh here)..

So where do we start ..well its all about money at the start so need to know where the money is...

A quick spreadsheet build & we know that we have a starting bankroll on the  19th of may 2009 of $209.95. A huge start...spread across 8 sites.

Ok so here is MY plan for the future but if you have any advice please feel free t0 comment and help, all advice will be treated with respect & i promise i wont laugh at anyone...because one thing I have learnt is that what works for me may not work for U. Most impotant thing is that we are all unique and look at situations differently and react differently.

So why do i lose...bad decesions simple but at the end of it make a bad decesion & lose.(I know its not that simple because sometimes ya just get a bad suckout..a killer river and turn so ya have to break it down to money in good and lose...learn to review it learn from it & move on....

My atitude sucks at times ....like i have AJ suited im first into the pot ill go all in and take the blinds with 4 to act after me, one calls with bigger stack and has poc Ks you lose and think  its only $1  next....your M was ok at 18 why the need to go "all in" was not required ya threw away $1 and the 1hr 50mins of time invested. So have to change attitude to "EVERY CENT COUNTS".

SO ...All tourneys from today First Goal is to get to Cash & get entry back. To do this we need to know what stack we need at that point of the cash to really push forward from that point of the touney best formula i have seen for this is harringtons which is as follows

(Number players x starting stack) /how many cash = average stack at cash point

90 seat sng 3000k starting stack  paying 18 would be (90 x 3000)/ 18 =15000

So next we look at the sites what we can afford to enter( see Chris fergsens FT challenge on BR management & tourney entry to BR). Find our most successful tourneys on thats site & only play those until we have a BR that can see us move up. Boring that but poker is all about a lot of boring for a few mins of pleasure as you send someone else to the rail....when they on the rail they cant take your chips..    

Next is the most important thing. our week planning the week to have the following

Family time & Rest time, Training time e.g PSO poker course, training videos and FT academy, reading poker books. Fr practice of things you have read learnt & want to test. And last serious poker tournament play.  

To be your best in the Tournament  everything must be balanced calm & FOCUSED. Might be why i tend to play my best tournaments when house is empty or its 3 am to 7 am when everyone and thing is quiet.

well thats it for today off to training in a 6000 seat FR on party poker.

Quote for today: No sportsman ever succeeded without training for success.

  

 

 

Being a ex sportsmen with a huge competitive streak which means I dont cope with losing to well. I find myself 4 yrs into poker not winning a lot nice small BankRolls & a missus who is tired of hearing the excuses for me losing...but always smiles and says it will come good one day darling..

Ok so in last yr ive have been to poker school read books ( harrington on holdem ) & then last nite a mate (hildahl) & words from a 9yr old in my footy team rang true.

MY 9 yr old asked me how to kick a certain goal like one of the pro players at training on thursday nite. my answer was they train for it by practicing it  until they perfect it.They think of all the situations the kick can be used in & they recreate that on the training feild and practice practice.....so they plan what they want to achieve in there mind & do it over & over until its perfect.

Then on saturday im playing away doing ok when me mate hildahl messages me & says go watch this video of hand between ivey & cunningham which i do and whilst perusing his blog find the chris ferguson challenge $0.00 to $10000 asap. Ive seen this one before but now parts of it were so more poiginant..

So today i decided I have to change if i want to be the best I can at poker & I decided that i would like chris talk about my progress on a site im most proud of Rounders Radio.

So here goes...

The goal...to become a professional poker player..... (there ive written the goal)

How to achieve this will become apparent over the next week...lets think of it as episodes of a TV reality show on a radio blog...

what i am going to do is work through the plan to achieve the goal over the weeks months maybe yrs....here

 

kinkykiwi

 

  

  

  

TBDBITL (The Best Damn Band In The Land)

The Ohio State University Marching Band is one of the few all-brass and percussion bands in the country, perhaps the largest of its type in the world. However, Ohio State's band had humble beginnings. The first instrumental musical organization on campus was a 12-piece fife and drum corps organized in 1878. A 16-piece band performed for the commencement of 1879.

Many marching band innovations were first tried and developed at Ohio State. Among them are: floating and animated formations, measured step marching, script writing, and the fast cadence with a high knee lift. Brass instruments especially designed for marching bands were also first used at Ohio State.

Taken From The Ohio State University Marching Band History

# 1.     One night, a man and his lady friend were about to enter his apartment, when, before he could open the door, she said, "Wait a minute, I can tell how a man makes love by how he unlocks his door."

The man says, "Well, give me some examples."

The lady explains, "Well, if a guy shoves his key in the lock, and opens the door hard, then that means he is a rough lover and that isn't for me. If a man fumbles around and can’t seem to find the hole, then that means he is inexperienced, and that isn’t for me either." Then she said, "How do you unlock your door?"

The man answered, "Well, before I do anything else, I lick the lock…"

# 2.       A man is in a hotel lobby. As he turns to go to the front desk, he accidentally bumps into a woman beside him and as he does, his elbow goes into her breast.
They are both quite startled. The man turns to her and says, "Ma'am, if your heart is as soft as your breast, I know you'll forgive me."
She replies, "if your penis is as hard as your elbow, I'm in room 1221."

I used to consider myself an extremely focused player , probably wrapped way to tight would not have been a bad assesement of me. Now I can't keep my head in a game, they always seem to take way to long, and guess what? I usually don't win, and now I rarely seem to even cash.

I have "lightened up" quite a bit, rarely lose my temper. I used to yell and scream like a lunatic down here in my basement, I would walk out of my house and my neighbors would wonder what the heck was going on in there lol. I definetely do not want to go back to being "Mini Hellmuth" but I need to find something to get my edge back in this game.

Until I figure it out enjoy my $5-$10 daily donations (hehe)