Test Your Poker IQ roflcopter

I found this on 2+2 and thought it was pretty corny but kills the boredom while game selecting. At the end you have to give your email to receive your IQ, but I didn't do it haha. I had 1,294 chips when it was over. It probably takes about 20 minutes to complete. Have fun!

http://www.testyourpoker.com/poker/

Internet Disconnections...

It's happened before. Three times exactly. A full set is up, and crash. ... thanks comcast. Thanks guy who set up my comcast and said it's the best internet and never goes out (ya right). Dude was full of crap. Not like I believed him though. I've had three huge losses in the past and for all of them I cried to Mommy PokerStars and she reimbursed me. In one set I actually made $11 cause I cashed somehow haha. But today, it went out again. 24 unresponsive games for 10-15 minutes. So what to do? Call a friend and have them take over! Well my phone is connected via internet (ty magicjack) and I'm poor so I have no cell phone. So, um, ya, just me and myself...hangiiiin out. I fiddled with all the modem stuff and got it back. I was either out or half stacked in every game. Then, like it should happen, I kept getting 2 outtered everywhere and it was just mega tilting considering the circumstances. One piece of advice I can offer (that I learned the hard way over a year ago) is to NEVER not raise all in if you are going to play the hand (unless it's a normal tiny raise). Never get cute with non-all-in all ins unless you want it to disconnect you and you lose your stack. When it was all over, I feel very fortunate to walk away -$116. Which, is amazing considering the 24 games is $384. -30% roi, not too shabby.

...off to verizon for backup.

Potential Prop Bet or Just for Fun?

This has nothing to do with poker, and it's WAY cooler! My friend and I wanna make some sort of a mini bet that we can find all 50 state license plates on a car in a certain amount of time (maybe 1 month). We can do 1-1 on money with a max bet of like $50 total for everyone (lol). It just sounds really fun AND I have a head start cause I found one of the impossible two already. Alaska. BOOM! Besides these two, the further east the harder to find. Especially when not driving on the freeway.

[x] Alaska
[x] Arkansas
[x] California (had to be found eventually hahahahhaa)
[x] Idaho

Lesson of The Day: Pay Attention

One of the most common mistakes of multi-tablers is robotisism. Click click click, shove shove shove, etc etc etc. One thing I pride myself in (the only thing rofl) is that I consistently think while I play and interact with the player types around me. When this hand came up, I was in utter shock, then happy at the flop, then miserable on the turn.

PokerStars Game #43056647139: Tournament #265653847, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2010/04/22 18:50:03 PT [2010/04/22 21:50:03 ET]
Table '265653847 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Glitlr (6320 in chips)
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (7180 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 50
cherrybomb23: posts the ante 50
cherrybomb23: posts small blind 400
Glitlr: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [2c 8s]
cherrybomb23: raises 6330 to 7130 and is all-in
Glitlr: calls 5470 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (860) returned to cherrybomb23
*** FLOP *** [8d 6s 2s]
*** TURN *** [8d 6s 2s] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [8d 6s 2s 6d] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Glitlr: shows [2c 8s] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
cherrybomb23: shows [6h As] (three of a kind, Sixes)
cherrybomb23 collected 12640 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12640 | Rake 0
Board [8d 6s 2s 6d 3h]
Seat 1: Glitlr (big blind) showed [2c 8s] and lost with two pair, Eights and Sixes
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (button) (small blind) showed [6h As] and won (12640) with three of a kind, Sixes

WHY DID YOU CALL YOU IDIOT!??!?!?!

It wasn't a misclick. It was a genuine call. The problem was in the hand prior to this one. In fact, I haven't even looked at the HH yet, but I plan on finding it once I type out the next few sentences. I shoved K8o at bb800 for like 6kish or something and he called K3, WOOT! He missed his 3 and boom I have 12.5kish chips. So when I called this 82o, I thought I was calling like 200ish more chips. Here is the hand...

PokerStars Game #43056631409: Tournament #265653847, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2010/04/22 18:49:33 PT [2010/04/22 21:49:33 ET]
Table '265653847 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Glitlr (6320 in chips)
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (7180 in chips)
Glitlr: posts the ante 50
cherrybomb23: posts the ante 50
Glitlr: posts small blind 400
cherrybomb23: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [8s Kh]
Glitlr: raises 5470 to 6270 and is all-in
cherrybomb23: calls 5470
*** FLOP *** [2h Ac 9s]
*** TURN *** [2h Ac 9s] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [2h Ac 9s Kc] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cherrybomb23: shows [Kd 3d] (a pair of Kings)
Glitlr: shows [8s Kh] (a pair of Kings)
cherrybomb23 collected 6320 from pot
Glitlr collected 6320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12640 | Rake 0
Board [2h Ac 9s Kc Jc]
Seat 1: Glitlr (button) (small blind) showed [8s Kh] and won (6320) with a pair of Kings
Seat 9: cherrybomb23 (big blind) showed [Kd 3d] and won (6320) with a pair of Kings

Looking at it again it takes me a couple seconds to realize we split. So, moral of the story, pay attention to everything. Mostly so you don't call 82o for even stacks like me.

Bipolar Tendencies

Sunday WEEE, Monday awww. I'm basically giving it away now in games. Come get it while you can! I even snap called a supposedly bvb shove from a reg with KQs only to realize I missed the utg limper. I hit my desk. I've never missed that spot ever. Literally. Ever. That's when you know you are playing bad. I thought I'd do some reminiscing about happier times so I pulled up some graphs. I coached clickys, cool dude who plays $6.50s, and helped him out a bit. Nice guy and nice improvement.

You can tell where the fun started:) He's not up millions or anything, but I think it definitely proves that studying pays off. I hope he continues to grow as he thinks critically and analyzes more spots.

What about Travis? Where is he? Tbini87 is a fish who used to flat KQ at bb100 - I'm sorry KQsuiiiiiited - on ABSOLUTE POKER. Screw the talk, show the garfz.

INTERNET!!!

FIIIINALLLLY! God, I feel like a crack head who couldn't smoke for a week. My place is still REALLY messy but that's ok cause I have my computer omgomgomg finally. I still need to roam the internet a bit just to check connection speeds before I muster up the strength to play again. Does anyone know about any backup internet stuff? Let me know.

As for now, sigh, tax day is tomorrow and I'm shipping out a nice little sum that basically makes me wanna throw up on society. Well, I'm off to clean/unpack/put furniture in places. And then probably off myself cause of taxes lol.

To leave you thinking critically about something, check out this picture. It's a subway sandwich. I realized lately that every sandwich I've ever gotten from there (no matter what the sandwich it is) it always has something in common. What is wrong with this picture?

So Hectic

So today I am picking up the keys to the place and continue packing. Tomorrow is the actual move itself. It's exciting and exhausting at the same time - and the hard part hasn't even started yet. I won't say too much because I don't really have the time. But I want to share this video I found because I think it has a really good message.