Sunday, June 14, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
March is Ending
With March drawing to a close, the first quarter of 2009 is as well. It seems like time flies these days. In one of my previous blogs I said that I had been holding off writing a post because poker was going so well and I didn't want to mess with a good thing. With that being the case, there's no better time to make a post than now.
March started off around even for a while as I wasn't playing much, but in the last two weeks I've been playing a ton online with good results. I'll have to check, but this is one of my highest volume months ever (in terms of hands played). It was going well until today when I had one of my worst days online. For some reason I'm pretty Zen about it and I'm trying to figure out why. I never really get too upset about a bad day or week because I realize it's part of the gig, but I always feel somewhat negative about it.
Here's the reasons that I think I'm not bothered by today in no particular order:
1)A huge loss online is equal to a moderate loss live due to the different stakes that I play. Hence, the $ value is not new to me. I'd say the $ amount, but then everyone (myself included) would be saying "man, he could have bought ____with that,"etc.
2)I've had success the past couple weeks, so I'm still +$ for the past week
3)It's at the end of the month so I'll still have a + month (barely) and I'm not digging a whole as I would have done if I had this day on Apr 1. I realize that this shouldn't be a factor, but I guess it is mentally for me.
4)I had a good day otherwise. I played basketball, talked to some good people, hung out with my roommates, saw new pictures of my new nephew who is a dog and watched some good TV shows.
5)I put the day in perspective immediately which isn't always easy to do.
This post was kind of goofy, and I have a feeling that many of the sentences are poorly structured, but I'm not going to review it because no one reads this thing anyway. Also, I think I might use parentheses more than anyone who's ever written anything ever.
Until next time, have a good day, week, month, or however long it takes me to get back on here.
-Brian
March started off around even for a while as I wasn't playing much, but in the last two weeks I've been playing a ton online with good results. I'll have to check, but this is one of my highest volume months ever (in terms of hands played). It was going well until today when I had one of my worst days online. For some reason I'm pretty Zen about it and I'm trying to figure out why. I never really get too upset about a bad day or week because I realize it's part of the gig, but I always feel somewhat negative about it.
Here's the reasons that I think I'm not bothered by today in no particular order:
1)A huge loss online is equal to a moderate loss live due to the different stakes that I play. Hence, the $ value is not new to me. I'd say the $ amount, but then everyone (myself included) would be saying "man, he could have bought ____with that,"etc.
2)I've had success the past couple weeks, so I'm still +$ for the past week
3)It's at the end of the month so I'll still have a + month (barely) and I'm not digging a whole as I would have done if I had this day on Apr 1. I realize that this shouldn't be a factor, but I guess it is mentally for me.
4)I had a good day otherwise. I played basketball, talked to some good people, hung out with my roommates, saw new pictures of my new nephew who is a dog and watched some good TV shows.
5)I put the day in perspective immediately which isn't always easy to do.
This post was kind of goofy, and I have a feeling that many of the sentences are poorly structured, but I'm not going to review it because no one reads this thing anyway. Also, I think I might use parentheses more than anyone who's ever written anything ever.
Until next time, have a good day, week, month, or however long it takes me to get back on here.
-Brian
Friday, March 13, 2009
Informative Post (obviously I didn't write it)
I came across this blog that's about the banking industry and losing jobs etc. He write a very informative and accurate description of how the online poker industry works.
http://greenshootsministry.blogspot.com/
It's the March 5th post, in case he adds a new one. I've heard that can happen with blogs.
http://greenshootsministry.blogspot.com/
It's the March 5th post, in case he adds a new one. I've heard that can happen with blogs.
Monday, February 23, 2009
New Post
Since I've already made a post about how I'm a poor blogger, I don't need to discuss the fact that I haven't posted since Nov 3. I just thought of how the title of this post will be very misleading in a few weeks, but who knows I might surprise myself and make another new post in the near future.
The poker side of my life has been going very well over the past few months. In fact, I considered making blog posts a few times about how things are going well, but decided that I didn't want to flip the doom-switch on myself, so I refrained. I've been playing at Commerce probably about 2 times per week on average, and I'm putting together quite a run. I remember the first handful of times I played at Commerce I would see people putting together 5-figure days and I wondered how that was possible, but in the last few months I've found out that in definitely is possible. I've mainly been playing 10-20 blinds no-limit hold 'em, with the rest of my time there being spent in tournament (no success) and 10-20 pot-limit Omaha. That game is crazy and fun, and I did quite well in the few times I've played it there.
Of course I'm still playing online when I have the time, which has been going quite well.
One cool new thing that I've gotten into is coaching and staking online players. Actually, I only have one player right now, but I've been in contact with several others. For the coaching part, we use a program that allows me to see his screen and skype to talk, and we play and go through thought processes and whatnot. I coached this guy for 2 weeks with us sharing his profits 50/50 for anytime he played during that time period. I quickly found out that he was a very good player and trustworthy, so we arranged a staking deal. I won't get into much detail because it's complicated if you know nothing about this, but basically he plays with my money and we split the profits 50/50. It's been going for three weeks, and on the last three Mondays he's sent me $1100, $600, and today was $1400. That's pretty sweet for basically no work.
I've been spending quite a bit of time over the last couple weeks on a business venture that was brought to me by a college friend. I'm quite excited about it, but I don't think I should spill the beans right now because it has the potential to fall through at any time. If it looks like it's going to happen, I'll be sure to write about it in here (no promises), and even if it doesn't work out, I'll still probably write about it in here. It's already been very educational for me, and it will be even more in the coming week. I've always thought this to be true, but I could have taken 7000 business courses at Chapman, and I still wouldn't be fully prepared for real-life business. There's really no substitute for experience.
Some of you may know that there's a major situation in my life right now, but I will not be blogging about it. I'll save it for personal interactions.
I hope everyone is doing well. Until next time...
The poker side of my life has been going very well over the past few months. In fact, I considered making blog posts a few times about how things are going well, but decided that I didn't want to flip the doom-switch on myself, so I refrained. I've been playing at Commerce probably about 2 times per week on average, and I'm putting together quite a run. I remember the first handful of times I played at Commerce I would see people putting together 5-figure days and I wondered how that was possible, but in the last few months I've found out that in definitely is possible. I've mainly been playing 10-20 blinds no-limit hold 'em, with the rest of my time there being spent in tournament (no success) and 10-20 pot-limit Omaha. That game is crazy and fun, and I did quite well in the few times I've played it there.
Of course I'm still playing online when I have the time, which has been going quite well.
One cool new thing that I've gotten into is coaching and staking online players. Actually, I only have one player right now, but I've been in contact with several others. For the coaching part, we use a program that allows me to see his screen and skype to talk, and we play and go through thought processes and whatnot. I coached this guy for 2 weeks with us sharing his profits 50/50 for anytime he played during that time period. I quickly found out that he was a very good player and trustworthy, so we arranged a staking deal. I won't get into much detail because it's complicated if you know nothing about this, but basically he plays with my money and we split the profits 50/50. It's been going for three weeks, and on the last three Mondays he's sent me $1100, $600, and today was $1400. That's pretty sweet for basically no work.
I've been spending quite a bit of time over the last couple weeks on a business venture that was brought to me by a college friend. I'm quite excited about it, but I don't think I should spill the beans right now because it has the potential to fall through at any time. If it looks like it's going to happen, I'll be sure to write about it in here (no promises), and even if it doesn't work out, I'll still probably write about it in here. It's already been very educational for me, and it will be even more in the coming week. I've always thought this to be true, but I could have taken 7000 business courses at Chapman, and I still wouldn't be fully prepared for real-life business. There's really no substitute for experience.
Some of you may know that there's a major situation in my life right now, but I will not be blogging about it. I'll save it for personal interactions.
I hope everyone is doing well. Until next time...
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