Climbing the Ladder, Thanksgiving and Football

The last time I posted I was having a terrible downswing, but I have been climbing back up the ladder this week. I have pretty much wiped out all my losses for the month and I am feeling pretty good again. I am still playing $100NL and my online bankroll is getting back to where it needs to be so I can play comfortably. I have picked up about $400 in the past 3 days and it is really helping my confidence. I have been trying to play late night, when the action is much looser while I have been off work for the holiday and it has paid off, to say the least.

We had a pretty good Thanksgiving. I ate and slept way much, but I guess it is OK due to it being a holiday. We got up early on Thursday and sat Harper in front of the TV, and he watched the parades, while Ashley and I cooked some desserts for the Thanksgiving meal. We got over to the in-laws house and ate turkey, dressing and all the trimmings and then I proceeded to hit the hay for about an hour, and then we headed over to my sisters to have Thanksgiving supper with my family. We finally made it home at about 9pm and we all crashed for the night. Boy, was it a long day!!!

The Friday after Thanksgiving I usually always go to the casino to play some poker, but this year was different. I had originally planned to go to the Horseshoe-Bossier City with Landlord79, but unfortunately, the daycare we take Harper to was closed and I had no one to watch him. Harper and I ended up spending the entire day watching football and spending time with each other. We pretty much just flipped between the early games until the LSU vs. R-Kansas game came on. I know this may sound crazy, but I am not an LSU fan. Every time LSU is on TV you can bet that this guy is rooting for whoever is playing the Tigers. I was super excited that Arkansas upset them. I am always for anything that causes drama in college football, because this BCS crap must go. I am for a post-season playoff like every other sport in the world.

/end rant


My poker goal for this week is to get in at least 1K hands and hopefully pick up a couple buy-ins at $100NL.

Wish me luck.

Billy


Here is a couple of pictures of us at Thanksgiving:

Well what can I say? I have been pretty much stuck in reverse since the month started and it is not looking like things will be changing anytime soon. Since the end of October I have been on a 6 buy in downswing and my confidence is at an all time low. I have put in around ~2K hands at $100NL this month and I am stuck big time and it is only the middle of the month. I guess the good news is that I have almost two weeks of online play and I even have a “boat” trip planned for the Friday after Thanksgiving with Landlord79, so maybe I will be able to cut this downswing in half or maybe even turn a profit for the month. This downswing is probably the largest downswing that I have ever had to deal with and it is really not that big compared to the 15 BI downswings that I hear about on 2+2. I don’t know what I would do if I had to deal with one of those.

Since I am on a downswing and I was really never playing at the “suggested” bankroll for the stakes that I play, I tried to move down to $50NL, but it felt like I was playing for paper clips, so I am really pressing my luck playing $100NL on such a small online bankroll. I know that I can beat the $100NL games on Bodog and hopefully soon my results will show it.

Landlord79 and I started planning our trip to Tunica for the WPO and the WSOP events during January 2008 and we decided that we will be in Tunica Jan 16th – 19th, so if anyone will be there during that time hit us up. We will mostly be grinding the juicy NL cash games that are spread during the major tourneys and I will be playing in all the $175+$25 second chance tourneys at the Gold Strike.

I will post my online roll once I am not embarrassed. Let’s just say that the goal I set for myself probably is not going to happen unless I make a big score in a tourney. I just hope that I will have enough total roll to take a shot or two at the uncapped 2/5 NL game in Tunica during Jan08.


Good Luck everyone.

Billy


Oh this is how I feel:

October Results/November Goals

Well first of all I hardly played any online poker this month ~1.5K hands, but I did come out a winner and I didn’t accomplish any goals that I set for myself last month. I started out the month in a bad mood for some reason, but by the middle of October I told myself to quite being such a pansy, because my life at the moment couldn’t be any better. I mean I have a wonderful wife, a healthy baby, a good job, great friends and I even get to go to strip clubs on occasions!!!

I have had to use some of my live roll recently to purchase a laptop, so that I can do my two favorite things in life, play poker and spend time with my family, at the same time. A friend gave me a Dell E1505 laptop that he used before he threw it across and broke the screen after a bad beat. He offered me the laptop for free, so I took it and had to invest ~$300 into it to get it back working. I now have to get a wireless router for my house, so I can sit on the john and play poker. LUCKY ME!!!

My goals for November are to get in ~5K+ hands and to start playing $200NL on Bodog. I know I can beat the game, but I just need to get my online roll to where it needs to be so that I can take a couple shots.

This month I won $260 online and lost $215 live, so I am up a net of $45.







Good luck!

Billy


P.S. Here are some pictures...






And no I didn't pick out the costume.

BJJ

Landlord79 and I along with my buddy Ben, who is an online pro, made a Friday afternoon trip to play some live $1-$3NL at my home casino, Horseshoe - Bossier City. I now know what it feels like to be Landlord79 when he goes to the Boat with me. I am usually the one running hot, but he can now say that he possesses the luckbox.

Nice hat, sir!

We arrived at the ‘Shoe at about 2:30 and before we go in LL79 asks me if he could wear my lucky TwoRags.com hat that Edmond was so kind to send me and, of course, I obliged. If you’re a luckbox like me, who needs a so-called lucky hat, right? As I start walking to the table after buying my chips from the cashier I notice that LL79 already has a full buyin of $300 in the middle of the table and I haven’t even sat down yet. He gets KK on his first hand and wins about $100 before I can even bust out my iPod. I have never seen a guy look so happy in my life. I think he knew from this moment that this day would be a good one.

I never really got anything going while we were at the ‘Shoe. I was playing a very LAG game preflop and then I went to TAG post flop. I can only recall 3 hands from our very short session and they all happened back to back to back. An older fish, who is probably stuck ~$500 makes it $15 to go and I make it $45 straight with AK, everyone folds back to the old fish and he smooth calls. The flop is 925 rainbow and the fish auto pushes $143 into the pot and I have no choice but to fold my hand.

The next hand I pick up KK and open the pot for $20 straight, and of course everyone folds and I take down the nice $4 worth of blinds. WOHOOO!!!

Her first time

The very next hand I pick up QQ. The lady that LL79 mentions in his post makes it $15 to go from EP and I make it $45 straight, everyone folds back to the original raiser and she smooth calls. The flop is a lovely 3-3-5. She insta-pushes $82 into the pot and I am already thinking in my head what I should buy with her money. I can’t call quick enough and of course she turns over AA and says, “This is the first time that I have ever had these!” So in a span of 3 hands I picked up AKs, KK and QQ and I came out as a $169 loser. Boy, this game is fun.

Nice pot, LL79!

While I continue to try to win back my money that the fishies have now managed to spread around the table, I notice that LL79 is running goot and decimating the table. He is crushing the game and he actually gets 2 people all in drawing stone cold dead and wins one of the biggest pots that I have ever seen at a $1-$3NL game. Check out his trip report for details.

We end up leaving the ‘Shoe early so that we can get back home at a reasonable time. I ended up losing $215, mostly due to the AA vs. QQ hand. This is the first time since January (when LL79 and I started going to the casinos together) that I have came home a loser. I am anxiously waiting our return trip so I can get this monkey off my back.

Note to self: Don’t loan out your lucky hat to anyone again.

BJJIII

Ok well I have had a pretty good weekend. Poker wise, I won a little over 2.5 BIs at my bread and butter $100NL game on Bodog. I pretty much just played ABC and ended up hitting and running on Saturday morning and on Sunday afternoon. I played probably about 3 hours of poker this weekend and won close to $250. I would say that is a good hourly rate!!!!!!


My little boy Harper was 9 weeks old today and we actually took him to church for the first time since he was born. Everyone from church was super excited to see him.

Time to go watch the Sunday Night Game. I like Denver +4.5 if anyone cares.


Bodog roll= $1,350
Total roll = $2,350


WHO DAT!!!

Saints are on a roll, everyone better watch out.