I got a new puppy recently and they require as much or more work than a newborn baby.
I say more work since at least babies don't stare at you and shit in the corner 5 minutes after you stood outside with them for a half hour.
He's a cute dog, though. My girlfriend's choice. I'd have definitely picked a larger dog - he's a mix of Chihuahua and Shih Tzu but looks like neither of those. He looks like a Yellow Lab that will never weigh over 15-20 pounds.
I probably won't be able to do much volume at all until he's housetrained. I'm on a long-term work assignment in New Jersey and living in a small one bedroom apartment so I would be lighting money on fire to try and concentrate on MTT games while training a puppy and taking him outside every hour.
Instead I've been getting up at 5 AM to grind 90 Man KO's on Full Tilt and I've made money but not enough for me to continue doing this.
It's scary how fast my game is developing, though. I'm putting people on exact hands, finding good squeeze spots, etc. I know variance kicks in and you end up running into monsters now and then but a +EV spot will always be a +EV spot and once you identify them you become a dangerous player if you also know how to play post-flop.
I've made some sick hero calls and any time I get down to heads-up in a 90 Man I absolutely own the other person from start to end whether I have the chip lead or not.
The key is to remember when you get heads up the average person is very afraid to make a mistake within the first few hands so you should raise every button and 3-bet their button raises in the beginning to establish dominance. After that just play a good post-flop game in position and wear them down until they snap and spaz out with bottom or middle pair.
Easy game.
I kid. It's not easy. The second you get content there's some 19 year old kid with all the time in the world on his hands who passes you by because he's hungrier for it. You can't lose the hunger.
Once you do you may as well cash out and find a new hobby.
This isn't a game. It's war where gambling is involved. We all start with the same arsenal but it's the ones who march in a straight line who will always get cut down and never stand at the end.
Always have a plan for your hand. Ask yourself how you'll react to your opponent's possible actions. Ask yourself what he might hold. Ask yourself what he thinks you might hold. Or ask yourself if he even thinks that way. It's not hard to spot.
Remember the way ahead/way behind concept.
Remember to control the size of the pot whenever you can. Don't bluff when you rep really thin. Don't take a ridiculous pre-flop line with Aces and Kings. Don't lose your fold equity.
Good luck.
9.03.2010
8.19.2010
"Dr" Laura
Pretty sure this is the first time I've ever heard a white person with a radio show openly ask a black person why they shouldn't be allowed to say the n-word and argue why they should be allowed to in not so many words.
Not surprising then when this finally happened it was Dr. Laura. She's Rush Limbaugh with an older, less used vagina.
But first we need to step back and ask an important question: Why was this pigeonhead with an overpriced haircut still on the radio?
If I remember correctly, she gave herself the moniker of Dr. without there being any disclaimer that it was just for entertainment purposes. It wasn't until some reporter who hated went digging around that this came to be news. I'm sure whoever hired her in the first place knew it was bullshit and probably even came up with the idea, but misleading people like that is a scumbag move. She doesn't even give good advice so I guess shame on middle America as well for giving her words any credibility.
I digress ...
I heard the audio this morning and she's pretty damn racist.
My favorite part was probably right after the caller went over what was bothering her and why (she's married to a white dude and the white dude's friends and family make what she perceives to be racial remarks) and Dr. Laura immediately declared there is no racist undertones and then launched into a tangent about black people voting for Obama and why they did.
LOL WUT?
News flash, dip shit. This was the first time in the history of the country where a black person or a woman actually stood a real chance of becoming president.
I'd full expect every black person or woman in America to vote in a biased way solely because of this - and she acts surprised? Wow.
Pretty sure we've had more than our share of WASP fuck-ups so let someone else take a crack at it.
Back to the original question by the caller. As Dr. Laura, even if you personally don't agree that the comments or questions have racial undertones it's something very real to the caller which makes it an issue to discuss. She's not asking if it's racism. She's saying something bothers her and she's asking you, self-proclaimed know-it-all with a radio show, how to deal with it and talk it out, you fucking moron.
Apparently the husband's family and friends are making the woman feel like she needs to be the spokesperson for all black people everywhere by asking her what black people think of such and such etc. etc.
Huh? I really wanted to find out what those questions were.
So tell me... what do black people think of diversifying your portfolio by trading Options and Futures?
Can I ask you something? Do black people wonder why stopping the space program for 2 years hasn't been done yet even though it would erase our deficit and cure homelessness and unemployment?
I'm really curious.
Anyways.
Then Dr. Laura ended up telling the woman, "Don't go all NAACP on me." You stay classy, San Diego. The only way this call could have been more of a dumpster fire is if she kept throwing in the phrase "you people" when talking to the woman.
It seems like she was genuinely wondering why white people can't say the n-word and black people can.
Look, there are certain unwritten rules that we have to follow in this life.
1. No talking in the restroom. Ever.
2. When two women want you to say which one of them is right, always side with who will give you poon.
3. White people can not say the n-word.
It really comes down this. Why do you want to say it? When would you ever say it where it would be socially acceptable and not make everyone else uncomfortable? If Obama came on TV and said, "Ok, assholes. You win. We give up. Just say it from now one whenever you want to." In what situation to you run into a room thinking "Ooooooooooh here's my big chance! Finally, time to shine!"
Besides a Klan rally or in an internet forum, where you won't get your own asshole force fed to you.
The word has taken on such a hate filled, bigoted meaning that you should never want to say it or even want anyone else to say it no matter what the context.
In rap it's just a filler line for rappers who can't write worth a shit. Same thing in comedy. It'll get cheap laughs and takes no thought or creativity to write the material. Just say it loud and clear at the end of a worthless punchline to save the joke.
I'm sure all of this sounds funnier in my head but I've been wanting to write anything but poker content so a big thanks to this bobble-headed dunce for giving me the chance.
Not surprising then when this finally happened it was Dr. Laura. She's Rush Limbaugh with an older, less used vagina.
But first we need to step back and ask an important question: Why was this pigeonhead with an overpriced haircut still on the radio?
If I remember correctly, she gave herself the moniker of Dr. without there being any disclaimer that it was just for entertainment purposes. It wasn't until some reporter who hated went digging around that this came to be news. I'm sure whoever hired her in the first place knew it was bullshit and probably even came up with the idea, but misleading people like that is a scumbag move. She doesn't even give good advice so I guess shame on middle America as well for giving her words any credibility.
I digress ...
I heard the audio this morning and she's pretty damn racist.
My favorite part was probably right after the caller went over what was bothering her and why (she's married to a white dude and the white dude's friends and family make what she perceives to be racial remarks) and Dr. Laura immediately declared there is no racist undertones and then launched into a tangent about black people voting for Obama and why they did.
LOL WUT?
News flash, dip shit. This was the first time in the history of the country where a black person or a woman actually stood a real chance of becoming president.
I'd full expect every black person or woman in America to vote in a biased way solely because of this - and she acts surprised? Wow.
Pretty sure we've had more than our share of WASP fuck-ups so let someone else take a crack at it.
Back to the original question by the caller. As Dr. Laura, even if you personally don't agree that the comments or questions have racial undertones it's something very real to the caller which makes it an issue to discuss. She's not asking if it's racism. She's saying something bothers her and she's asking you, self-proclaimed know-it-all with a radio show, how to deal with it and talk it out, you fucking moron.
Apparently the husband's family and friends are making the woman feel like she needs to be the spokesperson for all black people everywhere by asking her what black people think of such and such etc. etc.
Huh? I really wanted to find out what those questions were.
So tell me... what do black people think of diversifying your portfolio by trading Options and Futures?
Can I ask you something? Do black people wonder why stopping the space program for 2 years hasn't been done yet even though it would erase our deficit and cure homelessness and unemployment?
I'm really curious.
Anyways.
Then Dr. Laura ended up telling the woman, "Don't go all NAACP on me." You stay classy, San Diego. The only way this call could have been more of a dumpster fire is if she kept throwing in the phrase "you people" when talking to the woman.
It seems like she was genuinely wondering why white people can't say the n-word and black people can.
Look, there are certain unwritten rules that we have to follow in this life.
1. No talking in the restroom. Ever.
2. When two women want you to say which one of them is right, always side with who will give you poon.
3. White people can not say the n-word.
It really comes down this. Why do you want to say it? When would you ever say it where it would be socially acceptable and not make everyone else uncomfortable? If Obama came on TV and said, "Ok, assholes. You win. We give up. Just say it from now one whenever you want to." In what situation to you run into a room thinking "Ooooooooooh here's my big chance! Finally, time to shine!"
Besides a Klan rally or in an internet forum, where you won't get your own asshole force fed to you.
The word has taken on such a hate filled, bigoted meaning that you should never want to say it or even want anyone else to say it no matter what the context.
In rap it's just a filler line for rappers who can't write worth a shit. Same thing in comedy. It'll get cheap laughs and takes no thought or creativity to write the material. Just say it loud and clear at the end of a worthless punchline to save the joke.
I'm sure all of this sounds funnier in my head but I've been wanting to write anything but poker content so a big thanks to this bobble-headed dunce for giving me the chance.
So Close Yet So Far
Daily Double A: 10th Place
Daily Double B: 40th Place
I received an extra $40 for the double cash and thought I had a chance at the bonus for best combined results but some other prick beat me with a Final Table appearance in one of them.
It sucks, because I lost KK to QQ in the Double A and lost JJ to AQ in the Double B so I could have done so much better.
Last week something just clicked for me. Tournament poker makes so much more sense now. I'm adapting to gameflow and taking better notes. I'm making moves where I didn't make moves before and they are working more times than they are failing.
The rest of 2010 will be profitable.
2011 will be the nuts.
Daily Double B: 40th Place
I received an extra $40 for the double cash and thought I had a chance at the bonus for best combined results but some other prick beat me with a Final Table appearance in one of them.
It sucks, because I lost KK to QQ in the Double A and lost JJ to AQ in the Double B so I could have done so much better.
Last week something just clicked for me. Tournament poker makes so much more sense now. I'm adapting to gameflow and taking better notes. I'm making moves where I didn't make moves before and they are working more times than they are failing.
The rest of 2010 will be profitable.
2011 will be the nuts.
8.02.2010
A Couple Of "Almosts" and Cash Talk
MTTs
I played around 8 MTT's Sunday and cashed in 6. Of those, one was a Final Table 8th place and another was a 12th place. The rest were middle of the road cashes. Then I picked up a buy-in grinding 600 hands of 50 NL so all in all not a bad little day.
I'm starting to be content with these deeper finishes instead of going on life tilt which is nice. My girlfriend will appreciate me getting bette at that, too.
I've been playing a lot on Absolute Poker. I deposited $50 a couple weeks ago and my bankroll is sitting around $310 now with $75 in rakeback payments pending. My cash game play has been up and down say the least.
Cash
50 NL has so many call stations. This means you need the balls to two barrel and three barrel bluff. They'll be calling like 80% of flop c-bets and maybe rightfully so. This means you need to pay special attention to their Turn and River fold percentages. Weak-Passive fish will call tons of flops with improper drawing odds but since they are weak they will not go all the way to showdown unless it's a very special type of fish, and these ones you simply value bet and never bluff.
This also means you should polarize your 3 betting hands to just your strong hands. No need to do anything else against Level 1 and Level 2 players.
Bluffing
Ok, so Harrington On Hold Em got everyone thinking about how most flops miss both players and usually the person who takes the lead wins the pot, right? Still holds true but now that everyone knows this you don't win as much on the flop anymore.
TAG style dictates raising your good hands, c-betting 100%, and shutting down on the Turn if you still fail to have a hand. You'll lose a lot of money to weak/passive fish this way and I'm sure you will still profit long-term but at a reduced rate.
Oh hai Two Barrel Bluff.
The best flops to bluff are dry flops like K 2 7 rainbow which contains one "scare card" and two other cards unlikely to hit your opponent. If you bet this flop and get called you can start narrowing down your opponent's range. He could float with A high. He could have a weakish K. He could have a medium pair. Hands like QT and 9T are likely to just fold to the c-bet.
When the Turn comes, the best cards to bluff at are other scare cards that don't complete draws. In this case you can safely fire and 2nd barrel and shut down if called.
Conversely, wet flops are bad to bluff since they can hit your opponent's range hard. A flop like 6c 7c 8h is never seeing a c-bet from me when I hold a hand like AdQd because I'm creating a large pot with no redraw and quite possibly already crushed in the hand.
Three Barrel Bluffs are very read dependent. Often you'll try them on a flop like As 4h 5h where your opponent just calls the c-bet. Then a card like 9s comes on the Turn and you fire again. When the river brings something like Qd you can try a three barrel bluff if you think your opponent is holding 67 or a busted heart draw.
Again, read dependent and you want the opponent to have a high River fold percentage. Otherwise you're just spewing chips.
I never gave an example of what we hold here. With a hand like a medium pair I will three barrel. Same with JT, etc. and hands you can only win with by bluffing.
With a baby Ace or a Queen I have showdown value and so I will just check back on the river instead of firing a third shell. Often times your Q will be good and sometimes you will lose to a baby Ace that was scare to ever raise you, but at least you saved money by not firing the third bullet.
50 NL Strategy
Basically, it's this:
Open only good hands in EP. Flat a lot of speculative hands on the button. Only 3 bet my strong hands. Larger 3 bet when playing from the blinds as I'll be out of position in the hand. C-bet most flops. Identify players who fold lots of Turns and 2 Barrel Bluff them. Otherwise play ABC TAG poker.
So far so good but I catch myself calling too much some times. These weak players will never two barrel you light so it's important to be able to release marginal hands like 2nd and 3rd pair.
That's it for now. Good luck at the tables.
I played around 8 MTT's Sunday and cashed in 6. Of those, one was a Final Table 8th place and another was a 12th place. The rest were middle of the road cashes. Then I picked up a buy-in grinding 600 hands of 50 NL so all in all not a bad little day.
I'm starting to be content with these deeper finishes instead of going on life tilt which is nice. My girlfriend will appreciate me getting bette at that, too.
I've been playing a lot on Absolute Poker. I deposited $50 a couple weeks ago and my bankroll is sitting around $310 now with $75 in rakeback payments pending. My cash game play has been up and down say the least.
Cash
50 NL has so many call stations. This means you need the balls to two barrel and three barrel bluff. They'll be calling like 80% of flop c-bets and maybe rightfully so. This means you need to pay special attention to their Turn and River fold percentages. Weak-Passive fish will call tons of flops with improper drawing odds but since they are weak they will not go all the way to showdown unless it's a very special type of fish, and these ones you simply value bet and never bluff.
This also means you should polarize your 3 betting hands to just your strong hands. No need to do anything else against Level 1 and Level 2 players.
Bluffing
Ok, so Harrington On Hold Em got everyone thinking about how most flops miss both players and usually the person who takes the lead wins the pot, right? Still holds true but now that everyone knows this you don't win as much on the flop anymore.
TAG style dictates raising your good hands, c-betting 100%, and shutting down on the Turn if you still fail to have a hand. You'll lose a lot of money to weak/passive fish this way and I'm sure you will still profit long-term but at a reduced rate.
Oh hai Two Barrel Bluff.
The best flops to bluff are dry flops like K 2 7 rainbow which contains one "scare card" and two other cards unlikely to hit your opponent. If you bet this flop and get called you can start narrowing down your opponent's range. He could float with A high. He could have a weakish K. He could have a medium pair. Hands like QT and 9T are likely to just fold to the c-bet.
When the Turn comes, the best cards to bluff at are other scare cards that don't complete draws. In this case you can safely fire and 2nd barrel and shut down if called.
Conversely, wet flops are bad to bluff since they can hit your opponent's range hard. A flop like 6c 7c 8h is never seeing a c-bet from me when I hold a hand like AdQd because I'm creating a large pot with no redraw and quite possibly already crushed in the hand.
Three Barrel Bluffs are very read dependent. Often you'll try them on a flop like As 4h 5h where your opponent just calls the c-bet. Then a card like 9s comes on the Turn and you fire again. When the river brings something like Qd you can try a three barrel bluff if you think your opponent is holding 67 or a busted heart draw.
Again, read dependent and you want the opponent to have a high River fold percentage. Otherwise you're just spewing chips.
I never gave an example of what we hold here. With a hand like a medium pair I will three barrel. Same with JT, etc. and hands you can only win with by bluffing.
With a baby Ace or a Queen I have showdown value and so I will just check back on the river instead of firing a third shell. Often times your Q will be good and sometimes you will lose to a baby Ace that was scare to ever raise you, but at least you saved money by not firing the third bullet.
50 NL Strategy
Basically, it's this:
Open only good hands in EP. Flat a lot of speculative hands on the button. Only 3 bet my strong hands. Larger 3 bet when playing from the blinds as I'll be out of position in the hand. C-bet most flops. Identify players who fold lots of Turns and 2 Barrel Bluff them. Otherwise play ABC TAG poker.
So far so good but I catch myself calling too much some times. These weak players will never two barrel you light so it's important to be able to release marginal hands like 2nd and 3rd pair.
That's it for now. Good luck at the tables.
7.28.2010
Update
I've been mostly playing on Absolute Poker lately, splitting my time between cash games of 50 NL 6 Max and MTT's $20 and below. The cash games have been profitable and I'm also getting 30% rakeback through raketherake.com
My ROI between SnG's and MTT's is somewhere around 50% right now. It should be much higher but I played a $50 MTT and $30 MTT and failed to cash in each and my volume is still quite low - under 40 games played. I've made a couple Final Tables in smaller MTT's but have not been able to get higher than 6th.
I felt like I played very bad in one of them and I took two brutal bad beats in the other one. With small fields and soft play I'm not worried at all about my future results there.
That's basically why I haven't posted much. I've been running decently and playing very well and I don't like to make semi-brag posts. I also don't like to make bad beat posts.
The plan now is to go back to Boston this weekend and get my PC to bring down to NJ. From there I'll buy a second monitor and get to work on a pro set up. I want HEM, Table Ninja, the second monitor, and a comfy chair.
I work until about 8 PM most days right now so I plan on being on more of a morning cash game schedule - waking up around 6 AM to play the donks and the tired and take their coin. MTT's will have to wait until Sundays but I'd also like to add Wednesday to that because Wednesday is the new Sunday.
That's it for now. I plan on writing a smallish strat post about playing MTT's according to stack size pretty soon.
Good luck on the tables.
My ROI between SnG's and MTT's is somewhere around 50% right now. It should be much higher but I played a $50 MTT and $30 MTT and failed to cash in each and my volume is still quite low - under 40 games played. I've made a couple Final Tables in smaller MTT's but have not been able to get higher than 6th.
I felt like I played very bad in one of them and I took two brutal bad beats in the other one. With small fields and soft play I'm not worried at all about my future results there.
That's basically why I haven't posted much. I've been running decently and playing very well and I don't like to make semi-brag posts. I also don't like to make bad beat posts.
The plan now is to go back to Boston this weekend and get my PC to bring down to NJ. From there I'll buy a second monitor and get to work on a pro set up. I want HEM, Table Ninja, the second monitor, and a comfy chair.
I work until about 8 PM most days right now so I plan on being on more of a morning cash game schedule - waking up around 6 AM to play the donks and the tired and take their coin. MTT's will have to wait until Sundays but I'd also like to add Wednesday to that because Wednesday is the new Sunday.
That's it for now. I plan on writing a smallish strat post about playing MTT's according to stack size pretty soon.
Good luck on the tables.
7.16.2010
Slow News Day
I haven't been playing a hell of a lot lately. I'm working late hours so going home and playing the late night MTT's while tired is -EV.
I moved some cash to Absolute Poker and will be ramping up that balance each month for sure. Decent MTT schedule, soft cash games, and 30% rakeback make it appealing to me.
I made the Final Table of a $2,000 Guaranteed MTT but busted 7th due to entering as the short stack and being sandwiched between the two chipleaders.
I also finished 10th in a 4 Max MTT so things have been picking up. Small fields and prize pools but I'm showing profit and that's all that counts for now.
Cash is going well. I stacked a couple people in 100 NL last night by coolering them. Then another guy kept firing at me when I flopped a set and all he had was 2nd pair and a gutshot.
Will probably play a light schedule tonight and take the weekend off because I'm driving from New Jersey to Boston around 4 AM tomorrow and spending the weekend back there with my girlfriend and her family.
The plan is to get my PC set up in NJ and use a dual monitor set up to play 8 tables of 100 NL on days where I won't be playing MTT's. Sundays and probably Wednesdays will be my MTT days. Cash games the rest of the way.
I moved some cash to Absolute Poker and will be ramping up that balance each month for sure. Decent MTT schedule, soft cash games, and 30% rakeback make it appealing to me.
I made the Final Table of a $2,000 Guaranteed MTT but busted 7th due to entering as the short stack and being sandwiched between the two chipleaders.
I also finished 10th in a 4 Max MTT so things have been picking up. Small fields and prize pools but I'm showing profit and that's all that counts for now.
Cash is going well. I stacked a couple people in 100 NL last night by coolering them. Then another guy kept firing at me when I flopped a set and all he had was 2nd pair and a gutshot.
Will probably play a light schedule tonight and take the weekend off because I'm driving from New Jersey to Boston around 4 AM tomorrow and spending the weekend back there with my girlfriend and her family.
The plan is to get my PC set up in NJ and use a dual monitor set up to play 8 tables of 100 NL on days where I won't be playing MTT's. Sundays and probably Wednesdays will be my MTT days. Cash games the rest of the way.
7.12.2010
Sundayments
I need to migrate to another poker site. Twice yesterday I played micro MTT's for $5 buy-ins and made it down to the final 40 from fields of over 1500 only to lose in brutal fashion in each.
Busto Hand 1:
30 left of about 1800. Blinds are 2000/4000 with antes and I get QQ UTG. I make it 8250 and get 2 callers from MP. We all have 25-30 bb stacks. I'm readless since I just changed tables.
Flop 2d 3s 6c. I can play it a couple ways. I can c-bet around 40% pot here with the intention of calling an all-in or I can check to see if either of them take a stab. I elect to check since it's unlikely that this board hit either of them unless they flopped a set in which case they didn't have proper odds to set mine making it a poor flat call.
The first chimp also checks but the second chimp bets 30% pot and it feels like a really weak bet. I don't feel like flatting here OOP though so I stick in a decent check-raise. Chimp 1 folds and Chimp 2 instacalls. Second sign of weakness. Anyone with a real hand needs time to think there.
The Turn pairs the board, bringing another 3. My stack size is now such that an all-in here on the Turn is my move.
Starting Stack: 118k
Raise pre to 8250 (110k)
Check-Raise to 35k on flop after he bet 10k (75k)
When he flatted my check-raise the pot became about 72k and my stack was around 75k making it the perfect spot - I sized my CR on purpose this way.
I shove and he snap calls with 5h6h.
River: 4x
Seriously? Wow. I guess he knew it was coming. Clownbox. Way to get your whole stack in on the Turn drawing to 6 outs. Another lifetime negative ROI player uses my #Runbad to his advantage.
Busto Hand 2: This one was a lot more standard for me. I get it all-in pre with KK against AJ and my opponent flops trip Jacks. 80bb pot. Yep, you guessed it - another negative ROI player sucks out hard against me.
I'm going to gather up all these players and put them to work in the red light district to make me some damn money since they're so good at sucking.
Back to the grind.
Busto Hand 1:
30 left of about 1800. Blinds are 2000/4000 with antes and I get QQ UTG. I make it 8250 and get 2 callers from MP. We all have 25-30 bb stacks. I'm readless since I just changed tables.
Flop 2d 3s 6c. I can play it a couple ways. I can c-bet around 40% pot here with the intention of calling an all-in or I can check to see if either of them take a stab. I elect to check since it's unlikely that this board hit either of them unless they flopped a set in which case they didn't have proper odds to set mine making it a poor flat call.
The first chimp also checks but the second chimp bets 30% pot and it feels like a really weak bet. I don't feel like flatting here OOP though so I stick in a decent check-raise. Chimp 1 folds and Chimp 2 instacalls. Second sign of weakness. Anyone with a real hand needs time to think there.
The Turn pairs the board, bringing another 3. My stack size is now such that an all-in here on the Turn is my move.
Starting Stack: 118k
Raise pre to 8250 (110k)
Check-Raise to 35k on flop after he bet 10k (75k)
When he flatted my check-raise the pot became about 72k and my stack was around 75k making it the perfect spot - I sized my CR on purpose this way.
I shove and he snap calls with 5h6h.
River: 4x
Seriously? Wow. I guess he knew it was coming. Clownbox. Way to get your whole stack in on the Turn drawing to 6 outs. Another lifetime negative ROI player uses my #Runbad to his advantage.
Busto Hand 2: This one was a lot more standard for me. I get it all-in pre with KK against AJ and my opponent flops trip Jacks. 80bb pot. Yep, you guessed it - another negative ROI player sucks out hard against me.
I'm going to gather up all these players and put them to work in the red light district to make me some damn money since they're so good at sucking.
Back to the grind.
7.07.2010
Eric Aude Is A Funny Dude
From his blog:
I meet a few interesting characters like this chick who played Jan on the Brady Bunch movie, whose married, but keeps hinting that she wants me to perform oral sex on her, and I outlast 75 percent of the field. 3 tables left, I’ve a little over 38k when I’ve got KK. Finally, jesus christ, a fucking hand. Some clueless cockfuck makes it 6k. I call. I never go all in with this fucking hand. Nasa did a study a few years back on the affects of pocket Kings in Zero Gravity. They concluded a fucking ace will still come out on the flop. So I just call. Heads up, the flop is 555, he continuation bets 6k, i move all in, he instant calls with AK. Turns a Q, rivers a fucking 5. God Damn Poker man. That’s fucking normal. I’m going bowling.
7.01.2010
Truckin' Along
I had a decent score last night relative to the buy-in. I've been playing the $1+R nightly turbo on PokerStars because it has excellent value. 1st place ends up being around $1600-1800. I took 5th for about $500.
One thing I definitely need to do more is defend my big blind later in tournaments. As a medium stack you can exploit other medium stacks who raise any two cards in late position by jamming and making it impossible for them to call with a strong holding which they'll very rarely show up with.
I'm not sure how to treat my small blind. I suppose you can also defend in a similar way but tighten your range slightly because of the extra player to act behind. Having reads on your opponents goes without saying.
I'm not going to monkey jam against a rock who hasn't shown many steal attempts. I will start jamming any Ace and a lot of other hands against the looser players. Not only will you often scoop the pot but you'll put it in their heads that you defend your blind so they'll be less apt to raise completely wide in a lot of cases.
I defended my big blind a lot last night in the Turbo out of pure necessity and noticed how often they simply folded so I'll be working this into my game as well.
A big part of me is adverse to busting trying to make a move but I'm sure that's partially limiting my results, too. The trick is to balance it all out and not overcompensate by suddenly playing like a maniac (or playing like a total nit if your leak is playing too loose). Like a lot of other things, poker is often a game of small adjustments. You need to identify what works for you and then put in every effort to perfect it.
Right now I'm favoring my small ball counterpunching strategy where I get opponents to spaz shove against me. I've tried running over tables but not enough people have a fold button at the lower stakes.
One thing I definitely need to do more is defend my big blind later in tournaments. As a medium stack you can exploit other medium stacks who raise any two cards in late position by jamming and making it impossible for them to call with a strong holding which they'll very rarely show up with.
I'm not sure how to treat my small blind. I suppose you can also defend in a similar way but tighten your range slightly because of the extra player to act behind. Having reads on your opponents goes without saying.
I'm not going to monkey jam against a rock who hasn't shown many steal attempts. I will start jamming any Ace and a lot of other hands against the looser players. Not only will you often scoop the pot but you'll put it in their heads that you defend your blind so they'll be less apt to raise completely wide in a lot of cases.
I defended my big blind a lot last night in the Turbo out of pure necessity and noticed how often they simply folded so I'll be working this into my game as well.
A big part of me is adverse to busting trying to make a move but I'm sure that's partially limiting my results, too. The trick is to balance it all out and not overcompensate by suddenly playing like a maniac (or playing like a total nit if your leak is playing too loose). Like a lot of other things, poker is often a game of small adjustments. You need to identify what works for you and then put in every effort to perfect it.
Right now I'm favoring my small ball counterpunching strategy where I get opponents to spaz shove against me. I've tried running over tables but not enough people have a fold button at the lower stakes.
6.30.2010
Jimmy Fricke Is Awesome
Regarding Darvin Moon:
I don't think it's more like we're angry that he isn't doing these things for poker. I think we're more angry that we feel that he doesn't deserve what he has done so far.
People in poker have this thing where they believe that anyone worse than them doesn't deserve any results whatsoever and anyone better than them deserves many more results than they already have.
And poker isn't like that. Poker means that you're going to be losing a lot of things where you got the money in ahead and winning lots of things where you got the money in behind. And if you're playing bad you can win and if you're playing good you can lose.
6.29.2010
@%%*& !!! A Strategy Post!
This blog is approaching one year old. I had no idea. Thanks to all who have read and commented along the way.
I realize this blog started to slowly degenerate into a collection of bad beat stories - I'll be making sure that changes.
I digress.
Last night I played well and didn't make a single dollar in profit but I did make strides in improving my game. I was able to ramp up my aggression at the tables and build a table image I wanted. I was selectively 3-betting people and rarely getting 4-bet. I took full advantage of donks looking to min-cash and avoid bubbling (note: Unless you're playing $20 buy-ins or higher there really is no bubble to speak of. No one cares about min-cashing for $8).
I broke even for the night by finishing 3rd in a $4 180 Man MTT and busted on a cooler hand (ran AKs into KK three handed. Awesome!).
My MTT strategy seems to be paying dividends already. I'm making more deep runs and when I bust I can safely say it is very rarely due to making a poor decision.
I've been flatting my whole range before the antes kick in and I've been raising 3x early and 2.2 - 2.4x once antes start getting higher. From LP with a good hand I'll make it more like 2.7 - 3x to see if I can make these look like pure steal attempts and induce people to spaz out and jam from the SB or BB very light.
I've also been limp/shoving hands like JJ and QQ if I limp in MP and the Button bumps it up. I've been called as light as 44 in spots like this because you just don't see that type of play very often. When people get caught off guard their first instinct is to just monkey shove their whole pile for fear of being bluffed.
I haven't needed to bluff all that often lately and I haven't needed to get into many coinflips, either. The next thing I need to work on is reaching showdown a lot less but I think this is more a function of them not having a fold button at the low stakes than me doing something wrong.
It's important to remember that in MTT's unless you have the nizzles you really don't want to screw around and simply give people slightly the worst of it for calling odds. You want to win the pot on the turn as many times as possible and with onine structures this often means sizing your pre-flop and flop bets such that the only action you can take on the turn is to jam against them.
If you don't size your bets correctly you're going to have a very awkward stack and no fold equity on a lot of rivers and then it's usually incorrect for your opponent to fold to another bet because the pot has gotten so large.
Keep your pots small and play in position as much as possible. Make sure you're the one who's making the decision to grow the pot size and then manage your stack properly.
I know my results will come. I've been playing far too good for them not to. It's just a matter of time and playing against smaller fields.
I realize this blog started to slowly degenerate into a collection of bad beat stories - I'll be making sure that changes.
I digress.
Last night I played well and didn't make a single dollar in profit but I did make strides in improving my game. I was able to ramp up my aggression at the tables and build a table image I wanted. I was selectively 3-betting people and rarely getting 4-bet. I took full advantage of donks looking to min-cash and avoid bubbling (note: Unless you're playing $20 buy-ins or higher there really is no bubble to speak of. No one cares about min-cashing for $8).
I broke even for the night by finishing 3rd in a $4 180 Man MTT and busted on a cooler hand (ran AKs into KK three handed. Awesome!).
My MTT strategy seems to be paying dividends already. I'm making more deep runs and when I bust I can safely say it is very rarely due to making a poor decision.
I've been flatting my whole range before the antes kick in and I've been raising 3x early and 2.2 - 2.4x once antes start getting higher. From LP with a good hand I'll make it more like 2.7 - 3x to see if I can make these look like pure steal attempts and induce people to spaz out and jam from the SB or BB very light.
I've also been limp/shoving hands like JJ and QQ if I limp in MP and the Button bumps it up. I've been called as light as 44 in spots like this because you just don't see that type of play very often. When people get caught off guard their first instinct is to just monkey shove their whole pile for fear of being bluffed.
I haven't needed to bluff all that often lately and I haven't needed to get into many coinflips, either. The next thing I need to work on is reaching showdown a lot less but I think this is more a function of them not having a fold button at the low stakes than me doing something wrong.
It's important to remember that in MTT's unless you have the nizzles you really don't want to screw around and simply give people slightly the worst of it for calling odds. You want to win the pot on the turn as many times as possible and with onine structures this often means sizing your pre-flop and flop bets such that the only action you can take on the turn is to jam against them.
If you don't size your bets correctly you're going to have a very awkward stack and no fold equity on a lot of rivers and then it's usually incorrect for your opponent to fold to another bet because the pot has gotten so large.
Keep your pots small and play in position as much as possible. Make sure you're the one who's making the decision to grow the pot size and then manage your stack properly.
I know my results will come. I've been playing far too good for them not to. It's just a matter of time and playing against smaller fields.
6.28.2010
$$$ and Frustration
I might have to suck it up and put a lot more money online. Playing these large field $5 and $10 donkaments are brutal. I can maintain my concentration throughout but you need to get lucky in so many spots to make deep run and even then you can play for 6 hours to make $60. No thanks.
I'll probably ramp up the bankroll and stop playing everything below a $20 entry fee soon except for the $8 rebuy and $10 rebuy MTT's and a very select few MTT's such as the $11 2R1A which has excellent value and deep play.
There's also not much point in me grinding 50 nl and 100 nl cash which I can beat easily when I could just as well move more cash online and play 200 nl before moving back up to 400 nl and 600 nl where I used to play regularly. I'm sure the games are much harder than they were three years ago but as long as there are cards and computers in this world there will be fish.
And I will find them. Screw trading button 3-bets with regs - I'll be content playing the worst people in the world for the rest of my life.
I'll probably ramp up the bankroll and stop playing everything below a $20 entry fee soon except for the $8 rebuy and $10 rebuy MTT's and a very select few MTT's such as the $11 2R1A which has excellent value and deep play.
There's also not much point in me grinding 50 nl and 100 nl cash which I can beat easily when I could just as well move more cash online and play 200 nl before moving back up to 400 nl and 600 nl where I used to play regularly. I'm sure the games are much harder than they were three years ago but as long as there are cards and computers in this world there will be fish.
And I will find them. Screw trading button 3-bets with regs - I'll be content playing the worst people in the world for the rest of my life.
6.23.2010
Boomswitch Me
This is when you know you're running well.
$100 NL 6 Max
Hero is UTG. Villain is BB.
Hero: $88
Villain: $141
Hero raises to $4 with KK
All folds to BB
BB calls $3
Flop: Qd 4h 2h
BB checks
Hero bets $6.50
Villain check-raises me all-in here. My first thought was that he had something like JhTh, KQ, or AQ by the way he'd been playing. I decided that I'm ahead of his range with with less than 90 bb's I'm not folding anyway.
Of course he has pocket 2's and decides to check-jam which isn't that bad of a line if you feel like your opponent is only raising and c-betting strong hands. This line sucks against me, though, because I play LAG and I'd have taken the same line with hands like 46s, 77, etc. and I will 2 barrel a lot of boards that have draws.
Anyways, the turn and river were the case Kings to give me quads.
<3 PokerStars, haha.
$100 NL 6 Max
Hero is UTG. Villain is BB.
Hero: $88
Villain: $141
Hero raises to $4 with KK
All folds to BB
BB calls $3
Flop: Qd 4h 2h
BB checks
Hero bets $6.50
Villain check-raises me all-in here. My first thought was that he had something like JhTh, KQ, or AQ by the way he'd been playing. I decided that I'm ahead of his range with with less than 90 bb's I'm not folding anyway.
Of course he has pocket 2's and decides to check-jam which isn't that bad of a line if you feel like your opponent is only raising and c-betting strong hands. This line sucks against me, though, because I play LAG and I'd have taken the same line with hands like 46s, 77, etc. and I will 2 barrel a lot of boards that have draws.
Anyways, the turn and river were the case Kings to give me quads.
<3 PokerStars, haha.
6.22.2010
Better.
Using my new MTT strategy I felt like I managed to accumulate more chips and control my stack better. Here are a couple examples of hands where the new strategy seemed to benefit me.
I was able to flat AK three times in position and two of the three yielded positive results.
Once I flatted an MP open from the Button and the BB shipped 15 blinds. MP folded and I called and had the BB's AJo dominated.
I flatted AK again from the Hijack seat against an EP open and stacked his KQ on a H high flop.
The third situation I flatted from late position but whiffed the flop and folded to a c-bet on a very coordinated board.
In both instances where I chipped up I think a 3-bet would make everyone fold.
I also managed to 3-bet fairly often when blinds kicked in with my suited connectors, big hands, and a couple junk hands. Only twice was I re-popped. In all other situations I was either flatted by someone playing the rest of the hand out of position or everyone folded.
Medium Aces are good hands to 3-bet - they're near the top of your folding range and you have a blocker card which makes it less likely that your opponent's hand contains an Ace. I was also 3-betting my medium pairs. You don't flop sets often enough to flat, jamming is too spewy, and folding is too weak. With very deep stacks I'll flat but you're rarely in a spot with both of you are 50 bb's deep or more online once you get out of the early stages of the tournament.
3-betting hands like 77 and 99 either win me the pot without seeing a flop or I'll be jammed over the top and feel pretty good about folding. There's nothing worse than flatting with 99 and seeing the flop come 7 high, then getting it in against a couple Queens or some other hand that has you crushed.
I played 5 MTT's last night and cashed in 3 of them. 2 of those were pretty deep runs in which I got down to 50 players or less from fields of 1000+ players.
This is encouraging.
I was able to flat AK three times in position and two of the three yielded positive results.
Once I flatted an MP open from the Button and the BB shipped 15 blinds. MP folded and I called and had the BB's AJo dominated.
I flatted AK again from the Hijack seat against an EP open and stacked his KQ on a H high flop.
The third situation I flatted from late position but whiffed the flop and folded to a c-bet on a very coordinated board.
In both instances where I chipped up I think a 3-bet would make everyone fold.
I also managed to 3-bet fairly often when blinds kicked in with my suited connectors, big hands, and a couple junk hands. Only twice was I re-popped. In all other situations I was either flatted by someone playing the rest of the hand out of position or everyone folded.
Medium Aces are good hands to 3-bet - they're near the top of your folding range and you have a blocker card which makes it less likely that your opponent's hand contains an Ace. I was also 3-betting my medium pairs. You don't flop sets often enough to flat, jamming is too spewy, and folding is too weak. With very deep stacks I'll flat but you're rarely in a spot with both of you are 50 bb's deep or more online once you get out of the early stages of the tournament.
3-betting hands like 77 and 99 either win me the pot without seeing a flop or I'll be jammed over the top and feel pretty good about folding. There's nothing worse than flatting with 99 and seeing the flop come 7 high, then getting it in against a couple Queens or some other hand that has you crushed.
I played 5 MTT's last night and cashed in 3 of them. 2 of those were pretty deep runs in which I got down to 50 players or less from fields of 1000+ players.
This is encouraging.
6.18.2010
MTT Strat
I think I'm going with this basic formula for a while.
1. Flat my whole range pre-flop before the antes kick in - caveat being if it's a multiway pot and I want to get some people out of the hand
If you 3-bet AK when stacks are still fairly deep you're probably not getting any action by hands like AT, AJ, and AQ but if you flat in position you can own their souls when an Ace flops.
2. 3-bet way more often once antes kick in
I feel like you probably need at least 30 bb's to do so and hands you should be 3 betting are your monsters, the top of your folding range, and random trash hands mixed in to balance our your range.
The top of your folding range is an important one. I like to 3-bet with blocker cards like an Ace or King because it makes it less likely that the original raiser contains one in his hand. You'd never want to flat with A6s but you could 3-bet and fold out lots of loose raises like JT, small pairs, KJ, A8, A9, etc.
3. Play more of a counterpunching game
This goes hand in hand with number two on the list. No one has a fold button anymore. You can't c-bet a raggy board and fold out two overs, Ace high, etc. I'd much rather limp a middle pair and play a small pot than try to raise and c-bet to get a fold out of anyone these days.
I want a lot of my game to be three betting from late position and only open raising strong hands. I think my results could take a drastic uptick if I have normal variance.
I've been listening to guys like Carter King, Brian Devonshire, and Jimmy Fricke and this seems to be their strategy. 2.2-2.4x raises preflop to size their bets such that you can commit on the Turn when you want to and 3-betting players who raise too loose and back down to aggression.
Well, here's to hoping it works.
1. Flat my whole range pre-flop before the antes kick in - caveat being if it's a multiway pot and I want to get some people out of the hand
If you 3-bet AK when stacks are still fairly deep you're probably not getting any action by hands like AT, AJ, and AQ but if you flat in position you can own their souls when an Ace flops.
2. 3-bet way more often once antes kick in
I feel like you probably need at least 30 bb's to do so and hands you should be 3 betting are your monsters, the top of your folding range, and random trash hands mixed in to balance our your range.
The top of your folding range is an important one. I like to 3-bet with blocker cards like an Ace or King because it makes it less likely that the original raiser contains one in his hand. You'd never want to flat with A6s but you could 3-bet and fold out lots of loose raises like JT, small pairs, KJ, A8, A9, etc.
3. Play more of a counterpunching game
This goes hand in hand with number two on the list. No one has a fold button anymore. You can't c-bet a raggy board and fold out two overs, Ace high, etc. I'd much rather limp a middle pair and play a small pot than try to raise and c-bet to get a fold out of anyone these days.
I want a lot of my game to be three betting from late position and only open raising strong hands. I think my results could take a drastic uptick if I have normal variance.
I've been listening to guys like Carter King, Brian Devonshire, and Jimmy Fricke and this seems to be their strategy. 2.2-2.4x raises preflop to size their bets such that you can commit on the Turn when you want to and 3-betting players who raise too loose and back down to aggression.
Well, here's to hoping it works.
6.16.2010
SnG Strat
Conventional wisdom says to play tight early and loosen up once the antes kick in. With any luck you've managed to accumulate some chips so you aren't immediately forced into push/fold mode at the 50/100 level.
I tend to stay away from this line of thought and my ROI has been good.
With so many players mass-multitabling the SnG's you can easily pilfer the blinds by playing pretty loose pre-flop from MP and LP before anyone will catch on.
I've been raising a lot of hands from MP especially. No one online believes a Button or Hijack raise anymore. They're seen as pure steal attempts so I make my steals from UTG and MP with a high success rate.
Even if someone calls my UTG raise they're folding a lot of the time if an Ace or King flops because everyone online puts you on AK when you raise.
At some point you do go into push/fold mode and that's when I'll shove on the blinds with about 70% of my hands if we're down to 4 or 5 handed and I have them covered. They aren't calling unless they have 99+, AJ+.
Or, they shouldn't be.
Right now the best SnG's for my money are the Rush SnG's on Full Tilt. More hands means more chances for the bad players to make simple fundamental mistakes.
I tend to stay away from this line of thought and my ROI has been good.
With so many players mass-multitabling the SnG's you can easily pilfer the blinds by playing pretty loose pre-flop from MP and LP before anyone will catch on.
I've been raising a lot of hands from MP especially. No one online believes a Button or Hijack raise anymore. They're seen as pure steal attempts so I make my steals from UTG and MP with a high success rate.
Even if someone calls my UTG raise they're folding a lot of the time if an Ace or King flops because everyone online puts you on AK when you raise.
At some point you do go into push/fold mode and that's when I'll shove on the blinds with about 70% of my hands if we're down to 4 or 5 handed and I have them covered. They aren't calling unless they have 99+, AJ+.
Or, they shouldn't be.
Right now the best SnG's for my money are the Rush SnG's on Full Tilt. More hands means more chances for the bad players to make simple fundamental mistakes.
6.10.2010
This Is A Call
If there are any MTT players who read this blog I'd like to offer up a suggestion.
I'd like to create and maintain a small network of players to discuss hand histories, talk tournament strategy - basically create a braintrust so we can all combine our experience and knowledge to become better players.
I've always felt that one of my biggest setbacks is having zero poker friends. This was further reinforced when I started reading 2+2 and PocketFives.com and realized a lot of these people have mentors, coaches, etc.
So if anyone is interested feel free to reply to this post and we can go from there.
I'm not currently an AIM user but I can easily set up a screen name and start chatting about poker.
I'd like to create and maintain a small network of players to discuss hand histories, talk tournament strategy - basically create a braintrust so we can all combine our experience and knowledge to become better players.
I've always felt that one of my biggest setbacks is having zero poker friends. This was further reinforced when I started reading 2+2 and PocketFives.com and realized a lot of these people have mentors, coaches, etc.
So if anyone is interested feel free to reply to this post and we can go from there.
I'm not currently an AIM user but I can easily set up a screen name and start chatting about poker.
6.04.2010
Speaking Of Masochism ...
I played a $3 rebuy last night and finished 19th of 1900.
Standard bust out hand.
Blinds 8000/16000/XXX
Me: T285,000
Villain: T302,000
I raise to 38,500 UTG with KcKs
Folds to Villain on the button who makes it 85,000.
His OPR stats tell me he's a moron - negative ROI over 1,000 MTT's. I jam.
He snap calls with AdTd <------ LOL WUT. If you ever do this against a solid player, immediately log off and find a new hobby. 99 would be the worst hand you'd ever be up against in this spot.
Flop 8d 6c 6s
Turn Qd
River 2d
One day I'll win as a massive favorite when it means something substantial.
Standard bust out hand.
Blinds 8000/16000/XXX
Me: T285,000
Villain: T302,000
I raise to 38,500 UTG with KcKs
Folds to Villain on the button who makes it 85,000.
His OPR stats tell me he's a moron - negative ROI over 1,000 MTT's. I jam.
He snap calls with AdTd <------ LOL WUT. If you ever do this against a solid player, immediately log off and find a new hobby. 99 would be the worst hand you'd ever be up against in this spot.
Flop 8d 6c 6s
Turn Qd
River 2d
One day I'll win as a massive favorite when it means something substantial.
5.29.2010
Back To Basics
What do you do when you come down with a case of the run bads?
Switch to games with lower variance. I've started mass multi-tabling SnG's with about half of them being turbos and so far I've had positive results.
It's nice to put one in the win column even if it's not what you originally had in mind.
SnG's are pretty mindless, too. You can figure out who is good and who is not very quickly just by seeing what hands get played in the first three levels.
After that if you haven't managed to build a big chip stack you play your push/fold game and hope for the best.
I don't personally know anyone who enjoys playing SnG's but they are very profitable and the object of this game is to make money - some times I forget that and play games that are "fun" for me like Pot Limit Omaha even if I don't have an edge at the table.
This downswing reminded me there's a time for fun and a time to make that scrilla. I'm going to stick with the SnG's for a while in order to better practice bankroll management and also be able to manage my poker playing time a little better.
A couple times I'd find myself down in New Jersey deep in a tournament with a healthy chip stack, but starting to nod off a bit. Not good. Not good for your bankroll or your health so it's time to change that.
When I made a couple Final Tables in March it was ok - but now reality and variance has set in so I need to balance a lot of things: My sleep, my diet, my relationship, my 3-bet range ... it never ends.
But poker is last in line. It has to be.
5.27.2010
My Chart Looks Like the F'ing Stock Market
The majority of 2010 has been a real exercise in patience for me.
I can now count 8 times where I went extremely deep in large tournaments (down to 3 tables) only to lose a 70/30 situation or better.
Because I've been hauling my ass back and forth between Boston and New Jersey every week I've been playing low volume. Seems like no matter what the volume is I get the same results:
Shit. Right on my face.
I played a $10 Rebuy not that long ago and we were down to 23 players. Awesome, right? Sure. First place was about $6500 I think.
I was dealt KK in the big blind. I'm not a doom and gloom person. My first instinct is never, "Great, here comes the bad beat." Screw that shit. I was thinking of a nice little double up when the chipleader raised from middle position. A double up would put me around 3rd or 4th in chips.
Blinds were 2500/5000/250 (?) - I always forget the ante amounts.
He raised to 20,000 and I'm not sure how you guys feel, but whenever I see someone raise 3X or larger when the antes kick in I immediately classify them as a bad player, or a novice. But that's only because fish make big raises when smaller ones will still earn folds. Call me a cynic ...
I can play this two ways.
1. Jam the pile in his stupid Russian face (no offense if any of you are of Russian lineage - it's just that they are still horrible at "the poker")
2. Flat and either lead out or check-jam a non-ace flop.
He's a loose player so I decide to flat instead of jamming and seeing a fold the majority of the time.
The flop is 9s 3h 2c so basically a perfect flop for me. And a perfect flop for him, so he thinks, if he has TT, JJ, or QQ. With his 4X raise preflop I think he is very likely to have a medium pair a lot of the time. Or he has something like AK/AQ but I place AK lower on the chart since I'm holding two of the kings.
I decide to check-raise all-in. Not to worry, he open jams a shit ton chips when I check to him. I of course instacall to see him turn over the monster A9 and watch as a third 9 hits on the turn.
Know what the worst part of being a good player is? You're never on the right side of that.
A good player never plays so badly that he needs a miracle card unless you get caught in a total cooler situation.
I can't remember the last time I owned myself and lucked out massively. I guess that's a good thing only I don't have the results to support it.
FML.
Maybe it's the fact I'm only playing around eight tournaments per week these days. I played four this week and cashed in three of them. Nothing substantial, though - 6 times my buy-in was the largest one, but it was a $100 MTT so I guess I have that going for me.
I'm done with the pokering for a bit. I've been home in Boston all week and spending a lot of time with my girlfriend which has been nothing short of perfect. It's also been really nice out and our apartment has two skylights and tons of windows so everywhere I look is a constant reminder to stop sitting on my ass and enjoy life.
Speaking of ...
You do the same, got it? Right now. Go on... get out of here!
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