Sit & Gos

I am currently about 780 vpp towards GoldStar, I am surprised at the rate I have grind this month, must be due to the 0.10/0.25 6-max cash games I have mixed in between the month. But I decided not to pursue the GoldStar because although this is faster for my vpp, my bankroll hurt a lot in this stake this month. And I have currently moved back down to 0.08/0.16 6-max, where I am recouping my losses slowly.

I am aiming for the silver money clip in stars' vip store but it never seem to be in stock. It must be the cheap price and very beautiful design and everyone grab it.

I am waiting for it. I have now enough fpp to exchange for cash rewards (silverstar level) but I think I will wait, unless I busto. Hoping if there are any promotions like last year August (10x faster vpp) and I can reach higher level, and by then have enough fpp to exchange for GoldStar cash rewards, which is at a little better rate. My cousin who's a supernova just claimed the 4000usd cash reward two months back and I'm drooling.

As for my tourneys, same old thing, no results. I decided to focus now starting with STT (Single Table Tourney) Sit & Go, and work on it. Tourneys and cash games are different. A lot of poker players have dreams about winning big events (eg. WSOP Main Event).

Something like that.

Of course not so big for me, but thats one of the dream I wish to achieve in my poker career, winning a tourney. The feeling is different from cash games where you grind n grind n grind. The furthest I can picture myself if I am a cash game grinder would be like Joey Knish in the poker film Rounders. Real good, I like his character both in Rounders & Transformers. But in Rounders, he is a conservative grinder who grind his money to feed his family, pay his rent, and (I assume) bankroll management that would not allow him to go broke. What more can you ask for?

So I started my Sit & Go practice at the $3.50 micro stakes. Yesterday I cashed out 3rd, which I thought I had a shot. This morning I busto another one at 6th, the table was super tight. Except one guy who played every single hand and was busto first, expectedly. Then I was short stacked and all-in my remainingg 8bb UTG with KJ, SB reraised all-in with AK, BB called with KQ. How the hell to win against such dominated hands? Lol.

I took a break and fired up another session and try again. I only single table because I want to focus on it, I need to start from the fundamentals. This table has a more different dynamics. More aggression and actions. So I was almost knocked out until I went chiplead in last 5. Maintained my position until last two, where I had about 6k+ vs 7k+. The guy saw a lot of flop and I thought he would have been one of the first to get knocked out but we heads-up. Ups and downs until he called one of the key flop of the match.

I had 99 3-bet him who has 54. Flop came A A 4 and he lead the bet and I insta-shoved. He tanked and called and I scooped the pot. I think his situation is kinda tough because flopping two aces reduce the chance of opponent hitting it. The only hands that could beat him is an overpair. I may have called in his position.

And so.. I took down first! Can't remember the lastime I did and I am going to continue work on it.

Just Words

Thanks Jules for the comment on my recent tilt. Reply comments thru' post, something I learned from you. And I welcome you and "Scooby" on your first comments in my blog, thank you guys for the encouragement. Ironically, I wrote tons of trading posts and only got L&W his first comment here in this blog with a poker post.

I watched the movie Rounders (1998) on Texas Hold'em recently, after gettin' quite interested into poker. Very nice show with a lot of quotes. One of them he mentioned I find it quite true. He experienced a bad beat at the start of the show (lost his $30,000 bankroll with a full house of nines over aces to Teddy KGB's hidden aces over nines), and had never touch poker for the next nine months.

Before he sat down in his first poker table after such long break he said to himself (narrative): " In Confessions of a Winning Poker Player, Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won -- strange as it seems -- but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career." Seems true to me, 'cause walking in here I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking how I lost it."

How true that is, even in trading sense, as it's exactly how I felt about myself. Thanks for sharing with me your experiences too Jules. Learning poker/trading rules are definitely easy, but mastering ourselves is another story. But that is what I want to do, I hope to see myself succeed some day.

I had LIVE poker for the first time with my family over last weekend for fun, and we really enjoyed ourselves. My brother-in-law went fanatic and went to buy a set of poker chips the next day and we're looking forward to another round of battle this weekend.

Taking it easy tonight. I'm playing fake money poker online for some leisure time.

+$1 million (well, fake money)

Black.