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tnsstud
Birthday: Prefer not to say
Location: Boston

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Total Entries: 5
Total Won/Lost: -$106.00
Total Hours: 2
Earnings/Hour: -$53.00



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November 2007 (5)

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November 28, 2007, 6AM:
No-Limit Texas Hold'em

Alright let me start out by saying that this is my first time blogging my results and thoughts.  I have been playing poker seriously for about 3 years.  I started out grinding lower level buy-ins donking off money and trying to learn BR management and how I want to approach the game of poker in general. after going bust a few times I started grinding 20 dollar sit and go's with about a 500 dollar bank roll.  Not exactly "playing within my means" but I wasn't playing to make a living just to improve.  I started to do well...killing the 20's on UB and building up to about 2k.  I stayed playing 20's and then started playing mtt's.  I have always played mtts, but at this point I was taking time off of them because I wanted to fix some leak by grinding sit and go's.  So I started playing buy-ins 30 and under.  Winning begets winning and I started slowly getting better and learning how to beat the mid level mtt's.  My first win was for around 2k if I remember right, and I finally felt like things were coming together and they were. I started playing a few 109's here and there and I was final tabling with consistency. All my plays were golden...I was winning races and never felt better.  I won 2 seats to the WSOP (which I use to dream of back in the beginning when I was donking around on stars when I first started).  I actually was heads up about 6 times for 12k seats to the WSOP.  I was heads up 3 or 4 for seats to aruba, and starting to branch out to other sites.  At this time I was playing every tournament on the net on 4 sites (UB, FTP, PS, BD). I always seemed to do well on UB, and BD, and I think its because I was able to abuse players there because they tend to be more on the tight passive side (which fits my style being that i am AGGRO :) I am still trying to figure out FTP and Stars.  I go to vegas for the series, and succeed in partying well, partying often and donking off chips in the tournies.  Had such a blast and killed 2/5 NL But Ran SOOO shitty in tournaments.  Ran KK into AA twice in wsop events.  For the trip I finished -1k for the trip not including expenses which was good considering how much I spent on tournies at the venetian, bellagio and wsop events.  But I did party wayyyyyy to much and lived like a ballllerrrrrrr for 2 weeks and blew through a lot of money.  Got back from vegas still with a good BR online and started grinding Mtt's again (as well as sit and go's).  This is where my downfall would begin, and where I am today.  Since July I have hit a cold run of cards that I never knew was possible.  You always hear about guys going bust on rediculous down streaks, but I never thought it would happen to me.  How silly was I! I have not won a race deep in a tournament (wich few exceptions) since Vegas.  Its such a mental fuck and I have really tried hard to not let the running poorly change my play.  I have been through a lot of stages in this horendous down swing.  First I just figured it would turn around fairly soon so I just kept grinding not worrying to much considering I had been in down swings before (2-3 weeks or so).  Then my confidence started falling and frustration kicked in.  I was bitching to anyone who would listen about how badly I was running since Vegas, and if you know poker players they dont wanna hear this shit because bad beats are just part of the game we try to forget about asap and to hear someone bitch about it every day just brings us down too......its important to stay positive and have the right mindset at the tables! Next stage was realizing that the cards werent running well for me and to stop bitching about it and just play solid and not let it effect me.  So I continued to grind and watch PXF videos and whatever I could get my hands on to try and turn things around.  Fast forward to today and I believe I have fixed a lot of the holes in my game as far as sit and go's go.  In mtt's i have lost all confidence and am struggling to find my game again.  I tightened up A TON (which is not my game.. I am usually very good at mixing up my play in general).  Then as of the last week I have started getting back to my old aggro ways of trying to build a big chip stack early so I can take some beats late and not go bust.  I feel like I am back on track, but I keep running SO FUKIN BAD late in tourneys.  Final tables the 24+2 on Fulltilt and was in 3rd place with 6 left when I picked up AK, and ended up allin and ran into AA...thats fine with me.  I hate the bad luck of running into AA at a final table with such a big hand, but what drives me nuts are the bad beats that complete morons are putting on you.  Last night there were 16 left in the 20rb on FTP.  I had played very solid throughout the tournament.  I was aggro early to build up a nice stack, then just played very tight/aggro to get deep.  Pick up 88 in the BB against a laggy oponent.  I had 25k behind and the raise lagtard raises to 6k.....I decided to shove my 88 and get insta calleed by A8sooooted???!?...and obv hits an A on the river.  This keeps happening and I feel like its just such an uphill battle.  I still make my fair share of mistakes for sure, which I take note of and try to make as few as possible, but these beats are getting rediculous and at the complete wrong time.  I just find it SOOO frustrating to keep getting deep only to run like shit and have the disapointment EVERYNIGHT!!!! I come back every day ready for battle, but leave at the end of the day feeling defeated and I am not sure how to fix it.  I am just going ot keep grinding and see what poker has in store for me.  I am too damn stubborn to throw in the towel....I love this game so much, but its so demoralizing to keep gettting slammed down night after night.  Hope things turn for the better....I have to believe I can run well again and just play the way I know how and things will turn.  Keep improving and stay positive...WOW what a long post for my first.  Grinding some sit and go's this morning before heading back to work. 
-back to battle!

Last Update: November 28, 2007, 7:24AM


2 Comments


November 29, 2007, 6:27AM
Posted by tnsstud

hey bud...thanks for the welcome!! My name on FT is zeromercy...let me know what I can do to help.
 
-tns


November 28, 2007, 6:30PM
Posted by EightFive

Hey, welcome to the site.  I can relate with running bad deep in tourneys (last night I shove on the turn with top set and the guy calls off half his stack with an over card to the board and a gut shot...obv I lose to his straight to take 16th instead of sittin in 2nd.  But like you said poker players don't wanna hear bad beats so I will stop there.  I also play MTT's but much smaller on FTP and am trying to learn more than anything at the moment; would you mind sharing your FTP name and maybe I could learn a thing or two? If not, no big deal and good luck closing another MTT soon.


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