I feel like shit today, but thats ok because I had a great day yesterday. I think I will try to put in a couple of hours today and clear some more bonus.

I bet on four college games today following the advice of Collin Cowherd. Ive got Wisconsin at -11, Florida at -14.5, LSU at -33, and Oregon at +1. So far Cowherd has picked 9 of 14 games correctly that I have bet on. I hope that this week he goes 4 for 4.

The bankroll is a little over 5k, but it will drop to 4k if I get the apartment Ive been looking at. My application is still in the screening process, and its been three days so I am getting worried. Oh well, if I don't get into this place I will just have to find another.

Current Bankroll- $4,000-$5,200

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Well, I got into the apartment but my girlfriend did not. Her credit is too bad and some other stupid shit. I have been talking to my parents and they are thinking about buying a house in Olympia, WA because the price dropped from 220k to 170k. They would be buying it for an investment and would hold on to it untill the housing market starts to turn around.

I have never owned a home so I can't go out and buy one myself yet, and I don't make enough money on paper to get a loan. I plan on renting the house from my parents and then hopefully to buy it from them someday. We'll see.

Im sort of scared to move to Washiongton though with online poker already being illegal, and the new bill that just passed. I don't know if anyone has been to WA lately, but if you do you know why online poker is illegal there. There are little casinos all over the place now and Im sure that the law was passed because these live casinos want more buisness, and they line the pockets of the politicians to get bullshit laws passed.

I went three for four on yesterdays college picks. With a few bonuses I made a little under a grand this week in just over 9 hours of work. Not a bad week, and expect I will put in the hours next week and clear the Poker Room bonus. So, I expect to make another 1,500 next week.

Current bankroll- $5,200

I remember when I started playing the $100nl games and how I doubted whether I could beat the games as easily as I beat the smaller games. I think I’ve come to the point in my poker career where I have no doubts. The players at $100nl are no better than they are anywhere else. The only difference I’ve noticed is that you can’t stack people nearly as easily, but it’s a lot easier to take small pots, which seems to fill in the BB/100 gap.

Yesterday I started the day down $270. A while ago I probably would have called it a day and steamed over it all night. Now I feel like playing through the downswing is the most logical solution. I kept telling myself that I was playing good poker and that it would eventually turn around. At about hand 1450 I don’t know what happened but I hit on of the best heaters of my life. In just a couple hundred hands I basically won 4 and a half buy ins. The rest of the night wasn’t so superb, but I still ended the day up $250+.

I’ve been mixing my game up a lot more lately. Yesterday I played 2,166 hands and had my vp$ip at 21.47% and my pre flop raising at 10.57%. During the last 1k hands it was more like 35/15. I was getting players to play bad against me. There were people commenting to me in the chat box about how they were just waiting to stack me. I ended up stacking two of them. I took $230 off one guy alone who was trying to bluff me with a pair of 2’s. The hand I stacked him on was a hand I normally wouldn’t have called, but I had picked off one of his bluffs just a few hands earlier, so I thought he was making a move on me.

Overall I’ve been very happy with my play these past couple weeks. I haven’t played much, but everything seems to be clicking when I do. I feel like my reads have been dead on and my mistakes have been few and far between (for the most part). In two days on the poker room network I’ve made 1k. It’s time to change the name of this journal.

Graph of yesterdays session

Today had to have been the most boring day ever for poker. Not once was I involved in a pot where I won more than $45. I can't recall a single instance where I was in a tough spot. Small pots were the only thing keeping me afloat today.

I love Poker Room. I need to get rakeback and stay, but Full Tilt has a nice reload so to Full Tilt it is.... in a couple days.


I am running at 7.05PTBB/100 over 7,390 hands at my new favorite poker room, and I feel like I am playing the best poker of my life. Consistent winning poker. I probably jinxed myself and my next post is going to be me bitching about a series of bad beats. I have had my share of bad beats, but now I just push through them until I am winning again.

I love this game, and I hate Bill Frist.

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I like losing $700 in just a couple hundred hands.


Also, I have paid $660.95 meaning that I should almost be finished with my bonus. Yesterday I paid $160 in rake and for some reason they only gave me 160 points, so I don't really know what's going on. Hopefully I will finish it today.

I only played about an hour of poker today and lost $12. I just was not feeling it. I did get a free $10 from a casino though, and I ran that up to $100 and cashed out making the day not a total waste.

One of my 20" monitors is a piece of shit, so I am pretty sure I am going to have to go out and buy myself a new one. The brand name is Princeton and the thing is two months old, and there are already pixles that are toast on it, the screen flickers on the top and it will black out poker tables that work fine on the other monitor. I like my ViewSonic much better and that is what I am thinking about going out to buy. If anyone reading this has a recommendation on a good monitor at a good price Im all ears. The bigger the better.

Like usual I am spending my poker money like crazy, but its okay, Im making money. Who knows how long that will last? But Im going to ride it out.

Current Bankroll- $5,000 ish

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