Damn titey. You and ATE. Needing constant accolades and assorted affirmations that your existence is indeed, integral to the rest of ours.. Well, fine. Dont kill the journal tightwad. Its the best journal ever tightwad. Your killin your father tightwad!! WHERE HAS THAT FINGER BEEN, TIGHTWAD?! wait, what was i saying?

Oh Yeah--what they said (see above). Your journals cool- plus its nice to read that at least someone has been killing the PP limit holdem games recently. It reminds me that yes, its actually possible, even though i havent managed to pull it off in some time.

Alright, let's recap.

The initial plan this week was to book anywhere between 42 and 43.5 hours, putting in a solid A-game effort everyday. Sadly, plan A had to be scrapped after a serious of mishaps forced management to reevaluate the options, and thus plan B was formed. Plan B was a flat contradiction of plan A, and called for taking the month off. Management felt good about this plan, but after "thinking outside the box" for a few moments, the envelope was forcibly pushed, which led to plan B.5. Plan B.5 added a corollary that, considering management's severe addiction to all things poker, the alleged "break" outlined in plan B.nothing could, in fact, last for a shorter period than originally stipulated, without in any way violating the core premise on which plan B was formulated. After the whole situation appeared to be resolved, management called in an outside consultant, namely a bottle of gin, to give the matter one more thorough looking over. Plan B.5, was then promptly scrapped, and its previous existance will not at any point be acknowledged.

In a flurry of ambitions, plans C through G.7 were then formed and promptly dismissed, which managed to kill a solid hour, if nothing else. Finally, plan H arrived in a blaze of glory...I'm not sure if it's actually possible for something to arive in a blaze of glory, but it seemed to, anyway. Plan H involved a marathon, 10+ hour session of 4-tabling 5-10 limit, but after two hours and a loss of $500, it was deemed that plan H may have not been too bright. Not to worry, though, management has already disavowed all responsibilities, and efforts are already underway to blame someone else.

Finally, management adopted a plan I, the basic point of which was to make clear that no other plans should at any point be formed, and we now feel we're in a good place. Along the way, limit hold 'em has currently been wiped from the agenda, and I'm gonna try some NL for a while. Reputable sources quote management as saying, "Fuck limit. Limit blows. Anyone who plays limit is a donkey-fucker." At this point, management is unwilling to either confirm or deny having said that particular sound-bite.

There was also talk about scrapping the journal, but then that idea was scrapped. For the time being, I'm going to downshift to weekly posts instead of daily, because honestly...I'm running out of things to say!

-Management

Mecos,

Ummmmm...thanks...i guess. As much as threatening to scrap this journal may have looked like a sad, pathetic man's desperate cry for attention...it really wasn't intended as that. Back when I started this journal, I actually enjoyed it, and occasionally had some stuff worth saying...albeit a nonsensical, pointless sort of "worth saying"...

But lately, I've just been kinda goin through the motions. As far as posting results, I'm not sure if that's really productive except in that it might give me motivation to play enough hours, and play well enough as to not embarass myself when it comes time to show the numbers.

So, I figure just posting once a week is a good compromise. I'm still forced to "own up" if I had a bad week, so the motivation is still there...and I figure, with a week's worth of material, it'd be a lot easier to have something worth saying. Make sense?

-TW

I get it dude. Just bustin your balls a little. Less posts means that cant happen as much. Gotta get while the gettins still good right?

I still like Plan H. Next time u might want to prepare more thoroughly for it. I suggest an extremely large tube of..............



Preparation H !!!!!!

Stick w/ it waddie, youll be back on top b4 anyone can say "fill er up and check the oil"

I should now note that I have deemed fit to invoke Paragraph 7, clause b of Plan I, which dictates that if necessary, Plan I can be scrapped in favor of making a new plan after all.

The newly concocted Plan J states that I do, in fact, suck at NL. So I'll be moving back to limit. Sadly, I'll also be moving down to 3-6.

Damn, this is frustrating, especially in that I have no one to blame but...well...management.

-TW

have you tried firing management and hiring a monkey to make the decisions, formulate plans... so on and so forth. not just any monkey though, it would have to be a super intelligent monkey that doesn't feel the need to express iself thur poo flinging.

From what I have seen of your limit play it is fine. I just think you are running into some bad luck at times. I was witness to that guy who called a capped flop with 105 sooted and managed to annihilate your trip Aces.

The best advice I can give you is this. Play the game you are best at unless for some reason you find another game with some HUGE fish in it that you play well at. If you want to improve in other games do so at the lowest limit possible while learning the ropes. While it might be fun to play 100 NL against a bunch of BTPers it just isn't in the best interest of your bankroll to do so. Keeping your bankroll healthy to play the limits you want to play is very important. Don't bleed off extra money in games where you are not the favorite as there are just too many good games were you have the advantage when playing well.

I put this on another thread...but tightie.... i believe this advice applies to you as well:

Today on bodog I had my set cracked with an all-in on the flop by a running flush. that shit cost me a $200 pot....

but then i went back a little later and made $300 off the fish in 30 minutes.

the sites aren't going out to get you with bad beats... and the luck is random enough everywhere, however....

my advice is this:

Play where you're winning and leave when you start to lose a couple of sessions. Then after a significant while, go back to the old site and start winning again.

I played on riverbelle for 2 months straight because I was consitenetly winning. All of a sudden I lost 2 big sessions..broke close to even on the next one...then lost another. I withdraw most of my money and put it on bodog and empire....i'm winning again.

I think when you start to hit a losing streak..a change of scenery is in order. You have to get off of the mindset that you will always be outdrawn etc. etc. etc....

By playing on a new site, you allow your mind to break free from the shackles of previous bad beats. The new visual and audio cues from umm...UB, for instance, may help you forget all the money you just lost on party or empire.

starting on a new poker site after a couple of bad sessions is like taking a fresh start for me.. i think to truly win at poker and enjoy it...you need to have an optismistic mindset. without that..you will make bad plays and "allow" the bad beats to come, in a manner of speaking.. I believe this. That is why i use this aformentioned tatic of switching sites if i'm on a losing streak. i will do anything and everything to try and get that optomistic mindset back.

i started going off on a tangent..but i hope everyone can use this advice to their benefit.

Titey-

I would have to respectfully disagree with Kenny, only because i have played on all the sites [the bigger ones anyway] and i can tell you that party has by far the worst players on it. So yeah, youll take the worse beats on party, but i think that everyone knows, that in the long run...blah blah blah, yeah yeah yeah. You know the spiel. Its true though...party, if your playing lower or middle limits, is really the only place to play IMHO.

With myself, and also amongst the guys i know that play as much as i do (the smaller limit as well as the huge-limit players) things are tight all around. Its the nature of the game. Im not gonna turn this into a motivational speech because Im pretty shure your smart enough not to allow these setbacks to make you think that your game is not a winning one.

The problem with holdem in general, if i may turn titeys journal into a thread hijack, is that even edges that seem decent sized arent really as big as they seem. I mean, we think that if we are a 60/40 favorite in a pot that we take a bad beat if we lose, and when that happens a few times we think we are running like absolute dogshit. The fact is that most edges we have that endup not going our way, resulting in [a garden variety] bad beat, are not so heavily in our favor that we should not expect them to happen. A 20%-25% edge goes the other way, ALOT of the time...

Thats why it's a tough racket, this one--The previous sound play will afford you the cushion you need to weather the storm.

So, has anyone tried to hijack a journal yet?

I've hijacked my own a few times...

-TW

I hijacked your mom last night..


oh..wrong thread....opps.

[quote="TightWad"] and some creepy guy that occasionally bothers us with his existance.

Creepy? that's it, you never eat what I cook ever again, you mug.

There will be no cash-out report this week, primarily because there was no cash-out. Throughout this journal, I have always been honest about my results. Granted, I've been occasionally incoherent and almost constantly vulgar when reporting them, but nevertheless, I've been honest. So, I'll be honest about this week as well. It blew. It blew more cock than the entire female population of Ashland, Pennsylvania. (It should be noted that at a recent census, it was discovered that over 118% of Ashland's alleged women were either sluts, whores, or general-all-around-dick-suckers. This would've baffled local statisticians, but fortunately, there are no local statisticians, so the population remains largely unbaffled.)

You have my solemn assurance that there will, however, be a cash-out report next week. If not, be sure to give me a nice tip if you ever have to stop in Ashland for gas.

On a less serious note, I should mention that I'm not actually depressed about the debacle of last week, nor do I harbor any particular fear of having to return to the ol' filling station. I was a bit depressed for a while, but that slowly gave way to shame, and that to embarassment; now, it's just "one of those things"...one of those things that happen to people who don't have enough respect for their money, nor enough discipline to stick to what they know.

Someone once told me that making mistakes is the only way we can learn. This, obviously, is a complete load of horseshit. A far better way to learn is to observe/point-out/cruelly-laugh-at the mistakes of others. So, I invite you to do all of the above at my vaguely-referenced mistakes. As for me, it's important to realize my mistakes, but not to dwell on them.

So then, I'll be plowing on into next week with a sense of peace, oneness, confidence, and half-mad rage at the entire human race. Feel free to ignore that last part if you feel it ruins the credibility of the whole. In a spirit of nonsensical optimism, I should note that my bankroll has triumphantly soared to new depths, and that the absolute value of my hourly rate has reached an all-time high! Clearly, these are good times for any well-adjusted guy like myself, provided that particular well-adjusted guy is adjusted to a slightly different setting than, say, reality.

Everyone, have a great week, and I promise that for better or worse, I'll have some numbers next Thursday!

-TW