July Recap

Posted by icemonkey9 on Aug 2, 2010 in month | 2 comments

It's funny how much this blog has changed over the last 2 years.  I remember when I played micro-stakes full ring I'd be so excited to post my graph and show my results and talk about how bad I always run.  Ahh good times.  Now, I barely play poker and work in the industry so I think, imo, that this blog got a lot more interesting the way it currently is.  Problem is I barely updated it!

Poker

The good news is that I did pretty well in live poker and although I didn't play that much while in Vegas, the time was profitable and I think my new found mental state is really helping me.  I was definitely in the positive, but I really didn't keep track of how much.

Online poker ... well ... I seriously didn't play any.  (Firing up HEM now) ... wow looks like I booked a losing month but hey, just 5730 hands so I don't think that counts. Or maybe it does.  Who cares?

Looks like the most I played was 25nl at a whopping 2,245 hands and I lost $31 lol.  I think I was experimenting to see if I could go back to playing 19 tables on Stars. I think I never hit crap and ran into a few coolers but honestly, so little hands who cares.  I remember playing 100nl 6max on Cake and getting a couple of really bad beats ... oh God here I go again.  Let's just say the results were bad but I felt good about my game.  Heads-up didn't go well either but I just put in a total of 465 at 50nl HU so I don't think that counts either.

Basically - I didn't play enough poker to give myself any sort of fair evaluation of my mental state, game state or results at all. Sorry!

The good news is that I am really going to put an effort out to organize my time better and set aside time specifically for poker.  So, I am hoping August's recap will actually (finally?) have some good online poker content.

So ... what are you doing with your time?

I can comfortably say that I didn't play a lot of poker in July because of burn out.  Staying in Vegas for so long covering the WSOP definitely burned me out on the game.  When you are around the game for 14 hours in a day pretty much the last thing you want to do is fire up the tables.  The thing you do want to do is blow people up!

Weeeeeeeeee!  Been playing the hell out of StarCraft 2, and as some of you know, I am a big time gamer. I played every RTS game that's mattered over the last 15 years so for SC2 to finally come out is like a god-send. I went to the big giant Blizzard release party at Frys Electronics in Fountain Valley and was just blown away by how many people were there.  Needless to say the game has taken up a lot of time and it's been real fun playing with my friends online. TIME VAMPIRE.

Conclusions

• Had a ton of fun at the WSOP covering the Main Event and got a ton of kudos from people in the industry for my work. I'm still very thankful and humbled.
• StarCraft 2 is awesome
• More poker in August