Wow Where Have I Been?

Posted by icemonkey9 on Oct 21, 2009 in poker | 0 comments

Can't believe it's been a week since updating my poker blog.  I remember there were months where I would update twice a day!  I guess without a raging inner beast to unleash, the venom behind a lot of the posts just isn't there to fuel my desire to post something.

Computer Stuff

My order from TigerDirect came in to upgrade my main PC rig.  Unfortunately for me, my new Video Card is on backorder.  I was told by the agent on the phone that they were due to come in and ship out on the 15th.  Well today is the 20th and they are still on backorder. Sucks for me.  Windows 7 will be here on Thursday but I am sure I will be so dead tired I won't have a chance to upgrade my computer for what looks like weeks. It might even be a Thanksgiving time activity. Just too busy with stuff.

Work Stuff

Work is going well.  I am still doing a ton of writing for various poker sites and that's decent income and I'm very grateful for all the work I've gotten. It's afforded me a lot and I definitely hope to keep it up as time moves on.  Right now my business (I actually own/operate a small interactive website design/development studio) is picking up and I actually agreed to work in-house at a large ad agency here in Orange County for the next few weeks.  The pay is good and more than anything doing it for the contact and ideally building a relationship that could bring in some good projects for 2010.

Poker Stuff - Putting the LAG in ... uh ... LAGuna

Okay I don't really live in Laguna Beach, but I am very close at about 5 miles away. The wife and I get down there to the beach to eat and walk on the boardwalk quite often.  Our pug, Mr. Duke, loves it down there. Anyways, I didn't mean to mention that, just wanted to write about totally re-vamping my game.

The last few months I went back to full ring, played like the nittiest nit who ever nitted up online poker and carved out a good solid win-rate for 100nl games. The advantage was playing a relatively low-variance style and winning modestly.  All was good.

Sadly, the 100nl FR experience started to dim. I wasn't getting paid off when I had the nuts and coolers wiped me of the small pots I would win, which sadly, didn't come in often enough.  Between the coolers and static play, I decided to move back to 6max this month full time. Clearly the move was a good one as I've really re-fueled my love for playing the game (hahaha, just WAIT for my next downswing to rue the day I said that!).  I've gotten back in touch with Clean from Stox Poker and we've resumed official coaching. What's he telling me to do?

Well, I was playing 6max at 16/13 which is clearly way too nitty to be surviving full time as a 6max player. There's just too many spots to be missing playing like that, so we put into practice a real method for opening up my game.  So far - so GOOD as I've been playing a lot looser (I'll post some numbers after I play 8-10k hands at this style) and picking my aggression spots very well. It's more fun to play this style, a lot scarier, but I am definitely seeing a difference in the way I'm approached and played back at while in a hand. Interesting.

Final Thoughts

Not much else. I'm f'ing drained from work haha.  See you all next time.