Summary of June

June make Mr. Shit happy!!!

So June was an interesting month. Poker was hit and miss. Started out losing much like i did in may, then i had the vegas trip. A runner up in a mtt that made me profit for the week, but it was enough profit to pay for my wedding. Oh yeah, did i mention that i proposed to a girl via facebook, that i had never met. Flew out to meet my fiance, and got married in under 3 weeks? Now the last few days ive been readjusting to online and booking some wins. 

I think my mind is in a good spot and im not pressing the volume, and that is a big reason for the strong end to this month. Sadly i am not back up to where i was on june first, but i feel like july will be solid. Im going to sacramento for the fourth of july weekend. Then ill be back down in vegas packing up, playing some good volume, and getting my ass back in the gym. I should put the gym ahead of putting in volume on that list of priorities, but im too lazy to right now. So yeah hopefully it will be more of the same. Book a small winner, do stuff, book some more win, do stuff. No stressing, no pressing, just play when im having fun and let the results fall how they may. 

As soon as i touch down in sac (actually ive already started asking the few people i know there) i will be looking for a real job. The financial and emotional swings of this game are sometimes too much for me to deal with, let alone the wife, especially with the added strain of us.....not really knowing each other. Once again poker will be "fun", or at least thats what im hoping. A few former fulltime players ive talked to say i will never look at the game the same. In a way thats a ldo, but i do hope that some of the passion and enthusiasm i had for the game come back after time. 

Pokerwise, june was meh. A little heartbreak in the mtt, a lil success in cash, and a lot of fun with my boys in vegas week. Lifewise i couldnt have dreamed of a better month. 

Its hard to top my pic but this one may come close

The clubs of death!

Vegas poker week is finally over. It was a good time. Met up a lot of friends, and did some heavy drinking. To be honest i was a bit tamer than i thought id be, due to the whole marriage coming up, plus i rested my body a day due to a nice mtt run.

The V 330 deepstack, started with 750 and at the beginning of it, my boy and i swapped 10%. Wouldnt u know heading into day two with 54 left, both of us were still in. 54th still didnt pay much, but i had a good stack and my buddy is a great mtt player and knows how to play a shortstack so i was pretty confident one of us would make it deep. I had some swings, avoided all ins like the plague, and just picked spots to keep my chips moving up.

With about 30 left my buddy busted out for about 1300. With me still in that basically meant id take 130 off the 10% id pay him after i took this down.

Some mtt's u just know ur just hanging on waiting for ur bustout hand. But some u just know ur going to win. This one felt like a winner. I was picking my spots, winning the key pots, and losing the marginal ones rather than the big ones. I had just busted somebody in 13th to take us to 12. Two, 6 handed tables. An orbit or so in i get Ac 8s and open to 2.5x utg on about a 25x stack. The bb, a swede who played like..... a swede calls. Flop is 9c 8c 3c and the swede leads into me for 2.75x. A lot of these types of players do this with pairs or air, and a repop normally gets u the pot. In this case i have middle pair and the NFD and decide i just want to ship it and maximize FE vs top pair hands, and if i get called im getting it in with good odds.  I ship and he snaps with Qc 7c, gg me.

So i came up short. The story of my life when running deep in big mtt's. I won some when playing nl cash games, and dumped that plus some of this tourney profit into bs 67s games. Next trip i will stay away from the 67s blood baths and play some nlhe with tourist and shit local players instead, as well as my normal mtt or two, chasing the big score.

My first day back on ftp, i played for an hour or so up 3 buy ins, wife called and make that half a buy in up. Then today up 3 buy ins with not much motivation to play and some errands to run and i called it a day.

Wife is coming to town on friday, and ill be with her all weekend. Then im going up there for the 4th and hopefully moving by end of july to sac. So its going to be a busy month or two and getting settled in/looking for secure work will surely take away from poker. Volume/blog posts will drop off, but i really enjoy writing this and will keep at it as much as i can.

Heres to not always being a damn bridesmaid in big mtt's

Mr. Shit

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!

I finally figured out the reason for my current downswing.....i met my wife may 21st, we got engaged the 5th of june and ive been losing ever since. Obviously its her fault for being unlucky!!! To changer her aura of luck i have made her start a morning ritual of walking thru the house backwards at all times, light a candle and say "eric is god and i will do whatever he says" b4 every meal, and lastly 20 min of jumping on a trampoline in a bikini everyday. Im pretty sure this should correct everything.

So i took 5 days off playing cuz i was really losing my mind and needed to be refreshed. Today i jumped into a set and won 4buy ins right away, then the lovely unlucky wife called and i dropped all of it plus a buy in, then i kidney punched her till she passed out and went back to work. Wouldnt u know it, that little magic trick made me a 1.5buy in winner. And 2.5 buy ins for a good domestic violence beating is well worth it imo.

Vegas week officially starts tomorrow. I cheated and played a V deepstack early, went deep, until it was time to race, hopefully one of the other 3 i ship, and then weeeeeeeeeeee. The wife comes out to make it official after this vegas week, so there is another weekend of drunken debauchery. And then i should get back on the grind. 

Limited updates im sure over the next two weeks, please try to go on with ur daily lives, and just take peace in the fact that i should come back with some pretty awsome stories 

Mr Shit

Four weddings and a funeral....isnt that like five of the same thing?

The "good news" for June....theres gonna be a Mrs ahhhhhsht (poor girl doesnt realize the craziness that is to follow. Maybe ill start a blog on that awsome journey too)

The bad news....

This bs is still going on. Granite, im not "supposed" to be up much. But the bad run is not just about getting it in good and coming out covered in shit. Its also about running into....unfortunate situations. Or like way smart poker players say "the top of peoples ranges" I have had numerous big pp's in lp run into bigger ones in the blinds and its starting to make me want to tell children there is no santa clause.

This will turn around, rakeback will soften about half of this bs, and pretty soon im just going to refuse to lose. Ill go on a 20hr bender of 9 tabling if i have to, but im not losing all of this damn month!

Vegas vacation is almost here, and god its lining up to be insane. One dude coming is getting married, im snap marrying, one of my best friends from the army is coming down, and hes ready to go nuts. And then its vegas and 20 guys who have degenerate patterns and free alcohol and lots of strippers.

So yeah, big couple months. Oh almost forgot.....after 3 years, i may stop being a gentleman of leisure and look for more stable work. This is good and bad. Bad that ill make at the most 1/2 of what i avg playing. Good that ill have stable income and be able to focus on playing for fun again. But as always with me, my mind changes ever 32.46 seconds, so we will see

Gl at the tables, lord knows i could use some

Mr. Shit

sorry about steaming in here

Treading water...

Im pretty sure my june is equal to what this guy is going thru right now....Nah hes got it easy. I mean obviously hes not going to drown, while this bs im going thru may go on for fucking ever!

I have officially lost all motivation to play. Mtts, cash, sngs, whatever i just have no want in me to play. Im really premature bitching here. Im only 20k hands into june, but after the bad start it has literally been break even days the last few days and its starting to drive me nuts. When i used to play live i would say "hey, i dont mind losing, and i love winning, but i lose my mind when i go home even. At least when i lose i feel like i accomplished something" Well thats whats taking place here. I probably should of taken today off to clear my head, but mr addictive personality took over and i "took it easy" while i 6 tabled and played the double deuce on ftp and the millions on stars. Deep enough run in the double deuce to piss me off, and lol cooler in the millions.

I think tomorrow will be a light day if i play at all. I have to handle some bs at the dmv which should be lovely, and then i have some.....personal business to do. Not to mention the gym, so i dont lose my bet to barone. June 15th cannot get here soon enough. Actually my buddy is coming into town like the 11th or 12th so i may just say f it and start my drunken rampage a few days early.

As always ill keep u posted on this lovely dovely journey.

Gl at the tables

Mr. Shit

no whammy no whammy BIG MONEY!!!!!

Not this time my friends. Despite still not running above expectation, i managed to grind my way back up to even on the month of june around 7pm west coast time. Throw 4 fingers up/make sure that twos crossed!

I took a break, ate some dinner, and decided to put in another session to see if i could get into the positive for the month. Well a couple coolers, and a couple hands i just butchered and wouldnt u know it....back to down 4buy ins on the month. This is really nothing to sweat, but i just hate how one shit session can ruin a days work. 

My volume has really dropped off, but im still playing more than i usually do and im still up a pretty decent amount the last 2.5 weeks when all is said and done. So i just need to stay focused and put in work. Vegas is about a week and a half away....that should be an awsome time. Im pretty sure im going to ship a deepstack for 40-60k so that will come in handy. =)

Short but sweet blog, not much complaining as i actually take the blame for most of my losses today, and were gonna end it right with a slutty asian

Its getting hot in june baby!!!!

Not exactly the start i was looking for in june......

The red line doesnt even tell the story of coolers, just more bad beats. While it is refreshing that im most likely playing well, its a bit frustrating since i just cashed out about half of my online money this last month due to the looming uncertainty of the outlawing of online poker. I was/am taking it as a challenge to "rebuild" and this is def not the start i was looking for.

This is another reason why HEM is so valuable. It is reassuring that if i keep getting my money how i have, i will right this ship. Tbh i should of stuck to my "not ur day theory" but i didnt feel tilted until the last little part of that graph. The quitting hand was flopped set vs flopped flush and the dude just called me down as i put in vbet after vbet.

All said and done 6buy ins below equity isnt even close to as bad as i hear these things getting. This has put a speed bump in my goal of 120k hands by 15june10, but i should really buckle down and put in some volume here. I plan on playing thru the run bad and obviously playing even more during the run good. I think i have come a long way in my tilt control and can drive on.

I just kind of wanted to vent, this entry is really pretty horrible so ima cut it off here.

Gl at the tables to u, and better luck to me hopefully

Mr. Shit