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just dropped almost 5 buy ins in 1 hr of nl.

i think i was somewhat shocked for how many times i got sucked out on, then i just went on tilt and dropped 3 more buy ins.

i just started learning and grinding plo, and have been doing pretty well as of late. then i switched to nl, just to see if my nl game is still sharp. well, it was pretty sharp until i went on tilt.

i find that the transition from nl to plo and then back to nl is especially hard. my mindset in plo is pretty good. i prepare myself mentally and emotionally before and during every session, i told myself that the swings will be huge in plo, so im emotionally okay with getting sucked out on in 200BB+ pots. and today back in nl, first, i started calling 3 bets too much, even in position. then i got somewhat shocked when someone went all in pre flop with K6o and beat my JJ. i guess after plo, i thought i wasn't gonna get drawn out on in nl. i was too naive. maybe the swing isnt as big as it is in plo, it's still a high variance game.

i'll quit for today, get myself back together, and play again in a couple days~

gl all~

this is the first, and hopefully the last blog entry when i would be ranting and whining. what a frigging terrible day! im glad its about to be over! first, the lakers lost to clippers, and i have to watch the game with cousin and dad, 2 ppl who know almost nothing about basketball, their logic about the game is not only flawed, but it's laughable! then i played a 1 hr session 4 tabling 6 max nl and lost about 7 buy ins. after i lost the first 3, i should've quit, but somehow i didnt. i tilted away another 4 buy ins. what a freaking moron! LOL but u know, things could be worse. i was recently thinking about moving up to a new level, .25/.50 that is. so i guess not moving up would be a very wise decision by me :D lol i've learned that when never shit happens, we should keep a positive mental attitude, and no matter what the situation, we should always find 3 positive things. well, let's try it. 1st, im glad that i did not go play .25/.50 hu trying to win back the money cos that would be a disaster (unless i suck out a lot haha)! 2nd, my behavior wasnt reinforced so that means im less likely to play long hrs again in the upcoming weeks, and that's good because i'll be busy with school work and i'll be going to a business conference. 3rd, my built in high risk aversiveness will help me learn this kind of tilting/poor game selection mistakes so i wont make the same mistake again.

well, what can i say. kobe is the man. that was one of the best fridays ive had in a while. stayed up till 3am playing poker and at one point i was down almost $200 for the day, which for a BR/life nit is a huge blow. but i kept playing because i was just really in the mood and won back about 150 before quitting. it was a great feeling! i got up at 7 and went to school after a 4 hr sleep, just brutal! and in the afternoon, i played a nl hu reg at .25/.50, i checked later that he normally plays at 1/2 and 2/4 ( if i had known earlier, i might not have played him). i won about 2 buy ins i think. he was the most aggressive player i've ever played against at .25/50 (maybe because i was always picking on short stackers LOL). im a player who's really aggro on the button, like i would literally raise 95% of the hands, usually. and he obv adjusted to that by 3 betting me a ton! i mean, he 3 bet so much that i have to sometimes 4 bet him pflp in position with a hand like 78s or KQ. on top of 3 betting me, he was also raising a lot on the button. i had to check raise bluff him on the flop acouple times. and as the match went on, i think he caught up on that and was 4 betting me on a lot of flops. i think he was fighting fire with fire, so to speak. and i knew if he ever gets top pair and i have a hand that beats that, i would stack him.

i just finished 2 final exams yesterday. 2 more to go! i will be done next monday, so right now im in the library studying.

you know ppl say that if u can look back in ur life and tell the important or life changing moments and events from 10 yrs ago, you would be very lucky. well, u'd be even more lucky if u know at the moment when it happened. i had my moment last week, we my teaching assistant let me make up for all the missed labs in computer science and still gave me full marks. why is that important? because im a 3rd yr student majoring in comp sci and i've failed the introductory course once already due to missing too many labs. well...i did it again this yr. instead of going to 2 hr labs, i decided to grind the turbo sngs! young and dumb eh? so why is this so important? because i know that not knowing what i wanna do in life, having a particular set of skills is really important. and computer science is such a skill set that i must have if i were to achieve great things in life. some ppl may disagree, but i think that having computation skills is a must for my generation. so if i failed this course again, i know that my pride/ego wont let me take the coruse for the 3rd time and the university prolly wont either! so passing is crucial! 2 more days till exam day, i must pass the final to pass the course. do i have confidence? not right now, but i will on friday =) and my confidence will come from the intense hrs that i put in studying these 2 days!

having read and commented on others' blogs kinda makes me wanna start my own. so here it is.

oh, btw, it's kinda nice to have a "secret" blog that no one really knows because pretty much everyone around me don't know/care about poker.