Your grind and my grind 'aint the same, dawg... I'm the catalogue, you're the same song

didn't get much done this weekend after I had a nice 6k friday night. spent most of the time catching up on sleep, hanging out with katy and her mom, and then watching the super bowl on sunday night.

big game coming up on wed for the devils. We really need a win, and then we can start seriously considering what it's going to take to win the regular season crown in the conference. A 1 seed is not totally out of the picture for this team because others are going to lose between now and tourney time. But its probably going to require us to win both the regular season and tourney in the ACC. hopefully we can pull it off.

also read about half of klosterman's eating the dinosaur today. good stuff, really enjoyable. the only dissappointing thing is reading it really makes we wish I had a chance to dialogue with the writer. A lot of the stuff he writes I agree with, and some of it I don't, but either way a back and forth discussion would be immensely enjoyable. That kind of niche intellectual stimulation is rare and always leaves me thinking about a lot of things. that's pretty vague but it's a blog so what'd you expect?

need to get my grind on as I've only logged in about 16k hands so far this month.

here's another pic, from the maine coastline this summer when I took a drive with my sister to get some good seafood:

I'm on a Mission, that n*****z say is Impossible...But when I swing my swords they all choppable

got hit with the deck after my third straight day of run bad. now even for the month. time to let my liquid swords take over. big days of grinding coming up.

oh and I like the colts in the superbowl, I'd probably just bet them straight moneyline (which I know sucks but it's prolly the right bet). But if you gotta go with the saints then you might as well bet the over too (56.5) because I don't see them winning a low scoring game. If you can find any place that still has the colts at -4 or closer snap that up. It's going to end up being -6 by game time.

frustrating start to the month

was up 5k in about an hour yesterday mass tabling FR, finished down $500. At first I felt like I must have been playing horribly, but looking back at the session it was mostly coolers. for the most part when I had a SDable hand I lost. my attempts at bluff catching were no good, and I lost pretty much every medium to small pot.

overall really frustrating, but I'm planning on grinding a lot this month so I'll just have to get past it and move on.

hand reading not the strength of 1/2 PLO players

So ive been playing some 1/2 6max plo on tilt just to mix it up every once in awhile. I still very much don't know what i'm doing, and I'm very bad at folding preflop (42/28/9 style ftw) but I find that I have a pretty large edge in the games just because my experience in NLHe gives me a better understanding of bet sizing and hand reading than most of the regs. for the most part these guys play fairly transparently but I would assume if I play enough they'll realize how loosely and aggro I'm playing and start to play back at me. until then I'll just keep running them over from late position.

my winrate through about 3k hands is something like 19ptbb/100 which is pretty absurd and obviously totally unsustainable. But I wouldn't be surprised if my actually winrate in these games was close to 10ptbb/100. Now I'm sure if I moved up to 2/4 the regs would immediately be much better and I'd probably be breaking even at best. but for now while I'm still mucking around and learning the game I think I'm profitable in these small stakes games.

hoping to have a heavy month of grinding in february since I didn't play as much as I would have liked in January. Just under 60k hands overall and I'd really like to be closer to 100k each month this year.

other than that not much to report. duke was pitiful on saturday and I was really dissappointed in our defense and offensive rebounding. Just not good. I thought we let the officials take us out of the game early on, but it's up to the coaches to get the players to adjust to the way the game is being played and called, and they clearly didn't. Zoubek had by far his worst game of the season, and the plumlees weren't much better. We can't beat good teams with 80% of our big men playing awful.

thats all for now. taking a break and then htiting the NL tables. probably play on stars.

later