New Diet!

Well here it is:

Just kidding but as an online poker grinder, we do need our fair share of energy drinks, juices and snacks ready for a quick bite during breaks and I'm sure most won't disagree with this.

Micro Millions Half way...

Although the timing for lots of these events isn't quite suitable for players in Asia, I'm trying to play as many events as I can, so started with event 1 which was scheduled for midnight CCT time, I was quite tired that day so I went to bed 2 hours before the event and set up an alarm..

Event 1 attracted a huge field given the extremely small buyin and it was as PS named a rebuy madness 6max event, Pokerstars team online pro Jorj95 and Bryan Huang quickly grinded a big stack and so did I, from the starting 50 chips, I ended the rebuy period with 7000ish and this is how I finished overall:

My next 2 cashes would be in event 25 $1 and 39 $8.8, with respectively, 2 deep runs:

Mid March, Medium March!

I’m no stranger to the grind, not only poker wise but in life in general, therefore I know for a fact that nothing comes easy unless you fight for it and put to use every single fiber in your body trying to reach your goals.

We’re half way into the month and it hasn’t been the best nor the worst month of poker, I’m slightly down on my ROI% but hopefully things will start taking a better turn the 2^nd half…

I’ve been very deep in a dozen of tourneys recently but no final tables due to unfortunate coolers and bad beats but nevertheless, I’m very excited about the Micro Millions series starting in 2 days, been playing a lot of satellites, mostly hyper-turbos 6 max and I really hope for a good run during the entire series, fingers crossed.

On the other hand, I was quite pumped up to hear about the China Poker Carnival with 1 million RMB GTD (Around $160K USD), but unfortunately, the main event is a an invitation only tourney and I wasn’t able to get my hands on a ticket…well that’s a bummer, I will post during the weekend for an update about how I’m doing in the Micro Millions series, until then, may the poker gods shine on you and I.

Poker gods turning their backs...

I'm sure there are tons of poker players who will relate to this post but I'm so blown away by how bad I'm running, I'm sort of speechless and experience some creative numbness and brain freeze but not the fun kind of way so I will get back to this a little later...

I'm back and still trying to put the words together, maybe some hands will speak better:

This hand happened in a $.55 tourney that had ~!260 entrants and we were down to the last 19..

And so the grind keep on..

February...What a month, didn't realize it was over until it actually was. I managed to complete 1 out of 3 for my January goals but that's more like 1 out of 2 since one wasn't available anymore so it's as follows:

Goals for Feb:

• Move up to 1.5$ 45/90 man

I moved up and ran at 20% Roi over 300 games, which is like 80~90% increase from January in volume, they were mostly $1 Turbo 90man and  $1.5 Turbo 45 man with 16% ITM finish% and 21 1st~3rd places finish which I'm not overly excited by, I'm pretty sure I could've done better but I also ran like crap for like 10 days total, I will keep playing these until I feel I have a secure BR for the next level and will move up accordingly, I've crushed the $3.5 level before and did pretty well at the $6.5 as well so it's no unfamiliar territory, just wanting to it right this time, bankroll management wise.

• Try to get a seat to APPT Seoul

It's been more than half year since my last post and here I am again,  near the end of last year, I started coaching a colleague of mine and it got me back playing seriously, reading a lot of poker related stuff and working on my focus which translated in a great 1st month of January 2012 come back taking it from the basics, slowly but surely, the way it should be done.

Here are the stats for my January sessions:

ITM: 33/175
IMT %: 19%
1-3 Finishes: 17
Finished Late: 13%
Prizes: 132$
Average BI: 0.51$
ROI%: 47%
Profit: 42$

Goals for Feb:

1. Move up to 1.5$ 45/90 man
2. Try to get a seat to APPT Seoul
3. Make the top 10 at least once in the weekly Asian Poker League

That's it for now, wish me luck and good luck on the tables!

Quick Run Down

Just wanting to post about the photoshoot I did along with TPT poker players for GQ Magazine Taiwan, here's some snapshots:













Here's a scan of the actual article:

And last but not least, I'm very happy to receive the following email for Pokerstars, which states that I ranked top 10 for the tournament leader board in Taiwan and that I'm invited to compete for the World Cup of Poker 2012 in Bahamas after qualifying online, fingers crossed!!!