Statement of Purpose/Winning Streaks

Two sessions to report:

Sunday
Aladdin $1-2 NL
6 hours
+ $300

Saturday
Aladdin $1-2 NL
7 hours
+ $100

NC John catches his flight today so for now the sidebet race is suspended and he leads by four. What a Luckbox. (From Saturday's session, AAAJ4 board, $30 in the pot, guy leads out for $10 with a jack and John raises $200 more with the case ace and gets called. $200 more!!!)

Instead of writing about the weekend sessions I'm going to explain the purpose of this blog, insofar as there is one and I'm aware of it.

Until recently I had credit card debts eating away at my bankroll. Like it was $30K at one point. These debts are now cleared, and at the end of last year I decided that I would give myself a year to do something better with poker than just support myself. If I had been more committed I would have done that by now anyway, despite the debt. I saw that sandviper23, a friend of mine who plays for a living, started a poker blog, and I decided it was a good way to get myself thinking about poker the way I need to be thinking about poker to succeed. Plus I like to write. Sometimes I express myself better in writing than any other way.
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I know having a big winning streak doesn't make you a great player. There are some very aggressive players with big swings who may never have long winning streaks but who will still have better overall EV than a player who books small wins like a machine.

But huge winning streaks are still cool and I have had a couple of them.

The first I will call the Party Sit N Go Streak. This was when I first started playing for a living, just before I moved out to Vegas. I had a bad day playing limit holdem and decided to try the Partypoker 10-player No Limit Sit N Go's. That was a very good idea. I have never really played limit holdem since. This was late 2004, the Golden Age of Party Poker SNG's. I played four tables at once, $30-entry 10-player SNG's. Every time a table started, there would be a three-way preflop all-in on the first hand between QJ, 55, and A6 suited. I remember one time I started four SNG's at the same time and won all four. Nowadays the SNG's are a lot tougher. You have half the players sitting there with their charts printed out from 2+2 telling them if A8 offsuit is worth a push on the cutoff 4-handed with the blinds at 50-100. Anyway, back in the day I won every day for over a month-and-a-half, about 40 straight sessions.

The other winning streak I will call the Korean Girl Winning Streak (KGWS). This was early 2006 and I was seeing this Korean chick, and from the time I met her until the time I broke up with her I never lost. That was 36 straight sessions of live action poker in Las Vegas casinos. Looking back on the KGWS I had no really good reason to break up with her and I guess it proves I'm not superstitious but that maybe I should be.