yardle’s poker blog

As some of you may know, my roommate and I recently launched the website Threehundredchips.com. It’s purpose is to advertise our super turbo coaching program as well as provide our current students with extra material and to help manage the business side of things with them more efficiently. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I encourage you to do so.

Since launching, I’ve been kept quite busy. I’m now spending a good amount of time answering emails, coaching, talking to people on skype, and adding new things to the website in addition to the time I spend actually playing poker. So far, I’m enjoying the extra responsibilities and the time I get to spend teaching others. I think it will only help my own game.

Next month is gonna be a storm. In addition to all my new responsibilities, I’ll be shooting for 6,000 games next month. A big reason for this goal is to give the current students an idea of what kind of volume is possible in a given month. The other reason is to get myself set up financially for the holidays. I know it’s a bit early to be thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas, but, if I grind hard this next month, I may be able to take an entire month off (or at least play really low volume) and spend some quality time at home.

wow, i just realized that i typed up this entire post using capital letters… i guess writing all those e-mails has had an effect on me. i promise it won’t happen again.

last monday (exactly one week ago) i had one of the worst experiences i’ve ever had playing poker. i lost about $1200 in a matter of 2 hours playing $20 sngs. it was quite brutal and i’m thankful i got out of it without breaking anything.

the next day i decided i was going to sentence myself to 1000 $10 games no matter what. well, i finished those 1000 games today, as seen below.

i’m not sure that i’m going to jump right back into the $20s just yet, but it’s nice to know that i can always move down in limits and still make almost $1/game + rakeback.

i’m going to attribute some of my success to my grind music from the last week. i got to hear rodrigo y gabriela at the greek theatre here in los angeles about a week ago and ever since then i’ve had them cranking through pandora while i play. if you’ve never heard of them before, make sure you check them out in the video below. they’re badass. here’s a link to my pandora station as well: http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh280559040645036880

sorry for the lack of updates. i’ve been running about as bad as possible over my last 2000 games so i’m currently in super grind mode to work myself out of it. good luck me.

hopefully we’ll talk soon…

today i began employing a new strategy to handle my run bad.

i call it, ‘wearing deodarant.’

i know it’s lame, and i encourage you to laugh at me and leave comments about how dumb i am.

basically wearing deodorant means you don’t sweat boards while you play. real quick, for my non poker playing readers, sweating a board basically means that i would be watching every card that comes out while all my chips are in the middle to see if i’m going to win the pot or not. after you see what cards your opponent has made his move with (for note taking purposes), it’s COMPLETELY USELESS to watch the outcome. you can’t control what happens next so it makes more sense to focus your attention to other tables that require decisions.

so far it has worked for me over a tiny sample. when i bust, all i see is the message that pops up asking me if i’d like to register for another game, rather than the one outer that hit the river and watching all the chips being shipped to the donk that called me too light on a bubble for the millionth time. psychologically, it’s just easier to click the ‘ok’ button than watch the suckouts.

anyway, if you play a game that involves a lot of push/fold strategy, slather on some smell good and win some manies.

james