Chinese new year, family time, fortune teller, etc.

I think I forget how to play poker now. It's been a long time since I last played a hand. Online i mean. I actually played in a home game last night with my bro and a bunch of friends. I'll tell the story later.

For those of you who don't know, It's Chinese new year now. Today's the 4th day of the new lunar year. I've been home for almost a week now and it's been fun and hectic. It's always nice to have my whole family together for more than a couple of days. I met some old friends from high school and saw a lot of uncles, cousins, etc, whom I haven't seen since my bro's wedding in 07. I'll try to post some pics if I can find them. I also took a video of dragon dance that took place at my house. I'll try to figure out how to post a video for you dumbass Americans who's never seen that stuff.

I got home last night after meeting some friends and was surprised to find out my bro was playing holdem with his friends. They play with $1 ante, no blinds, and spread limit $1-$10. I played for a couple of hours and won $360 lol. They'll call you down with A2o and spike an ace and 3bet your ass. I think I lost a lot of value on a couple of hands when I thought that there's no way I could have a best hand and they surprised me almost everytime. It was fun though. I'm definitely getting a set of chips for them and teach them how to 'properly' run a game.

Went to a fortune teller today. My sis in law swears that she's the best. Well, good news. Some girl will probably come after me this year. I'll most likely have a kid this year. And I'm gonna have a career year this year. cts, durr, ivey, etc please step aside.

Jan 21

Not a bad day I guess. Finally got out of the slump I was in. Win rate for the month went up to 2.61BB now. I can't for the life of me figure out how some people are able to beat nl50 for more than 4BB long term. I must suck for real. Not that I'm not happy with my result so far but I'll take anything more than 3BB for sure if I can help it. Been trying to catch up with the videos lately and hopefully I can catch up enough until my membership with Stox runs out in May.

82935 vpp til supernova. 56k+ fpp so far.

Jan 19

Much better today. Still sick like a motherfucker. I'll take 6 bi in less than 3k hands any day. I'm probably not gonna play today in my drug induced state of mind. May mistaken 66 for AA.

Pics from Luna Bar

Here are some pics as promised. Went to this bar in KL called Luna Bar. It's at the rooftop of a Hotel I think. Has probably the best view in town and it's right next to KL Tower. Probably the most fucking expensive place you can go to have fun. Cover is 50rm and that includes one drink. One beer costs 30rm. Insane prices. And for a place with that kinda decor and view, why play fucking techno music? It's too loud for a place that's supposed to be comfy with nice views. Well, the views are awesome. If the music were different then I think the experience could have been much better.


That's Chloe, one of the best friends I found since I came back to Malaysia.


KL Tower, right next to the building where Luna Bar is.

Jan 18

Basically, my session went like this yesterday. Lost total of about $180 in 3 pots, 2 to 2 outers, 1 to a 4 outer. Top set lost to bottom set. Two set over sets when I had the lower set. $80 all in preflop with AA against KK. How I ended up even, or up $40, whatever, I had no idea. Well, I can't say I had a bad day because after all that I still didn't lose. Weird thing is I'm not even tilted at all, not even a little. The last session was weird too. I seriously didn't win any big pots at all yet somehow I ended up winning almost 3 bi.

I'm still sick. Coughing a lot last night, couldn't even sleep. So I went to the same doctor again and got some pretty good drug. She said it'll help me sleep. So I came home from the clinic and started some tables and about 15 minutes into the session I took the meds that she gave me. After about 10 minutes I was like wtf is this shit? I didn't feel anything at all and wanted to take a little more of those meds. Thank god I didn't. In a few minutes that shit hit me so hard. I had a really hard time to finish up the session and as soon as I was done with it I was out cold. I mean I had the best 8 hours sleep ever. There could be a fire or earthquake and I'd still be sleeping. Maybe I need to play while I'm high from now on since I won some pretty ok moolah during that stretch.

Genting, PokerPro, throat infection and stupid table games....

Went up to Genting for a couple of days with a few friends. Played the PokerPro machines for the first time and I have to say I like the machine a whole lot. It eliminates a lot of dealer mistakes and there's no confusion about bet sizes, stack sizes etc. Didn't mean the game was faster than normal games though. People still takes ages to make a decision sometimes. I ran ok overall I think. Played a couple of hands bad but it was small pots so it's not that big of a deal. Got my KK cracked by QQ all in pre flop for about 1600. Overall up only a couple of hundred bucks but I think I paid way over 500 bucks in rake lol. The rake is 5% no cap, go beat that game.

Right before I went up to Genting I started to feel sick. Saw a doctor before the trip and turned out I have a throat infection. No way it's from all the smoking. Anyway, with fever and all, I decided to go to Genting anyway to get some fresh air and smoke while I gamble. Who says I don't make good decisions in life?

And by the way, fuck the stupid table games. That texas holdem table game is probably the most -ev and stupid game ever. But everyone won money except me so I guess I should shut up.

Yesterday

I don't think I've ever been this tilted in a long time. I think I lost every single pot bigger than 20bb during the second half of the session. I spilled some drinks onto my desk and thank god it's kinda far away from my laptop.