These pictures simply don’t justify how awesome this TV is……

Just a quick update. I recently did an interview for pokertips.org.

Here's the link


If you haven't noticed by now, I'm a pretty brutally honest guy when it comes to my life, and posting these blogs. When they asked what would've happened to me if poker hadn't worked out for me or if I hadn't found it, my answer was "I'd probably be dead."

As over dramatic as it may seem, I have fairly strong convictions that, if I hadn't found poker, that would've been the case.

Poker came into my life just at the right time. As most of you know by now, I was 16 and begun undergoing a series of operations that were torturous, mentally and physically. I feel as though without poker I could have easily became a statistic.

I received a lot of criticism from a blog I wrote awhile ago, "How I got into poker part 3.5." I really just want to say that most of that entry was copy-pasted from my logs back from when I was 17. It really was the worst time of my life and I'm somehow still with us today.

Let’s see what’s been going lately…

Saturday I slept through the morning tournaments…including the FTOPS $2,500….sigh. I woke up at 3pm and it started at 2pm. Bleh. I decided to just skip the day, and ended up driving around. I soon found myself at the Mall, buying a Playstation 3 with a handful of games and Blu-ray movies. It looks as though the HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray war is over, and Blu Ray has won, so I went ahead and bought a PS3, which has a built in blu ray player, and is nearly the same cost as a stand-alone blu ray player.

Why get a PS3 now? Well, I figured I may as well upgrade to the Blu Ray format with the addition of my new television…..which should be arriving in just about two hours.

Yep, that’s right…the Best Buy Geek Squad is scheduled to come over at 8am to install my new television. I bought the Pionner Kuro 50in Plasma Flat Panel HDTV. It’s been called the best television on the market, and I’m pretty damn excited to get it installed.

The Geek Squad’s going to be mounting the 50in beast onto my wall, and then connecting it to surround sound.

The great part?

Well, instead of having speaker wire, A/V, and HDMI cables hanging around they’re going to be drilling holes in the walls (yes, it’s allowed in my apartment, haha) and concealing the cables - it’s going to look amazing, and of course I’ll post some pictures when it’s finished.

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Although I didn’t play in as many tournaments as I did last Sunday, I still managed to enter quite a few. I stopped registering at 8:00pm, as opposed to last Sunday, when I registered til midnight. I ended up making a decent sized final table, but took 9th for $2,250. Despite that finish, I still lost around a thousand on the day (which is basically breaking even). I had a couple close calls and got pretty unlucky in some critical spots, or else the tone of this entry would be very different. I can’t really complain though. Overall the last few weeks my results have been very satisfactory, I’ve made a lot of money, and I feel as though I’m improving as a player.

I’m not sure how much poker I’m going to be playing this week. I have a Dr. Appt, as well as an appointment with my accountant. I also have some plans with some friends. I’m hoping I’ll find a good balance between grinding the online tourneys and having a social life.

Later guys,

-Adam Junglen

Well, it took a long time, but I finally found the EPT Barcelona produced coverage online. The final table isn’t uploaded yet, but the first 2 episodes are on Pokertube right now.

Here’s the link to the first episode. If you scroll down you’ll be able to see the following episodes (so far there are 2 uploaded, each into quarters).

I’m only involved in 2 big hands, but it’s interesting to watch the entire thing, because you’ll be able to see that my opponent was really tilting when he 4-bet me AIPF with QJo and I made the call with ATo. The other hand I’m involved in was the huge value bet I made on the river with QQ on the KJxxx board. I made a huge pot sized river bet vs the perfect opponent and he paid it off. Be sure to check it out.

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I’ve been making a lot of videos for PokerVT, and am flying Vegas to work in the VT studio on March 4th. I might extend my trip out on the west coast for a few extra days, but I’ll be there to do some interviews, as well as some instructional work.

I guess that’s about it for now. Ray’s currently in LA, so I have the place to myself. Tomorrow there’s a bunch of big MTT’s, including a 2 day event on FTP, the FTOPS $2,500 - so assuming I’m awake (I swear to god if I sleep through….), I’ll be in there.

Good luck at the tables everyone and thanks for reading,

-Adam Junglen

Today I grinded out a TON of tournaments.

I was actually running horribly in all of the bigger buy-in tournaments. I won’t bore you with specific details, but I was extremely frustrated with how the day was going. Despite all the horrible beats, I played almost every tournament with a buy-in > $50 that was registering from 4pm - 12am. I felt as though I was playing well and the fields were extra big today, making the prize pools even juicer.

Well, I did end up taking 2nd place in the PokerStars $50+5 50k Guarantee. I’m still really frustrated that I lost the heads-up match, as I had my opponent down several times, and then the final hand got the money in as a slight favorite (Overs + FD vs pair), and I couldn’t win the flip. I did make some mistakes HU and was able to recover, but in the end my opponent prevailed. $10k is still a nice payday.

I’ve made quite a bit of money the last few days, so I certainly can’t complain. I’ve also truly earned the scores - as I’ve been grinding out a ton of tournaments. February 6th and 10th combined I’ve played over 50 multi-table tournaments, which is more than I played in December and January combined.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned it in a previous post, but moving out has obviously increased my motivation to crush online tournaments. I’m feeling really great about my game and hope to take down a big score real soon.

Later,

-Adam Junglen