Career Potential Challenge: Immediate Impact for Goods vs. Long Term Impact for Goods

(Immediate Impact for Goods):

* Apply to Google



I have decided to further pursue my computer science career as I feel more successful and more enjoyable than winning a lot of money on poker while sitting on my computer fulltime. I have decided to pursue further opportunies in order to strengthen my primary career

(Long Term Impact for Goods):

* Further Develop Personal Engineering Protfolio Website
* Start a Small IT Business with My Smart and Passionate Roomates



I went to the Google Technical Talk in the University of Colorado at Boulder with my friend Seung Bin, who is currently junior majoring in computer science. I was there not only for my personal intellectual reasons or whatever but it was also to help him see the exposures I wish I had while I was junior in the college.

I was on my way to walk into the room and saw a recruiting coordinator greeting everyone. I said “Hi xx (Privacy reason)” and she goes “Hello Jay”. I saw her 1-2 times during the past career events and asked for resume help once. I have never seen her again face to face. It was really surprising to perceive the passion of the people on their job. Everyone had own character and acted friendly while being very passionate and professional on what they do. I mean let’s face it - she probably sees probably over 100 people and she is telling me she remembers (at least tries) to remember everyone and treat each one of them in professional manner. I asked her why my PHD student friend, who got recently employed at Gooogle did not attend to this tech talk because I was honestly expecting to see him again =)

Out of all the Google tech talk I have ever went, I have to say this one was the most informative and well organized one I have ever attended. It is not just because I have received a special greeting from the recruiting coordinator. Everything was well organized and went very smooth. I am taking my time to say thank you to Google and ACM for organizing this and make it actually happen!

Career Prioritizing: $2/4 -> $1/2

I have been through a lot of things during the past a few weeks of my life not only one poker and I have to say it has been tough and traumatic but I am writing this blog to appreciate, record, and remind what I have learned and gained from my past experience.

Now I think about it playing $2/4 is the border line where one needs to decide to play poker pro for living or not. I have decided not to take that path and defined playing poker as my secondary job. However, I love to play too much winning consistently beating the $2/4 game almost 4BB/100 during last 3 months. Let's just say that I figured out the better way to live my life aside from money gained from the job or poker by going thorough my tough time.

I had a same type of decision back in the day when I first transfered to CU from CSU while playing Warcraft III professional sponsored by AMD. I was playing with Dayfly, Fov, Showtime, Lucifer, and other korean programers back in the day. I decided to completely quit playing Warcraft III after messing up the finals. I hadn't spent over 5 hours during that semester and my grade was all good (A-B+) then I messed up the final exam and put my GPA on jeoperdy.

I thought about the outcome of this and I convinced myself that I have to choose one or the other and I quitted Warcraft III (As LuxuryMaster quotes: "All or Nothing"). I have never looked back on myself back ever since same way I have never deposited money again on Pokerstars after losing 2-3 times of $50-100 deposits back since 3 years ago and probaly will not happen anytime on future.

Withdrawing over 75% my online bankroll from my online account was overall smart decision as it makes myself almost debtfree on my credit cards which I was forced to accumulate as I barely managed to pay my last tuition bill from CU. This however, is not saying "I am quitting Poker". I feel like I can never be able to quit as I see this game never get boring to me and socializing aspect is just amazing especially on Las Vegas live tables =)

Good Bye to Full Tilt Poker

I have decided to withdraw entire BR from FT as I don't need that much money sitting on there doing nothing. I still have enough BR left on PS to play $1/2 so it is fine. In the meantime, I will start enjoying more of real life. Plans are:

- Buy Mac Book Pro -> Get compensated with PS concierge service
- Enjoy the freedom of home working engineer -> Work at CU or Starbucks or wherever I want





I have also decided to choose just keep playing on Pokerstars as their support is so great. They have something called concierge service for Supernova player where they offer players to buy anything (no investments tho) and compensate with accumulated FPPs.



I got a MAC BOOK PRO 17'', the best one in the market in order to fully utilize my freedom. It is so nifty and awesome. I hated MAC because it was so hard to use. Now I become industry IT professional and can finally understand why its awesome. Knowledge finally started to empower on myself.

Promoted to: Home Working Software Engineer

I have been working at Translations.com's Boulder office for over 3 months now. I was actually only software engineer in the office as this office recently opened in the Boulder location and we have engineers working oversea and I recently felt no reason to come to office as we always communicate over the internet and I have been fully tranined by my manager over 3 months.

I asked my boss for the permission to work at home where I can feel more comfortable and be more productive. There were some reviews going back and forth with our senior developers on oversea. Based on my productivity and reliablity that I have shown since the first of my job, they granted my request and I am now working at home. Sweet ship it please!



After I hear back from him, I bought myself a top notch recliner that I can just sit back and relax while I am working. Price was little bit aggressive but I managed to bluff raise myself to buy it anyways. I also have realized that due to this, I now have more freedom in my life and no longer need to stress myself on poker income. I will now play poker as entertainment / supplement income value and I think this is very +EV choice for my overall life satisfaction.

I have been actively going to church over the weekend and there was a really famous pester coming from Chicago giving a speech about the topic called "hope". It was really overall satisfactive and he mentioned various quotations from the people during the speech who became really successful and how one should measure the degree of the success. Obviously the factor was not based on how much money they have made. There were one quotation that got stuck on my head, it was from John Pottter. I tried my best to translate into English =)

"The moment I felt most successful in my life is not when I actually climbed to the top of the Everlast, it was the moment I was walking down from the top of the mountain and envisioned what I further possibly can do with my success that I have archieved"

I decided to review my daily life and figure out if I am living my life successfully and it turns out there were so many leaks. I found myself way too busy during my daily life. For example, I work full time 5 days a week, playing heavy amount of poker over the weekend despite my recent success on the job and poker. Actually my friend Dwain actually first brought this up and I appreciate him tellng me this and provide me a reason to think back on myself. I just feel like I made right, strong and big decision on my poker career overall and confirmed myself that I am walking into the right direction with Jesus. As long as I feel myself walking into right direction, I believe I will be able to enrich further and become more successful.

Win Some Lose Some and Click Timebank Button

This August has been very interesting month for my poker career not just because I lost a lot of money but due to my new perception. I have had such a terrible run on my $2/4 (400NL) games during the late weeks of August. I am fully aware that I am not playing most opmital style and making some -EV plays. However, I know I am a winning player and had been winning over 10k/month over past 3 months and disciplined enough to grind from my $100 initial deposit for almost 3 years now to result my bankroll to up to where I am. Let's look at the graph of this month. Consider I average out to play about 2000 hands per day and pay very close attention to the spikes and downs. If you are a professional poker, you would say I am doing fine and its nature but to me, I mean its just insane to me =)

August 2008 BB/100: 1.18, NET: +$5,603.75


As shown above and suprisingly, I still did not end up losing at the end of the month and actually generated almost $6,000 profit on August. One thing to note from the graph is that I have had a big winning day/and small consecutive losing days. I particuallly do not think I tilted or played extremely bad on any of the sessions I played but it was great experience for me to realize the extreme swings on the game. It was frustrating due to just run of cards and I was just getting stressed way too much on my game because I put my chips on even when I am ahead and still end up losing. Now, let's look at some of the hands that I ran into.

PokerStars Game #20180670898: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/05 22:58:09 ET
Table 'Perseus II' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: gomaspt ($2138.65 in chips)
Seat 2: KingKoopa2 ($571 in chips)
Seat 3: Hyi_Vam ($443 in chips)
Seat 4: uYNamron ($400 in chips)
Seat 5: Jschlach ($489.55 in chips)
Seat 6: LuxuryMaster ($848 in chips)
LuxuryMaster: posts small blind $2
gomaspt: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [Ac As]
KingKoopa2: folds
Hyi_Vam: folds
uYNamron: folds
Jschlach: folds
LuxuryMaster: raises $12 to $16
gomaspt: calls $12
*** FLOP *** [8h Ah 8d]
LuxuryMaster: checks
gomaspt: checks
*** TURN *** [8h Ah 8d] [Jd]
LuxuryMaster: bets $28
gomaspt: calls $28
*** RIVER *** [8h Ah 8d Jd] [7d]
LuxuryMaster: bets $72
gomaspt: raises $128 to $200
LuxuryMaster: raises $604 to $804 and is all-in
gomaspt: calls $604
*** SHOW DOWN ***
LuxuryMaster: shows [Ac As] (a full house, Aces full of Eights)
gomaspt: shows [Td 9d] (a straight flush, Seven to Jack)
gomaspt collected $1693 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1696 | Rake $3
Board [8h Ah 8d Jd 7d]
Seat 1: gomaspt (big blind) showed [Td 9d] and won ($1693) with a straight flush, Seven to Jack
Seat 2: KingKoopa2 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Hyi_Vam folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: uYNamron folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Jschlach (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: LuxuryMaster (small blind) showed [Ac As] and lost with a full house, Aces full of Eights

PokerStars Game #20184312309: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/05 22:59:04 ET
Table 'Caubeta' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: brizzybreech ($398 in chips)
Seat 2: LuxuryMaster ($358 in chips)
Seat 3: iheartcoco ($386.70 in chips)
Seat 4: oceanbillly ($394 in chips)
Seat 5: Laxalicious ($648.40 in chips)
Seat 6: Greakfreak ($484.35 in chips)
LuxuryMaster: posts small blind $2
iheartcoco: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [8s 8c]
oceanbillly: folds
Laxalicious: folds
Greakfreak: calls $4
brizzybreech: folds
LuxuryMaster: raises $16 to $20
iheartcoco: folds
Greakfreak: calls $16
*** FLOP *** [Js Ah 3c]
LuxuryMaster: bets $32
Greakfreak: calls $32
*** TURN *** [Js Ah 3c] [8h]
LuxuryMaster: bets $76
Greakfreak: raises $356.35 to $432.35 and is all-in
LuxuryMaster: calls $230 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($126.35) returned to Greakfreak
*** RIVER *** [Js Ah 3c 8h] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
LuxuryMaster: shows [8s 8c] (three of a kind, Eights)
Greakfreak: shows [2h Jh] (a flush, Ace high)
Greakfreak collected $717 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $720 | Rake $3
Board [Js Ah 3c 8h Th]
Seat 1: brizzybreech (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: LuxuryMaster (small blind) showed [8s 8c] and lost with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 3: iheartcoco (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: oceanbillly folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Laxalicious folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Greakfreak showed [2h Jh] and won ($717) with a flush, Ace high


PokerStars Game #20185370330: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/05 22:58:44 ET
Table 'Hubei' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Bouge_Todd ($430.10 in chips)
Seat 2: great1974 ($246 in chips)
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster ($350.55 in chips)
Seat 4: miraculix06 ($473.60 in chips)
Seat 5: DaHellRaiser ($569.50 in chips)
Seat 6: sancaetano ($252.80 in chips)
miraculix06: posts small blind $2
DaHellRaiser: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [Ad Ks]
sancaetano: folds
Bouge_Todd: folds
great1974: raises $16 to $20
LuxuryMaster: raises $44 to $64
miraculix06: folds
DaHellRaiser: folds
great1974: calls $44
*** FLOP *** [9s 3c 2s]
great1974: bets $182 and is all-in
LuxuryMaster: calls $182
*** TURN *** [9s 3c 2s] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [9s 3c 2s 5s] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
great1974: shows [5c Ac] (two pair, Fives and Threes)
LuxuryMaster: mucks hand
great1974 collected $495 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $498 | Rake $3
Board [9s 3c 2s 5s 3d]
Seat 1: Bouge_Todd folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: great1974 showed [5s Ac] and won ($495) with two pair, Fives and Threes
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster (button) mucked [Ad Ks]
Seat 4: miraculix06 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: DaHellRaiser (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: sancaetano folded before Flop (didn't bet)

PokerStars Game #20185337793: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/12 4:02:11 ET
Table 'Fornax' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dave798111 ($1139 in chips)
Seat 3: Itz_ ($644.35 in chips)
Seat 4: LuxuryMaster ($370 in chips)
Seat 5: topgun1026 ($406 in chips)
Seat 6: babyhoss555 ($371.60 in chips)
Itz_: posts small blind $2
LuxuryMaster: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [Qd Qh]
topgun1026: calls $4
yymee has returned
babyhoss555: raises $12 to $16
dave798111: calls $16
Itz_: calls $14
LuxuryMaster: raises $52 to $68
topgun1026: folds
babyhoss555: folds
dave798111: folds
Itz_: calls $52
*** FLOP *** [Ks 5h 7c]
Itz_: checks
LuxuryMaster: checks
*** TURN *** [Ks 5h 7c] [Th]
Itz_: bets $101
LuxuryMaster: calls $101
*** RIVER *** [Ks 5h 7c Th] [8s]
Itz_: bets $272
LuxuryMaster: calls $201 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($71) returned to Itz_
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Itz_: shows [8d 8c] (three of a kind, Eights)
LuxuryMaster: mucks hand
Itz_ collected $774 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $776 | Rake $2
Board [Ks 5h 7c Th 8s]
Seat 2: dave798111 (button) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Itz_ (small blind) showed [8d 8c] and won ($774) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 4: LuxuryMaster (big blind) mucked [Qd Qh]
Seat 5: topgun1026 folded before Flop
Seat 6: babyhoss555 folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #20187440625: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/12 4:07:21 ET
Table 'Caubeta' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: DarDaugiau ($384 in chips)
Seat 2: daaaaaaan ($90.85 in chips)
Seat 3: G-De-Gus ($330 in chips)
Seat 4: donkydynamit ($540.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Ck1ko ($461.10 in chips)
Seat 6: LuxuryMaster ($775.30 in chips)
DarDaugiau: posts small blind $2
daaaaaaan: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [Tc Td]
G-De-Gus: folds
donkydynamit: folds
Ck1ko: folds
LuxuryMaster: raises $8 to $12
DarDaugiau: raises $32 to $44
daaaaaaan: folds
LuxuryMaster: calls $32
*** FLOP *** [9d 8h 7d]
DarDaugiau: checks
LuxuryMaster: bets $68
DarDaugiau: raises $272 to $340 and is all-in
LuxuryMaster: calls $272
*** TURN *** [9d 8h 7d] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [9d 8h 7d 5d] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DarDaugiau: shows [Th Ah] (a pair of Aces)
LuxuryMaster: mucks hand
DarDaugiau collected $769 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $772 | Rake $3
Board [9d 8h 7d 5d As]
Seat 1: DarDaugiau (small blind) showed [Th Ah] and won ($769) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: daaaaaaan (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: G-De-Gus folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: donkydynamit folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Ck1ko folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: LuxuryMaster (button) mucked [Tc Td]

PokerStars Game #20186865314: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/12 4:12:38 ET
Table 'Havnia' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: donkydynamit ($267.15 in chips)
Seat 2: dmbush ($400 in chips)
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster ($386.75 in chips)
Seat 4: LovEva ($595.80 in chips)
Seat 5: Sunking25 ($285.30 in chips)
Seat 6: Noahnick72 ($188.10 in chips)
Sunking25: posts small blind $2
Noahnick72: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [Kc Ks]
donkydynamit: folds
dmbush: raises $8 to $12
LuxuryMaster: raises $32 to $44
LovEva: folds
Sunking25: folds
Noahnick72: folds
dmbush: calls $32
*** FLOP *** [9h Jd 4c]
dmbush: checks
LuxuryMaster: bets $64
dmbush: calls $64
*** TURN *** [9h Jd 4c] [6h]
dmbush: checks
LuxuryMaster: bets $136
dmbush: raises $156 to $292 and is all-in
LuxuryMaster: calls $142.75 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($13.25) returned to dmbush
*** RIVER *** [9h Jd 4c 6h] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dmbush: shows [4h 4d] (three of a kind, Fours)
LuxuryMaster: mucks hand
dmbush collected $776.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $779.50 | Rake $3
Board [9h Jd 4c 6h 5s]
Seat 1: donkydynamit folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: dmbush showed [4h 4d] and won ($776.50) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster mucked [Kc Ks]
Seat 4: LovEva (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Sunking25 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Noahnick72 (big blind) folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #20185487411: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/26 4:17:41 ET
Table 'Malautra' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: gaIad ($544 in chips)
Seat 2: lavidaloca11 ($684.40 in chips)
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster ($783.40 in chips)
Seat 4: Bouge_Todd ($400 in chips)
Seat 5: Duckslayer2k ($400 in chips)
Seat 6: Mentosan ($619.40 in chips)
Mentosan: posts small blind $2
gaIad: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [Ks Kc]
lavidaloca11: folds
LuxuryMaster: raises $8 to $12
Bouge_Todd: calls $12
Duckslayer2k: folds
Mentosan: folds
gaIad: folds
*** FLOP *** [5c 2d 4h]
LuxuryMaster: bets $20
Bouge_Todd: calls $20
*** TURN *** [5c 2d 4h] [4s]
LuxuryMaster: checks
Bouge_Todd: bets $48
LuxuryMaster: calls $48
*** RIVER *** [5c 2d 4h 4s] [3d]
LuxuryMaster: checks
Bouge_Todd: bets $120
LuxuryMaster: calls $120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bouge_Todd: shows [9h Ah] (a straight, Ace to Five)
LuxuryMaster: mucks hand
Bouge_Todd collected $403 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $406 | Rake $3
Board [5c 2d 4h 4s 3d]
Seat 1: gaIad (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: lavidaloca11 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster mucked [Ks Kc]
Seat 4: Bouge_Todd showed [9h Ah] and won ($403) with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 5: Duckslayer2k (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Mentosan (small blind) folded before Flop

Imagine this type of situation happens almost simultaneously on 2-3 on my games during the last week of august and I was just getting frustrated on this and the swings are just overwhelming for me to handle. It's like losing my biweekly pay check within 10 minutes of the game and I am just getting way too stressed over this type of situation. I am fully aware it doesn't always happen but I just feel like I need some time off for now. Especially the first hand, it is actually bad beat jack pot if this hand was played on Full Tilt to rakehouse's bad beat insurance!

I have decided to cash out a lot of money from Pokerstars and decide to move down to $1/2 where I can feel confortable and beat the easy games after -$2k swing today. I always thought that bankroll management is the most important thing. However, I perceived that your emotion and managing your comfort zone is as important as bankroll management. I mean, I had this type of situations occuring during last 3 months of play but I always won it back at the end and thats why graph is just spiking if you see on my last post but just losing losing losing doesn't really cut it. I have patience and disciplines on my game but it became just for beyond the control. I actually take this circumstance positively due to this perception of swing on $2/4 and this is probably a very thin and tough border line that I have to across and cope if I were to manage myself to become part time poker professional which is what I am pursuing as my secondary job.

Recent Poker Thoughts

I was playing $1/2 until the end of April then I had to make a big cashout to pay my last tuition bill which resulted me to move down to $.50/1. After I get my job settled, I no longer had to cash out my winnings from my account because I now have full time job secured kicking pay check to my bank every month. This resulted me to play no more of scared money poker tight uh huh rock style anymore and in addition to good run of cards, I moved from $.50/1 to $2/4 within 1 month and half with only 2 hrs of day playing everyday =) Click here to download if you wish to see larger version of the graph.

June 2008 BB/100: 4.49, NET: +$13,992.45


July 2008 BB/100: 2.54, NET: +$11,193.00


Today, I was playing very good session with good run of cards and this one hand came across my mind which caused me to start thinking about my leak some more. The opponent is 15/11 TAG and I have him over 5,000 hands and my notes are saying that he never gets out of the line. Lets look at the hand.

PokerStars Game #19527214670: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/08/11 - 01:21:26 (ET)
Table 'Frigga II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: gandi9 ($451.95 in chips)
Seat 2: zawaaa ($240 in chips)
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster ($395.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Marius2910 ($306.85 in chips)
Seat 5: DCal Zone ($425 in chips)
Seat 6: jnpn ($731.30 in chips)
gandi9: posts small blind $2
zawaaa: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuxuryMaster [K A]
LuxuryMaster: raises $8 to $12
Marius2910: folds
DCal Zone: folds
jnpn: calls $12
gandi9: folds
zawaaa: folds
*** FLOP *** [9 9 A]
LuxuryMaster: bets $24
jnpn: raises $56 to $80
LuxuryMaster: raises $108 to $188
jnpn: raises $224 to $412
LuxuryMaster: calls $195.60 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($28.40) returned to jnpn
*** TURN *** [9 9 A Q]
*** RIVER *** [9 9 A Q 3]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
LuxuryMaster: shows [K A] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
jnpn: shows [7 9] (three of a kind, Nines)
jnpn collected $794.20 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $797.20 | Rake $3
Board [9 9 A Q 3]
Seat 1: gandi9 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: zawaaa (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: LuxuryMaster showed [K A] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 4: Marius2910 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: DCal Zone folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: jnpn (button) showed [7 9] and won ($794.20) with three of a kind, Nines


I read the book of TJ Courtier and he said: "Making a good fold is same as winning because by not losing the money in the situation where you would have if you had called". I completely agree with his line. He also talks about how good player extracts the most value out of the hand and I felt that the challenge is to find a border line between folding and call/raise.

With this in mind, thinking about this hand back, I think I could have played in two different ways, 3 bet with intention of shoving all in or fold to his raise. Now, considering how tight this opponent is, I should have leaned towards fold. I really don't think 3 bet shove is a bad idea but I felt like I am playing cards this way. You are pretty much committing money into the pot despite opponent's tendency and I didn't feel much of science and skill this way.

In same situation if the opponent is 26/20 LAG, I will more easily put the money into the pot as his range includes any ace, FD. I really think 3 bet + with intension of shove is better in this situation.

Poker is game of intellectual guessing. The reason I belive for my shove was incorrect against TAG was based on the observation of opponent's tendency. I felt like I just talked out of myself on this hand and put the money into the pot. Something to think about. Any comments on this would be great.

First Full Time Job - Transperfect | Translations.com

During the middle of May, I had to make a tough decision among my pending offers and pick a company to work for after I graduate from the college. I was invited by Microsoft to fly to Seattle, Washington for the full time job and I guess I wasn't good enough just yet. Damn working for Microsoft or Google was my dream as a software engineer but too bad I didn't make it. I still feel proud of myself because they sent about 2~3 people from the University of Colorado and I was among those top candidates that Microsoft had chosen. They had open eyes to see my potential!

Anyways, after careful consideration among my offers, I decided to work for this company called Translations.com. We provide software translations, localization, and any other translation service you can imagine. This company is the best IT translation company in the world and we work with Google, Microsoft, Cysco, Wellsfargo, and etc. I work as Java/JSP developer in the Boulder office. They offered me such a good salary and I saw a lot of learning challenging aspect that I can also gain while I am working.

The challenging aspect is I am the only Software developer in this office as other developers work remotely in the other locations of the office spread around the world. This is tough in the beginning. However, I have been picking up and getting myself used to the development process while gaining a lot of good experience. I will try to grasp and be more professional on what I do and hopefully I will be able to work from home soon enough.

River Runners (Buena Vista, CO)

I went to RiverRunners for rafting at Buena Vista, CO after partying all night on friday. Everyone was fairly tired and all but we all managed to go and have fun. There were some photographers in the middle side of the river and they took a lot of pictures while we were coming down through the river. I was agile enough to the photographers in the middle of the river and waved my hand although I almost fell off from the boat while doing so lol!

It was absoulutely becautiful and it was my first rafting experience and I loved it very much! Up and Down! sPlashing the water!!! b00M! It was so fun to irritate the other team's coach by splashing the water to them while we were going down. They will punish you with huge water splash with their huge row!





I would like to thank you for Sun and my other friends who actually managed to organize this and prepare food and etc. Too bad I couldnt stay up a night in the beatiful mountain with fresh air but I was just way too exhausted.





Pictures were really rip off. Check this out. Price was like single for $25, double picture was $40, group picture (like 6 pictures) was $50, and $90 for all 3 groups. I was like lol and guess what LuxuryMaster have done :) I decided to buy it anyways as it came out so well in such high quality. I lost the cd and had to ask for mail replacement which costed me another $15 but it is all good! For those of you who wish to see all the picture from all of our group, please click here to download! and gimme some hollas on this post after you get the pictures.

Good Bye CU

I finally graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder and received a BS degree on computer science and mathematics on May 09, 2008. When I was in my commencement ceremony, I had a flashback of memory when I first came to the United States on Feb, 2000. It has been a long journey for me as it has been very challenging financially, technically, and emotionally. When I first came to the United States, I spoke no English and was fortunate enough to meet a professional 30-years of experienced English teacher, Mrs. Sargent. I also remembered a moment where I had no money to buy the dinner and all I had left on my apartment was a piece of egg, a bowl of rice, and some soy sauce.



However, I have never gave up on myself and my future. I worked diligently and invested my time and effort in both my poker career and my education during last 3 years. Now I have a list of pending offers to choose from and will use those offers to negotiate the best possible salary once I decide the company that I will be working for. I feel very proud of myself. However, this is just another turning point of life for me. I will keep working my way up on both poker career and IT experience. My next goal is to play $2/4 and become a consistently winner and become a Google employee =)

I feel a little outdated on my posts but pictures are coming up pretty soon as soon as I get my camera cable from Ebay =)

Negreanu Explodes

What an art! check out the above interview with Daniel Negreanu conducted by Sik Tilt in Monte Carlo. Is this made up or 4real? What do you think? I laughed hardcore on this one.