F being positive, it's pointless. I am pretty much cursed. I get coolered 24/7 I have put in enough volume to realize that it's not isolated.

Tonight, QQ to KK ITM for top 10 stack
TT to KK HJ to SB ITM
AKss into KK


you'd think eventually things would turn around, or I'd actually suck out once, nope.

F it

Not playing again until at least Sunday this is not even fun anymore.

I don't usually blog here on pocket5s, I just use my own blog that no one reads, but it gives me an outlet...

Maybe I'll start doing some short posts here on P5s. Seems to work for cracker9ball.

A little background on fratzner. I am 28, I work as a research associate in the dying field of organic chemistry at a bio-based material company in Michigan. I play poker most nights, because I work away from my g/f of 4+ years as she is getting her PhD in biochemistry doing basically biophysics and protein chemistry at Notre Dame where I got my MS. It sucks being away every week and only getting to see her most weekends, but I thought it would give me a great opportunity to focus on poker more hopefully earn some supplemental income to pay of students loans and other junk.

Well, 2011 is off to a poop start. It seems like every time I get semi-deep something happens. I haven't been winning the huge flip that can catapult me to the top 3 finishes that we all covet. The one time I thought for sure I was going to win, FTP server crashed, but not for everyone in the world, so the game continued and I ended up going from 6/15 with AA to blinding out in 6th.. FTP still has yet to respond to many of my e-mails, it's obvious quite a few others disco'ed too because there is no way I should have made it to 6th if all 15 people were around. I just want to have that bink moment. I don't have illusions of winning the sunday million, I am a 55fo and under player, I just want to get a 4-figure score this year so I can begin to build. I am a firm believer that winning breeds winning.

GL

So, I am really going to make a concerted effort to keep blogging. It seems to be very therapeutic for most poker players I know. Hopefully it will help me focus as well.

So, I haven't posted in... 6 months? Holy shit, worst blogger of all time. I have been extremely busy however, with school mostly as well as other just life stuff. I am working in the lab hopefully trying to get some reactions to actually work. The good news is, that recently the reaction that I have spent pretty much my entire summer on has started working with a lot more frequency and this upcoming week I plan on scaling it up to a pretty large scale so I can get full characterization on it and have a key compound that will the basis for my Master's Thesis that I need to write up here in the next month. After that, who knows? Maybe I will continue on to work on my PhD. work here at Notre Dame, if not I am not sure what I want to do. This area of Northern Indiana unfortunately doesn't have a shit ton of jobs for MS Organic Chemists and I would easily move somewhere if it wasn't for the fact that I live with my girlfriend who is smarter than me and will be getting her PhD. in Biochemistry from this University sometime in the next 2.5-3.5 years. Leaving her right now isn't something that I want to do, I don't really feel like being one of those couples that need to travel to see each other every weekend if I happen to get a job in Indianapolis or Chicago. Long distance for 2.5-3.5 years is -EV for sure.

Poker-wise I have been pretty fortunate to get to meet as many people as I have considering I am a super donk. I was really hoping to improving my game in '08 and so far, a little over half a year, I have done that. What I am starting to realize more everyday is, how much more I need to learn. Also, what I am learning is that this game is a whore, a dirty whore that usually just gives you the HIV. I shouldn't bitch too much, I have made some money this year even though I am stuck in the biggest downswing of my life at the time. Before Jan. 1st I had one count them 1 4 figure score in my life. It was in the Grand Prix on PokerRoom like 2 summers ago. I remember it well because it was the same day I was updating the blog for my good friend and poker bff Jeremy Gaubert as he was playing in his first ever WSOP Main Event in 2006. Well, since the beginning of the year I have had 4 figure scores on 8 separate occassions. I am still chasing that elusive 5 figure score but have been painfully close the last couple of months. My biggest scores have been wins in the Full Tilt Poker 32k guaranteed for $7050 and I also won the FTP 28k guaranteed for $6950. I also have won the UB 10k bounty for $3100 2 weeks ago. I have a 3rd in the FTP 50/50 for 4100. As you can tell I run good on Full Tilt usually. My best scores on PokerStars have been a 3rd place finish in the 3r a month or so ago for 2700 which took 11hours, and was so disappointed that I didn't win it because it was apparent as we were down to two tables that I was the best player in that tournament at that point and I had chips. Lost a couple of races and then I was unfortunate that the big stack woke up with AQ when I had A9 3-handed, I know it may sound like I am donk for putting my life on the line with A9 there, but I had been opening up a lot of pots weak with the big stack in the bb. I thought when he re raised me on the 3rd or 4th straight time I had raised his bb he might be doing it light out of spite. No, it just turned out he was a weak tight pussy and got lucky to have a hand. Also on PokerStars I have final tabled the 50/50 in the last month, to get 9th! ARG. So disappointing, it was during double guarantees week and first was 16.5k. I walked home with only $1133. Everything else has been pretty standard for me so far this year. I still run horrible, but there have been times when I run like Carl Lewis and those have been the tournaments I have gotten very deep in. Since the beginning of the year where I started at about 50th percentile on Pocket5s.com in mtt tournaments, I have now gotten myself into the 95th percentile. I still am chasing the dream however.

I owe a lot of my success to my poker bff Jeremy Gaubert. Most people know him as "thechemist83" in the online world. He is an extremely good player and I have known him for a long time dating back to our Pokerroom days. Well I was home in Omaha at my parents house over Christmas this year, and I was thinking that I wanted to really try to play more and better poker. On December 3oth Jeremy asked me if I would be interested in being backed by him and another player, as they were going to start their own backing business. I was like, hell yeah! Apparently that was some sort of lucky charm, because that day Jeremy went on to chop the 1k buy in Sunday Million for a whopping 233k! Thanks to him, I have been introduced to a lot of good players who I now am able to talk poker with and improve my game, and to my own fault bitch about my shit luck to as well, which I am sure they are all pumped about. I am really fortunate to have the network that I do. I also gotta tell everyone about Jeremy's sick run in teh WSOP this year. He came up a little short as he got busted my Mike Matusow in the Main Event in the 58th place when J's AK ran into Mikey's JJ and the flop came J 66 or something. Thanks for the sweat... At least this year he should get some TV time. He also played on Phil Hellmuth's table for a bit, even though he didn't manage to piss him off like everyone else did. It'll make for some fun watching the event though. Hopefully next year I will get my shot.

I am going to be extremely busy the next 2 months of my life, and I am hoping to get as much poker in as I can during that time frame, but we will see. I am going to KC on the first of August for a Bachelor Party that'll be a fun weekend. Then I am back here at home for 2 weeks until the 15th when I fly out to New York for my first and last Yankee game at Yankee's Stadium. My friends and I have never been there and we are running out of time, so we had to get out there for this game. Then 2 weeks after that I may be going to San Diego to head to a Padres game and just see the sites as Kim will be there for a conference. I have never been to California so that would be cool.

Other than that, all I have done in the last 6 months is put a hole in my wall, break my computer a couple times. Overall, a good time. Seriously though, I am trying to chill out and just play better and be more calm.

I am gonna try to update this a lot more in the future with poker as well as other life things. Thanks for reading.