Oxy\'s Tournament Adventu

Hey all,

So after a slight hiatus from posting, I'm back, and I've got some more updates.

First, I'm glad everyone enjoyed pictures of my setup. Penguin has been doing well, but his luckbox abilities are kind of shot at the moment. I haven't taken down a tournament yet except the one on day 3, but I'm going to re-double my efforts (yet again!). I'm planning on mixing up HU, 6M and FR at 50NL while playing tournaments for the rest of the week (starting Sunday). Additionally, I'm going to try and play HU high most of the time. I want to see how that goes. I find I am nearly tiltless and completely focused, making some sick reads when I play high recently. I had some brownies on Thursday and my session was pretty cool.

Given that I'm going to be playing cash a significant amount, and that my laptop still hasn't come back, would anybody be willing to purchase PT3 for me? I could pay you via Stars, but I don't have a CC. I believe there is an offer for PT3+PAHud for the price of PT3 only, so if anybody could arrange this for me, I'd very much appreciate it. I could even get you an autographed picture of Pengee (my luckboxing penguin).

Cheers.

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Stars has hit again with another sick promotion. They're doubling every millionth hand pot, with huge amount of VPP bonuses and such. Tournaments haven't been going great, and it's frustrating not to be able to do whatever you want when you want, and to be tied down to a game. I'm going to stop updates for a week and play less tournaments and more cash, because my bankroll is going lower and lower and I need some boostage.

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After a shitload of hassle, I finally picked up my monitor and completed my setup.









Penguin:

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Efficiency is an idea I've been dissecting for a long time. I feel in a constant battle against time to accomplish something, to learn, to achieve. Is efficiency healthy? All things in life require balance, so efficiency must as well, and thus productivity must be sacrificed for well-being and mental clarity.

I have proposed experiments for studying efficiency. For example, I desire to take a year off after CEGEP and attempt self-education for a year. However, much discipline is required to make the time worthwhile, and not waste it away. I need to test such an experiment this summer, to make sure I will not waste a year of my life stumbling around the world, travelling and seeing much, but learning only that I know nothing.

The things that currently interest me are literature, music, poker, my lovely girlfriend, and pot. I don't know whether it is safe to list pot as an interest, but let me analyse the idea more clearly...

I have been smoking pot for almost two years now, but only in the past months have I been smoking almost daily. Like all things, pot can be abused, but I still believe it is a relatively safe drug.I generally don't notice the side-effects, because during the school year I am a productive person, but this summer, pot has slowed me down. I rarely exercise anymore, I don't do much in a day, and my of my goals for the summer remain untouched. Therefore, it is necessary for me to take a step back and clear my mind.

This Sunday, I will quit pot for a week. I am going to make myself a schedule for every day, which includes poker, reading, exercising, and relaxing. I need to focus myself on achieving something, or otherwise, I will feel worthless in mid-August.

However, I do not think pot affects poker in a strictly negative way. I think there are lots of benefits to playing poker high; I've attempted it myself, at 1/2 FR while 24-tabling. Results vary - it is sometimes extremely profitable, as it allows for tiltless, unwavering, observative and careful play. Pot is affecting my life in a negative way in that I am unable to do much throughout most of the day since I just sleep for half of it. What would be interesting, however, is to smoke only when I play poker.

There are lots of jumbled thoughts here. A small update on how I'm doing: I haven't made any FTs or gotten 1st in any big tournaments yet, but I busted pretty deep in the 40k GTD today (45th), so I feel I'll get there by the end of the month.

Further, I'm getting my monitor tomorrow, and I'll post pictures of my setup and my luckbox (a little stuffed animal I got for my girlfriend, whom we have originally dubbed Penguin [he is a penguin]). It has helped my suck out massively in today's tournament, and I ever make a FT, he'll be with me.

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Hey guys,

Here's the plan:

I'm getting my new 24" monitor tomorrow, on which I'll be able to 6-table comfortably while browsing on my laptop (which should arrive in 2-3 weeks). However, I only want to play the big tournaments, the guaranteeds on Stars. Therefore, I'll play a mix of 2-3 tournaments with 3-4 cash games, 6-max.

The idea is I can play more continuously, i.e. not get bored if I'm only playing 1 tournament, and not see it as a waste of time if I bust out of the big money after having invested 4-5 hours. Hopefully I maximize profit in this way.

Wish me luck, this starts tomorrow!

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Hey all,

A couple of updates.

This past week has been pretty unaccomplished. I've gone deep in many tournaments, but haven't scored anything big. However, Stars is doubling all the guaranteed prizepools, so I'm going to attempt to take something down within the next few days. I don't know whether I'll be able to play Satuday, since my girlfriend and I are going clubbing, but I'll try my best to play some games in the morning.

I should be getting my 24" monitor tomorrow. I'm having trouble dealing with delivery companies; sometimes I feel the people working there are complete fucking retards. FedEx has generally been good, but Purolator and DSL are just plain fucking stupid. Purolator didn't deliver my package because "they didn't know the buzz-code in the lobby of my apartment building" and thus they required an "Address Correction" -- uhh, what? How hard is it to look around, beyond what is written in your manual, and think for yourself? There is giant panel in the lobby that lists everyone's code next to their name. I apologize to anyone who works for Purolator, FedEx, DSL, or any shipping company, but this is ridiculous. I'm not concerned with waiting for my monitor another day; I'm simply amazed at the sheer stupidity of the situation.

Anyway, I know I haven't been concentrating enough of my efforts on learning better tournament play. I have been watching some CR videos, but I should really focus on every single hand in the HoH books, and I need to start chipping up better in the early stages of tournaments (something Obender seems very good at).

On a final note, I'm finished with my period, but I still see scarring on the tip of my dick. This really sucks (or doesn't, rather): my girlfriend and I used to be long distance, and we wouldn't fuck for as long as two months. I thought that was the worst that could happen. I was wrong - there's nothing worse than being around a horny girl knowing YOU can't have sex. The past four days have been so painfully long...

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Hey all,

Played a lot of tournaments today. Got pretty deep in the $3R, but I busted 450/4.7k. I got really deep in it thanks to Obender, who is a very good tournament player. I hope to learn a lot from him.

Besides that, I busted in about 6 turbos with no money finish, and busted a bunch of other things which I really can't mention (been playing poker like 7 hours straight).

Take care kids.

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Hey all,

Two night-time musings:

First, I can't wait until my dick is all better. I haven't had sex in a fucking week and I'm going to start masturbating subconsciously in my sleep.

Second, I'm considering playing high poker, 6-tabling the $12 180-man turbos continuously for a day. Thoughts?

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Hey guys,

Played quite a few tournaments today. I played the Sunday Million for the first time, played a lot of $12 turbos, and the 20 GTD at 7, as well as the $3R. I do fairly well in the $12 180-man turbos, since it's so easy to get down to like 25 players (FT is usually after 1:30). I FT'ed two of them, though I busted 8th and 6th after getting coolered a bit. I also gave up on the 3R before the rebuy period, as I really just wasn't hitting. The 10+1 went alright, and I got down to 1.6k players, but at that point I was way too tired from playing so much today.

I'm going to go to bed after I watch some CR videos, of which I will attempt to give a summary tomorrow.

For now, I leave you with this hand:

Submitted by : Oxy

PokerStars Game #18632059189: Tournament #93747261, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (400/800) - 2008/07/06 - 18:15:15 (ET)
Table '93747261 394' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: superhero (14850 in chips)
Seat 2: Nemesis00678 (13225 in chips)
Seat 3: CBuk (22600 in chips)
Seat 4: UNC#1 (11725 in chips)
Seat 5: statipietosi (17950 in chips)
Seat 6: Grim Reaver (17650 in chips)
Seat 7: sector225 (30140 in chips)
Seat 8: Bati99 (25100 in chips)
Seat 9: Nartsa (43128 in chips)
CBuk: posts small blind 400
UNC#1: posts big blind 800

Holecards
Dealt to Grim Reaver
statipietosi: raises 1400 to 2200
Grim Reaver :

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