I obv am not writing my bachelor thesis on the impact of financial crisis on fannie mae... I did the donkey test cause I found it and was bored.
It tilted me so much when I saw the answers :
Like this question :
You're in the BB. Blinds are $1/$2 and everyone at the table has $50,000 in front of them. It is folded to the button, who raises to $7 but accidentally turns over his cards in the process.
You see that he holds:
He knows that you saw his hole cards. He did not see your hand. What range of hands should you call with? Which hands should you re-raise with?
Fold all hands.
Call with any two cards, and re-raise with KK, QQ, and JJ.
Call with any pair or suited connector.
Call with any two cards, do not re-raise with anything.
Call with any two cards, and re-raise only with KK.
Call with any two cards, and re-raise only with AA.
The last answer is supposed to be correct which I find totally retarded. I'd just flat (alto it's not mentioned what SB did, obv. he would have called but I assume he folded cause he's not in the scenario .wtf???)
I'd just flat, probably C/R flop, put the guy AI at some point with AA and let him sweat and fold in the end being xxxxx BB deep.
Also this:
5/10 NL cash game. $1,000 stacks. 6 handed. You raise from UTG with:
The big blind calls. He is a loose-aggressive player but has been check-folding to your flop bets during the last few rotations. Flop is:
Is this a good flop for you? What should you do?
Good flop, bet
Bad flop, check
Good flop, check
Bad flop, bet
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.......... Well... it's not the best flop in the world, it isn't bad too. But it's rather bad than good. Now the thing is that the player is "loose-aggressive player" and for some particular reason he's c/folded to my flop bets (so is he LAG or not ?)
My logic is that he is gonna finally c/r... beacuse he's LAG, and beacuse the flop is good to do so. Nevertheless, betting is the correct move. AGAIN ?!?
So am I loose or tight ??? I guess I own everybody cause I just formed a style LAT - Loose aggressive tight ! The whole package !!! YAY
Altough I believe it's better to have a plan, in case of Vegas the best plan would be not having one - cause I've no clue what to expect. The only thing I prepared is 120 pages of poker room decriptions from the web so during my flight I'll try to put them in order which to visit first.
I will be flying over on wednesday late night which is the 26th and on the 27th I'd like to buy laptop ( shops, or recommended model? ). Mine broke down and I'm sad And I will probably be sleeping after 24-hour travel, and if not I'll be making pictures and maybe play some.
On Friday the 28th my friend Natalie is coming over to Las Vegas to meet me, along with 2 female friends. Also, my friend Kelsey from Arizona will be coming over for the weekend as well with some friends hopefully. It will be nice to start Vegas adventure in a pimp style So ... pool,eat, cirque du soleil, eat, drink, fuck, sleep, repeat for 3 days
Since they booked Flamingo I'll stay there for 5 nights. I got some package for which I paid like 60$/night on avarage from Wed-Mon. I guess I'll extend my stay in Flamingo until Thursday and throughout Mon-Thu I'll be looking for some other hotel/place to stay. The price are picking up a bit starting early September and during the weekend it's like 150-200$ a night in 3star hotels @ strip. I'll try to ask poker room managers for some rate - I'll be playing 1/3->2/5 and 5/10 if I will be feeling comfortable.
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
The only thing that sux is that I'll have to be studying 2 hours a day ROFLFUCKCOPTER... I signed up for CFA exam level 1. The good thing is that I am motivated to pass it beacause... I don't have any choice. Here's why:
CFA exam is for finance students and it consists of 3 separate levels.
Level 1 can be passed during december, and june.
Level 2 can be passed during june only
Level 3 june only as well
So... I need to pass it in december, and then take 2nd level in june next year. Otherwise I'll be doing it 3 years MINIMUM if I will be passing them every time. I'm gonna look like a dumb fuck studying @ the pool, or pherhaps in a buffet but w/e. I'll check Nevada State University library if it's available and maybe I'll just grind once a week.
Suck out
I crashed on my bicycle today and my arm, leg and head hurt so fkig much I can't fall asleep b/c of the pain. Skin on my elbow and knee looks like it wasn't there ever. Thankfully I didn't break anything cause it would have been a cooler lol
I passed the entry exam to the Warsaw School of Economics. Yay. There were approx. 6-7 candidates for 1 spot and I almost bubbled out cause the required amount of points were 57/100 and I got 59. The test was tough tho. Around 40% of it was micro / macro economics, 30% was world economy, european union info, political geography and the remaining 30% was english at which I suck. Anyways, it's passed. Hopefully in two years I will get master degree in Finance. And for the most part I'm happy beacause I won't pay a dime for it.
I had quite different plans even couple months ago beacuse I wanted to travel for a year or sth. I decided to go for masters 2-3 months ago and then started preparing. Out of the 4 semesters that I will have to complete in WSE I'd like to go for 2 exchange programmes. So I guess the studies will be some sort of a compromise between travelling, and doing something useful. I wanted to go to Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, but unfortunately going for the second x-change is a bit complicated.
In order to go for second exchange I would have to join CEMS organization. It's some sort of agreement between top management schools, one from each country within western and central Europe. However, an exchange through this programme is Europe only which means I have to pick Sao Paulo or Hong Kong for let's call it bilateral exchange programme and won't be able to go to both places.
So I'm thinking if I should start learning mandarin now, go to Hong Kong in 1 year and pick up some of it there. And once I'll be done with studies in 2 years I'll go to mainland China for a year to finish learning mandarin. Otherwise it's pretty much a waste of time. I would need 7 to 10 years to learn it properly in Poland going to class, and I doubt I will stay in Poland or that I will have patience to grind out 7 years of chinese ( rather the latter ).
It's all plans, however I'm really excited and happy that I have so many opportunities. It will depend on me wheter I will make use of them or not. But the sole existence of them makes me feel good.
Poker
I started playing a bit now. Before I go to LV I wanted to play some cash games so I cleared 200$ everest bonus by playing NL25, NL50 and running bad.
I also deposited 1000$ on PS and I started playing low stakes tournaments, and MTT SNG's. It seemed like I'm bubbling every 180-man but hopefully next weekend it's gonna be better.
I never really played MTT's so I'm adjusting to bigger fields. I try not to spew so much anymore. I will also try to give up on marginal calls/pushes beacuse in deep stack tournaments I am able to pick up chips w/o showdown. I tend to bluff river too often as well, re-raise BTN/CO w/o any particular reads, and I never think of laying down AK. But I adapt quickly and sooner or later I might get some score.
Hello again
It's been a while since my last blog post! From now on I will be writing on poker , and non-poker related stuff since I don't play much.
University - 1 out of 2
For the last couple months I was focused more or less on getting done with my university. I finally defended my dissertation for Managemet & Marketig major which I'm happy about. I have a pretty good chance of finishing with honours - so that's sweet. I'm taking about a chance, because a committee has to asseble and then decide if I'm worth or not. But it's not going to be a bad beat if I won't get it.
As for my Finance and Banking major I need 3 more exams - so I will be done with studying on July 10th. However, the biggest sweat is July 1st beacuse I will be writing an entry exam for master studies in Finance for Warsaw School of Economics. I am supposed to read 14 books from the list which the university prepared, but I think half of it is just fine=P Tests seem not as easy as I would imagine, but since it is A/B/C/D it's always better. Those tests that are put on the site as examples are written very well, and when I mention word "well" in this particular context I mean that without knowing anything about a question you are able to exclude 1 or 2 answers if your thinking, and logic is right about the sequence or association of words.
SUMMMMER
It's hard to really get into specific details of what I will be doing, beacuse if I don't get in for my masters I will become a bum and have a summer for 1 year ROFL. But in very short:
July
Finishing my last couple exams and start writing dissertation for Finance degree on the "Impact of financial crisis on Fannie Mae". I like the topic, but writing and analyzing their financial statement is pretty poopy coz they don't want to reveal too much. Also I might go to Cyprus to do some kitesurfing and visit a friend who owns a windsurfing school there
August
Hopefully I will be defending my dissertation ( 30% chance ). And I think I will concentrate on playing poker online. I will be playing 45, 90 and 180 man on Stars during peak hours, and try cash games first time in like a year. So I will deposit probably 100$ and start from NL10 go up. 25th August -> LV
September
I haven't booked a hotel yet in LV beacuse I'm not exactly sure which one, but I figure that Imperial Palace is gonna be good. It will cost me like 1,5$K for a month and I plan to start playing 1/2NL and take shots for 2/5 if the game is good. I heared that the location is very good, and that standard is also ok. I don't think I need much more than that, especially if I will concentrate on the game.
I have a roll of around 10$K, +30K$ stock market money. It doesn't mean that I will be using it, but if a good game of 2/5 will occur I will play. Also, I don't play cash games online at all so I'm not confident at all.
BMX
Weather is nice, so it's time to ride for a while! After that - studying.
I wish I was the rider in this movie, but can't say I am. If you don't like BMX, you might enjoy the track =)
aaalmost... I just withdrew the rest of my money from Pokerstars account and uninstalled the software.
So the topic name was just to lure people into entering my blog I believe.
I decided to study for the exam to Warsaw School of Economics and go for Master degree. Previously I was thinking of
becoming a grinder for one year after finishing my bachelor and to travel around the world for a bit more. I was checking
appartments in South Korea, Brazil and Australia where I would be staying with a friend. But the life goes on, and your
priorities change over time. I can't say I don't want to travel around the world no more, but I don't think I want to be doing that spending most of my time grinding. If I manage to get in into WSE I'll get the chance of having another student exchange. I want to visit South America so probably I would be applying to Sao Paulo, who knows.
Additionally I don't think I have the mentality of a grinder. I remember when almost two years ago I started off playing @ NL2. Once, I sat @ NL10 being underrolled and the blinds were sooo huge to me. I literally felt the pressure of being in the BB having 10cents on me. I was like "Can't let 74o go... my 10 cents... aaaaa". Now it really doesn't bother me that much if I lose couple houndred knowing that I played well.
However, having swings bothers me. I spent two months playing poker every day having no other activities aside. It was pretty much unproductive period of time. I was going sleep later, and later every day. I felt like shit going to sleep when the sun was going up, and waking up when it was going down.
If I had the chance to repeat those two months I would have set some sort of schedule, and for sure other regular activities, duties - learning other languages in some school two, three times a week, doing sport ( alto I am not a fan of doing it during winter indoors ) or anything else
except poker. First two weeks were ok, but then I was just exhausted with the downswings and couldn't play any good poker. I was still up for the 2 months but I am certain that I could get a better result if I spend half of the time doing something else, in a different
environment away from the computer.
Another thing is that I realized that I don't care about money. I thought that once I have some, I would like to spend it - well... I don't...I don't have too many materialistic needs - or none. All the money I have comes from poker. I made about 10K$ over last 6 months which I haven't touched really as I still live with my parents. Previously I made also some money playing live in Macau, and Philipines but I was spending a lot on travelling and partying so I didn't earn so much - maybe brought home only 2 or 3K.
I still am visiting LP.net every day, and following the scene but playing is not the main focus now.
However, I'll be going to Las Vegas in September. My cousin's wedding is in Florida by the end of the Sept, so I am most likely to be in States before to see LV. I will probably be staying there 2-3 weeks to play. It would be fun to see any LPers there
I will start off with a kind of a weird story, and then just complain about variance once again.
On monday afternoon I went to my university to attend for the first time ever some class which sounded better than it actually was. It was called "Selling ideas, yourself and sth...". I took it as my additional course cause I figured out it might help me with selling stories on the flop that I actually flopped the nuts. So far the class didn't help me much with it though.
Anyways, I sat down next to my old friend on my left and on my right there were two french girls from exchange programme. The one sitting further from me was blonde, not really looking decent enough to start any conversation, and the one sitting directly on my right was kinda ok but looking familiar. I thought for a while that I have to know her, but since I don't know many french girls I just gave up. During the class I was either paying attention to the lecturer, or chatting with my old friend and forgot to even think once again about the familiar-looking girl.
Late that day, I eventually got back home. As I sat in front of the monitor with chinese food I started checking mailbox and facebook. Some friend posted photos of her party from a week ago so I decided to check that out while eating. After few photos I saw the girl on the picture from early morning class. She was tagged. I looked at her name and I was like "WTF!!@!@!!!!!". I really couldn't believe it. I was like "WWTF!@!@!!!!!"?!???" - or I mentioned it already ?
I was stunned... so who was that girl ??? 5 years ago I went to Freiburg, Germany for some german course during the summer for around 4 weeks. I was 17 back then. I was chasing rather japanese girls there, and koreans but one night I was real drunk and decided that I didn't take enough photos from my trip. To keep up with the volume of pictures I decided to ask some fellow japanese who are pros at taking photos to take some of me, and the girls from the course. So among many photos, I had one of me, and the french girl "Cyrielle". We started chatting, drinking, then dancing and late that night I finally went to my appartment with her. She was the only french girl I've ever taken to bed. I remember even now the morning when I woke up. I was totally wasted. But of course we ate something, I walked with her back to her place or somewhere in between and we exchanged e-mails.
I think I e-mailed her once, or twice beacuse I liked her but that was it.
The funny thing is that I didn't recognize her in the class this week, as well as she didn't recognize me. Right after I saw her picture on facebook, I started looking for the photo I had with her in Freiburg from 5 years ago. Luckily I found it.
Next monday I will go to the class, I will sit in the same seat where I did and I will have the picture with me. I will pass the photo to her with the back of it face up. I don't know yet what I am going to write on the back of it - probably sth like "SURPRISISEEE!!!!" or dunno, but it just makes me laugh when I imagine her face, eyes wide-open looking at me in the class like "WHO THE FUCK IS THIS GUY AND WHY AM I ON THIS PICTURE WITH HIM!?!?.
It would be a funny bet how much time will she need to realize who I am.
poker
My downswing continues. I don't play 16$ 9-man but dropped to 6.5$ 9-man. Yestarday I started sessions with 16 tables and lost 11 buy-ins. Today I lost 14,5 buy-ins during a 16-table session... I lost 11 coinflips in a row + two 80/20. So far it's the worst I've ever run.
Also it made me laugh when the first hand heads-up yestarday I get AA. I push all-in and I get called by KK. I was sure I was going to lose the hand on the river. I was saying "plz river don't , plz river don't. And a K came on the river yay!
I used SNGwizard, SNGPT and I played as usual. I made 2 nice laydowns and the last 2 bubbles I missed 3 shoves which I normally make. Still, I dond't think I deserve losing that much of money playing @ baby stakes. Hopefully I made 4 buy-ins @ NL25 SH in an hour, but that proves nothing but I heater, and the whole SNG part just makes me wanna cry.
I don't feel like playing poker at all at this moment.
I was supposed to play around 200 sng's throughout this week 9-man 16$, but since I ran like shit I thought it was a moment to let it go... It's a pretty bad downswing nearly 50 buy-ins. I am not used to such swings since I made my 5K bankroll playing 10$ DoN's ( much less variance ). Since I am not used to it I feel like it might affect my game. I decreased number of tables from 16 to 14 and I am breaking even - yay!
The good things about this swing are the following :
1) I didn't tilt while playing. It might sound stupid but actually I'm proud of myself lol. I mean I screamed 2 or 3 times like loud "FUCK!!!!!!" just to release some negative emotions ( it helps ), but overall I know I was making +EV decisions. It didn't really bother me while I was playing. As I look back couple months ago running bad made me tilt. I was stopping the sessions while having a couple tables and I had to cool off for the whole day. Now, the only thing that makes me tilt is making stupid decisions of my own. Okay... and sometimes I'm mad for some donk who calls my shove with total junk which is -EV for both of us
2) I have some hands to analyze. I ran with SNGwizard, and SNGPowerTools hands I should go over once again. I made printscreens of every hand in which I made a mistake, and I will print all them out and make another folder just to look at it before sleep
3) I am going to focus on university related stuff for this week. It's so weird that I actually need to ran bad in order to focus on other stuff than poker. I mean I need motivation to be real-life focused. What motivates me towards my obligations is having tons of stuff that I should have done already, or that I should really try catching up on. I wish I had some more balance in my life but I think it's always been like that.
4) ( oh wow, there are actually four things that make up for the downswing! ) I need to start playing some other game than NLHE turbo SnG's. I was thinking of depositing some money onto Cake, or Party where I used to play. I don't want to play on PokerStars cause I'd like to separate rolls for my SnG/MTT and cash games. ( any suggestions where should I play taking into account bonuses ? ) I want to play 6-max in order to improve hand reading ( SNGs are such a brainwasher )
5) I turned 700 FTP points where I played for a whole into 20,000 ( so easy, and I ran so hot! ). I got 1-month membership to Stoxpoker for 5000, 2 card decks for live play with my friends and... that's it. Can't get too much! I am exercising my FTP points bankroll.
So...
What are the bad things about the swings ?
1) losing money
2) feeling like shit today, and most likely next few days as well every time I will look at my roll.
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I had to put some picture after this boredom, but instead of a hot chick I decided to put an arctic
BUNNY RABBIT!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwww............ !!!! sorry
250 sng's at nearly -20% ROI hahaha... -800$ for the day...
I didn't tilt... I reviewed hands after 3 hour sessions and everything seemed fine except for the fact that I couldn't win 80% of the hands where I was the favourite. So far it has been the worst day ever for me. Somehow it doesn't bother me and I don't know why.
I felt like I play well, I was getting it in as a favourite but just couldn't win. To lose -50 buy-ins at SNG's is not normal and literlly I've no idea where the problem is.
Few funny stories :
1) Comes down to Heads-up - we both have 6000-8000 chips... I have AA - let's raise it right ? Raise, villain re-raises... I min-raise, he reraises ( at this point I'm like "huh" ? QQ/KK ? wtf ? ) I go all-in and he snap calls.
He has Q6o and eventually outflops me.
2) Bubble... I have 6000, other guy has 6000 and there are two little shortstacks. Of course the second big stack decides to go all-in to isolate me and I call with AA. 83o>AA
I felt that I run like shit. I mean it's just hard to describe... Usually I tilt when I make bad decisions, but this time I thought I play well so there was no tilt at all. clueless.
Goal for today 286 SNG's 16$ on PS. I hope I won't fail coz actually I have a bit of a headache but should work. I've never done anything like this before so I'm interested in how it goes.
I'm praying I won't tilt after 10 lost flips or sth, coz otherwise it's gonna be a disaster
I need to clear 25bonus fast - that's why I'm doing it
I got to my first final table of some larger tournament for me which was 5$rebuy on stars. First prize was around 2,5K$ - around 900 entrants. I haven't played any tournaments before to a decent extent and I really enjoyed it. I guess I might be playing more of them on weekends.
Anyways... I was in top TOP30 all the way from the beggining of the tournament. I was getting some decent hands at first, then I was basically stealing a lot. I did raise w/ garbage sometimes and just c/bet. I was getting paid off in spots where I would not think I would. However, I did not build my stack that way, usually just maintain its' size in between getting paid off. Level of play post-flop was really low. I did enjoy the structure beacuse most of the time I had more than 70 big blinds.
Unfortunately when it came down to last 20 people I was 4th in chips and was losing chips constantly.
One guy who was hyper-aggro was reraising most of my raises ( he was 2nd out of 17 at that time ). Eventually he managed to redistribute all my chips beacuse he didn't make it to the final table.
I just gave up raising on that table to steal beacuse he was on my left. Finally I found myself in a spot where I had around ~15 BB and was in reraise all-in, push mode. I wasn't getting any hands at all for an hour and eventually dropped down to 10 BB being 10th out of 12 people on 2 tables.
I had to shove with any two cards couple of times to my new big-blind friend and I made it to the final table. I was last in chips.
Last hand of the tournament I should have folded but I didn't. Blinds were 6/12 1K ante and I had 118K. Everybody folded to the SB who had 330K and decided to make it 36K. I had A5s and decided to shove on him which was terrible. What really made me mad was that I didn't think for a second when I shoved. Last hour I was waiting 3 seconds to make any decision not to give away any timing tells. When I saw A5s I knew that the button and the SB will be bullying me, and A5s was top5 hands I got in the last hour. Before the dealers' , or the SB's decision I knew I was going to shove against their raise on me - which is a retarded way of thinking.
The reasons which made me think I had to push were :
- I got to the FT and perceived it as a success beacuse it was a battle for the last hour to get there
- I was the last in chips ( had 10BB )
- I got a hand which was decent compared to what I was getting in the past hour
- I knew I will be bullied
- I was a little bit frustrated with the hands I was being dealt
Reasons why I shouldn't shove :
- I had no folding equity at all
- I was just transfered to a 10-man table in which effectively I could get more hands that I was getting in the 6-man table before it broke down
- Guy who raised from the SB had no less that AT before when it did come to showdown, and he wasn't stealing
- I didn't analyze the situation
So finally I pushed, the SB had AJ and the flop didn't bring me any luck. I got 200$ for 9th or 10th whatever and a feeling that I messed up hahah.
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And I will probably be sleeping after 24-hour travel, and if not I'll be making pictures and maybe play some.
So ... pool,eat, cirque du soleil, eat, drink, fuck, sleep, repeat for 3 days
ROFLFUCKCOPTER
yay!
