Ive been playing a bit lately but compared to the volume I was putting in before its pretty small. I think I kinda burnt myself out and I had a pretty unsucessful shot when I tried to move up so it really discouraged me so I decided to slow the poker aspect of my life down a bit.
Ive pretty much been living the life though during this little break. Ive been going out lots, hitting up the beach, chilling with friends and meeting lots of new people. Last weekend I went to Bayfest which is a completely shit show lol. Its actually a huge 2 day concert where a bunch of country groups play. This year the two headliners were Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley.
The last thing I was going there for was the country bands lol. I just thought it would be a lot of fun to go there and get smashed with my buddies and meet some new people. I ended up going down with 3 of my buddies who I went to high school / played hockey with. We got there pretty early on Friday and managed to pick out a sweet spot to set up the camp site lol. My fucking air matress pump was broken which really pissed me off because I didnt really want to sleep on the hard ground but Ill get into that part in a bit lol.
There was another group of atleast 30 people set up right across from us and it turned out my buddies and I knew over half of them. They partying it up pretty hard so we went over and joined them in some games of flip cup and beer pong. Turns out I suck at both but I wanted to get wasted so who cares. By the time 7:00 came around everyone in this camp site was shit faced. We all decided to head over to the show to grab some more drinks and get a good spot.
When we get to the show my one buddy starts talking to this girl he knew through one of his ex g/fs or some shit and she had a friend with her who was dece but my other buddy was one step ahead of me and started wheelin her lol. So anyways they both take off with those girls to get some drinks and shit and my buddy Wes and I decide to take a walk around and see if we know anymore people here.
So were walking around and someone kicks me in the ass. I turn around and its one of my ex g/fs and a few of her friends. I had sorta started talking to her again maybe 4 weeks ago. We were still pretty good friends but there was still a little something there. The week before bayfest we actually hooked up one night. Everyone was checking out this new bar in town and she was there and we just hit off lol. I wont go into details though... you guys can imagine lol. I actually had no idea that she was going to be here at bayfest though so it was a bit of a surprise.
Wes and I ended up going to grab some more drinks with them and then we grabbed a spot in the crowd to watch the show. I thougth it might be a bit akward for Wes becasue he didnt know any of them but it turns out he caught the eye of one of the girls and during the show I looked back and there he is making out with one of them lol.
Tim McGraw was the headliner on Friday night. I knew maybe 3 of his songs lol. He was arlight I guess but half the time I was trying to hold my ground in the crowd. There was so much shoving it was fucking rediculous. Im actually realyl surprised that I didnt see any fights or anything during the show.
After Timmy finished his set we went out to the front to try and find everyone they came with and my two other buddies. I call them up and Im like where you guys at? My buddy says "Were at the camp site... really bust man gotta go" lol! So my ex ends up asking me to come back to her friends house where she was staying. Wes had hit it off with one of her friends so he came with us too lol. This was awesome since my air matress was fucked and Im pretty sure my buddies had both the tents we bought down occupied. We end up going back there and everyone went to bed. My ex and I decided it would be a good idea to hit up the hott tub lol. Defenitly a good call. Again.. no details for you guys lol.
The next morning I was feeling pretty rough. It was noting a joint couldnt fix though haha. Wes and I got a ride back to the camp site around 1030 in the morning and when we got back people were already getting wasted. Round 2. Not much stuff happened during the day this time except for a lot of drinking games and shit lol. We played a pretty cool game that I havent played before. You need 4 bamboo sticks and 4 cups, 2 for each team. YOu set them up with a bit of space between them... enough for a frisbee to fit through and then put the cups on top of the sticks. The object is to get hte frisbee between the sticks or to knock the cups off. You get 3 points if you get it between the sticks, 1 if you knock the other teams cup off but if they catch the cup beore it hits the ground after its been knocked off they get 2 points. If anyone knows the name of this game tell me lol.
Around 6:00 my two buddies fucked off to go have dinner with those two girls they met last night so again it was Wes and I on our own lol. We ended up drinking there beer since they left. Fuck em lol. Around 8:00 We stumbled over to the show. We ended up meeting my ex and her friends again. Saturday night the headliner was Brad Paisley. He rocked the shit outta the crowd that night. I was really impressed with him. He sure can rip the shit out of a stratocaster lol. Hes got a lot of good songs too so I really enjoyed it.
After the show when we were walking out I saw my two buddies with those girls. I went over to talk to them and they seemed really pissed lol. I guess the one girl was all over another guy during the show and the other one had a b/f ahahahahahaha. Serves em right. So they were like yo lets go back to the camp site and drink some beers. Wes and I were like fuck nah were leavin with these ladies. Peace queers lol. So again we went back to my ex's friends house for the night. Turns out I paid for a camp site for nothing lol.
In the morning I woke up around 9:00 and look at my phone. 12 text messages and 15 missed calls lol. Those guys were all over us to get back there so we could leave and get back home. The good thing was they were stuck there until we got back because Wes drove and we certainly were not in any hurry to get back to there lol. We ended up grabbing some breakfast with girls and then getting back to the campsite at 11:00. When we got there they were both sitting in the car and had it all packed up. Nice! lol. And yea... that was the weekend at Bayfest... what a great weekend it was.
Damn this is getting long lol. I guess Ill talk a little bit of poker with you guys now. I have been a bit here and there still and its acutally been going really really well lol. I decided though that there are a few good sites out there that I need to bonus whore. Sicne Im Canadian there is a lot of Euro sites that I can play on still so Im going to give em a go. Starting in August Im going to to go clear a few bonuses that PartyPoker has. I heard that the games there are pretty soft so hopefully I can make some nice coin while Im there. After that the plan is to go over to iPoker. I heard its possible to get 50% rakeback over there so with my volume + other bonuses I should make a killing while Im there. For the remainder of the month Im just going to stick it out on FTP and try to get some more points so I can get that 24 inch monitor they have in the store. Hopefully by the time I go back to school in September Im ready to start 100nl! Wish me luck guys.
First just want to wish all my fewllow Canadians a Happy Canada day! Alight so usually I really like Junes since I am born in June. I actually really enjoyed everything that happened this June that is non poker related because when it came to the poker part in June I sucked huge cock.
It was a bit of an eye opener this month. I was on pace to have the best month that I ahve ever had in poker. I was finally comfortably rolled for 50nl and it was really stress free. I was up around 10bi's or so when mid June hit and then it just went down hill from there. I ended up having the largest downswing I have had to date. At the bottom end it was only 13 BI downer which isnt HUGE by any standards but I am playing a lot higher now and have never lost that kind of money before. I just could not win a hand to save my life. My all in EV was soooo gross.
I really was not sure what was going on. I got a good friend of mine to help me out and do a few sweats with me. I realized that I was really playing so weak/tight robot style and plus I was running terribly so it just felt like I was getting completely owned. After a few sweats Ive really started to turn things around. I can already see a change in my game and the results are starting to show which is great for my confidence right now.
So now it is July 1st. HAPPY CANANDA DAY!!! lol. This month Im going to destroy at the tables and have the best month I have ever had in poker so far! I learned a lot this June and got to see what I was made of. It can only go up from here right? (knock on wood) So this July Im going to do things a bit different then I have been lately and hopefully it helps out my game a lot.
I signed up for this Truely free poker training deal at the start of the month. Basically if you cna earn over 8500 ftp points in a month on FTP they will give you a free month to both Cardrunners and StoxPoker. I reached the goal within the first two days but I had to wait until July started in order to get the Free month. So now that July is here I plan on watching a video everyday before I start grinding and trying out some of the things in my sessions. Im also going to be getting back to the gym. I havent worked out consistently for almost 4 months now and its really pissing me off that Ive slacked so bad. When I stopped working out I was 205 lbs but I went away to school and stopped and now im back down to between 185-190. Makes me sad Anyways Im going to get back into starting next week and murder the gym as well lol.
Ive made a few goals for the month. Here they are:
- 150k+ Hands
- 30k+ FTP points (I want to get the 21 inch monintor this month. Half way there.)
- 3k+ Cash game earnings without rakeback
- 1k+ Tournament winnings. (1 time plz Havent shipped a tourney in so long)
- 1k+ in Rakeback earnings
- 100+ Ironman medals
- Go to the gym 5 times a week
- Watch 1 CR or Stox video a day
- Be ready to play 100nl at the end of the month
- Own at life.
All of these are very reachable. Hopefully I can start the month off right!
I hope everyone had a bit of a better month then I did in June lol. Have a great month in July guys, GLGL!. Happy Canada day to all my fellow Canandians! Gonna go watch the HORSE final table.
What up LP? Its a little bit since Ive done an update and I got sometime to kill right now so I figured I would give an update on how things are going in poker and just in my life in general.
In poker things are finally starting to take off for me. A while ago I started talking about poker with this guy I met over at 2+2. He told me he had a friend who played full ring like I do but he palys 1/2 - 3/6 instead of my micro limits lol.Ive become pretty good friends withh him and it turns out he doesnt live far away from me at all.
At the start of June I was running pretty shitty and wasnt making much progress. I was breakeven for 45k hands and getting very frutrated. I like to think that I dont go on tilt that easy. If I did go on tilt during this breakven bs then I could have ended up losing a ton of money. I asked my buddy to do a couple of sweat sessions wiht me and he pointed out a few little leaks that I needed to fix and almost right away I started to see better results.
A few weeks ago he asked me if I would be interested in a stake. We talked it over and finally came to a deal that was in the best interest for both of us. Part of the deal was that he would have to coach me atleast once a week. This is such a great opprtunity for myself and I really have nothing to lose but just so much more to gain. I couldnt say no to the offer. So now Ive moved up in steaks and I am very comfortably rolled for what Im playing. Already with his help I can see my game is getting lot more solid and Im starting to feel a lot more confident at the tables. Hopefully things go well for the rest of the month so I can start making some serious monies!!!
On the non-poker side of things Im running pretty well this month too lol. It was my birthday on Saturday and my brother managed to get tickets to go see Russell Peters at the ACC in Toronto on Friday. The show was great. Russell Peters is hilarious lol. He picked on this one guy in the front row so bad haha I almost felt bad for the guy but everything Russell said about him was so true lol. Saturday night I went out in London with some of my buddies and it was just a messy ass night lol. I was platered but hey it was my birthday so I should be lol. Pretyt solid night too. The next mornign sucked dick though because I was soooo hungover and managed to lose my car keys. I had to go all the way back to Kitchener to grab m spare, then drive all the way back to London to pick up my car. The fucking alarm would not go off and it took me like 35 minutes before I got the car to start lol.
Yestrday I went back to London to move some off the stuff out of my house. Im moving back home and well... moving just sucks period lol. Img oing to go back there today in a bit to get the rest of my shit. Hopefully its the last trip I have to do.
Well I cant really think of much more to write right now so I guess Ill talk to you guys later. Take care everyone and good luck at the tables!
The last two days Ive been a serious rakeback pro! Ive put in two of the biggest sessions Ive played in a while and have been dead breakeven. Its gross. I get up and coolered time and time again
Today I put in the largest session I have ever played and it was just a swingy ass day. Im still down for bi's but I dont think I got any gas left for today so Im gonna crash and get back at it.
I just had two gross coolers at the end of the night and it just put me through the roof so I have to quit right now lol. Ive only been on FTP for 3 days now. Im still up so w/e. Atleast Im getting clearing my bonus quickly lol.
Fianlly I was able to get my roll onto FTP. I got the full first time deposit bonus so Im going to work really hard to put in the hands for this. Today I played a shitload. There was fuck all going on tonight so I decided to put a serious grind in.
Money was flying around today and I managed to make just over 4 buy ins. Full Tilt games are way better then UB games. With games like this I will be moving up in no time.
I played in two tournaments today on FTP. I played the Daily Double and the Midnight Madness. Didnt cash in either of them, but I dont think I played my best in them, I was far more concentrated on my cash games then these things. Oh well.
Im pretty pumped to start playing in some of the Mini Series events on FTP too. Im probably going to play in all of the NLHE ones and maybe 1 or 2 other games just to mix it up. It should be fun. Hopefully I can run good one time!!!! lol. Seriously though Im due for a torueny win.
Im so tired. Gonna crash,
GL at the tables everyone.
Around the middle of April I went over to UltimateBet to clear a deposit bonus. I just finished clearing in today finally and I am very happy with how the grind went. Heres the graph:
This graph is about 70% NL25 and 30% NL10. UB is pretty shitty when it comes to the NL25 games and most times they only have no more then 10 tables running at once so I would often just pick the best games then have like 9 NL10 tables going. If this site had the same amount of NL25 games going as say FTP or Stars did I would have made ALOT more. Whatever though.
After the 12 BI downsiwng that I had I decided that 6 max just isnt my game. I made the switch to full ring and started 16 tabling. What a good choice that was as you can see. A lot less variance and I can put in a lot more volume of hands. I also got a few buddies who are 1/2 regs that are helping my game a lot. Its great to have guys who play higher then you to talk to about hands etc. If anyone feels like going over hands and shit Im always down and you can usually find me on the LP Vent.
Now that Ive cleared my bonus the plan is to take my whole roll of UB and move over to FTP to clear anohter $600 bonus and play in a lot of the Mini Series of Poker events that are coming up. Hopefully I can ship one of those events lol. Im due for a tourney score. Im looking forward to moving to FTP though because they have way more games running at once and they are a lot better then the games on UB so Im looking forward to crushing them.
If I were to rate UB as a whole I would give it a 4/10 lol. The only real good things about it are the 111% first time deposit bonus and 30% rakeback. Other then that I didnt really like the site at all. The tourneys are shit and the software isnt that great either. But whatever if you are whoring bonuses like I am I guess its a site you have to hit up.
Anyways Im out folks, GL at the tables.
SmokingDough
Its the middle of May today and its been a little while since Ive done any kind of update on what Ive been doing and how things poker wise have been too. So Ill get started.
I came home for the week last Friday because it was mothers day as well as my moms birthday. We did the usual, dinner, presents etc. It was nice to have a home cooked meal instead of my shit cooking all the time lol.
I finally found some clones to grow this summer. I ended up going splits on 50 of them with 2 of my buddies. Hopefully we can make some nice dough at the end of the summer. Monday we went out look for spots to put them all. The spot I used last year is now a bunch of houses in developement so that was kind of a piss off. I think I found a pretty good spot to put them. Hopefully Ic an grab em all this weekend sometime and get em in the ground.
Thursday I went to see the Toronto Blue Jays play the New York Yankees. My buddy didnt want to drive so we took the GreyHound down. When the bus got there to pick us up it was fucking packed and we had to stand the whole way to Toronto which is about an hour and a half drive. That sucked. We finally got there and the bus dropped us off out front of the Fairmount Royal York hotel. We decided to take the SteamWhistle brewery tour. If you guys are ever in Toronto going too see a Jays game / Leafs game I would recommend taking this tour before hand because they feed you free samples of there beer the whole time. We managed to get a nice buzz on before we left to go buy our tickets. We ended up buying our tickets off this scalper who I had to bargain like crazy with. He was a real fuckin scum bag and was really pissing me off. Eventually we ended up paying him $35 for some sick seats. He wanted $60!!!!!! what a joke.
The game itself was pretty good. We got to see Sabathia pitch for the Yankees. He is a big mother fucker lol. It was a really close game and then in the 8th inning Matsui hit a dinger and that was that. Jays lost 3-2 We all had proline tickets on the game and I would won some nice money i the fuckin Jays pulled through because I took Detroit and Carolina on my ticket too and they both won. I think Im now officially 0-40 on proline. Fuck sakes. Why cant we just bet on one game like in the states?
After the game we had a bit of time to kill before our bus came at 11:30. We went to this pretty cool sports bar to watch the overtime between Boston and Carolina. This bar was pretty sick it had TVs in the floor lol. No matter where you were in the place you could always see a TV. Pitchers of beer were $24 which wasnt cool though lol. We went back to the Royal York to catch our bus. A Grey Hound came but it wasnt our bus. The driver said that pur bus didnt pick us up here, instead it would pick us up over on Bay and Dundas which wasnt close at all. So yea... we missed our fucking bus. We decided to walk down to the Bus station since nonoe of us had enough money to rent a hotel room for the night. When we go to the station the next bus didnt leave until 3:30 am.... ugh. We got tickets and found another bar called the Loose Moose. Nothing special lol. FINALLY 3:30 rolled around and we got our bus home. AND we didnt have to stand the whole time lol. I ended up crashing at my buddies because we were all way to drunk to drive home.
The next day I was pretty hung over and strolled into my house around 9am. I crashed hard and didnt wake up until 6:00 at night lol. My buddy was throwing a little bash at his place but the last thing I wanted to do was drink so I ended up going to see Star Trek with a couple people. When I was young I was nota Star Trek fan at all. I actually thought it was really gay and that Star Wars pwned the shit outta that show lol. To my surprise though I really enjoyed this movie. I wont go into details about it or anything incase some of you havent seen it yet. I give it a 7/10.
Not really sure what Im going to do today. This is the first May 24 weekend in 4 years that I havent gone away camping or to a cottage. Kinda depressing. Weather is so shit out this weekend thought so I guess its not a total failure lol. Some of my buddies wanted to go to there place in St. Catharines and hit up the bar My Cottage. My Cottage is a pretty sick bar. Its basically a massive Patio full of hunnies lol. Its to shitty out tonight though so it probably wont be pumpin at all so I think Im going to pass and just chill out here for the night and save some money.
Things are going great when it comes to Poker. Ive been doing very well this month and hopefully I can continue this streak until the end of May. Right now Im trying to clear my deposit bonus on UltimateBet. Its taking a lot long then I wanted it to but oh well. Im playing NL25 right now but on UB there is never more then 10 tables running and a lot of the time there full of the nitty ass regs who I dont really feel like playing with. I always find myself with like 4 tables of NL25 running then like 11 NL10 tables going at the same time. Im very very very clsoe to NL50 so hopefully I can move up full time soon. I took a shot at NL50 the other day and it went pretty good. I have to admit though I ran hot as shit lol. ( http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/688223 / http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/688217 ) Booked a 2 buyin win so Im pretty happy about that.
Graph for this month so far:
Once Im done clearing my bonus Im shippin out and moving over to FTP to clear the $600 first time deposit bonus and rakeback. Im kinda sad that I missed out on the Mini FTOPS events. I woulda loved to take one of those bitches down lol. Im not sure if they are doing the Mini WSOP again this year but if they are Im for sure going to hit those up. Im looking forward to playing on FTP because theres always lots of games going and Its not Ultiamtebet so its a win win situation lol.
But anyways guys Im going to go watch Any Given Sunday on TV and chill out. Hope MAy is going well for everyone.
Today I spent the entire day getting out of a big whole that I dug myself I played quite a bit today and just about managed to get even. Earlier today I played a monster 400BB pot which I lost that pretty much f*cked me for the day lol. I flopped an open ender with the nut straight, got it in, missed, gg. Oh well standard shit but It was my fault for still being at that table sittign that deep. Lesson learned. Heres the graph for today:
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Anyways Im going to get back into starting next week and murder the gym as well lol.
