Hey guys, gonna do a write up on my first 4 months in Canada so far (3 months 28 days or so)
Key points - No More Rent Payments, at 100% with backup backers if need be, 60-65 days left.
So I got up here and stayed with a good friend, we were drinking alot, going out a lot, was a fun month, he charged me $100 a week and was very hospitable. He does really well in most 2/5 games around the city and has been playin around 10 years. That was a lot of fun.
After a month, his lease was up, he moved into a new apartment, it was a 1 BR, so I found a place on a craigslist like site (moved in with a Tibetan man and his French Canadian Wife. They had 2 kids, one dressed like a pirate all the time and was cool as heck, the other was a lil 2 year old girl, she was cute but never said much. she would just smile up at me though that house was speaking french,english and Tibetan. Tibetan mostly, kinda cool since my Father and step-mom are Tibetan Buddhists. Had a great insight. There was some sweet bike trails, was a safe nice neighborhood, but living with a family after being on my own for 10 yrs was really starting to cramp my stlye. The kids would scream so loud for sooo long...it was sick.
I then went and found a 4 month lease downtown Ottawa, since its downtown its pretty steep (I just had a sick heater though so wasn't to worried about it) ~1200/month (paid 2400 move in - security deposit will be my Jan 14th - Feb 14th rent) - Paying rent again in ~3 days.
I was staked the Majority of the time I was up here which was cool, I made a solid 40k or so and things were great. I was very content and working hard non stop etc.
After moving into my new house...we hit quite the hick-up. I had an issue with getting my medication (Bi-Polar/OCD) - and had to go 2 weeks without playing. When I came back, my reads were off, my timing was off, everything was off.
After a few days, -5k or so...after a week....-15k or so...after 6 weeks...-28k or so in gameplay....
Nothing was going my way, AK vs AT on K77 boards, JQ turn riv, KK vs AK, A riv everytime etc, for thousands obviously.
I never took any time off, my heart knew I was in a semi manic state, I knew I needed time off, but also the ticking time frame of Canada (2 months 3 days before Jersey I imagine) (can stay 6mo/yr)
So I was off the stake, got a loan that I tilted into the ground, got another $500 loan and finally started playing decently. Thank god I paid off like 20k in debt prior, or there's no way in hell I would have had any credibility in the industry to stay afloat and I would have went home packing on the 14th most likely. Maybe a little silver lining of good karma there for working so hard for so long to rectify my past, always leaving myself with practically nothing..
SO ya, after I was off the stake, I was doing pretty bad, I lost for 3 weeks, then took 3 days off, that I knew I needed to take like a month ago.
Came back and fell into a good rhythm again, on a Very Low Bankroll ($500) I was playing mostly 45 man SNG's and NL10.
I managed to bink out a 3.5 180 and get 2nd in another one at the same time for a solid $800, and finish the night in some $4.40 1k max for 2nd for another $200 and something.
OK that was GOOD. Rent PAID.
No More Rent Payments in Canada for the following 2 months. Only expenses are food and a lil green.
Time to take this BR to the Roof.
So since I got off the stake, I've been thinking purely in terms of hourly.
I have been doing the grind in multiple ways, but ZooM is the most fitting.
I have been playing 90-120 minute zoom sessions, taking 30-90 minutes off, and doing the same. then going to SNG's at night (reg 10-20) and finish the night with a few mtts and look to bink out good.
So i have 2 months left, im low br'd - but i survived lol, i have ppl that want to back me if need be, but yeah, take my time and good br management and i shouldn't need to worry about much, although going back to work for John may happen in the future.
Lifes been nuts, 45k upswing, 30k downswing, kinda on like a lil swing up i guess now? uptickin a grand or more...2 months to get to 20-50k.
Workin hard...
Thx for everyones support via skype through the tough times, things are lookin up again, LI YOU WILL GET IT LOL! NO BULLSHIT! Sry didn't take care of you on that upswing sir! Get it to ya when I can
Respect guys,
I'm gonna Chronicle Everyday to Robusto or Busto with 60 days of blogging before I gotta bounce back to USA.
On my Own I make like 2-20k a month
Staked, I make like 15-50k a month...lets see if I can get to 5-20k by 30 days and 30-100k by 60 days. That'd be sweet.
I say lets all be optimistic, stop being cynical about everything because things that have attached to our ego's over time, let it all go, be real, keep workin our asses off 24/7, never forget you are a student of the game, you choose this game cuz you love it (at least deep down, you did at one time!) and keep ur fckin nose to the grindstone!
btw im doing tons of SNG's now - cg sometimes but rarely, MTT's make me a lil sick recently, 5, 2 hour, 6 tabling 6max SNG sessions, or a stackmixture of 45mans and 180 mans.
Been working on finding the best hourly for my game with the lowest variance and obviously highest net worth per month
idk if i'll make more hourly doing the 6max sngs (can do about 88 every 4 hours, so yeah over 100 a day in some soft fields maybe vv gud hourly)
I'll be doing this til mid month (rent) - spend most the time doing 6max sng's (turbos) - and sometimes stacking all the sng's etc
oh, ya, i lost alot, i won some back thankfully cuz im a fish and fish get lucky, but i got a long way to go. hobbit road!
ne ways, time to remember why we play,
have fun with the game again!
Stop Stressin shit you can't control
Have fun
#rant
Ryan
going to be launching in Jersey in the next week or so, they are pushing for federal and getting through many of the problematic stuff there was before. im quite optimistic that within 1-3 quarters this is going to pass and states will be back international with the world.
govt takes a long time tho, they vote every 3 months (I think)
Made most serious replies in previous blog, was many statesments and questions, if I missed any, let me know.
Trust the Process.
About the Cashgames, I want everyone to know this is my approach, 1-5 MTT's a day, and 4 tabling cashgames 24/7 if I'm not MTTing, or if its early stages of MTT's.
I hope to be able to move to Jersey in the next year and play w/ good playerbaes....ne one know any nice suburbs in Jersey that isn't very expensive? lmk in comments if so please.
Just passing news on to USA citizens,
know the feeling,
GL
RYan
I quit MTT's. Except for Special MTT's and Live MTT's. (random MTT is ok..)
They can suck my nuts, im so tilted, literally want to shoot myself the last 2 weeks (except when im cg'ing..)
had 2 great chances yesterday, but lifetime of the previous 27k owned me *slightly more impatient daily* and i got a pittance compared to the 10k/15k...like fuckin always.
These are bringing extreme negative emotion to me and fucking with my ego.
I will play the Nightly 55/162 and 1-3 Sunday 215's SOMETIMES.
Pure Zoom for now on. Less stress, more fun, 99.3% less pain, can have a life, been winning cg for a few yrs now, but kinda just "really" got it this year when Marshall taught me.. TY Marshallgenius~
Sucking up this MTT loss and playin like 5 a month for now on. If you don't like it, suck it. Pokers my job, I gotta be where its profitable.
CG is fine - MTT's 1 mistake costs you soooooo much + badrun costs 28k in 2 weeks.....Fuck That.
I'm at 89k FPP btw, is there a bonus for reaching supernova? I see a $2500 bonus for 200k FPP, let me know if you know! (edit lol $200..)
Wsop event #1 circuit Ottawa, won 1st pot 10k - 15k. 2nd pot get AA vs AJhh. he opens 250, i go 600 on button. he calls. K62 no draws. i bet 700 he call. turn Q heart. i bet 1200 - he goes all-in. I make the right call. he has AJhh (turned a flush draw) - River 7heart. The pain =[. Just another tournament, the venue is awesome and well, if I win that 70/30, good chance at the 20k. maybe next time. It is what it is.
a $580 tomorrow...kinda degected tho. I can play it cheap if I want.....prolly just grind online. I hate that feeling so bad.
guy that beat me reads LP and knew who I was too.. hes From Ottawa, whoever it is Asian guy, wouldn't tell me who he was.
my Computer will be streaming all day today with myself running a 4 table mtt session today - will keep 4 up til around 11pm if u wanna watch n learn stuff, practice for tomorrows wsops (karma points!) 131 928 306 ID 8832 PW its on Teamviewer 8
I'm not doing the highest stakes MTT's since I'm on my own, the Big 109 (Fpps) 8r x2 30k Hot 16.50 Turbo (fpps) and lateregged $22 12k (its at +20k)
(Doing good gntd mtt's though)
Teamviewer ID : 131 928 306
Password : 8832
Its on screen 2 I believe
If anyone messes with the stream I will take it down and only let ppl I trust through skype watch.
Skype = NeillyAA74
I will 4 table MTT all day today, audio is in teamviewer 8 as well.
This is practice for the WSOP circuit events starting tomorrow.
A win today would be sweet, would really help 4 the series.
FT'd the $25 10k hyper after I closed stream (just 2 mtts left and was zooming) - got in AJss vs T8ss for chiplead. T8xx flop. GG 4th $1600.
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that house was speaking french,english and Tibetan. Tibetan mostly, kinda cool since my Father and step-mom are Tibetan Buddhists. Had a great insight. There was some sweet bike trails, was a safe nice neighborhood, but living with a family after being on my own for 10 yrs was really starting to cramp my stlye. The kids would scream so loud for sooo long...it was sick.
