Just got my table draw for the bounty shootout today and went and got picutres taken for the bounty chip that you give to who busts you. Buyin for it is 10k and get 2k for each bounty, 40k for winning first table and final table is 10k for each bounty and 171k for first place
Hopefully I can get at least 1 bounty and not 0 it out.
Have position on my fellow sne grinder george lind, should be exciting. Starts in about an hour, can follow along at www.pokernews.com
lol i was only joking when i made this post
Table 2
1 George Lind III
2 Joe Ingram
3 John Hennigan
4 Ali Eslami
5 Allen Kessler
6 Joe Serock
7 Dr. Sameer Al Janedi
8 Dennis Phillips
9 Alex Wice
Been awhile since I have wrote a blog on here, still need to write up my SNE year end wrap but never really have. Lost alot of money at the end of it and was pretty unhappy. Been taking it easy so far this year, playing less tables rather then 24 tabling all day.
Got an email from stars saying that they reserved a few spots for SNEs to play in the 10.3k NAPT LA bounty shootout that is televised on ESPN2 with 81 player cap. I talked with some friends and they said PLAY IT and sell a bunch of action, so I figured why not! Have played some live 5/10 cash before and a few live tourneys (including 1st place osheas midnight tourney in vegas lol). Nothing with a real signicant buyin as of yet because somehow I am a massive live nit but a huge maniac when it comes to playing in games online.
Already have sold 51% of my action so far, probably going to sell something like 75%-80%, not really sure yet. If your interested let me know thru comments or pms
I have life run good on my side so probably going to end up winning this! Went to XS in Vegas for the first time ever for PS grinder alexandert's bday on Monday. Deadmau5 happened to be there as well, was alot of fun. Place is loud as fuck music wise, our table was in terrible spot ( as most seem to be) and was insanely crowded. Luckily if you drink enough you don't even notice this.
yea title says it all, just got done with 33 hour session 24 tabling plo, started 5-6 hours at 2/4 1/2 and finished up last 25-26 at 100plo
41k vpps earned, almost done with sne and quitting poker (maybe
lost alot, going busto, what else is new
i copy paste this from thread i made
i think i pissed in my pee bottles upwards of 50 times, drank about 15 gatorades, ate a handful of pretzels and maybe a cut up piece of pizza. after about 28 hours i finally went to the bathroom to deuce
luckily my girlfriend was there (pics on my blog) and she helped keep me off the ledge to bustoville and negative unhappy thoughts ville, she made it to hour 29 then fell asleep in a daze
only positive was i made 41k vpps towards getting supernova elite
negative was i continued my downard spiral to the dark unknown
will write more thoughts on this when i wake up but i feel like i could put out another 3 days if i wasnt losing every fucking hand
bring on those fucking asian bots for volume prop bet anytime (obv i will lose becuase i fucking fail though)
PTR Peak! Chosen for Victory Poker Contest!! More!
Joeingram1, Dec 03 2010
This blog is going to be everywhere and probably my longest I have written
I haven't blogged for over a month now because I was kind of embarrased I wasn't able to hit 300k VPP In October like I had bet on. I think I still set the world record for most PLO hands in a month though at about 245k (not exactly sure on #) but it ended up being my most profitable month ever. I made about 22k at the tables and another 20k in bonuses so ended up being a 40k month. Not bad for failing a prop bet !!!
I ended October at around 780k VPPs and on a great pace to get SNE in an easy manner. Naturally I wanted to give myself more of a challenge so I decided to essentially take November off . I did manage 12k vpps though! My lease ended in November so instead of poker I decided to focus more on finding a new place to live, maybe a new car, maybe new roomate and it was stressing the fuck out of me. I went to Vegas for a few days and looked at City Center and Panorama places. I liked them but the area is just too ghetto for my tastes after living out here in San Diego. Plus the weather is shitty and I just wasn't that excited about it. I got back home around the 20th and was on tilt at my computer lagging a bit. So i decided to go out and purchase a whole new setup. I bought some orange Acer computer because it "looked cool" but it did have pretty good specs on it too. I didn't want to wait and get 30' monitors so I decided to try some 32' lcd tvs at first and they were just too fucking massive. So I opted to return them and go for 2 27' LG with the intention of adding on a 3rd if I liked how the setup looked.
Current setup in my room until I decide to move it out of here
I got a little happier after I got the new comp/moniotrs/speaker system/mouse but was still kinda stressed out so I decided to go shopping on Black Friday to my new fave store True Religion and 2nd fave Gucci and spend a bunch of money there. This actually made me quite happy again and I decided to come home and start grinding again. My bankroll was doing pretty well and I really didnt want to grind PLO until Decemember so I decided to play some 5/10 6m with a medium table selection. Meaning if I wasn't on tilt then I would leave bad tables with but if I was on tilt then all that shit goes out the window. Luckily I ran like a fucking god there and in the few PLO session I played. Here are all my hands/sessions so far on my new computer
My career peak on PTR has been like 28k for about a year now and I never thought I would be able to get over that hump again. Well I was finally able to and was more excited about that then actually having the money. Naturally with all this winning going on and knowing I would reach SNE this month and get 10k Cash + 10k WSOP cash instantly, win 7.5k in my prop bet and another 12kish in Bonuses along the way I decided to look at some nicer places closer to the ocean. This naturally gave me even more stress because I have looked at so many places at this point and cannot decide. Here is the view of the last place I looked at
I mean the view is fucking amazing but the inside wasn't really renovated at all and I felt like if I was going to pay 4.5k+ for rent, that I really wanted to love everything about the place. This may seem absurd to pay but that is the pretty standard price in La Jolla which is the Beverly Hills of San Diego they say. I've decided to keep looking for places around here and hopefully will be able to find one soon. My roomate ended up moving out the other day so I have now been alone for a day or two. When I say alone, I actually mean Rachael has been here as well doing her Rachael things. I really wish I could write about my feelings on our relationship in this amazing blog post but its probably better that I do not
One of the reasons I was looking for bigger place was because I brought up an amazing idea to my old roomate Kris. He essentially lived out here for 6 months but just wasn't working hard enough to make enough money and ended up going busto due to bills he has (cc,school,etc) and couldn't make enough to pay those/rent out here. He has since moved back to live with his parents in the middle of Indiana and taken a $9.50 job. He has started playing PLO recently on the side when he is not working and has been grasping the game pretty well. I proposed this to him, he could come out here starting January 1st and move in with me for free. I would take care of his bills for the first month that he has and in return he would have to be ready to work/grind for SNE playing 50-100PLO. I would take all his action if he wanted to so basically he would just have to put in the hands and work on his game. He would have ended up making around 5k in rakeback the first month instead of the 1100ish at his current job. Not only would he make more money, he would be able to have a million more options in the dating pool as the women out here are infintly better then the docks of Indiana. He thought about the idea for a few days but has ultimatly decided not to come back out here because he didn't think he could put in the hard work and deal with it all again I was really surprised by this and am kinda sad about it because I was looking forward to him actually pushing himself and achieving something at poker!
So now I am basically back to square 1 on house/apartment/condo hunting and not really sure what I want to do. But I can't really focus much on it because I need to worry about getting SNE!! I am currently at 806k VPP and have a fun grind ahead of me
Oh Yea, who remembers that video I made for the Victory Poker contest back in May??? Well turns out I got accepted to compete in that lol, I actually found out a week after I got chosen when I was tagged in the message on there Facebook page.
The 25th spot has been awarded but there are 4 more contestants being flown out along with 2 freeroll winners, 2 sponsor exemptions & Todd Wages from the Tattoo video.
The filming is scheduled for February in Las Vegas and the competition will last 14 days. Each day there will be a lifestyle competition and a Poker Battle to test each person's all-around skills. The group will be staying in a mansion and players will be eliminated daily based on performance, attitude, overall skills, bonus challenges, etc. by a panel of judges until we reach a final winner who's life will change... ----- $100,000 in tournament buy-ins, 1 year condo at Panorama Towers, car, watch, clothes, travel, a whole new world...
#at=20
On the one hand I am excited about this because who knows what it could potentially lead to and I may even win it. On the other hand, I really had my mind set on 3mill+ VPP next year and maybe take a run at most VPP ever in a year. The FPP value in that alone is around 390k+ and that really gets me excited thinking about it. I'm going to wait to find out some more details on everything but there is a good chance I will be there and settle for 2-2.5mill vpps
I made a pact with myself that I wouldn't cut my hair until I have achieved SNE, this is by far the longest it has been in about 6 years and i just don't know how I feel about it. Here is a picture I have of me at the gym getting my fucking swoll on preparing to take down SNE!! lol
Thanks for reading the blog, I will be webcamming my last month of my prop bet because it is a stipulation in my SNE bet
www.justin.tv/chicagojoey if you are ever randomly bored and want to chat or potentially catch me playing in the nude
FML seriously never been so tilted over a +4k session. I had my first PED day of the month so far today and loaded up a 2/4 session and played for about 7 hours. My goal was to make 10k and i really felt like I was on my way and playing my A+ game and crushing. Then I started to lose my focus and ped started wearing off a little and I told myself if i got down to +5k for the session I would stop, so obviously 1k later I finished up and the dream I had was over.
I was manage to rebound with a 20k vpp day though and am at 211k now for the month. Just barely behind pace but still looking good. Here is graph for the session, going going oing going and then fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
need sleep to wake up and grind some more, almost fucking there!!
I have atoned for my previous day's sins and recovered nicely today to make back the 7k I lost in my session yesterday morning. Stopped at 160k VPP exactly so not far behind pace after 18 days. It just hit me today that I am only half way to the 300k vpp mark and god damn, it sure has felt like a super long grind so far. Hopefully these next few sessions will fly by and once i hit 250k vpp it should be easy sailing from there because the goal will be so close.
Played a few sick hands today that Ill post in my next blog where I thought there was a 5 percent chance I could have lost less then I did but probably not. Need to sleeps to wake up and do it all over again tomorrow. Who knew having a gf to take care of you while you grind would be so +ev also
Almost to the 700k Milestone too, ship another few K to the account!
Graph is missing a few hundred profit from 3/6 deep tables that dont import for me for some reason
Idk what the fuck runs threw my mind sometimes and why the fuck I play like a fucking moron. Whatever I run bad when I lose this but I also play like a fucking idiot. I already know this will result in me losing a ridiculous amount of money and yet I play like an idiot. I know I should stop down at a certain point yet I act like an irresponsible fucking moron. How is it possible I can be such a sick grinder yet such a fucking idiot at the same time is beyond me. You would think after the 25th time I would learn yet learn I never do.
First session of the day I play pretty well, make a few K. Next session I luckbox my way to up a few dollars after being down 3k+. Last session I play similar style to second session and things do not go my way, ggggggggggggggggggg money
So Im playing my last session of the day today to get to my 11.5k VPPs for the day and the inevitable happens. I start to run kinda poorly Which of course sends me on some tilt to which I start 3betting alot more which then leads to me getting it all in a bunch and losing I check HEM and it says I am down 3.4k and im like wtf why did I not stop at 3k, If i lose one more big pot I am quitting this session. Before you know it im down 4.5k and just say fuck it and quit stars. Then loaded up some 100plo to finish out my target of 120k VPP total for the month.
The way I have been doing it for this month is to try to play multiple sessions a day. I usually will end my sessions if I'm up 1k+ and then come back in an hour and start up another session. Im actually pretty sure theres no way I would be up as much as I am if I did not do this. The problem comes when I do have losing sessions and dont grind it back to even. I set a 3k stop loss at the beginning but I defintly have passed it up a few sessions that I grinded it back to even or up for the session. But today was the first time I became really undisciplined + played horrendous and ended up down 5k. I swear I played so much better when I had like 3k in my account lol
Only ended up stuck 2.4k for the day which isn't too bad but still hurts because I've been doing so well lately. Should only be a few more days till I hit the 700k Milestone + a 4k fpp bonus
I also am strongly debating going for the world record for VPP in a year in 2011. I challenged the current top VPP guy needbeer to a potential prop bet on it and maybe he will take me up on it. The plan would be to get SNE by December and just spend most of that month getting my apartment outfitted to maximum comfort/productivity/relaxation in order to achieve this. Plus get a mother fucking adderall prescription for the ADD i obviously have
No cool graph for this blog post because am still really dissappoined about last session
Just hit 100k vpp for the month!! Only took me 12 days to make it to supernova! I ended the session with about 104k vpp so im a little behind pace for 31 days. I posted my graph before my last session and obviously I played fucking horrible and lost a few K but thats what I get when I play like a fucking 3bet monkey idiot.
Here is supernovaaaaa
Graph for the month before last session, of course I running bad its plo
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. I did manage 12k vpps though! My lease ended in November so instead of poker I decided to focus more on finding a new place to live, maybe a new car, maybe new roomate and it was stressing the fuck out of me. I went to Vegas for a few days and looked at City Center and Panorama places. I liked them but the area is just too ghetto for my tastes after living out here in San Diego. Plus the weather is shitty and I just wasn't that excited about it. I got back home around the 20th and was on tilt at my computer lagging a bit. So i decided to go out and purchase a whole new setup. I bought some orange Acer computer because it "looked cool" but it did have pretty good specs on it too. I didn't want to wait and get 30' monitors so I decided to try some 32' lcd tvs at first and they were just too fucking massive. So I opted to return them and go for 2 27' LG with the intention of adding on a 3rd if I liked how the setup looked.
