I'm workin my fckin ass off,been getting shit on the last 2 days since i moved in, feel as if im playing 100% the same, just lots of 2nds etc.
downswing now at 4k rarr,,,,,,,,,,,,,
upswing come this weekend plz, clear that fuckin mu!
meh like 10 hrs today and 11 hrs yesterday -4k. won 19.1k before that, so up 15k this month, but cmon, lets run in pure god mode and _win_ some sick MTT's
Gimme some highstakes wins plz, imma be workin mah ass off for em!
Well I havent learned how to beat PLO4 on my own yet. Much like in holdem, it seems my biggest difficulty is playing vs maniacs. I just get so irritated that I end up trying to play back at them and always run bad in the process. In PLO it's only magnified that much further. 80/50 players with 35% 3bet routinely own me. Seems like everyone is just gambling though. Cant tell you how many times I've seen 4 way allin's with just a bunch of low connector or suited cards. It's like 1 fish goes for a random 3bet, but it doesnt work out because the pot is then 4bet and 5bet back to him. At this point I guess he just says fuck it and recognizes everyone is about to go allin anyway so they all just ship on each other. I tried playing their game right back by relentlessly 3betting and 4betting, but they just call and I'll somehow fail to make even 1 pair and end up folding to a 1/3 pot bet on the turn or something stupid. I'm down about 30 buyins at the lowest limit of PLO possible, so I'll assume it's more me than them. I mean, it's one thing to lose to maniacs repeatedly, but without the fundamentals to beat normal fish or even thinking players, I'm just losing every hand I play.
So I'm going to sign up for DC for 3 days or a week or whatever free trial they offer and just see what it is I'm doing wrong to start. Hopefully that will be enough to plug my game.
Check out Jason's last blog post if you missed it. He also took some pictures of our recently stocked warehouse that he's going to get around to putting up here.
I recall a few LP'ers from Iceland from back in the day. If anyone from Iceland is around and could PM me or leave a comment I'd appreciate it. Planning a holiday and was just looking for some quick advice if possible!
Got moved into my place today, very comfortable furnished place, gonna get back OTG today, using my mobile hotspot til I get dsl installed up here or w/e
Turned a really nice chair into a super awesome grind chair, gonna see how comfy that is for a few days b4 deciding if I'm gonna buy another computer chair. Just tend to move so much and get like 50% back on them if anything, gets annoying -_-
Going to pick and choose the good mtts on hero and lock today;
Very happy being back home, enjoying life, now have a place to grind full-time, had a deal w/ my backer when I won 20k he'd loan me 3k for a car, so I am getting a car in a week or so. Idk how decent of a ride I can get for about 2600 before taxes etc, hopefully something thats not terrible.
Going to travel the live MTT circuit in the northeast USA and take a few random trips out to LV (venetian deepstack month comin up again, might go there) - Plan on being here 1-12 months or mb forever who knows, think 1-2 more traveling online poker trips would be good itlr though, lets see how things go first though;
Aussie Trip? !
Talked to mah boss man, told him if he can get 3 other very good tournament players "Rent Out a Sick house for us for 3 months and let us monsters turn into millionares" - Hes in Aussie,talking bout getting 3 other sick aussie mtters that he backs (he has a ton of l33t players) - imo these experiences are like hyperbolic time chanbers, i've done it a few times in the past, and each time, the time goes super fcking fast and u learn so fcking much and always come out so much better of a player its ridiculous. This time, lookin to do this with 3 other pure MTTers.
He promtly said "ill think about it which was swaying to a pretty fast call"
I told him anytime before 2013, really enjoying hero lock and usa life right now,but im sure in a few months i'll get itchy to go do something again, that should be tits and mb just mb can take me to mig.com lvl and beyondddddd (earth fire wind etc!)
US MTT grind/schedule
so ya gonna check out the lobbies, think I start at 3 here, but maybe enough good MTT's to start at 1.
Schedules really unbalanced on the sites, literally nothing inmorning (hard keeping 4-6 (ok) mtts up ($5+) then midday hits and u get 10 mtts popping up per hour
Still love it though, just lets us sleep in
So thats whats goin on with me;
TLDR;Cliffz
MU was 31k upon arrival (was getting 2/1 loans forever)
2/1 fixed now and its going down really freakin fast with some solid results on hero and lock
Currently at 11k MU - 1 solid bink away or a nice week one time
I moved into new place n getting a whip to travel the live mtt circuit as much as possible (up to 1ks, mostly 100-500s tho, I'll join ne of em)
Thinking of the best work schedule, seems when I take days off its way more +EV and balances my life a lot more, thinking 4 sick 13-19 hour sessions a week instead of 6 15 hr sessions...lmk wut you think;
When I clear mu and get the rest of mah debt paid I'm takin a trip to asia for like 3 months 2 life -_- been outa Taiwan sooo long, just no other livin like Taipei livin imo
Back on the job hunt, working for banks sucks lol. I used to work for a small company of 40 people which I loved, but the recession hit them too hard and as a result I suffered a 30% paycut for 4 years. I eventually had to quit and move on. I then got a gig at a local university, which was super cool at first, but quickly got boring with nothing to do, to the point they started asking me to help out with unrelated shit like assisting in the library and stuff. I have a lot of pride and felt insulted they would ask me to do something so trivial, so I quit and got another job at a local bank. At first it was great. Good benefits, good hours, good location, etc. But then 2 of our team members quit and the amount of work thrusted upon us has become insurmountable. I asked for a raise and they basically gave me the whole "we'll think about it hehe" routine. Other employee's have told me it is standard practice here for them to call your bluff 100% of the time, so you really have to put in your 2 weeks notice before they'll even consider your request. So I nailed an interview last week and they called me back for another one next week. Pretty sure I've got this one in the bag unless I get outclassed by an even better candidate, or they're simply not willing to meet my pay demands. But I'm to the point where I'd take a small pay cut just to get out of my current situation because I hate my job so much (I'm a computer technician by the way), and this job is literally 2 blocks from where I live so I could walk/bike to work every day. Aside from recovering my pay cut through gas savings, the luxury of working so close to home, and the relaxed environment of this company make up for most of the deficiencies in pay in my opinion.
So I'd ask to run good one time, but since I've recently ran gun twice already, I guess I'll ask for "THREE TIMES!!!11 (queue Hevad's voice)".
One area I'm definitely not running good in, and thats PLO lol. I dont know the first thing about this game, but it's still been fun trying to learn it. I think I've cut my loss rate from -50BB/100 to -15BB/100. Still trying to learn preflop fundamentals, namely which hand ranges I should be playing. I'll be tightening up to TT+/NFD's from now on. Connecting cards will still be counted but I guess I'll disregard their suit, since my goal is to only play for nut flush draws when I have one. I'm getting better at folding 2 pair and bottom set, at least to consecutive pot bets. Looking forward to MiPwnYa's PLO vid. I have avoided studying the game but I think I'm ready to get a little help here and there without completely following someone elses script.
Finally finished moving to my new unit, 2 min walk from the beach and finally got the internet hooked up after a week of waiting, but today ill grind on LOCK.
Greece (pics), June + July results, Music etc.by Gumster, July 11
So a lot has happened since my last blogpost. Lets start with poker results June n July, then round of with some happier vacation and personal shit.
POKER:
(June) I barely met any of my poker goals, I only played 25k hands and only made 4500SEK (~€470) profit. Luckily, I went to the casino a couple of times (4-5 sessions I think) in Stockholm and made 8500 SEK there, so pokerwise my month ended up being pretty sweet. Pic or didnt happen etc:
(July) Soooooooooooo how about July? Well, 2 things. 1. FUCK. 2. JULY. Playing pretty good, and the volume is decent as well. The beats just won't stop coming. The problem is that I really need to be saving up money atm, and it sucks having to play with any kind of pressure. But fuck it, I'll be fine, cuz I'm good at this game and I just need to play more. Pics or fuck me:
As you can see I've been playing some 2/4SEK which is a piece of cake for me tbh. I'll be a winner there in no time. Just gotta run goot.
PERSONAL:
I went to Greece (an island called Crete) and it was also sweet. I was mostly with my gf, but her mother and little brother were there as well so we kinda lived off them some which was nice. The greeks are REALLY nice and helpful and in all the trip was a delight. Though some assholes broke in to our car which kinda sucked. Actually it REALLY sucked for everybody but me who only lost a pair of shoes (they were sweet shoes tbh ). We were about to find another hotell and we had rented a car in which we stored all our stuff. So we go down to the beach (parked the car not far from there) and when we get back they simply broke the lock (looked like anyone could do it... which makes me think the ppl who rented us the car should somewhat be held responsible? oh well...).In all we lost 2 iphones, a laptop, like €1000 in cash and lots of clothes. And my shoes . It's bad PR for Greece if I let this be the end of my trip report, so here are some awesome picture of us scuba diving which was fantastic:
Last thing about greece: GO THERE. Awesome weather, beautiful women, lots of nature and cultural shit to see. Plus they really need it now with the crisis, which means you can bargain on a lot of stuff (I love bartering, if I was a fallout 2 character I'd have fucking 200% baby).
That's it. Here's some sweet ass tunes for your sorry asses! Cya around
Motivated by helping others?by LemOn[5thF], July 10
This never occured to me. . .Be it in poker, as a goalkeeper, admin,baker or in my academic career I always was motivated by things I do for myself... and it was never strong enough.
It's impossible to do in poker, no teams, you play against others, it's a zero sum game. . .
But it occured to me now. I am in direct sales. My manager is the best one I ever had. He's 32 and has been in the business for 12 odd years, he never stopped believing in me and no matter how shit my results are he always reminds me of the positives in me and really gets the best out of me. But he had a bad streak of luck, where his recruits were lazy, left early or his whole division of products got scrapped and he had to start from the bottom again completely.
He's got very refined monetary goals, where I just don't give a fuck because of poker thought me. . . money doesn't matter it's just a number, it's the happiness and self respect/self esteem that is the only commodity worth pursuing, I'm very detached from the real world value of it. But that left me without a strong motivator in a job where everyone is driven by money and everybody's goal is to have a 20 strong office and make $10k per week and so today when I got pissed with some of the veterans it hit me. . .if I can't find my own goals I just make one to selflessly help my manager to get where he wants to be. I will do my best in terms of my results and motivate the lazy fuckers in his team including myself because that's one thing I believe I am a bit better positioned to do that he is because he is always so nice to everyone.
Just imagine it . . . you work 100% to help the person that supported you in the bad times and put time and money into you and got you to where you are, and as a side effect you get both awesome money but also a truckload of motivation you just can't generate yourself for your own goals. It's that element I miss in poker a bit but that seems to be so obvious in a team environment with a person I respect that became my friend
I may be dropping by London next week for a day or two (probably monday-wednesday). Any tips for any medium prized hotels i can stay at? I really just need a bed actually, dont have to be luxurious at all, but i want it to be pretty central and not complete trash.
Next week should be before the price bomb at the Olympic Games right?
Also tips on what i could do in London? (going alone, main plain is going to amsterdam with some friends but i dont feel like going straight home after that so thats why i wanna drop by London or something) Mainly going to check out Brittish Museum and stuff like that, i also wanted to eat at a Ramsey place sometime =)
Grinded hero and lock today - did really well and got 5th in the 530 for 5750 and 7th in the 109 25k for another 1k
had 45k in the lock 530 (was crushin) 4 hours in and they shut down the mtt most likely cuz it was very short of the overlay.
not a bad day at all
like havin both sites, thats for sure, hopefully I can finish off a 530 one day
todays hand kinda set up - but lil betsizing tell I shoulda picked up on and saved my stack, guy was batshit insane 38/35/20%3bet over large sample though, sb was a super nit - otb 20bb A8 v bb superlag 3better when im opening just about any two.....
wish i just folded though
Two chances to KO that super lag- one for a 1.2m cl at the ft (AK v QQ) with 2nd stack woulda been 250k and tons of 100k stacks
Just not meant to be tonite =[ Mb I should fold there to preserve ICM, idk I play for first and put him on like 70% bluffrange
next time!
not a bad day all in all,
maybe a major first sometime soon? I hope so.
Should have more hours grinded durin the week now,
3 days played - pretty solid so far
I havent really been playing poker consistently ever since FTP took my roll (live howard)
I was a slight winner at NL200 6max and after black friday I went to paradisepoker but I had to play NL50 coz I didnt have the bankroll for higher limits. I kinda lost motivation to regrind also the software tilted the shit out of me (no autorebuy?? you serial?). So I was playing there a few months, won a bit then stopped online poker.
I must say life is so much more happier and balanced when u dont have to force yourself to put in the grind, you dont have that depressing feeling in the morning because of the buyins lost last night. I could properly concentrate on university and myself.
But hey, we need that fucking money and since poker is much more easier and profitable than the regular student job that I could get here in Hungary I started playing live poker.
first of all, its outrageous how bad these guys are. There are some tighter ones but they are still pretty much clueless. Lot of people are not even here to win money. The diversities of the personalities are fun to observe. Everything is just so different from online. So far i put in 30 hours and considering that we play 20 hands/hour I got about 220bb/100 which is sick. Now i got all kind of questions to you live players.
Could 200bb/100 be normal for 1$/2$ live or its just a huge upswing?
I've heard that a guy like me got banned from another room because he was a constant winner. Could that really happen? I mean should I just deliberately make stupid moves and loud scenes to assimilate into the fish?
How do you prepare your minds for all the bullshit chat that goes on for hours? It honestly numbs me. I feel if I were to listen to music it would look really disrespectful also I would miss a lot of info.
Well thats all that comes into my mind now, feel free to add anything considering live poker (your experiences when you started?)
I appriciate all your comments
I like trance, hip hop (old school), etc. what albums would you recommend for me guys?
Btw, for a small update: love my new job, pretty much a surveyor for insulation/later going to turn into green deal advisor for grants for boilers/solar panels and home efficiency etc. New people are all around 20 which makes it more fun, and my managers are 30++ unlike my last office where mu MD was 26 -,-
My off on chick is gone now, I'm studying picking up girls psychology and communication to get a new one, it's all about the law of averages imo
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then midday hits and u get 10 mtts popping up per hour
Playing pretty good, and the volume is decent as well. The beats just won't stop coming. The problem is that I really need to be saving up money atm, and it sucks having to play with any kind of pressure. But fuck it, I'll be fine, cuz I'm good at this game and I just need to play more. Pics or fuck me:
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