Was going to make this blog post earlier but edzwoo's post beat me to it. Finally got back to the suburbs. Living in a pretty nice area right now. Rooming with edzwoo in a two bed two bath condo. It's 1500 sq ft and one of only six units here with a terrace. There's a sundeck, pool, gym, two hot tubs and a running/bike trail through the forest preserve across the street. If you read edzwoo's blog then you probably already seen some of these pictures. It's really nice to be back, seeing a lot of friends from high school who are in the area and honestly I forgot how much I love hanging out with them. Friends have been crashing on the couch pretty much every single night. Great places to eat, been just eating out every single day. Only had two meals at home in three weeks. Going out to bars every chance I get, just having a blast ever since I got back.
Been working 50-60 hour weeks, 6 days a week, trying to set things up in the warehouse. The hard work is paying off because after only 3 weeks we're already doing 30-40% more in sales than we were before we left. But I'll talk about that in another post. Time for some brag pictures.
A midget lover girl from game of thrones http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Shae known as Shae in the series used to be a porn star. Search for Dilara in some porntubes.
sorry for being a PLO noob,watching these old fulltilt poker hands but in this vid the hand that went to showdown at 4:27 I was like HUH??. pretty sick flopped top 2 vs running trips wit KQ high and AK high.
i need someone that can do transfers my lock for your hero, I'll give you a small vig each time - need to be a reputable player / able to handle large transfers
Today was a pretty sweet day.
Final Tables
$530 Lock Poker 60k - AQ < AK (3rd week in usa, 3 fts in 530s woot! 3rd 5th 9th - win win win!
$109 Turbo Lock (won it last night)
$33 1r1a 1st - *******happened early in day, nice feelin like ur freerollin all day
$109 Rebuy - (sick battle 4tw)
$5 1k 3rd (was running when started session, get me mad tbls up asap plz!)
Mb some more ft's - these the ones i remember
not a bad Sunday - had 90k in the lock 109 125k at 5k 1k then this went down;
AJcc on JT4cc board i cbet get called - had 50-100bb not sure where the blinds were.
turn Ax, still top two and nfd-dude jams 85k into the pot - we were like 90k starting stack when avg stack was 22kish
i thought for a while and made a thinnish call...top two and nfd vs str8 or 2pair i beat or fd i beat..fuck that hand was so sick
lovin the mixture of mtt's on both sites, I keep Hero's full schedule going, and 2-3 high or midstakes mtts running on lock (run all gntd mtts on hero pretty much) LOVE how they added so many great sunday MTT's - and really excited to continue to see what they do with the schedule. the latenight hyperturbos are sweet as hell too
Had a nice heap of chips in the highroller on hero finally today (the 40k instead of weekly 25k) but had a couple bad hands shatter that dream this weekend. Lets really hit it hard next weekend!
Feeling really good since coming home, and playing very well as well.
Tomorrow, day off, gonna mow the lawn n take my rest!
arrived in states with mu at 35k. (20k from arrival in costa rica, 5kx2 from loans in 3 months (had 16k loaned) - means i only won like 6k there? really doesn't make sense, have a much better deal with my backer now though, seems very worth it in the long run I guess. - scope says i made like 40k on stars, doesnt make lot of sense)
MU now at 6k.
Feels good to be playing my A game and having some key hands hold.
- keep urself fresh - don't overwork - stick to your plan and work hard - HF
hey i need someone that can do transfers my lock for your hero i'll give you a small vig each time - do it once a week or so
someone that plays midlimits or highstakes mtts plz
midhighlimit cgs obv also too
reputable posters only plz etc
this just makes it way easier for myself and my backer, that way i don't have to have checks sent here and wire him etc all the time, he plays like 10 sites but doesn't play lock, so he cant cashout there...
OK - let me know if you're playin both sites and can handle xfers - il lgive some vig etc - would like to find someone that plays regularly at both sites!@
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.
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then midday hits and u get 10 mtts popping up per hour
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