Woke up real tired yesterday had little sleep managed to grind out what I needed to do, was a real swingy day managed to win around $400 so not like the 1st day bit I will take it . Think I played like 6k hands making the vpp count at the end of the day like 8k, which puts me a little ahead.
Played today and played pretty good played 4k hands which was pretty good as I had a driving lesson and a footy match so was kinda busy, finished $800 up and putting the vpp count at just under 11k.
Super motivated at the moment with everything not just poker, football, golf basically anything I do. Sucks my football team aren't the same and don't put 100% in, I need to find a better team anyway. I'm pretty sure that I play at a much better level then most of the players on my team.
If your lacking inspiration/motivation watch this saw it from someone else on 2+2 you have probs seen it before but this is my first time watching it enjoy....http://youtu.be/7X38PCf7kao
I guess I have to quit hyper turbos. But its just so fucking annoying, I swear I should be winning but I just get butt-fucked over and over on every single showdown.
What god damm sucks is that I had a 100% easy lock on SNE on those games, but I can't keep playing if I'm just losing like this. However I checked some of my reg friends and -80, -100 bi downswings are fucking common, so idk.
If I play only turbos I will have to play an absurd, inhuman amount of games. But I can also enjoy this fucking beautiful winrate instead of losing JTo x A3o and A8s x K5s every game.
Just man up an grind I guess. It was too easy like this anyways, 13.4k VPPs after day 2.
I even bought PT3 and studied the game and was feeling good about my game but I just can't keep crushing one game and feeding the other one like an gambling addiction.
Kind of made a general "what I need to do" plan to get myself back on track in 2012 and blogging about it should help keep me updating at least once a week I hope.
I've been playing online a little just trying to keep my game sharp, but still enough to try and make some money off of it (100NL) for when the DOJ unleashes the online poker beast later this year (i hope). I was thinking about moving to Canada for PS/SNE but right now it just doesn't seem cost-effective with everything else I have going on in Vegas + the chance that I spend a bunch of money to move and DOJ says OK USA go ahead.
I've been really tweaking my live game lately and I think I can get out of this breakeven slump I've been in for a while now so I've set an ambitious goal for the first half of 2012.
Overall goal: Make 100k by WSOP
How I am going to achieve it:
1. Make 18,000 per month playing 5/10 live
-Will be tough but I've made some assumptions that hopefully work out
Assumption 1: Estimated live hourly-rate of $100/hr with good game selection
Assumption 2: Play at least 45 hours per week (will have to play 9 hours a day for the next 5 days to catch up to this pace by next week)
2. Make 2000 /month between online + rakeback
-could be tough to even play enough but I'm going to try
3. ship an MTT?
I guess for a normal person this wouldn't be super tough but for me to put in the hours is hard bc we don't have a babysitter. So I'm home all day and then when my wife gets home to watch Alli, we eat dinner at like 4 and then by 445-5pm I'll usually be in a game. So 5pm-1230am (or 5pm-2am for the rest of this week) is tough when I have to wake up at 8am again.
Here's my planned schedule for the next few months
Mondays off
Tue-Thurs schedule
0800-1400: Wake up, fatherly duties, daughter naps at 2pm
1400-1600: online poker while she naps
1600-1630: husbandly duties (eat dinner etc)
1645-0100: Live poker for 8 hours
Friday schedule
0800-1600 the same as above
1600-1800 stay home longer
1845-0300 play later since it's friday and don't have to wake up early
Sat-Sun schedule
0930-1100 wake up, etc
1100-1500 hang out on saturdays, online poker on sundays
1600-0000 Live poker
So that works out to about
-12 hours per week playing online so I'd need to make $41.67/hr after rakeback to get 2k a month
-48 hours of live poker per week so I'd need to make $93.75/hr if I played the full 192 hours each month.
I'll try to update this with weekly results if I can, maybe daily but most likely won't have time until Mondays.
for some reason the season 4 episodes aren't loading for me on cuevana.tv, is there another place i can view this without risking downloading something sketchy? thanks
1st day going for SNE and Introby UnitedAs1, January 02
Hey all,
Little about myself, Name is Simon I'm 22 from the UK and have been playing poker as a small stakes grinder for about 4 years seriously now. I have mostly played NLH 6 max cash and PLO 6 max cash and HU, all ranging from 50nl - 400nl and 50plo - 400plo.
My problem over the last few years has been volume so I thought this year I would take the plunge and go for SNE although recently I have been playing some really long HU sessions. To achieve this I am starting off playing 1/2 PLO averaging like 3k vpps a day 16 tabling, as I play golf and football/soccer a lot I'm trying to get ahead of pace when I can as I know these activities are going to get in the way at some point. I do plan to move up to 2/4, 3/6 and 5/10 but we will see how we go 1st.
I think that's it for now so for the 1st day I played which was yesterday.
Well it went really well tbh I thought it was going to be a lot tougher, I normally play tiled and about 10 tables, so for me to stack and play 16 tables I thought was going to be difficult. Anyway pretty good day here are the results. VPP COUNT: 3.1K
Got some job interviews scheduled before I moved here. Hopefully I run good and land a job so I can grind poker on the side comfortably. Going to try to get back online as well and improve my HU game.
Stopped smoking weed because I can't control myself when I have some (all the time) I smoke every 3 hours caused some tilt issues, but ran good so.
Changing my diet eating a lot more trying to gain 10 to 15 kg tired of looking scrawny. Brain foods: omega 3, blueberries and dark chocolate. Pretty much only drink water and smoothies but have been doing that for a while.
Got a new phone Nokia 3310 bought it at a green grocer. Don't want or need any of that fancy shit (just get mugged anyway)
http://i.imgur.com/EC9Nc.jpg
Yes thats huge $730, stakes vary between nl100 and nl1k. 16 tables at once most of the time. My average daily poker time was like 1.5-2 hours, didn't read any forums or watch any video since mid 2010s thought im good enough to kill beat the field, however now this looks more like timewaster;/
Still up about 50k because of rb and bonuses, and up like 5k live games.
Going to improve my game and cut number of tables to 12, and switch to HM2
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Happy new year! Live 1-2 hand (LOLRITE?)by Carthac, January 01
Happy new year everybody. I'm not really a big drinker, so for my celebration last night, I decided to play some live 1-2. Did well, but got caught up on a hand and I was hoping you guys could help me out
Villain: 22-25yo Asian kid, somewhat knowledgeable of poker, has shown to randomly spaz in pots before and stack off somewhat light.
I have a stack of about 430 at the time. Villain in question has me covered with around 500. I am dealt KdKh UTG, raise to 7BB(people were calling off big bets preflop) 1 caller in the cutoff, and villain calls in the SB.
Flop comes 10c - 3d - Jc
Asian kid checks, I bet about 25 and both players call
Turn comes 5s
Asian kid checks, I bet 50, one fold and after a little thinking, Asian kid calls
River comes Ah
After tanking for a little bit, the villain in question leads out for $150.
In this spot, what would you guys have done? Of course there is a ton of missed draws, and I have two king blockers to KQ, but in my eyes my hand essentially turned into a bluff catcher with that bet. He has shown bluffs before, but they were not frequent. Villain was definitely able to make this play, but I kept thinking with the ace that hit, he possibly could of had A high flush draw and doesnt understand his bet when he made it. I was thinking it is a good call online, but live there are so many wacky hands people can come up with that it might not be a +ev call.
2011 was a stinker, but I'm in an OK spot to have a good 2012 considering how bad the last two years were. Gonna try and update my blog more often this year. GL LP.
First of all hope everyone had a blast and aren't too hangover, wish you all success in 2012!
Second I'm restarting my old blog, sorry it's in spanish but for those who can read mexicano locoo20.blogspot.com
I'm going for SNE this year(my real goal is somewhere between 1.5 and 2M VPPs).
Also gonna try and hit every LAPT this year, those are amazing value, still not sure if I wanna sell action or not but if you have some interesting offer feel free to contact me!
anyone play on everleaf sites? After WA state players were barred from first Pokerstars and then Full Tilt, I found myself on LuvinPoker. Not the best software in the world, but still enjoyable all things considered.
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. Think I played like 6k hands making the vpp count at the end of the day like 8k, which puts me a little ahead.
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