My most epic 2 days of 2011by wobbly_au, November 12
Dear Readers,
Let me tell you about my most epic day of the year. It started on the 10th of this month, after coming home from a round of golf and dinner, I started to grind my daily quota for SNE. Below is a simple timeline of the events that followed.
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1. 7pm start
2. 6 hours in I decided to call it a day after winning like $500, but when closing tables i lost a buyin at 25/50.
3. Obvious thing to do at 1am is to reload all 24 tables again and keep going.
4. 4am I lost about 8 flips consecutively and was down over $35,000. I was tired, hungry, struggling to keep my eyes open, but today's losses hit me so damn hard, I think it was a combination of my eternal run bad this year and also losing it to the same guy yurasov900 so I decided to stick it to the poker gods and grind till I was even. My only weapon against such a beast of a foe was my will power.
5. 10am After winning this gem of a hand http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/925697 I was finally up after 15 hours of non stop poker. I even got to take all my money back and some more from the same guy
I ended up winning 22k, even though this isnt close to my biggest win it was definately the most rewarding. So the lesson here is, life is a struggle but if you stick to it there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
“I’m focused, I’m intense I will read your soul and I will crush it.” To quote my self~
hey guys im currently traveling thru southeast asia. Right now im in philippines and will be here till 19th dec then im off to vietnam. After a month or so there im gonna head somewhere else, havnt decised yet. So if any of u in the region we might be able to meet up. If ure in any of SEA countries gimme a holla. Cheers.
In philippines i met up with whamm and bilat power, lol sorry for callin u bilat haha. Had awesome time gonna prob meet up some more while im here. Thx guys.
My new novel approach to the gameby ToylandPoker, November 11
So as some of you may know, I came back from from a long break from the game, did well for quite a while(didn't tilt), which was a great improvement from before my break, then I suffered a couple bad beats, tilted and lost most of my bankroll (which was hardly nothing anyway so I don't really care from the $$$ point of view).
Had a few days off and reflected and now I have a new plan.
As soon as I double my deposit amount ($10), I withdraw original amount ($10). Meaning I'm not losing anything. Then I'll be looking at giving some of my profit to charity (yes I know this sounds superficial and cheesy but I'm quite serious.), not sure exactly how/when it'll work, as I also want to build my bankroll, so I can move up stakes.
This will help me play smarter, cause I don't really need the money I win (or hope to win) from poker, so I play a bit silly sometimes, especially not at the stakes I'm playing.
So i'll be building my bank roll and also giving to charity along the way.
PokerStars Game #28464211706: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/05/21 17:29:08 ET
Table Wallia V 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Jum79 ($34.15 in chips)
Seat 2: anna_garcia ($25 in chips)
Seat 3: Gendalf85 ($124.05 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($180.60 in chips)
Seat 5: gen564 ($162.70 in chips)
Seat 6: wakingpug ($120.40 in chips)
Gendalf85: posts small blind $0.10
Hero: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
gen564: calls $0.25
wakingpug: folds
Jum79: folds
anna_garcia: folds
Gendalf85: calls $0.15
Hero: raises $1 to $1.25
gen564: raises $1 to $2.25
Gendalf85: folds
Hero: raises $61 to $63.25
gen564: calls $61
PokerStars Game #28466913502: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/05/21 18:41:38 ET
Table Wallia V 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: serry192 ($26.50 in chips)
Seat 2: DaGr1nder ($33.75 in chips) Seat 4: Hero ($480.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Gendalf85 ($24.55 in chips)
Seat 6: wakingpug ($56.50 in chips)
wakingpug: posts small blind $0.10
serry192: posts big blind $0.25
Lost the database been a year but its the last 9k hands of this solid 24 buyin day at nl 25 imo. Felt like jesus christ that day but shipped 3x yesterday and was disapoint oO
What is the minimum bankroll you guys would recommend for seriously grinding 1/2 GBP live cash game?
I am mostly planning on playing in The Empire on Leicester square - the games are full of fish - lots of tourists, recreational players, businessmen + usually 1-2 regs/competent players apart from me at the table.
I am obv short on cash, so I'd like to have an idea how much I need to save up to be able to seriously grind these games.
Its funny how things in life suddenly swing around.
For most of this year, nothing really happened in my life, plans werent panning out and it all was kind of turning to shit.
At the end of last week however, things suddenly picked up.
Starting saturday/sunday: Im playing poker again, properly, and have put in some decent volume the last few days, although my results are a little shitty, but I feel im playing well. Properly rolled and playing NL25, which is where i was very comfortable before, hopefully i can make a little bit of cash and some good rakeback. Volume was always the problem before so I hope i don't burn out. Ive played about 13k hands in the last 3 days, 12 tabling. It was great for the first 10k or so, but the last 3k didnt go as well. I think im gonna adjust so i get up at like 8am NZ team which would be 8pm Euro time, and play then. Last 2 days have been an early AM session and an afternoon session and the tables were tight and there werent as many Russians stacking off free money.
Aswell as that, as you know I went to the Psychiatrist on Saturday, it was probably over a month since my last psychologist visit and then they forgot to book an appointment with me, so i went and had that 2 hour session and got some medication.
Then monday, I followed up about a 2nd job interview I had nearly 2 weeks before. I thought it went really well but was a little surprised and anxious when after over a week I still hadnt heard anything. So i called her up to see what was going on, and right then and there we got everything locked.
Next week i go in to sign my contract, 25th I will start part-time at the existing store doing my training and learning whatever I need to, and then January 2nd the new store opens and i will be the Business Machines Specialist. So ill be in charge of the computers/hardware/phones section of the store.
The pay is alright, good for an entry level position, and its one of the biggest retailers in NZ so in the future i should have plenty of opportunity to progress if I wish, or move locations etc.
So now, Im back to being a normal person from the unemployed gaming shut-in that ive been for the last 8 months this year.
Im working on losing weight too, after 3 weeks I had lost 3kgs. Ive slacked a little with my exercise the last few days because of weather and all the other stuff happening. My current goal is to weigh less than 100kgs by December 11th, which will be 2 months after I started.
Other stuff:
On November 06 2011 12:25 Night2o1 wrote:
I am not sure if you've mentioned tools for organizing yourself and your time better.. Like keeping a calendar etc to stay on task for longer term things. You doing any outside medication type stuff?
Not really at the moment. I do write a lot more down now. I have a pen and paper on my desk and write either ideas, funny things i think about, things/details i need to remember.
Since there isnt much need for a routine in my life, I havent really worked on making one. The only routine ive been doing is regular exercise everyday (more or less)
Also:
Why arent Roasts more popular?
I had never heard about them until the death of Greg Giraldo, when everyone was mourning a funny man I had never heard of. Theres an amazing mix of people who are absolutely hilarious and people who are absolutely terrible (see Situation).
and lots of B-list celebrities willing to let people rip them to pieces.
Jeff Ross is by far my favourite. I could watch him roast people all day. He walks that fine line so well between being really really funny and being too mean.
When i watched these 2 performances for the first times, i was laughed start to finish.
AND FINALLY:
I made these so long ago, but afaik i never posted them, so here we go:
This next one was in reference to that Poker/MMA Combination thing that was meant to happen, I cant even remember the details of it, but this is Mig at the FT.
Sup,
we have a 7780 all-in-one HP. We're trying to print off some copies of a flyer, the printer does the job for like 5 copies (which come out perfectly) and then stops the job and says that cartridge C (cyan) needs ink. But it doesn't. Cartridge is full, and it was JUST using it to make 5 perfectly fine prints before that.
I am pretty clueless when it comes to printers.. didn't find anything on a brief google search.
288k PLO Hands of tortueby Joeingram1, November 07
I would love to write a blog and talk about how I am pwning it up and crushing the noobs but sadly I cannot write that. I have been getting beat around left and right, fucked in the ass, the mouth, and back in the ass again. Then fucked some more and then a few more times. All in all has been a joyous 28 days of my prop bet. Haven't really thought about giving up on it until this point, I wake up and have 0 desire to play and 100 percent desire to wallow in misery and debate how life would be as a waiter at Applebees for the rest of my life. Then I decide that would probably be terrible and go to my computer to load up a session, run 2-10BI under in a few hours, then repeat the process again. After 2-4 times of doing this a day, I go to sleep, then wake up the next day and start it over. My only joy of the day comes when I play this game on my ipad called crime city and I collect fake money from fake buildings and rob peoples fake money. I knew it would be hell to do this from my other prop bets but I didn't expect this level of it. I just remind myself that its only 2 more months and if I work harder then I have worked before these 2 months then next year I will be able to relax that much more and go back to doing nothing. Oh ya, and I think I love someone, so that makes it a bit easier to go on through each day.
I started linking some of my blogs on my facebook and i'm pretty sure the non-poker players have no idea what these graphs mean and are confused how I still have money to play with since all my graphs I post lately are me losing. Basically the more hands I play, the more points I get back from the pokersites which in turn can be used to spend on cash. In the last month I am down around 11kish but I have made about 15k in that same time span from those points (FPP's). Also when I talk about running bad/getting fucked in ass/etc. that basically means, according to the program I use, I should only be down a certain amount of money, but due to "bad luck" I am actually down much more then that. The theory is in the long run of hands this luck evens out
Here is graph of last 28 days or 288k hands of plo. I am pretty sure this is the most hands ever played of plo in that time span as well
Yea looks fun, first 160k hands was shortstacking and last hands since then are full stacking. My original upswing in the graph is when I first switched over and started playing around 16-18 tables rather then 24. I was excited for a change and did well and ran about normal. Then moved up to plo100, got slaughtered for 20BI really quick while I should have been up 2BI, moved back down and resumed the bloodbath. I am running about 120 Buy-ins below expected, and its starting to hurt my soul pretty bad right about now. Every time I get all in with 70 percent equity, I assume I'm going to lose somehow. As most of you know this is a terrible mentality to have but I can't really get over it because at the end of each session, I look at my hands and I end up winning a few hands where I wasn't a favorite, and lose a ton where I was a favorite. Whatever, I could write about that shit in every blog but not good to always focus on it. Goal is to get to 500k vpp in the next few days and then make a glorious attempt to move up and get to 700k vpp by end of the month in order to set up with a 300k vpp december.
Yay up to $60 now, from my initial $10 investment 3weeks ago. As said before, playing pretty tight and conservative, haven't lost many big pots and manage to stack people every so often, so thing's going well.
ADD Part 3 - The Rubifen Road to Richesby byrnesam, November 04
Went to see the psychiatrist today following my trips to the psychologist from a while back.
Pretty much asked/answered a lot of similar questions and some other stuff. He was a cool guy and his intern sat in too. It was wierd having to go into detail about my career as a counter-strike and WC3 player from when i was younger. They both think I have an addiction to the internet, which im not sure I do, I just really really like it.
Its a fast acting one, so im supposed to take 4 a day and i got 1 weeks supply, later I will look at getting a longer acting one once the dosage is worked out because it differs person to person.
So, im about to pop the first of these bad boys. Not really sure what to expect or what to do. So i think ill try and read one of the many unread e-books thats sitting on my hard drive.
Since its function is to allow me to focus on things properly, I will have to choose something to focus on.
any advice or tips are welcome.
Will report back soon with the results and let you know if they did anything.
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