Im gonna try to keep this update short, but knowing myself it will prolly end up in some huge ranty sea of text. Ive mostly been "blogging" on this swedish forum pokerforum.nu, u can find my blog (its more like a mixx of a well+blog+thread) there (in swedish), its called "longple". And i thought its about time to make an update over here on whats been up in longplelife the past time
So i made SNE 2013, and tryed to make it again 2014, but found myself ~mid2014 around june or so very fucking tired and unmotivated with NL, despite haveing a pretty good ~recent year 18-24 tableing midstakes NL on stars.
These arent completely accurate tho, its taken from the swedish forum, where i scrapped together the different databases i could get a hold on (hands from november/december 2013 til august 2014 somewhere), but theres alot of hands missing from other sites and higher stakes.
I def lost alot on 5/10 ring wich isnt there, aswell as some 10/20 and 25/50 shots that backfired.
On another note ive won in somewhat big games on the swedish site, wich isnt added in this sample either. So im not entirely sure of how my results are this year, but they are probably somewhat accurate, def not up more then 100k at the tables tho.
What ever, moveing on.
Quitting SNE / NLrant
So in july or so i just woke up, tryed to get my 4 hours of 18+ grind on, 1/2 fine, 500+400 fine, what ever was running i just wanted to get on the fucking waitlists and get done with the VPPs so i could do something else and had no passion wanting to move up or doing anything else then getting my safe hourly in.
And i realised how fucking miserable i felt about poker, and what type of player i had become compared to the type of player i used to be. The motivated hard working shottakeing dreamer of a pokerplayer that would sit up all night 3 tableing with some regs hu/3 handed/4 handed w/e just for the competition and the love for the game with goals of being the best in the world.
Wtf happened, Im not even that good at the game anymore.
Honestly i feel like 50% of the regs playing 5/10 today on stars, probably are better players then i am. And i dont see how i could find enough motivation to break into the 10/20+ starsgames anymore, every reg is fucking seatscripting GTO-yogis nowadays and they are really fucking good.
No one battles anyone and theres just so little room for a 26 year old dude who isnt that passionated about the game anymore to ever break into that enviorment.
Basically i gave up, and that has scared me a long time unconsciously i think. Thats where my spirit and success has always rooted from as a pokerplayer. The mentality of IF U CAN I FUCKING I CAN TO, AND I WILL SUCCEED.
Realiseing that i just didnt see any future in NL.
So i decided to drop SNE 50% in, and try something new.
Ok, ive wanted/and tryed to move over to PLO for many years, but i always shamefully came back to NL again and again to make money. But now is the fucking time for the real change.
In the beginning of august i started playing 1/2$ PLO and have been doing so pretty much most sessions since then.
As ive said in my swedish "diaryblogg" many times, poker is fucking fun again. People are battleing, people play different, people suck and theres no fucking seatscripts (atleast on the stakes im playing now)
PLO is the shit, the fact that the game is soooo much bigger then NL makes it alot more interesting imo. Theres no clearcut answers in this game and people are all over the place, i mean, NL has 1300 combos, and theres fucking 7000 combos of AAxx in PLO. GG
PLO results so far?
Who cares? Being a noob of the game, and being a student of the game, improveing every day i dont really care about the results as much as ive done in NL. Its just fun to play and i just want to get good, and i dont really have any expectations of winning anything in this game for some time, atleast not in 2014. My real goals are to set myself up for 2015 and just play as much as i want to play, wich so far has been quite alot of hours.
Its fun to drop down playing 2-6 tables again instead of 18+ every session. Its fun to have things to think about, and find out stuff along the way. And people fucking battle in this game, all the time. Its so much easier to start games and get into these oldschool battles that i used to be in NL a few years ago.
Special shoutout to Joeingram
I gotta thank Joey alot for his podcast, it defenetely helped me to get more inspired and motivated to play PLO, and i think its great for PLO and poker that ur doing what ur doing joey. I must admit i was kinda annoyed by u and made some judgements about u when u first came around with ur Vlogs and popbets and ur blog over here on LP. But with time, hands down i think ur awesome, GW AND KEEP IT UP!
Im excited for the future. I think i can get good at this game, maybe its a breeze of hope, who knows but i feel overall alot more motivated about playing poker and talking poker. PLO has set me back in time. The game is alot softer relative to NL, i can tell u that much right from the getgo. The spectrum of players is alot bigger and i just like the PLOworld more overall and its given me hope when it comes to my motivation.
If ur bored with NL, and find my story similair. Just switch, give it a few months like ive done and see if u can get as excited as i am.
>be me
>play lol
>a couple of games a week
>only ai games pretty much
>recently for the last two weeks
>at least one person in every game
>doubles mid or gets killed on purpose all game
>matches go from 20ish minutes to an hour and a half
>start losing to bots KEK
>"we have been able to reduce bad player behavior by NOPE %"
It's like when you know the other person in the hand with you is a fucking idiot and for some reason, they just get there every time against you and no matter how bad they play, they keep winning over and over and over and there's never anything you can do about it because it's destined for the rest of time that you get mopped the FUCK up. You just don't play against them, ever.
I've actually had this installed for a few years but only just now bothered to make a video demonstrating it properly. Whaddya think? The future is nigh! Only recently have Google & Apple begun to compete in the carputer arena with very limited and restricted results. This thing is allin baby! With all the R&D and red tape involved making these commercially my guess is it will be another 10 years before this kind of connectivity is standard.
No money at other pokerby Forrest Gump, October 12
Everyones better each day and player volume decrease over time
Still it may be some profit to be made at:
Razz (2/4 to 5/10 mostly): 5.69 BB/100 in 5K hands with SD of 8.874. That means that in a worst case scenario I should be a 2BB/100
Triple Draw (2/4 to 15/30 mostly): 1.95 BB/100 in 35K hands with SD of 19.52. That means that I could be a loser and that's not a reasonable sample size.
Badugi (2/4 to 5/10 mostly): -2.07 BB/100 in 11K hands. Not a sample, but a winner without rake. Still a small chance to be a 1BB/100 winner with bad luck. But I better try to fix leaks, table select harder and put more volume before reaching conclusions
I'm happy to inform you that I have not yet had a psychotic break and am still pumping.
I've been recording all my drug intake by dosage and time with the exception of nicotine for the past 18 months. The reason I've excluded nicotine is because my intake has been minimal and it's difficult to keep track of.
I started making a few charts of the various drugs in my system (removing the more illicit ones) based on half-life and dosage, but realized how much time it was taking me and haven't finished them yet. Basic schedule now is exercise daily. Drugs - cycle through caffeine and modafinil with nicotine on the side. Then at least once every 2 months go completely straight edge for a couple weeks to recapture full effectiveness of the drugs.
Results:
Sleep - I'm getting more sleep than ever, at least over the past 7 years of recorded data. I'm averaging around 7 hours 20 minutes a night now. My efficiency unfortunately doesn't seem to be any better. REM and SWS is about the same as when I was getting 6h30m, but light sleep is longer. Lucid dreams have decreased to about 1 in every 6 cycles.
Physical Exercise - Probably the most noticeably positive effect. I've exercised 27.78% of days over the past 18 months. It's been mostly jogging, although I've switched a couple months ago to doing the Insanity workouts which seem more efficient. My resting heart rate has gone from low 70s to low 60s over the past year. I measure it first thing when I wake up. My body fat was gradually increasing and skeletal muscle gradually decreasing until I switched to Insanity. Body fat hit an all time high of 20% and over the past couple months it's declining back and currently at 18% with skeletal muscle at 42%. My weight range over the past 18 months has stayed within a narrow 118-124 lbs range and is currently 122.
Brain Exercise - There are many tools and services out there for improving brain plasticity. Unfortunately most of them are pretty gimmicky or are only good for so long before you just master the games you're playing. My current exercise on this front is: Brain-n-back, Anki (memorized 1600 new items in the past 13 months), learning French, and learning guitar. My progress on all fronts has been awesome and really helps reinforce the practice.
Nicotine - In my last report I hadn't realized any of the benefits. I believe this was because I had such a low tolerance that I would get light headed quickly. After a few weeks of a more deliberate use, my tolerance level increased to a point where I can use it for a quick mental pick-me-up. I use it a couple times daily except during clean weeks.
Modafinil - Still the most effective drug I've ever taken for concentration. It lasts about 7 hours and I take it 3 days in a row (200mg -> 100mg -> 100mg) about once every 2-3 weeks. I do need to have a reminder to eat while on it since my appetite is suppressed. If I don't, then when it begins wearing off I'm extremely hungry.
Diet - I eat 4-5 meal a day. Recently I've began replacing one meal a day with Soylent that would have otherwise been fast food.
Conclusions:
Since I'm putting so much more effort towards all these life health activities (exercise, brain, sleep), my time spent working has taken a hit and I'm averaging closer to 70 hours a week. I take one full weekend off a month and make that a really nice vacation somewhere or attend a big event every 2 or 3 months. Also June I take a lot of time off to play WSOP events and attend EDC. Overall I feel the quality of my work is staying high and productivity hasn't suffered.
Future:
I think for now I'll stick with the Insanity workouts and I think within 6 months I can be down below 14% body fat again. I might try to change it up if I hit a plateau.
The Emotiv Insight I ordered on Kickstarter is scheduled for delivery in December. I plan on wearing that quite a bit and keeping a detailed set of data for analysis. It'll be really nice to correlate drugs and exercise directly to brain performance data over an extended period of time.
A mid-term goal is to get to a conversational level in French where I can find a partner to speak with once a week to maintain that level of fluency and also read some comics in French. Some of my long term stretch goals are learning Japanese, how to play piano, and hitting a billion+ in net worth.
Feedback:
If you have any feedback on exercise with efficiency measured by amount of time spent with the goal being overall brain health I'd like to hear it. It's an important area that my knowledge of is very limited.
Drugs. I've tried most nootropics and related so I've got a good grasp in this area, but I'll still take feedback.
Although this month my job has been very brutal and been working till 8pm on average, I somehow managed to be able to play just a little bit more poker than last month. Played just a little shy of 8k hands for the month and was up almost $50 (2 sites combined), which I think was pretty okay for my shitty noob level
Change of this month is:
* played much less on Seals (just not enough tables on the stakes I want to play at, and time issues)
* took shots on 10NL Bovada
* played more zone (anonymous zoom) than normal tables
I think I could have won a bit more, but my stats were very swingy, and I had to jump up and down between 5NL and 10NL because I was right on the edge. I would win up to $210, then lost a whole bunch, back down to $175 ish and I would need to play 5NL to build it back up a bit until I was comfortable with my play, then I finally said "fuck it I would play with 17 BIs on 10NL" and managed to come back from another huge loss at 10NL, which put my BR down to $179 from $210 again.
I think zone helped me improve in a way because every opponent is essentially readless (all you know is how much money they have behind them) and I have to play every single hand the same way (not exploiting opponents). I started to fold more 1pair hands (top pair especially) on the turn and river and was a lot more conservative vs 3bets preflop. Although I do miss exploiting opponents, especially on Bovada where player pool is super soft, I think playing zone helps me in a way where I can get my fundamentals down and I can practice more on hand reading, narrowing opponents' ranges the right way etc.
Posting some stats for the month and hope to get some pointers so I can move up faster :O
Hey guys, been a good bit since I wrote a blog, so here's one
I moved up to Vancouver, and was playing staked for a while. For about 1.5 years with him, and was backed by John in the past as well. Anyways, yesterday he came over to my place and we chatted and I started playing on my own dime again. We just do so much better as friends than business partners.
So. I did put myself in a win or go home kinda scenario, but at 100%. Its pretty relaxed though, and have a few bux to work with. Need to make 1500 a month for living expenses and just build br etc. should be able to get 2 $600 bonuses a month + profits so that shouldn't be too tough.
If I had to go home, i have 1500 aside for nl25 and a place etc - not much, better win!
Been goin out some, havin fun golfin, random drinks and amazing herbs I've made like 3 good friends since comin up, mostly cuz im just workin non stop - but they are all good quality people. Makes the transition much easier.
John has made this an amazing trip for me, we have been through so much together, he promised me for months if I came up I wouldn't be disappointed. I'm prolly happier than I've been in 5 years or so. For my bday - he made one of my fantasies possible and come true, I just had to do a little work. Was fucking epic - lets say I was trippin balls, hours of insanity, in a good way wish i could share more - can't tho, dont ask.
(x) still coke free well over a year tho!
I recently heard Raszi say if he isn't crushing plo then he would just quit poker, this got me thinking. I had 2 10/20 plo coaches (one is a 2/5 zoom, other 10/20) *Love ur videos JoeIngram, you should do one with me lol * you INSPIRED ME. btw i also did the same through my 20's and know many others that have, its logical lol
This is where all the money is at. This is just obviously apparent to the most blind eyes.
I grabbed a PT4 PLO version to track with HEM2 stats up while grinding, Its been pretty nuts, in a good way, im excited to play non stop for first time in a long time! STARTED PLOIN - NO STOPPIN!!@! ^^
So heres the graph of the first 2 days cuz it was kinda insane and fun to say the least.
I was learning some here and there about PLO for the last 2-3 years, won a few nice MTT's that were PLO, but never went higher than NL50. Well, since NLHE is impossible to go through the limits and MTT's are so high variance and luckbox oriented, I decided to truly become a full time PLO specialist.
I'm gonna just sit on 25 all month printing cash (hopefully [x]).
The hourly is actually much higher than I anticipated.
Idk if i care to even move up for a long time.
I used to just hit and run it instead of grinding it or just take shots (in general). Now that im studying PLO the game is just so much more fun - actually running equity sims etc, and things have been working out kinda pretty good.
I welcome this and have been doing quite well, I have moved to full time PLO.
I'll be playin NL25 PLO 6max all month, and consider moving up 11/1.
>have dried pinto beans
>decide to cook a cup of beans
>soak a cup of beans and 3 cups of water for 24 hours
>drain
>put beans back into pot along with another 3 cups of water
>simmer for 6 hours
>drain
>cook some ground beef, veggies, and beans in a skillet with water for an hour
>beans are still as hard as they were before i soaked them
PokerStars Zoom Hand #122841909911: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2014/10/09 9:11:26 JST [2014/10/08 20:11:26 ET]
Table Hyakutake 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Dann_zfr ($3.27 in chips)
Seat 2: AHxeJIb ($7.24 in chips)
Seat 3: Listesz ($5.03 in chips)
Seat 4: SandroVM ($5.34 in chips)
Seat 5: sepplr ($5.30 in chips)
Seat 6: Aspablo1982 ($5.07 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero ($4.78 in chips)
Seat 8: ridenigmadel ($4.94 in chips)
Seat 9: BoT BaM ($5.04 in chips)
AHxeJIb: posts small blind $0.02
Listesz: posts big blind $0.05
Holecards Dealt to Hero
SandroVM: folds
sepplr: folds
Aspablo1982: folds
Hero: folds
ridenigmadel: folds
BoT BaM: raises $0.10 to $0.15
Dann_zfr: folds
AHxeJIb: folds
Listesz: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.10) returned to BoT BaM
BoT BaM collected $0.12 from pot
BoT BaM: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $0.12 | Rake $0
Seat 1: Dann_zfr (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: AHxeJIb (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Listesz (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: SandroVM folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: sepplr folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Aspablo1982 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Hero folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: ridenigmadel folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: BoT BaM collected ($0.12)
also why did the player pool have to shrink, do fish sleep? or won't they drown
Recent podcasts with Oddsen and Greg Mersonby Joeingram1, October 05
Here are the last 2 podcasts I did with HSPLOer Odd_oddsen and WSOP Main champ Greg Merson. Odds was much funnier than I expected him to be. Crashwhips from 2p2 wrote up a good summary of the episode. I will be recording this week with the WCOOP Main Event winner CrownUpGuy and long time HSNL/PLOer Alexiemartov/Magic Ninja
Highlights:
-He owns 2 houses, a house he paid 1.5million usd that he lives in, and another house he rents out apts in
-He said after realizing he was "set for life" from poker, he decided it was a bad idea to risk a downswing at nosebleed stakes, so he is now staked for 25/50+
-Skjervoy was visiting him last year + while hammered, had an accident in a sauna w/ vodka and the flames heating the sauna, and set himself on fire
-~1:05 Funny Gus Hansen / Phil Ivey Vegas story
-He is mad at Lefort I guess bc Lefort spoke so highly of Oddsen's game on an earlier CJ podcast. He says he thinks that's a big reason he stopped getting shorthanded action at high stakes + thinks it cost him 200-300k in ev. He goes on to say Lefort is very good + def top 5 in the world at hu plo
I also did one with Greg Merson who won the 2012 WSOP Main Event and is a long time reg on Pokerstars. Feedback on this one has been really great and some people commented it was a bit more serious of a tone as compared to most.
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