What a challenging month this was!
It was so tough that I forgot how to divide paragraphs, so let's use, you know it:boobs! *NOTE: Stuff in spoilers definitely NSFW*
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You know what they say - if you don't face challenges, you never improve.
Winter hit, it was real depressing im not used to this. I got a cold and troubles with my back came back, my tooth got infected and after the cold ended a nasty sinus infection came (EWWW)
that tilted my sleep regime, it was around 4am to 12 at one point. Had to stop weightlifting because it was making me worse in goals and didn't manage to come back to a new routine (have to do high reps low weight, flexibility and balance stuff - way more boring that standard bro stuff). My landlord kept working on the bathroom waking me up at 8am with a drill and had a really bad internet connection at the start of the month. Added to that was a couple -12BI sessions in the month, and a getting raped by super bad regs HU (I lost like 8BI to this -7bb/100 fishreg). And voila - challenging fun stuff was ready to be handled :D http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/ima...s/200/246/4/S2002464/original.gif?v=1
My mental game got so weak at one point I started throwing my mouse and broke it, punched a water bottle a few times and neighbors must have thought there's a retarded grizzly bear in the building as I was shouting in disbelief during a few sessions. So yeah the most challenging month so far pretty much.
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All things considered, I love how I handled it and it made me much stronger. Near the end of it when I knew I just cannot lose because withdrawal's coming I did everything to bounce back.
Power walks to nature during the morning, hot baths during the day, I listened to hours of hypnosis by Paul McKenna (positivity - good stuff before sleep), revisited the 7hour seminar by Zig Ziglar on how to stay motivated, came to trainings 40 minutes early to do warmup, stretching and my tai-chi/yoga routine, forced myself to sleep around 1AM even lying in bed for 30 minutes before I fell asleep, went to Sauna twice, started using tomighty to limit my sessions to 1 hour, used the rule that after every suckout stack off I have to close my eyes and do mindful breathing 1-10. http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/ima...s/200/246/0/S2002460/original.gif?v=1
I also set a day without poker - Every Monday after weekend push I set up a to-do list of chores and stuff I need to do, and during one Monday I booked 3 doctors, set up a new bank account did shopping for a week, dealt with my health isnsurance, cleaned my room did laundry etc. etc. so I can focus on grind for the rest of the week - something I will keep doing and definitely recommend.
This weekend I was still really on the edge, but especially morning walk and timing sessions with mindful breathing after every suckout made ma manage to drop 5BI in 500 hands and still come back on top without going crazy and managed 7.2hr grind: + Show Spoiler +
mostly micros, I made money at NL50 again but with the issues I had I rly wasnt fit to grind it a ton. http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/ima...s/200/246/6/S2002466/original.gif?v=1
I also learned quite a bit - worked on PF ranges vs good aggro regs using Janda's book, Pokerstrategy and watching vids (got access to rio, ivey poker cr dtb, pokerstrategy), discovered that equilab has the same feature as flopzilla (hand strenght distribution on boards for ranges) and started playing with that too. I'm still looking into the whole range control/balance/exploitive/practical application thing and think I have a good grasp of it but March will be all about actually putting in work in practice and breaking down ranges for postflop as well - I started it in February started putting a group together but when I started tilting and throwing my mouse I had to use all my powers to stabilize my mental game and counter the challenges being thrown at me and push my C instead of A game
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1273833810349.gif?w=244&h=170 March
Tomorrow I go for a health check up for the first time in about 7 years with a list of stuff I need to deal with, will finally get new contact lenses (been wearing 1 month ones for a year now :D) and on 23rd I finally get to go to a dentist - I've been on painkillers for much of February because my tooth has an infected hole in it and hurts as hell. The spring is here so I am finally starting to like this country again. Floorball season ends next week so I will start focusing on physical fitness again as required for poker. Will need to take a hard look at floorball as doing gym stuff for it is less fun that popping bicep curls an pumping bench so im less likely to stick to it. http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1273605571206.gif?w=242&h=362
And as said already - from preflop I'll start looking at postflop and narrowing down ranges v ranges to know what I'm doing and why better. E.G. Gogol's nose video shows you how great it is to know your range how it looks like, amount of combinations in villain's range etc.
Equilab's really good in doing one tree and showing you what different ranges flop but CRev will be a must, just need to scramble moneyz for it and make sure Ill actually put in the work and it'll add to my ev. http://jack.unix.org.au/~brett/gif/boobs.gif
Am I great, or the greatest ever?by HungarianGOD, March 02
Started playing a bit online again so I could continue improving. Running pretty well, I'm pretty much playing like a god. Maybe with some hard work I could get my BB/100 up just a little higher, but my play is pretty much GTO so it can't improve too much. Here's some stats/graphs.
Here is one of the stronger hands I played. It might not look well played, but try not to be results oriented. You can be sure that it was pretty much perfect.
Note flop raise size; not a ton of money left to go in on the turn, but villain doesn't have to fold that often for the turn barrel to be profitable.
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex ($55.83)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD ($9.90)
HungarianGOD posts the small blind of $0.05
j_rogan_ex posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HungarianGOD
HungarianGOD raises to $0.30
j_rogan_ex raises to $1.20
HungarianGOD calls $0.90
*** TURN ***
j_rogan_ex bets $0.10
HungarianGOD calls $0.01, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $0.09 returned to j_rogan_ex
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
j_rogan_ex shows (a Pair of Aces +QJ7)
HungarianGOD shows (High Card Ace +QJT7)
j_rogan_ex wins the pot ($19.31)
HungarianGOD adds 10 chips
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.8 | Rake $0.49
Board: [4c Qs Ad 6c 7d]
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex showed [Jh Ah] and won ($19.31)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD showed [Tc Js] and lost
Am I great, or the greatest ever?by HungarianGOD, March 02
Started playing a bit online again so I could continue improving. Running pretty well, I'm pretty much playing like a god. Maybe with some hard work I could get my BB/100 up just a little higher, but my play is pretty much GTO so it can't improve too much. Here's some stats/graphs.
Stake Game Hands Hands Won Won My C Won My C All-In Adj BB/100
$0.10NL Holdem 119 54 (45.38%) ($67.69)($67.69) ($47.52) -568.82
Here is one of the stronger hands I played. It might not look well played, but try not to be results oriented. You can be sure that it was pretty much perfect.
Note flop raise size; not a ton of money left to go in on the turn, but villain doesn't have to fold that often for the turn barrel to be profitable.
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex ($55.83)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD ($9.90)
HungarianGOD posts the small blind of $0.05
j_rogan_ex posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HungarianGOD
HungarianGOD raises to $0.30
j_rogan_ex raises to $1.20
HungarianGOD calls $0.90
*** TURN ***
j_rogan_ex bets $0.10
HungarianGOD calls $0.01, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $0.09 returned to j_rogan_ex
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
j_rogan_ex shows (a Pair of Aces +QJ7)
HungarianGOD shows (High Card Ace +QJT7)
j_rogan_ex wins the pot ($19.31)
HungarianGOD adds 10 chips
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.8 | Rake $0.49
Board: [4c Qs Ad 6c 7d]
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex showed [Jh Ah] and won ($19.31)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD showed [Tc Js] and lost
Am I great, or the greatest ever?by HungarianGOD, March 02
Started playing a bit online again so I could continue improving. Running pretty well, I'm pretty much playing like a god. Maybe with some hard work I could get my BB/100 up just a little higher, but my play is pretty much GTO so it can't improve too much. Here's some stats/graphs.
Stake Game Hands Hands Won Won My C Won My C All-In Adj BB/100
$0.10NL Holdem 119 54 (45.38%) ($67.69)($67.69) ($47.52) -568.82
Here is one of the stronger hands I played. It might not look well played, but try not to be results oriented. You can be sure that it was pretty much perfect.
Note flop raise size; not a ton of money left to go in on the turn, but villain doesn't have to fold that often for the turn barrel to be profitable.
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex ($55.83)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD ($9.90)
HungarianGOD posts the small blind of $0.05
j_rogan_ex posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HungarianGOD
HungarianGOD raises to $0.30
j_rogan_ex raises to $1.20
HungarianGOD calls $0.90
*** TURN ***
j_rogan_ex bets $0.10
HungarianGOD calls $0.01, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $0.09 returned to j_rogan_ex
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
j_rogan_ex shows (a Pair of Aces +QJ7)
HungarianGOD shows (High Card Ace +QJT7)
j_rogan_ex wins the pot ($19.31)
HungarianGOD adds 10 chips
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.8 | Rake $0.49
Board: [4c Qs Ad 6c 7d]
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex showed [Jh Ah] and won ($19.31)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD showed [Tc Js] and lost
With a new SSD, all the tweaks and PSQLSWTF adjustments, any medium+ size database will induce "not sure if this is 1996 or HM2 was programmed by fuckwads"
I have an MMA fight coming up on March 15th in Petaluma Ca. Anyways today I got a call from one of the organizers and he asked me what entrance music I wanted and I'm totally drawing a blank so if anyone got suggestions toss them my way, if you got a link to the youtube of it even better!
In the near future - vegas and deleware will be playing together compacted legally, with legal cashouts in either state borders. You will have to be in those states (altho you won't have to live there)
New Jersey (AC) will most likely join up....hopefully.
I'm sure bwin.partypoker/borgata will be wanting it.
This bill PASSED within 24 hours.
This is kinda sweet, I've been back a week and I've been telling ppl not to expect legal online poker for like 10 years (at least outside LV and NJ)
cmon baby lets hope this starts a good roll, theres been a lot of "news" lately, maybe this will push other states.
California also has 2 bills on the desk, they are looking to deal there first hand 1/1/2015. With 38 million people, they have not shown any interest in sharing player pools.
some info for those who want to know.
theres 3 main legal sites that will be open in LV and Delaware
Happy for you guys that were tied up on FTP too, hope all goes well.
DFS Statistical Model Up and Runningby Gadget, February 25
So I've been working on a statistical model for projecting fantasy points and I finally have it working to give me some basic numbers. I have a lot of stuff I still plan on adding, but for now it is using all the info I've been using by hand for the past few months. I don't want to give out all the specifics of it, but it takes the fantasy points per minute of each player and multiplies that by a number of factors based on the matchup that day. I manually input the number of minutes above/below the players season average of minutes I think they will play that day. This gives me the ability to account for injuries on a daily basis. The best part is it takes my ~2 hour research process daily down to about 15 minutes, giving me time to look at things a bit more in depth. Here are my top picks at each position for today with my projection:
I've decided to write up few things about bitcoins in each of the blogs. To monitor how it goes.
25/02/2013
bitcoin price on bitstamp: $483 crashed hard.
btce is currently down for some reason.
mtgox just died. alot of people lost money it seems.
a bit of turbulent times for bitcoin.
other crypptos getting more publicity because of improvements over bitcoin.
The absolute most tilt in live poker for me is how slow people act and fuck around. Just insta-throw your hand up when you get called. None of that, " I as bluffing/weak shit, just flip yours man so I can muck." No, fuck your cunt.
There should be a live poker movement: Be a man, show your hand
So as some of you probably know, Kate Upton did a photo shoot in Zero G with Sports Illustrated. My step-uncle is a co-founder and flight director for Zero G and was on the flight.
So I'm a little bit sick (having a cold...) and being in no good shape for long poker sessions I've spent a lot of time making stupid bets on the next UFC event.
It's a bit like when you look through the hands of a session and you just go "WTF was I smoking!?".
Let's just say that I have a fair few parlays and I really need Ronda to win by submission, Maia vs RoryMac to go to a decision and that Sterling guy to win. Also at least one of Pyle and Assuncao needs to have their shit together and win.
Not sold on most of my bets, my bet sizeing seems bad and overall I'm not real happy with how I've played this event.
OH WELL, it's better then trying to play poker when your sick at least, lol.
Next dumb decision is to go to the casino tonight. I'm not in the mood and it's probably not a good way to get rid of the cold, but my gf really wants to go so I'll tag along I guess.
Good thing that I've been running fairly good online the last few days. To bad it's just low stakes and very little volume. Next month will be better.
Hey guys, remember when I went to buffalo and did that 1k and got 3rd for 16.5k (4th 3rd ok 3rd )
well they are running a series again - if you are in the area or are going let me know!
----- (if u live close post this to facebook plz) -----
Do you enjoy playing a poker tournament? This is the first good tournament series....in a while.....for everyone in our area! Buy-ins are affordable, big first places, everyone sign up, i want 1st to be huge in everything!
The phone and the tablet cost me around 900$ and basically the purchase cut in half my BR. Its freaking awesome that I can have fun, relax and earn money, with which I can buy luxury items, which otherwise I wouldnt have bought.
Yet, not so long after the purchase, I sat down to play an MTOPS event - dont want to go in details, but it was a series of brutal badbeats (8-9 70/30 80/20 lost in an hour or so to runner-runner straights/flushes), which put me on a tilt and I was heavily upset. Even if I was right to be upset, after a while I was like:
WTF brain, you are upset cause you lost 40$ worth of BIs due to badbeats, but earlier you bought some cool things for 900$ which hopefully you'll get to use a couple of years and for which you earned the money from the same game - you are effing retarded.
Moral of the story - I need to not worry so much about badbeats, because I know they turn around in the long-term, but on the moment I let them to get to me and influence my game. I am now thinking to switch off the show cards option when you go all-in or just switch the windows to not care about cards that run out. Will have to figure out a way though to take notes of people stacking off light, etc.
So after taking a year off dealing with a broken hand and an annoying divorce I finally got my life and training back together and have an MMA bout coming up March 15th in Petaluma California.
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