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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.






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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.


fun fun fun


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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.

So i got prescribed Rubifen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubifen

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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leaving for bali tomorrow

gonna be sooooooooooooooooooo nice

28 hr flight infront of me tho

but i got fifa12 + 2 xbox controllers for my laptop for me and my buddy, and all seasons of southpark + good music so its all good

if any1's in bali ship a PM this way

goals:

win maney + become better (travelingc w ppl of same caliber or better)
learn how to surf
do more diveing
have a shitload of fun




glhf ^_^


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A few things a student should know


1 - When it comes time to study, all distractions is removed, music is off. The only kind of music that you can actually have in the background is classical baroque music.

2 - Try and think of your study/classroom time as a job, investment in your future.

3 - You can tell yourself i'm only gonna study 5 minuts, has a tremendously powerful psychological effect, because once you start, it's easy to keep going.

4 - Always make a list, what you will learn, for instance "10 new words, this amount of pages" so forth.

5 - Research has shown that you're more alert, tend to remember more, more on the ball in the start and at the end of study. So really sick to take frequent breaks, like 20 minute intervalls. This way you'll have a lot more peaks. (If you're on a roll, you obviously can go on a little longer).


How to easier remember what you read

When we read through it, we only read through it once and when we read through like a newspaper, we go through one article after another, we never stop or rehearse anything.


Some general tips

1 - Pay more attention, be aware that we want to remember the information.

2 - Dimish our distractions, turn off music, put ourself in a place mentally so we are focused on that information.

3 - Lifestyle habits that support good memory, sleep, how we eat, alcohol so forth.

4 - Stop after each chapter, focus on what you read, next step is to think of the main step/points in that chapter was.

5 - Never mind the details that much. Get the gist of it, if you do that, you'll remember everything more clearly.


How to easier remember names

It's hard to remember names because we're rarely paying attention to it, numerous distractions, it's "mundane" and we're usually focused on something else. And we get the name very quickly and early on. Stress and anxiety also makes it really hard to remember.

We also don't rehearse it in our heard right after hearing it.

- Repeat the name several times after hearing it. (Smart to say her/his name out loud after they say it).

- If you're a visual person, picture the name, make a visual image in your mind's eye.

- Make up a story for the name, if you're very verbal, this is most fun. No point making it long, one line is enough.


Sleep tips

- Take things running around in your mind move it on to a piece of paper, things you need to do, worry about, want to do etc.

- Want to make your bed a sleep zone only, no reading, no pc, no tv.

- Do something non-stimulating before bed time, or make a routine before bed, to wind down.

- White noise.

- Insomnia can be a symption of some physical illness, so smart to check with your doctor for chronic insomnia.

- Exercise or work, but not too close to bed time, get some daylight.

- Try to go to bed around the same time, wake up around the same time, your body loves that shit.


More thoughts on memory

Problems people have with memory are things like names and faces, numbers, birthdays and anniverseries, shopping lists, cards they been playing so forth.
Not really a problem at all, just miss-using the memory they have.

Analyze, self analyze, sit down, make notes on what do you remember? What don't you usually remember? Where do you generally have your forgetting experience. Like an investigation, self check. Corporated within that check, is your memory.

You link something to an image, and it's locked. You drive a car to the mall, you come out, you forget where your car is, why? Because you were thinking about other stuff, what you were going to buy etc. But if you for a second look at the enviorment, a plant, a wall, a bush, a house, then go in to the mall, you don't even have to think about where you parked your car.


How To Release Your Inner Genius

1 Realize the power of your brain

Everybody has the potential for genius. The human brain is far more powerful than a super computer, it's potenatial is still not known. Everytime they put a boundary on it, it busts through it and keeps going further and further.


2 Make your brain your hobby

So once you're aware, what are you going to do lol? You know you've got it, so the second step is a very simple one, making it a hobby.

As soon as you do that, your brain is like a young child, what happens if you focus on a young child? It flourishes. The minute you go into a library, attend courses, read books on it, the brain will reward you in ways which even you now wouldn't believe would be so.


3 Use your left and your right brain

Left Dominance is words, numbers, lines, lists, logic, analysis.

And the Right Dominance tends to be Rhythm, colour, shapes, maps, imag-ination and daydreaming.

Creativity, is NOT, as nearly everyone thinks, right brain activity, words involves logic, analyzis, songs, so forth. Both sides of the brain needs to be used in harmony, then you'll get an explosion of creativity.


4 Daydream

The nice thing about daydreaming, it has been considered a sign of incompetence, a sign of bad academic potential. But we've now found out it can make you or break you.

The greatest minds, daydream big.
A big difference of "waste of time daydreaming" and the genius, brilliant daydreaming which everyone can do. Making that dream come through.


5 Recap

Have the attitude that you can, belive that your brain can, and then daydream whatever you want to come true, then work to make it come true, and that's brilliance. And everyone can do it.


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Poker

I am going to get the poker update for day 2/3 of my SNE grind out of the way and then get to the good shit.

Day 2 was similar to day 1, up a few dollars at the table after 13 hours/18.8k hands. Also made about 600 dollars of FPP value during this time. Felt good, game felt good, attitude was good.




Today I woke up a bit later and have been pretty tired most of the day. Have been getting it in with lower equities then first few days and results have not been good. Have played about 9 hours so far and need to put 3 more in today but decided to write up a blog post about something a lot of my friends on fb/random poker people ask me about which is HOW DO I PICK UP CHICKS ONLINE DATING?? GIVE ME SOME TIPS! I've done some crazy shit and always wanted to write about it so I might as well start now, stories in the future to include the time I met someone halfway (hour drive) and ended up leaving her at beach in chicago, 5 hour roadtrip to southern indiana with friend where I shared hotel room with him and the girl I was meeting, black girls gone wild just to name four.



My Online Dating History: PART 1

Let me preface this by saying that I still talk to a few girls I met through online dating and I might mention some of them in here, will only say good things

There are 4 parts to my history which goes from being 19, busto/broke, living at moms then living downtown in Chicago in my own place and obsessed with poker. Onto living back in my hometown on my own with unlimited monies to spend and sick car. Then San Diego where shitgotreal.jpg


Why should you or anyone listen to me about ways to be more successful in online dating. Well For those people who don't know too much about me besides the ridiculous amout of hours/hands I've played I do have a little bit of a life outside poker. I once did an online dating challenge where I tried to go on 30 dates in 30 days and posted it on 2+2 forums with pics/vids and trip reports of what happened. It was incredibly popular and was really fun on my end to do but unfortunately someone messaged all my Facebook friends (women) telling them I was some man on a mission and writing about who I was having sex with, posting their pics, etc.. At this time I was living back home so I was like "OMG what will people think" if this happened now though I probably wouldn't care to much. I asked the moderators to take the thread down and now it is gone into oblivion.


That experience for me was actually my 3rd venture into online dating and will get more into that later. I first learned about the world of online meetups/dating when I was 19. This was Pre-Sexting/Texting/Naked pics which have become the norm for people . I had just lost my license and my best friend at the time Matt was always on this website called thedilly.com which was basically where you setup a profile and just kinda talked to people/did ratings and stuff like that. I had nothing else to do at the time so I made a profile as well, little did I know this was a life changing experience lol. Before this time I was always the skinny funny guy who was really into cars and always saw all these hot girls but never seemed to have a chance with them. After I lost my license I started walking to the fitness center down the street from me, discovered weightlifting, found out what a tanning salon was and what the hell Abercrombie and Fitch was (never knew). During this transitional time of my life I was doing my thing on thedilly pretty much everyday. Matt would always tell me about all these women he was going to see and end up having sex with and I was like WHOA AWESOME, NO WAY! Eventually I started talking with more girls on the site and finally was like fuck it, lets ask them to hang out and see what happens. Most of the girls I talked to where ages 16-19 but who really knows. To my surprise many said yes! I could not drive to meet up with any of these girls so Matt would drive me to hang out with them lol. I quickly realized that this wasn't online dating but more like online fucking because any girl you ended up meeting with you would inevitably have sex with. This was pretty eye opening for me, an OMGOMGOMG moment that we all sometimes have. Some girls would even come drive over to see me, one really pretty blonde girl, tall/tan/tongue ring, would drive 2 hours a few times a week to see me. It blew my mind that things like this could happen. I noticed as I started to get in better shape and post more shirtless pics of me on the site, I started to get interest from more girls and start hanging out with more of them. Me and Matt would go on double dates where he would bring me along when he met a new girl and she would bring a friend and things turned out the same as every other date would. Once he drove me to meet a girl about 45 mins away, he only had a 2 seater so we picked her up on my lap and drove to a random movie theatre. Matt called up a girl he knew from that area and she picked him up and left me in the front seat lol a true friend imo. One time a girl drove an hour from the city, we went to the "VIP Room" aka downstairs bedroom at my moms (thanks mom) and when I went upstairs to change and came back down she was in her coat ready to "help a friend in need".

There are two moments from this time period that stand out the most though. One was the time I randomly started talking to a girl from Jasper, IN which was about a 5 hour drive from where I lived at the time. She was pretty, little crazy and was all about me so I was obviously all about her. The big problem was that she lived 5 fucking hours away, the second problem was I didn't have a license. I talked to Matt and a road trip ensued. The plan was for her to bring a friend and the four of us would get a hotel room together. The friend she brought was a solid 2/10 and weight about 250lbs so needless to say Matt wasn't too interested and instead it was Me/Angel in one bed and Matt in the other. This whole story is probably worthy of its own blog post in the future though.


The second experience that is the most memorable for me was when I met the blonde cheerleader from the western suburbs, about an hour from where I lived. She was super nice, incredibly sweet, very pretty, and a virgin. I can't remember the exact details of our first few dates but things went well and I really liked her. Amazingly enough Matt was "dating" a girl who lived about 5 mins from her lol, true friend. We started all hanging out together and this progressed from there. On valentines day she ended up driving over to my house to hang out with me. On the way home though she was in a kinda bad car accident. At this point in my life I was all about the lets go workout/lets go find more girls so I probably didn't show enough caring for her after this and we pretty much stopped talking, though Matt did keep in touch with her . After a few months we did start talking randomly and hung out a few times but nothing like it was originally. I drove down to college to visit her and still talk to her now occasionally while she lives in Chicago.

Its amazing the people you can meet from online dating and the experiences you can end up having with them.


There was a bunch more dates that I went on during this 9 monthish time period and not all I remember these days. Most of the girls I hung out with were 8/8.5s with a rare 9/9.5 and the occasional mix of 7.5s. The myth that only ugly fat girls meet guys online is 100 percent false! At this time getting women was still a new concept to me and I was taking full advantage of my new found ability to do so. I guess you could call this my 15 year old girl phase of my life aka HUGE SLUT phase. Did I learn anything during this time or through these dates? Besides the fact that you always need a good wingman to help you out I don't think I ended up learning to much. I discovered how open and sexual alot of girls out there were, no matter if they were really gorgeous or semi-meh looking. You couldn't just a book by its cover.


The ending to this chapter of my life came when I started working at TGI Fridays and started meeting an unlimited supply of hostess and servers along with random customers (stories for another day) that there wasn't any time for online dating. Couple that with the fact that me and Matt started hanging out less and this chapter was closed. Matt still crushed it for years after though and probably still does to this day, kid was a true man of his time.



That is Part 1 to my story and I will write the following 3 Parts in the upcoming days when I am on break from my 13 hour grind sessions. I will give a few tips and secrets that noobs out there can use in their quest to meet the perfect woman online.



Online Dating Tips: Part 1



Alot of my poker friends from around the world ask me for tips all the time and say it is impossible to meet a cute girl from online dating. Well my friends you are very wrong and that is probably a bad attitude to go into things with. Although the strategies I have used might not work for everyone they might be able to help and make you start thinking about things differently, similar to when you first started learning more about poker. If your trying to actually find someone to date or just trying to have sex with random girls then these are the tips for you.


The first thing most people encounter when they begin is setting up their profile and choosing pictures. I myself went with the route of writing about a ton of information on a wide variety of things I enjoyed doing, interested in, or want to do one day. By doing this it allows a wider variety of women to either message you (yes women do message guys) and when you message someone and they click on you to find out more, they might find one or two things they have in common and reply back to you. "He likes laser tag? I do to!" "Wow he loves to travel, my kind of guy" "Taylor Swift concerts? Interesting". I have a few random tidbits similar to those that work super well for me. I come across as a charming, funny, hard working guy that has alot of interests and probably has something to say. Some women actually want some conversation, but not all.


The next thing to do is choose pictures. I didn't want to hide who I am in these photos. I am a shirt off kinda guy who enjoys working out and showing the results from said workouts. To some having a picture like this is an immediate turn off and you are quickly x'ed out of my the person. I wasn't trying to meet those type of judgemental people so fuck them. My Chicago proifle was a picture where I was happy with my mom, a random beach picture, and a few other glamour type shots. Do not put the getting drunk pictures on their. 99 percent of women you will meet say they don't want a drunk/party/bar/club type of guy and are sick of meeting them, etc. etc. Once you actually hang out with them the first time and get along, if you are that type of person or you aren't it really wont matter at all. Now that I am a bit older I have had to change up my picture selection a bit but I am always sure to show off the more favorable aspects of me (body, tan, car). Some people will look and say "look at this fucking dbag with the picture of his car". JUDGE JUDGE JUDGE! Luckily for me their are many, many other interested people out there who might enjoy cars and be interested in me because I do as well. During most of my first dates with women I will ask if they actually read my profile or just looked at pictures and a large majority say they intially started talking to me because of my pictures and thought I was good looking, so choose wisely. Glamour shots, in action sport shots, your best qualities you have to offer, go for those.


I really need to get to work now so in my next post I will go onto what messages to send and things to say to actually get a date with the better quality of girls out there on the sites.


Thanks for reading


Feedback is appreciated


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Day 1 in the books, played about 12 hours today today (my definition of a day is slightly off). Broke it up into 4 different sessions, one break for breakfeast, one for gym, one for snack and then one because I got a little tired. Still getting used to putting in so many hours and sometimes my mind just trails off and starts to spin way to fast from seeing so many damn 4 card combinations and thinking to much. Also my effective stacks at the tables get pretty big so I need to take either an hour break to let some new tables get started or take a 2 hour break so I can join tables without old stacks. Still trying to find an optimal day schedule but I am thinking something like 17 hours awake/7 sleeping everyday with 12-15 hours dedicated to playing and the other for gym/breaks should work out well. I also have a self motivating prop bet where I have to put on 10lbs of muscle this month so have been working out pretty hard and upped my supplement intake. Next summer Joe will be very very happy that this winter Joe played so many damn hours/made money and worked out hard in the gym hopefully.


I actually had the mindset today for a bit that I should try to win some money but it honestly requires so much mental power that I get burnt out after maybe 1.5 hours of doing this and simply need to drop tables or sit out for a few minutes and walk around. I think my overall abililty to play more hours/hands per day with a fresher mind outweighs the thinking more and trying to squeeze out a few extra 50 cent BBs. When I start moving up though the impact becomes greater on my bottom line so I will have to rethink this strategy. I honestly think I could just play PLO50 and win this prob bet but it would be a legit 15-16 hour/day grind when I will need to average 250k vpps the last 2 months. Im hovering around 550-700 VPPs/hr depending on time of the day, when I get back up to playing 1/2 and 2/4 that number is increased by more then double if I stay with 24 tables so most likely I will aim for 1k/1.2k VPP/Day and adjust number of tables accordingly


Been grinding out Dexter Season 5 last few days too, almost caught up to where it is now and then will have to move on to some other shows. Watching tv shows/movies is helping me pass the time, I never really used to do that while playing but most of the time I was actually trying (and failing sometimes) to play well and semi-focus on the games.


Need to sleep and wake up to do it all over again now


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Just ended my life for the rest of the year and booked a SNE prop bet with my roomate BallCup. I got 3-1 odds and its my $15,000 to his $45,000 and the amount in bonuses I will accumulate along the way is around $90,000.






2p2 thread

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/...hs-plo-prop-bet-1111353/#post29215301





I am currently at 347k VPP's and need to get to 1 Million by the end of the year. For those people on my FaceBook who have no idea what SNE is, its basically a system on PokerStars where the more hands/hours you play per day, the more rakeback/points you get back for playing. To win this bet I will need to play 12-16 hours a day for the rest of the year and end up playing more hands of PLO in a month then anyone 400-600k hands per month.

Only stipulation is if I get kicked out of Canada for whatever reason then the bet is off. If i lose more then $90,000 playing at the tables I have to quit poker and move back home and get a real job. No webcam as we live together so he will be able to see its me playing.


Some people are going to ask me why in the fuck I would want to do this. Well I like a good endurance/volume challenge and this sure is a helluva one. Also the guaranteed money from SNE and the prop bet is way more then I would make game selecting/playing less tables the next few months so it makes sense to give this a shot.


My basic plan for now is to 24 table PLO50 since some of my hands need to be played there. The last few days I have been playing and seem to go on massive tilt at some point during the session and haven't had winning sessions. To be able to have a clear head and think about all decisions for hours and hours a day while 24 tabling doesn't seem like it will be possible for me to do without losing a ton of money so I have been trying to think of ways to minimize my losses while playing. I've been buying in for 30bbs and playing a super tight game right now and running up stacks and leaving when table is all regs/nitty. Has seemed to work well for minimizing swings so far and will probably stick with it for now. My vpp rate has been lower doing this since I am not playing many hands so I have been trying to overlimp in position in some spots with hands that I would normally fold in hopes to help with VPP and win money at the tables. I'm still trying to figure out a good 3bet range IP and OOP, I think I have been showing a profit 3betting all AAxx hands IP and OOP so far and shoving most of flops in heads up or BB vs SB/BTN situations but when its 3 callers and I am on BTN or BB with weak aces those have been bad spots to 3bet and have not been showing a profit. Also defending lower rundowns OOP or even IP have not been doing well so far for me with stack size and implied odds and FE lower so I am thinking it may be optimal to stick to high card hands as far as flatting pre-flop raises goes and let go of the 3456 and 5689 type of hands.


I am looking forward to getting started playing now and will be updating the blog so hopefully all goes well.






Thanks for reading and hope people follow along


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i browsed through my blog and found alot of retarded posts from 09

but then i refound this game http://www.bgames.com/funny-games/Globetrotter-XL.html

again, very addicting

reading in my blog, my last score was over 9000


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best month so far?



355k sek ~58k$
18.2k€ eusites ~25k$

down about 70k SEK live ~11k$

72k$ month


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Hey guys

A friend of mine once showed me something really cool, I could go in the start menu, and there up in some options there was this thingy called "sticky notes".

I've hated him ever since!!

It got to a point I almost got a nervous breakdown when my pc starts and I get all of the cluster in my face, so I started removing everyone that had no value, but still a lot left. And I don't want to put it in wordpad because it's all a big mess now and I don't know where I keep anything. So thought i'd be a really good idea to put it here.

Hopefully there's something for everyone to enjoy.


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Awh man, what a relif, now my desktop is so clean and tidy, yay xD <3





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1 million SEK this year on swedish site, im also up about 30-35k€ on other sites

my goal was to hit 1M SEK this year

so yeeey

1Msek ~ 157k$

the year is going very well so far

peace!


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bought myself a new grinddesk + 30'' monitor.

its huuuuge and 2560x1600 is sick nice, no more overlapping ever again while grindin!


http://www.dustinhome.se/product/5010483369


before just my 23''




after 23'' + 30'' + desk


also got myself a new couch, wich is sick nice, this room is now complete!



so how is everything otherwise? everything is great, last month was very nice pokerwise + i squeezed in a vacation to malta (island outside of italy) for 8 days together with a frind, visiting her brother+girlfrind who lives there fulltime nowadays. he had a really nice appartment with plenty of space for the 4 of us.

it was a nice trip, did some scubadiving for the first time in my life wich was ubernice. we also went to this sick place called st. peter's pool wich had this really cool cliffs / crystal clearwaterpool with caves under the cliffs, wich was nice jumping from ~5-8 meters maybe and a cool feeling with the big caves underneath.

other then that we just kinda chilled around in the sun/partying/ate supernice food.


imba rib-plate


just havin a chillnight at the appartment terass with some wine/cheese/crackers etc (me on pic, laazydrunkeyes ftw)


650gram t-bone!




prolly the sickest pizza ive ever had, it was reaaaally good








scubadiveing!


really nice trip overall, didnt play more then 40k hands that month, but still ended really nice

pokerwise in september has been interesting, started + 40k$ after the first week, had 14k$ on stars even after messing around with 1000$ there, but i busted it all on 10/20$ later in a session from hell, where i lost 14k$ on stars and another 20k$ on other sites. was brutal

just came home from stockholm, and some livepoker, wich also was bad, lost about 10k$ in really great games so kinda evened out the good start of the month, and im about breakeven for the month atm, but its 3 weeks to go, and with my new grindsetup i intend to put in alot of volume september/october

becaaaaaaaaaaaaause



in the end of october me and 2 other swedish highstakes friends are moveing to bali (indonesia, asia) over the winter, and im really looking forward to it.

we probably will stay there for about 2-5 months depending on how everything feels etc maybe move on to malaysia or macao for awhile after some time.

so im gonna grind like crazy before that, its gonna be superfun. my first "longterm" trip outside of sweden, so im excited

take care and gl guys!

and a special gl to the MTTbeast player999 and every1 includeing myself who have % in him in the upcomeing WCOOP tournaments <3 make me/us/yourself rich!


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the country not the pastry

lots of documentaries being posted on the blogs so i thought id post one. i watched an amazing one the other day, it was about danish soldiers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/

In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year's Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shootout with Taliban fighters. The filmmakers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries, in his own way, to come to terms with putting his life constantly on the line.


heres a link to part 1:



really insane to think the cameraman was walking around during all of this. hes got fucking balls


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the country not the pastry

lots of documentaries being posted on the blogs so i thought id post one. i watched an amazing one the other day, it was about danish soldiers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/

In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year's Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shootout with Taliban fighters. The filmmakers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries, in his own way, to come to terms with putting his life constantly on the line.


heres a link to part 1:



really insane to think the cameraman was walking around during all of this. hes got fucking balls


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Went for my 2nd meeting today with the Psychologist.

She asked me first some questions about alcohol and drug use and stuff. Im not really sure what the angle was, I think people who are hyperactive-ADD tend to medicate with substance abuse. She said that people with ADD get really bad anxiety when they smoke weed but ive never had that, just hungry and sleepy. Some questions about drinking. It was really wierd having to tell someone how much you drink coz it always feels like too much too often.

Then we talked some more about my family and my relationships. People with ADD tend to have black/white thinking and tend to be quite pedantic about stuff. Which was funny because i had an argument the other day with my dad because he suggested I went to a culinary school to learn some cooking skills and i interpreted that as becoming a chef which started the whole argument.

She also showed me a graph which looked like this:



So normal people usually fall into a category where something is quite interesting or quite boring. ADD people find loads of stuff boring and a little bit of stuff intersting. They have a hard time moving something to a "normal" level. For example, you could be extremely messy and learn to be tidy, but ADD people would go from being really messy to being overly tidy and obsessive about tidyness.

When i was at school i was always told id find something i enjoyed or fall into something eventually. Its now i start to see there must be a problem because i havent fallen into anything for very long and theres no way people have an interest in marketing or communications or networking at the level i would need to finish a degree in it.

We also talked about routines, which are a ADD persons best friend. Ive been in a routine a couple of times in recent years, like when i was in Thailand i had a routine of getting up at about 7am, playing poker for 3 or 4 hours, going to the gym for 1 hour, going shopping, then back home to watch TV and relax for the rest of the day. I was really happy when i was in this routine.

Problems come when other things arise. People with ADD have problems if things dont go exactly as they planned and will get really disappointed with it, also over quite trivial things. For example if you organise a party but people dont turn up when you expect them to, you tend to dwell on it.

So theres a lot of stuff about how we interact with others which was interesting. Also things about intrusions and extrusions, patchy memory leading to relationship problems, like being asked to do something and not doing it correctly because you patched together what you heard incorrectly. Ive always been quite aware of my inability to listen to people. I even find myself consciously thinking about giving off the right social reactions when talking and have no idea whats actually being said.

There were times at work when id have a meeting with my boss where he would want me to perform some quite important task, he would talk through the whole thing and i would get back to my desk and realize i had no idea what i had been told to do.

So some time in the next week ill get a call from the Psychiatrist now, who i will see for a session and if they decide to theyll prescribe me some medication. If i do ill probably start of trying to read a book, a rather ordinary task that I have never completed (a book, cover to cover)

There are also some art projects that I started and lost interest in that are sitting in my closet that I would like to finish. So these will be the test as to whether or not they do anything.


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But not the AIDs, thankfully.

I was pondering my inability to perform even simple tasks that have little interest to me and began to wonder whether or not I had Attention Deficit Disorder, my life hasnt really changed in 6 years, so there must be a reason behind my lack of motivation and lackluster approach to finishing projects. Previously i had assumed this was a made up disease for kids who were all jacked up on candy and processed foods.

It would appear i have the 'Inattentive' version, where im incredibly easily distracted, lack focus, cant read stuff properly and procrastinate like a motherfucker.

So today i went to visit a psychologist who specializes in ADD assessment. She works alongside a psychiatrist to sort people like me out on the road to a more focused and 'normal' lifestyle.

I chatted for basically 1 hour straight, starting at primary school and working right up until now about my experiences in school/work, my families history and other stuff. She says im on the more 'extreme' side, but that was based on the answers I gave to a fairly subjective quiz, where i was a little concerned about underselling myself.

Im going again next week to talk further about my lifestyle and whatever else. Turns out caffeine is good for me and she recommended i drink stimulants. I had recently given up drinking caffeine because I used to drink about 2.5 litres of coke zero everyday for years and decided it was a good habit to kick. So i drank an energy drink today after i left her office, although i feel much the same.

Finally, i want to talk about something that grinds my gears:

PCs and PC Gaming: Not the games, but the hardware.

There used to be a time not that long ago when all PCs were a lovely shade of beige, then Dell started to make sleek looking black ones and people decided this looked better. Back then your PC was something to help with school work and use email and have a couple of games on. Your mouse and keyboard were pretty much the stock that came with the PC or a slightly more upmarket version of stock that you bought later.

Now days however, man has gone too far yet again. We have flown too close to the sun and our wings have melted.

PC Hardware is the most retarded looking stuff ive ever seen. Everything that is branded "ULTRA-GAMING" must also include flashing LEDs, the word "XTRME" and feature a million useless buttons and gizmos.



Look at this atrocity of mankind. It has RAPIDFIRE on the mouse button. It does not look comfortable and costs more than any person needs to spend on a mouse.



PC Cases now look like some sort of prop from a 90's sci-fi film. You have to have a window to see inside your PC at all time, and light shining from it. I get annoyed by the LEDs on my laptop, this would drive me insane.



This is not what i wanted to happen after supporting the gaming industry for many years. I have never wanted to look like this guy and somewhere along the line someone managed to market this to people as what an actual HARDCORE gamer looks like. In my day the less equipment you had the more pro you were. If you ever played CS youll know that everyone was playing on a PC at 20fps on a ball mouse in 640x480 on a 14" monitor - they played once per week for 15 minutes and it was all natural talent.

Laptops, have also succumbed to this new infatuation with colouring stuff in, but rather than gaming and their spaceship looks you now have to jazz your shit up by selecting one of a handful of pre-existing design templates to ironically show your individuality, and everyones at it.

When i bought my laptop, I thought it was all black, but its got gay silver swirls on it like something out of the matrix. Luckilly i dont have to look at the top and my hand covers the other one most of the time, but it still annoyed me.

Sony is the worst perpetrator in all of this





CHRIST! That is offensive to my eyes. White and black are the only colors required.

My parents recently purchased a new laptop and i went along to help them pick. Eventually we landed on a Samsung one that was in the sale. Purchased it and took it home... It was pink. Instead of a brushed steel looking top, it had a pink top. Motherfucker. It wasnt really the salesmans fault since all the boxes look identical apart from 'pink' written in tiny writing on the label of on the side.

Needless to say they werent surprised we took it back to replace it, there must be hundreds of pink laptops on the scrapheap at Samsungs HQ.

This kind of thing should not be happening. I would gladly revert to beige in order to make all of this go away because im afraid of what the future might hold.

Im worried that eventually PCs will look something like this




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Whats going on guys, taking a break here in the middle of the day and decided to update the blog. Currently on Day 10 of my 240 Hour Challenge and at 77.04 hours, need to average about 8/day so I'm pretty much right on pace. At the tables its been win a bunch, lose, win, lose, win, lose. Can't really get anything going it seems like. WCGRider has been staying at our place up here fresh off his multiaccount accusations. I debated playing some HU on his account and pwning people up but didn't want to add anything to the rumors so decided not to lol. I'm on pace to play about 300k hands over the month but that might end up closer to 200k or 400k depending on a bunch of things. I'm actually up a little over 100 at the tables over the time span so I guess it could be worse.


We still have a few spots in our fantasy football league, its on Espn, 12 team, 300usd Buyin, standard scoring/rosters and draft is Sept 7th 6pst. Have a few pros of poker in the league right now, me, ballcup, wcg, aejones, craigthedeac. Luckily this is a fantasy football league and not a poker challenge so I might have a chance to win it, we still have a few spots left too so if your interested let me know. I'm going to escrow on Stars but will be able to do payouts either online or through wire/check if whoever wins is back in USA.





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ok after i released my video (can be found here) ive done some freecoachingsessions with a couple of lp'rs to kinda get into the whole talking in englishwhilecoaching-thing and it feels pretty natural, i even tend to talk to much

ive done coaching in swedish before but the guys from LP that ive coached for free for a couple of sessions so far is Stroggoz, Highcard and Surprise and they all seem happy with the coaching, i asked them what they thought about the sessions to post their comments here but they all said such nice things it got kinda gay they can feel free to comment on the blogpost instead if they feel like they want to add anything!

but i think they really are happy with the sessions, and it felt great as a coach to feel appriciated and helpfull, and i found out i had more pointers/things to say then i thought i would

so i feel ready to take some students

my hourly this year is ~200$ and i feel like thats a good price for the guys over 200NL, if im getting a ton of interest and as time goes i might charge more as i evolve as a coach

but for now 200$ feels like a good price

and i kinda enjoyed haveing the session with surprise after all, since he is a microstakes player, it felt great to be able to help out with so much so im probably gonna be open to some smallerstakes players aswell even though i know ive said before that i dont want to coach people under 100NL as they can probably get the same help cheaper from other smallerstakescoaches

so i will atleast open myself for applications from smallerstakes guys, and ill charge 150$ for 100NL or under

with my coaching u will also be able to talk over hands when i got time on skype etc, and i think "my students" so far can give a +1 on this that ill be glad to help with questions on the side of the coachingsession

more information about me can be found deeper in this blog for those who want to find out more, its cool to ask aswell



on a sidenote, i also want to get PLO coaching from some1 good, im willing to pay a decent price for maybe a couple of hours sweat from a highstakeswinner, so PM me if ur up for it, prefered to be familiar with highstakesdeep aggro dynamics, as the games i play PLO now in easily gets 400bb deep, and are superaggro i want a coach who can handle that

as for results this month, month has been pretty good

+ Show Spoiler +

35k$, and up ~6k€ ~8k$ on an italian site i play on

looking to start more grind on ongame in the future as 5/10$ action seems sick good there

43k$ month feels good in just 40k hands, normally i play 60k ish hands/month, so feels nice to book a nice one even tho ive played alittle less due to travels etc

(took scubadiving certificate this month, was awesome)




so cliffnotes:

200NL+: 200$
100NL<: 150$


(prices are for 1 hour)


hope to hear from you all!

cheers

(edit i changed it to 150$ for 100nl and down instead of 100$ for 25nl'rs, i just felt that 100$ would be to cheap as its half of my hourly)


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Think I might be finished up here of Day 3 of my 240 Hour Challenge for the next month but might play another session. Yesterday sure was interesting. Day 1 I decided to play fewer tables and ship the monies but when I woke up yesterday the idea of doing all that again sounded pretty boring and didn't appeal to me so naturally I loaded up alot of tables at once. First session was a 2 hour one that didn't go well. The 2nd session ended about 14 hours later and I played 21086 hands, graph at the end of blog. I really feel like I needed to play a super long grind session because I was starting to doubt that I had the ability to do something like that still. I did not win any buyins at the table but after the 5x Fpp multiplier for Supernova Elite I ended up almost breakeven for the session and closer to a back to back SNE goal. My sleep schedule is back on a non normal one which is the way I like it, my bedroom doesn't have black out anything though which sucks for sleeping during the day but I am learning to go with it. I haven't actually slept with light coming into my room for the last year and a half in San Diego so its an adjustment.


Goal for rest of the month is to end up around 250k VPP and juice up my online roll a bit before I can get started on the super grind these last 4 months here. Me and Ballcup friends just moved up here and ended up finding a place in the same building as us. Luckily they won't be staying at our place anymore which can only be a good thing for the grind, was pretty distracting. I'm also trying not to meet any women so I can get my head back in the grind mind, we all know how finding a cute girl can throw things off and not always in a good way, I came up to Canada to make a bunch of money and not mess around with random Canooks lol


Did 2 more mini video updates and wish I did something like this when I was getting SNE last year because I can only imagine how beat up I looked and probably worn down/burnt out with my super long hair and facial hair goin on. Day 2 is towards the tail end of my super long session and you can see the energy is gone. After 3 days I am at about 34.5 hours right now so making good pace and hopefully can complete this challenge easily


Some people in the comments last blog asked what my go to PLO book was, the one that has helped me alot and still does help me was fellow LP'er SlowHabits PLO book, would recommend it for sure!



Day 2 Video Blog





Day 3 Video Blog






21k Hand Session Graph






Thanks for reading the blog and appreciate the comments always!


VPP: 225,000
Hours 34.5/240


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