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ToT)MidiaN(    United Kingdom. May 01 2013 08:48. Posts 5070
April was by far the lowest volume month of the year so far. Part of the reason for this is that I went to Korea on the 2nd and got back on the 10th, so I was already a third of the month down with 0 volume. To make matters worse I didn't make up for that lack of volume in the remaining 2/3rds of the month. Here are a few pics from the Korea trip:

Me with d.Apollo, an old friend I met at UK WCG 2008 who is now a SC2 commentator baller


Rum bucket with Dream.t)gongju and Dream.t)kyu. Korean friends I've known online for god knows how long


With Sea[Shield]


With Dream.t)HyuN, HuK and ToT)HayprO(


Group pic on last night in Korea with Dream.t)M18M, Dream.t)gongju, Dream.t)HyuN, Dream.t)ANNA, Dream.t)kyu, me, SLoG4[pG] and Dream.t)Jangbi. Love my Dream.t clanmates obvs


I am considering going back some time between June and August depending on how life goes in my home town to live for a year. It's prob a coinflip whether I will or won't at this point. Seoul is the nuts, I just wish I could take my house and friends and dump them all in Gang Nam.

Poker results were pretty good when I actually played. I felt a bit rusty when I got back from Korea and struggled at first, hitting some mini downswing, but since then I started crushing when I played and won 16 out of 18 sessions played. Still, given the pathetic volume I obviously didn't win too much.

Cash games:


Tournaments:


Results:
VPPs: 16,447.36
Cash: +$4,632.16
MTTs: -$734.78
Overall: +$3,897.38 (Not including VPPs and bonuses)

I think I need to do some work on my tournament game, especially with SCOOP coming up. I'm already down $5k+ this year in MTTs, which is naturally easy to do given the variance with huge fields, but I just don't feel too confident in my short stacked play in general, and since it's useful to be good at short stacked play in cash given the state of games in 2013 I intend to spend some time next month working on improving my short stacked play and MTT game. Yearly VPP goal has to be set at 500k VPPs now considering the volume I've managed in March and April, but I've somehow even fallen behind that pace by now. I can't see myself catching up much in the next month as I have a lot more social plans etc. Going to Korea would almost certainly be good for my grind, or if I stay here, when the weather gets worse I'll start grinding a lot more also. 500k VPPs is still plausible, but I don't want to fall too far behind during the decent weather we're finally getting or it will soon become a 300k VPP year of disappointment.

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DustySwedeDude   Sweden. May 01 2013 09:39. Posts 8623

Wanna talk short stack and MTT? Send me a PM next week or so and we can try and figure out pf-ranges and stuff.


longple    Sweden. May 01 2013 10:37. Posts 4472

n1

gwgw!


Eluflop   Estonia. May 01 2013 10:49. Posts 3835

well done man, you are so consistant. great stuff, always interesting to read your updates


VanDerMeyde   Norway. May 01 2013 12:32. Posts 5113

Hunk

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MiPwnYa    Brasil. May 01 2013 13:47. Posts 5230

those blogs of yours always make me crave delicious salty/spicy korean soups : )

 Last edit: 01/05/2013 13:50

PuertoRican   United States. May 01 2013 15:57. Posts 13127

If you CAN go back to Korea later this year, I would do it if I were you.

As you said, "Seoul is the nuts."

Rekrul is a newb 

rANDY   United Kingdom. May 01 2013 16:22. Posts 2223

Looks like a lot of fun, very jealous


mnj   United States. May 01 2013 16:41. Posts 3848

Sounds like every month you fail your goal at reaching the number of hands you wanted to play. Not trying to sound mean but I had the same problem where I thought I could do something like "study every day 8 hours" for a week till the final but goals like these aren't reasonable. More than that, they make you stop giving a shit about future goals and hurts self-esteem.

Imo re-evaluate what you can do. What you can actually achieve. Start low and increase till you get where you want to get. It's like weight lifting brah


AndrewSong    United States. May 01 2013 17:46. Posts 2355

I've been to that bar before. It's the one at apgu basement right?


TianYuan    Korea (South). May 01 2013 23:16. Posts 6817

How am i not in any picture tt

Hm.. Off-suite socks.. 

ToT)MidiaN(    United Kingdom. May 02 2013 05:21. Posts 5070


  On May 01 2013 08:39 DustySwedeDude wrote:
Wanna talk short stack and MTT? Send me a PM next week or so and we can try and figure out pf-ranges and stuff.



Definitely when I get my act together!


  On May 01 2013 14:57 PuertoRican wrote:
If you CAN go back to Korea later this year, I would do it if I were you.

As you said, "Seoul is the nuts."



Yeah but there are reasons to stay too ;p


  On May 01 2013 15:41 mnj wrote:
Sounds like every month you fail your goal at reaching the number of hands you wanted to play. Not trying to sound mean but I had the same problem where I thought I could do something like "study every day 8 hours" for a week till the final but goals like these aren't reasonable. More than that, they make you stop giving a shit about future goals and hurts self-esteem.

Imo re-evaluate what you can do. What you can actually achieve. Start low and increase till you get where you want to get. It's like weight lifting brah



It's not that I'm not capable of achieving SNE, it's just that in this moment in time I choose to spend my free time pursuing fun rather than profit. My state of mind regarding fun vs profit changes all the time. First 2 months of this year it was a healthy balance, and during those months I put in 700k yearly VPP volume, which I know is still <SNE volume, there's no doubt I would certainly have to sacrifice a decent amount of fun to make SNE happen. I thought I would be happy to make such sacrifices, that was the goal at the beginning of this year, but things change and now my focus mainly revolves around going out a lot, so the last 2 months I've been closer to a 250~300k yearly VPP pace. I can still make 500k yearly VPPs, it's not an unreasonable goal at all. I'm barely off pace and I only need to maintain an average of about 2 hours a day for the rest of the year 8 tabling 100NL and 200NL zoom to make that. Hardly unattainable.


  On May 01 2013 16:46 AndrewSong wrote:
I've been to that bar before. It's the one at apgu basement right?



Which one? First bar is Dean 1988 in GangNam, 2nd one is Rainbow which is also in GangNam, I dunno which the 3rd or 4th bars are, I just followed friends. Last one is WA Bar in some basement somewhere, fairly sure it was not Apgujeong though


  On May 01 2013 22:16 TianYuan wrote:
How am i not in any picture tt



I'm not sure I even have any pics of you haha. I chose the pics in a hurry anyway, didn't really sift through. I didn't even upload any pics of Dream.t)black and I spent almost as much time with him as anyone else ;/

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PuertoRican   United States. May 02 2013 13:06. Posts 13127

WA bar is a chain of bars, and the few I've been to all look the same. There was a WA bar in the Gangnam station area, near the arcade. Dunno if it's still there.

Rekrul is a newb 

ToT)MidiaN(    United Kingdom. May 02 2013 14:06. Posts 5070

Ya I've been to quite a few different WA Bars. There could well be one in Apgujeong but that's not the one in that pic.. never really hung out in Apgu very often anyway ;o

One day good. One day bad. And some days, even hope 

donkey   United States. May 02 2013 15:13. Posts 247

where's my name son I feel sad now


SIG1   United States. Jun 30 2013 20:34. Posts 651

LOL slog


 



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