London to Houston to Vegas to San Fran to Portland to Vancouver
Houston and Portland will be busy visiting family (short stopovers).
Vegas watching the Amir Khan vs Lamont Peterson fight (only there for two nights or something with my Dad).
Otherwise if anyone is in San Fran or Vancouver and wants to hang out (and not a complete wacko like some of the others I have met - and won't just talk about poker - since I don't play so often), let me know!
Everyone who reads 2p2 for hours a day is soooo bored right now and trying to find something/anything to read and occupy time so maybe I should be blogging more as a way to not only keep myself busy but maybe keep someone else busy for 2-5 minutes as they read/interact. This is Day 2.5 of my Workout/Diet prop bet and I am excited to eat the salad sitting in front of me right now. I found a salad bar/juice place that is supposed to be the healthy place the yuppies of Yaletown here in Vancouver go to, for a make your own salad and some fruit its 15 dollars lol, but whatever. Before I go to the gym to start my workouts I usually walk down the street to the healthy/most expensive grocery store known to man and buy a pre-workout "drink", 2 big bottles of water and then a post-workout "drink". I have no idea what exactly these pre/post workout drinks do but I trick myself into thinking they might be good and it is another good way to spend 14 dollars per workout I have found. My bank wire hit my account from Pokerstars and I don't really need more then 5k to live off of so now if I ever think about buying something, I just buy it. I really haven't spent to much money since my 400k upswing besides on getting my teeth healthy/looking better and maybe 10k-15kish on clothes/accessories (watch) so I think I'm doing good so far on that end.
Here is pic I took yesterday for beginning of workout prop bet, I took some with shirt off to gauge progress but I probably should keep those to myself and to various ladies lol
In my last blog I wrote how I was playing poker for PTR (tracking results site for noobs from fb) glory so to say and that once PTR stopped working that I didn't care anymore and lost a bunch of money. Someone said this is first step to failure which if you look at my results for the first 4.4 million hands that is confirmed because I think I have always been like that. I never really played to make alot of money, as long as I had 10k to be able to grind with and pay bills I was happy and fine. Something kinda changed during this last grind challenge where I realized I should stop being so -EV in what I was doing with my pokertime and do what I needed to do to win money. So I decided to stop playing 24 tables and play 1-4 tables because I knew thats what I had to do to be +EV and obv the results show for themselves. Once I won 100k that first month I was tempted to just not put much effort into it anymore but the thought of running up my PTR graph as high as I possibly could and the glory/excitement that comes from that came into my mind and provided me that motivation I needed to keep going. This sounds ridiculous to some but thats how I think about it and not really sure how to trick myself into changing that thought process. My goal before PTR went down was to get to 1 million profit on there and ever since it went away I've kinda been racking my brain and wondering around for a new goal and finally found one with my workout/diet prop bet, gives me something to focus on. Sounds even more ridiculous now that I would have stayed in Canada and kept grinding to try to get to 1 million profit for the sole reason of making my PTR graph look more awesome and not for the 1 million dollars itself lol, here is obligatory screenshot of final PTR for me
Lets get to what this blog post is all about. How is it to live in Canada and the process that goes into it. The original question was from NewbSaibot and he said
I'd like to hear more about life in Vancouver. I know for awhile you were living in a 10k/month penthouse or something, but for the avg joe how affordable are the nice areas of Vancouver? How is the weather year round? What other considerations should someone make if moving to Vancouver? Basically I'm really interested in living there for a variety of reasons, and because I've heard nothing but good things about the city. Overall, could you see yourself living in Vancouver forever? Or are there certain factors which might drive you back to the states?
Man this is a great question and I'm sure there are so many people that never left the USA to relocate anywhere for a number of reasons. I will write a little bit about my experience here so far and if anyone has anymore questions feel free to ask. I'll just start by going through the questions he asked. When I originally moved here we picked a place that was 5.8k/month sorta penthouse
This was obviously unnecessary but me and ballcup thought process before moving here was lets just get one of the sickest places we can because who knows if we will ever be able to again. So even though I was busto and rent per month was more then what my starting bankroll online was we decided to go through with it. I guess I had a lot of confidence in my ability to build it back up. I think Vancouver is affordable in the nice areas (Yaletown, Downtown, Gastown) for the average person who is relocating for poker. I would assume most people doing this have some money and are good at making more money from online poker and can afford it. I think the average 2br is anywhere from 2k-3k depending on how nice and for 1br you can find somewhere from 1.5-2k, I've been in alot of places downtown in these areas of town and they are all basically the same thing. Nice view, patio, in good shape. I came from San Diego where i was paying 2.4k/month in rent for myself so I was pretty used to these prices but for people coming from other areas this is like a what the fuck/holy shit type of thing. I think you may be able to find a bit cheaper prices in West End and Coal Harbor areas of the greater downtown area but I think prices will run pretty similarly. I would never come here and live outside of the little Island Vancouver sits on when you look on the map but I know you can find cheaper accomidations if it is that big of a deal. The weather here year round sucks, it is never warm out until yesterday, for the last maybe 7-8 months it has been a combo of cold/rainy/miserable outside. Good for staying inside and grinding but bad for going outside and enjoying. I'm not really too sure what other considerations one would make when moving up here, I guess knowing other people is good. I knew 3 people from our Vegas house that we moved up here with so always had people to hang out with even though I was busto/depressed when moved up here for the most part. We did meet alot of new people right away and if you open yourself up you'll be able to make new friends pretty easily. I would say I became pretty good-really good friends with 4 people I met in Vancouver that play poker. People come and go though which sucks but the opportunity is there to meet some people if you are here for a 3-6month time span. I think the city is beautiful, I live in Yaletown right now and it is great for walking anywhere and finding a ton of food options. When I lived downtown it was even better for finding 100s of different food options. If you are the rare poker player who likes to meet women you will have no problem doing this. I think I have met/been out with around 15-20 people and have probably tried like a 5 out of 100 to meet anyone in that regard. The crowd in the town is interesting, basically a mix of white people and asian people. Some indian/brown people scattered throughout but that is about it.
I think I could see myself living in Vancouver for a long period of time but taking many vacations. I have felt like a prisoner trapped in Canada though for most of my time, I know many of my friends have left and come back without issue but since I have had my car here I always felt a little iffy about flying out and then for some reason not being able to get back into the country so I chose to just stay here. I originally had a 3 month visitors visa, I applied online for an extension for 3 more months and got that mailed to me and then I applied again online for 4 more months and was approved again, thats how I was able to stay longer then the 6 months everyone on the forums talks about. It was a super easy process and one I would recommend to anyone looking to legally stay up here longer. I kind of want to write the Canadian government a letter for letting me stay so long and make all this money lol, I actually think I might do this. The wantingness to keep writing is kind of fading away right now but I think I hit on alot of important things/main topics people ask about often so if anyone has anymore they want to know go ahead and ask.
Going to eat now and get on with the day but if i feel like blogging more today or something comes to mind then I will
That cheating account yousseff ahmed wasn't present at my tables today and it showed in the results. Still need to do a downswing recap which I will get to in next few days but I cashed out most of my roll and left myself with 100BI for 2/4 with playing some 3/6 and 5/10 and bit 10/20 but ran bad at 1k/2k so just focused on 400/600 till I won some BI's then moved back up with better game selection and month has gone well so far. I was starting to think I sucked for a bit when I went on downswing but realized that when your playing high stakes against really good players, the variance is high and your going to lose, I basically went on a 200k upswing playing in those games so a losing sessions was inevitable to happen. When PTR went down I really didn't care about losing (lol logic) and played 3 handed with phil g and eireabu at bunch of 25/50 and that did not go so hot. Was 3b way to much and didn't adjust and lost a few BI, but at those stakes thats alot of money so went on like 80k downer online but won 25k live so wasn't insanely bad but felt it was time to cash out most of my roll and drop back down. Without ptr there isn't anymore glory in playing high stakes, when you won before you would have a sicker graph but without it no point. 2/4-5/10 more then enough fun and players are not as good so makes it easier to win.
No 2p2 still, wtf going on lol, i just keep clicking on my gmail, twitter, facebook over and over and over and nothing ever changes, so boring. I started a workout prop bet along with diet prop where I can't eat fast food or drink soda and have to be in the gym doing something everyday for the rest of my time here in Vancouver. I was planning on leaving before the end of the month to head back to Chicago for a few weeks, then to Vegas, then to Ibiza for 2 weeks. Pretty excited to see what kind of results I will have and how my body will change because my diet is probably as bad as anyone around and I drink like 10 cans of soda a day. Will be interesting challenge. Going to be doing bunch of twitter stuff this month @joeingram1 Could use some more people to follow/interact with on there besides porn stars
Here is graph for month so far, big drop is the yousseff session and then went to sleep, refreshed my mind, woke up and put in work.
As i got back home from this winters asiatrip i got a cold and have been sick this whole year basically (100 day curse from hell). But i seem to start getting rid of it, finally! have been missing a couple of weeks workout so gonna compensate that by joining my partner in crime in thailand again for some training and chilling.
Its still semicold here in northeren sweden, the snow just melted away and its only topping at +10 degrees so im not missing out much on the spring in sweden. For this trip i plan only to be away 3-4weeks and get back home to a swedish summer and eurocup 2012 (go sweden yey we made the qualification) wich i look forward to alot, gonna be an epic summer hopefully!
Muay thai training camp!
The place we are gonna train at is located in phuket, 15min taxi from patong and is supposed to be one of thailands best trainingcamps
( http://www.tigermuaythai.com/ ) the goal is to do 2 workous/day for the whole month. gonna be really nice to get back to working out again and try some muay thai. have been interested in starting some sort of mma:ish training for a while now and living nearby the campsite (2 min walk from hotel according to my friend that already is there since a couple of days ago) and go there everyday to book privatelessons aswell as grouptraining is gonna be a nice push to get into more intense workouts (still have sucky cardio). also doing it all with a friend is gonna help for motivation etc too.
heres alittle videotour on the camp
booked flight next monday, may 14th and will go back in beginning of june.
Poker
As for poker i feel i need this aswell, have been downswonging some lately on 25/50$ shots as some of u guys know already and im back down to grinding out 5/10 and hopefully 10/20 again soon enough and i feel i lack motivation in grinding when i cant split up my roll as much with not to many games running most of the time, i did the classic longplemistake wasteing almost all of my $'sl on shots last couple of months playing both SH and mutlitable HU games at the same time and im gonna look to only play SH next time i take shots as the swings in HU is just to great for me to take shots in it without feeling bad when failing, unless i wanna grind up a million BI roll on 5/10 10/20 beforehand. (wich i will kinda try to do for next shots aswell)
allthough i feel that ive played my best poker during these shots and ive gotten a decent amount of volume in during march/april on 25/50$ and i know that i beat those games and most of those guys, its just a matter of time and dicipline and better running
as for recovery ive played some 2/4-5/10€ games alongside with the swedish site svenskaspel as those games are very faimliar to me even tho it rarely runs to many games, but some evenings u can get 4-5 25/50sek games running and maybe even some 50/100sek (4/8$ and 8/16$) but most nights ur stuck playing 2 tables or so.
i have trouble to put in as much volume as i would like to after busting both my stars and ongame roll + getting easily bored/annoyed still after wasteing so much that i cant even take 10/20$ games anymore on the networks that id like to, stars/ongame etc. so going to thailand focusing more on health again and less grind will hopefully get me a refreshed mindset on grinding my way back again (even tho ive been doing well recovering so far)
April results:
peaked at +120k$ in beginning of april but ended up down 50k$ or so total
$ sites:
SEK:
also lost 10k$ live + some in stakeing/% buys etc etc
The 120k$ profit heater in the start of the month was all <25/50$ and down, kind of a repeat of march ^^ heater up 100k$ on <25/50 and wasteing all profits there, boom!
Busted stars and ongameroll due to takeing the shot to far left me with less options, started a small roll going on a € site at the end of april and have been doing good there, playing 2/4-5/10€
The plan
so the plan is to obviously continue grinding in thai, at a more chillaxed rate, take some games here and there but basically only take soft games and not worry about it to much, because i still feel like playing higher then i should, and thats, as Daut putted it: BAD LONGPLE, BAD! And when i get back im gonna be pumped to play again and hopefully by then ive won some more on the € site so i can get a starsroll going again and be more motivated in putting volume on 5/10 10/20, and soon ill attack them 25/50$ games again, but with a little better approach next time
Gay stuff
friend linked me this video, its all gay etc etc but it was still a nice motivational video imo and it made me alittle happier inside
now ive been laying on my couch snoring all over the place for to long, its time to get back on the regiment!
Seriously if you like money don't, never seen anyone run as hot as this guy does. I stopped playing any table that he was on for 2 months and today tried it again and he took 10BI from me and lost 0 pots above 20bb vs me. I looked in my database and he has won 35 hands vs me over 50bb and i won 4 lol
I wish i could post like the last 200 3b/4b pots vs him where I either get coolered by him or whiff completely or get it in ahead and lose, time to go back to never playing at the table with him
gonna be selling action to a few of the high buyin events.
here are the tourneys I will definitely be selling to, percents im selling, and markups i will be charging:
**SOLD OUT** may 6, event 2: 2100 NL, 1m guarantee, selling 70%, 1.143:1
**SOLD OUT** may 13, event 20: 2100 NL, 750k guarant, selling 70%, 1.125:1
**SOLD OUT** may 13, event 21: 2100 NL, 1m guarantee, selling 70%, 1.143:1
may 20, event 40: 10300 NL,2.5m guarant, selling 80%, 1.0875:1
if scoop isnt going well ill probably sell action to some of the 1ks. if scoop is going well ill probably take a shot in the 5k plo, the 2k 6max events and maybe some of the weekday tourneys. but im going to concentrate on 9max NL events to start out. I will be selling each of these individually.
anyway, gonna be selling for the 2k high event on may 6 here.
1.143:1 which means ill sell 70% for 80%. gonna end up swapping around 5% and have 25% for myself. going to limit my tables to around 6-8 tops once this tourney starts and wont register much after it starts to concentrate more on this tourney.
1% = 24
2% = 48
5% = 120
10% = 240
ship to Daut44 (Canada), wanderlei silva avatar
avatar pictured here:
unfortunately cant accept funds on moneybookers at this point cause of my shitty limits. maybe by the end of scoop those will be raised.
gonna be selling action to a few of the high buyin events.
here are the tourneys I will definitely be selling to, percents im selling, and markups i will be charging:
**SOLD OUT** may 6, event 2: 2100 NL, 1m guarantee, selling 70%, 1.143:1
**SOLD OUT** may 13, event 20: 2100 NL, 750k guarant, selling 70%, 1.125:1
**SOLD OUT** may 13, event 21: 2100 NL, 1m guarantee, selling 70%, 1.143:1
may 20, event 40: 10300 NL,2.5m guarant, selling 80%, 1.0875:1
if scoop isnt going well ill probably sell action to some of the 1ks. if scoop is going well ill probably take a shot in the 5k plo, the 2k 6max events and maybe some of the weekday tourneys. but im going to concentrate on 9max NL events to start out. I will be selling each of these individually.
anyway, gonna be selling for the 2k high event on may 6 here.
1.143:1 which means ill sell 70% for 80%. gonna end up swapping around 5% and have 25% for myself. going to limit my tables to around 6-8 tops once this tourney starts and wont register much after it starts to concentrate more on this tourney.
1% = 24
2% = 48
5% = 120
10% = 240
ship to Daut44 (Canada), wanderlei silva avatar
avatar pictured here:
unfortunately cant accept funds on moneybookers at this point cause of my shitty limits. maybe by the end of scoop those will be raised.
A different kind of month: merge, coaching, AUTHOR
Daut, April 26
Pre-black friday my monthly poker routine would be to play something like 60 hours of cash and 25 hours of sunday tournaments in a month. I was never a huge grinder, but I was pretty consistent about putting in decent volume for the 5 years I had been a professional poker player. I never put in a shitload of volume, but I never really burned out and felt like retiring. I would spend a few hours doing staking stuff here and there, but I would rarely put in more than 90-100 hours into poker each month.
Post black friday has been different for me. I have a girlfriend and a dog living in california, so permanent relocation wasnt an option for me. But neither was sitting on my ass doing nothing. I rented a place in canada for 6 months and bounced back and forth spending roughly 12 days a month in canada. While I was up there I felt forced to play more hours per day to make up for having a smaller window of time to play. Then when I would return to the USA I would take it easy and not grind.
April was the first month since july that I spent 0 time outside the country. As a backer, I always try to put in extra volume in the months leading up to black friday so I can make more money before the most expensive time of the year. I felt the need to put in my hours somehow, but I have no desire to play live poker. I turned back to HEROPOKER.
i deposited about 1k on hero a year ago and fully expected to be able to run it up to infinite like I was nanonoko. It didn't work out like that. Building from a small roll was a lot harder than I expected. The merge games have lots of regulars that arent bad, the mid-higher stakes games arent great and dont run, and my shots worked out horribly. Coming into this month I had just under 7k on the site that I had built up from the original 1k, but had no way to cash it out.
I went through the process of filling out all the annoying forms so I could cash out to moneybookers and cashed out 3k leaving myself just under 4k there to start april. I put in about 70 hours of grinding and have built it up to about 7600 at all 50 and 100plo.
With my 35% rakeback and side bonuses this worked out to +3600 for a whopping 50 bucks an hour. Even though its a small hourly, i'm proud I was able to obtain that playing such low stakes on a non pokerstars network. I also spent a lot more time battling than I do on stars. Since there are so many tables that run on stars, I usually just pick the 4-8 best ones and grind those for a huge winrate. I decided to use merge as more of an experiment and try to battle regs and improve my mass multitabling. I spent a lot of time 12 tabling in tougher lineups and feel like my PLO game is getting much better and look forward to hopefully starting to move back up in limits on stars when I go to vancouver for scoop.
In addition to merge, I did 6 hours of PLO coaching, made 9 MTT videos for cardrunners and have written about 90% (about 80 pages) of an e-book on backing. I sent it to a few tournament players to find out what they think about it and see if I left anything out, but I am hoping to release it sometime in may before the WSOP starts. I don't expect to make a ton on the book, but if I can even make 5 figures out of it ill be happy.
In terms of poker grinding, I didnt put in more hours than I usually do. But combined with my videos, coaching and writing I dont think I have ever worked harder in a single month. The month still has 5 days left and I've probably put in about 125 hours of work and probably made about 20k in equity with everything added together.
gonna add in a quick poll. how much do you guys think I should charge for the e-book? keep in mind the following: there has been NOTHING written about backing in the poker world and a good amount of people would be interested/learn from it as it covers things like buying/selling pieces extensively as well as all other parts of backing and being backed such as makeup deals, finding horses, finding backers, setting up a deal, problems that can occur and contracts.
Poll: How much should Daut charge?
(Vote): $10: everyone can afford!
(Vote): $25: cheap but you will still make money
(Vote): $50: value bet everyone!
(Vote): $100: value bet bigger and get called half as often!
(Vote): $200: expensive but comparable to other in depth books
(Vote): $500+: if people really want this info they'll pay for it
A different kind of month: merge, coaching, AUTHOR
Daut, April 26
Pre-black friday my monthly poker routine would be to play something like 60 hours of cash and 25 hours of sunday tournaments in a month. I was never a huge grinder, but I was pretty consistent about putting in decent volume for the 5 years I had been a professional poker player. I never put in a shitload of volume, but I never really burned out and felt like retiring. I would spend a few hours doing staking stuff here and there, but I would rarely put in more than 90-100 hours into poker each month.
Post black friday has been different for me. I have a girlfriend and a dog living in california, so permanent relocation wasnt an option for me. But neither was sitting on my ass doing nothing. I rented a place in canada for 6 months and bounced back and forth spending roughly 12 days a month in canada. While I was up there I felt forced to play more hours per day to make up for having a smaller window of time to play. Then when I would return to the USA I would take it easy and not grind.
April was the first month since july that I spent 0 time outside the country. As a backer, I always try to put in extra volume in the months leading up to black friday so I can make more money before the most expensive time of the year. I felt the need to put in my hours somehow, but I have no desire to play live poker. I turned back to HEROPOKER.
i deposited about 1k on hero a year ago and fully expected to be able to run it up to infinite like I was nanonoko. It didn't work out like that. Building from a small roll was a lot harder than I expected. The merge games have lots of regulars that arent bad, the mid-higher stakes games arent great and dont run, and my shots worked out horribly. Coming into this month I had just under 7k on the site that I had built up from the original 1k, but had no way to cash it out.
I went through the process of filling out all the annoying forms so I could cash out to moneybookers and cashed out 3k leaving myself just under 4k there to start april. I put in about 70 hours of grinding and have built it up to about 7600 at all 50 and 100plo.
With my 35% rakeback and side bonuses this worked out to +3600 for a whopping 50 bucks an hour. Even though its a small hourly, i'm proud I was able to obtain that playing such low stakes on a non pokerstars network. I also spent a lot more time battling than I do on stars. Since there are so many tables that run on stars, I usually just pick the 4-8 best ones and grind those for a huge winrate. I decided to use merge as more of an experiment and try to battle regs and improve my mass multitabling. I spent a lot of time 12 tabling in tougher lineups and feel like my PLO game is getting much better and look forward to hopefully starting to move back up in limits on stars when I go to vancouver for scoop.
In addition to merge, I did 6 hours of PLO coaching, made 9 MTT videos for cardrunners and have written about 90% (about 80 pages) of an e-book on backing. I sent it to a few tournament players to find out what they think about it and see if I left anything out, but I am hoping to release it sometime in may before the WSOP starts. I don't expect to make a ton on the book, but if I can even make 5 figures out of it ill be happy.
In terms of poker grinding, I didnt put in more hours than I usually do. But combined with my videos, coaching and writing I dont think I have ever worked harder in a single month. The month still has 5 days left and I've probably put in about 125 hours of work and probably made about 20k in equity with everything added together.
gonna add in a quick poll. how much do you guys think I should charge for the e-book? keep in mind the following: there has been NOTHING written about backing in the poker world and a good amount of people would be interested/learn from it as it covers things like buying/selling pieces extensively as well as all other parts of backing and being backed such as makeup deals, finding horses, finding backers, setting up a deal, problems that can occur and contracts.
Poll: How much should Daut charge?
(Vote): $10: everyone can afford!
(Vote): $25: cheap but you will still make money
(Vote): $50: value bet everyone!
(Vote): $100: value bet bigger and get called half as often!
(Vote): $200: expensive but comparable to other in depth books
(Vote): $500+: if people really want this info they'll pay for it
I have a long blog in my head that needs to be written including a bunch of hands I've recently played, got in a 6way all in pre for 91k pot at 50/1 yesterday (did not win). Followed that up with a 70k day today though and broke the 400k mark for the year. Seems standard enough.... Everytime I sit down to write something or make a video blog my mind goes blank and nothing comes out
Ive felt alittle bad after promesing a video with commentary and then not delivering. Makeing the poll and all so i decided today as i woke up i had enough energy makeing one. So i just just recorded a video with commentary and as im rendering the project im writing this blog + cooking lunch.
its a live recording, just ranting and babbeling mostly but there are some interesting spots and i run like jesus (still) and win alot in the video, so atleast there is alot of big pots, lol
I talk about it some in the video, but i had this chat about life with Andrew, Highcard (on lp) for 4-5 hours or so last night and i told him that LP support really helped me gain enough confidence to move up to 5/10+ and just feel confident in those games, and i really do, i see nothing stopping me now, i have yet alot to learn, im not a perfect player or anything but i think i can do it, and thats thanks to all the attention ive gotten from LP. so thank you guys
I took myself completely on my own, playing my own wierd style from NL10 to NL400 but i kept failing at the 5/10 shots. About a year ago or so i posted my big post about how i got a good winrate on midstakes, and thats when it all started basically. The support and appriciation i got from that post from LP was sick, and i went up to 5/10 and started crushing a during that time, and by the 2nd half of 2011 i was takeing 10/20 and even some higher games then that, doing well and then busting on 25/50 50/100$ shots and other retarded stuff, u can read about that in older blogs if interested. (lol random combo breaker in my speech right there ), but now im back, and already im takeing 25/50$ shots again and im pretty sure im there to stay this time around, im not gonna make the same misstake again.
So LP helped me in that way, and after getting the greenstar and a ton of people responding to everything i post has given me that extra confidence i think i really needed. So this video is for you guys!
enjoy! DL VIDEO HERE: https://rapidshare.com/files/2240865890/ongamevideo.wmv
Its just sad LP kinda is dying, but ill do my best to keep it alive, we are still a decent group of people posting here regulary so lets go on for atleast a couple of more years!
as for life, got some issues atm irl but running well at poker and doing fun things IRL is really helping out alot, working out 4 times a week now with a close buddy, really love that ive taken up training and getting fitter/healthier. i really recommend all of you doing the same. get that laazy ass moveing.
And oh yeah i also finished up my tattoo last week, it hurt like fuck, 9 hours total of pure pain but im very happy with the results, what do u guys think?
So as i told ket and wrote in some thread also is that i took water over my head promiseing full commentary on the video, but i tryed for a couple of hours at different times but it just turned out bad. there was just too many hands all over the place and i didnt really remeber much i was thinking + i got slaughtered, and commenting on HU is so wierd because alot is based on leveling and gameflowfeel for me, and it just got to hard.
But i uploaded the video anyways, u can download it here:
as for life and poker, february was great, i made over 100k$ own money in february, about 30k of them at the livegames in stockholms casino cosmopol livegames, mostly playing 10/10$ ish and 20/20$ ish stakes deep. was fun
for the 3k$ live tourney during the eventweek at the end of feb i semibubbled it at 16th with 99 vs QJs all in pre 25bb deep or so, out of 70 ppl or something, small tourney but took like 20 hours until i busted for no score at all zzzz always anoying
They made some interview with me during that week, svenskaspel the site ive played alot of highstakes on the last year+ or so they somehow recognized me as a svenskaspel HS player so they approached me and asked me if i was longple on svenskaspel and if i wanted to answer some questions in their pokershow "pokerstudion"
so for the swedes, + if u guys wanna look how i look like or sound like or what ever>>>>
you can find the interview with me here starting at 9:40:
i just have to say that its pretty funny because i dont say anything smart in the video at all, for example she asks me whats most fascinateing with poker and i think for 30 sek and answer "its fun" + Show Spoiler +
started takeing some 10/20$ shots on stars, the deepgames are really fun to play, battled some with our own wobbly_au the other day and it got pretty interesting. u can find some of the hands from the last couple sessions of 10/20 in my hand section if interested.
anyways, not much more to say, feel kinda sad have some girldramatrouble irl atm so im not looking to play to much in march probably, just dont wanna grind to much when feeling down.
hope some will find the video interesting, post comment below includeing what time in the video the hand approaches if u got any questions, and im gonna try and answer most of them as good as possible.
weed + this = true
take care keep check out my hands to the right as i will keep posting interesting ones :-)
Whats going on guys, feel like writing and that doesn't happen very often anymore. Instead of organizing my place and closet or go to the gym and play on my iPad I decided to do this instead. Random Ipad apps I am grinding right now, Fairway Solitare (solitaire+golf combined, addicted as hell with many levels to get through and not like regular solitaire. Replaced Temple Run in the game I have to play when I'm not doing anything). Pocket League Story (this is iphone/ipad) From makers of Game Dev Story, its like a soccer/football RPG game where you build a soccer team and play in various leagues/cups and improve your players through training excecises, building different buildings, head coach. Can hire better plays as you progress and start to make more money. You don't actually play the games but you get to watch and do some adjustments to form and they go by pretty quick and are kinda fun to watch too. Almost have completed it at this point and looking forward to getting into a few other games that the company makes like building super mall, simcity type building game, and grand prix racing game. This app Splashtop honestly changed my life since it basically lets you control your desktop from your Ipad from anywhere. I've had it for a few months now and I can't imagine not having it now, sometimes I will just lay in bed with stars lobby open on Ipad and jesus seat someone and then make my way to the computer to fire up a session. Can't really stream movies/tv shows with regular ipad browsers but with splashtop it makes it possible and I use it so much. I think Ipad is best thing I ever purchased in my life up until a few days ago.
There was only one thing I really wanted to buy with all the money I won from prop bet + grinding and that was to get my teeth fixed up. I guess they weren't TERRIBLE before but I was not very happy with them and usually felt a little self conscious about them. I did a few non-cosmetic dental sessions to get my teeth in working order and after a bunch of hours grinding in the dentist chair I got my top teeth complete (crowns). I had this image of the movie star white smile in my mind before I got them but the dentists convinced me that super super white usually looks super super fake/unreal so I didn't go that extreme but still white enough. I put up a little youtube video and if you watch my video blogs in December first and then this one you will say holy shit that looks different.
I kinda talk a little bit about poker in that but I don't really get too in depth. February was on track to be another 100k month but with like 4 days left I threw all the discipline to the window and play in some -evish spots with higher variance then usual. Obviously I choose to do most of this at 50/100 and ended up losing 25k that day, ran like under ev but was really only from one beat and besides that played terrible and did not make folds I should have made but could have avoided getting in those spots in the first place against good players. Started off March like a man on a mission and made that 25k back the first 2 days and was up about 40k before I decided to throw discipline to the window once again and just tilt for some unknown reason. Felt like the old days of poker for me when I was just do something that I know is horrible or make a call that I know is -ev but just something happens to my brain and I do it anyway. You can see from the monthly graph where I would regroup, get my mind straight and then do more grinding back up and then had another moment. I'm still up a bunch this month but its weird how being up 24k doesn't feel like too much now. I defintely have been a little less stringent on my tables I do decide to play and sometimes I load up a bit more then normal tables and this leads to me getting in more high variance spots because that slightly less lack of focus gets me into them. I sometimes find myself playing a bunch of big pots with thecleaner11 who is pretty good player while I have the fish sitting to my right and avoiding him. The old me loved battling with regs and trying to be the fucking man but we all saw how that would normally turn out for me so I have to sometimes remind myself of this and stay my lane of what has been working. Haven't quite ran like god this month as compared to the last 2 but I think that the combination of playing well/game selection helps make up for alot of that. Hasn't been as much juice this mont at 25/50 and the 50/100 hands I've played this month I kinda was pushing the limits of -ev/+ev. I only like to play that high when I know the mark is a top tier fish and the sessions this month I have been like well he is really fishy but idk he might not be fishy enough to make up for the variance. Plus some of them buy in for 30bb's and I really am not a 30bb master but feel like I still play better then the fish with stacks that shallow. Against the 5/10+ shortstack regs though I probably am making a handful of -ev plays with ahnds im defending to 3b or 3b myself vs them.
Here is the breakdown of the month so far for me, sucks being up 20BI at 400plo and down 1BI at 10kPLO lol
Yearly breakdown of limits so far, obv play more 5/10 and 10/20 and less 3/6 and 50/100
My apartment is a mess again, so I spent 2 hours cleaning it up. Like the common stuff, vacuming, kitchen, bathroom, clothes n stuff. And now all that remains is cleaning up my sticky notes, but I can't force myself to throw them away, so doing that trick I do from time to time. I go through them, and I toss all the stupid ones, and I put the cool ones over here in my blog.
- It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
- Timing, right when something positive happens is the time when it's most awesome to say it, affirm it, compliment it. Makes you link positive patterns to when it's occuring.
And when we do poorly, take it up afterwards, then go through idea, tips and tricks to fix.
- Reward yourself every day, lots of short term goals. Reward yourself each time you take action instead of worrying.
"what you link pain to and what you link pleasure to shapes your destinty."
"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."
"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."
"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."
"Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits."
"All perception of truth is the detection of an anology."
"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention is the supreme master of art, as of life."
"The belief that becomes truth for me.... Is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues intoaction."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
The 4 most important things to look for in a partner + Show Spoiler +
What they say, they do.
INTEGRITYis paramount. It is linked to self worth within that individual and it builds trust. Someone who isn’t integral is more likely to be dishonest or to never follow through on their commitments.
Smart
This could range from someone who has an excellent education or is smart in other ways of life. Ultimately it comes down to being with someone who challenges you and pushes you to be better.
Love
A strong emotional connection is an important factor in building a sustainable relationship. You must be able to connect with your partner on an internal level for it to with-stand time. This is why they say best friends tend to make great partnerships as they have a strong foundation on an emotional level. Love can be defined in so many ways and only you can really determine what it feels like or looks like in a partnership.
Physical connection
Aside from having a strong emotional connection it is also paramount that you have a strong physical attraction. This is then broken down into two conditions. The external image isn’t everything but being physically attracted to your partner is very important long-term.
(i) Good Physical Condition: Not only for sex appeal or “eye candy” but because someone who is in physically good condition can perform better sexually. In general someone who is in good physical shape has better stamina and hygiene.
(ii) “Make Good Sex”: What he means here is learn what the other needs sexually in order for them to have maximum satisfaction. If your partner isn’t getting what they need sexually then they will likely look outside of the relationship in order to find it.
- will unconciously distance themself (distance language, like that woman).
- Much more to it than speech, we all chatter with our fingertips.
- Body language slips (throw assumptions away).
- Liars look a little too much in their eye.
- Eyes can't conciously smile.
Honest people will be on your side, cooperative, brain storm, provide details, infuriated through the entire course if honest, and when asking for punishment, they'll say strict rather than lenient.
While a deceptive person may be more withdrawn, look down, herky derky, lower voice, pause, pepper with way to much details in all kinds of irrelevant places.
Then go at it in chronological order, ask them to tell their story backwards, we rehearse our words, but we rarely rehearse our gestures, (just words)
Dupe delight:
(make one expression well masking another that leaks through in a flash)
Expression of contempt <--- when anger turns to that, you've been dismissed, very hard to recover from,
one lip up and in.
More indicatiors:
shift their blink rate, feet towards an exit, barrier objects between, alter vocal tone, often lower. Not proof, just redlights, don't mean any of themself, but when you see clusters of them, look probe, ask questions.
Have a little dignity, don't be too aggressive, it doesn't work.
The most common wishes from people on their deathbed + Show Spoiler +
Wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
Wish I didn't work so hard.
I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
Hey, I've been listening to a lot of Joe Rogan podcasts lately, and sometimes when it's about really cool topics, or they talk about people who's amazing I look up some of their work, to learn and find out more.
One fascinating character called Terence had a lot on his mind, I listened for a few hours to some of his speeches and I made a summary of some the stuff I felt was really well said, thought provoking, and awesome.
Catalysts to say what is never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language, and what's really important, the self presence of direct experience.
We have to stop consuming our culture, we have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR.
Create your own roadshow, the nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your Universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson, lady gaga or somebody else, then you're disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons.
Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X, or have lips like Y or something, this is shit brained. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you, and your friends, and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans and your fears.
And we're told no.
We're unimportant, we're pheriperal, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player.
You don't even want to play in that game, you want to reclaim your mind, and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half baked moron, consuming all of this trash that's been manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
Ok so money is rolling in and im doing very well. The dautstake is cleared and my game feels super tip top right now and busting my roll + starting on stars have been a very positive longterm experience for me i think.
my game is better then ever before, learned alot from playing better regs on stars, adjusted well to 100bb again, and i can 24 table + gameselect some other tables from other clients on the side, without feeling that im missing to much. stars software <3
stars is also taxxfree now + ive lost 20kg + ive met a girl i like alot.
everything is just tiptop.
And the month is only halfway in, this month really have potential! :D
Swedish site graph (in SEK at rate 1usd=7sek)
Stars graph 24 tableing 2/4 - 5/10$
Im also up 1400€ on an italian site, dont feel the need to upload that graph but this means only 15 days in playing midstakes im up 82500$ at the tables and with rakeback too its probagbly closeing in on 90k$
(alltho im shipping some money to daut, dont know where its gonna end too laazy to do the math, maybe at 80k ish afterall from haveing 40% in my first 25k winnings or something from this month)
80 000 fucking us dolls
record month for me already, playing lower then usually. Life is good what can i tell you!
A buddy of mine (the pokerfriend i traveled with for 2.5 months in asia with earlier this winter) is comeing to visit over the weekend, if i got time over i will try and record the audio and compress the HU match against ket, otherwise i will try to get it up on monday/thuesday next week.
Thank you for your patience!
Regards
longple PokerStars luckiest flipper.
- Umeå Sweden
edit:
and oh yeah, on monday im makeing a chestpiece tattoo also thats gonna be sooo awesome, superpumped. I got an MMS on my phone today from my tattoist (er?) with a sketch of what we are gonna do the first sitting (about 4 hours), and then 2 weeks later or so we are gonna do the rest of the tattoo.
the image to the left is from an album i really enjoy and is a big part of my childhood/kansas will always be special to me. And he made an own version of it that i really dig it the more and more i look at it! cant wait to see how he wanna make the wings.
but basically im gonna do it on my chest, with the wings going up against my shoulders.
Was thinking of maybe making another video for LP, what would u like to see?
Poll: What video should longple make?
(Vote): 4-6 tableing 100bb video
(Vote): 4-6 tableing deep video
(Vote): Hu video
(Vote): 24 tableing starsvideo (prolly w/o much commentary)
I've always thought deep down inside that I was horrible at balancing my own play at the tables. Occasionally playing a hand a certain way in order to have said hand in your range is not the equivalent of being balanced. You have to make a commitment to do it regularly and often. Life is much the same.
Its been a struggle to balance playing poker, working out, hanging out with friends, and learning new things all at the same time. I'm the kind of guy who gets real obsessed about things for a little while, then move on to something else, move back to the first thing, etc. I've never been good at keeping my life balanced. Ill spend a week playing skyrim and doing nothing else. Ill go on a bender and go out with my buddies 3-4 nights in a row then stop. Ill play a bunch of poker for 2-3 weeks then ill take a month off.
Although its probably not the best solution for a number of reasons, I decided to give some of my buddies freerolls to ensure i keep my life balanced.
im in vancouver for the next couple weeks and offered 4 friends the following freerolls:
1. josh - $50 every day i dont play at least 2k hands
2. his fiance emily - $50 every day i dont work out
3. nick - $50 every day i dont work on rosetta stone spanish
4. his fiance leah - $50 every day i dont hang out with at least one of them.
it would probably be better to get to the root of the problem and solve the underlying issues through logic and practice, but I think getting myself into a routine of doing things on a daily basis will break my bad habits.
sorry for the weak ass blogpost. i recently went to costa rica and was gonna do a writeup with lots of pics about the trip, but the girls i went with are lagging to post the pictures on facebook. something about them all needing to sign off on any pictures uploaded so none of them look awful in any picture online. as always, estrogen, the antithesis to reason. ill make that update when they post them finally
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), but now im back, and already im takeing 25/50$ shots again and im pretty sure im there to stay this time around, im not gonna make the same misstake again.
but this means only 15 days in playing midstakes im up 82500$ at the tables and with 
