so frustrated right now damn it.. everytime i start doing well on 5/10 i literally get raped in a matter of minutes and lose like a million buy ins just cant seem to run good for an extended period of time. k im playing pretty crazily aggro, 9 tabling.
gonna play the 1k buy in 1.5 mil gtd ftops later.. get ready to rail cos im gonna win. :D
well around this time last year we were kickin off the wsop blogs, vegas just totally reminded me of that.. def a fun time of the year for all of us.
so last night i dropped about 5bi HU online and then took a piece of clays action and lost another 8 or so lol.. so online was total crap.. so i decided i was gonna hit up the Wynn for some 1/3NL.. i had Aj drop me off cuz i didnt even wanna know how much cab fair was gonna b, anyway i started off the night buying in for $600, ended up doing pretty well.. got deep, built up my stack at the table to around 900 or so, and got in a hand with some dude at my table (also 900 deep), ran a HUGE triple barrel bluff on him, the board came down QT2,Q,2 and i basically just bet into him every street and he decided to fold the river, i flipped over 99 and basically set my image for the rest of the night.. right after that hand at a 2/5nl table next to mine some dickhead calls the clock on a hand that he wasnt even in, it was some young kid and some asian guy, i guess the asian guy bet 500 on the river and the kid was sitting with Khigh and thinking about bluffing... so anyway i get up off my table and go take a look at the board and stuff and the kid looks at me and is like " i duno milkman what should i do?"
Im like, "lol how do u know me?" but then i just figured my blog or something.. so im like " i duno.. monster poker, RR allin" He folds, and packs up chips, i see him standing in the lobby a few mins later and walk over.. the "kid" was LPs own adam001, which made me feel happy about not moving to that 2/5 table earlier that night lol.. so that was pretty cool to meet him and his housemates (sry dont remember ur sn's)
so that was pretty cool, i love to meet other poker players n shit so if any of u see me and my dorky ass polkadotted hoodie, dont b shy come say hi.
anyway ended up the night around + 500sumthin, my table started breaking around 5am so i strolled outa there and got a cab home, cab costs around $30 from the wynn , which is pretty bad for 5am NO traffic lol.. but w/e.. so next time ill prolly drive there and if i get 2 drunk at the table ill just cab it home and leave the car..
No other really interesting hands, i overbet shoved on some old tilted guy with top2, obv he had TPTK, and i also saw someone do the slam dunk chip smash allin and then acts really distracted with watching the tv LOL..
other then that, our furniture isnt here yet so that kinda sux, and our pool is cold, and im RLY tired of eating fast food... prolly gonna hit up the strip with the guys tonight and get some good food and maybe get our gambol on..
anyway gl to ya all, maybe ill get some pics here b4 2 long.
ima try and keep this short so my face wont show up on the front page.. if its under like 250 words or something it shouldnt be active..
we moved to vegas, the house is sick, we will have internet tomorrow and i will upload pics or a tour vid, lemme know witch one u prefer.
and can sum1 from LP msg me about a pic change for the front page icon
Well my birthday is on May 8th, so it's not really my birthday yet, but last weekend we decided to celebrate it anyways mainly because it's the end of the school semester for everyone down here and shit is getting busy. So last Saturday me and a bunch of my friends met up at this sushi place called Mizu's in Mission Beach and then went off to Ivy downtown for a pretty shippin' night. Since this year has been so amazing for me already, and I'm up almost x2 as much as I made all of last year I decided this was the night to go totally degen and spew on. So spew #1: The night before I called up my best friend from Hawaii and asked him what he was up to, he said nothing so I told him to come to my birthday party. He's like wat, how am I going to get out there? So I ship him a $1300 roundtrip ticket, and he flys his ass out here. Spew #2: Saturday morning I'm calling around trying to book a party bus for the night but every place I call had been booked for weeks. I totally had no clue you had to book party buses so far in advance. In Vegas you can just call up anywhere and they insta ship you whatever you want. San Diego is not Vegas I guess So I spend like 2 hours calling up all these limo places trying to find something that will take us downtown and finally one of the last places I call, they pick up and tell me that a party had canceled their reservation for a 20 passenger party bus 2 hours before I called. How good do I run? Honestly... does anyone run better than me at anything? Finally, I call up my boy Markus (LURPED) and he calls up his VIP hook-ups downtown and books a sweet table on the rooftop at Ivy for $3k. After that, the rest of the night happened as follows:
Dinner at Mizu's - Anyone like the tie? Goes good with the $600 Armani shirt I wearing yeah?
FrinkX, JonnyCosMo, and [vital]Myth - Obv imo.
Party Bus - Myth is always in a mood to party like duh obviously.
Me and Mah Boy - Spending exactly 12 hours in San Diego before going back to school on Monday. LOL Sickest spew of life
Me and Mah Girls - 3 of my closest friends down here
Me and Mah Group - There are people missing from the pic But lol fun times
Smashed - 2:00am in downtown SD waiting for our party bus. LOL...
Btw, bottle service is a lot cheaper than in Vegas in downtown San Diego... like we were struggling to get close to the 3k minimum even after ordering a bottle of Cristal and Dom. Needless to say, Sunday morning was... painful.
Well my birthday is on May 8th, so it's not really my birthday yet, but last weekend we decided to celebrate it anyways mainly because it's the end of the school semester for everyone down here and shit is getting busy. So last Saturday me and a bunch of my friends met up at this sushi place called Mizu's in Mission Beach and then went off to Ivy downtown for a pretty shippin' night. Since this year has been so amazing for me already, and I'm up almost x2 as much as I made all of last year I decided this was the night to go totally degen and spew on. So spew #1: The night before I called up my best friend from Hawaii and asked him what he was up to, he said nothing so I told him to come to my birthday party. He's like wat, how am I going to get out there? So I ship him a $1300 roundtrip ticket, and he flys his ass out here. Spew #2: Saturday morning I'm calling around trying to book a party bus for the night but every place I call had been booked for weeks. I totally had no clue you had to book party buses so far in advance. In Vegas you can just call up anywhere and they insta ship you whatever you want. San Diego is not Vegas I guess So I spend like 2 hours calling up all these limo places trying to find something that will take us downtown and finally one of the last places I call, they pick up and tell me that a party had canceled their reservation for a 20 passenger party bus 2 hours before I called. How good do I run? Honestly... does anyone run better than me at anything? Finally, I call up my boy Markus (LURPED) and he calls up his VIP hook-ups downtown and books a sweet table on the rooftop at Ivy for $3k. After that, the rest of the night happened as follows:
Dinner at Mizu's - Anyone like the tie? Goes good with the $600 Armani shirt I wearing yeah?
FrinkX, JonnyCosMo, and [vital]Myth - Obv imo.
Party Bus - Myth is always in a mood to party like duh obviously.
Me and Mah Boy - Spending exactly 12 hours in San Diego before going back to school on Monday. LOL Sickest spew of life
Me and Mah Girls - 3 of my closest friends down here
Me and Mah Group - There are people missing from the pic But lol fun times
Smashed - 2:00am in downtown SD waiting for our party bus. LOL...
Btw, bottle service is a lot cheaper than in Vegas in downtown San Diego... like we were struggling to get close to the 3k minimum even after ordering a bottle of Cristal and Dom. Needless to say, Sunday morning was... painful.
apart from that my life is so boring right now. nearly all my friends are revising for exams etc so im just grinding as much as i can and looking forward to a fun summmer.
well i know i havent blogged in a while so i figured id just give everyone an update.
Ive been on the WOW crack for almost 2 weeks now, 1 week almost full time, me mez alex and aj r all playin.
Ive been playing all HU and 6max, no more full ring.. and i think im gonna move down to nl50 for the month of May, even tho im rolled for nl100, id just like to have a stress free month and work out on getting moved into vegas and shit..
our moving pplz come the 5th and they r gonna take all our cool shit and move it to vegas for us.. so were kinda fucked for a little over a week, i duno what im gonna do without the TV. We got all the cars tuned up and new tires n shit for the drive, the idea is basically were gonna let the movers take everything but our computers and some clothes and then were just gonna put our computers and clothes in our cars. we all have to drive our own car down there, so were gonna get some radios so we can talk to eachother between the cars and stuff, hopefully make a fun road trip out of it.
my gameplan for when i get to vegas is basically but like 8 pairs of board shorts and 2 new hoodies, and hopefully hook up a sick stereo next to the pool.. and grill/swim/drink all day..
after clay came back from Monte Carlo he taught us all Chinese Poker, so we have homegames like every other night.. sometimes going really late, and sometimes really sick hands.. we play royaltys a little different, we basically take the standard royaltys and multiply them by 3, then weve changed it up in 2 diff ways, one way is u play HU and each play 6 hands and play each hand vs eachother, which isnt realy a variation of the game just a fun way 2 play. The fun variation is each person has one hand, dealer is button obv and then u play go fish after u get delt ur hand, each person can ask 1 person at the table for 1 card, cant be like "do you have a seven" has to be 1 specific card... it adds a whole diff edge to the game, and with royaltys so high it really fucks with stuff..
edit: oh and if anyone is wondering, the squirrel died in the roof above clays office, it doesnt smell yet, and where outa here in a few days anyway, so we have decided to just not care, lol.
Well basically I have been playing non-stop this week.. poker poker poker all day everyday. I had no money on party but did have some tokens for the 300k gtd on sunday from my points and I thought Id play and ended up cashing for 1k dollars (KK lost to AA). Anyway I jumped onto 3/6 and managed to build a roll on there :D
I have definately been table selecting for the first time in ages and following fish around so thats good.
Just going to continue grinding 3/6 this month and back to 5/10 soon.
I posted this in the replies to my blog entry but figure it needs its own separate post.
"oh dear me. sounds like i owe both soah and his family some pretty big apologies for jumping the gun. i screwed up pretty big time with what i posted and i'm deeply sorry. rest assured i feel like quite an idiot now and should never have jumped to conclusions. i have no excuse for my actions and accusations. i prob no longer deserve simon's friendship."
so yeah, it turned out to be a pretty serious lapse of judgment in not trusting someone whos been nothing but a completely reliable friend in all the time i've known him, and the first time ive ever made a screwup of such magnitude with some pretty obviously adverse consequences for simon and for his family to read some of the awful false accusations and insults i wrote about him due to my error. i cannot apologise enough and fully understand if simon will never speak to me again, but if he does let me offer virtually unlimited poker coaching in an attempt to make it up.
I posted this in the replies to my blog entry but figure it needs its own separate post.
"oh dear me. sounds like i owe both soah and his family some pretty big apologies for jumping the gun. i screwed up pretty big time with what i posted and i'm deeply sorry. rest assured i feel like quite an idiot now and should never have jumped to conclusions. i have no excuse for my actions and accusations. i prob no longer deserve simon's friendship."
so yeah, it turned out to be a pretty serious lapse of judgment in not trusting someone whos been nothing but a completely reliable friend in all the time i've known him, and the first time ive ever made a screwup of such magnitude with some pretty obviously adverse consequences for simon and for his family to read some of the awful false accusations and insults i wrote about him due to my error. i cannot apologise enough and fully understand if simon will never speak to me again, but if he does let me offer virtually unlimited poker coaching in an attempt to make it up.
on my home setup in London with 30"+20" monitors, aeron chair and nice desk
i've played 121k hands and am +$230k
on my laptop (17" 1920x1200 prolly the best laptop u can get for poker, nothing really wrong with it)
i've played 25k hands and am -$75k
I always felt I somehow played a fair bit worse on laptop and made more bad spewy plays because the conditions were kinda uncomfortable compared to what I'm used to so I was somehow playing more tilted and making less folds because i knew id have a shorter amount of time before id get too physically uncomfortable sitting with laptop in a somehow awkward position to continue playing, so i played a faster riskier spewier style to try and win lots before i have to take a break, or something completely braindead like that. I don't know to what extent variance and randomness is clouding these results over small samples in high-variance games, but if I already suspected a difference in my play on laptop and proper setup without ever having looked at results on both separately before and then I see something like this I can probably assume conditions make a pretty huge difference for me. Crazy stuff, I wish I realised sooner lol..!
somehow I need to get better at playing tiltfree on laptop.... tips???!??
on my home setup in London with 30"+20" monitors, aeron chair and nice desk
i've played 121k hands and am +$230k
on my laptop (17" 1920x1200 prolly the best laptop u can get for poker, nothing really wrong with it)
i've played 25k hands and am -$75k
I always felt I somehow played a fair bit worse on laptop and made more bad spewy plays because the conditions were kinda uncomfortable compared to what I'm used to so I was somehow playing more tilted and making less folds because i knew id have a shorter amount of time before id get too physically uncomfortable sitting with laptop in a somehow awkward position to continue playing, so i played a faster riskier spewier style to try and win lots before i have to take a break, or something completely braindead like that. I don't know to what extent variance and randomness is clouding these results over small samples in high-variance games, but if I already suspected a difference in my play on laptop and proper setup without ever having looked at results on both separately before and then I see something like this I can probably assume conditions make a pretty huge difference for me. Crazy stuff, I wish I realised sooner lol..!
somehow I need to get better at playing tiltfree on laptop.... tips???!??
So my time in Manchester has come to an end. I'm pretty glad I came, I had a pretty good time and it was a good experience to get in some more live mtt practice before vegas. Aside from my historic major weakness of lack of patience (which I think im getting much better at), I think my tournament game is pretty damn good now considering my relative lack of experience in them. One thing I need to work on though that I really am not confident in is my final table game and playing shorthanded with large blinds. I was never a sng player but plan to increase my experience in these situations by playing some step 6 wsop stars sats (which I also heard have pretty good value). I also got to know a bit more about the uk live pro scene and made a couple of useful contacts.
Online poker wise I learned quite a few things from Jamie by watching him play online 6max nlh, he is quite a beast of 6max nlh considering how little he's played. I think I've definitely taken my 6max nl game just for granted for a pretty long time since it's been my bread-and-butter for most of the time ive been playing fulltime. But in doing so I think I've developed some suboptimal repeated bad habits which are hard to fix when I'm playing lots of tables and just rely on my autopilot game too much. What jamie does is really good, strictly only 4 tables of 6max and this is something I hope to force myself to start doing a lot more.
Results wise I've been doing pretty poorly all year overall I think (don't have my year stats here since I'm on laptop in a pub while I wait for my flight home), probably in large part from too many tables, too much tiltspew, too little playing 24/7 to capitalise on sessions when im running good and playing my best, and instead being content with modest wins and taking a break. But also cause I feel I've been running pretty miserably. Obviously I've also won a major live donkament so I have no real reason to complain I'm up pretty big at 25/50nl this year, part from running hot and part from really focussing when I play up there cause I have real hunger to win there and it's still out of my comfort-zone. However I think im barely more than breakeven over a lot more hands of 5/10 10/20 due to lack of the afore mentioned things. Pretty inexcusable. In the last week im down a lot of money running like complete rubbish in some bigger prima games, which I'm not gonna go into too much cause I dont see point in whining a lot about bad results. It's really hard for anyone to be sympathetic to me because that just doesnt happen in poker especially not for someone whos up a lot lifetime, and it also gives people who dont like me (of which there must be many because im not generally a very nice person ) a reason to be happy that im losing and unhappy (unlike sympathy, schadenfreude is something that theres a LOT of in poker).
From now on I'm gonna post a lot more hands and discuss my big hands and day to day play in my blog hopefully almost daily, as well as take a more active role in teaching. To that effect I have an announcement that some of you may find interesting but I'll hold off until it's confirmed. I've always been reluctant to do this in the past because I don't wanna 'coach the fish' and 'give away my secrets' or whatever, but now that my ego is sufficiently beaten down I no longer feel thats an issue plus with so many players infinitely better than me like raptor blogging daily about their hands and giving away their thought process etc, as well as the wealth of extremely valuable nlh information already out there, I hardly think my adding to it is gonna hurt me as much as help me. I'm hoping I'll make less terrible spew tilt plays when I have to publically shame myself for them everytime i do.
Back to london soon, one last month left before the start of WSOP to prepare for the oncoming sickness. I'm going to have an insane amount of action invested in the series, both in myself and others, and I'm definitely going to either win or lose a massive amount of money over those 7 weeks of nonstop degeneracy, so I hope to get in the best mental shape I can possibly be in before it starts. A heater would be nice right about now one time lee!
So my time in Manchester has come to an end. I'm pretty glad I came, I had a pretty good time and it was a good experience to get in some more live mtt practice before vegas. Aside from my historic major weakness of lack of patience (which I think im getting much better at), I think my tournament game is pretty damn good now considering my relative lack of experience in them. One thing I need to work on though that I really am not confident in is my final table game and playing shorthanded with large blinds. I was never a sng player but plan to increase my experience in these situations by playing some step 6 wsop stars sats (which I also heard have pretty good value). I also got to know a bit more about the uk live pro scene and made a couple of useful contacts.
Online poker wise I learned quite a few things from Jamie by watching him play online 6max nlh, he is quite a beast of 6max nlh considering how little he's played. I think I've definitely taken my 6max nl game just for granted for a pretty long time since it's been my bread-and-butter for most of the time ive been playing fulltime. But in doing so I think I've developed some suboptimal repeated bad habits which are hard to fix when I'm playing lots of tables and just rely on my autopilot game too much. What jamie does is really good, strictly only 4 tables of 6max and this is something I hope to force myself to start doing a lot more.
Results wise I've been doing pretty poorly all year overall I think (don't have my year stats here since I'm on laptop in a pub while I wait for my flight home), probably in large part from too many tables, too much tiltspew, too little playing 24/7 to capitalise on sessions when im running good and playing my best, and instead being content with modest wins and taking a break. But also cause I feel I've been running pretty miserably. Obviously I've also won a major live donkament so I have no real reason to complain I'm up pretty big at 25/50nl this year, part from running hot and part from really focussing when I play up there cause I have real hunger to win there and it's still out of my comfort-zone. However I think im barely more than breakeven over a lot more hands of 5/10 10/20 due to lack of the afore mentioned things. Pretty inexcusable. In the last week im down a lot of money running like complete rubbish in some bigger prima games, which I'm not gonna go into too much cause I dont see point in whining a lot about bad results. It's really hard for anyone to be sympathetic to me because that just doesnt happen in poker especially not for someone whos up a lot lifetime, and it also gives people who dont like me (of which there must be many because im not generally a very nice person ) a reason to be happy that im losing and unhappy (unlike sympathy, schadenfreude is something that theres a LOT of in poker).
From now on I'm gonna post a lot more hands and discuss my big hands and day to day play in my blog hopefully almost daily, as well as take a more active role in teaching. To that effect I have an announcement that some of you may find interesting but I'll hold off until it's confirmed. I've always been reluctant to do this in the past because I don't wanna 'coach the fish' and 'give away my secrets' or whatever, but now that my ego is sufficiently beaten down I no longer feel thats an issue plus with so many players infinitely better than me like raptor blogging daily about their hands and giving away their thought process etc, as well as the wealth of extremely valuable nlh information already out there, I hardly think my adding to it is gonna hurt me as much as help me. I'm hoping I'll make less terrible spew tilt plays when I have to publically shame myself for them everytime i do.
Back to london soon, one last month left before the start of WSOP to prepare for the oncoming sickness. I'm going to have an insane amount of action invested in the series, both in myself and others, and I'm definitely going to either win or lose a massive amount of money over those 7 weeks of nonstop degeneracy, so I hope to get in the best mental shape I can possibly be in before it starts. A heater would be nice right about now one time lee!
Been grinding online once again, trying to log in enough hands this month so I can keep my supernova status going on PokerStars. It's really weird to be grinding online again after playing in some of the softest games ever in Vegas. Been doing fairly well for the most part. Today I decided to be a semi-tournament donk and entered the Sunday Million ($530) and my first WSOP Main Event package satellite. The Sunday Million went as usual, I got about 2 hours deep in it then got a bad beat to lose half my stack and proceeded to think it was a good idea to just punt off my last 15bb's instead of waiting for a hand like I am suppose to. Whatever. My main event satellite went a little bit better...
Ship it? Sucked out early to stay alive (K9 vs AQ), and from there all my hands held. For the last hour and a half of the tournament I had yellowsub86 with the chip lead to my direct left. It was gross, since once he got a hold of a big enough chip lead he started to open shove every hand for shits and giggles. The bubble lasted a solid 30+ minutes, and finally ended when it was folded around to the small blind who was the shortest stack at the table as he shoved right into my QQ. Sickest hold ever ftw~! Cool thing about this entire thing is that peachy is still going to be staking me for the main event (he's staking me for the entire WSOP series) so I get to pocket the cash. Sweet bankroll booster.
Other than that, things have been chill in my life. I surfed around today and found that I am still in the top 100 Player of the Year on Cardplayer.com, ranked 54th for Bluff Magazine's Player of the Year, and I'm 39th in Bluff Magazine's "Hot" Players. Reminds me of the my starcraft days when I use to care about my ladder rankings on WGTour. Hopefully WSOP will boost me up these "ladders". One last thing before I go...
Shakira is stupid hot. The way she can move herself is totally super sexy.
Been grinding online once again, trying to log in enough hands this month so I can keep my supernova status going on PokerStars. It's really weird to be grinding online again after playing in some of the softest games ever in Vegas. Been doing fairly well for the most part. Today I decided to be a semi-tournament donk and entered the Sunday Million ($530) and my first WSOP Main Event package satellite. The Sunday Million went as usual, I got about 2 hours deep in it then got a bad beat to lose half my stack and proceeded to think it was a good idea to just punt off my last 15bb's instead of waiting for a hand like I am suppose to. Whatever. My main event satellite went a little bit better...
Ship it? Sucked out early to stay alive (K9 vs AQ), and from there all my hands held. For the last hour and a half of the tournament I had yellowsub86 with the chip lead to my direct left. It was gross, since once he got a hold of a big enough chip lead he started to open shove every hand for shits and giggles. The bubble lasted a solid 30+ minutes, and finally ended when it was folded around to the small blind who was the shortest stack at the table as he shoved right into my QQ. Sickest hold ever ftw~! Cool thing about this entire thing is that peachy is still going to be staking me for the main event (he's staking me for the entire WSOP series) so I get to pocket the cash. Sweet bankroll booster.
Other than that, things have been chill in my life. I surfed around today and found that I am still in the top 100 Player of the Year on Cardplayer.com, ranked 54th for Bluff Magazine's Player of the Year, and I'm 39th in Bluff Magazine's "Hot" Players. Reminds me of the my starcraft days when I use to care about my ladder rankings on WGTour. Hopefully WSOP will boost me up these "ladders". One last thing before I go...
Shakira is stupid hot. The way she can move herself is totally super sexy.
So I spend like 2 hours calling up all these limo places trying to find something that will take us downtown and finally one of the last places I call, they pick up and tell me that a party had canceled their reservation for a 20 passenger party bus 2 hours before I called. How good do I run? Honestly... does anyone run better than me at anything? Finally, I call up my boy Markus (LURPED) and he calls up his VIP hook-ups downtown and books a sweet table on the rooftop at Ivy for $3k. After that, the rest of the night happened as follows:
