Going to start by posting a poker hand. It's obviously horridly played pf, but except for "fold pf" I'm not sure if I could do anything else, or rather, I have no idea wtf I'm supposed to do after my first reraise. Comments?
Showdown rubixq shows,
Hero shows,
pelleri doesn't show,
MrDonovan doesn't show,
Hero wins $2176.10 USD from main pot
rubixq wins $1072.25 USD from main pot
Hero wins $1702.95 USD from main pot
Hero wins $777.00 USD from main pot
... When you win this one and still finds out that you're under equity the last couple of thousand hands you feel weird .
That is, however, not a fair representation of how I've been running the last few days, lol.
So I was to my first BJJ class today. It was really fun and I'll try to go as much as possible. The instructor talked a bit about how you should only compete against yourself, how talent just made things go faster but you can succeed without it and how pride just hurt you. Now a few years ago I would've regarded that as stupid, but he has a point. Yea sure talented people have it easier, so fucking what?
I'm fairly smart but other then that I don't have much in the way of talents. I'm not in good shape and never where, I never did very good in sports and I can't learn languages for shit. I've got some anti-social streaks and my skills in dancing is comparable to a wolf's table manners. Non existing. My skin is pale and except for my natural hair colour there's not much in the way of attractive facial features. I can't grow a decent beard to save my life. Although noting I'm ashamed of either my penis is not big enough to impress anything except possibly fairly inexperienced girls and Asians. Overall I feel that if I'll ever be something of importance or greatness it'll mostly be due to my own hard work. Or possibly just dumb luck. I hadn't thought of it like that before, but it kinda feels good.
Also, since rednalluk doesn't seem to blog I feel that I can post this youtube link he msged me a couple of days ago:
Famous Swedish poker player Nebuchad has decided to stop playing poker. Apperently he lost the lust to play poker more. I saw him once at the Casino while I was still playing low mid stakes and was like a little bit starstruck, then I stacked up really light to some other dude who talked to him since ”if he's friend with that guy he's probably super aggro”. Heh. I played him a little bit on prima and the first hand I got involved with him I squeezed just to make sure to win a pot from him and get some confidence. Anyway, didn't really follow his blog or anything but it's still a bit of a nostalgic moment now when he stops playing. Who can forget his epic moment with Daniel N?
Anyway, I started out the month really good (was not running over equity, but got into a ton of good situations so had a lot of luck) but then I lost a little bit more then half of the profits running like crap the last two or three days. Now that sucked, but it at least I learned not to say thanks for rungoodaments in mails to pokersites. They will notice and turn the switch around. Cheap bastards.
Still feels good to start the year out in the green, and it's still enough that I can go down and make sure to just grind stakes that should be relative variance free for a while and still be able to have a decent month despite probably not playing more then a total of maybe 70k hands or so. Have a lot of tests and crap to deal with anyway so don't really want to fuck my mood up. In additon to that I've had two really bad months so a winning one is really important for my overall happiness. I actually feel really good about most stuff since I got back to Uppsala. I've started with some really healthy habits and I actually have a decent sleeping schedule for the first time since, I dunno, last spring maybe..
Oh, and I got a Hand Of The Week again, for the first time in forever. That feels good too.
Every blog title I write while reasonably sober this year will be a reference to a movie, book or TV-series. Possibly a song.
I'm much better at omaha now then a month ago before my break. The main difference is that I've reduced my VPIP by 40% (%, not %-points) or so. My hold'em game is a little rusty since I didn't play much in December, but I've changed a thing or two with that too and so far I'm very happy with it. Slightly tighter in some spots and I've started table selecting a bit more then before. Considering how I played almost anyone HU on 10/20 to start tables last year and basically just used "select all" to get 10 tables up when I played mid stakes this doesn't say much, but still. Results have been good so far, over the first 8k hands or so.
I'm currently studying for 4 different exams, all occurring within ~2 weeks from now. I think I'm pretty much a look to pass two of them, but might screw up either one of the others which would mark the first time I'd fail a written exam. That would suck, but I can always pass them later.
New years eve was crazy, went to some "Gask", which is basically a dinner and then a club with my sister and a friend of hers. Got almost as drunk as them, and after it was all over I couldn't get myself to turn on my phone for 2.5 days due to generally being far to afraid of what I would find. Apparently my last words before we hailed a cab home was "Ohh no, we have to find the fat chick!".
Other then that I've played some fun hands the last few days:
Lol. I always whine about how my mother manage to tilt the shit out of me. This time I'm 6 tabling HU 5/10 vs some good reg I thought I knew how to beat, we're about even and I get into a few pots with stuff that's pretty marginal but still things I really felt was correct according to the plan I had made up pre-game. My mother picks up a phone, this shitty internet crap decides to fuck out and I disconnect. I get back and lose like 2bi and then I tilt away 5 more. That + a shitty session earlier today makes me down a fair bit for the month after a really good comback earlier. Except for MAYBE Sunday tournaments I don't really think I'll play more this year so I'll just consider this year done and reset my brain before 2010.
Summary:
Won somewhere between 100 and 120k€ this year. Not what I hoped for but not THAT bad considering how badly I've played some of the time. Last few months have sucked and most of the profit is from the summer. I've learned a lot, spewed a lot and tilted/played my C game and worse a ton. I've also had a ton of fun. I think I've been permanently half-tilted since September and overall both played and acted fairly questionable. I'll have to fix that.
Next years goals should be something like this:
- Get volume in at fairly low stakes. Just because I find 5/10+ more entertaining I can't just ignore it if the games are much better at mid stakes. I should get around to get my 6-max fundamentals (pre flop, mostly) more solid and overall make sure to get some kind of decent hourly without much variance.
- Not having losing months. They really fuck with my head. If I play mostly low it shouldn't be a problem either.
- Make sure to get better at the game every month. I've had a long periods of time this year just autopiloting without actually learning much. That sucks.
Haven't made a music post in a while. Did a ~1 hour playlist with what I'd call pretty sweet X-mas music. It's more punk/rock oriented then most, but as long as your grandmothers aren't proficient in English or you delete like two songs it'll work as something you can play at home over the holidays even if your family is close by.
Song list:
Father Christmas - The Kinks
Christmas in Jail - The Youngsters
March The Mad Scientist - Jethro Tull
Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) - the Ramones
Christmas all over Again - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Christmas Eve - Blackmore's Night
Rocking around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
A Spaceman Came Traveling - Chris De Burgh
Christmas Love - Billy Idol
Get Drunk and Make Out This Christmas - The Dan Band
Mistletoe And Wine - Cliff Richards
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
It's Christmas Time - Status Quo
Mistress For Christmas - The Rock Heroes (the AC/DC made the "real" version, but can't find it on spotify)
The Night Santa Went Crazy - Weird Al Yankovic
Thank God It's Christmas - Queen
The first one* who catches** me playing cashgames higher then 5/10€ NL or higher then 1/2 omaha before January first next year gets to pick a signature for me for 1 month and can pick a charity of your choice that I'll give 1000€ to. If more then one sees it it'll go to the first one who sends a PM to me. If I post a grapf/screenshot that shows that I've according to HEM have won more then 20k excluding rakeback from the 11th of December until the posting date the bet is void and I can play higher again without having to do anything.
Conditions for charity are:
Nothing to much against my beliefs, so I will refuse if it's to nazi, feminazi, enviormentalist, communist etc)
Has to be relatively easy to give them money from Sweden (ie: don't wanna give my cc info to weird random site from Russia or w/e).
Conditions for signature: nothing that is against the law, will get me banned or is formulated in such a way that I'll get to deal with rakeback sites or people who wants to have rakeback more then usual.
I keep the right to edit the conditions for the charity/sign, as long as it won't go against the spirit of the "bet".
Screemname on prima is: Dustylove, might get a screenname on b2b also but probably won't play cash on that. If I happen to get more then like a few K (so that I actually could play high stakes^^) on there I'll post that name too.
*Has to be someone with +300 posts on this forum or someone I know. If you're fairly famous on some other poker forum and can prove it it's ok too.
**Need some kind of proof, like a screen shot.
So busted level 7 or so with 33 vs AK and A3. I think I played reasonable well and did a few really good plays. Made maybe 3-4 plays that I wasn't super happy with including a crappy fold pf when I totally misread some guy and another when I tried to use the logic of "There's no way she thinks I'm stupid enough to do this" on some finish lady. Table was fairly decent with some tight players and not to many really good ones. Most where decent though, and the finish lady was fairly good I think.
Did hang out a little bit with Gawuss (awesome, even though it was too short), Bohus and his friend who seemed like really great people, a bunch of bulgarian dudes (Zografa, Didi, Juli-dude and like 5-6 others, all awesome. Bulgaria is quickly becoming my favourite country in East Europe without me even visiting) and I meet a ton of people I've played a lot with. Just a few mentionings (probably will forget 80% of them^^). 100% sure I'll get to UO Bulgaria one way or another.
Filipius - Your cig's weren't as gay as you said, really cool to actually seem my old nemisis.
Fat German Dude (your new name) and Duckie: The greatest things Denmark has spawned since Tuborg!
DvkInfinity - Legendary grinder in the making
Bartboos - Only guy I know that's actually winning and does more random stupid crap then me.
Maffiosa - Seems to be the man to go to if you want someone to own up a dance floor.
e3ro + friends (mark levengood-dude, tall dude and that other dude). To qoute something: "Finlands sak är vår!"
The guy who busted me and 3napa form the tournament (can't remember your aka) and his friends the gym rats (2 of them) and the guy in green (flugan?). Nice to meet you guys.
Dennisen with his teacher chick - You guys are wise beyond my years.
Everyone else: I think I loved you guys too.
Had a ton of fun everywhere and really learned some new stuff and everything. Only bad thing was waiting 3-4 hours at the airport but fortunately some guy had a deck of cards so we got 6 people together and played some.
oh, and gratz to Mr_Jimmy who won it. He's a good guy.
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