So it all started out yesterday. Me and some friends plans a trip to Unibet Open Prague. Pinball and Remmember doesn't have Unibet accounts with money in them so I ask support if I can just by them in since it's a hassle to bring 3k€ extra to Prague considering how we'll probably have to bring some moeny for cash games, partying, strip clubs and whatever else we can find in what I assume is a great country. My room mate visited the city last year and is excited to get back so I guess I'll trust that, speaking of that, give me a msg Pulda, faceingthesun and whoever else I know from those parts. Anyway, with some help from the greatest support lady of all time, S, we managed to buy us in despite the fact that it wasn't supposed to be possible. Whatever, they got their money, we got or tournament, fine. Right?
Apparently not, when I try to log onto my account I get some stupid error-thingy telling me that my account's been locked out of the system and that I should contact support. I call S once again, excuse myself for calling her so late and tells her that something is keeping me from playing on their site, and since I rake like 400$ a day or so it should concern them too. She does some stuff, tells me to try again, still doesn't work and tells me that she'll go yell at some people and then get back to me. This fits me fairly well since my sister just turned 20 and even though the big party is this Friday I might as well join her smaller dinner party. I go get some food (which was really good, my sis got this Italian boyfriend and his really good at making dinner) eat it and S calls me and tells me she's been working her magic and that it should work now. I try again and still the same error. She sounds really upset and says something along the lines of "ohh noo that shouldn't happen, well, try it again in 5 min maybe the system is slow". I agree to do this since well, she is after all at least top 5 in my list of females who I actually trust to get stuff done when they say so. I wait five min and try again. Still the same crap, I call S and tells her I need more magic. Preferably more aggressive magic. Could use an angry dragon or something. She says that she'll try but it's late and it probably won't work until tomorrow. "Fine", I think, and feels that now I can at least get drunk. However, I try the regular support to which tries the same stuff but with the same result. I get angry and starts drinking. 3 beers, 2 shots and a glass of wine (ie: 20 min) later S calls me up and asks me if I got it shorted out. I tell her that I hadn't, but I had every intention of spending whatever sum of money I usually rake everyday on booze instead. She sounds fairly concerned and said that I was supposed to do something healthy instead. We chatted very briefly and I wished her a good evening and got back to drinking.
Drinking went badly. Didn't get superdrunk but last semester I got friendly with some Chinese exchange students, one of which I've gone home with on a few occasions. She is, unfortunately, in Shanghai for another week and that's not an acceptable distance. Her friend, however, was here. She asked me about if me and that other girl was a couple. I got uncomfortable and started saying stuff about how yea she's really nice I like her but we're probably not there yet, no I do not love her, I do find it odd that you would assume so after so short time and well there's this thing about being on the other side of the world. Ended up spending most of the evening talking to a friend of my sister who seems to have a nice personality, I guess. Me and my sister also found a 3-wheel-bike which we obviously had to try a bit. My guess is that it's from a nearby daycare center so I guess we'll return it there. Everyone went home and me and my room mate ended up playing drunk DOTA all night. I think I played half decent but roomie managed to go 0-16 in a public game we won with Rhasta. Heh.
Woke up next day, decided to log on to my account, it worked. I called S and asked what had happened and she explained that apparently someone had flagged my account for chip dumping but that people from Unibet just had told them that considering the stakes I play and such there was no way I would've been involved for that small a sum of money. I don't think I've played less then 3/6 the last few weeks so even though I don't know the exact sum I was half way flattered. "Yea he wouldn't care about a lousy 600€, it's not him!". Fuelled with my new found good mood I went and picked up 5 seasons of the wire and then sat and played some 5/10. Think I won like 8 buyins in 30 min, then I took a break and played some just an hour ago and won like 5k more. That felt good.
On another positive note I only need one or two more good sessions to reach my goal for the month moneywise, which would be fairly good since I managed to have a 40k downswing right in the middle.
Ok so my overall happie-rating is up a couple of dots since my last blog. The fact that I used the term "since my last blog" kinda bugs me, but whatever, I like to write stuff. Since last time I've actually won a bit while playing poker (good), I've had a nice work out (good) and I've found out some disturbing stuff about my winrate. According to HEM it's as follows:
2/4 (45k hands) about -4.5bb/100.
3/6 (100k hands) just over 3bb/100
5/10 (85k hands) 6.55bb/100.
WTF is up with me? Whey the fuck am I down like crazy at 2/4? Obviously I'm not always playing my A-game there and a lot of it is 9-tabling for rake races and such, but still. Really happy about the 5/10 stats though. Obviously a lot of hidden random luck but still a nice winrate, which probably speaks a bunch for how important it is to actually care about the stakes. Not even going to post my 10/20 stats cause it's such a small sample (11k hands), but yea, the trend keeps going... Guess I should stop cashing out so much and get a real bankroll together
As far as getting stronger goes I planed to bench 85*5 3 times today. Did 5, figured out that I only had 80 and got tilted. Put on another 5, waited a while and did 5 more. Figured there was no way I'd do 5*85 again so I tried 90 and did that 3 times instead. Guess that means that I could probably lift 95 or so pretty easy which means that I'll probably be as strong as I've ever been in a month or so. Thought it'd take longer but that's nice. On that note I'd be super happy if people could post whatever crap they might be eating that has a ton of protein and/or healthy stuff and not too much calories.
So like, I was up like 35k € or so after 3-4 days this month. Right now I'm stuck 200€. I'm feeling fairly well. Anyhow... Not really in the mood to have a losing month so I've decided to take the easy way out and just 4-table for a while. Thinking of making like 10bi on 2/4, then 10 on 3/6 before moving up. Probably learning more about the game that way too.
In other life news I'm back in Uppsala. Been working out with my roommate a times and we'll get onto some kind of "every 2nd day"-schedule. Aiming to be able to bench 100kg before Christmas (which should be easy enough). Also trying to eat really healthy and keep away from fast food and such. It's not all good though, my room smelled really heavily of tuna yesterday.
Ok, so first one who writes up how I should fix this in a simple enough way for me* to get PLO-manager working to my satisfaction** will get 10 USD on FTP.
Got a working copy of HEM, then bought a full key (unrelated to the first one) from an LPer since he couldn't use it and I want to learn how to play omaha. Now I don't know what to do to make it work. Do I need to reinstall everything or something?
* You should consider me halfway to legal retardation while writing this
** Don't care if the HUD is messed up or something that is obviously an unrelated problem, but if I lose my db you can forget your money!
Some poker content here, but not much and it'll all be in the end. Posted to much lately about how I run bad and blablabla so I'll mix it up with some cultural content! (I hate people who use exclamation marks like this, but I do it with some sarcasm so it's ok)
Music:
Normally I just write about music as far as culture goes, and I got some positive response to it so I'll keep that up a bit. This month I haven't found too much new music so far in August. I kinda like Smell of Petroleum by the Pogues, but I think it might just be because I'm fairly sure that is the song they play as into for "count the zeros" over at cardrunners. Not 100% sure though. Other songs I've been listening too lately is Fidelity by Regina Spektor, which is halfway embarrassing but it's kinda soothing. Richard Cheese's Jazz cover of NIN's Closer might be the most hilarious cover ever, Pretend we're dead by L7 is something like Nirvana meets Joan Jett which is nice since I really like Jett. Lastly I want to mention Here's to you by Bob Dylan's ex-gf Joan Baez which is a really nice folk piece and I dig rock and roll music by Peter, Paul and Mary (Peter is the dude who wrote Puff the magic dragon). Also, if someone likes stuff I write about, drop me a comment of a PM with some music you'd think I'd like, preferably something halfway obscure. I really try to widen my taste and it's hard .
As far as books goes I'd like to put out some somewhat easy to read, very good and not to long books for people who wants to get started reading a bit. I read A LOT of books and I find it really relaxing so I feel that I might have a good idea about what books are good to get started with.
Funny, easy and a classic
- Three men in a boat is pretty much Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, except written in 1889. I've read it maybe four or five times and it really helps when you're in a downswing or stressed out due to some exams or whatever. If you don't laugh out loud at least every 2nd or 3rd chapter something is really wrong with you. Not to long either, you can probably finish it in a couple of days if you don't have too much else to do. Written by Jerome K. Jerome, which is a bad ass name.
- Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck. My father has been recommending this book for me the last maybe 10 years or so, and I've ignored it since Steinbeck sounds like a really fucking boring dude. Come on, he wrote the Grapes of Wraith. However, this book is a really fun story about some alcoholic good-for-nothing friends, thieves and trouble makers. It's super well written and has some hilarious moments. Like when one of the characters has visited some girl who put up "far too much resistance in relation to her standing and reputation".
Classic, not so funny, really cool
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Basically a novel about a man who searches for meaning or something I guess? It's something like if a middle aged depressed German dude would Party with Raul Duke from fear and loathing and then write some weird story about his alter ego's search for meaning while watching a fairly weird porno including a Spanish Jazz musician just after having been to some kind of Mad Max-marathon. Or I could just give up and just tell you that you might want to read it, or you might hate it. I have no idea why I like this book.
Written by famous Sci/fi author Robert A. Heinlein this is fantazy for manly men. The hero fights the monsters, recovers whatever the crap important item for the universe he has to get and boinks the princess (who by the way is blond and well built, the hero had problems during some unnamed war in Asia since although the hookers were plenty he felt that Asian girls was to small so that he felt weird watching them, lol. As someone with a slight case of yellow fever I found this somewhat offensive). It's actually both exciting (not the sex part, Heinlein seems fairly perverted but his sex scenes arn't very grapic or anything), fun and makes you think a bit about what's important in life and such. Really recommended.
Ohh yea, lost maybe 20k the last 3-4 days, still up a fair bit for the month (not sure since I don't track omaha, but it's low 5 digits) so I'll get some self esteem back by raping 3/6. I'll play 30k hands of 3/6 and 2/4 before I play high stakes again. As per normal for me I say that I'll move down unless the games are great, continues as before, run bad and get owned for twice as much as it should've been if I had just done as planed before I actually move down. Also, if I don't win more then 3ptbb/100 over that sample all do it all over again until I do.
Brag: Up 7k€ Sklanksy bux today
Beat: Down like 6k€ real monies
Variance: I still think Dilba is very boinkable.
So far I'm 0/3 in decent sized allin flips at 25/50. 99 lost to AKs, AKs lost to QQ and AKo lost to JJ (granted, it was only a 50bb pot or less, vs some shortie). Basically kept away from playing good people HU at 10/20 except for one dude I feel I've got an psychological edge over. Dunno, guess I'll grind some more 3/6 tonight since I keep winning a ton there and then go losing it on coin flips higher. Feels really good anyway though, considering I'm finally feeling fairly at home at 10/20 with bet sizes and such. Hoping to be a full time 5/10 reg and playing mostly 10/20 within the next 5 months or so.
Some hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/727712 : AA dude is a nit so it's fairly likely that he slowplays something, I'd say that he has me beat like half the time or so, however, the other dude is much deeper with me and his shove seems like some decent flush draw that I'm more or less flipping with at best. Don't think he slowplays high pairs or plays them like that after the flop very often and if he flopped a set it's too weird of a way to play it for me to buy it. I guess some 2ps are possible but unlikely due to pf. Thus, do you guys think I've got enough equity here?
On another note I'm running at 14ptbb/100 so far this month over like 17k hands. And 5k under equity. Obviously it's a lot of hidden random luck and such but and I'm probably running really good in spots as far as hitting the right parts of peoples ranges and such goes, but it's still very nice to feel that I might actually be a winning player at 10/20.
Also, it might be the fact that I've been having some real nice results the last 8 weeks or so, but I feel that I can deal with beats much better then before.
So Swedish 2nd class celebrity, singer and poker player got caught multi accounting or something in some stars donkament of some kind. The people over at the very funny, somewhat retarded, fairly right wing and extremely politically incorrect Swedish forum I post a bit on obviously found this really entertaining since she's basically everything most of those people hate. They argue that it's bad that "stupid people" like Dilba gets to be famous since she's annoying and what not. I argued that at least she's somewhat pretty, which makes up for it since you can never be totally bored when you look at a pair of boobies. Thus, Dilba on TV is much better then an ugly dude on TV, you know, like Fredrik Reinfeldt. The counter argument was that she was, in fact, ugly. After asking some poker players whom I feel might be fairly decent at pokering the votes are 3-1 in favour of "Boinkable".
Dustylove> boinkable?
Guts4Garters> ye
flipius88> she's boinkable ofc
Dustylove> cool!
flipius88> but kinda cheap
flipius88> not many 40-yr old asses i would tap
_P9_ did however first ask what "boinkable" was and then he stated that he did, in fact, not feel like making "boink boink boink" sounds with said girl in a bed or something. I don't know if his vote should be taken seriously though, since he looks to be like 12 y/o, thought that the odds of me winning a MMA fight against Unibet Pro Micke Norrinder should be 5-1 against. Granted that he has like 25kg on me there's still no way the odds should be that high! WTF he's like 40 and there's no way he can move very fast. Also except for a sneak attack from Pinball when I was drunk I'm 2-0 in random bar fights. I've got a fairly mean right elbow.
Thus; watch the clip, on mute if you are easily disturbed by generic pop music, and then state if you deem the darker girl boinkable. Thank you.
+ Still up a ton this month.
+ Gotten a lot of experience with NL2k and such vs really good players and been able to hold my own somewhat decently.
- Lost a decent chunk of money today
- Losing a flip at 25/50 makes me slightly tilted in a "ohh well life is unfair could I please find a legitimate reason to be angry this is fucking annoying"-kind of way.
However, I feel that the game I sat in was probably softer then most 2/4 games, at least when the only good reg I recognized left to sleep (after stacking me) so I'm ok with my decision to sit, I feel that considering how good I've been running lately, the softness of the game and how much I've been winning the risk/reward both from a monetary and psychological point of view was better then I could reasonably expect to find within a resonable time frame as far as HS shots goes.
New plan: Grind 5/10 and lower for the next two weeks or so. No 10/20 unless the games are really good. I mentally put aside a bit of money that I'm ok with losing during my high stakes shots and there are still like 3k left of that, but I won't play with it unless the game look really good. No fucking 25/50 at all unless someone is openshoving each and every hand or something like that, then I might take a 2bi shot .
Need to get a fair bit of hands in anyway, so might as well get my grind face on. I also feel that I should dabble more with HU. I feel that it matches my skill sets pretty well.
Now I'll go read some Discworld stuff lesbo girl borrowed me. it's funny as hell.
Happiness rating: 7.2/10. - Overall really solid, but no longer in that rush I felt earlier this week. Actually, think it raised like at least 0.6 points just while I wrote this and got my thoughts together.
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