Recently I've been putting in most of my time playing Ipoker and was wanting to get some money on heropoker again so i could dual site since the traffic at Ipoker can be really bad at times. So I'm wondering now that hero is out of the picture who has some good rakeback deals on merge? Also does anyone know anything about bovodo? or however u spell it. Im very curious about that one 0.o. And what kind of rakeback ect they have going on. Thanks bros
is anyone willing to trasnfer 2.5k on Ipoker for my 2.5k on stars? unless i know ur balling im gonna ask for u to transfer first i dont care the increments =_= even if you want to do 200 at a time or something. Again my stars money for your ipoker moneys
So the DOJ screwed up a lot of peoples shit. So no surprise but i am at a loss of what to do. I am in a tough situation right now. I'm also sure other people have had to make similar choices. I am somewhat forced to leave the country in order to make what I consider acceptable money for my future. But my girlfriend cannot leave the country because she is trying to finish college. She has a year left but a year of downtime in this rapidly changing game. Is an eternity. not to mention the opportunity cost for that time wasted. Unfortunately the only scenario that makes sense because of VPNs being no good is for me to get a place somewhere and grind. And then come visit AZ frequently. If anyone knows of any other work arounds that would be helpful but the plan i am debating with right now is to roomy-up with someone in canada and just grind a ton of poker, and then come visit for 1 week out of the month.
Any input would be appreciated. whether its about logistics of moving to canada, other ideas for my situation, offers to live with one of you. Ect ect ^_^ plz help a brotha out.
had a 15.5k day at 10/20 live at the bellagio. I almost busto'd my mini roll i brought here, was down to my last 2.2k from the 15k i brought with me. (i was in for 2.8k and got stacked and then rebought for my last 2.2k) and ran it up to 20,500 in about 5 hours.
pretty sweet result and definitely a brag but i feel pretty good right now. Also pulled the biggest bluff of my life, and a couple nice call downs.
definitely an awesome end to a vacation that was not too fun. The games at the bellagio tbh were actually pretty terrible. There were quite a few good players, including thewh00sel, Ooooohhhhhh (i think thats his name on stars?), a couple of pretty good live pros (and i think most livepros blow). Not many BIG fish at all. At one point we had a table that litteraly was probably as tough as an online 5/10 table (me and ohh agreed). Thankfully the table tonight was pretty decent, not AMAZING but certainly a pleasent change.
I go back to AZ tomorrow night so i gotta get some sleep. GOOD NIGHT!
Well i haven't updated this peice of crap in a while. So since im in vegas by myself on small poker vacation. And in my room kind of bored... So anyway.
last month i barely played (only played live poker, not 1 hand online), but i still crushed and made 18k playing 5/10 live. ship it holla.
as for this month i also hardly played and made about 16.5k. Mostly live but i played some online to maintain supernova status. Also to practice i guess, since live can numb your perspective on what is abc is what is not lol. I'm gonna start playing more online again, I have been playing very good lately imo. The past 2 months have been a great joy to be able to take the time and refocus some and avert massive burnout. All night after my session today I have been feeling the fire burning again. So with my new found peice of mind and perspective on life. Added together with my further advancement in da pokar skillz. I am ready to put in the time and volume again. Last year although i failed at supernova elite, i did manage my biggest year ever at around 140k with around a million hands online. I also played a ton live and a decent amount of that money came out of the old brick and mortar. So hopefully I can put in that same volume this year.
Its actually kind of funny that I am listing last year as some sort of accomplishment as far as time spent playing goes. Because I only really played about 30 hours a week on average. Hardly a milestone in workethic... oh well i guess that doesn't include time spent watching videos and surfing LP in the nude.
Oh well lets see how often i update in the future. BTw im playing a bunch of starcraft2 lately. Im 3rd in my division (was when i stopped playing) and getting a decent feel for it after being TOTALLY anihilated at first.
ALSO i am addicted to call of duty MW2, another reason ive put in much less volume this year!
I just looked at my facebook page a couple of days ago and today got around to getting it a little up to date. Basically I pretty much just ignored all the old messages, to make room for new ones. Since I am too lazy to go through all of them. And while doing this I realized how many people from highschool/college and even my family i haven't talked to in forever. I hadn't even taken the time to log on facebook to see they had commented on my stuff and sent me messages. I felt kinda dumb because its so easy to log on for like 5 minutes every now and then and see what everyone is up to. Say some hello's and get some updates.
I had a slightly losing month in september (-1.5k), a slightly winning month in october (+2k) and made about 11k give/take this month which was nice. I didn't play online too much, I played around 50k hands but that is skewed since I was 24tabling so its not as much as it seems. And played a bunch live. but this was slightly a lazy month. I think I am up around 120k for the year so far BUT it might be anywhere from 110k-125k since i dont keep great records tbh :[
This year has been a tough, not as tough as last year but tough. Last year I had a lot of feast or famine stretches where my confidence would be totally crushed, and then I would have good results and then crushed again and it really hurt my growth. This year i started out with more of a grinder mentality with SNE being my goal but that created some problems around march/april where I felt i was really getting left behind. But then I had some epiphanies and in about 3 months from june to august I took more leaps and bounds towards getting good than I had in the previous 18 months. a TON of things started clicking and my feel for the game finnally started taking over. Before I was so mechanical and nitty, but I finnally started getting past that and started doing some exploiting.
Then I had a tough stretch in september, and with my new founds powers and lack of experience with them. I started to lose control, I became a station and a bunch of leaks happened. It was like my game was bursting with this energy it wasn't ready for. So since then I had been really doubtting myself for a little bit, as the downswing and breakeven stretch there after took a toll on my confidence. But now I feel like I am finnally plugging those leaks and more than that i KNOW what they are AND i know how to fix them. I had all these conflicting ideas and things to experiment with at the same time that I needed some serious calibration and understanding of them. And now I finally am settling and I feel truly better than ever right now. December I am going to pretty much finish out the year on a relaxed note and more just focus on my game. But the fire is back and I am really confident again.
I took a really relaxed approach this month, a bunch of days where I did pretty much nothing. Its wierd I love trying hard and working hard at poker, but outside of poker I have a hard time not doing nothing. I sit and watch TV. I saw season 1 of fringe this month, season 1 of criminal minds. season 1 of trueblood, season 8 of family (? it was the latest one but i forget). I finished the shield and I am going to be continuing with all the other series I mentioned as I liked them all. I also bought the boxset for the wire since I saw it and was planning on watching it anyway. And its like 100$ cheaper than buying it season by season. Oh btw if i didn't mention it before, i always buy the seasons except on rare occations. I love collecting them sadly sometimes i get shitty ones.
NO one watch the Sarah Conner Cronicals it was so insanely bad. same with firefly, and frankly I think 24 blows too, except for season 1. If it was called 7, i wouldn't mind it, but when the big conspiracy kicks in it just becomes boring.
Anyway guys ENJOY LIFE, STUDY THE GAME, MAKE GOOD FRIENDS AND LEARN. Open your nit minds and poker will open her legs for you
Yo so after 2 months breakeven (mostly live poker) I finnally got my grind pants back on. Its been tough getting readjusted to 1/2 mass tabling and although ive developed some back habits ive been working hard the past week to think about the game tons and I finnally got to show my progress today by running hot as fuck. Here are my results for my biggest day buyin-wise.
Very very fulfilling session. Feels great to work hard and be so bluntly slapped in the face by the deck. Allowing for some serious confidence building.
Disclaimer
Ok so this is going to be a rant, but more a lifestyle rant than anything. I'll say it now, this is a rant on how society/friends/family outside of poker view my lifestyle. And if you fall into that category, which i know some do. Some of you dont like people to brag. This is not a brag post though, however it does contain a lot of content which people wont understand and will probably just make me look stuck up. If you can stand that, then continue reading. I know that the core LP'ers that are successful share these feelings too at times. And nothing really triggered my frustration but i really feel it building up. And frankly its getting a little tough to deal with. I am going to put the rant in a spoiler for people who do not want to read it to just skip.
I know everyone's money situation is unique, especially in poker. But its not about money really. its about perspective. In my line of work i am fortunate enough to have a nitch in which i can generate a substantial income compared to the average person my age and any age for that matter. I am SOOOO fortunate for it. But it comes with its unique set of frustrations and challenges in society. I was talking with mezmerizeplz about this too and we both agree that it is hard to truely feel connected to someone who has no understanding of what your motivations are. And what you want to accomplish, and not only that but doesn't even understand or view your job as legitimate. Like its hard to get taken seriously when you tell someone "Yea im going to play some poker". They're like, you'd rather play a card game than hang out with me? And then you have to try and make them understand that you are actually going to work. Then this is followed by, "but you can make your own hours right? why do you have to play right now?". Then it gets to the point where I feel inside like saying "Look you SOB, Its hard enough to find motivation to deal with one of the most mentally and emotionally swingy jobs in the world and you really want to just guilt trip me on top of that for doing my job?" Granted, this isn't a balancing act on the top of a sky scrapper, and its not like we are putting our lives in danger or going through rigorous physical exercise. But to call it an easy job is retarded.
Aside from the views of society on my job that i take a lot of pride in. There is also the dealings with friends which can be very delicate. For instance, if a friend comes up to me and says hes happy because he got a raise. Naturally you congratulate him and are happy that hes happy. But the vice versa doesn't work. I can't go up to the same person and say. "I am Sooo happy i just raised my hourly in the past 3 months by 35$ an hour on average and am killing the games" Or worse yet, "this month has been great to me, im up 25k". Essentially what i am getting at is we can seldom celebrate our success with the average person our age. Now you may think. Well fuck, just be happy your doing so well. That is fine, and a valid opinion, however as human being we enjoy being validated by our peers. We seek one way or another some sort of validation of success. But its hard when you have a smile 2 miles wide and when asked just say "Im just happy because ive done good this month". Even then the general opinion is going to be
"wow, hes sooo lucky he gets to do nothing all day and make good money". There is no stopping this sense of envy that is apparent in most people our age. Here is a HUGE difference between a lot of poker players whom i spend time with and the general population. General population: If asked how much you make a year tell them about 170k. They become envious, but in a bad way. They want to mooch, they may wish they were you, or wish it was them instead of you. They also may think your the luckiest SOB on the planet, ect ect. Generally very negative useless forms of jealousy. If i tell a 100NL grinder, he for the most part imo will feel more motivated. "he did it why, can't I?" And that is oh such a sweet feeling to know that you inspire someone. And even though I wish my life could be an example of an out of the box success story. It seldom is viewed like that by society, and most importantly by the people in my age group.
Most of the people in my age group are living in college forming a life for themselves and probably only moved out of their home withing the past 2 years. They feel like everyone is on a similar track as them and everyone is getting their start at the same time. Their place in life is similar and they feel like finances are not something that is very relevate at all except paying the tuition and rent. That's as far as it goes. No one is really successful except for a select few that might have had rich parents and got into investing in some way, or got a good job for some reason or another, probably exceptionally hard working and intellegent. For the most part everyone is at step one in their financial development and are truely getting some life experience just recently. Any mention of great success at this point sets you apart from your universal set of peers. For the most part this is generally always a bad thing. To be viewed differently is a great obstacle in generating a deep connection with someone. They may view me as intimidating, because I have more life experience. Possibly they may think I am a good friend to have in case they need something or that I can rub off some of my luck or whatever onto them. Generally i find people actually treat me nicer when they find out I'm a poker player. Which i guess is good but realistically it creates a gap for me. Its like they except me to be from another planet. And they want to probe me for information on how to get there.
My good friend clay(mezmerizeplz) and I have spent many 3 am conversations talking about how we have grown apart from our highschool friends. I'll speak only for myself though. I find I have a tough time relating to a lot of conversations the people around me have. Job troubles, college oriented goals, even long term goals when people ask me my opinion, I have to sort of just recycle my observations or someone elses input in order to even balance at all in the conversation. In addition to that if it comes down to it and they ask me what i plan to be doing in 5 years. Its so hard to be truthful without being a douchebag. Realistically functioning in socieity so young and successful is litterally a double life. I feel the clark kent effect a lot when I am around people that aren't involved in the lifestyle. I thank my girlfriend for being so understanding she and my friend jorge are probably the only people outside of poker that i truely open up to. Even then I feel a sense of me venting things like this to them, just comes out in their ears like "boo hoo i am a fucking baby". I thank them for putting up with it truly. I do try and censor myself around them though. For instance i truely do get dissapointed when I dont meet the goals i set for myself, for instance 3 months ago i made around 15k and played around 120k hands. I had set for myself a goal for about 170k hands and did not meet it. I was pretty dissapointed in myself but If i were to complain i know it would seem like I was just rubbing it in their faces or something. "yea this is a bad month for me haha" though obviously i was happy with the financial impact of the month. I look way more to the future than most everyone I know. I want to set myself up as best i can now for the future. But i know that its tough for other people to grasp because my level of financial maturity was met only through a lot of useless spending and desensitization of money itself.
I am a motivation junky. If i am motivated i am happy. When i was in college first starting out, like i said above, i was among those people that was on step one of life. I hated it. I hated that I thought i had so much potential but couldn't do anything to make my life easier. It didn't matter how much i studied or how much i worked, I was always just going to be spinning my wheels waiting to graduate. Now i have something which I want to take full advantage of. And i love it. I can focus my energy on it and create success. But the thing that annoys me so much is the general non-motivation of my peers. Because of the spinning wheels syndrome of my age bracket, everyone is sort of in limbo. "its college this only happens once in our lives we have to enjoy it while it lasts, because then you have to get a job and get old". I'm sorry if i dont relate to that, i might just be dumb or something. I really couldn't care less for meeting a ton of women and hooking up. If thats the most important thing they have on their minds besides paying rent thats fine. But I find life as a whole extremely exciting even the simplest things bring me great joy. The thing i like the most out of anything, is to look in the mirror and say "goddamnit I am working hard for what i want and I am proud that i can exploit my potential to the fullest". That is the best feeling on the planet. And i hate when people tell me "you already make a more than good living, why do you keep working so hard, you dont even spend much." I refuse to settle. I will never settle even if my spending needs are only 30k a year and i am worth 5 mil, the day that happens i will be just as passionate about meeting whatever goals i have then, As i am today. I want to be able to exploit every opportunity in life not passing up on anything I want to do, and i want the same for my would be family that I hope to have some day. I dont want anything to stand in my way. I refuse to settle for mediocrity. I hate that so many people are content with settling for 'close enough'.
Sorry for the rambles. and probably a lot of grammatical error.
On a side note. I just got back from vegas with my girlfriend yesterday. And I am about to hit the grind as soon as i hit the post button.
Btw i am setting myself a goal of 8 hours a day 5 days a week totaling 40 hours a week obv i might occationally have to make up some time on other days though. Starting tomorrow. And I will let you know that I WILL get supernova elite.
