Story: I woke up at like 11am and studied a bit until 1pm when I decided "screw it, I so cbf studying I'm just going to play some poker". (I know, terrible idea but it gets worse).
I started playing and 3-4 hours later friend comes over and says he'll play a hour session on my laptop, I agree to keep playing until he finishes.
An hour later he's down and wants to keep playing until his even, I agree and we continue to play until his even.
2-3 hours later he's now up and running quite good and somehow it becomes a competition to see who can play the longest.
Anyway we played until 11.30pm or just before midnight when some friends came by to get us to go get some dinner and hang out. I stopped at just under 11k hands and he stopped at 7k hands and we headed out to get dinner.
Dinner was average, funny conversation involving porn and other random topics and hanging out after sitting for 11 hours straight made it good fun though.
So yeah I played just a bit over 10,000 hands in one session and hell I didn't do that badly even though several times near the end I felt tired.
Heres the graph of my session:
Also a random hand about 8000 hands into my session:
Anyway so after this experience I think I can probably pull off my upcoming holiday goals of at least 5k hands a day every day.
IRON MAN ME!!
The photo is from recent holiday where we drove from Torquay which was where we stayed to the 12 apostles. Screwing around in a kind of sheltered cove like area, and got lost on the way home. Anyway I'll post more holiday stuff next time.
Oh and I saw an ad on television for a new movie with Jessica Alba in it, needless to say I just searched it up and its called Good Luck Chuck AND will definitely be watching this as soon as I can.
Oh and I'm trying to switch courses from the business management course to accounting.
Reason being that the accounting course is a lot more focused and seems like it has a clearer career path which is kind of what I want.
Alright sleep time.
LP FIGHTING!! I keep watching HSP wondering how some of the top players here would fare...
So I have an exam tmorrow for uni and instead of studying i'm playing poker atm.
Smart right?
Anyway I'm 6000 hands into the session right now and just thought how much more hands can i play in ONE session lol.
I'm not really tired at all and can probably go for a couple of more hours oh and i'm playing 9 tables.
Just thought I'd mention it since I want to see how badly i start playing the further into this session and i'll post a graph of the hands i play this session.
Went on a holiday for the past week starting on sunday evening with a couple of friends down to Torquay which is a beach town.
Was awesome fun, we stayed at Karma's holiday house for the first 2 nights before moving into a place of our own as his family were arriving.
Drinking, beach, drinking, late lunch, drinking, driving to a random tourist place, drinking, dinner, drinking some more and sleep were pretty much the schedule for our days there.
Spent the last night drinking too much far too quick and Luke/Karma ended up wasted by 7.30 in the evening (pictures will be posted later) and I joined the ranks of the defeated 30 minutes later (pictures unlikely to be posted up by me but probably posted up by Karma in his blog).
Anyway hopefully I feel fully recovered so I feel good enough to go to a friends place to watch the AFL Grand Final tomorrow. GO GEELONG!
So lately things have been gay as all hell. Trying to withdraw money off poker has been taking forever and most of the time its actually my fault (i entered my swift code wrong, entered bank account wrong etc) I suspect I may have a mild case of downsydrome.
Oh and Neteller informs me that the 3k that I was jibbed of is coming back to me so I'm breaking even on that now sweet.
Also our fellow Lper Verbloten came down from Sydney for work two weeks (this week and the last) and Karma, PokerDoc and I failed to meet him.
I know this poor conduct cannot really be forgiven but honestly MOST of it was out of our control.
Parents (yes i still live under their roof) basically had me on a tight leash and uni was kinda owning all of us.
By owning I of course refer to us falling behind due to unforseen circumstances (failing to turn up at University on several occassions and pokering/games instead of studying) and this had somehow caught up to us.
Wtf how is that possibleRIGHT??
To right this wrong I will during the holidays head up to Sydney and get drunk and piss away some of my BR with him.
Anyone else here who's from Sydney let us know?
As for poker, I moved to ft since we decided that rakeback was just to good to resist and ran bad for 30 k hands before making enough buyins to move up to 100nl again. (Cashed out so played 50nl for about 40k hands)
Anyway this is my first session at 100nl:
Start of the session was kind of annoying with coolers flying at me one after the other but I kept calm and just thought of how much more Karma/Luke was losing.
Anyway at the moment I think 100nl is definitely beatable and the rakeback will be sweet.
Kinda of a large amount of hands for me to play in one session so I think i lost a bit of focus at times.
Lastly I also apologized to a friend who a long while ago I mistreated and was basically a prick to. At the time it seemed reasonable but I'd looked back and upon reconsidering things I concluded I was just irrationally being a prick.
The funny part is how much I built it up in my mind to the point where I was kind of scared of actually apologizing.
Man I'm a pussy sometimes.
Anyway I'm off to sleep, apologies to everyone for a rather boring post but as the title says, I really am breaking even in life at the moment.
Before i start talking about Poker just a general update on my life since i last updated.
Exams were terrible (for those who don't know I'm currently studying Business Management at RMIT), I crammed for pretty much every subject except for Marketing and even that exam was a bit shoddy and not the best.
So the results coming out in a few days time are going to be terrible but sadly not a suprise. Guess i'll be repeating some subjects, great.
Saw the Transformers movie when it came out in Australia, apparently it came out here BEFORE it came out in America. WTF? Why? Someone explain how thats possible not that i'm complaining, its a very good movie and does the cartoon justice in my opinion even though it had plenty of blatant product placement.
I'm about to start reading Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love like a Porn Star" which is her autobiography and not as the title suggests a sex manual.
Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" is next on my list of books to read, both of these books i've borrowed from Luke who informs me are an interesting read.
I'll probably offer my insubstantial opinion on both next time i update this blog.
Oh and my Xbox 360 has now got the red ring of doom. What a beat huh?
Not that i really played it all that often, it was more of a whim purchase while i was working at crown and the only game i wanted to play on it was PGR. If anyone knows how i can get it repaired in Australia give me a shout out.
Another beat; I recently got myself hooked on Big Brother even though I've always been a firm believer that the show is pure garbage and despised anyone who liked it. This is what boredom and laziness does to an individual. Instead of being motivated to go out and find something to do I turned on the television and watched people who were doing exactly what I was doing, nothing. Their occasional conflicts and how they interacted with each other in addition to the activities Big Brother threw at them had me addicted before i realised.
I'm now condemned to watching the rest of the season to its finish like the BB junkie I've now become.
Alrights its 7.30am and i'm still yet to go to sleep so I should quickly outline my recent poker related news. Therefore to most of my RL friends this is where anything that interests you has already been said so just ignore the rest.
So after a long period of time where i was kind of taking a break from pokergetting back into Dota and making a half-hearted failed attempt at trying to get my clan into fighting shape Ive gotten back into poker.
Basically Justeen who is a mate of mine started playing about 4-5 weeks ago and had managed to move from 25nl to 100nl in about that time.
With his luckbox burn it forced Jonno (lilclinkin) Luke (Karma) and I to jump right back into poker playing a whole lot more in order to subdue the incoming cocky taunting from this short asian guy with a girls name.
Anyway to my distaste I was forced to start at 10nl where i built the 300 i had left myself online to 500 in about 2-3 days before moving up to 25nl. The 10nl stakes were even softer than I had previously imagined, and I had previously thought a 10 year old could beat it.
In my mind 10nl is now beatable by anyone with hands to move the mouse and bet.
I then played 25nl 6max for the next 1 week and mananged to build up to 1k in that time.
Moved up to 50nl about 2-3 days ago and about 8 more buyins and ill be starting to take shots at 100nl which i look forward to.
Anyway thats all from me for now,Goodbye (or the shortened form, goodby, sometimes used in American English, or simply bye) is a traditional farewell phrase used in the English language. Most scholars agree that the phrase originally derives from "God be with you."
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Now noone can say they didnt learn anything from reading my blog.
kantoiki/alan has an exam tomorrow which he desperately needs to study for.. naturally Im at this house (there will be no food at my house tonight so why go home???) watching sienfeld reruns and "teen fat camp" which he cannot rip his eyes away from, the fatties are FAR too compelling (i agree, fat fetish ftw)
there he is studying like a fool, doesnt he realise hes only working for the white mans money?? its WHITEY hes trying to please
and im pleased, with his choice of poster! i put it there agbainst his will.. but its been like a month now and he still hasnt taken it down so.... <3 greggy
edit 9th June as in the next day after the above post+image:
So yeah i did my exam today and it was as good as it could get i guess, i managed to concoct a couple of pages of mindless nonsensical drivel and walked out feeling like if I was lucky i'd just managed to get some of the questions right heh
Obviously i'm a errrr ....keen.. intellect... and i can only thank karma/luke for turning up at my place and helping me study.
By helping I mean distracting me in everyway possible, oh and that "FIT CAMP" tv series was sucking me in. Theres something about obese individuals that i just can't tear my eyes away from. Its kind of a morbid fascination, personally i've always been quite ... lean and athletic is the postive description at a tad bit over 6 foot and can't seem to gain weight even when I try. For those of you who scoffed at the thought of me trying at anything, we'll see who gets the last laugh.... probably you since i lack any general motivation.
Anyway yeah luke came over a while ago and chucked up that poster of Greg Raymer, i know its terrible and should be burnt but the effort it would take to pull it down from my wall in addition to my laziness....well its not moving any time soon.
Something that happened recently that could be a humourous story:
So two of my friends and I were sitting around at QV (shopping mall thingy) food court eating, talking and generally wasting time when somehow the conversation steers towards masturbation. For interests sake this is also called:
5 digit disco
Auditioning the hand puppet
Left hand liftoff
Strangling Pete
Milking the cock
Stroking Gandalf's beard
Bash the Bishop/Beat the Bishop
Painting the ceiling
Pat the porpoise
Shaking white coconuts from the veiny tree
Jerkin' the Gherkin
Batter the sausage
Beat your beef
I got most of the above from Wiki
and i have to say twas a funny read. Let me know which ones were your favourite.
Anyway so yeah we were sitting there having this conversation about masturbation and of course it naturally steers to how often, and then how long we'd gone for without "shaking hands with the guv'nor of love".
Then the "Master of your domain" was brought up, for those ignorant of this term get educated, go watch Seinfield. In short it was an episode where the characters have a bet on who has the most control and can go the longest without "polishing the pole".
So with the prospect of a possible contest we had no choice, all 3 of us decided to take the challenge.
Rules were quite simple:
-Not allowed to ejaculate.
-Bet lasts for a month, afterwhich an extension can be discussed if neccessary at our discretion.
-Must inform others of of loss within the hour
To put something of value onto it we decreed that the losers take the winner out for a night of drinking and entertainment, not that we needed anything since the mere thought of challenging and becoming the true Master of he's domain was enough.
So there started the start of what would prove to be a short trip for some and a long tedious journey for others.
We had our first loss about 2 weeks into the challenge.
His SMS to both of us were quite hilarious, the first informing us of his defeat:
"Lol. Ive had enuf. Its just u two now. Good luck. Haha"
and the second a extract of a star sign prediction in a newspaper:
"Haha. My star sign 2day: "A final burst of adrenalin hits as Mars exits. And with a rush of blood 2 the head u quickly finish a project or make an important lifestyle decision. Expansion is the theme, but limited resources hinder u"
Pretty coincidental, although the write probably didnt have "waxing one's carrot" in mind.
Our fellow soldier had a lapse in his will to push on and "pumped his gas at the self-service island" leaving only 2 of us to duke it out.
I have to say that there were nights where you really just sat there thinking, "hrmm you know what would be nice right now?" before remembering the bet and fighting on against the ever rising tide.
My friend would tell me how he was avoiding those nights by spending every night out with friends and occupied someway or another and i tried to do the same.
Some interesting things that we thought would happen or were told would happen included:
"its sick and unnatural, you'll get all aggressive"
"you'll break out in pimples"
"probably going to get wet dreams"
"wake up in the mornings with morning glories all the time"
The days were okay, with me becoming increasingly aware of how attractive the opposite sex were and the nights were long and arduous.
I was suddenly watching Poker after Dark every night as terrible as that show is and I even opted to trolling on youtube for comedy that would take my mind off things.
From my friends point of view I've included some of his quotes that encapsulate his experience:
"Never skipped Uni"
"Along time was a no no"
"My beat off attemps as in going half way or more..."
"Desperate, and pride was the only thing that held it in"
"Friends were faggots and putting on semi-porno stuff"
So the last week was rounding up and the thought of salvation by "Wango Tango" and possible victory pulled me through some difficult nights.
Unfortunately, my friend made it through as well and on the last night we had a conversation that went something along the lines of:
Him: Wait is the bet gone at 12?
Me: Uh, I don't know.
Me: I'm not sure
Me: One more month would hurt
Him: You want to just call it a tie?
No prizes for guessing my response.
An afterthought thats disturbing though is knowing that my when both of my friends whacked off, and vice versa i presume.
The conclusion of the bet i'll keep to myself and for those who really with for me to share your welcome to ask and i'll reply so those who actually want to know can just read the comments.
This way not everyone is subjected to what must surely be at least mildly disgusting by now.
So the end result was a tie between my friend which wasn't to bad and twas an errr i guess interesting experience. Anyway I hope you liked reading this more than I enjoyed the month and if you didn't well you can always go play your skin flute.
so yeah, poker has been pretty ordinary i have discovered i have a few to many leaks that have developed lately don't know how. So i'll be working over the next week or two to try n fix this up.
To help encourage my efforts i went out and brought some more plants for my fish tank and now it looks pretty good. The idea is to over a few months makes those plants grow, graft them and split them into more plants. This will result in what will hopefully be a nice slight densely planted tank, bad english i speak.
Also had to go out and buy a new light for my tank, that cost me about 200 bucks so with the plants i've spent another 260 on my tank over the past few days.
This has got to encourage me to play better poker heh and to reward myself for my efforts i've got a nice system thought up.
For every buyin i take off a fish, i get to buy one fish.
if this doesn't work i dont know what will haha.
Anyway sorry for such a quick update, didn't put much thought into it so next time i'll make it more interesting and what not.
So yeah past three days getting drunk everynight with friends, awesome haha.
One of the nights on the way home i picked up two biggish rocks and gave one to my friend and we were gnna "smash a shop and steal laptops" which by the way seemed like a top-notch idea at the time hahaha.
Yes that could have had bad consequences had we actually done it but thank god we're so scattered when we're drunk.
Another thing that happened was we got back to my place and my mate asks me "oh shit wheres my wallet?" to which i reply i have no idea.
I check my pockets while he checks his and his bag, upon not finding anything he walks back from my place back to Hungry Jacks at MC (20 minutes) finds nothing and walks back.
As he comes back i check my pocket and find oh...TWO wallets hey! Call him and ASK "Hey i THINK i have your wallet"... and i even have to pull out his license to read out his address to double check heh .
So i'm waiting for him outside 7-11 which is near my place, and i lie down on a bench. Bum walks past and is like "hey man you okay"? "need like 5 bucks to get something to eat", both of which i refuse and thank him for offering and go back to sleep This at the time didnt' really hit me as being anything unusual till afterwards when my friend got there and called me a dick and i told him the story.
Wow....a bum saw me. Thought i needed help. Offered me 5 bucks for some food. And didnt steal my friends wallet which was just lying openly in my hand as i lay there.
I hope that bum enters a lottery and wins enough money to get his life back together.
Anyway for some reason beer tastes great now and really hits the spot which can only be bad news for my already declining fitness which karma can vouch for is terrible.
Like an example, luke and i were playing basketball at the local courts nearby and some random french guys challenged us to so bball.
So we played 2 v 2 and we won by 2 or so points, cant really remember...annnnyyway i was heaving and had chest pains by the time we had scoed 5 points.
By 8 points i was wheezing and wanted out.
Luckily a car had to drive through and gave me time to take a breather and not have a heart attack.
We finished the game and i was in pain for the next 20 minutes. Seriously feeling like i wanted to vomit and what not.
Geez i need to get out and run or something.
I feel like i'm the above guy trapped in my skinny asian body.
Anyway poker has been okay i tilt stake jumped one night for about 2 hours and made a bit of money woot heh but otherwise i haven't really played. Don't worry guys not going to do it again, i feel like a downsyndrome child as it is.
A close friend of mine was telling me about her night tonight and what she said had me in stiches.
Will post if i get her permission.
Hrmm what else what else, i'm getting a bit sick of people posting these setups where they flop mid set going broke to flopped straights and oversets. Honestly its getting a bit much, maybe it's because I've lost the patience i used to have...that could be it.
I think from now on my advice to that kind of crap is just going to be:
Fold 80 percent of the time, Call 15 percent of the time and Kill yourself 5 percent of the time.
And for my non poker friends who I've just bored with the last few paragraphs:
This smells so badly of a setup by Dr Phil. I mean does honestly he invites the creator of Bumfights to his show...what did he expect? And i doubt he hadn't already watched the video.
He was about to get showed up pretty badly, the other guy dressed up to look like Phil with bald head which i thought was hilarious.
While i don't think the other guy is any better i think Dr Phil is just as bad, exploiting a different market.
Just my two cents, sorry for long long blog. Even more sorry if you read it all and it insulted your intelligence.
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This at the time didnt' really hit me as being anything unusual till afterwards when my friend got there and called me a dick 
and i told him the story. 
