Hey whats up people. So apparently my account was still negative 10k when I woke up this morning and on tilt I decided that fuck this I need cash so I transfered like 20k from my other account so I could cash out a couple of grand from the atm. I do so and decide to head to the cage and see whats up. Apparently both my wire transfers went through and I had a 29k wire waiting for me even though my account was good for only 15k WTF? Ok whatever so I try to get all the money in chips right away so I can go play poker and it takes foreeeevveeer with signing shit and w/e. Eventually the queen of the cage comes forward and goes on a rant on how they need to know that I will use this money at the bellagio and not the rio(which I was intending to but never said duh) so now I can only cash out 2,9k right now and I have to use my fucking bellagio retard card to get more money for the poker game and establish myself as a poker player there or whatever. Fucking morons tilt gahh.
Anyways, I decide to try and get as much money out as possible so I sign up for 10/20 and request 5k in chips with my retard bellagio fuckcard. Apparently this takes forever and it seems to be a process that involves floormen running around asking eachother stuff for 30 min. I finally get my money and I get snapmoved from the mustmove table to a table that is 5-handed with a couple of what i presume are live regs.
I have come to the conclusion that live regs really do suck. They are good at one thing and thats being intimidating. They sit with like 40k at 10/20 and throw chips around but they take shit lines and they generally dont understand the importance of position. Anyways, I weak tight myself down to 3,5-4k and then I play a couple of sort of interesting hands:
I pick up AQ in MP and raise to 80, btn who is a live pro covering my 4k bumps it up to like 240, I call cause I cant really 4-bet and I cant really fold. This guy has been really active and likes just bullying people out of the pot. Flop comes KJ2r I check he bets like 2/3 and I call cause Im stubborn and retarded. In hindsight I think this was a misstake but I was pissed and w/e. Turn is the 10c so I bink the nuts. I checkraise his smallish bet to like 1700 leaving myself with something like 2k behind. He tanks and calls, river is a 9 putting a 4-straight out there and I shove and he folds KK face up. ( felt kinda owned but later on this guy folded KK pre after getting 4-bet oop with 8k effective and the winner showed J10o lol)
About an orbit later I pick up AKs otb, mp raises I 3-bet and sb coldcalls(sb is a reg that kinda looks like a mix between prince valliant and arnold schwarzenegger, hes agressive but kinda dumb oop). Original raiser calls aswell. Flop comes 8s6s2x, checked to me I bet, price valliant folds and old dude shoves for like with a smaller flushdraw. Flush binks and I ship the pot.
A couple of orbits later I call this nitish kinda guys raise in mp with 89dd, price valliant calls aswell. Flop comes 57Kdd. Original raiser bets I flat cause I think raising kinda sucks and valliant calls. Turn is the 6h giving me the nuts. Checked to me I bet 2/3 pot both people call. River bricks I bet 2/3 again both fold.
I played some other random hands that werent all that interesting, raised some flops barrelled some turns etc but w/e. Ended up +4k or something like that which feels nice. We also played some 5/10 at the rio later that night but I was on the nittiest table ever so it was pretty boring, ended like +$300 after like 4 hours. I also bumped into naz and daut at the rio which was pretty cool. They where railing on of their horses that was at the final table of the 10k plo(i think?)
Meeting lpers is always nice but meeting naz kinda made me starstruck.
Cant think of anything else to write about so yeah, until next time bitches
Hey everybody, I promised myself I would be blogging in vegas but havent really gotten around to it yet. still have a severe money issue but I think its getting resolved. Basicly I tried making a wire transfer to the bellagio yesterday but I was very uncertain as to what numbers to put where etc, so after my first attempt it said something about the wire transfer not working or w/e. I researched how and where to write account numbers and shit and did it again and yet again it didnt work.
So discouraged and shit I went to play the 2k nlhe event at the rio yesterday and while registering I talked to the dudes there about making a wire transfer to the rio instead. I had to spend like 10 minutes begging the manager of the cage to let me do a wire transfer and finally he caved and let me do it. I have no idea why they are so paranoid about stuff like that but w/e.
Anyways, after getting home last night I checked my bank account and apparently both the wires to the bellagio worked somehow as I now was like a negative 10k in my account. Obv you cant wire transfer money you dont have but apparently my bank has like reserved the money for both the wires so now im not only cash busto but also bank account busto until monday because today is a holiday in sweden. So yeah, I have like 100 bucks for the whole weekend. Vegas ballin yo!
As for poker, I havent played alot given my money situation but the 2k event yesterday went meh. I definitely played a couple of hands kinda badish but eventually I busted cause Im just unable to win flips. No really cool hands come to mind but ill try to make a more detailed update for the next tournament ill play. I busted right before the dinner break and doomer was still in it so we went to dinner with tcblade and after that doomer borrowed me some cash to play 5/10 at the rio.
The table wasnt super soft but you can straddle the button at the rio which makes the game really fun. What doesnt make the game fun is that I gave the floorman 500 bucks and he comes back with 500 bucks in 5 dollar chips what the fuck. I hate chips so much and sitting with like a mountain of them tilts me to no end. Playing with 5 dollar chips seriously makes me play way worse than usually cause I just hate dealing with chips so i pass on alot of good spots just cause I dont wanna count out a raise or w/e. Fuck chips.
Doomer busted after a while and joined me at 5/10 for a couple of hours before we went home. We where both sick tired after playing poker for like 14 hours. We get home and go to sleep pretty quickly, unfortunately timdawg chris erik(pinball) clay and bob come home shortly after and chris timdawg and erik are sick drunk. Kinda hard to sleep when you hear timdawg repeatedly yelling: "ERIK, STOP IT YOU ARE GOING TO KILL YOURSELF" on the top of his lungs. I also have a vauge memory of erik coming into my room interviewing me with an invisible microphone but I could be wrong.
Anyways, I sorta wanna play the 1,5k event tomorrow and I think I can get someone to borrow me money for it. Problem is we are having a party at our house tonight and I will most likely be hung over as fuck tomorrow. Also I dont think anyone else will wanna play it so ill have to take a cab or something which is a bummer.
Cant think of anything else to write, next post will hopefully be more poker related with some hands and stuff. Take care bitches!
edit: LOL chris and timdawg just came through the door drunk and super excited dressed in tuxedos they just bought for no reason saying that they will be the kings of the party. HAHAHA
Just wondering, everyone is talking about getting money to vegas and this and that, Ive called the rio trying to get a wiretransfer done but no dice there, they gave me some bullshit answer about me having to have a players card at the rio for a year blablabla.
Bottom line is, im in need of like 20k in vegas tops, cashing out from an atm I have a 3k limit per week, but cant you just buy chips at the rio/bellagio with my debit card and all will be well? I mean the biggest purchase would be like 10k for the ME and that isnt a terribly huge amount of money. Anyone know?
Oh and anyone who is in vegas feel free to pm your phone number so I can get in contact with someone when I arrive on monday.
So I have finally planned out my trip to vegas for the wsop. Basicly I feel sick motivated to play a bunch of donkaments and I am planning on taking this trip pretty seriously. I mean, last time I was in vegas I woke up at 3pm everyday and played 5/10 at the wynn all night and/or got drunk somewhere. Not saying it wasnt awesome but I just feel like taking the poker a bit more seriously this time around. Ive also been working out alot lately trying to lose some weight and I definitely dont wanna ruin all of that by degening it up completely in vegas so Im probably gonna try and find a good gym where I can blow of some steam and stay in shape.
Looks like I will be staying with milkman, mezmerizeplz and their entourage in their house so this trip cant not be awesome
I will be arriving to vegas on the evening of the 14th of june, and here are the events i plan on playing:
Mon, Jun 15th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 32)$2,000
Tue, Jun 16th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 34)$1,500
Thu, Jun 18th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 36)$2,000
Sat, Jun 20th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 39)$1,500
Sat, Jun 27th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 51)$1,500
Mon, Jun 29th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 54)$1,500
Tue, Jun 30th No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 56)$5,000
Fri, Jul 3rd World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 57)$10,000
Total buyins: $25,000
Obviously(or rather hopefully) I wont be able to play all of these as they are 3 day events and im really hoping to get deep in some of em. I played pretty poorly in ept copehagen and it became very obvious how uncomfortable I am with playing live compared to online so I am definitely going to focus on not being such a nit/retard.
Fucking finally won a seat to the WSOP ME! I hate steps so much but theres so few MTT sats so what choice do I have? Probably spent about 4-5k in sats so feels great to ship the seat.
I was so tilted this sunday cause I busted 15th in a ftp sat where top 10 got a seat and then proceeded to bust from the sunday mill in 45th gah
Ive been very undecided about going to vegas after I sorta quit playing poker, and I felt that if I was to go it would be to play the main event cause I think that would be a really fun experience. So yeah, looks like im going Gonna have to start looking at the wsop schedule to decide which dates to go, I wanna play some smaller events prior to the ME to get a good feel for live donkaments and for the fun of it.
Got back from uppsala today after celebrating "valborg" with some friends in uppsala. Valborg is basicly a holiday that is celebrated hard core in uppsala since its a huge student city and it revolves around 40k students getting shitfaced in several diffrent ways for like two days. Its pretty fucking crazy, i didnt bring my camera but I might upload some images later if I can get my hands on a friends pictures.
It was a real blast and the weather was fucking awesome so I really enjoyed myself. So after two days of heavy drinking im sound asleep and all of a sudden im crudely awoken by a fucking bumblebee stinging me in my hand, it actually fucking hurt! I feel like such a wuss because the bumblebee is like the most pussy sounding animal in the entire insect kingdom. This was 14 hours ago and my hand is still swollen and it still hurts. What the fuck, it was a fucking bumblebee!? Anyways, I naturally beat the crap out the little fucker with a newspaper so its all good.
As for me quiting poker I have to admit I have been cheating a little bit. Ive mostly been dabbling around with some sattelites to the wsop as I really wanna play that this summer. No sucess so far though.
Owell, spring is here, hot girls are everywhere and its looking to be a really fucking great summer so life is good.
Ok, this is mainly for our sweet swedish members, but I was browsing around on the website of one of swedens biggest newspapers and I come across William Thorsons blog. For those of you who dont know him hes a swedish donkament player and a pokerstars pro. I always though he was pretty solid for no real reason but GOD. He has commented on the hand from high stakes poker where durrr does some epic soulowning and makes eastgate and barry fold the best hands.
This is the most retarded thing I have ever read. This is all in swedish but ill try to translate some of the gems from this "analysis"
"In general people play tighter live than online. Durr might play K2s in this spot online but he would never do it live"
"On the flop durrr isnt thinking at all and just tries to make everyone fold, once eastgate and barry calls he realizes that they have strong hands, but he doesnt realize how strong they are"
"the turn comes and durrr throws out a desperate bet of 105k and just hopes that they will both fold"
"I dont think there is more though behind the bet than that barry and eastgate are the weakest players on the table and he hopes they will fold something decent"
"Once he bet he realizes that it was terribe bet and that eastgate has a 2"
"durrr would never bet 105k on the turn with A2 or TT, he would bet smaller because he isnt scared of anything"
I could go on forever but I dont really feel like spreading this insult to durr more than I already have. Its fucking laughable that this guy even dares to comment a hand played by a player that is way way way way way better than this donkament fish will ever be. I really feel the urge to argue with this guy but its probably no use seeing as he is still on the 1st level.
Well, maybe not as dramatic as it sounds. Basicly I dont have any motivation to play anymore. I had a goal to earn myself enough money to buy myself an appartment before I went back to school. Well, winning the sunday mill sort of took care of that. After the mill win I wanted to give 5/10 a real shot, with my new nice bankoll. I to this day think Im definitely good enough to beat most 5/10 games and definitely most HU regs on both ipoker and prima. Its kinda sad that I am quiting right now as I have such a deep deep understanding of this game. However, my shots at 5/10+ went soso, went good in the beginning but I kinda crashed and burned after that. I ran pretty shitty in alot of key spots and ended up playing my B or even C game way to often. This in combination with my horses running really shitty resulted in my bankroll dwindling and Im not rolled to play 5/10 anymore.
The dream of beating 10/20+ was the only thing motivating me and the hands on 2/4 and 3/6 ive played the last few days have been poorly played overall. Basicly, I have lost the love of the game. To be honest I think I probably lost it a long time ago, but ive keept going because poker for me was a necessary evil, I had to put in a couple of hours a day to pay the rent or to validate my existence or whatever. Well guess what, poker is not a necessary evil anymore. I have money and I have a plan for my life. I see no reason to push myself to play bad regs on 3/6 anymore when all it does is cause me stress and makes me unhappy.
Ive always been happy when running well and feeling bad when running like shit, but what made it all worth it above everything else was that playing poker in it self, regardless of results, made me happy. I enjoyed it imensely and poker is the one single thing I have spent the most time in my life on. More than starcraft, more than any other game/sport/hobby/job.
I have let myself completely drown in poker. During the last 3 years in general but the last 6 months in perticular, I have lived poker. I think about/play/study poker and that is pretty much all I do. Everything else that I do during my days has indirectly been connected to poker, things i deemed necessary to do to keep myself on my A-game. I think its this obsession that has made me as good as I am today, but it has also made me define myself as a poker player, both to myself and people around me. Everyone around me except my best friends and my family view me as "that poker guy", and this puts me on tilt. I remember years ago when I though it would be so cool to be able to say to people that I play poker professionally. Now, I am very reluctant to admit it to new people I meet, because A: people dont understand poker and B: I dont want to be that poker guy.
I have defined myself as a poker player and I want to be more. Poker has made me neglect things I used to do regularily. I have put all my self worth in my ability to destroy people in this game and I have neglected to develope other important characteristics. I dont read as much as I used to. I dont work out as much as I used to. I dont play the piano as much as I used to. I dont spend as much time with my family and friends as I used to. As much freedom as poker has given me, it has also chained me down in other ways. Im kinda like the guy/girl that where the most good looking/most popular in high school, neglecting to develope character and qualities because they are the king of the world and then five years later you see them working in the supermarket.
When you define your own life and person through poker, your selfworth and your self confidence will swing along with the natural swings in the game and that is for me unacceptable. I dont want to work in the proverbial supermarket.
Now this blog post probably makes things sound worse than they really are, but I made my decision 2 hours and I have been feeling genuine happiness since then. I am quiting poker. I leave about 20k online for now, uninstall all my poker programs and move on to other things. I wont go back to poker until I have found the love to play the game again. Until I feel the urge to play the game and not the urge to just win money I wont play a single hand of poker.
I will keep coaching, I will keep backing my horses and I will still frequent these forums alot so not much will change in that department. I just wont play. As for ept and Vegas I am still undecided. I might still go and I might not.
