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Hey guys!
If you dont know yet I challenged myself into making 20K playing MTTs in Thailand in the next 6 months starting in February. I bloged about it a couple entries ago so if you wanna know more about it take a look.
Here is how I'm doing so far:
Yes I know, almost 1 month gone and I havent made any money.
I'm feeling pretty good about it actually! I've been putting some good game volume and have learned a lot so I dont feel it was a waste of time. I strongly believe I'm gonna be able to accomplish this challenge. My average buy-in is $6 cause I have a pretty nitty BR Management. At the moment my BR is $2.9k. Take a look at my BR Management Chart:
Very nitty right? I like it this way cause I know MTT variance is pretty crazy and I hate mixing my finances with poker, so I rather make sure I will never need to put a penny in PokerStars ever again.
Lets keep this forum active guys! Dont let LP die.
And grind hard!
Cheers!
About a month ago I had an interesting dinner conversation with some close friends that are also poker players about poker communities (one of the very rare times we talk about poker). One side of the argument was that making any sort of contribution to a community of serious poker players is a really bad idea. You're decreasing your own future EV by making other players better at taking money out of the poker economy, and you aren't really doing net overall good in the world when it's specifically a zero (or negative with rake) sum game like poker, where one man's gain is another man's loss. It was the opinion of the guy who held this side of the argument (don't wanna out anyone as they might get berated lol) that while leeching advice when he was new and coming up in poker was really useful for him, he always thought even then that the people giving the free advice back then were being stupid and should've kept quiet to preserve their bottom lines, and all current pro poker players should also be keeping quiet.
The main pro-community participation argument was, if you gained so much from the community by reading forums and leeching advice when you were new and coming up in poker then you owe it to the community to give back/pay it forward. Even though you're not giving back to the same people whos forum advice helped you years ago when you were learning poker, it's not about specific members but the idea of community as a whole. The idea that if you give and help freely in an environment with people who are also giving and helping freely, and encouraged to do so then the net outcome is better for all participants than if everyone keeps to themselves - the very idea of a community.
I'd be interested to hear what you guys think.
Personally I didn't have any strong stance either way and hadn't thought about it before this conversation came up. Years in the past I may have thought similarly to the guy in the first paragraph (and that is a part of the reason I haven't done almost anyblogging or hand posting here since 2008), but during this conversation I became increasingly convinced by the pro-community side. Even though it might hurt your bottom line and this might outweigh the intangible benefits of being a contributing community member (debatable), I think it's a better way to live life. On this vein I plan to participate a bit more on 2+2 and especially here starting now. Don't expect replies to every single strategy thread or anything like that (infact I never open any strategy threads just cause I find it kinda boring to engage my mind in poker strategy in any way that isn't directly playing, not cause I don't wanna share knowledge or something) but I def have an updated attitude towards community.
If anyone has any information or knows where I can find a furnished apartment across the border (Fort Erie'ish, Ontario'ish)
Please PM me, goin back up when I find a place;
Hey guys!
Was supposed to blog this a week ago but I got banned for 14 days for posting "dick in the ass" in the Valentines Day Presents thread lol This is like the 3rd time I got banned in the last 3 months or so, and dont know if I'm being a dick or LP is turning too gay and boring but anyway. I'll try to be a nice boy from now on.
OK, about Thailand now!
I've been here for a month already and it has been a great experience overall. The biggest problem for me here is the food, I'm sooo picky with my food and thai food isnt even close to the kinda of food I like. Lucky me my girlfriend cooks very well our good old brazilian food so thats nice. Of course I can find nice places to eat out but I have to be very carefully about my choices otherwise its imposible for me to eat out.
We rented a 2 bedroom apartment very close to the Thong Lo BTS station so that makes a lot easier for us to go anywhere since the traffic in Bangkok is jammed all the time. We have a couple(I really mean a couple, a man and a woman) of brazilian friends living here, the guys works for the brazilian embassy in bangkok. Their compainenship has halped a lot adapting to Bangkok and having more fun that we would have if we didnt know anybody in the city.
We are paying 35,000TBH/month for rent, thats around $1,200 USD, kinda of expensive but our place is so nice and well located that I think it is worth it. We have a nice pool and gym in the building and the view is great! I'm living a lot better that in Brazil for sure, where a used to pay $1,000 for a very small studio lol.
Internet in my building is very good but the cable tv in thailand sucks. We didnt even signed it cause channel selection was so poor that it wasnt worth it. Instead what did I do? I signed netflix. "but netflix is not available in thailand" you may say! yes I know that! I'm using an amazing proxy service that I already used in Brazil (even though Brazil already has netflix available) in orher to access USA Netflix. It is the www.unblock-us.com ! Costs $5/month, its really easy to setup and NEVER fails. I configured my router so every device in the apartment can connect directly thru the proxy, really amazing stuff.
Pics of gtfo
where I grind whenever I can
main bedroom (1)
main bedroom (2)
main bedroom's toilet
guest bedroom
kitchen
living room
my supplements, damn those are hard to find in thailand!
I've always thought deep down inside that I was horrible at balancing my own play at the tables. Occasionally playing a hand a certain way in order to have said hand in your range is not the equivalent of being balanced. You have to make a commitment to do it regularly and often. Life is much the same.
Its been a struggle to balance playing poker, working out, hanging out with friends, and learning new things all at the same time. I'm the kind of guy who gets real obsessed about things for a little while, then move on to something else, move back to the first thing, etc. I've never been good at keeping my life balanced. Ill spend a week playing skyrim and doing nothing else. Ill go on a bender and go out with my buddies 3-4 nights in a row then stop. Ill play a bunch of poker for 2-3 weeks then ill take a month off.
Although its probably not the best solution for a number of reasons, I decided to give some of my buddies freerolls to ensure i keep my life balanced.
im in vancouver for the next couple weeks and offered 4 friends the following freerolls:
1. josh - $50 every day i dont play at least 2k hands
2. his fiance emily - $50 every day i dont work out
3. nick - $50 every day i dont work on rosetta stone spanish
4. his fiance leah - $50 every day i dont hang out with at least one of them.
it would probably be better to get to the root of the problem and solve the underlying issues through logic and practice, but I think getting myself into a routine of doing things on a daily basis will break my bad habits.
sorry for the weak ass blogpost. i recently went to costa rica and was gonna do a writeup with lots of pics about the trip, but the girls i went with are lagging to post the pictures on facebook. something about them all needing to sign off on any pictures uploaded so none of them look awful in any picture online. as always, estrogen, the antithesis to reason. ill make that update when they post them finally
I've always thought deep down inside that I was horrible at balancing my own play at the tables. Occasionally playing a hand a certain way in order to have said hand in your range is not the equivalent of being balanced. You have to make a commitment to do it regularly and often. Life is much the same.
Its been a struggle to balance playing poker, working out, hanging out with friends, and learning new things all at the same time. I'm the kind of guy who gets real obsessed about things for a little while, then move on to something else, move back to the first thing, etc. I've never been good at keeping my life balanced. Ill spend a week playing skyrim and doing nothing else. Ill go on a bender and go out with my buddies 3-4 nights in a row then stop. Ill play a bunch of poker for 2-3 weeks then ill take a month off.
Although its probably not the best solution for a number of reasons, I decided to give some of my buddies freerolls to ensure i keep my life balanced.
im in vancouver for the next couple weeks and offered 4 friends the following freerolls:
1. josh - $50 every day i dont play at least 2k hands
2. his fiance emily - $50 every day i dont work out
3. nick - $50 every day i dont work on rosetta stone spanish
4. his fiance leah - $50 every day i dont hang out with at least one of them.
it would probably be better to get to the root of the problem and solve the underlying issues through logic and practice, but I think getting myself into a routine of doing things on a daily basis will break my bad habits.
sorry for the weak ass blogpost. i recently went to costa rica and was gonna do a writeup with lots of pics about the trip, but the girls i went with are lagging to post the pictures on facebook. something about them all needing to sign off on any pictures uploaded so none of them look awful in any picture online. as always, estrogen, the antithesis to reason. ill make that update when they post them finally
Hi guys. Happy 2012! Let's achieve our goals this year!
So earlier today I booked a last minute trip for 3 weeks from next week because why not. I'm headed towards South America and am gonna meet up with a small group of close mates that already out there, including my housemate Tom who prob needs no introduction on here. Pretty excited for the trip, here's my rough itinerary:
- Tues 17 Jan fly from London in the morning to Madrid. It's a connecting flight to Buenos Aires but I did it in such a way that I should have a day to quickly check out Madrid. Are there any LPers in Madrid who wanna meet up for dinner/a beer/show me around a bit next Tuesday? That would be awesome if so! Pls msg me asap!
- A week in Buenos Aires, Argentina from Jan 18th-24th
- ????????????? from Jan 24th to Jan 28th. Haven't decided yet. My friends are going to Rurrenabaque to mess about in a jungle. As I hate bugs I think I would enjoy that about as much as Karl Pilkington did on An Idiot Abroad. I may just suck it up and join them for the experience and to say I did it. Open to any suggestions, anything unmissable? Next stop is in Peru so was considering Lima on the shortlist for this slot of time, any LPers in Lima who wanna show me around? locoo is that where u are?
- Get to Cusco, Peru on 29th. Check out the sights there for a couple of days, acclimatise to the altitude a bit. Then a 4 day jungle route (ffs no bugs plz) to Machu Picchu including downhill biking, rafting, 2 days trekking and last day hike up to MP itself. Looking really forward to this except for bugs. One rest day in Cusco after this before...
- 5th Feb fly to La Paz, Bolivia to ride a bicycle down something called Death Road.
- 7th Feb be happy to be still alive (one time) and hightail it back to London.
Would love as much feedback as I can get about any part of any of this. For example, what can you do in half a day in Madrid? What shouldn't we miss in Buenos Aires? What are some things I should consider doing to fill in "??????????"?
35 Day Challenge
Hey Everyone, been a lil while since I have done a challenge of any sort, so I'll start one now since I have tons of time and should be grinding more.
(250 hr challenge over 30 grinding days)
I'm going to be playing NL25 FR + 2-3 mtts at a time. Aiming for 4,000 hands a day, and 2-4+ MTT wins before the end of the 35 day challenge.
Its 35 days, because honestly, I want 5 days off during this _atleast_. I'm going to push myself really hard and grind my ass off.
Hero Has some really good MTT's if you're playing in low selection, and becoming among the best in the Full Ring games is very important to me right now.
(Makes traveling to all mtt's lucrative in my current game state, becoming great at fr will pretty much always cover ne mtt costs)
(i'm currently a 3.33bb/100 winner outside HU on Hero, but dropped $900 hu one day so has me in the red.)
January : NL10/NL25 FR CG's + Hero MTT's
February : Pittsburgh Casino - 1/3-2/5 + MTT's + Hero
March : Frequent Pitts often, Foxwoods for bigger MTT's + Hero
April : "" same as above ""
May : "" same as above ""
June : Vegas / WSOP / Live Cash / Hero Poker
July : "" Same as above ""
August : with the USA under martial law, I plan to be out of the states for a long period of time if this isn't veto'd etc.
I don't believe in the reasons the USA are in the current state of affairs they are in, I would rather continue to play poker drama-free, which I will.
I plan to move to a beautiful area, Caracas, Cancun, Australia, or maybe a place like Taiwan again. We'll see in the coming months.
One thing I have realized, is its not worth living "anywhere" to play on stars, no matter what you make. If your outside your home country, you want to be where its beautiful, the women are fine, and you're freedom is 100% in tact. As an american, there are a few places I'd have to avoid, sad right? w/e. politians are gonna politate.
Also - if at any point I bust my online BR, I will scratch above aforementioned plans, and go play @ stars outside the USA staked as I did the last 3 months of 2011. ( was great and did very well, no worries either way )
br at start of challenge : around $600. I'll post graphs and results daily to my website (linked at bottom of my lp posts). i'm aiming for $2500. (thats just 200 hrs at nl25 fr @ 12.50 an hr) - not including rakeback. still 50 hrs more, should make more than 12.50 an hr (thats undercut imo) and i loooooove them MTT's!
Aim - 2500ish
Belief - 7500+
In August 2011 I had $30,000 in debt.
Went to Canada and MTT'd and did very well.
Whats left to be paid?
Artanis11 5.3k
AndrewBoccia 750
quocy04 400
david kent 120
li 2k
Reid 350
John 300
Goal to have these paid off before June with _atleast_ a 25k br to go to LV with.
$9,340 from freedom. Can see the light at the top of that huge hole I dug. Hopefully you guys can give me some good insight on my cashgame hands that I post. Thanks if you can, any and all skill levels.
Dawned upon me recently, I have lots of free time and a chance to build a roll n play stakefree in 2012. Carpe DIEM! stakes aren't bad tho, so no pressure either way :-)
Goodluck everyone,
Ryan Neilly - NeillyAA @ Stars/Hero
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Hey guise!
First off let me start introducing myself: I'm 22 (just turned 3 days ago) my name is Arthur and I'm brazilian. Just a few weeks ago I quit my daily job for a federal court in Brazil where I made around 40K USD/year. Other than that I work as a professional model and I make quite a good amount of money from that. My girlfriend is also a model, we are gonna be moving to Bangkok in a few weeks to work there as Bangkok is one of the fashion centers of the world, so we can make a lot more money there as models than here in Brazil. We are already signed with Bangkok Modeling agencies so that's nice.
Obligatory pic:
(Me and Her)
Poker: Right now I'm a MTT grinder! In the past I've played a lot of cash games, grinded about 700k hands up to NL100 and broke even all the way. After trying a lot of different things I decided that MTTs is the only format I have a big enough edge to keep me on the grind and happy at the same time. Anyway, my goal is to give poker a real chance for the first time!
My goal is to make $20K USD in the next 6 months! I won't need that money to live cause modeling will be more than enough to make a living in Thailand. Some may ask why I'm doing this since I already have a nice source of income and the answer is simple: I love poker! Some difficulties I will find along the way:
-Will have to keep in shape, cause its essencial for my work
-Will have to manage a nice social life with my girlfriend
-MTTs schedules in Thailand will be crazy. Most of the big tournies will be running from 1am to 7am Bangkok time.
-Modeling will keep me busy 3 days a week tops, so I will try to grind at least 4 days a week, including sundays.
I'm planning on spending around $1.5K USD/month in Bangkok. I've been told that it's very cheap to live there and I will be splitting expenses with my girlfriend so I think that's a good budget to have.
I will try to update this thread daily starting on January 12th. In the next few days I wont be playing cause I'm speding a few days in my parents city before moving to Bangkok. I'm arriving in Bangkok on January 25th! Wish me luck!!
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This is like the 3rd time I got banned in the last 3 months or so, and dont know if I'm being a dick or LP is turning too gay and boring but anyway. I'll try to be a nice boy from now on.
w/e. politians are gonna politate.
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