so.. its been a while since I grinded - i miss it to be honest. But I'm working full time as a team leader managing a 15 sales people, which is a challenge itself. Met a girl just after new years eve, and we've been together since (not officially though).
some pics from a friends blog (notice that the summer is starting to hit sweden)
my gf and i a few months back
my two roommates and myself
So as soon as I fix my comp im gonna start grinding again, and I might buy a macbook pro soon.
if you call a corporation's customer service number which is based out of your home country, how long does it take you to begin speaking with a human who is actually from the country in which said corporation is based?
ok, so i played outside my roll and dusted like 2k after moving to nl100 too fast.
learned a lesson, why the fuck would i be able to move up that early when its against br management rules and a rule for just about every player. I'm no better than them and theres no reason for me to ever take a shot, since taking shots may pay off once in a while, but will always result in an epic fail.
I got too full of myself, too much ego, and thought the games would be soft enough to crush at nl100 fr, but one bad run below expectation, then some tilt, b4 i knew it, I was playing HU and HU SNG's like an idiot chasing loses.
If I were playing properly rolled, there would have been no emotion to losing 5-10 buy-ins and I would have been completely fine.
Also learned that when I have DS out of my roll I tilt easy *(pretty obvious)*, and that my ego was keeping me from moving down. Now that I recognize the problems, I'm working hard to address them and take it to the top.
im restarting from scratch and regrinding on my spare time from a bill, idk how much im gonna be playing with the $330 deepstacks going on at the venetian all week (25k for 1st), but i'll definitively be playing online during most of my spare time since the deepstacks are going to take up the majority of my roll.
I busted in the 1st hour today to a fucking donk who was raising every hand, set over set after missing a power draw a couple hand b4 (actually 2 power draws, one open ender with 2 live overs and tp w/ nfd vs mp who ended up making a set to beat my tp A2cc on an AJ7cc board)
meh, pokers been frustrating, I'm really annoyed with MTT's and ALL i want to do is grind cashgames, but with these deepstacks going on, its pretty hard to say no to going and playing in them with those fields being as soft as they are =
kinda down on myself, learning a lot lately, and really looking forward to patrick (bigred) coming out to vegas, and JC and Frinkx (who is doing Amazing at foxwoods right now, or was atleast yesterday, I hope hes still in it)
rS.eVaDe is going to be moving in with us on the 21st, hes a very strong nl100 - nl600 grinder, has very little leaks and has amazing tilt control and a great poker mind. I'm looking forward to that as well.
Lifes been good, yesterday I was really down on myself about alot of stuff, kinda regrouped though after a few good talks with patrick whamm and hattan, thanks guys.
ok, gonna start back on the 2, following my guide.
one more time, here she goes.
2009 Yearly Goals and BR management
FR MTT SNG HU
Full Ring
NL2 til 180 (18 bi for NL5)
NL5 til 220 (22 bi for NL10)
NL10 til 625 (25 bi for nl25)
NL25 til 2250 (45 bi for nl50)
NL50 til 5500 (55 bi for nl100)
NL100 til 12,000 (60 bi for nl200)
NL200 til 40,000 (100 bi for NL400)
NL400 til 65,000 (109 bi for NL600)
NL600 til 105,000 (105 bi for NL1k)
NL1k til 225,000 (112.5 bi for NL2k)
NL2k til 550,000 (110 bi for NL5k)
NL5k til 2M (can play all games under 200/400)
(ive had suggestions that I dont have to wait until 2M, the most likely of scenarios)
HU & MTT's - Must have 100+ buy-ins
180 MAN SNG's - 200 BI
90 MAN SNG's - 125 BI
45 MAN SNG's - 75 BI
(will move down if I hit the max bi for the level below)
6m + FR - 8-24 tables
HU - 2-8 tables
MTTs - up to 25 tables
Sundays 10% bankroll allowance if not staked that week
Avoid Fast tables (more time/more tables/more money)
Stop loss! use 90 min timed sessions or stop if losing 5 bi before 90 mins
When you reach the plateau for the new limit you can unlock the next limit in the stars limit restrictions, stay patient and continue to grind or take a break until the new limit is open and move up
took nl200 shot #2 but i took this one way too far however i guess it worked out. I played for 8 hours straight i think on every nl200 table running on cake which was usually about 8 but got up to 10 i think. It woulda hurt ridiculously bad to quit at rock bottom. It woulda hurt my pride anyway my br is still fine regardless when i was @ rock bottom but i was quitting if i lost 200 more. Glad I came out of the hole and actually turned a nice $400 profit at the end + probably a pretty decent deal of rakeback.
EDIT - NONE OF MY HIGH ROLLER FRIENDS ARE ONLINE WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO BUY HALF OF MY ACTION IN THE $162 HU SCOOP?
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decided to give myself room for losing 3 buyins and i lost my 3 buyins. I got raped so hard by this guy that bet 1/2 pot with nothing and full pot with the nuts. Regardless of the fact that I knew what he had at all times it didnt matter because he wins @ life apparently and worships the cake chef gods or something no idea. I wish i could flop straights and trips as often as that dude, life would be way ez. The worst part was that he would have some comment like "yawn" or "donk" after anytime i did anything iadf;aof fuck that nerd. From what i seen the game looks nittier if that's possible than nl100 and didnt really look any harder but was obv just one session and maybe i got good regs (there aren't fish on cake after nl20 only regs albeit no good regs)
he took like 1k off of me while i won vs everyone else, ridiculous. Guess I'll win 600 and try again
i would be pissed and jealous of humans.
Today there are wind gusts up to 50 MPH, and as I was driving to work today, i saw a bird literally being tossed around while in flight by the wind. In the background of my view of the bird, i saw an airplane, flying just fine.
Birds are meant to fly, and humans are meant to walk. When birds, who are suppose to fly, can't, and humans, who are suppose to walk, can fly, i would be pissed if i were a bird.
Pretty much my 2nd fulltime month ever. This is all 2-12 tabling although mostly 4-8 tabling. I put in a LOT of hours and tried really hard so it feels amazing to have that all work out with results that i'm very proud of. It doesn't look like I'm gonna get to move up to nl200 any time soon cause i wanna have pretty hefty pockets before I do but nonetheless very satisfied with the results and I'm pretty upset about not getting to move up to nl200. That's ok though cause these are basically the only nl100 hands ive played in 2 years or something so there's prob still stuff for me to learn here, 40k hands isn't much.
It's a 10k on Thursday. I'm not 100% I'm going to play it, going to see how much action I can sell. If I can't sell 50% I'll probably just play live cash or something.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm the casino................ ethics...................
So I went to the casino last night and got slowrolled and pwned by some hawaiian guy, lost around $900
oh well, he flopped the stones, I turned the nut straight (AK vs TT on TTJQ board)
had a really great weekend with Q (Quocy04), adolpho (rS.eVaDe, Danny and Bucky from San Fransisco *they stayed with Q and I)
Spent the day working on my FR game today, decided to play NL50 and start making some money back
Managed to win $107.30 in 6 hours of play at full ring today. Adolpho is teaching me so much about playing with no emotion, staying patient and giving my opponents more credit. My games coming a long way, although I realize I have sooooooooo far to go until I'll be a 1/2 - 3/6 winner itlr.
So, I ran 12-15 cash tables on my laptop monitor and 4-10 tournies on my right monitor (a few $4 180 mans, 1 $109 turbo (lost TT vs 88 for the chiplead with 90 to go....) and had a sick beat in the $55 turbo too...
oh well, managed to do well in the $33 360 man, ended up losing blind vs blind A8dd vs AQss for 4th place, and won a $4 180 man as well
Payed my first months rent here in Vegas, I'm exhausted right now, theres been so many lessons everyday out here, and tbh I've made some mistakes, and working hard to learn from each of them so I can become as profitable as possible.
Ok, so we have $320 deepstacks starting April 1st, around $30,000 for first, I'm most likely playing in them and having 50% of my action taken (anyone in vegas that wants to take 50% of my action is welcome to, other than that, Q will be taking 50% of my action sometimes and i'll take 50% of him sometimes)
Feeling really well right now, pretty tired, partied pretty hard with the crew this weekend, can't wait to meet more LP'ers and great players.
I've made so many realizations of how bad of a player I've been for so long. I've cut my VPP/PFR to 18.52/14.65 at FR and increased my AF by very much.
I'm going to spend 100% of my time on FR and MTT's (other than teaching my roommate some 6max and head up strategy)
I'm close to being at NL100 which is where I plan to ceiling for atleast 50-200k hands, maybe more
Oh...the guy that stacked me with TT last night on the TTJQ board had a few hundos under his stack, which really threw me off, if I knew he was that deep I would have most likely led 150 into the $300 pot instead of shoving, but w/e, learn from my mistake and make sure I know exact stact sizes for now on.
I'm working my hardest to stay away from any temptations that would lead me to bad decision making, and also becoming the best that I can be.
It seems that everyday in my new home in Nevada is a learning experience, trying not to get to out of hand in sin city and keep myself in check, although I still don't have a voice from fridays night out (well i do, kinda...)
Also, I'm going to make sure that I never play more than 10 hour live sessions for now on. I've been bringing 330 to the casino daily and leaving if losing, but broke that rule last night and ended up losing $900 after that guy stacked me (he slowrolled 2 players at the table, and me on the pivotal hand)
Went and got 1k more and by the time the money was there, he was racking up and I only won $45 off of him =
This week I'm going to spend most of the week playing online, with a few days of live play.
I hope your all doing well, Fayths at the Venetian right now...but to be totally honest I can't even keep my eyes open to go and meet him tonight. Hope hes still in town tomorrow
I'm really looking forward to meeting Fayth, Frinkx, Bigred, and the rest of the LP'ers who regularly visit my new home :-)
Gonna go listen to deuces cracked, I'll talk to you guys later and keep you updated
Just cashed out every bit of profit i made this month at poker because i didnt realize how fucked up my financial situation is. I gotta quit living like so much of a baller apparently or all ballers are massively in debt.
Looking forward to being in the green again but fuck its so depressing . I guess there will be no nl200 when I get my rakeback check.
Decided to stay in for MTT day, was staked for some big MTTs that I had another epic failure in (i mean cmon guys, i suck )
won the $16.50 360 man though :-)
so i put 200 on the other day, ran up to 1800 today, had a friend taking over for me when i had to go afk on and off during the day, so i ship him $115 so he can start the $3 sng's on stars since he plays on FTP (Dan crushes the turbo sng's there.)
Also won like $200 in the $55 cubed (lost AA vs 77 vs 7T (top set vs runner runner flush with 100tg...FML?) 1st in that was 20k
ugh, was real deep in the 3rebuy, and had something really fucked up happen, i flopped top set, c/r and get called by the FD. turn comes out, i boat up, ask adalpha what he would bet here, he said "timebank and bet 30k" - OH WELL - I DIDNT HAVE A FUCKING TIMEBANK! it folded! went on supermegatilt and busted out of the tourney after that, went n got some McDonalds and now taking rest of night off
I'm stayin on NL10 til I win 20bi on each limit, and going to continue my way up online slowly and grind live for the most part (cept sundays obv)
hrm, can't say it enuf, VEGAS > WORLD (although Taiwan does run a close 2nd imo)
We had a few friends stay the weekend, had an awesome time, everyone was cool as hell, we had a fuckin awesome night out on the city on friday, kinda partied a little too hard at the end of the night, s'all gud tho
Monday back to the live grind most likely
Working on eliminating all my spews from FR play (a great NL100 - NL600 player has been staying with us and helping us a TON) - literally pointed out like 205,695 spews that I had that I never realized were spews.
So, my new goals in life are as follows.
Grind my ass off at 1/2 for a long time (i don't even care to move up, its so soft and no reason to go into tougher games where the bi is only $500 instead of $300)
Going to play NL10 online til I win 20 bi, then NL25 til I win 20 bi and so on til I hit NL100, ceiling there for a bit and enjoy
So, we have these $320 deepstacks coming up in the start of April, my roommate and I are going to take 50% on each other in the tournaments, or just 1 takes 50% on the other and split profits etc.
Hrm, excited to meet Jennifer Harman on the 15th of April for the Harman Classic at The Venetian, thats gonna be so pimp (its a $1050 rebuy, 99% not gonna play in it, just gonna go watch the higher level players play and meet and maybe stalk jen?
rS.eVaDe - Adalpha and Quoc (Quocy04) have helped me SO much since I've arrived in vegas, idk where i'd be or what woulda happened with out them.
They're both fuckin awesome people, as well as Danny and Bucky who have been chillin w/ us as well (both ultra cool ppl and Dannys a great player with awesome potential)
Alright guys, I'm gonna go burn one for the last time for the next month or so (friends leavin in the morning, they brought weed, gonna enjoy it while its here, cuz i'm not buyin annnnnnnnnnnnnnny drugs while in vegas (unless an amazingly hot girls involved and wants some) :-)
GL LP
Much love
TTY soon
anyone comin to vegas hit me up
bigred ! - pm me, get my phone #, I can't wait to learn from you man.
Mad props go out to BigFrySmallF as well, hes such an awesome pimp ;-) Next week 4tw
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn JOHN + Whamm (the circle never ends yo!)
1/2 is fun and most nl25+ players can crush FR here
venetian is awesome, my regular casino
my roommates are straight pimps (seriously, they get me hookers for $99)
and ADALPHA - HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (rS.EvaDe)
great time, lost alot day 1 , won my last 3 days, i love 1/2 and won't move up until i have around 10-20k, since 2/5 is such a dif dynamic and its only a $200 difference since 1/2 is all 300$ bi
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. I guess there will be no nl200 when I get my rakeback check.
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