final hands from this morningby GameOverNoob, October 19
Submitted by : GameOverNoob
PokerStars Hand #105724357059: Tournament #801472420, $3.00+$0.30 USD Holdem No Limit - Level VII (75/150) - 2013/10/19 9:39:25 ET
Table 801472420 627 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: airnmen (801 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (2105 in chips)
Seat 3: vasilich1967 (22816 in chips)
Seat 4: ododos31 (2183 in chips)
Seat 5: ghiko777 (8798 in chips)
Seat 6: KotoKotunio (6718 in chips)
Seat 7: china2702 (1705 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: vrabac 2008 (10783 in chips)
Seat 9: Duaneoxo (8061 in chips)
airnmen: posts the ante 15
Hero: posts the ante 15
vasilich1967: posts the ante 15
ododos31: posts the ante 15
ghiko777: posts the ante 15
KotoKotunio: posts the ante 15
china2702: posts the ante 15
vrabac 2008: posts the ante 15
Duaneoxo: posts the ante 15
airnmen: posts small blind 75
Hero: posts big blind 150
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
vasilich1967: raises 150 to 300
ododos31: raises 1868 to 2168 and is all-in
ghiko777: folds
KotoKotunio: folds
china2702: folds
vrabac 2008: folds
Duaneoxo: calls 2168
airnmen: calls 711 and is all-in
Hero: calls 1940 and is all-in
vasilich1967: calls 1868
Showdown ododos31: shows (two pair, Eights and Deuces)
Duaneoxo: shows (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
Duaneoxo collected 234 from side pot-2
Hero: shows (two pair, Kings and Deuces)
Duaneoxo collected 5216 from side pot-1
airnmen: shows (a full house, Tens full of Deuces)
airnmen collected 4065 from main pot
ododos31 finished the tournament in 5273rd place
Hero finished the tournament in 5274th place
Summary Total pot 9515 Main pot 4065. Side pot-1 5216. Side pot-2 234. | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: airnmen (small blind) showed and won (4065) with a full house, Tens full of Deuces
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Deuces
Seat 3: vasilich1967 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: ododos31 showed and lost with two pair, Eights and Deuces
Seat 5: ghiko777 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: KotoKotunio folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: china2702 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: vrabac 2008 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: Duaneoxo (button) showed and won (5450) with two pair, Aces and Deuces
No specific info on villain. This was a mistake. He's calling too often here with his 8's and 6's to justify giving him 2-1 with his stack. I like my line with 2-3k+
Submitted by : GameOverNoob
PokerStars Hand #105726596738: Tournament #801475619, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level IX (200/400) - 2013/10/19 10:35:37 ET
Table 801475619 18 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Happykril (25964 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (6324 in chips)
Seat 3: noreturnback (26893 in chips)
Seat 4: baira87 (23002 in chips)
Seat 5: NadnarwiankA (20417 in chips)
Seat 6: datrue (30041 in chips)
Seat 7: Feni4kin (2324 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: nifty90 (3346 in chips)
Seat 9: KMart696 (15115 in chips)
Happykril: posts the ante 50
Hero: posts the ante 50
noreturnback: posts the ante 50
baira87: posts the ante 50
NadnarwiankA: posts the ante 50
datrue: posts the ante 50
Feni4kin: posts the ante 50
nifty90: posts the ante 50
KMart696: posts the ante 50
noreturnback: posts small blind 200
baira87: posts big blind 400
Showdown noreturnback: shows (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
Hero: shows (a pair of Sixes)
noreturnback collected 13798 from pot
Hero finished the tournament in 179th place
Summary Total pot 13798 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Happykril folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Hero (button) showed and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 3: noreturnback (small blind) showed and won (13798) with two pair, Eights and Sixes
Seat 4: baira87 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: NadnarwiankA folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: datrue folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Feni4kin folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: nifty90 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: KMart696 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Submitted by : GameOverNoob
PokerStars Hand #105731101413: Tournament #800659271, $8.00+$0.80 USD Holdem No Limit - Level VI (40/80) - 2013/10/19 12:20:21 ET
Table 800659271 242 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: natashka054 (2084 in chips)
Seat 2: mysliwiec82 (4614 in chips)
Seat 3: hinder5150 (9240 in chips)
Seat 4: BennoOnline (6189 in chips)
Seat 5: DJT313 (1483 in chips)
Seat 6: olegbac (9174 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero (2091 in chips)
Seat 8: autofold79 (1738 in chips)
Seat 9: Wh0AndBeni (4440 in chips)
natashka054: posts the ante 10
mysliwiec82: posts the ante 10
hinder5150: posts the ante 10
BennoOnline: posts the ante 10
DJT313: posts the ante 10
olegbac: posts the ante 10
Hero: posts the ante 10
autofold79: posts the ante 10
Wh0AndBeni: posts the ante 10
autofold79: posts small blind 40
Wh0AndBeni: posts big blind 80
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
natashka054: raises 160 to 240
mysliwiec82: folds
hinder5150: folds
BennoOnline: folds
DJT313: calls 240
olegbac: folds
Hero: raises 579 to 819
autofold79: folds
Wh0AndBeni: folds
natashka054: calls 579
DJT313: raises 654 to 1473 and is all-in
Hero: raises 608 to 2081 and is all-in
natashka054: calls 1255 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (7) returned to Hero
Showdown natashka054: shows (two pair, Kings and Queens)
Hero: shows (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
natashka054 collected 1202 from side pot
DJT313: shows (three of a kind, Kings)
DJT313 collected 4629 from main pot
Summary Total pot 5831 Main pot 4629. Side pot 1202. | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: natashka054 showed and won (1202) with two pair, Kings and Queens
Seat 2: mysliwiec82 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: hinder5150 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: BennoOnline folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: DJT313 showed and won (4629) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 6: olegbac folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Hero (button) showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Jacks
Seat 8: autofold79 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Wh0AndBeni (big blind) folded before Flop
Hello LPers, I'm flying to Punta to play the finals of LAPT this November 21-25. I think it's insane value but because I have to pay 900$ flight and MTT variance I wanna sell 60% of my 2500$ buyin, so 1500$ with 1.2 mark up = 1800$
I believe theres good value as I've played some LAPTs before and I'm already experienced in the field etc which according to a reg friend of mine who just went to London for the EPT theres no comparison in skill level (hint: SA sucks at poker).
I will start tomorrow! essay!by donjuako, October 17
I will start tomorrow: An Analysis of My Procrastination Habit
Abstract
Procrastination is a type of behavior which is characterized by delaying actions or tasks to a later time. In this paper I attempt to analyze my procrastination habit following a Cognitive Behavioral approach.
My alarm clock goes off and according to my daily planner I have to exercise and study for my Psychology test. It is now five thirty in the afternoon and I have spent the whole day watching a marathon of a show I do not even like. Exercise and study will have to be re scheduled for tomorrow.
My best friend was telling me the other day how now she gets up thirty minutes earlier to exercise. I told her that I had created this amazing work out routine based on my previous training as a soccer player. The exercise plan is basically getting up and biking five miles to the local pool, swimming for an hour, coming back home biking, and then in the afternoon biking again to the beach and doing interval training in the sand for an hour….and of course biking back home. She told me I was setting myself up for failure, but I assure her I was going to stick to it. This is of course, probably the hundredth time she has listened to my exercise plans that never get to be practiced. For the last two years I have created all kinds of approaches and goal setting strategies to exercise, I have said I am going to learn several languages, and have developed several ways to take my company to the next level. Sadly most of these ideas only stay in my head and never get to be executed.
Procrastination (2008) in Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia is defined as a type of behavior which is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. I am now back to school to pursue graduate studies in Physical Therapy and I know that I cannot afford to pursue this endeavor the same way I approached things in my college years. If I had the opportunity to seek professional help for my procrastination habit I would look for a therapist who follows a cognitive approach since I think becoming aware of the reason of my habit and being able to change my mentality is something I can achieve with this type therapy.
In the article Time Management and organization, Dombeck (1995) said that procrastination can best be understood by identifying the emotions associated with or underlying the behavior. Procrastination is an attempt to cope with emotional reactions of fear or failure, anger, dislike of the work, and seeking pleasure. King (1998) took this statement further saying that if the therapy begins with the notion that procrastination is not the basic “problem” but rather an attempted “cure” for these feelings and emotions then it is obvious that most procrastinators will have to focus on the real problems, underlying fears, attitudes and irrational ideas, in order to overcome the procrastinating behavior. After accepting this idea, the next step is to figure out what type of procrastination style the patient displays. From this point, each procrastinator must deal with his/her own unique emotions, skills, thoughts, and unconscious motives.
Dombeck (1995) described two fundamental kinds of procrastinators: one tense and the other relaxed. The tense type often feels both an intense pressure to succeed and a fear of failure. This type of procrastinator fees overwhelmed by pressures, is unrealistic about time, is uncertain about goals, is dissatisfied with accomplishments, is indecisive, blames others or circumstances for failures, lacks confidence and is sometimes perfectionist. Thus, the underlying fears are of failing, lacking ability, being imperfect, and falling short of overly demanding goals. This type thinks his/ her worth is determined by what he/she does. Thus, this kind of procrastinator will get over-stressed and over-worked until he/she escapes the pressure temporarily by trying to relax but any enjoyment gives rise to guilt and more apprehension.
On the other hand, the relaxed, pleasure seeking procrastinator seems, at first, to be less complicated, but careful observation of their thoughts and emotions suggests differently. This type is said to be much more common among college students than the tense-afraid type. These procrastinators may be addicted to people or preoccupied with meeting their more basic emotional needs such as attention and approval by peers, love, or self-esteem. For some students these other needs make studying almost impossible. In addition to emotional needs, the relaxed procrastinator’s thoughts may push him/her away from his work or studies. To such a person the gain is not worth the pain, especially since the necessary work is seen by them as so distasteful or boring that they just cannot do it (Dombeck, 1995).
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help a person who struggles with procrastination understand the causes of the problem, and learn skills to break through the habit. This includes developing skills to set concrete, specific, and realistic goals, to break tasks down into small manageable pieces, to make dates with others to do things together, and to establish incentives to carry out agreed-upon tasks. Overcoming procrastination has to be a gradual process and the treatment differs depending on the procrastination style of the patient (Knaus, 2002)
For the tense procrastinator, Fiore (2006), recommended a program that aims to reduce the fear of failing by helping the patent recognize his/her worth is not totally determined by an assignment at work or by a term paper grade, having alternate plans B and C for succeeding, in case plan A does not work, and using self-talk and self forgiveness techniques. Cognitive therapists suggest this type of procrastinator to keep a journal in which they record in detail their thoughts and feelings associated with studying. This helps them see how their fears, excuses, competing needs, and habits divert attention from studying. Based on this insight they can change procrastinating ways of thinking to productive ways.
Dombeck (1995) declared that the relaxed procrastinator will not feel much pressure to change, unless he/she is confronted with reality by some event such as failing a class or by serious thoughts about where his/her life is headed. This type of procrastinator shows a deep dislike for the chores they are avoiding. He suggested that these procrastinators create these feelings by telling themselves the tasks are awful, unfair, or by putting themselves down by setting impossible goals. Then they procrastinate to avoid their own self-created emotional dislike of the job at hand. Cognitive Therapy helps relaxed procrastinators to see clearly how pleasure seeking may, in the long run, lead to unhappiness and show them that procrastination occurs because they are able to trick themselves into believing it is okay to have fun now and put off our work.
Relaxed procrastinators according to Knaus (2002) need to identify and control three kinds of common diversions they use to avoid the tasks that need to be done. The first diversion is called action cop-outs. This is basically doing something that is not a priority. Examples of this diversion include watching TV, eating, playing, sleeping, or even cleaning. Once the procrastinator is engrossed in the diversion, they block out the anxiety, self-doubts, anger, or boredom associated with the work they are putting off but should be doing. The second type of diversion is called mental excuses, which include thoughts such as “I will do it tomorrow” or “I do my best work late at night, I will do it then”. The third type of diversions is emotional diversions. Taking drugs, listening to music, reading novels, and even getting involved in friendships, love, flirtations, or religion could, at times, serve as an escape from unpleasant but important tasks. When felt tempted to procrastinate the patient should use this temptation as a signal to become an objective self-observer, and use a procrastination log to gather information. The procrastination log is a valuable tool to help identify the perceiving, thinking, emotion, diversions, and action paths the patient follows as he /she procrastinate. This awareness exercise provides information to identify the “where,” “what,” and “how” of procrastination.
After identifying the causes of the procrastination the patient should follow a method to set realistic, attainable goals. Fiore (2006) suggests a unique scheduling system that includes fixed hours (classes, meetings, meals, etc.) and play time. Rewards are given if the patient starts a project and can concentrate on it for 30 minutes. The idea is to build the habit of frequently getting to work and to build the desire to work and to learn the habit of getting started on a task early. Practice starting studying several times every day for an exam next week is an example of his technique. As with exercising, getting in control of starting and making it a routine are the secrets.
After doing this research for this paper I can identify myself as a relaxed procrastinator. I can recognize that most of the thoughts that have held me back from exercising, studying, and working harder are mental diversions I have created and somehow believed in. I am aware now that my idea that only by exercising the same way I did when I practice soccer is the only way I can lose weight is just a mental excuse I have created to not follow a more realistic exercise routine. I am also aware of the pleasure seeking activities I engage in order to avoid important tasks. I will like to learn more about the techniques to overcome this habit and will be definitely using the other methods mentioned in this paper.
I don't remember the last day it didn't rain. It's been at least four weeks now. Holy fuck. Last Saturday, my sister's car and my car got flooded, which mine got the worst of it. Yay for the worst flood we've seen in a couple years that happened in less than one hour. Rain flying up. I am fucking sick of this fucking raining shit every fucking DAY PLEASE STOP RAINING OMG. I gotta air out my car but I can't have my windows down cause that would defeat the purpose because of bitch faggot fucking rain. xDDDD
I haven't been putting in too much grinding lately, been learning the art of Zoom poker though which is a big plus for MTT's and CG's (99.3% MTT's obv)
Ugh, so I just moved into my new place, I didn't have an address for my momz to send me my meds which sucked. So I have an adress now - so she can send them. Without them, its very tough to focus on a page in a book, let alone 15 hours of 15-30 mtt's stacked ontop of each other..
So now I have the address atleast!
The apartment is nice, I'll go back into the blog later and upload some pics, pretty standard, 2 story house, 4 apartments, hardwood flooring, orange walls, flat screen tv on the wall and my 32 inch lcd i use for poker under that. Cozy couch with foot extender etc, queen side bed, nice balcony, enjoy it.
feeling a ton more relaxed than i have since i arrived. very thankful, on Canadian thanksgiving i moved in, and obviously I have much to be thankful for.
Oh rambling..um
OK so I'm going to be 6-7 tabling (the best mtt's and just keep 7 going mb pop and 8th on the other screen if its too good to miss from the start)
Do this until next Monday and evaluate everything. I believe I can make more by risking less - I got burnt out after about 45 days and haven't been playing too much since.
My energy levels are rising again and I'm feeling good again though, this is a big plus.
GL to everyone at LP,
I tend to always do my best when it winds down to the last 9-1 mtts of the night anyways, maybe this will be sweet. I've always been to greedy to just keep 7 up. (started out 24 tabling fr cgs like forever ago)
ok just ramblin
love my new place and very thankful to not have the distractions i used to have.. it seems solid atleast.
Meh sunday wasn't so good last week, I'm kinda sour from it, I want a great performance this Sunday. Settle for nothing less.
worth a try, maybe someone is in South America
I won 2 of those packages so I'm selling one
it's ENJOY TOWER FEST, a brazilian event, it will be in Enjoy Hotel and Resort in Santiago - Chile
5 nights ( november 12 to 17 ) at Enjoy Hotel & Resort for 2 people with breakfast
transportation from airport to the hotel
750$ buy in to the Main Event
the package worth 2300$ without the airline tickets, and I'm selling it for 1500$ ( need to sell this week ) and I can negotiate, like 1300 + 20% tournament action ( the field is just old fat dudes so I'm pretty confident in taking action ) etc
Im disgusted by vagina but don't find men sexually attractive. Im not sexually attracted to post-op trans-women. I like shemales who have cocks. I want to be a shemale too and fuck other shemales. My family is a military family. I went to a support group of trans-women and a trans-woman called me a faggot and said I'm fucking up public opinion of trans-women. Am I wrong? I went to a boob job clinic in las vegas and they wouldnt give me a boob job.
I saw her again yesterday.... i was worried she would put up some last minute resistance again to sex, so i read a lot on the subject. but that was useless because the second she came here she literally jumped on me and put up 0 resistance. But the big problem is... i've never seen a vagina this tight. Trust me, i tryed a lot, but it was impossible to put my dick inside her vagina. Geez, sometimes i even tryed to put in my dick while semi hard so it can fit, but it was impossible to fit in. I mean, before it happened that i slept with girls where it was difficult to put it inside, but never IMPOSSIBLE lol. Btw i do have a good sized member, but not some sort of monster 12 inch thing.
After some talking, she admitted she's a virgin (which surprised me because i would never have guessed it, especially since she's 26 and cute and not extremely difficult). She also admitted she tryed to sleep with a guy before, but same thing happened. And she also said she is totally unable to give herself orgasms on her own, it only works with a guy.
I was able to finger her, even enter 2 fingers, but with 2 fingers then it was REALLY tight and it hurt her a little.
So hmmm i'm not sure what to do because this girl is actually really great. She likes video games, cutest girl i ever picked up, has good job, nice values, knows how to do good massages, we really love kissing/touching each others, etc. Also she's really easy to please with hands/mouth.
I told her to go see a doctor because from what i read on the internet, any girl can sleep with any guy normally, since the vagina is able to give birth to a baby and no guy has a penis anywhere close to a baby. Doctors probably got some solutions. ALso next week i might try again with a lot of lube but i'm afraid i could really hurt her.
So... what would you guys do? the girl seems really into me, and i'm also really into her, so dumping her is no easy decision. Cheating on her is really against my values and she doesn't deserve that she seems like a really good girl (even tho i thought about that one lol). I could also just wait it out, but geez i hate having no sex and its not like i got any problems getting laid.
I think maybe around a year ago, there was a fashion thread for nerds/geeks to dress more maturely. It covered everything from suits, to shirts, to shoes.
After reading over that forum, it lead into a small obsession and I started to read everything I could on fashion. Anyway, after a year of collecting/buying clothes I figured I'd show what kind of classic styles I find to be more accessible for people like me who has no need to wear a suit every day.
Honestly the best thing about having a "complete" closet is that I never have to worry about looking like a moron/manchild when I go out for socials.
I came across a thread on that other poker forum offering live coaching assistance, which peaked my curiosity so I bought a few sessions to see if I could plug any glaring leaks in my game. I just kinda wanted a fresh start and figured I might as well start with live since the play is so much worse. I came with my hat in hand knowing I was probably doing everything backwards at this point and looking to start over. See whenever I play live I seem to get completely lost in the hand. I could just never find a way to get paid off properly, it had to be something I was doing wrong.
My "coach" kinda drew my attention to the fact that I'm not really going into the hand with a plan. Basically just level 1 poker thinking "i has hand, therefore I bets". I mean I could actually put people on semi-accurate ranges quite often, but I just didnt know how to exploit it. So he's sorta helped me start shifting my strategy to "ok, how can I make money with this hand, vs this player, from this position". Most of the time the answer is "I cant" resulting a fold, which has been really helpful. For instance I would raise 44 utg 9 handed, because somewhere along the line I picked up a strat that says you should raise all PP's regardless of position if you are first in the pot. I get the logic behind it, balance and all that shit. I also get the logic that says you might not even need to balance, so just limp, you could flop a set and stack 3 people first to act. Well it's shit like this that just never panned out. I'd whiff most of the time and have no chance of taking it down on the flop no matter how the hand played out, or I'd flop a set and make like no money.
It wasnt until he asked me to describe how I win a big pot utg with 44 that I started stuttering and realized I had no idea, no plan at all. Just flop a set and hope someone else flops something big enough to cooler them with. Which is funny, because it also brought up this idea of what he called "reciprocity" from some book, which basically says something like you dont make money when you stack someone if they didnt make a mistake. If someone gets it allin for 200BB's vs me set over set, well they didnt really make a mistake. So that money I won wasnt really profit, because it could just go right back when I'm on the opposite side of the table. We make money when our opponents make mistakes. So instead of set-mining out of position with 7x preflop raises, maybe I should just fold and wait to pick up that hand in late position after a few limpers or even a raiser has given me a specific REASON to play that hand vs him. So I really made a concerted effort to look at the board, look at my opponent, think about what he could have (very loose players which can make it difficult sometimes) and then think "how do I get the most money here. Do I raise? Do I call? How much do I bet, small or big?" etc.
So for instance one interesting hand that I found out later I played kinda wrong went like this:
Hero (BB) is dealt 66
UTG (nit $350) raises $15
EP (station $600) calls
CO (maniac $500) calls
Hero (tag $600) calls
Flop ($60)
5 6 9 r
Hero checks
UTG checks
EP bets $20
CO calls
Hero check-raises $120
UTG folds
EP calls
CO folds
Turn ($320)
5 6 9 9 r
Hero checks
EP checks
River ($320)
5 6 9 9 4 r
Hero bets $100
EP min-raises to $200
Hero calls
EP shows 55
My line? Well I was obviously fist-pumping until the river minraise. I checked the turn to induce, and bet the river 1/3 for value against a straight or 9. But I knew he had to be strong, and his raise froze me. I put him on 96. Yeah thats right, one single hand, the only hand that plays passively to see a clear turn card and doesnt just get it allin right away. EP is a horrible player who earlier called a raise OOP with J3s and called a cbet on a 39Qr flop. So often I just freeze vs these players because I get nightmares of all the times I've been sucked out on. I mean he minraised for christ's sake, fish ONLY do that with the goddamn nuts, or at least what they think is the nuts. It just seemed like one of those "well theres no sense in raising, but I cant fold getting 6:1 with a solid boat".
So my coach says instead of trying to get fancy with the turn check, I should have just been pumping money in the whole time. Lead the flop, even into the nit and callers. The idea is simple, they either have something or they dont. If they have something on a board like this, they are calling/raising. We cant be missing any streets of value here. Even as played, on the turn I gotta just ship, especially after he calls a huge check-raise like that. Is anyone ever folding trip 9's or a straight? Fuck no. Get it in now while my equity is still good. Even though I was kinda sorta right on the river about him being so strong, I still cost myself some money from failing to have gotten it allin earlier despite what he could have had.
So that hand stuck with me, and I made sure to use it last night. This time it's a family pot limped to me in the SB and I complete with 78o.
He then says to me "wow, I didnt think you would bet with the nuts there". It obviously didnt really matter since he had 2 pair, but chances are he'd still be thinking that even without 2 pair and probably play it the same way vs me with any top pair, draw, etc. Assuming he'd overplay top pair on this board, these are the kinds of spots where I'm getting villains to make legitimate mistakes, and thus make legitimate profit and not just "reciprocal" profit.
Anyway we'll see where this goes for now. 1st night I won $1200, 2nd night I lost $600 using a 3 buyin stop loss (all coolers). I've picked 3 buyins both for tilt and image purposes. Obviously tilt is the most important, and 3 buyins is all I can really stomach right now before it starts to affect my play. The image part comes into the fact that once people see you losing, even if it was with the nuts every time, bad things start to happen. Fish start to play back at you, nits open up against you, everyone just suddenly sees you as some sort of mark because they know you keep losing. So it's just best to quit before you look like a tilted donkey and have everyone mysteriously playing their A-game against you.
Any NL~50 grinder in the house?by DustySwedeDude, October 11
Yo, I need help from some kind of proven low stakes/micro stake guy who has a reasonable sample of beating the crap out of micro stakes.
Requirements:
1. Proven winner at like NL50 or something like that. If you happen to beat like 10USD SNG's or something hard enough that could work too.
2. Easy to deal with/easy going.
3. Somewhat committed to getting better and trying understand poker as best as he/she can.
4. Fluent in English or Swedish. Preferably not too many time zones of CET.
If you think you full fill the stuff, can spend some time on a little (possibly reasonably fun) project I want to get started, send me a PM.
Lately I've been playing some STT SNGs and spamming some satties, with the occasional fun 180 1$ hyper. Been running awful for the whole night, but then I somehow managed to get ITM in one of those hypers and from there on I just killed the tournament. At the start of the final table I was 3/9, but been running super hot after that, like 80% of the flops hit me and the rest of the players were playing scared money (like 2.5 for 9th place, 50 bucks for 1st), and I just put pressure on them constantly. I know it's a nothing for you guys, and TBH even I would have smiled yesterday on a blog like this, but it's a REAL nice feeling.
I'm happy!
Submitted by : napoleono
PokerStars Hand #105305993755: Tournament #800262424, $0.91+$0.09 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXVI (1500/3000) - 2013/10/10 14:50:49 ET
Table 800262424 12 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 6: napoleono (57864 in chips)
Seat 9: MacLean91 (32136 in chips)
napoleono: posts the ante 300
MacLean91: posts the ante 300
napoleono: posts small blind 1500
MacLean91: posts big blind 3000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to napoleono
napoleono: raises 3000 to 6000
MacLean91: raises 25836 to 31836 and is all-in
napoleono: calls 25836
Showdown MacLean91: shows (a pair of Aces)
napoleono: shows (a pair of Aces - Queen+Eight kicker)
napoleono collected 64272 from pot
MacLean91 finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $32.76.
napoleono wins the tournament and receives $49.26 - congratulations!
Summary Total pot 64272 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 6: napoleono (button) (small blind) showed and won (64272) with a pair of Aces
Seat 9: MacLean91 (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Aces
I havent been blogging at all this year, nor posting too many hands as of late, i appologize for that but i have just been focusing hardcore on the grind and my game, ull understand why if u keep on reading.
With alot of people asking for updates about how im doing etc lately i figured its time as the year is comeing to its end soon(ish) to blog a bit, since i right now feel kinda hyped up and strong mentally.
Ok here we go.
Abit of Ket drama and Naz/daut/mig/smuft stake
As many of you know i lost and busted my roll last year, 400k$. I got a stake by ket pretty fast after going busto and played under him for a few months. We didnt make a solid agreement and everything was kinda badly done from both my and kets end. Long story short i lost some money on the stake, and we got some misscommunication where i thought our stake was over after that since he didnt want to shoot in more money, he was traveling alot during that period and we didnt keep the most active contact. With me not playing for an entire month i had no idea that his plans were that we were gonna continue the stake and clear some makeup and stuff before we were done with eachother.
I didnt even have an idea of what makeup was back then since ive never been or staked any1 before. As i went public and wrote a blogpost about getting a new stake things got really messy. Nazgul Daut Mig and Smuft took me under their wings almost instantly as i posted that stakerequest blog. The problem being me thinking mine and Kets deal was over and Ket thinking it wasnt over. Naz and the guys helped out tons with reviewing skypehistory between me and Ket etc to find out "who was right" and it was all very unclear and things got really rough for me and i had a sick breakdown where everything just felt so fucked up. I had some personal issues during that time with a deep relationship comeing to an end and with the big busting of roll, fearing being in depts aswell as playing on a stake was to much for me and i ended up crying for the first time in years infront of my computer with all the skypewindows up with investigation from Naz and the team aswell as Ket talking to both me and the team.
After a while discussing if i should or shouldnt owe ket money we didnt get any smarter and i really didnt wanna go judge judy on the situation. So instead i talked to Ket as a friend and he responded as a friend and i really felt shitty about everything and i felt like it didnt matter who was right or wrong, it was just a honest misscommunication error. As a friend i wanted to pay him back. Ket and i came to an agreement keeping our problem outside the new Naz-team stake. Ket was very supportive and we agreed of meeting somewhere inbetween with me oweing him a dept of a set amount of $ somewhere inbetween 0 and what i was oweing him in makeup instead or if i wanted to comeback play for him after my new stake was over that was fine too without any timeframe and i felt very relieved that we setteled and came to an agreement as friends. Ket is awesome and i appricieate his understanding of the type of pressure i was under during that time.
So Ket, i havent forgotten about us, im going to pay you before the end of this year no doubt, thats a promise.
Naz-team 5/10$ stake and BJJ in Thailand
As mine and Kets missunderstanding was cleared out i was ready to start grinding again for my new masters and things started out really well. After the first 2 months on stake or so i was up almost 60k$ on 5/10 stars and things felt great, in early 2013 i flyed down to Thailand and grinded from there and started doing BJJ and i started to feel stronger and stronger mentally.
It was the first time i tryed BJJ (ive only done some boxing and muaythai) and all i have to say about that is that BJJ is fucking awesome. I trained for about 2 months on Phuket Top team (link to their homepage here: http://www.phukettopteam.com/). Our BJJ coach there was a 3rd degree blackbelt from brazil and he was no doubt the best coach ive trained under. Im pretty sure im gonna go back there to attend more of his classes in the future.
Here is a clip from one of our trainingsessions:
U can see me in the background around the 57sec mark in yellow and a purple cap (was injured when the video was recorded, i was only there that session to watch and learn)
I hurt my back when a guy took it and choked me out and i wasnt able to train for the last couple weeks of my time there. Therefor as my visa was expiering during the 2nd month in thailand i flew home again to rest up and grind more. I ended up haveing backproblems for aobut 3 months or so wich was sad, i lost the spark a bit. I now train alittlebit home here in sweden. Hopefully i can go at it more actively since BJJ as stated earlier is fucking awesome. imo.
More about poker and qutting the stake
After thailand my heater was clearly over and i started to struggle alot. I was breaking even/slowly loseing over 4-500k hands mostly 5/10$ and i felt like shit again pokerwise. I didnt feel like the best player at the table or even close to it very often and i lost alot of confidence during this period, but that only motivated me to get more into pokertheory and study harder. The games have gotten really though and i think pretty much 50% of the 5/10+ Reg field on pokerstars are as good or superior to me. This was very new for me and Ive learnt alot this year and the entire experience has been good overall for my ego and getting a better grasp of what im capable of and my overall pokerskill. Ive felt like pretty much the best player on 5/10 10/20 for years prior to 2013 and clearly thats not the case anymore and it took some time for that to sink in. But like i said earlier, that lit a big fire under my ass and ive been working harder then ever before with adding more and more offtable study since this summer and ive improved tons and im really starting to the see results of that aswell as just feeling like a much better player now then i was when this year started.
As of August the 1st me and the staketeam talked things over and with probably 600k hands played on stake, being breakeven we made the decision to quit the stake while still being in the green, i was close to supernova elite phase, and i wanted to go after it and move down stakes and continue on my own, the team was very supportive of my plan and we all agreed on going seperatly with my backers only makeing a small profit. Wich feels alittlebit bad, i wouldnt mind makeing more money for them as they have been nothing else but supportive and very good to me.
Thanks to Ket Naz Daut Mig and Smuft Pinball and Dusty for everything u guys have done for me during this rough time, i really appriciate it.
Unfortunatly i dont have all the hands from the stake on my computer, i only have from april-july on this computer on stake, and the thailandhands i got on my laptop, but i felt like instead of getting those graphs posted here i can just tell my results instead, they arent very good. all together its pretty much a 600k hand graph going up 60k in the first 100k hands, and then pendeling between 0$ and 45k$ up and down up and down for the next 500k hands.
Moveing down in stakes for the first time in years, results and graphs
August 1st, i was finally playing on my own again for the first time in a loooong time. i deposited 15k$ of my own money on stars and started off alittlebit behind SNEphase 24 tableing 1/2.
I was alittle scared to be honest about how the skill level would be on 1/2 and if i could be able to masstable it profitably but after starting off with a 25 buy in day the first day as my own boss the pressure was instantly gone as i felt like i defenetely had nothing to fear down there without judgeing to much from the good first payday but more on the level of the regulars in those games compared to the 5/10 level (no offence to all of u LP 1/2 regs out there)
After buying acouple of FPP bonuses together with the profit i made on 1/2 i decided to take a 2/4 shot after only 2 weeks of grinding 1/2 (yes, i played 110k hands in 2 weeks ) once i hit 75 buy ins for it and change things up to 12-16 tables instead since i felt like i didnt do toooo well 24 tableing 1/2 as it often got very stressful. I hit a big heater on 2/4 and i felt really strong as i put in tons of hours in CRev and doing theorywork on my ranges during these months my game felt stronger then ever and takeing a step back was defenetely good for me accepting that i wasnt crushing 5/10 anymore. I feel right now that i took 2 steps forward with this movedown in stakes together with all the time and effort i put in off the tables.
12-16 tableing was defenetely my sweetspot, running insanely good helped out tons too obviously. As i bulldozed through 2/4 i started playing 500zoom as i hit 75 buyins for that.
Well, since i started playing 1/2 August the 1st this year ive only played about 2.5 months now on my own and im currently putting in most of my hours on 500zoom and have been doing so for about 1.5 month together with 2/4 and alittlebit of 3/6 + the small 5/10 shot i did one day wich ended badly.
Oh, i recently also deposited a littlebit on my bread and butter swedish site Svenskaspel, these are my results the past days (godmode activated)
The games are still extremely soft for the stakes ive been playing there, wich is mostly 25/50 sek aka 4/8$ but today i even took a 8/16$ shot wich ended up more then well for me.
Small sample over there but i really noticed how much my game really with capital R have improved this year. Playing with the swedish regs on that site puts things in perspective, it feels like im Neo in the matrix.
Supernovaelite
Today as i was playing 4 tables of 500 zoom together with 2-3 tables on the swedish site i got over the 800k VPP mark and SNE starts to become a reality now, im getting really close and im about 30k VPP above phase. Spotting that 20000$ number today floating beside the milestonebar felt really good. SOOOOOON
What are my plans for the future? Well, first off im gonna finish this brutally tought SNE grind and give SNE the finger. I can with confidence say, never again.
It has been a tough year, very tough year, breaking even and getting my ego and confidence crushed during the first 6 months of the year aswell as putting in all of these hours into poker, both playing and studying i cant really say ive had much of a life this year. But it has been a very good ride. I have forced myself to improve my game and get a better understanding of pokertheory, math and the "GTO" approach. Wich is all new for me, being what i would concider a prior washed up explo lagtard that have gotten destroyed by the new rooster of really tough good hardworking highstakesregulars. And im happy to say that i feel like ive catched up to them and i look forward to trying to get my ass back up on highstakes, WITHOUT supernovaelite. I dont think im capable of playing on that level on that many tables/hours that is needed for SNE, its insanely challaging and theres been alot of B and even C game volume, but atleast now my B and C game have improved to probably my old B+ game in quality. However i dont think i can do this again, unless i want to settle on midstakes, wich isnt really what i want to do, i still have great ambitions to become a feared highstakesreg again, and im pretty sure i will get there, with playing fewer tables and higher quality volume + continue working on my game outside the tables, i have all the tools, now its just up to me how i want to spend my pokertime.
Im looking forward to playing fewer tables next year, play fewer hours aswell as hopefully playing higher stakes without cutting out my new offtable workethic im sure i will get there. Im also looking forward to enjoy life more off the computer and get back into BJJ more again aswell as spend alot more time with my friends.
Thats all for now, ill make another update at the end of the year, hopefully i can continue and finish the year as strong as i have been the last months.
I don't even know what to sayby DustySwedeDude, October 09
Yesterday we went to the hospital, my girlfriend was supposed be in surgery today. The doctor comes into the room and tells her that someone's fucked up and that his opinion is that if they do the surgery it'll probably just do more damage then good. The reason someone fucked up is that the last bloody doctor at the same hospital decided to put down a diagnosis without even looking at the X-rays. When I heard that, while I up to a minute ago was under the impression that my gf finally, after about 10 years of pain, would get her back fixed, wasn't very fun.
Did I mention that we had to kill of her damaged (edit: according to the vet the horse was no longer "fit to ride" due to a damaged knee that was only getting worse) horse since we could not find anyone she really trusted to take care of the horse for a few weeks while she recovered from surgery? Oh, and that apparently someone has to hold the horse while they kill it? Guess who had to do that? I don't even like horses, but it's still no fun to do that stuff. It shouldn't have felt as much as it did to take care of it though, I am from a butcher's family after all. I'm getting all sensitive and stuff at my old age. Anyway, I kind of liked that horse despite it being, well, a horse.
RIP horse, you where a weird little bastard but I kind of liked you anyway.
We've got another appointment in a few days. She's probably get her surgery in a month or so, good thing I had yet to buy any tickets for Christmas. I guess we'll spend it here, with my mother in law, rather then in Budapest or something fun like that. I'm bloody annoyed. Called my dad,ranted and explained that I wasn't sure wtf I'd do if there's another fuck up. He told me he'd visit me in jail. I like my dad.
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