My Big Mistake And My Confidenceby capaneo, July 29
So I went to play 100nl a session yesterday right after I was running like fuckin shit for two weeks.
I started well at doing like 8-9 tables and then I got bored and started spweing around. Then I added more tables and next thing you know I was playing 17 tables and I thought it would be a great idea to watch a movie too. So I watched T2 since I just felt like seeing some old classic action movie. Then when finished I did the biggest mistake of my life! I was avoiding T3 for almost 5 years now. But after watching T2 I really wanted to know whats gonna happen. And after all I said to myself "How bad can it be?" Very little I knew!
The biggest piece of shit that Ive ever seen for a sequal. Defenetly worse than any fuckin sequal I can think off. Scream 4 was better than this shit. How can you take a dive this fuckin bad? All the jokes were fuckin insanly retarded and all the fuckin acting wanted me to take my monitor and throw it out of the window of the 17 floor. But the PS tables on the other side of the monitor stoped me. So Im %100 sure that T4 is gonna be even a bigger load of crap that T3 since in hollywood things only get worse as the ## goes up.
Here is the graph of yesterday. + Show Spoiler +
So I played today at 200nl again and watched a movie called "Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny"
And obv I had to play some guitar after that. So I took a bunch of small breaks in the middle. I was wondering along the whole way that how a movie this dumb and unfunny can be entertaining!! But anyhow it was fun. I finished by watching a documantry about Banks and Banking systems and stuff cause I just said why not learn more about banks?
Im thinking of doing a bunch of youtube music clips like almost all the fags you see do but I dont have a webcam so maybe I just do sound? But i need a good mic for that. Do you guys think that s good idea anyway?
Here's another disgusting move Johnny boy is making (and hypocritical considering that he promised a "clean" campaign). He's accusing obama of ditching wounded troops on his trip to Germany. What happened is that the Pentagon told Obama he couldn't visit with any of his current staff since they were his campaign staff and not his senate staff, and they didn't want a political thing to come of it. Obama canceled the trip to avoid making it a political thing and since he wasn't prepared for it anymore. But Mccain claims he only did it cause he couldn't bring cameras in, even though Obama never planned on bringing camera's in. It's just another example of McCain's willingness to twist anything to create a reason to launch a negative campaign against Obama. And if you watch Fox's coverage of it, you'll see that they are trying to help spread the lie.
Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house:
And a little more on the McCain Ad that they're talking about:
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. A few things have come up that might require me to ask for a stake on a site other than PokerStars (preferably, one of the softer European sites). If anyone is willing or knows anyone who would be willing to negotiate a 5-10k stake, let me know.
4 tabling NL100 6max. nice way to move back up, first time I've run good in a long time. I'm looking to keep this going straight to NL1000.
BHOO YEAH!
Thanks to R_i for his 'help' improving my game there shall be much more sharpening the saw as I bulldoze my way up the poker ladder. atm I'm going for spending as much time studying/analyzing hands as playing
My past 72hrs as a poker player have really shown me how scary this lifestyle can be. I guess everything starts off with a girl. I went out this weekend with someone I've become infatuated with for the past few years. We had a rough falling out and she recently moved back to continue her schooling here and after 2 months we arranged a time to go for coffee. I'm sure I made a massive idiot out of myself while we were together, slurring words n forming incompetent sentences but I really couldn't help myself. She's aside from being one of the most beautiful girls i know, one of the smartest. Back to poker, I was running really terribly the past little bit and since I was in such a good mood after seeing her i decided to go for another session. My session went just as bad and now all i can think of is her and i'm really playing poorly! So i go out that evning with a friend and we get hammered at some desert bar and I come home and i insta log on to pokerstars. I'm drunk, very drunk and now im slightly depressed over thinking way too much about the past week. I dump 6buyins at HUNL50, 1buyin @ NL400, 2buyins at NL200 and a bunch of HHSNG's trying to chase back my losses now (still so drunk its slightly scary) HH's are a joke. I drop ~2k of my 3.5k roll... and now im really depressed!(24hr self ban) I spent over 24hrs in bed and today I decided I can't take it anymore. I sit down, with lots of coffee, and a good mentality to play, and my session starts TERRIBLY, i get involved in sick cooler's and i lose 4buyins. I take a small break, i get back... I run like ELECTRIC JESUS and I make 1100$ (?)buyins @ NL50 /NL100 w/ some good table selection. My roll takes a nice boost and I'm ready to get back.
Well my wife and I just got back from our cruise to the Eastern Caribbean which was pretty fun. I really enjoyed it. Pics later from that. But playing on the laptop i did something I haven't done in a while...WON A TOURNAMENT. About Effing time. 'nuff said.
Played around 10k hands today at NL200 FR 24tabling, I'm tired lol but I wanted to unlock it before the 'Double your VIP status' tourney for Supernova occured. So hopefully I can luckbox a Supernova Elite on thursday
OK, I haven't play poker for ages and decide to come back this summer. I have basically nothing else to do apart from waiting for uni to start. I was beating 100nl before i stopped last winter due to the heavy workload in my course and final year was just a bit too important. I only have about 1k roll to work with, so I guess I will go for titan since I can get pt3 that way as well. Just wish the standard now isn't amazingly high and I run ultra bad at the start.
Being a life nit and a cashout junkie Im still not sweetrolled for 5/10 but I have enough to take some serious shots when the games look soft. Lets go for 200k GOGOGO
Due to most University exams being over i have some free time now.
I did 2MMA trainings the last 5 days and i was surpised how fucking hard that shit is
lol i wasnt aware how physically exhasuting and also painfull MMA is when i did it 3-5 times a week in the past.
but after 1 month break with absolutely no MMA my first training session made me wonder how in gods name i have such a hobby. lol
we normally train 2-3 hours a session with a 40minute warm up routine 1h technique 20min sparring and another 20 minutes strentgh or otehr stuff like kicking or wrestling endurance excercise etc..
After 30 minutes into the session i was extremle close to puking all over the place ... ( this is not meant as a joke ... i really felt my stomach is going to puke with like 50% chance the next minutes)
luckily i hold ^^ ( yeha Lee)
The first minutes of sparring after 1 month break were also kinda strange.
To be honest i felt a surprising amount of fear and also a nice amount of pain ^^ I was surprised how fast your pain recognition recovers in just 1 month break
But when the MMA training was done i felt so good !
All my bones and muscles hurt ... i was totally exhausted but at the same time i felt like winning the sunday million or whatever.
I dont know why , but figthing MMA gives me some kind of deep inner peace that nothing else can give me.
I am not a hughe guy and i am not a heavyweight ... ( only 173cm and 67KG)
I also dont look like a fighter and i am not extraordinary good at it. ( though I am not bad at fighting i am also nothing special. I know my stuff and i trained a good amount in the past. I love fighting and i have hard bones and can take lots of damage ^^ Hopefully i might win some little amateur torunaments in germany within the next 12 month but i am not the material of a Real born fighter who will ever make it to UFC or whatever )
Nevertheless when i Fight i kinda feel free, happy and alive.
My 2nd train after the break was on Friday and i also noticed i get used to it pretty fast again.
Well what have i been doing the last days except for MMA ?
Poker u might guess ? ( yeha that actually was my plan)
But instead i played a shitload of Diablo 2 on B.net.
Lol this game makes me addicted even though i dont really like it that much ...
Its just that i cant stop playing the game when its on my harddrive
I played it average of 5-7h a day in the last weeks T_T
I deleted it from my harddrive just 30 minutes ago ... cause i cant see myself stopping this total waste of time otherwise
NOte to self : Dont buy Diablo3 ever !
I even ended up rushing people trhough Act1-5normal with my Lvl 71 necoro for free ....
DOnt know why i waste my precious time with helping other people to level up in a computer game >-<
Well the game itself is good and funny but i cant say its an outstanding Diamond like Broodwar ...
Its more addicting though.
Okay i hope i will play more poker now that i dont have D2 anymore
Here are some Nice MMA and other martial arts videos i like
MMA GSP ( My favourite fighter )
Ryu Narushima in Kyokushin ( He has so sick speed and nice technique)
MMA upsets and underdog wins ( Also including the the Underdog Fedor beating the Pride champ Nogueira for the first time
+ BJ beating Hughes , Conan beating Anderson Silva with the sickest submission in MMA history. ( flying scissor Heel hook)
my friend and main Trainigs partner from my MMA dojo fighting in an amateur competition ( with helmets but headbutts allowed)
Ok, so a half year review is a month late but here goes anyways.
I really started playing poker about this time last year and spent the second half of 2007 learning as much as I could and putting in a ton of hands, even grinding out supernova at NL100. Unfortunately the result was a severe drop in my stamina and disipline to put in a lot of hands per month.
This year I have averaged less than 20k hands (and less than 30 hours) of poker per month - which is a fraction of what I used to play. Which really is a shame because I'm playing better and at higher stakes and making a lot more money.
Here is my graph for the year, the downswing in the middle was my first shot at NL400.
A pretty consistent $100/hr without considering bonuses etc, so I'm pretty happy with poker as a hobby right now. I have considered quiting my job and playing poker full time but for now I'm content with keeping it a hobby and a source of extra income. My biggest concern financially is that some law will be passed or some other trend will cause the games to dry up so I believe sticking with my career (which I really enjoy and am good at) is the safest approach. Outside of that I think it's also healthier mentally. The financial freedom poker brings comes at the cost of the daily grind, which I'm pretty sure would drive me insane.
Of course that said, 20k hands a month is still pretty pathetic for the amount of tables I play and I definately think I should be picking up the slack in the second half of the year and pulling in some more profits.
Oh, and I'm going to vegas later this week. I've only been once for a weekend (stayed at the luxor) so if anyone has any "must-do" ideas please drop me a line here!
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there shall be much more sharpening the saw as I bulldoze my way up the poker ladder. atm I'm going for spending as much time studying/analyzing hands as playing
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