I haven't really blogged about serious things in a while but I would like to make a post today. Not that this post is particularly serious.
I started my internship in Jacksonville, FL in Risk Management. After trying my hand in live poker during the aftermath of what was left after black friday I decided to go back to school. Although I made much more money playing Live than I did online (not that my live earnings are that much either), it was too difficult to continue to play poker and even more importantly, impossible to grow as a human being.
Poker was a bean stalk that reached the heavens. You start at the ground and play for pennies. But you climb and climb, higher and higher. I saved all my money in order to move up stakes. All in order to climb this bean stalk. This illusion of one day playing 5/10+ making 400+/hr. I'm happy for those who have. I'm sure it takes an immense amount of time and hard mental work in order to reach such a level of mastery. But for me, I don't think it's in me to reach such stakes.
I always felt somewhat guilty but even more angry when I would win money from old senile seniors, and ex-veterans. Angry that they suffer. That they throw all their money away. But I suppose that's the extent of my goodwill because I sure as hell am not going to give any of it back. To win is to be superior (most likely genetically and independent of freewill). And to lose is to be inferior (most likely genetically and independent of free will). Where is the fun in that statement? Where is the ego? Do you ever feel superior when you kick a child's ass? I suppose it's easy to rationalize and the more complex the rationalization the further the issue is, and the easier you're able to do somewhat morally dubious things.
Anyway this is not a message against poker. It's not my intention to bash or relegate poker.
Stated earlier, I started my internship for the summer. I make a modest amount at $15/hr in a rather large firm. But I plan to spend all my money. I've already signed up for MMA focusing on the grappling/wrestling aspect (I don't really watch MMA or know that many terms) as well as French classes.
Although sometimes work sucks and the hours are long, I'm surrounded by brilliant, motivated people. But best of all, every hour I put in provides a service that 99% of America uses (if you use a debit/credit card, or have a bank, or have an account).
I don't know when Capitalism got such a bad rap. I'm sure someone leftish, used it inaccurately yet purposefully in order to stir a mob. Capitalism is a beautiful thing. For me to make a single dollar, I have to provide so much random value to the firm and it's thousands of clients. I think ppl hate corporate-government corruption. Promised jobs, laws against new and good products. Protecting corn, oil, and pharmaceuticals from having to continue to stay innovative and efficient. They want to become monopolies. Which of course is the opposite of free markets. And against the cornerstone of Capitalism.
Something I wanted to say earlier. My greatest rationalization. I'm sure we all think this.
I didn't invent the game. I just play it.
My boss said that, with a sad face when I asked him about his Romney sticker.
Hi there.
I'm thinking to move to New-zealand with my gf.
We're living in Malta for 3 years now and it's quite boring after a while.
Anyway I play poker for a living and my gf is working.
If I read correctly , if my gf get a working visa I should be able to get one too , is it true ? (I'm french if it matters)
What about the taxes ? I think there is none for gambling.
Would you you recommend moving to NZ ? pro/cons?
Which place would you recommend ? (keep in mind my gf need to find a job in IT)
It's just an idea for now , but the more I'm looking for info about NZ , the more I want to move here
quando tento depositar no entropay ou neteller usando cartao visa da santander ou mastercard itau dá um erro, fala que meu cartao foi bloqueado, mas na operadora nem chega relato da tentativa do uso.
procurei na internet e vi que outras pessoas tb tem o mesmo problema, mas sem solucao.
entao, como depositar usando cartao? boleto nao serve...
May was an awful month. Many things went wrong in real life and poker suffered both in terms of volume and results because of that. About a fifth of the entire month's volume occurred during 2 days where I was on major life tilt. I still made money in cash, but lost money overall due to more run bad at MTTs. One of my aims for May was to put in some work on my MTT game and short stacked play and I did do quite a bit of work off the table. Bought Holdem Resources Calculator and played around a lot with Nash Equilibrium ranges for 5bb+ante, 10bb+ante and 15bb+ante stack sizes and I definitely have a much better idea of how to go about playing those stack sizes now. A shame I lose almost every flip though; as you can see from the screenshot below I ran almost 4bb/100 below expectation in EV in MTTs. I know most people don't measure tournament results like that but it just shows how far below Chip EV I was.
This month my aim is to buy a new car , get in tad more volume (As always) and have better results. The car I'm currently looking at is an E92 BMW M3, there are 2 that I'm viewing this week, just hoping one of them is up to scratch and I can get a good deal on my part exchange. I actually put a deposit down on an M3 last month, but it was stolen from the forecourt the day before I was meant to pick it up which pretty much sums up how bad I ran in every respect in May. Maybe it will turn out for the best and I'll find a better example of that car this month. I hope so anyway!
Need moneybookers, will pay at stars. by BILAT_POWER!!!, June 02
Hi guys. I need a little help. I need 365 at moneybookers. I will pay at pokerstars. I will make a deal only with someone reputable and I am willing to send first.
You can ask whamm and spets who I am if you think I am a scammer.
Just passing the word along about a kickstarter opportunity. Donate x, y, z to support a docu for us (+ the masses) by us. If you are in the market for some coaching, around Vegas June 12, just want some swag + copy of movie and/or are just a supporter of the project there are a variety of great offerings:
Okay, after all I finished 4th and it was only a 180 2.5$ SnG, but it was super fun. And one time worked several times. Also it gives a boost to my game, as lately I've been playing awful.
Work's pretty good - the "season" which we financial auditors have in the first 5 months of the year has officially ended so it's time to chill and focus on self-improving. Also these are the last 2 months before I'm getting married. #cantwaitthehoneymoon
Well, i play microstakes randomly 50nl, have had played a lot of 25nl,16nl... And some reg online is offering me a coaching deal of 300k hands i have to play splitin profit 60/40 (60% on his favor).
Im currently playin on 50nl and i really want to move up, but i think this deal is too much because he will no give me any stake, im going to play with my bankroll.
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Had a horrible month. Ran like crap (I'm about 30k under ev on stars) and had some long HU matches on eurosites that did not work out at all. Still somehow up a lot for the year and well ahead of scheduled in that regard, but I'll really need to step up the volume if I'm supposed to feel good about my poker playing this year. June might be a fun month though. I'll play the Unibet Open in Portugal (http://www.unibetopen.com/events/troia2013/). Feel free to come say hi if you happen to see me at it.
After that I'll try to get a decent summer grind going. Thinking of going for some 12-tabling mid stakes action and see if I can get a decent winrate for maybe 150k hands or something like that over the summer just to pad the bankroll and get some confidence back. Given my propensity for not keeping to that kind of plans I assume I'll still take some 10/20 shots in good games but I really should keep away from 25/50. Variance is just huge and it's simply getting to the point where it's not a good decision to sit there even if I feel I have a decent edge, at least not until I'm somewhat reasonably rolled for it.
As per usual when I run bad I'm thinking I should start making videos again. This is my stats for the last year or so (my db crashed around this time last year, so since then). I removed a few 100 hands on 25/50 and 50/100 just to make it slightly harder to figure out my nick name. I've also not included the eurosite stats since that shoves me running about 60k€ over equity and I obviously don't want to be seen as just a luckbox donk. Despite the EV-stats and whatever I also feel I've probably been running hot over this sample in 4-bet pots and stuff because I really don't think my true winrate at 5/10 is over 10... (also lol@sample)
Anyone know of any site looking for PLO video makers? I almost feel like making a honest day's work.
In other news we'll probably get the results from the X-rays of my girl's back in a couple of days, at least I hope so. Stuff was actually fairly cheap, even if we had to travel for 300km or whatever to take them. I looked rather terrible when we got there having decided that showering was something I could do at the hotel later and wearing rather old and comfy clothes. My girlfriend wore a Burberry trench coat but it's at least somewhat discreet and since she's not herself early in the mornings and definitely not after a long drive early in the morning I kind of assume we both looked like we might not make a ton of money. When the X-rays was done I asked the girl in the reception if I should pay at once or if I was supposed to send the money somewhere and I also asked how much it'd cost. She told me I should pay later but got weird about it when I asked how much it was and I told her that no, we did not have any insurance of this and yes, I knew I had to pay it all. She almost looked scared when she told me it was 2600 SEK (~350 USD). She then repeatedly asked us if we were ok with that and if we knew that it'd be that much. The day before I made ~15k US or so. I found that somewhat funny.
Im at the strip club basement in PA and I meet this woman and I buy 2 strippers at once. One of them starts putting her face on my dick and balls and says this is how to treat a man. But I like the other woman better, her name is candy. She has an unreal ass. At the same time she has all these red dots on her face, I think its herpes and am somewhat scared. I dont want herpes. She gives me her card and says she gives massages. Next day I text her for massage and ask if she gives happy endings. She calls me and angrily tells me that, "You know you are wrong". Now im completely confused, shes a stripper and gives massages but no happy endings. What kind of sleezy ass woman is this? I moving to las vegas because there are happy endings.
So I've been focusing heavily lately on improving my PLO game. I've attempted to get a little better here and there in the past but this time I'm really putting everything I've got into it this time around. I figured you guys would be interested in my studying regimen and how I go about trying to reach my goals.
Essentially my plan is to (finally) move out of the US after this summer to be able to play on stars. If the games are good enough on ultimatepoker.com I shouldn't have to move, so just hoping that turns into something.
The first thing I did was get in contact with the strongest player I could find who is currently coaching. That was Brian Hastings. I've always found that I improved the most after taking the time to learn from some very smart players. Most notably on that list ATM would be Aaron Jones and Scott Augustine. Without those two guys I might still be struggling to beat mid stakes 6max. So anyways I paid Brian 10k for 20 hours, which we are supposed to start relatively soon.
The next thing I did was sign up a membership with runitonce.com. If you are a PLO player it's pretty crucial to have a membership there.
These are things anybody could and should do, the rest has to do with the best way you learn personally. I know a lot of guys who are able to mass multi table and get in tons and tons of hands and end up just learning by getting in lots of volume. I'm not one of those people, I'd guess most guys aren't like that. The thing is, if I play tens of thousands of hands in a short span of time I'm not able to think about individual hands so much or have enough time in game to actually consider all my options. I do a lot of my learning while in the middle of a hand just by sitting there and thinking about it, so what I want to do is never play more than 4 tables and keep all my sessions relatively short (about 1 hour, never more than 2). So the time I spend is basically divied up like this:
play 1 hour session-->
take ten minute break-->
review session-->
watch 1 video-->
take ten minute break-->
spend 30 minutes posting/reading whatever forums I can find-->
then repeat it all over again.
I've been doing this about 8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week for the last 3 weeks. I've already improved quite a significant amount. At first I would feel really lost trying to post on the forums not sure what to do in a lot of spots, whenever I'm really unclear as to what to do I try to think what questions I need answered in order to figure out what the correct response would be. This is where I struggle a lot, but once I figure out what those questions I need to be asking are, that's where I find I am able to fix a lot of my sticking points and spots I'm leaking money. I think one of the biggest things I was doing wrong for a while was undervaluing my hands in 4bet pots and another big issue was my bet sizing in 3 and 4bet pots. You have to know what you're doing wrong before you can fix it, if you never figure that out you aren't going to really get anywhere. Kinda obvious I know.
Anyways, PLO hasn't been going particularly well for me this month, think I'm down something like 14-15k, good thing NL is still going well as I'm up around 35k from that putting me at +~20k for May which is a solid result. I definitely won't be quitting NL anytime soon as it's my biggest money maker and I don't even think there's more than 100 guys who have an edge on me anymore at this point. Gonna keep plugging away at PLO in the hopes that I am good enough to grind 10/20-25/50 plo when I move to Vancouver at the end of the summer.
If any of you guys are gonna be in Vanouver around Sept/Oct/Nov let me know.
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