So its been ages since I've updated my blog, mostly because I've been lazy so anyway here goes..
During holidays went to Torquay again before going to Queensland with the same stooges as last time: Justeen (pushing4anal), Luke (karma), Jonno (pokerdoc) and this time Justeen had an American friend there as well name was Christa however spelling may be off.
Had an awesome time even though it was kind of sad when Christa had to leave; she lives in Michigan or something?
Which basically means its very likely we'd never see her again and I think Justeen died a little on the inside, pussy.
I wanted to post pics but Christa took all of them and I think to get them I'll have to create a facebook account ..
Also, Justeen and Luke made a bet which basically involves Justeen not being able to shave, trim or do anything to his facial hair until 2009 giving Justeen 4-1 on 1.3k so its 5.2k to Justeen if he ACTUALLY goes through with this. (He's asian so keep in mind its not going to get to a DECENT bear but stay as ratty and patchy looking as possible).
At the time of the bet it was kind of bummy looking but now its basically pubic hair on face and it'll only going to get worse, its hilariously awesome and I must get a photo of it soon to post.
Anyway, university has started and I'm trying once again to approach it with great gusto and attempt to NOT fail once again while at the same time make enough money to head up Switzerland in July.
Reason for wanting to go to Switzerland is that my sister is up there on an exchange program for a year and I think this would be a good chance to visit her as well as have her take me around to places since she'll know decent French by the time this is over.
If anyone knows of cheap value for money? places to stay in Switzerland let me know?
At the moment I'm looking to spend about 7-8k for a month (flight will cost about 2.3k~ return) and I have no idea about the pricing of food and accommodation so anyone who lives around there and has some ideas also give me a shout out?
Oh and these videos have been posted on the forum already but for the friends who aren't LP'ers:
Also I've been watching a bunch of movies that I've downloaded recently (my opinions are pretty much worthless but I'm going to share anyway because I LIKE to share) so I'd suggest scrolling past this bit:
Juno - because I wanted to watch it again since its so awesome and Ellen Page has taken over my obsession with Emma Watson.
TMNT - was pretty good considering its been SO long since I've seen the cartoon.
The Holiay which I loved but that's probably because I'm a HUGE sucker for romantic comedy shit but even then JACK BLACK WTF? Why is Jack Black in a ROMANCE movie of ANY kind????? I mean I like Jack Black but seriously this guy shouldn't be doing romance.... http://www.aolcdn.com/red_galleries/jack-black-400a052307.jpg
I mean i also watched Tenacious D and I liked his music before I saw the movie and I think he's DEF cool but wtf at whoever casted him.
Rush hour 3 - Don't watch it, go sit on a fucking toilet for the 2 hours and just stare at the floor. This movie sucks so hard that it was ALMOST entertaining watching and seeing how much more it could fail. It just randomly shat all over your mind with attempts to put the characters into situation where they could spew their "hilarious" lines.
Dan in Real Life - Very interesting movie to watch with Steve Carell and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Little Miss Sunshine - Another movie with Steve Carell in it, loved it and think you'd have to be a heartless asshole to dislike the little girl in the movie. And the ending is hilarious as all hell.
Superbad - Nothing needs to be said.
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - Kind of wierd, had some entertaining moments and I like kids movies and stuff so it was okay.
Alvin and the Chipmunks - Jesus, the voices of the chipmunks irritated the hell out of me. Initially I was like oh okay they're cute chipmunks with 'cute' voices right? But after an hour of listening to it and their fricking singing it just pissed me off
The Warlords - Jet Li movie with Andy Lau, thought it was pretty damn good would recommend anyone who doesn't speak mandarin to find good subtitles though.
War/ Rogue Assassin - Another Jet Li movie, not as awesome as warlords but still decent to watch when you're bored.
Beowulf- I didn't know anything about the history/fables so watched it completely unaware of what the storyline should be, thought it was pretty decent for an animated film and hell it has Angelina Jolie (animated cgi though..) in it so watch it.
The Seeker - lame, I assume the book is a lot better and I'm going to try find the text because the movie just sucked on so many different fronts.
And by far the most fun bunch of movies to watch was the Oceans trilogy.
Meh I've rambled on for so damn long, my bad so I'll leave everyone with this:
March Update: Slump is thankfully overby hubmaster, March 08
Glad to report that as of today, my $95 blow is nothing more than a bad memory. It took me 2 weeks to build up the $95 dollars and then some that I lost in one day, but I was able to overcome it in less time than I thought. Originally, I guessed I would need a month but I guess I learned that expecting the worst makes an accomplishment feel much better. Playing fewer tables, seeking advice in certain situations from friends, and actually thinking about what I'm about to do instead of playing like a robot helped me a lot. Since I can only play a very limited amount of hands per month, it takes me much longer to build up my BR.
So far it's been a very good March. I'm up 900 BB in 10NL for the month of March and were only 1 week into the month. This time last month, I was up a little over 500 BB for the same time and it's way better than the 90 BB for the same period in January. I'm hoping that I can move up a stake to 25NL by month's end. Historically, I always have had trouble when moving up to a higher stake, (idk if this is standard or if this is just me) hopefully, this time around, it will be better. Hopefully, I don't jinx myself and tilt it all away.
It's not a machine, an equation, or a system that will help us find
our inner peace while we pursue poker as a career. It's exercise!
For the past three weeks i've put in 30-60 minutes on my bike before
or after my poker sessions and I always feel euphoric during and
once it's over. I mean even without poker tilt or stress, I find
myself laying back on the couch playing a video game and sitting
there in awe to how magnificient fantasy roles or movies can end up
being, which makes me feel a bit anxious as to what i'm missing in
my life. But that's the whole problem: I know for a fact that my
life has been good up to this point so why should I sit there and
mope about god knows what when all I really need is to uncloud
these fictional thoughts and get back on the poker track. Well,
that's the whole thing, and this is where exercise came in. It's
suddenly hit me that everyone in this world works so hard to pursue
figments of accomplishment, status, and peace. I truely feel that
the simplest things in life are exactly all that we need, as people
on this Earth, to live a strong and fulfilling life. So, that being
said: Play poker for every reason that you interested in the first place,
Eat well and treat your body good so that you may be awake longer each day,
exercise and push your body to the test during exercise to meet that
sense of fulfillment and accomplishment that you can always keep within
yourself, and live your life in the present while still keeping a lazy, yet
focused, eye on your future.
God, its so emabarresing that I still manage to tilt once in a while. HU is sooo swingy and sometimes its so hard to keep your cool. Today I sat down with a pretty bad player, in 50 hands I was up 2k on him mostly heater stuff but he was playing bad. We continued playing and got really really deepstacked. Like 350bb+. I love playing deep as hell against bad players just because, well, I guess everyone realises why that owns.
He kept making really bad calldowns that turned out to be good and shit like that. He also coolered me in a spot I think I could have gotten away from but im not really sure. Not going to go though it but I river a one card K high straight in a reraised pot and he c/shoves me with the rivered back door flush. All in all I have to say he was pretty lucky thoruhgout the match and yet he missed sooo many value bets.
Eventually I stacked off in a spot where I definitely shouldnt have stacked off.
Im to crushed to find the hand but i raise he 3-bet i call with K9s. Flop comes 9x8d4d he leads I call. turn is 5x he leads big(this is really standard with all sorts of junk, he 2barrels anything when i smoothcall on drawy flops) I call and river comes bleh I dont remember. I think it was an over but not all that scary. Villian shoves. Now, we have done this a couple of times and I think the last two times river has gone check/check and Ive raked in the pot. A few times he has shoved and I have folded every single time being pretty damn sure he was huge. Now, in my semitiltness I convince myself hes frustrated and shoving his entire range. I call and he showes 67 for the turned straight.
I really hate myself for being frustrated enough to call that. Villian was bad, I could have taken his money in so many other spots and I definitely dont think hes bluffing enough there. BAH!. By now hes break even and the momentum has definitely shifted in his favour. I stay for a while thinking I have an edge, momentum or not. Eventually he managed to stack me like 3 times. Two where probably pretty standard and one 300bb pot was really bad. He 4-bet me for the first time in like 20 min. I call with 99 and call off my stack to his AA on a bad flop. Bleh
After being up 2k on him I ended down 1,6k and he leaves. Swings like this are not impossible when you play a guy superdeep who doesnt mind playing huge pots with marginal hands but I could definitely have avoided some of the spots where I tilted away aloot and it fucking sucks assfuck. Im so pissed at myself right now you cant believe it.
I think what I need to do is play shorter HU matches. I know this doesnt make sense when playing someone I know I have an edge against and I hate myself for saying this but its true. When I was up 2k and lost the first all in(putting me at 2k and he at $800) I should have left. Why? Because momentum shifts a bit and in this perticular match, when I have won 2k in 50 hands, I will not be playing my best. The sick heater will cloud my judgement and I will more or less be desperate to win back up to 2,4k thinking im invincible. In a sense I will be chasing losses even though Im up 1,6k. Not playing your best and getting into a deep Hu match is horrible. I probably wouldnt leave against a reg i respect since its so bad manner but this guy has done shit like that to me before, playing 50 hands winning a buyin and leaving.
Fuck it Im done rambling. I have learned a lesson and I will stay away from HU for a couple of days just to maintain my sanity. Ill just grind the 6-max tables since they are very soft especially on the weekends.
Been finding myself staying things like:
“firggen luckboxing nits”
“god I run so bad”
“fgfsdsggf” (yeah, I can actually say that)
“if I could just catch a goddamm hand” (learned that one from tuff fish )
Even though I’m half joking when I say these things, just the act of saying them reinforces and builds up tiltly emotion, which makes poker less fun and can very easily lead to spewtardation.
A few replacement phrases:
“I RUN GOOD ALWAYS” (Mez to Baal)
“I play good”
“No one can play these cards as well as I can” (Phil Helmuth)
“I have clearly defined awareness of a single goal: to make the best possible decisions that yield the highest expectation” (Ket)
I want some more so feel free to post, cheesier the better
This is another factor in the framework of Kets Article, which I have been thinking about a lot lately.
Also looking for some good non-distracting music to play poker with, if you have any suggestions dear reader.
Going to Vegas soon, so schedule this week!by BigRed0000, March 08
Hey Everybody,
I'm going to be leaving for my hometown next Friday, then for las Vegas on Saturday! I'll be staying at Luxor w/ Myth and Frinkx, just going to chill and play some live poker and enjoy being 21 in LV. I've received several PM's about coaching and just wanted to let you guys know that I will only be available till this upcoming Thursday (Mar. 13th). My first lessons to KimseoungChan have gone great imo and I really think he has benefited a lot from the help. GL at the tables everyone,
At like 3pm I came to my friends crib and we're just hanging smoking weed and drinkin some beers,I managed to get shitfaced after 2 beers and 2 joints cuz I haven't slept (I usually sleep during the day) so im like fuck this im going home to bed...
At 11pm I wakeup and the same friend calls me (Whitey)that he needs to borrow some cash etc and asks me will we go out so naturally im like fuck yeah,got nothing else to do anyways.
So we go out get hammerd in a local bar for shit and giggles,it was quite fun cuz the whole crew is there and me and another friend had a prop bet for like 20$ are the fish in the aquarium real or not,finally we ask the waiter and he says they're fake,I win 20$ ship,e-z life.
So finally at 2:30am they drive me home and I decide its a good idea to try to play poker lol since I've been running like total fucking crap this month...was up 4 buyins in 16k hands,totall bullshit all over the place,didn't get paid off on a set for 5 days and haven't hit one in 3...Until today that is lol.
The drunk session turned out to be a massive success since I won 12 buyins KEK,was hitting all over the place felt extremely good,so now im still sobering up a bit and making plans for tommorow...
The guy that lives upstairs from me has a guitar, and he plays it really loud. I left him a note and complained to the landlord, but he didn't stop. Finally I called my landlord and threatened to move if it didn't stop. He told me he was going to send someone over to take care of it. I wondered why he didn't just go himself but whatever, as long as it got taken care of I didn't really care. A few minutes later I hear somebody go stomping up the stairs, then some commotion, then stomping down the stairs, and then sweet silence for the rest of the night. This was clearly the work of a goon or goons, which made me realize that I need some goons of my own. Problem with the neighbors? Call the goons. Somebody slowrolled you playing live poker? Goons. So if anybody knows some good goons let me know.
I work up to sometimes 12 hours a day and i don't wanna grind poker after all of that. Prob just gonna play poker for entertainment and gambool it up in a tournament every now and then and just deposit as I feel like it.
I'm gonna try to save $300 a week though and take a shot at being a live pro sometime in a few months, dunno how that will work out but having money saved can never be bad anyway
So as you can see, starting from March 4 i've just been having non stop, massive losing sessions. Not gonna clutter this post with my whining or anything, just that my confidence is overall pretty much shot and I'm on the verge of either moving down (though I'm still heavily overrolled for 400nl anyway) or taking a long ass break.
THE GOOD NEWS is I'm getting my car VERY soon, maybe even tomorrow :D. For those of you who haven't been keeping up since the first post, I'm gonna get an Infiniti G37, Ivory Pearl exterior with Graphite interior. PICS! (shamelessly stolen from other people):
So pretty much this car is just about the only good thing in my miserable life right now, hopefully it revitalizes my passion to play this ridiculously stupid game.
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(He's asian so keep in mind its not going to get to a DECENT bear but stay as ratty and patchy looking as possible).
and it'll only going to get worse, its hilariously awesome and I must get a photo of it soon to post. 
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