My life // facebook // new websiteby MARSHALL28, March 13
So I'm in the process of putting together my own website. It's just gonna be all about my life and me and there will be a bit of poker stuff sprinkled in here and there. I might make a few training videos and sell them for $20 a piece just for fun and to build a bit of a following to the site.
I'm working on doing more video commentaries as well as graphs and a forum section where people could just ask me whatever. I was also gonna put up some video blogs, you know, me talking to a camera, showing you a bit about where I live, you can check out my setup and probably can find where my new eventual home for my blog will be.
What I wanna do now is like work on starting stuff small. If you guys are on facebook I want you to add me. I never really used it seriously before because I thought it was kinda lame. But now that I'm seeing what capabilities it really has to reach a wider audience I think it's the right thing for me to do and I think a lot of people will find the random stuff I post and the comments I write to be pretty cool.
I'll do a monthly pool with all the people who add me via this blog so make sure you let me know who you are. At the end of the month I'll give one of the winners a free hour of coaching. Every month.
what you get out of it depends of what you put in.
I wrote the part about the day 1 hands before day 2. I wrote the part before “day 1b went well” before day 1. Thus I'll keep it like this despite the fact that it might look kind of silly.
We'll all go togheter when we go... At least that will be the case if North Korea gets holds of a big enough number of ICBMs.
I'm old. Went to Unibet Open in Denmark. Day before my 1b start day some young guys asked me if I was Dustyswede. I told them yes, they told me they knew my a little bit from liquidpoker, one of them got coaching from a well known LPer and asked me if he could send me some hands to look over. I like polish people, or at least the few I've meet, so I told him yes. My girlfriend commented on how young they looked. I realised I had turned old. Most people at these tournaments are older then me, but in a quite weird way I'm still one of the old guys. When I post this I'll probably have turned 26, for internet poker that's probably something like 52 in real life. Might very well have couple of more good years but if I'd turned out to be a real star or something it'd already happened. Not a “has been”, more like a “maybe could've been”. At least that means I don't have to stay up partying all night to keep up a reputation.
Only a cat of a different coat,
that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red,
a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord,
as long and sharp as yours.
Game of thrones starts soon. I'm hyped.
Day 1b went well. Start stack 20k, blinds 25/50. Limp UTG, I raise AQcc CO and SB and UTG calls. Flop KJhh9c. Check, check, I cbet 300 into 600. I get two calls. Turn Tc and I start to get excited but a little bit annoyed that I can't figure out the best size to get value. No worries. SB leads 500 into ~1500, UTG raises to 1k, I 4bet to 4.2k. SB snap calls, UTG snap calls. Turn is a beautiful 8 of spades. SB checks, UTG leads 4k, I raise to 12.5, SB snap calls and UTG snapcalls. Both have QJ. Best first hand of a tournament I've ever seen.
Played a few other confusing hands. I made 2-3 bad folds, at least I think so, and one or two decent enough calls.
First one is me raising in middle pos with reasonably deep and fairly irrelevant stack sizes. I have 76dd, middle aged Danish guy seems like an decent amateur calls me in the position after me. He lost the last hand after playing it weird (raised K9o on J9X mono without a flushdraw, bet K-turn and check behind J river losing to KQ) and looks tilted. Everyone else folds. I
Flop comes 655ss and I cbet. He looks like he wants to raise, messing around with chips and then decides to call my smallish cbet. Turn is a 3h and I check/call a normal size bet. River comes a off suit A, I check, be bets about two thirds pot and I call fairly fast thinking that his betting range is Ax with spades, 5x and 66 for value and a whole bunch of draws for bluffs. Good?
Next hand blinds are 50/100, I have between 50 and 60k and the other two guys in the hand has ~20k. I have showed down a bunch of good hand and overall won every pot I've put a lot of money in by showing down the best had. People has been commenting on it.
I raise 54 of spades from early position. I get a call from a somewhat spazzy dane in mid pos and a fairly good, somewhat aggressive dane in the blinds. Flop comes A65 rainbow with a spade, I cbet 400 into 800 or something like that, first guy raises to 1.2k and the dane in the blinds cold calls. I raise to 4.2k risking 3.8 to win 3.2 planing to maybe win the pot when I hit any draw on the turn in case they call. Like?
Two folds, I make a slight mistake and show a bluff
Third hand: Good danish pro raises UTG to 800 at 200/400+antes with about 30k, I call TT planing to ship against a lot of guys if we get 3bet. Spazzy danish guy who showed down J8o after 3betting my MP raise in late pos 3bets to 2.2k or something like that. UTG 4bets to 5.2k or something like that.
Lots of fun people are here. I know maybe 5-6 of the guys who are still in. MR_Jimmy has 30ish BB's going into day two and the guy with the best nick name ever, El_Duderinio (spelling?) has about the same. I have 110600 going into day two, which is a top5 stack with maybe 150 runners still in the tournament. Probably around 40 people ITM and 100k€+ for first. One time?
Day 2 went well. I played decent at times but I also made some seriously silly mistakes. Wanted to write “sillyish”, but someone pointed out that I use “-ish” and “-y” far too much. I started the day with 110600 chips, got it down to 90 or so and then this hand happened:
I raise black off suit AJ from EP to 2.5k with blinds at 500/1k + antes. Young guy who looks like he might be from Finland or some other pokering country who stole the last pot from me and looks like the type of person who might feel that one pot won is a green light to run me over calls and some guy in the blinds calls. Flop is866hh and I cbet 4k 8-9k or whatever and he decides to ship his 30k behind. I think for about 10 seconds and decides that it's hard as hell to have 9x, he wouldn't play QQ+ or 6x like that and it's not that many combos of TT-JJ. I call. He flips over Th8h and looks really confused about my call; “I'm ahead???” he says and as the turn falls the guy next to him goes; “not anymore”. River is a brick and I was back at 120k or so.
Not sure if my call is good, I tend to think it is considering that ICM isn't a factor and the guy probably has a fairly narrow value shoving range. Any opinions?
Platyed one hand later at 2k/4k blinds with 400 ante. At least I think it was. I raise 88 UTG, famous Danish comedian calls with 100k+ UTG+1, he's been flatting my raises a few times. Some random with maybe 45-50k (that is, probably 12bb) goes all in and then another guy with as much goes all in behind, I thought. I ask for counts on everyone involved, pretty dealer with red glasses does all that stuff and then I ship. Comedian folds and the other guys turns over AQ and KK. I figured it wasn't that bad because I'll still have 150k if I lose, flop comes J72 rainbow and I start to lose interest. Turn comes 9x and some guy says “Ten, you need a ten” and I go like “oh, right” when a ten falls om the river and I knock two people out with my straight. Later I find out that I listened all too little on the dealer because the KK-guy did in fact not have about 50k bur rather somewhere north of a 100k. Duh.
I then get moved to the TV table. I play one weird hand when I 3bet the very active chip leader with KQo BB vs B, c/c J97ss where I have backdoor spades and c/f's 7x. He flips over a 7 and claims a full house. Confusing hand.
TT vs AA
With 13 people left some active HU-pro from France raise UTG. I have BB with less then 20 blinds, I ship TT he snaps AA. Flop Txx and turn + river blanks. I'm back at a decent stack size.
Then I'm card dead for 1 hour, get AA once and takes down a medium pot and finally there's only 9 left and we break for the day.
At the final table I throw ICM out the window, I wan't top 3 or I want to go home. I raise ATo from CO with 22 blinds, Swedish guy who seems nice, knows some well known 25/50 pros and already had two small glasses of something whiskey-looking raises (or ships, can't remember) and I stick it in . AK holds and I'm out. I think that was probably a ~3k€ mistake on my part considering all the short stacks but I'll take it.
Overall I played fairly tight, rather badly and with a flair for not doing to much stupid or overly aggressive. Played better at so many tournaments but never gone this far live. Go figure. If I can just learn to play NL again I might actually feel good about my MTT-game.
I'd be really grateful for comments on the hands. I'm not at all sure how I played them.
Fantasy Basketball/Baseballby NighTLesS15, March 10
Started playing on Fanduel.com for fantasy sports. It's a pretty cool website if you like to play for money. They got buyins starting from one dollar and go up into hundreds. It is set up on a per day basis so you can play everyday or once a week not forced to play all season long.
Is my link if you decide to sign up and play i get a little kickback on your entries if you use my link, better than paying it all to the website
Also buddy got me playing he does pretty well. The competition for basketball seems to be fairly poor as i don't know much but i'm profiting a little, i only play the low 1-5$ buyins. They have hockey football college football/basketball as well.
Haven't blogged in ages since I announced I quit. Long story short to anyone who is wondering, I started back in September with $44 and have since made around 15k. Really have been working hard and it's gone well.
Anyway, just so I dont forget this session I played today, it may literally have been the most ridiculous/crazy session I have ever played in my entire poker career. Literally 5 different times today a guy sits against me with a full or slightly less than full stack and proceeds to bad beat/cooler me into the ground that they all managed to build their stacks up to or around 700 BB's. The emotional roller coaster was just ridiculous, I ended up getting pretty tilted and frustrated. However, despite feeling nauseous I never once closed a single table. Miraculously, only one of those 5 people sat out and walked with a $700 stack. Every other guy fought me to the bitter end. To my credit, I ended up beating 4 of them and retrieved every penny and even a bit more from a few of them. It felt great. However, they all happened 1 after the other, so the emotional roller coaster went from - Feeling great to feeling awful 4-5 times in a row. At one point I was down $1400 and I'm not even playing nl200 right now. My graph today looks pretty funny. 4 of these insane and long matches were on pokerstars. It was weird because I swear to god people run up massive stacks ONLY on pokerstars. Literally like 14 of the last 15 times a guy has ammased a gigantic stack at my expense has been on pokerstars. It's annoying, but at least this time it ended in my favor. I ended up $120, which is VERY satisfying after being down almost ~15 BI's. I made up for the one guy who walked(and a bit more) by beating lots of other people on anywhere from 1 to 4 tables at a time(1 was always one of my big deep stack matches).
So basically after multitabling HU for around 12 hours today.. it's time to sleep. I'm very happy with the way this turned out and learned A LOT about how I should adjust and play in 3bet pots. I'm happy I'm able to persevere through tough times and not give up as well.
If you have random numbers in your screenname...probably a fish
If your name is not spaced or capitalized...probably a fish
If your pic is your dog or yourself...probably a fish
If your pic is of your baby/children...omg, you are a fish
If you are from russia...99% of the time you are a fish
Im sure there are more prejudices I hold, but are they valid?
Share yours
Long time no blog. I didn't play a hand of poker for a year now and feel pretty good about it.
Much has happend over the year.
Finished my first major in international business and almost finished my second major in finance and accounting.
Got a job in a large bank as an analyst in the business intelligence team.
So all is good I guess
But this post is about programming! Recently I started learning computer science and I love it! It gave me a whole new perspective when I think about solving problems. I found an interesting video that shows why everybody should learn to code:
I have been learning how to programm for 6 months now and I am finally getting to a point where I can write something usefull
I learned Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript and am all set up to write web aplications and I hope I will be able to write a simple site by the end of the month.
If anybody wants to learn programming I recommend some MOOC (masive open online courses) like MIT OCW or udacity.com
fucking stupid shit i hate it
lose with every premium hand every time now
was able to get to step 3 and make that dollar once every while, now I just lose.
Lose lose lose lose lose
I can't wait to play a legit AMERICAN LEGAL site.
Maybe that will take away the bingo syndrome.
ive got a red line that way above the other lines, and a blue line thats way below everything else
Been a while since I posted on here! I have started to dabble back onto some poker in the last few months, however, I don't have any bankroll left.. after spending it all in the last few years. Though, I have 3 months left of my final year of my degree.
I am looking for someone to stake me on FTP and Stars mainly for HU NL cash games (0.5/1 to 2/4, maybe even 3/6 if you can afford) and the odd 3,4-handed when necessary.
Also, looking for tournament stakes up to 200 dollars per tournament, especially on the weekends. I am able to play weekday evenings and weekends. So average about 25-30 hours a week.
Let me know if anyone has some ideas or is interested!
A new Melvin "No Mercy" Manhoef highlight video that came out two days ago.
This is the best Manhoef highlight that I've seen so far.
Additional information: Manhoef went 3-0 (plus 1 NC for having a serious gash on his shin), in 2012. His most recent fight was an impressive TKO via knee to the body vs. Dennis Kang at DREAM 18.
hey guys, i want to play this special sunday mill today. its been a while since i dont have any $ online and my ccard wont deposit.
my poker profile: i played professionally for 5 years (am now an entrepreneur/fashion designer). lol. i was a nl400-600 reg. i even made a sundaymillion FT back in 2008, took 2nd also had some wcoop deep runs, played in 5 EPTs (never cashed ), etcetc
so, i think i am a good investment. i am looking for a 50/50 split, also for motivation sake
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