OK sorry guys please steak by Mortensen8, November 03
pls just i will do so fucking good i can totally fuck with 100 nlhe players i mind fuck them just stake me for double vision i am in the process of making a poker house in the faroes its gonna be sick watch out faroese team of modern vik gonna blow the fuck out of poker just watch
Edit: This did work, but i think they've blocked the vegas10/20 codes now. Worked for around 30hrs or something.
Nice quick bit of bonus whoring here.. cant go wrong either and quick! £27 up.
Make account at Skyvegas.com
Deposit £15 in your account
Click on My Account, got to Promotions
Type in Vegas20 – it will say accepted
Go to Sky Vegas and play Roulette
Put £5 on red, £5 on black and 50p on zero (must do)
Spin
Your £20 free bet will now be visible above your winnings at the top of the screen
Now put £10 on black, £10 on red and a quid on zero
Spin, take your winnings and close the window
Go back to My Account>Promotions
Type in Vegas10
Go to Sky Vegas and play Roulette
Put £2.50 on red, £2.50 on black, 50p on zero
Spin
Your £10 free bet will now be visible above your winnings at the top of the screen
Now put £5 on red, £5 on black and £1 on zero
Spin, take your winnings and close the window
You can now withdraw your funds!
Dunno how this works for non-uk residents but cant see why not, might wanna check on the vegas10/20 codes if they work for ur countries
October Income and Expensesby thewh00sel, November 01
Time for another installment of Income & Expenses. This section is where I break down my income and list my expenses for each month along with a short analysis of how I think I can improve on them in the future.
Income: $17,536 From me: 14,978
From Spouse: 2,558
This month started off slowly. In fact, I was in negative territory or very close to break even until the 24th. That day was amazing though. I don't think I blogged about it, but back on Superbowl Sunday this year I played with one of those once in a lifetime fish. The kind of whale who buys in for the max (or more) and just constantly fires double the pot, makes it 20x to go as his default open and will stack off with ANY chance to win the pot. I'm not kidding, I saw the guy call a pot-sized shove for a 300bb pot on 445 rainbow with J3s with one of his suit on the board. He ended up ripping off a J on the turn and beating AK.
Anyways, it was a regular day at Bellagio, I was winning 1k already in the 5/10 game a few hours into my session. Three games were going on a Wednesday afternoon, which is above average for the middle of the week, but there were tournaments going at Bellagio so it wasn't completely unexpected. Then in strolls this ghost who I haven't seen since his last 12k donation to my bankroll in February at the Aria. He sat at the must move, and when he made his way into the main game, I threw my name on the transfer list to get into his game. It took about 45min but I eventually made it into the game. I was sitting with about $4k by the time I was moved to his game, and he had me covered with what looked like $15,000 in front of him. The Bellagio game is capped at a $1,500 buy-in, and he had a shit ton of cash behind his enormous pile of $10 chips so I was pretty sure he had snuck the cash onto the table, which was fine with me. I made top pair a few times against him and just like that I had 6k in front of me.
Then an interesting hand came up. He was in the BB and I was in the Hijack. I open to 40 with two Red Kings, two players call and he raises it up to 140, a fairly small raise compared to his normal amount. I 4bet to 400. Although the game had been seeing a lot of 3bets, 4bets weren't very common so I didn't want to go too big, to give him a chance to call or 5bet. He obliged by flicking in the call almost instantly. The flop came down Js 5s 5c. He checked and I bet 450, again giving him some rope. He quickly announced "I'm gonna raise it up a little bit," and swiftly counted out 14 $100 dollar bills and tossed them into the middle. I called. The turn was the Qd. He thought for a moment and bet 1700. At this point the pot has already grown to 7000 (after I match his 1700 on the turn) and I only had another 2500 behind that bet, so I elected to shove, thinking if he has as week as a gutshot, any flush draw, any Ace high, and pair, he will call. I still think that's the right decision but he quickly mucked saying something about having 27o. So with that pot my stack grew from 6k to about 10k without a showdown. He left soon after that when someone nitrolled him with AA on a low board and ticked him off, but I was happy and I ended up with my first 10k cashout in the Bellagio 5/10 that I can remember to put my month back on track.
To simplify the above screenshot I'll touch on the important stuff. I spent 148 hours at the casino (for cash games) and 139 hours actually playing cash. The difference (9 hours) is time I spent waiting for games to start/get my seat in games. This number is pretty in line with last month's number, as I spent about 30min per session of "buffer time" compared to 25 min per session last month. I'll continue to monitor this number going forward as I like knowing my true time spent at the casino along with time played. I also played 5 MTT's, which equates to 34 hours in addition to the 139 hours of cash. So in total I played 173 hours this month, and spent 182 hours at the casino/work, which I'm pretty proud of.
Expenses $7,824
Very high number this month. Hopefully when I break it down below I will see the answers to why the number was so large and whether it was necessary or not.
Home- 2,093
832- Mortgage Interest
544- Mortgage Escrow
401- Mortgage Principal
12- Fridge Filter
59- HOA
65- Space Heater (should reduce heating costs for the winter)
70- Landscaping (bought a plant I needed to replace that died and some stuff for the backyard)
60- Pest Control
50- Print ink (don't know if this is really household, but whatever, needed printer ink so there it is)
Auto & Transport- 1,939
174- Insurance (should get a refund for ~$30 from this as I changed carriers this month)
244- Gas
141- Minimum Car Payment
435- Minimum Car Payment
365- Additional Car Principal
580- Car Insurance (Switched to a new carrier and paid up front for the next 6 months, so this 580 represents 6 months of paying $96 per month down from 174)
Health and Fitness- 223
34- gym
189- health ins (Much cheaper now [= )
Food & Dining- 722
524- Groceries/wal-mart (Feels like we did "ok" this month at wal-mart, still looking to improve on it.)
100- Fast Food
35- dining out (setting a personal goal to go all of November without fast food or eating out at all, will let you know next month how we did)
25- Albertson's (beer)
38- Dolce Gusto Coffee (a non-necessity expense for our coffee machine. Delicious single-serve coffee)
Bills & Utilities- 826
230-nevada power (like I said in the last expense report, for some reason it seems like I always skip a month of paying electricity and then have to pay twice in one month. This was September's electric bill. Fairly low actually given that it was pretty warm in Sep)
15- water
327- Nevada Power (This number is higher than I thought it would be, maybe I'm off on which two bills were which bc we didnt turn the A/C or the heat on at all this month)
59- Cell Phone (Pretty proud of how low this number is. It will be lower in the future, but I did a write-up Here on our new cell phone plan and how it saves us over $100 per month.
68- Cable/Internet (This is a new lower number as well since we changed our service to be cheaper.)
41- Trash/Sewer (this is a quarterly bill)
8- Netflix
78- Gas
Shopping- 580
300 Clothing (meh, spent too much on this, but Alli was growing out of her clothes, and needed winter stuff. We also bought some winter clothes for ourselves too)
180 Home Decor (we didn't really need this but Mrs. wh00sel bought some candles and whatnot that she wanted)
180 Home Electronics (Bought a DOCSIS 3.0 modem which allows for faster download speeds with lower internet service. Also bought a remote control for my PS3 as we watch all of our tv on that now for the most part)
Entertainment- 19
Bought drinks for a high school friend who was in town for Halloween
Preschool/Daycare- 580
We now pay $160 per week to have our daughter in preschool 3 days per week. This change allows me to get in more hours each week, while also spending more time at home as a family. I was a little nervous at first as outsourcing parenting is something that scares me a little bit; but she was growing bored at home and needs the social interaction. From an EV standpoint, if my hourly is $70, I need to get in 9 hours extra per month to pay for the cost of daycare. I got over 180 hours in this month, so I think I clearly surpassed that mark. Also, I have been spending more time at home with my family so it's taken some stress out of our lives which is pretty much the point of the whole thing.
Other- 790
300- Xmas presents
440- Cancel Verizon Contracts (After doing this, and switching to prepaid phone plans, in 3 months or so we will be into profit already from the switch. Also, starting next month our cash flow should be much improved already)
That's everything. I didn't manage to keep the expenses down this month, but since with daycare I immediately get to add additional hours to work, it is essentially free imo. In addition to that, $440 was spent canceling a contract, $580 of car insurance was paid upfront for the next 6 months, and $365 in additional car payments were not required expenses. Removing those from my other expenses drastically reduces the number. I am confident that November will be one of my lowest expense months to date, barring anything crazy happening.
With an income of $17,536 and expenses of $7,824, we had a savings rate this month of 55%
I am pretty happy with that number given all of the expenses I chose to take on this month in order to reduce future expenses and make my life more efficient.
Thanks for reading, hopefully there was something worthwhile in there if you read it all. If you couldn't be bothered to read it all, then you're probably not reading this either. CHEERIO!
October Results (13k) + Live Updateby PanoRaMa, November 01
While I don't do monthly updates for my live career I thought this would be a good point to stop and discuss some things.
Hours: 89 Profit: $13195
The Break-up and Run Good Anti-Curse - A couple years ago when I broke up with my gf at the time, I was devastated but had a pretty amazing month. This month started out with me and the girl I'd been seeing for about 8 months splitting up. It was a little emotionally strange for me, and I instantly hit a 9k downswing, but I kept at it and ended up crushing the DS in like a week flat and kept going. So history has shown me that getting rid of girls = run good mania!
Semi-related, another thing I'd been practicing a lot of is meditation, essentially just learning how to be a happier human being and getting rid of my stresses, worries, jealousies, etc. It for sure was a really good way for me to get over my breakup very quickly and focus on playing awesome poker as soon as possible. I met someone while playing Live who owns two meditation schools and I kindled one of his books and thought it was fascinating and helped me tremendously. It's Noah Levine - Heart of the Revolution if anyone cares. It's taught me a lot about why we feel things like anger/sadness/regret etc. and has put into very relatable terms how one can easily dissolve these feelings when they arise.
Lastly, I will be moving on from Poker around February of 2013. I'm moving to San Francisco where I will be learning to code and hopefully be getting a junior developer position at some tech startup somewhere. I'll of course be still on LP and all that, but when I move it will essentially mark one complete year as a live pro. I guess at that time if people are interested I can do a Ask Me Anything about live play, which is something I think I've gotten really good at (not just strategy but table persona and stuff like that too) since I started in February this year.
So I have about 3 months left of grinding 5/10 live poker - hoping to just have it be as smooth as possible. GL everyone!
Anyone else watched this? I've only seen 2 episodes so far but I think it's quite interesting. I definitely recommend the Dybbuk box episode. http://watchseries.eu/serie/paranormal_witness
Pls watch more than 10 min before commenting about its bullshit.
I wanted to play a lot of poker in October, but instead played a lot of Civilization V and only so-so poker.
First half of the month I played mostly headsup, played very little but did quite well (was up about $3.6k after first 8k hands or so). Second half I played a mix of headsup and 6-max zoom, played a bit more and did quite poorly. Also ran not very good.
The result is pretty disappointing as I hoped to get at least the same like last month (+$5,4k real, +$7k ev).
I played only about 106 hours this month. I hope to play at least 130 hours next month and do much better. I wanted to start playing a bit of 2/4 by the end of this month, which didnt happen, but I will try hard to get to PLO 2/4 asap. Also would be nice if higher zoom plo started running regularly.
And looking forward to next tuesday when I will be able to withdraw my FTP money, finally!
So, this is my first 100.000 hands PLO, 0.5-1 to 25plo...
Apparantly I ran very good :D
I really want to improve... the regs constantly complained about my luck on everest and laughed at some of my bad plays... ^^ They were probably right some : D
So word around the back rooms is UFC is telling the larger camps to prep their teams for an all HW season of TUF after Jones/Sonnen wraps up. Dec 7th I will be moving back to California to resume training with Team Quest and get my ass ready to make a run at TUF. My goal is to get in 3-4 fights before the audition starts around Summer 2013. Anyways the point of the post is I could really use some sponsors to supplement my income so I can train full-time rather than having to pick up a part-time job on top of coaching and private lessons. I will be printing up t-shirts with sponsorship logos or whatever they want me to put on them, selling spots on my fight banners, t-shirts (both walk out and training) and shorts. Also thinking of doing a video doc on it with interviews from the rest of the team and trainers.
Didn't get a chance to play at all the first week of the month and have to stop the month early to catch up on uni study/assignments. Played barely any 5/10+ this month and just did a big cashout to try and buy a house (offer pending atm) so I won't be playing 5/10+ anytime soon until I rebuild my BR.. Think I'll do a blog on house buying if we end up getting it+I want to blog about a charity event for a close friend who passed away . http://i.imgur.com/Mfs0y.jpg
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