Back on the job hunt, working for banks sucks lol. I used to work for a small company of 40 people which I loved, but the recession hit them too hard and as a result I suffered a 30% paycut for 4 years. I eventually had to quit and move on. I then got a gig at a local university, which was super cool at first, but quickly got boring with nothing to do, to the point they started asking me to help out with unrelated shit like assisting in the library and stuff. I have a lot of pride and felt insulted they would ask me to do something so trivial, so I quit and got another job at a local bank. At first it was great. Good benefits, good hours, good location, etc. But then 2 of our team members quit and the amount of work thrusted upon us has become insurmountable. I asked for a raise and they basically gave me the whole "we'll think about it hehe" routine. Other employee's have told me it is standard practice here for them to call your bluff 100% of the time, so you really have to put in your 2 weeks notice before they'll even consider your request. So I nailed an interview last week and they called me back for another one next week. Pretty sure I've got this one in the bag unless I get outclassed by an even better candidate, or they're simply not willing to meet my pay demands. But I'm to the point where I'd take a small pay cut just to get out of my current situation because I hate my job so much (I'm a computer technician by the way), and this job is literally 2 blocks from where I live so I could walk/bike to work every day. Aside from recovering my pay cut through gas savings, the luxury of working so close to home, and the relaxed environment of this company make up for most of the deficiencies in pay in my opinion.
So I'd ask to run good one time, but since I've recently ran gun twice already, I guess I'll ask for "THREE TIMES!!!11 (queue Hevad's voice)".
One area I'm definitely not running good in, and thats PLO lol. I dont know the first thing about this game, but it's still been fun trying to learn it. I think I've cut my loss rate from -50BB/100 to -15BB/100. Still trying to learn preflop fundamentals, namely which hand ranges I should be playing. I'll be tightening up to TT+/NFD's from now on. Connecting cards will still be counted but I guess I'll disregard their suit, since my goal is to only play for nut flush draws when I have one. I'm getting better at folding 2 pair and bottom set, at least to consecutive pot bets. Looking forward to MiPwnYa's PLO vid. I have avoided studying the game but I think I'm ready to get a little help here and there without completely following someone elses script.
Finally finished moving to my new unit, 2 min walk from the beach and finally got the internet hooked up after a week of waiting, but today ill grind on LOCK.
Greece (pics), June + July results, Music etc.by Gumster, July 11
So a lot has happened since my last blogpost. Lets start with poker results June n July, then round of with some happier vacation and personal shit.
POKER:
(June) I barely met any of my poker goals, I only played 25k hands and only made 4500SEK (~€470) profit. Luckily, I went to the casino a couple of times (4-5 sessions I think) in Stockholm and made 8500 SEK there, so pokerwise my month ended up being pretty sweet. Pic or didnt happen etc:
(July) Soooooooooooo how about July? Well, 2 things. 1. FUCK. 2. JULY. Playing pretty good, and the volume is decent as well. The beats just won't stop coming. The problem is that I really need to be saving up money atm, and it sucks having to play with any kind of pressure. But fuck it, I'll be fine, cuz I'm good at this game and I just need to play more. Pics or fuck me:
As you can see I've been playing some 2/4SEK which is a piece of cake for me tbh. I'll be a winner there in no time. Just gotta run goot.
PERSONAL:
I went to Greece (an island called Crete) and it was also sweet. I was mostly with my gf, but her mother and little brother were there as well so we kinda lived off them some which was nice. The greeks are REALLY nice and helpful and in all the trip was a delight. Though some assholes broke in to our car which kinda sucked. Actually it REALLY sucked for everybody but me who only lost a pair of shoes (they were sweet shoes tbh ). We were about to find another hotell and we had rented a car in which we stored all our stuff. So we go down to the beach (parked the car not far from there) and when we get back they simply broke the lock (looked like anyone could do it... which makes me think the ppl who rented us the car should somewhat be held responsible? oh well...).In all we lost 2 iphones, a laptop, like €1000 in cash and lots of clothes. And my shoes . It's bad PR for Greece if I let this be the end of my trip report, so here are some awesome picture of us scuba diving which was fantastic:
Last thing about greece: GO THERE. Awesome weather, beautiful women, lots of nature and cultural shit to see. Plus they really need it now with the crisis, which means you can bargain on a lot of stuff (I love bartering, if I was a fallout 2 character I'd have fucking 200% baby).
That's it. Here's some sweet ass tunes for your sorry asses! Cya around
Motivated by helping others?by LemOn[5thF], July 10
This never occured to me. . .Be it in poker, as a goalkeeper, admin,baker or in my academic career I always was motivated by things I do for myself... and it was never strong enough.
It's impossible to do in poker, no teams, you play against others, it's a zero sum game. . .
But it occured to me now. I am in direct sales. My manager is the best one I ever had. He's 32 and has been in the business for 12 odd years, he never stopped believing in me and no matter how shit my results are he always reminds me of the positives in me and really gets the best out of me. But he had a bad streak of luck, where his recruits were lazy, left early or his whole division of products got scrapped and he had to start from the bottom again completely.
He's got very refined monetary goals, where I just don't give a fuck because of poker thought me. . . money doesn't matter it's just a number, it's the happiness and self respect/self esteem that is the only commodity worth pursuing, I'm very detached from the real world value of it. But that left me without a strong motivator in a job where everyone is driven by money and everybody's goal is to have a 20 strong office and make $10k per week and so today when I got pissed with some of the veterans it hit me. . .if I can't find my own goals I just make one to selflessly help my manager to get where he wants to be. I will do my best in terms of my results and motivate the lazy fuckers in his team including myself because that's one thing I believe I am a bit better positioned to do that he is because he is always so nice to everyone.
Just imagine it . . . you work 100% to help the person that supported you in the bad times and put time and money into you and got you to where you are, and as a side effect you get both awesome money but also a truckload of motivation you just can't generate yourself for your own goals. It's that element I miss in poker a bit but that seems to be so obvious in a team environment with a person I respect that became my friend
I may be dropping by London next week for a day or two (probably monday-wednesday). Any tips for any medium prized hotels i can stay at? I really just need a bed actually, dont have to be luxurious at all, but i want it to be pretty central and not complete trash.
Next week should be before the price bomb at the Olympic Games right?
Also tips on what i could do in London? (going alone, main plain is going to amsterdam with some friends but i dont feel like going straight home after that so thats why i wanna drop by London or something) Mainly going to check out Brittish Museum and stuff like that, i also wanted to eat at a Ramsey place sometime =)
Grinded hero and lock today - did really well and got 5th in the 530 for 5750 and 7th in the 109 25k for another 1k
had 45k in the lock 530 (was crushin) 4 hours in and they shut down the mtt most likely cuz it was very short of the overlay.
not a bad day at all
like havin both sites, thats for sure, hopefully I can finish off a 530 one day
todays hand kinda set up - but lil betsizing tell I shoulda picked up on and saved my stack, guy was batshit insane 38/35/20%3bet over large sample though, sb was a super nit - otb 20bb A8 v bb superlag 3better when im opening just about any two.....
wish i just folded though
Two chances to KO that super lag- one for a 1.2m cl at the ft (AK v QQ) with 2nd stack woulda been 250k and tons of 100k stacks
Just not meant to be tonite =[ Mb I should fold there to preserve ICM, idk I play for first and put him on like 70% bluffrange
next time!
not a bad day all in all,
maybe a major first sometime soon? I hope so.
Should have more hours grinded durin the week now,
3 days played - pretty solid so far
I havent really been playing poker consistently ever since FTP took my roll (live howard)
I was a slight winner at NL200 6max and after black friday I went to paradisepoker but I had to play NL50 coz I didnt have the bankroll for higher limits. I kinda lost motivation to regrind also the software tilted the shit out of me (no autorebuy?? you serial?). So I was playing there a few months, won a bit then stopped online poker.
I must say life is so much more happier and balanced when u dont have to force yourself to put in the grind, you dont have that depressing feeling in the morning because of the buyins lost last night. I could properly concentrate on university and myself.
But hey, we need that fucking money and since poker is much more easier and profitable than the regular student job that I could get here in Hungary I started playing live poker.
first of all, its outrageous how bad these guys are. There are some tighter ones but they are still pretty much clueless. Lot of people are not even here to win money. The diversities of the personalities are fun to observe. Everything is just so different from online. So far i put in 30 hours and considering that we play 20 hands/hour I got about 220bb/100 which is sick. Now i got all kind of questions to you live players.
Could 200bb/100 be normal for 1$/2$ live or its just a huge upswing?
I've heard that a guy like me got banned from another room because he was a constant winner. Could that really happen? I mean should I just deliberately make stupid moves and loud scenes to assimilate into the fish?
How do you prepare your minds for all the bullshit chat that goes on for hours? It honestly numbs me. I feel if I were to listen to music it would look really disrespectful also I would miss a lot of info.
Well thats all that comes into my mind now, feel free to add anything considering live poker (your experiences when you started?)
I appriciate all your comments
I like trance, hip hop (old school), etc. what albums would you recommend for me guys?
Btw, for a small update: love my new job, pretty much a surveyor for insulation/later going to turn into green deal advisor for grants for boilers/solar panels and home efficiency etc. New people are all around 20 which makes it more fun, and my managers are 30++ unlike my last office where mu MD was 26 -,-
My off on chick is gone now, I'm studying picking up girls psychology and communication to get a new one, it's all about the law of averages imo
We only had him for a little over 3 weeks, he was totally super fucking awesome and so goddamn cute. We named him Constantine the Conqueror. When we got him he had worms, took him to the vet just for a check up, sure no big deal just go pick up 3 pills that will clean his system out. Holy shit I've never seen so many worms in my life the first day, only a few left on the 2nd treatment and when the 3rd treatment came out clean we all figured he was good to go. One minute he's happy and jumping around playing with the kids then he just fell over stopped breathing and his heart was racing like a crazy, a bit of blood started coming out of the side of his mouth and nose, so we raced him to the vet they gave him a few shots and he woke back up shortly, the vet told us he had a rare type of hook worm that the normal deworming pills don't clear up....ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, FUCKING DEWORMING PILLS THAT DON'T FUCKING WORK ON GETTING RID OF WORMS!!!! He died a few moments later only 11 weeks old. I still wake up craddling the spot on the bed where he used to sleep, I still look under my desk before rolling my chair in to make sure I don't run over his paws...I miss the little guy he had such an amazing personality that you couldn't possibly replace.
HI ALL,
does anyone here play on pokerstar.fr, i really wanna play their micro million but its so hard to fund to fund this site from canada, they want a european bank account detail and other european shit i dnt have.
so if any one play on fr and wud wana help me and we work out a deal, i send u 100euro on stars ans u send me 95 on fr, plz or if u want a better deal PM id consider. im kaab13 on stars
Another fun day at Hero, got up early and played a full schedule til the nighttime goodies, stopped reggin @ the highroller or w/e
got 4th in a 55rebuy, 2.6k UT was kinda sick
got 1st in 11rebuy for $1088
got 1st in the $109 second chance (5k start stack - can addon to 10k start for $209) for 2800
finished up 2800ish
heros pretty sweet
got money on lock today, gonna be great to be able to have full sessions going sooner, on hero poker it seems theres not many mtts going til like 3pm unless u run hot as hell in the mornin -_-
Going to be playing about 75% Hero/25% lock according to the MTT's - Hero just added a few great ones, def leading the pack for us in the US right now
ne ways - 2 tablin 4tw'z - won those both within 30 mins apart
jesus christ thats a sick score, that AK v QQ meant 18 mil for him vs Guy, what a luckbox - did Guy back him or how much of himself did he have??
anyone have his contact info, time to get highdrooler stakes!!!
back to serious, getting my 2nd grind day in @ Hero pokerz, gonna add in lock pokerz real soon too, sent my documentation in, but sent it from wrong e-mail addy 4tl -_- re-sent that in, guess u can play b4 its verified though - i just don't trust a new site at all, verify me and i'll play there
Hero has added a few new sunday MTT's, they had the 11 15k 109 125k and 530 70k, now they added a 33 MINIsuperSTACK which will have 15k (500ppl), and a $60 30k gntd 10k starting stackzzzz! So awesome to have those added in with the 109 1r1a's and 109 2nd chance etc, Sundays Are Great on Hero, weekdays are pretty sweet too
so far the first 3 early mtts lost ahead each time w/e -just gettin warmed up, tournies don't really start there til noon
Look to keep knockin away that mu and get to getting mah 50%....before August one time.
I should be in my house by Friday-Saturday, waitin on monies, have a fat live $30 br to flip 5 times in the meantime!
Turned 21 today. I remember dreaming of spending this bday playing in my first ever WSOP ME in Vegas but oh well...after 7 years of playing poker I still suck balls, don't put in enough volume, get tilted, etc. etc. I really regret not being disciplined enough back then when the games were sooo juicy. And I'm not sure whether to be thankful that I found poker or not. Hmmm...
MAIN EVENT: Few % left *UPDATED*by eatyourstac, July 04
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Hey guys decided to post this here cause I haven't got much feedback on P5 staking forums.
I'm selling 40% of me in Wsop Main Event @ 1,25 MU (currently 6% left) - Deadline is 6th of July
1% = 125$
5% = 625$
6% = 750$
etc...
There are couple of guys who want a share but haven't paid yet, I[b]'m willing too let go 10% on top of that if there would be good interest the last 2 days.
I lurk this forums on regular basis but not much of a poster:
Hello my name is Gardar Hauksson. I'm a poker player/student turning 23 this summer. I have played professionally (for a living) since I was 18 years old. I'm selling shares in me in WSOP Main Event 2012 this summer at 1.25 Mark up
Sat, 7th July 12:00 PM Event #57 $10000 NL Hold'em @ 1.25 Mark up
Main Event Championship
My biggest achievements poker wise is a 120k score on Full Tilt in the Sunday 750k (3 way chop but I eventually took it down to get the extra cheese) and 65k score in the Sunday Warm Up. My biggest live cash came in EPT Madrid last year for €20,000 (30,000$~).
/ I accept cash in Vegas, neteller, paypal, transfer through Merge/Stars (would be in my best interest getting cash in hand)
send me EP if you are interested or contact me through eatyourstack@gmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All winnings will be paid out after taxes (if I get taxed by the Icelandic government, which is rare unless I win something very big)
I will send the winnings back the same way they were paid for
I will post a blog during the tournament and inform you how I'm doing
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Playing pretty good, and the volume is decent as well. The beats just won't stop coming. The problem is that I really need to be saving up money atm, and it sucks having to play with any kind of pressure. But fuck it, I'll be fine, cuz I'm good at this game and I just need to play more. Pics or fuck me:
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