So I didnt write about Day 4 since that was sight-seeing day. Wh00sel mapped out a sick route through the suburbs of vegas to give an idea of what actually living outside of the strip in a normal area might be like. Once again I have to give major thanks for this, because it was quite refreshing after hanging out on the strip for too long. So is Vegas lifestyle for me? I think it might be. Holy fucking shit did it get hot out there, and it hasnt even reached its peak yet. But I came across plenty of nice neighborhoods with normal looking shopping districts and so forth so that as a human being you can escape the energy of Vegas and feel like a normal person living in a normal city. It was nice.
Day 5 concluded with me playing a mix of PLO and NLHE from 1/3 to 2/5. There were terrible waiting lists for everything so I kinda hopped around out of boredom since I had already checked out of my room and was basically stranded at the casino until my midnight flight home. I watched Galfond's PLO starter thats floating around on this forum somewhere and basically just hoped not to make any huge mistakes. Everyone was sitting with at least $1000, and most had $2k-$3k at a 2/5 game. It was clear they were the Aria "PLO regs" and they all seemed to know each other. Regardless I didnt see anything that really intimidated me much as there was lots of unnecessary flipping going on. At least it seemed unnecessary to me. Someone limps utg, it gets re-potted twice, and then the original limper 5bet pots like 468T single suited. I mean I dont know much about PLO but this cant be good. Players basically stacking off for 100+ BB's with KK73r on any flop etc. So I just kinda sat back and felt I could pretty easily just wait for a good flop, the few times I could actually see one, and get paid off. My high point was about $1200 before the table broke up and we started playing 5 handed. Between the stations and maniacs I felt what little edge I had nut-peddling was being diminished in repeated attempts to see a flop so I left.
It's funny how easy and natural NLHE feels after playing PLO for awhile. It's like suddenly my eyes are opened to a whole bunch of spots to play hands, and spots to GTFO. I guess PLO just forces you to think most deeply about hands and NLHE seems so shallow in comparison to it. This all turned out for the best as I finished that session +600 too, all in one day.
Anyway it felt really good to just hang out at the Aria/City Center all day, and once again had me yearning to just live there forever. The cash games are excellent, tons of players, good limits for small/midstakes grinders, decent comp system (got my room reduced to the "poker rate" and some free meals), and is just a blast to hang out in. I still dont understand how such a place was even conceived, let alone built. There is just so much attention to detail in every area of this place. How in the world it is profitable to build such a sprawling complex is beyond me.
Since I basically freerolled my entire trip on poker profit, I'm planning my next trip out immediately.
P.S. Mipwnya: Aria does not rake pots at PLO. Instead they just charge $6 every 30 minutes to play. And if the action drops to 6 players they drop the fee to $3.
Dont really have full graphs since using two different laptops one without hem so ill post from sharkscope.
Two straight lossing mtt sng's is pretty bad and the worst run I ever had in a year and a half as a pro.
Nice luck shipped two 1 or 2$ huge fields 4k+, two 1k caps 2$ and 5$. Chopped a 5$ 2rebuy 1 addon three way as chip leader for 3.5k. On that same night I also got counterfietted on the river in one of the bigs with a 7k+ field after I 3 bet bluffed and spiked two pair ending up in 7th for 700$ instead of first for 11k =[. 400%+ roi 20$ a game
Still not even a great hourly 40 tabling these the last two months need to step it up in hours played and effort.
Hey I'm on my way to vegas at the moment and will be there all of june. Anyone wanna meet up there for some drinks/parties/chillin whatever.
Reply here and maybe we can get something going...gogogo
Just finished up my last session for the month and so I'm done for may. My goals were 35k hands and €1k profit. I played about 34k hands and made about €810. I'm kinda disappointed because tbh these swedish fish are insanely bad and I should be able to win even more against them. Still I just have to keep grinding and I know it will turn for the better. Graph and stats:
http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/528/13969798.jpg
(it's SEK, not $)
EV line is kinda fucked up for boss network but still I feel like I've been running pretty poorly. I could have a bigger winrate and I can put in a lot more hands. I shouldn't whine. If I want to be successfull i just have to put in more hands and then the luck thing will solve itself. Tomorrow I have my last exam for this semester in school, so after that I'll be ready for some grinding. Just gotta hit an awesome hot streak, build a bigger roll, have some patience, smoke some weed, climb stakes, fuck bitches and then get money and then everything will be awesome.
Things to accomplish/do in June:
- Get ripped.
- Play 40k hands.
- Make a profit of €1,5k (15,000 sek).
- Have an awesome summer.
- Not watch porn/masturbate.
- Go to Greece for 10 days.
As you may have noted on the last one, I joined up the no-masturbation thingie, though I have a girlfriend so it might not be that hard, even though sometimes I get the fap urge but then I just try to do something else. It's good cuz you save time and stuff.
To close off, some awesome soul music by Tower of Power. Big band funk and soul a la Earth wind & fire/isley brothers. This cut is from their 1973 album (called Tower of Power) and imho it's easily their best song. Enjoy and cu around:
Today's my last day that I'll be playing this month, and unless I win 50k I will have failed the 100k in 5 months challenge I put on myself at the beginning of the year. A couple of things slowed me down including a very slow start in January, due to my lack of hours at the tables, and a complete loss of the desire to play online on a site with crappy software and low traffic. So instead of trying to win 100k with a combination of live and online play, I had to try to win 20k per month at 5/10 live. I still think that it is do-able, (in fact I know a reg who hit 100k profit this year a few weeks ago playing 5/10 only) but I think that it requires a lot of hours of play per month. Something that I'm not willing or able to commit at the present.
Stats for the year:
Total Profit: $50,490
Total Hours Played: 732
Est Hands Played: 25,620
Est Rake + Dealer Tips Paid: $10,980
Days played: 109/150
Avg Session length (hrs): 6.72
Hourly Rate: $68.96
Win Percentage: 57.80%
Monthly breakdown:
January, 96 hrs, 57.68/hr
February, 178 hrs, 120.46/hr
March, 167.5 hrs, 71.33/hr
April, 153.5 hrs, (32.74)/hr
May, 128 hrs, 128.76/hr
I'm a little disappointed with the downward trend of April and May in terms of hours played. Hopefully I can up the number significantly with the WSOP going on now, but MTT's could interfere with a lot of cash time, so we'll see what happens. I really wanted to hit 750 hours but I just didn't have it in me. Took some extra days off, but I don't think I would have done anything differently if I had it to do over again. January's low volume is the culprit, and a lot of the time I took off in January wasn't really in my control so I'm happy with how it all played out.
Any ideas for a rest of the year challenge? I was thinking after WSOP ends trying to do 1,000 hours from July-December. That's 167 hours per month average, but I should be able to play a shit ton July-Aug because Mrs. wh00sel isn't working during that time. I may have to take a vacation or something though after the series, because I'm sure I'll be pretty burnt out this year, as i'm trying to stay at the casino until midnight or later every day that I play.
I'm done with the game. I have a TON low-mid level stuff. 7 mules semi/filled with items for starting/leveling characters + full stash. 1.4M gold atm, could sell a ton and get 2M pretty quickly. LMK
In all seriousness, I'm at 14k which is a good place to be in but I should have 20k. I played pretty horribly, but I don't blame myself too much. I was ridiculously tired for the last 4 hours of the day. It sucks, but oh well. Everyone is really terrible too, its kind of hard to play against them(not really), because I don't ever see such bad play like this. Phil Ivey was at table in front of me. I want my money back from him.
Ok if this blog had no structure, and reads terrible, its because I'm really tired.
After a sick heater and string of consecutive winning days, I finally lost about 1.5k at the 2/5 tables today. Although in general it is no big deal, I still can't help but feel crummy, degenerate feelings (record month for me).
Anyway I came across this article and googled the second one. Just thought I'd share.
Decided to commit 2 of my normal 1/3 buyins for a single buyin shot at 2/5. So I bought in for $400, and worked it up to $700 when some asian lady sits down. She buys in for the max, $1000, and within 3 hands me and her get it allin preflop, AA vs A5s. Obviously she hits a flush, allin preflop for $700. The typical asian ramblings of "gamble gamble" ensue. It was a pretty crushing defeat since I was nervous playing a new limit anyway, so I just had to quit for the day.
Didnt get any sleep last night after the A/C was making annoying noises every hour, so I didnt get up till 2pm and missed my opportunity to rent a car and travel some. Instead I explored more of the strip on foot, and to be honest, got quite a bad taste in my mouth from it. Just so many degens, homeless people, beggars, weird crackheads approaching you making a scene, etc. I just hate all that shit. At least get a job handing out those stupid porno cards that all these random folks are doing, at least they're fucking trying to do something that constitutes work. But just sitting there on your ass taking handouts? GTFO. I gave $5 to some horribly deformed man with no arms, because there is nothing he can every do to be productive. He got dealt a shitty hand in life and thats not his fault. I dont expect him to work or achieve anything, and he needs all the help he can get. But 90% of the bums in vegas think they're being cute with the "all I want is beer" signs they are holding up. That shit was funny the first time some guy did it in 1995.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to need to see some of the softer side of vegas after all that, since it was so disgustingly vile that I'm not sure I would actually want to travel through it every day as part of my "poker career" just to get to the casino. In fact it was so bad, I dont even want to leave the City Center premises again, which is basically a small 5 building sect of vegas constituting the Aria and some shops. They've done a pretty good job of being able to maintain your entire vacation within this one small area, and I feel like I wont be venturing out beyond its borders anymore lol.
Someone asked earlier about the quality of the PLO games at the Aria, and I'm pretty sure it got answered, but I made sure to check myself tonight. There was 1 game of 2/5 PLO running and that was it. Over the weekend I think I saw maybe 3 tables of 2/5 PLO and 1 table of 5/10 PLO. There are also some random "interest" lists for people trying to start 10/20 PLO but it only had like 4 people on it. Looks like the Aria is definitely not for PLO.
it hasn’t been long enough but i’m back in the game of promoting my thoughts and myself once again, then again that never changes ……..and no one is listening b/c this is my first post on this site (not that anyone was listening in anyway before)
until next time when i actually have something to say……..
-haus
edit:i actually started blogging on my own website thought id post some here too good to see people are still alive and well........see some familiar names here and there. after 3 years of law and order marathons, chinese takeout, and crawled up sulking in bed like a bad sandra bullock movie im ready to grind, talk jibberish in run-on sentences, and pretend i know what the hell im doing
-haus
ps what hurt poker most ?? a)black friday b) starcraft 2 c)diablo 3
So, I've been playing on and off for the last month or so at the micro stakes. I am doing ok'ish, basically breaking even. I think I am playing ok ABC-type poker, with some stupid mistakes.
http://i.imgur.com/xSAaQ.jpg
I enjoy playing 1 dollar STT a lot, I feel less pressure to make money on every hand.
My #1 mistake - i think - is getting carried away in the betting when I feel I have the best hand. I get excited about flopping 2 pairs and get killed by a set or straight. When I look at my hand history per tournament, I usually only have 1-3 hands that show a big loss.
Second mistake is calling a semi-good hand (middle pair with Ace kicker or something) all the way to showdown, knowing that I should probably just have folded when opponent raised after the flop..
So, my question to you guys
1: What can I look for in PT4 to evaluate my own play? I have all this data available, and don't really know what to look for. Please let me know if there is anything specific you would like to see in order to give me some simple advice.
Bought in for $200, cashed out $1200. I still find myself playing fancy on occasion, but have toned it down to the levels I mentioned earlier meaning isolating limpers and button raising, plus the occasional raise when someone donkbets me or check-raising a dry flop when someone bets weak like 1/3 pot or less. No more squeezing or playing back at anyone who raised. Im not sure if it's really all that profitable, but I just do it because it seems like the right thing to do. Interestingly enough, the few times I did it I royally sucked out and hit some bullshit hands, but it didnt matter because villains ended up folding 150BB pots when I shoved the river. I dont know what to make of this. They call and call and call and then somehow find a way to fold on the river, making all my fancy play irrelevant since I never saw a showdown.
So tomorrow (or today depending on your timezone) I'm going to rent a car and just cruise around vegas. Wh00sel mapped out a nice route to get a feel for the avg vegas neighborhood, so I want to see what the landscape is like here and if I can see myself living in it. Obviously vegas is a blast, and I've had such an emotional rush being here I stopped even taking pictures because pictures just cant do it justice. You have to see it for yourself to understand.
Walked through the bellagio and ceasars palace, what a dump. The bellagio is alright, although clearly dated compared to a brand new establishment like the Aria. Saw Doyle Brunson in Bobby's room just waiting for action. Ivey's room was full but I couldnt recognize anyone playing there, besides some asian american I've seen on TV.
Now that I know how casino's work, I must have ordered about 30-40 mixed drinks lol. I made sure to tip the waitresses $2 each time for tending to me nicely. Got my first meal at the table comp'd, so that was a nice surprise. I havent bothered checking my comp status so I have no idea where I stand, but supposedly they'll just knock the rest off my final bill when I go to check out. Have 3 more full days here. Plan to spend the morning/afternoon sight seeing and the late afternoon/evenings grinding.
Man I would love nothing more than to just fuck my job and never come back home. Just find a longterm hotel rental at the Aria until I get settled, or get an apt if they'll lease me with no job and never look back. This just really feels like my calling, the life for me. It feels so right. Going back to my miserable job fixing computers just feels depressing as all fuck. I have no intention to move up limits, but if I somehow ended up finishing +10k here in vegas, I would have no reason to return home after adding in my savings/poker earnings. It's just too fun out here. Hell, at this point I'd take a job making $15/hour and supplement the rest playing poker and be proud to live in vegas, until I go full time playing poker that is.
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