back to thailand, muay thai training camp!by longple, May 07
Sup geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
Sweden sux, back to thailand!
As i got back home from this winters asiatrip i got a cold and have been sick this whole year basically (100 day curse from hell). But i seem to start getting rid of it, finally! have been missing a couple of weeks workout so gonna compensate that by joining my partner in crime in thailand again for some training and chilling.
Its still semicold here in northeren sweden, the snow just melted away and its only topping at +10 degrees so im not missing out much on the spring in sweden. For this trip i plan only to be away 3-4weeks and get back home to a swedish summer and eurocup 2012 (go sweden yey we made the qualification) wich i look forward to alot, gonna be an epic summer hopefully!
Muay thai training camp!
The place we are gonna train at is located in phuket, 15min taxi from patong and is supposed to be one of thailands best trainingcamps
( http://www.tigermuaythai.com/ ) the goal is to do 2 workous/day for the whole month. gonna be really nice to get back to working out again and try some muay thai. have been interested in starting some sort of mma:ish training for a while now and living nearby the campsite (2 min walk from hotel according to my friend that already is there since a couple of days ago) and go there everyday to book privatelessons aswell as grouptraining is gonna be a nice push to get into more intense workouts (still have sucky cardio). also doing it all with a friend is gonna help for motivation etc too.
heres alittle videotour on the camp
booked flight next monday, may 14th and will go back in beginning of june.
Poker
As for poker i feel i need this aswell, have been downswonging some lately on 25/50$ shots as some of u guys know already and im back down to grinding out 5/10 and hopefully 10/20 again soon enough and i feel i lack motivation in grinding when i cant split up my roll as much with not to many games running most of the time, i did the classic longplemistake wasteing almost all of my $'sl on shots last couple of months playing both SH and mutlitable HU games at the same time and im gonna look to only play SH next time i take shots as the swings in HU is just to great for me to take shots in it without feeling bad when failing, unless i wanna grind up a million BI roll on 5/10 10/20 beforehand. (wich i will kinda try to do for next shots aswell)
allthough i feel that ive played my best poker during these shots and ive gotten a decent amount of volume in during march/april on 25/50$ and i know that i beat those games and most of those guys, its just a matter of time and dicipline and better running
as for recovery ive played some 2/4-5/10β¬ games alongside with the swedish site svenskaspel as those games are very faimliar to me even tho it rarely runs to many games, but some evenings u can get 4-5 25/50sek games running and maybe even some 50/100sek (4/8$ and 8/16$) but most nights ur stuck playing 2 tables or so.
i have trouble to put in as much volume as i would like to after busting both my stars and ongame roll + getting easily bored/annoyed still after wasteing so much that i cant even take 10/20$ games anymore on the networks that id like to, stars/ongame etc. so going to thailand focusing more on health again and less grind will hopefully get me a refreshed mindset on grinding my way back again (even tho ive been doing well recovering so far)
April results:
peaked at +120k$ in beginning of april but ended up down 50k$ or so total
also lost 10k$ live + some in stakeing/% buys etc etc
The 120k$ profit heater in the start of the month was all <25/50$ and down, kind of a repeat of march ^^ heater up 100k$ on <25/50 and wasteing all profits there, boom!
Busted stars and ongameroll due to takeing the shot to far left me with less options, started a small roll going on a β¬ site at the end of april and have been doing good there, playing 2/4-5/10β¬
so the plan is to obviously continue grinding in thai, at a more chillaxed rate, take some games here and there but basically only take soft games and not worry about it to much, because i still feel like playing higher then i should, and thats, as Daut putted it: BAD LONGPLE, BAD! And when i get back im gonna be pumped to play again and hopefully by then ive won some more on the β¬ site so i can get a starsroll going again and be more motivated in putting volume on 5/10 10/20, and soon ill attack them 25/50$ games again, but with a little better approach next time
Gay stuff
friend linked me this video, its all gay etc etc but it was still a nice motivational video imo and it made me alittle happier inside
now ive been laying on my couch snoring all over the place for to long, its time to get back on the regiment!
Seriously if you like money don't, never seen anyone run as hot as this guy does. I stopped playing any table that he was on for 2 months and today tried it again and he took 10BI from me and lost 0 pots above 20bb vs me. I looked in my database and he has won 35 hands vs me over 50bb and i won 4 lol
I wish i could post like the last 200 3b/4b pots vs him where I either get coolered by him or whiff completely or get it in ahead and lose, time to go back to never playing at the table with him
I have been working on a few projects on the side and one of them requires to go on a 52 week route trip working on small independent tasks along the way. I will be starting at the end of the summer and hopefully by then I can find some team-mates who might be interested in rooming along(Interested??? PM me)
Generally,
- starting in Europe or Asia and ending at the opposite choice.
- I will try to play 40 hours of poker a week.
- I have some specifications but generally nothing fixed here are some of the places of consideration Dublin, Casablanca, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Taiwan, I plan to go along a fixed route to visit as many places as possible while maintaining travel costs to a minimum.
Anyways this goes out to the traveling poker players, please respond if this appeals to your considerations.
Been playing a lot of 5/10 live lately to make up for the lack of online poker. It's been a pretty interesting transition that I'm still struggling with, but to start off here's my poorly produced graph from excel:
I'm avging an hourly of $60 right now that doesn't include commute (30 mins each way) and waitlisting. Really hoping I can bump it up to $100, which I'm not sure is sustainable or not, but that's my goal anyway. Was well on my way before the doomswong after session 12.
A quick list of things I'm struggling with, some of which are universal to live, and some characteristic of the LA casino I play at:
1. Dealing with Full Ring itself, coming from a largely 6max and HU background.
2. Dealing with people limping strong broadways, PPs up to TT, and occasionally the AA/KK l/rr from EP.
3. Dealing with people flatting big PPs pre, which makes their value range a lot wider than I give them credit for
4. Bluff frequencies and how they view which spots are good to bluff. This is obviously very player-dependent too but the size of the player pool at my casino makes it such that I don't develop deep history or understanding of any specific player. So occasionally some live reg will pull a bluff that I give too much credit for just because its, in my online-player mind, a suicidal bluff and thus he's probably nutted. It's a hard habit to shake.
5. I started buying in for the max at my stakes (150bbs), didn't like it because there aren't as many clueless, gambly fish as I expected. The majority of the player pool are loose passives and if deep stacks are ever getting in, its usually a cooler situation that I can be on the wrong side of. To reduce my risk of ruin I'm starting to play 100bbs, and 100bbs is obviously a stack size I'm very very comfortable with as an online player anyway. Good results so far from that switch.
I'd like to think I'm one of the best regulars at 5/10 based on online experience (there seem to be very few good online players playing this game regularly, though a few of them might be at higher stakes), but I feel like there are still some live intangibles that the live regs have over me, or it's just taking me too slow to adapt. Likely the biggest lesson I've learned (though I learned this some years ago when I was playing big live tourneys) is to not underestimate the live atmosphere. I don't think it's as easy as just being an online pro and coming in and schooling everyone, especially in a full ring setting, and there's definitely a learning curve involved.
There are some people MUCH more qualified than I to talk about live play like andrewsong cosmo myth rek etc. but if anyone has any questions about live play I can try my best to help answer
edit: oh man didn't know I was still a featured blog, haven't blogged in a year.
I decided to deposit on Hero poker a few days ago and have put in about 3000 hands so far at 25nl. I'm really enjoying being able to play online again even though it is risky. The money I put on is insignificant so if Merge gets busted I won't be hurt or anything. I accept the risks. The games are "alright" I would say. When I get 50,000 hands played I will post a screenshot of my progress. I just like being able to play an hour or so in the evenings when I don't feel like going to the casino to play live.
I have done well in the local live games and have booked a 2 week vacation to Vegas from 6/22-7/06 so I am looking forward to that. I will be grinding a lot of 2/5 and maybe some 5/10 if the game is really good. Around here 2/5 only runs like 1-2 times a week which is kind of annoying. It's very deep because it is uncapped and a lot of the time it plays like a 5/10 game. It will be awesome in Vegas to be able to grind it on a daily basis.
It feels good to play poker for fun and not have to worry about anything. Getting a regular job was definitely the right move for me. Stress free is the way to be!
Since some of you have never played live poker or aren't much experienced with it, in case you ever wanna try it I present to you some pointers that I've learned through experience by playing live for the past 3 or 4 years.
- Learn how to look at your cards correctly, you don't know how easy it is to see the hole cards of the guy next to you if they don't know how to look at them properly, try to lean your body towards the cards if possible and conceal as much as possible. This mostly happens to either very very newb live players or old guys, if it's an old guy please be kind enough to tell him you can see his hole cards!, one time is enough.
- When in doubt always ask for the floor manager. Sometimes dealers think they know the rules, but some of them have no clue and you might get screwed.
- I find that it's much better to always announce whatever your action is going to be. When you wanna raise to 200 you are better off just saying so. There's been some instances where I didn't raise as much as I wanted because I fucked up with the chips. Also saves some time with misunderstandings.
- Always double check your cards before throwing them away! It's not frecuent but it has happened to me at least twice that I folded a much better hand than what I thought I had. Can't say how tilty that is.
- Try to follow the action but if you are distracted for whatever reason and find a hand you wanna play first look at the players before you to see if someone limped or raised. It's the worst feeling when the guy that always open limps only AA/KK limped and you raise/fold with your AQs.
- Always be on the look out if you are new to the poker room. Remember everyone is there to win money and some people will do whatever it takes to get an advantage, no matter if it's within the rules or a gray area, you aren't as well protected as when playing online on pokerstars. That said have fun, you can get to know some really cool people there as well.
- Whatever you do don't be the grumpy onliner that always complains when someone makes a bad play and boasts about how much better he is than everyone else at the casino. Try to be social and stuff, it's even +EV to do it, who knows, you might get a free showdown or a friendly warning just because someone likes you.
- Don't lend money to people you don't know! Even if they seem like they are super rich and gamble very big, if you don't know them outside the casino it's a no-no. Some(most) people are just terrible at paying back loans even if they got the money and it's just not worth it.
- Be weary of people trying to look at your hole cards and signaling his/her friend, it DOES happen, if someone is right behind you the whole time and you feel uncomfortable just say so.
Will try to think of more, if you got any feel free to add!
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