Didn't play with yousseff today, thank godby Joeingram1, May 08
That cheating account yousseff ahmed wasn't present at my tables today and it showed in the results. Still need to do a downswing recap which I will get to in next few days but I cashed out most of my roll and left myself with 100BI for 2/4 with playing some 3/6 and 5/10 and bit 10/20 but ran bad at 1k/2k so just focused on 400/600 till I won some BI's then moved back up with better game selection and month has gone well so far. I was starting to think I sucked for a bit when I went on downswing but realized that when your playing high stakes against really good players, the variance is high and your going to lose, I basically went on a 200k upswing playing in those games so a losing sessions was inevitable to happen. When PTR went down I really didn't care about losing (lol logic) and played 3 handed with phil g and eireabu at bunch of 25/50 and that did not go so hot. Was 3b way to much and didn't adjust and lost a few BI, but at those stakes thats alot of money so went on like 80k downer online but won 25k live so wasn't insanely bad but felt it was time to cash out most of my roll and drop back down. Without ptr there isn't anymore glory in playing high stakes, when you won before you would have a sicker graph but without it no point. 2/4-5/10 more then enough fun and players are not as good so makes it easier to win.
No 2p2 still, wtf going on lol, i just keep clicking on my gmail, twitter, facebook over and over and over and nothing ever changes, so boring. I started a workout prop bet along with diet prop where I can't eat fast food or drink soda and have to be in the gym doing something everyday for the rest of my time here in Vancouver. I was planning on leaving before the end of the month to head back to Chicago for a few weeks, then to Vegas, then to Ibiza for 2 weeks. Pretty excited to see what kind of results I will have and how my body will change because my diet is probably as bad as anyone around and I drink like 10 cans of soda a day. Will be interesting challenge. Going to be doing bunch of twitter stuff this month @joeingram1 Could use some more people to follow/interact with on there besides porn stars
Here is graph for month so far, big drop is the yousseff session and then went to sleep, refreshed my mind, woke up and put in work.
Something horrible happened at my university.by mnj, May 07
I just came from a lecture. I sat in the back corner on the left hand side. A blonde with a 9/10 body comes and sits in front of me. Straight away i forget about the lecture and start imaginging my self PIITB. Even though i was seated, i started to become concerned about my boner which was beginning to bulge visibly through my tracksuit pants, (i wore tracksuit pants to uni for the first time today coz a bird shat on my jeans on the clothes line).
At this point i thought to myself "imagine if for some reason i had to stand up...haha...thank god there's no chance of that". At this point someone requests that the airconditioner be turned off. I thought "no ****ing way". Sure enough, the lecturer yells out "could someone please turn that off" and looks right at me! I don't think i've ever had a stronger case of "you've gotta be shittin me!!!!" in my life.
I looked back at her with a "**** no" look on my face. She says "umm....you...could you please turn it off" (i was by far the nearest to the switch). At this point EVERYONE turned and looked right at me. To say i was horrified is an understatement.
The aisle was to my right. Instead of getting up and turning right and revealing my boner to everyone, i stood, turned left and then basically reversed out, keeping my ass facing everyone, whilst hunching over. I must have looked like an absolute ****ing retard. Afterwards, people kept turning around and looking at me.
What are the ****ing chances of that shit happening....
Hey guys,
I know I am newbie here, but since 2p2 is down and on czech site no-one will trade it for me, I need to go here.
I need40€ 40€ on my Paypal, can send on Moneybookers or Pokerstars. Will send first, obviously.
I have around 200 posts on 2p2 + I am "regular" on Pokergaming.cz, where I have made alot of transfers and atm I am being staked by one of the moderators.
If someone can swap it for me, PM or write here, we will share details.
Finally got all my shit (records) together for last month. Sorry for the delay, but hey, at least this blog shouldn't get swallowed up by 'April Results' blogs now!
The "year to date" part of the chart includes the first week of May bc I'm too lazy to go back and remake it for the end of April. Small spoiler alert that I have recovered April's losses.
Anyways, if you can't figure it out, I lost 5k in April. It was a pretty annoying month. I was just putting along, sitting at dead even for what felt like the entire month, and then in the last week I took a shot at a soft 10/20nl game. It went well, as I coolered two people and won 5k (wee). Then I proceeded to lose 10k in the last 6 days...
Some hands:
(This is a real hand I swear.)
5/10 nl
UTG (6,000) opens to 40
CO (1,200) re-raises to 300
Hero/SB (2,500) re-raises to 800 with
UTG Calls 760
CO Raises All-in for 1200 total
SB calls 400
UTG calls 400
(pot: 3,610)
Flop
Hero goes all-in for 1300
UTG CALLS 1300
(main pot: 3,610 side pot: 2,600)
Turn:
River:
Hero shows
UTG shows
CO shows
UTG wins total pot of 6,210 with a 6 high straight.
Can't really say I was tilted after this hand, because how can you get mad at getting someone in that dead. It was just kind of an 'Oh, Ok. Yeah I had you on K4 anyways' moment, just reload and try to win it all. What was tilting though was that I almost immediately got moved from the table where I'm certain the fish eventually lost all of his money. I didn't stick around though because there was no way I was going to be able to play with him again.
I can't really top that hand in terms of retardedness, but I did play a questionable hand a couple weeks ago:
UTG: (1500) limps: this player often limp-raises big pairs and other stuff
Hero MP1: (1500) limps
Fish BTN: (2000) raises to 40
SB (2000): calls 40
UTG calls 30
Hero calls 30
(pot: 170)
Flop
SB donks for 130
UTG folds
Hero calls
BTN calls
(pot: 560)
Turn
SB bets 340
Hero calls
BTN calls
(pot: 1580)
River
SB shoves 990
Hero calls
BTN folds
This hand was really questionable in my mind. I wish I had played with the SB more before this hand bc I would have easily mucked the river. I don't really beat anything, and even if the fish had KK he got there on the end. My reasoning at the time was that he could be valuing really thin because the fish is in the hand, but that seems dumb given that I've called him twice already. I also thought that the first two streets he could've led with KJ and then be value shipping the river thinking I had 45 or A4/A5/45 with two diamonds and the fish had a J or mid pair or something. Turns out this guy was just a big nit though and had JJJ. Oh well.
No other interesting hands are coming to mind right now so I'll just leave it at those two. Ran into a couple sets, bluffs didn't work, etc is the main reason for losses, but these were two of the culprits throughout the month. One funny one, and maybe one I could've avoided. Hard to say for certain. I also shipped AK into AA to a cold 4b for 1500, but we had some history so I can't say that was a mistake even though the guy is generally pretty tight.
Hours-wise I was pretty happy getting in 153 since I took an extra day off this month. Really didn't think I was going to get to 150; I even took a few hours off on the last day of the month when the games weren't good or I could've gotten close to the 160 mark.
As far as the challenge to make 100k by WSOP, I would need a helluvan upswing to get there...So hopefully I can just get the hours in and have a solid month before the series starts and then rip off some big MTT in June. Shares still available btw .
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 2/4-5/10€ 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 € site at the end of april and have been doing good there, playing 2/4-5/10€
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 € 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!
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