A few weeks ago I decided to take a shot at home games again. Every few months I'll drop a buyin at NL200 and hope for a winning session. Finally I had a few. There's this brand new cardroom which just opened up a couple of weeks ago in Florida I want to take a shot at. Below is a graph of my earnings to date, which I intend to bring with me.
I know it's not much, but I've always wanted to play in an actual poker room. Mainly so I can play as long as I want, switch tables, and just to experience the ambiance of it all. I recently discovered overbetting which seems to have helped produce some profits in my short sessions. The general idea is to get pots mostly HU, and take it down with a cbet or value bet TPTK. I still dont feel I'm really "doing it right" overall though. I just bleed too many chips cbetting these massive pots I have created, or get pot committed with overpairs & draws by the turn. Anyway I plan to play 1/2, unless I book a huge session and then maybe I'll buy in once at 2/5.
Here were my notes when I first started playing:
Money is won FROM REAL HANDS, not big bluffs.
Do not play unsuited semi-connectors
Do not play unsuited connectors from any position except the button
Do not cbet with poor equity
Do not call cbets with intention to fold turn. Idiots turn 33 into a bluff.
DO NOT call down with less than top pair without a read.
NOTHING FANCY postflop. Players arent bluffing that much.
It’s GOOD to occasionally raise 89s/Axs/K9s UTG.
It’s OK to occasionally limp 89s/Axs/K9s from EP. Fold more often OOP.
BE PATIENT. They will pay you off eventually.
My notes have now evolved into:
Abuse position vs limpers
Squeeze at every opportunity
Cbet 99% of the time HU/3way
I think my new notes have been introducing a lot more variance/spew, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. Any advice welcome and appreciated.
So as i told ket and wrote in some thread also is that i took water over my head promiseing full commentary on the video, but i tryed for a couple of hours at different times but it just turned out bad. there was just too many hands all over the place and i didnt really remeber much i was thinking + i got slaughtered, and commenting on HU is so wierd because alot is based on leveling and gameflowfeel for me, and it just got to hard.
But i uploaded the video anyways, u can download it here:
as for life and poker, february was great, i made over 100k$ own money in february, about 30k of them at the livegames in stockholms casino cosmopol livegames, mostly playing 10/10$ ish and 20/20$ ish stakes deep. was fun
for the 3k$ live tourney during the eventweek at the end of feb i semibubbled it at 16th with 99 vs QJs all in pre 25bb deep or so, out of 70 ppl or something, small tourney but took like 20 hours until i busted for no score at all zzzz always anoying
They made some interview with me during that week, svenskaspel the site ive played alot of highstakes on the last year+ or so they somehow recognized me as a svenskaspel HS player so they approached me and asked me if i was longple on svenskaspel and if i wanted to answer some questions in their pokershow "pokerstudion"
so for the swedes, + if u guys wanna look how i look like or sound like or what ever>>>>
you can find the interview with me here starting at 9:40:
i just have to say that its pretty funny because i dont say anything smart in the video at all, for example she asks me whats most fascinateing with poker and i think for 30 sek and answer "its fun" + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/BOwb1.jpg
started takeing some 10/20$ shots on stars, the deepgames are really fun to play, battled some with our own wobbly_au the other day and it got pretty interesting. u can find some of the hands from the last couple sessions of 10/20 in my hand section if interested.
anyways, not much more to say, feel kinda sad have some girldramatrouble irl atm so im not looking to play to much in march probably, just dont wanna grind to much when feeling down.
hope some will find the video interesting, post comment below includeing what time in the video the hand approaches if u got any questions, and im gonna try and answer most of them as good as possible.
weed + this = true
take care keep check out my hands to the right as i will keep posting interesting ones :-)
Whats going on guys, feel like writing and that doesn't happen very often anymore. Instead of organizing my place and closet or go to the gym and play on my iPad I decided to do this instead. Random Ipad apps I am grinding right now, Fairway Solitare (solitaire+golf combined, addicted as hell with many levels to get through and not like regular solitaire. Replaced Temple Run in the game I have to play when I'm not doing anything). Pocket League Story (this is iphone/ipad) From makers of Game Dev Story, its like a soccer/football RPG game where you build a soccer team and play in various leagues/cups and improve your players through training excecises, building different buildings, head coach. Can hire better plays as you progress and start to make more money. You don't actually play the games but you get to watch and do some adjustments to form and they go by pretty quick and are kinda fun to watch too. Almost have completed it at this point and looking forward to getting into a few other games that the company makes like building super mall, simcity type building game, and grand prix racing game. This app Splashtop honestly changed my life since it basically lets you control your desktop from your Ipad from anywhere. I've had it for a few months now and I can't imagine not having it now, sometimes I will just lay in bed with stars lobby open on Ipad and jesus seat someone and then make my way to the computer to fire up a session. Can't really stream movies/tv shows with regular ipad browsers but with splashtop it makes it possible and I use it so much. I think Ipad is best thing I ever purchased in my life up until a few days ago.
There was only one thing I really wanted to buy with all the money I won from prop bet + grinding and that was to get my teeth fixed up. I guess they weren't TERRIBLE before but I was not very happy with them and usually felt a little self conscious about them. I did a few non-cosmetic dental sessions to get my teeth in working order and after a bunch of hours grinding in the dentist chair I got my top teeth complete (crowns). I had this image of the movie star white smile in my mind before I got them but the dentists convinced me that super super white usually looks super super fake/unreal so I didn't go that extreme but still white enough. I put up a little youtube video and if you watch my video blogs in December first and then this one you will say holy shit that looks different.
I kinda talk a little bit about poker in that but I don't really get too in depth. February was on track to be another 100k month but with like 4 days left I threw all the discipline to the window and play in some -evish spots with higher variance then usual. Obviously I choose to do most of this at 50/100 and ended up losing 25k that day, ran like under ev but was really only from one beat and besides that played terrible and did not make folds I should have made but could have avoided getting in those spots in the first place against good players. Started off March like a man on a mission and made that 25k back the first 2 days and was up about 40k before I decided to throw discipline to the window once again and just tilt for some unknown reason. Felt like the old days of poker for me when I was just do something that I know is horrible or make a call that I know is -ev but just something happens to my brain and I do it anyway. You can see from the monthly graph where I would regroup, get my mind straight and then do more grinding back up and then had another moment. I'm still up a bunch this month but its weird how being up 24k doesn't feel like too much now. I defintely have been a little less stringent on my tables I do decide to play and sometimes I load up a bit more then normal tables and this leads to me getting in more high variance spots because that slightly less lack of focus gets me into them. I sometimes find myself playing a bunch of big pots with thecleaner11 who is pretty good player while I have the fish sitting to my right and avoiding him. The old me loved battling with regs and trying to be the fucking man but we all saw how that would normally turn out for me so I have to sometimes remind myself of this and stay my lane of what has been working. Haven't quite ran like god this month as compared to the last 2 but I think that the combination of playing well/game selection helps make up for alot of that. Hasn't been as much juice this mont at 25/50 and the 50/100 hands I've played this month I kinda was pushing the limits of -ev/+ev. I only like to play that high when I know the mark is a top tier fish and the sessions this month I have been like well he is really fishy but idk he might not be fishy enough to make up for the variance. Plus some of them buy in for 30bb's and I really am not a 30bb master but feel like I still play better then the fish with stacks that shallow. Against the 5/10+ shortstack regs though I probably am making a handful of -ev plays with ahnds im defending to 3b or 3b myself vs them.
Here is the breakdown of the month so far for me, sucks being up 20BI at 400plo and down 1BI at 10kPLO lol
PokerStars Hand #77097793341: Tournament #530533545, $3.00+$0.30 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXXIX (25000/50000) - 2012/03/13 2:02:42 CET [2012/03/12 21:02:42 ET]
Table 530533545 130 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 5: Hero (4086331 in chips)
Seat 6: Godfather294 (1745669 in chips)
Hero: posts the ante 6250
Godfather294: posts the ante 6250
Godfather294: posts small blind 25000
Hero: posts big blind 50000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Godfather294: raises 50000 to 100000
Hero: calls 50000
Showdown Hero: shows (a flush, King high)
Godfather294: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
Hero collected 3491338 from pot
Godfather294 finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $720.25.
Hero wins the tournament and receives $963.17 - congratulations!
Summary Total pot 3491338 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 5: Hero (big blind) showed and won (3491338) with a flush, King high
Seat 6: Godfather294 (button) (small blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Time to play the Micro Series
Happy ending after having played the million yesterday!!
As you are all well aware, the overlay is huge in today's Anniversary Sunday Million and any decent poker player should be +EV. I don't have the roll to play it but I will offer myself up for a stake.
70/30 if you're paying the full ticket
60/40 for me if I'm paying half my way
PM me quickly if interested as it starts in 30 minutes.
Bejamin1 on stars
Mostly a cash-game player but I have done reasonably well in PLO tournaments including a win in the weekly $215. Such a small sample of stats won't mean much but at least shows I'm a winner overall in the games at the time that I sporadically played tournaments. In this specific tournament just anyone anyone is a +EV entry and I certainly am.
Edit: Just as a side note I have played 200k hands of PLO over the past 3 years as a casual grinder. So whilst not playing a lot I am still regularly active.
I have decided to really get PLO down before I head to vegas and to play in the local games around me. There are some super good 2/2 and 5/5 games that play really big and are super juicy. I just got the 7 days free at leggo because people have said that sauce videos are just amazing. I was hoping people could point out some good PLO videos on leggopoker and just good videos i should watch in general about poker.
Haven't had much luck lately at live poker. I haven't been able to quit when I am up a ton and end up losing a lot back. Had two 2k days and then had a -1.6k day, -200 day and then a break even day. Definitely nothing to scoff at but was up on the break even day and -200 day and didn't quit when the game got bad.
PS: Anyone able to hook me up with some Hero poker funds? Let me know as soon as possible, thanks.
If any of you sickos wants to stake me for the Sun Mil tomorrow, PM me. 80/20 in your favor, no makeup obvs. http://imgur.com/NZpzEhttp://imgur.com/NZpzE
From top to bottom: 180 stats, mtt stats, overall stats
Post in here, or PM to confirm. http://imgur.com/NZpzE
Weird, can't get link to work as a pic for whatever reason.
Don't know where to start really. Last blog was obv not written at a good time, and 2011 was the worst year I've ever had to go through in life. Not gonna write a book about it here as I remember regretting that blog almost immediately upon clicking send.
My situation is a bit different now, a bit better. I'm in school Taking 4 courses, mostly via the web, but it's going quite well. My English class in particular is going very well.
But my economy is fucked up, I now know what it's like to be one of those poor students you hear about. I haven't played poker in ~6 months, and I both miss it and I don't. At times it was a heavy burden to bear, but certainly it was also the best money I ever saw, and for that reason I'm now looking for a stake.
Never been staked before, so pretty clueless on the details. Kinda looking for the staker to set the conditions. I just hope my name still means something on LP, and even though past merits in this business don't hold much water, I'm hoping people remember me as a stand-up, honest and legit no-nonsense guy. Not gonna pressure anyone to vouch for my legitimacy, but if anyone wants to, please go ahead.
Poker-wise, tbh I'm unsure of my current abilities. Maybe it'll take some getting used to, but I hope I could manage to grind out a profit at something like NL100/NL50, I dunno. I will show my handbooster graph to those interested in staking me, but not openly on here. Don't think anyone on here can vouch for my skill or lack of skill as I always kept my nicks a secret.
If staked, I intend to play a LOT. My laptop can take up to 6 Ongame tables without overlapping, so 6 tables = maximum for me. Been a long time since I played 9-12 tables, and I think 6 is probably better anyway in today's game.
Like I said I don't know how stakes usually work, but I would be looking to cash out some of my eventual winnings relatively early, say end of March, as things in our household are pretty tight right now. Maybe cash out rakeback? I dunno.
The staker will always be able to get a hold of me, that's a promise. I don't fuck around with other people's shit.
Interested? PM me and we'll talk further. Really hope I can get something going again.
Peace
Edit: btw, all you people who sent me PMs on my last blog and I never got back to, I'm sorry, I was just basically emotionally spent at the time. I read every PM though and really appreciated hearing from some guys that I had only talked to for a short period of time on MSN back in 2009 or whenever it was. Warmed my heart
Going to move soon. Decided "for sure" or whatever that'll we'll move to Sundsvall in a few months. Basically going to be a a good boyfriend and help my girlfriend finish her degree and try to get a bunch of stuff done until then. Doing ok but not good with poker, it's not really embarrassing anymore but I'm obviously not content with it. Hoping to get to supernova sometime this summer and then play mid stakes this fall getting some volume in. If it goes badly I'll get a job of some kind after the summer and if it works out fine I might try to go for supernova elite next year. That's basically the main plan. Not really giving a crap about winrates and such before that, but it'd be nice to figure out how to play NL again. PLO going ok despite me having some huge leaks for deep play that I corrected fairly well after some study. Nl going weird, people vlauebets much more thin then I remembered. I think I'll have to start adjusting a bit.
Getting really itchy to take up BJJ or MMA or whatever again, so going to do that when I have moved. Thinking of maybe trying some Judo to for the take downs or some kind of stand up art.
Working out, playing poker and not really doing much except for that sounds like a good thing for me. Getting a long time plan done for my life, or at least some ideas about it.
As you can see the past week or so has been breakeven since I was at around 30k profit at the end of Feb. That's due to a 7k loss over 2 days and grinding it back over the next week. Also yesterday I ran AA into 66 on AK664 for a 4k pot and got one-outed with nut flush vs lower flush for a $2500 pot; would've had a monster day otherwise, instead I won 1k.
I've been stepping the hours up lately. Got a little over 40 hours in this week and hope to improve on that this week. I'll just break down a couple of the interesting stats below.
Hours left for 100k: 687.75
Means at the current hourly I need to play 687.75 more hours to hit the 100k mark which means an average of 8.2 hours per day over the next 84 days when I've been averaging 4.6. Which would be 56 hours per week, which is a bit of a stretch given that I've been at or below 40 so far this year.
On pace for: 70,282.63
This stat takes my current (hours played) divided by (the amount of days that have passed times my hourly), times (the total amount of days in the challenge) to predict what I will make if I continue this pace of hours at this hourly.
SIDE CHALLENGE!
I've decided to do another challenge that involves something that is kind of ignored in the poker community because of how much money flies around constantly: Budgeting and lowering my expenses!
Last year we averaged like 8k per month in expenses, which is ridiculously high. After cutting out some unnecessary stuff, we got it down to 7200 per month in January. February was even better, lowering our expenses to about 6500. By the end of the year I'd like to get that number below 6k as an average for the whole year but that might be difficult with fixed expenses like a mortgage and 2 car payments/insurance/health insurance, but I'm going to get quotes on those to try and get the rates down. I'd also like to pay off one of the cars by the end of the year with some aggressive debt paydown, but for now, I think the money is better leveraged in my bankroll paying the vig on the loans until I'm more comfortable with a couple years worth of expenses built up. http://i.imgur.com/Rjfap.jpg
Okay, words cannot describe what I just experienced. First of all, I am not one of those guys to just make things up or to paint them all pink or anything, I will tell you EXACTLY what happened.
So, I was asleep and I woke up. I am currently using a technique for astral projection that is basically this - when u wake up u go back to your dream or dreamstate without moving (at least not much) and then your astral body and physical body separate just like when u dream. So just after waking up the connection is not strong so you can easily manipulate it. That's exactly what I did. So when I felt that detachment i rolled over with my asrtal body (that's the technique) and it worked for the first time in my life. This is when it gets extremely fucking interesting.
I went to the end of my room and I looked at my body - it was CARTOON!!! Hahaha it was more cartoon and more vivid than I can EVER imagine, it was like living in a cartoon. I have never ever experienced something like this but I have watched a short clip on youtube that describes lucid dreaming and it was EXACTLY like they say it, EXACTLY!!! So, I thought it was pretty strange that everything was cartoon because in astral projection you are in real time, at least at the beginning, and it can't be cartoon at all. Now I realise that it was lucid dreaming but when I looked at my body I just felt strange and didn't get why everything was cartoon, I just enjoyed it. It's interesting to say that just prior to going to sleep I talked to a friend of mine about lucid dreaming and he gave me advices and shit. He told me I should levitate things and I told him that I will levitate bitches on my cock. I wonder how cartoon those bitches would've been had I thought of it.
So I crumbled outside my block through the balcony and I just did a spiderman descent on the wall, like a bug, ya know. I started flying around and there were cartoon cars and people and all kinds of vivid world. It was 100% vivid and real for me, I was living in it, amazing! The cartoon people looked a bit like Fandango but not really skulls, just sort of like them. One was hit by a car and I laughed I think. I was having lots of fun just flying around and I entered a building. In this building I saw many superheroes fighting with eachother and flying. I remember Batman and Spiderman very well. It was like a big empty tower full of floors and I remember experimenting with my superpowers. First, I received a few hits by someone and he was doing something to my foot. I think it was Batman or someone looking like him but it wasn't very pleasant. So I was like "now it's my turn". I saw Spiderman standing on a floor and someone told me to drop him, I think it was Batman, so I did it - I made a hole in the floor and Spiderman dropped on the next floor lol. I heard big laughter. Then, I went on the lower floor where Spiderman was again sitting so I decided to just make a small hole big enough to make his body a bit uncomfortable but not really leading to the lower floor. I did it with my mind powers and it instantly made the hole and I remember Spiderman just looking at me like "WTF, man?!?" It was a hilarious moment.
I experimented a bit more with my powers and flying and I remembered that I needed to remember this astral projection (not realising that it wasn't AP) so I began using a technique in AP to think of my body and repeat my success saying "I astral projected" many times. This is done so that you don't fall asleep after reentering your body and forget everything. It would be a pity. So, suddenly I reentered my body and I woke up. The first thing I did was to go tell my mom about it. She was in the kitchen with a few friends of mine cooking something. I waited for her to stop talking but it never happened, they just kept on talking forever. The next thing I know - I woke up for real. I was like "Holy SHIT, what did just happen?!?!? I wrote everything down on a piece of paper and couldn't believe what I just experienced. Then I started analysing why it was cartoon and chills went down my spine when I remembered this clip:
The only difference was that the cartoon wasn't fluid-like, but it was exactly the type of cartoon as in the clip. My face was the same type of cartoon but other people's faces on the streets were more like a mixture between Grim Fandango and South Park (the canadians in SP). Unfortunately, I was a ginger cartoon boy in my dream even though I am nothing like ginger at all in real life. I looked like this http://i.imgur.com/n6sp6.jpg but with a different hairstyle and had a few freckles. My grandmother has a doll that is 100% like my cartoon-self lol.
The interesting thing is that I am making my own product (like the one on the clip). I've been taking it for like a week straight and I already had a failed attempt of AP two mornings ago when I moved with my astral body but did not exit my physical body and now this crazy motherfucking cartoon lucid dream. I had never had a more lucid, in control and vivid dream in my whole life. It's 8:53AM here and I haven't slept much but I am pumped, this shit was intense and crazy. Damn, I should've fucked a few cartoon characters but whatever, Fandango bitches weren't really my type. I've read a few blogs on here on lucid dreaming and I will search for them to see similarities but guys, please, tell me if you have experienced anything like this - a cartoon lucid dream. I am gonna shit some bricks now. Bye.
My apartment is a mess again, so I spent 2 hours cleaning it up. Like the common stuff, vacuming, kitchen, bathroom, clothes n stuff. And now all that remains is cleaning up my sticky notes, but I can't force myself to throw them away, so doing that trick I do from time to time. I go through them, and I toss all the stupid ones, and I put the cool ones over here in my blog.
- It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
- Timing, right when something positive happens is the time when it's most awesome to say it, affirm it, compliment it. Makes you link positive patterns to when it's occuring.
And when we do poorly, take it up afterwards, then go through idea, tips and tricks to fix.
- Reward yourself every day, lots of short term goals. Reward yourself each time you take action instead of worrying.
"what you link pain to and what you link pleasure to shapes your destinty."
"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."
"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."
"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."
"Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits."
"All perception of truth is the detection of an anology."
"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention is the supreme master of art, as of life."
"The belief that becomes truth for me.... Is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues intoaction."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
The 4 most important things to look for in a partner + Show Spoiler +
What they say, they do.
INTEGRITYis paramount. It is linked to self worth within that individual and it builds trust. Someone who isn’t integral is more likely to be dishonest or to never follow through on their commitments.
Smart
This could range from someone who has an excellent education or is smart in other ways of life. Ultimately it comes down to being with someone who challenges you and pushes you to be better.
Love
A strong emotional connection is an important factor in building a sustainable relationship. You must be able to connect with your partner on an internal level for it to with-stand time. This is why they say best friends tend to make great partnerships as they have a strong foundation on an emotional level. Love can be defined in so many ways and only you can really determine what it feels like or looks like in a partnership.
Physical connection
Aside from having a strong emotional connection it is also paramount that you have a strong physical attraction. This is then broken down into two conditions. The external image isn’t everything but being physically attracted to your partner is very important long-term.
(i) Good Physical Condition: Not only for sex appeal or “eye candy” but because someone who is in physically good condition can perform better sexually. In general someone who is in good physical shape has better stamina and hygiene.
(ii) “Make Good Sex”: What he means here is learn what the other needs sexually in order for them to have maximum satisfaction. If your partner isn’t getting what they need sexually then they will likely look outside of the relationship in order to find it.
- will unconciously distance themself (distance language, like that woman).
- Much more to it than speech, we all chatter with our fingertips.
- Body language slips (throw assumptions away).
- Liars look a little too much in their eye.
- Eyes can't conciously smile.
Honest people will be on your side, cooperative, brain storm, provide details, infuriated through the entire course if honest, and when asking for punishment, they'll say strict rather than lenient.
While a deceptive person may be more withdrawn, look down, herky derky, lower voice, pause, pepper with way to much details in all kinds of irrelevant places.
Then go at it in chronological order, ask them to tell their story backwards, we rehearse our words, but we rarely rehearse our gestures, (just words)
Dupe delight:
(make one expression well masking another that leaks through in a flash)
Expression of contempt <--- when anger turns to that, you've been dismissed, very hard to recover from,
one lip up and in.
More indicatiors:
shift their blink rate, feet towards an exit, barrier objects between, alter vocal tone, often lower. Not proof, just redlights, don't mean any of themself, but when you see clusters of them, look probe, ask questions.
Have a little dignity, don't be too aggressive, it doesn't work.
The most common wishes from people on their deathbed + Show Spoiler +
Wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
Wish I didn't work so hard.
I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
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