Day 2/3 240 Hour Challenge 21k Hand Sessionby Joeingram1, August 27
Think I might be finished up here of Day 3 of my 240 Hour Challenge for the next month but might play another session. Yesterday sure was interesting. Day 1 I decided to play fewer tables and ship the monies but when I woke up yesterday the idea of doing all that again sounded pretty boring and didn't appeal to me so naturally I loaded up alot of tables at once. First session was a 2 hour one that didn't go well. The 2nd session ended about 14 hours later and I played 21086 hands, graph at the end of blog. I really feel like I needed to play a super long grind session because I was starting to doubt that I had the ability to do something like that still. I did not win any buyins at the table but after the 5x Fpp multiplier for Supernova Elite I ended up almost breakeven for the session and closer to a back to back SNE goal. My sleep schedule is back on a non normal one which is the way I like it, my bedroom doesn't have black out anything though which sucks for sleeping during the day but I am learning to go with it. I haven't actually slept with light coming into my room for the last year and a half in San Diego so its an adjustment.
Goal for rest of the month is to end up around 250k VPP and juice up my online roll a bit before I can get started on the super grind these last 4 months here. Me and Ballcup friends just moved up here and ended up finding a place in the same building as us. Luckily they won't be staying at our place anymore which can only be a good thing for the grind, was pretty distracting. I'm also trying not to meet any women so I can get my head back in the grind mind, we all know how finding a cute girl can throw things off and not always in a good way, I came up to Canada to make a bunch of money and not mess around with random Canooks lol
Did 2 more mini video updates and wish I did something like this when I was getting SNE last year because I can only imagine how beat up I looked and probably worn down/burnt out with my super long hair and facial hair goin on. Day 2 is towards the tail end of my super long session and you can see the energy is gone. After 3 days I am at about 34.5 hours right now so making good pace and hopefully can complete this challenge easily
Some people in the comments last blog asked what my go to PLO book was, the one that has helped me alot and still does help me was fellow LP'er SlowHabits PLO book, would recommend it for sure!
In the name of Jesus help meby Target-x17, August 27
Cant find a trade i have an urge to run up a mtt br on stars burrowed 50 from a friend stupid bastards making me send my id again for instadebity gonna take weeks did this in the last few days
1,361 $0.1 $0 35% $133 and got 30k+ sitting in my party account while i play for nickels
CAN NO ONE TRADE STARS FOR MY PARTY$ AS YOU CAN SEE IM A SAD INDIVUAL I HAVE A PROBLEM I MUST GRIND SNG'S IM SO BORED OF CASH GAMES ;O
Noooo Playersonly halved the amount of moneyby ManofFire, August 26
I get per month for doing absolutely nothing except playing freerolls and playing on other skins. )=
used to get 250$ a month, now I only get 150...
my life sucks.
btw how does this website keep afloat? I don't see where they are printing all this money they can give out monthly. Are they just planning to reopen in the US and pull an AP/UB when they get shut down?
well its raining really hard today, so i'm going to stay in and grind a little bit - working for my dad @ his company, doing landscaping and any kinda other work he knows needs done (dig ditches, go downtown to pick up (x)part, that kinda stuff).
2 big shops, huge lawn, grandfathers airport below (original owner) w/ hangers for his planes, tractors n all that fun stuff ;-) learned a lot yesterday, was a fun productive day and i'm gonna work out there friday and all next week as well.
left $40 on hero to grind up part-time while i build up my monies and get ahead again, kinda fell behind the last month and a half, just hardly been making rent with a few extra dollars every month w/out stars.. (paying all bills friday, and moving next week) gotta have all my $ together;
Starting to think I should work during the week 4-5 days and grind 2-3 days a week til I have a very comfortable working BR - We will run NL50-NL200 games at our house, should help me build my roll faster, I Love Home Games! Going to be the first time I've had home games in a couple years on the regular, just found a bar that runs poker 24/7 too 40 minutes away. Getting players there for our game should be good, since ppl commute there from my town to play.
Gonna be hustlin it up for a bit :-)
Once I have 10k or so, then I can either move to Canada and grind stars comfy again or grind all the Hero MTT's daily
I feel like I got a really good perspective on things, working outside all day and being productive, in a stress free job really showed me what i put myself through post 4/15. I'll eventually move up to Canada, and grind MTT's up there after I have 10k or so. I'm not in any hurry, managing my br correctly and grinding it up online and live is the main purpose, for all games that I play in.
Realizing I can make a decent amount in that work force too, gonna go see some stuff thats suitable for my skillsets to see what they pay and find something that pays good.
answers comments from yesterdays blog too if u guys said something
240 Hours for the next month: Day 1 18BIby Joeingram1, August 25
Since I arrived in Vancouver about 2 weeks ago I've been pretty lazy (30hrs/week) so I decided to post something on my Facebook that if I dont play 240 hours over the next month 8/24-9/22 then I would ship 10 people who commented $150. Everytime I have done something like this in the past it has helped out alot. Since I do not want to ship out $1500 I will probably have to play the hours. If all the days go like today then it will be pretty easy to hit the hours. If i want to try to get SNE again this year I will need to put these hours in anyway.
I played my first session at NL Full Ring playing the 40bb stack. These types of players have been annoying me during my fr sessions lately so I want to play a bit of it myself and see what works/what doesn't work. Plus its pretty easy to grind mindlessly playing 12/11 with a lowish 3bet percent to get in hands/hours. Not really sure how profitable this can be, I think there are a few slight winners that 40bb stack but I'm sure a majority are down at the tables. I even loaded up some 6m Cap tables and played that but wanted to pull out my hair after 30 mins of it so quit a 6m cap game winner. My next few sessions were at NL100 6m where I probably played about 4-10 tables during the session, not going over 10 for more then a few minutes. Not much of a surprise to anyone that this is an easier way to be profitable at the tables while taking a hit in the vpp/fpp department.
I was going to call it a night but decided to play a PLO session after rereading my main go to book for PLO when I feel like I'm playing like an idiot. I'm sure my biggest problem is that I play way to many fucking tables so like my NL sessions I decided to limit it to 8 tables max so I ended up playing 4-8 tables for about an hour and a half. Tried to focus on NOT reraising marginal AAxx hands OOP and in general not get all the money in on the flop in "coin flip" spots. Usually when I play I'm always trying to shovel as much money in as possible with any piece and typically end up getting my money in with 20-30% equity, losing a bunch of those, then wondering why I am under EV. Manages to get it all in 8 times out of 785 hands and was better then 56% on 6 of those hands. Not surprising that I ended up 8.5 buyins playing a little more controlled style.
I'm sure tomorrow I will play like a fucking moron and lose 20BI but today I will go to sleep happy, should be a fun next month. Got in 8.58 hours for Day 1
Biggest pot of the day
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 66513598928 ***** Poker Stars
$100.00 USD PL Omaha - Thursday, August 25, 05:53:42 ET 2011
Table Eva IV Real Money
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: Edgy420 $249.30 USD
Seat 2: babbelz $328.80 USD
Seat 3: RockyNorth $215.20 USD
Seat 4: DIANAhasNUTS $248.10 USD
Seat 5: JoeIngram1 $322.10 USD
Seat 6: V0R0 $145.55 USD
JoeIngram1 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
V0R0 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
Edgy420 posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
babbelz posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
RockyNorth posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
DIANAhasNUTS posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
JoeIngram1 posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
V0R0 posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
So I made an accout at howthemarketworks, since it's probably wise to learn how to invest when I'm young, and saw they have competitions. I took one of their requirements for the settings with my first investment scenario thingy, 25000 in play money with a month to invest, making maximum profit. I figured, gold would be a nice investment, let's invest like fifty shares. That was two days ago.
Just yesterday, when the market closed, GLD closed with a -6% change. Already at -1000 in profit thanks to that. Market stability comes running back knocking down material stocks. Hah, love the timing.
10) Nick would take the Anderson Silva fight…anytime
9) Nick fights to finish, not win on points
8) Nick Ain’t Scared Homie
7) Nick doesn’t do gymnastics
6) Nick won’t tap to strikes
5) Nick doesn’t fight in bike shorts
4) Nick doesn’t “play the game”
3) Nick will box you up and choke you with a gogo
2) Nick doesn’t speak French
1) And the #1 reason Nick Diaz should be the new UFC Champ….he Ain’t No Bitch!
martial arts for beginners?by moneypoker, August 24
Hi, so I would like to start training some martial arts but I don't know which one. I know there are some MMA fans out here so maybe you can help me out.
I would like to train something that would make me flexible and show me how to kick and punch, but at the same time I dont want to get my nose or legs broken or something.
I was thinking about kick boxing or muy thai, is it a good choice?
What would you recommend to a beginner?
Cheers
TheTerrorist flash from good old prima daysby Balzamon, August 23
Being a bit nostalgic today I remembered an old flash-intro made by theterrorist from the prima poker time before FTP/PS took over as the high stakes mecca. The days when poker was still very magical and new (at least for me) and you just couldnt believe the sums the players had on the tables. I bet a lof you already have seen it, remembering all those old screennames makes me smile, for example I_Knockout_U (Patrik Antonius), and bad_ip (Lodden?).
Anyway, I've been playing nl25 on PS since last update - and now it's time to take some "shots" at nl50. Took a bit more time than I expected but I played pretty bad from time to time.
running and playing like shit today, so I might as well do some blogging.
been playing poker over two years and still trying to suck less in this game.
started grinding 5max at boss media, than at the beginning of this year switched to FTP, started messing with some 25NL Rush FR and rush trnys cos the games were really juicy.
Than moved to Party at the beginning of july - playing 6max 25NL and some 50NL when I feel good.
will post some graphs later so u'll have idea how much I am crushing. feel free to add me on skype (mp704boy) if you want to talk some pokerz.
[ ] Volume
[ ] Results
[ ] Kept a poker diary, analysed a ton of hands
[ ] Kept a food diary
[ ] Kept schedule
[ ] Had sweat sessions, talked on Skype as much as I wanted
[ ] Progressed a lot with Mathematics of Holdem and Math attacks
[ ] Had a lot of circuit+strenght gym sessions http://i.imgur.com/g9q85.jpg
Although:
[x]signed up for Tai-Chi and Yoga Classes and went twice to both
[x]started studying Mathematics of holdem
[x]read Peak Performance Poker from Travis Steffen
This month started pretty well, I had my focus on again after some ghost writing jobs in July took it away. I was in the zone, exercising, eating 5 times per day, studying and I spent some 6 hours on mathematics of Holdem at the start of the month and made a ton of notes. What a baller, right? But then something went terribly wrong...First, I have decided to cash out from Pokerstars and head into rakeback waters of iPoker and to the fishy land of Bodog that 0 good regs play and the games are as good as 'back in the day'.
But sadly, because of a glitch in William Hill cashier all my money, including 100% of my real life money, got blocked for over a week, no matter that I spent over 12 hours on the line with supports of WH and my bank. Let me tell you, being busto is all right, and I am quite used to it. But knowing you have money but can't touch any of it, even to buy yourself food and not have to beg your girlfriend for change, is just another level of stress especially when you know you can lose all of it and more. Never before I could co connect with you guys that have your money stuck on FTP as much as I can now, and if someone unwisely kept most of their wealth on the site probably the best advice I would get is to just write it off as business loss, both in your account and most importantly in your mind, look at what you have now and try to do do the best you can in your situation. If the money does come, you will have a nice surprise and a bonus. As I have realized even when my money was in limbo for just a week, the uncertainty and stressful hope and everyday checking if your money got freed up will only make you worse off emotionally.
Before I got my money back, but also sometime after, the Girah thing happened. I must say I took it way more personally than I should have. First of all the scandal broke off right in the time where 100% of my wealth was blocked because of a poker site. Second, when Girah came forward, I was hooked. It was just a great story of a guy who made it in a very short time span, it gave me hope and belief and really was one of the main motivators for giving poker a full-time shot. I was hooked on his poker static interview, his well, and things he posted on poker strategy, a lot of advice from those interviews is on my wall and still in my head. And it is still good advice I must say, well it better be - it comes from Haseeb who is a great video maker and story teller. When it leaked that he cheated, that he lied about pretty much everything,that his graphs are most likely fabricated and that Girahh account was breaking even at NL1000 for quite a bit of time I felt betrayed. Never before I read more than one page on Two plus two, but this time I couldn't stop. It was a good soap opera on it's own, but even more so when I was so emotionally involved with poker blocking my money and someone I looked up to turning out to be a fraud. I read every single page, every thread, every blog, it was around 500 pages of forum posts and incredibly lengthy Haseeb's bullshitting essays and four hours of audio interviews. Again I think I simply cared too much, or was just entertained too much, there is rationally nothing I could do and engaging only in things you have some sort of control over will just make your life so much more productive.
Once that stormed off, and my money got untied I was still not able to do my job. Instead, I had to put in a ton of work in helping my GF Finish her post graduate dissertation. I felt responsible really as I persuaded her to change her topic some 2 months before submission from something she didn't care nor knew anything about but seemed easy to something she is obsessed about - Thought process, reasoning and how chicks behave when buying luxury handbags. Not exactly my cup of tea, but I just had to help her and after an all nighter of editing it, I am finally done.
So I must say this month was really hell, I hate it when I can't do my job, and poker is just that - my job. The great positive is that I now have regular Tai Chi and Yoga on Saturday and Sunday, and even though I was hyper stressed and worked all night I actually feel pretty good and energized, filled with energy ready to jump into the grind and start learning again. The classes just showed me how great is to have some anchors you have in your schedule, that you do every week at the same time, without having to persuade or push yourself - it's just something you do, like brushing your teeth, or going for a massive shit every morning. I will try to introduce more and more anchors like that. Yoga and Tai-chi, live poker on monday evening, 2-3 hours for Math study on a fixed day and time every week, 'family day' every Thursday with my GF where I can't touch poker and have to get out in the city and do stuff. Also a project I have been working on -The Awesomes poker group, that will be based on fixed schedule of group events like a sweat session, concept discussion or group coaching, each one of them happening week after week, at the same time so that they become an effortless habit.
And finally, in exchange for helping her with her studies so much and supporting her, I have a promise from my girlfriend that she will now 100% support me in my pursuit of poker, at least until the agreed deadline at the end of February at which I will evaluate if I can make it and still want to make it in poker, and prove to myself and her that I can make decent money or if I quit it altogether and jump into a boring corporate career.
And just to add some more optimism...August is far from over. Let's see if I can get most of the boxes ticked by the end of the month
Cliffs: I do Tai-chi with average age of people in the class of 50, and Joga with where I am the only person out of 15 with a crotch cobra
Any place I could get cheap textbooks? possibly for my iPhone? Or torrent them?
I feel that the industry of textbooks is a monopoly somewhat like oilcompanies. We are forced to buy the product at whatever price they say. Also they change a few paragraphs and force people to buy their newer edition. I paid $275 for my Anatomy book and couldn't resell it because the company came out with a newer edition that semester. The human body didn't evolve within the last year, there is no reason for this. I do not agree with this, and do not want my money going directly to the company. I'd rather it go to another college student selling it or something like that.
I'm NOT paying $260+ for 2 books. That is ludicris.
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