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 $260+ for 2 books. That is ludicris.
Looking for "The Art of Editing"
Shots at NL10 from a week ago did not go very well, remember aces being cracked at 6 max and me quitting before tilting, and FR I don't recall anything specific. I would then proceed to run bad and tilt all the way down to 40$ before getting back on my feet.
I switched from FR to 6-max because at NL5, I don't know if it's just me, but high action tables would last only about 5 minutes before they turned into a nitfest and it was getting boring.
On a sidenote I was watching the big game season 2 and Phil Laak is freaking amazing, I find it so entertaining to hear him talk. And Elky so good.
I'm on my hotel room right now, after after a fun weekend of live poker. Busted the live event I came here to play on day one, and then took some HS PLO shots.
On Friday played some PLO5k (which is like PLO3k is USD) at a pretty soft table and ran well, won my biggest pot then at 12.5k when I 3bet AAT8ds to like 2k (there was a straddle) and then got it in HU on T92r vs AKQQ and held even after he turned a FD, and made a lil over 2bis.
On Saturday there was only PLO10k (~PLO6k USD) and capped-deck PLO20k so I sold 50% and sat at 50/100. The table had some not-so-bad tight players and one really really good 20yo kid, but also a couple marks including this german guy who pot/repot/call shove on a 6way KT3hhh with 9655hhxx. But I ran kinda bad and busted my first stack and was down 18 g's at some point but started isolating the german guy every chance I had and it went great. Won a really nice hand where he pots pf, I flat QQT4 and flop 544, he bets I call, turn Tx and I c/r to 5k and e flats, river 7x and I shove for 8.1k into 13.6k and while he tanks I'm like, "omfg wtf am I doing here, if he calls its a 29.6k pot" and all my poker career was going through my mind all the way back to playing 0.01/0.02 and now I got a fking 10k red chip on my stack. Sadly he folded but donated the rest shorty after and the table broke instantly after he got up (luckily I was already even), the guys didn't even wait till he left LOL.
In hindsight I prob shouldn't play this high a game I'm not very good at and is so so swingy, but people manage to be so much worse than me that I can't help it , and also I should probably stick to midstakes crushing and putting money aside but oh well, I'm too young to be responsible. An interesting and fun experience anyways.
so I loosened up a bit PFby MadeInPolanD, August 21
for 3 days now i played with higer steal from BTN and SB; 2,5BB raise from BTN, trying to 3bet more from BB or call vs SB and raise good flops vs suitable for this play players, call more 3bets in position as i had before 70-75% fold to 3bet
here are my stats, 4 tables only as i try to think more lol:
and i will probably start talking loudly to myself :O while in making decision process to make myself pu ppl on ranges t all the time and think consciously about every hand
some hands that were tough for me: ( i made stats visible in hands )
but still not sure if i can call this, i mean there are maybe some draws he can play like this ( like JT, QJ, maybe J8; A-hi FDs, but first: im not sure he plays them like this, second: they stll have decent equity, third: so many hands beat me: AJ/KT/KQ/QT/J9/TT/QQ/KK and he surely can play them like this cause there are so many draws and he doesnt want to see turn with his hand that is now strong ) so i shpould prolly fold it and wait for a better spot with this guy
it's a deep spot vs -7ptbb for 150k hands 3bettor and a reg, he leads weak, then checks so i decide to take a stab, i hope that reg called on flop cause he had either a draw like T9/56 maybe 99-TT and maybe some lower pairs like 66-55, when they both check on turn i assumed i can have a chance to take the pot, i guess reg can still have something and he decided to check - not to scare fish on the king
and here's a hand i dont know what im doing lol i should check turn or if i choose to bet i should fold to a raise lol i was prolly thinking that its so small i can call can maybe he can be bluffing or 'valuebetting' an ace ;o it's like i make a small bet cause i either wont win more on this or he has me and then when proven im beat i talk myself into calling cause it's a small amount, wtf :/
here's a rather simple spot, i think turn is a check vs an active player that wont prolly fold KX or AX after calling flop and it's like the worst he can have there
i thought he can have a draw at the time on the river, i have 17 hands on him and know only that he's a fish, so not sure if call is ok, maybe bet flop, tho i preferred to check and get value on turn from weak hands that won't call flop
on turn i raise thinking he has a Q and makes a 'pot control' bet and on river if he checked i wanted to make 2/3 pot bet, this river raise is ok right?
against a 59/32/55 ( 37 hands ) it's an optimal play? i can wait for him to bet 3 streets but if he has like KJ and an ace comes or an 8/9 it will kill my action so it seems better to raise and wait for him to shove
its a call right? tho he has very small aggression, he's too tight pf to have K7/K3, tho maybe it's nor totally excludable, some KX with high club? Ac7/Ac3?
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, and also I should probably stick to midstakes crushing and putting money aside but oh well, I'm too young to be responsible. An interesting and fun experience anyways. 
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